From the Daily Caller: Keith Olbermann and Al Gore: the secret emails revealed
On March 30th, Current TV terminated its relationship with outspoken liberal anchor Keith Olbermann. The Daily Caller has exclusively obtained many of the emails between Olbermann and network founder Al Gore in the months leading up to the split.
They are reprinted here for the first time, in their entirety, and without comment.
FROM: Keith Olbermann
TO: Al Gore
DATE: June 18, 2011
Dear Albert,
“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
Those words come from Samuel Clemens, perhaps better known to you as literary colossus Mark Twain.
I need not tell you, Al, that I am that scarce man who refuses to remain silent when he sees injustice, that patriot who stands tall and strong and brave, even when hated and scorned. And I do see injustice – even here at Current TV.
I tried to remedy my current morass without coming to you, Al, but with no remedy forthcoming, I feel compelled to bring to your attention my roadblock, which you shall note is something far more severe than a mere speed bump.
In the new studio for my show, I find no golden scepter despite my explicit request to Joel Hyatt for one. This will be an indispensable part of my new show and I see no reason why I have to justify its expense.
Also, the Current proletariat seem to have no inhibitions about walking up to me and freely engaging me in conversation, as if I have time for their verbal meanderings. For all their faults, my employers at MSNBC made it explicitly clear that if someone wanted to communicate with me, they could do so — but only through letters written in calligraphy that were deposited in a receptacle outside my office between 2:30 a.m. and 3:00 a.m.
Why has this same policy not yet been communicated at Current?
In a letter written in his jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama at a time of great tumult, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote prophetically: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Will you fix my injustices, Al?
Yours Truly,
Keith Theodore Olbermann
Cornell University, Class of 1979
p.s. We also have to replace stinky my car driver — pronto!!!
Be sure to read all the way to the bottom. (update: please note the category this is posted under at WUWT)
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How were these emails obtained? Current TV is not a publicly funded institution, so these emails are not our right to have. All I see is that they were leaked. A name is not important, but were they legally obtained? The Climategate emails were our right to have; the Fakegate emails were phished and one was invented. We do not need to emulate Fakegate.
Remember to look at what the entry was posted under…. 😉
I understood none of it.
Must be a bit too high brow for a lowen brow like me.
I must admit, it sounds like bollocks, could be bollocks, probably is bolocks but i would never know as im a mere beginner in the art of talking bollocks, unlike Al and olly.
If you read them, I think you’ll realize their true nature, and not worry about how they were “obtained”. 😉
Wade, do you even bother to read before commenting?
On the Internet you have to label everything, otherwise some people won’t understand that this is a gag email. At least I hope it’s a gag email. But with these two can anyone be sure?
“Red all the way to the bottom.”
I like that!
We hate to keep reminding you Keith but you NEVER attended IV League Cornell University and you do NOT have a diploma from there either, you attended the NY land grant College of Agriculture at Cornell. Didn’t you learn anything from Ann Coulter? (She ought to know, she has a real degree from Cornell!) Sheesh!
Gosh. If these emails are real, these guys are exactly what we have throught they were all along!
Is this written comedy? Was this parody? Was this intended for an April 1st release?
scepter
to endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority. to Britain’s queen the sceptered suppliant bends.
scepter
a staff to lean upon, a scepter; probably akin to e. shaft. see shaft, and cf. scape a stem, shaft.
1. a staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace. and the king held out esther the golden scepter that was in his hand.
2. hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter. the scepter shall not depart from judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until shiloh come.
Golden
1 consisting of, relating to, or containing gold
2 being or having the color gold or the color of gold
3 lustrous, shining
4 of a high degree of excellence : superb
5 prosperous, flourishing
6a radiantly youthful and vigorous
6b having talents that promise great success —often used with boy
6c highly favored : popular
7 favorable, advantageous
8 of, relating to, or being a 50th anniversary or its celebration
9 mellow, resonant
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I would add: Touched (in a ‘mental’ way) …
“Prima donna” (Italian for “first lady”) much Keith?
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I can’t imagine what Al’s supposed to do here, I’ve checked both Ebay and the San Francisco area Craigslist, and there’s no golden sceptres available.
Keith’s demands aren’t unreasonable, but Al’s feet shouldn’t be held to the fire because of the lack of a golden sceptre….perhaps a hockey stick will do? Draped with a Nobel?
(ps… I thought the writing was brilliant!!)
Where’s my golden scepter so I can rule over the proletariat? Don’t talk to me, Knave!!
I almost that that was serious !!!
Alas, my moon is eclipsed, the olives do not speak to me of mock turtle-doves. I have no sense of apricots, no purpose in hugging myself, who is unequal before the tides of Tahiti.
Wade says: “How were these emails obtained? Current TV is not a publicly funded institution, ..”
Wade, Wade, Wade….. In fact, Current TV was funded initially by Gore tapping into CALPERS. Whether the hundreds of thousands of dollars purloined for this speculative venture were ever paid back is not known to me,,, nor do I know if CALPERS enjoyed a potential income from Current TV if it became profitable.
I’ll bet the employees who have a stake in CALPERS would like to know.
Maybe this is hilarious if you live in the USA.
Totally meaningless elsewhere. I have never heard of Olbermann and thought Gore had retired years ago.
I didn’t “red” all the way to the bottom, but I did “read ” all the way. Good satire. But to be honest, the “gold scepter” and “only through letters written in calligraphy that were deposited in a receptacle outside my office between 2:30 a.m. and 3:00 a.m” in the first email gave it away as a spoof. But who knows, maybe Olbermann does think like that. I’m certain Gore does.
to half the people who posted about these emails – did you know that the word “gullible” is NOT in the dictionary?
At first I was concerned about how they were obtained. However, after reading them, I think they were deliberately leaked.
My theory is that Olbermann leaked them so that the world could see how fair he has been in his dealings with Current TV. However, it’s possible that Gore leaked them in order to display the incredible depth of his wisdom and spirituality. Maybe they leaked it together, just to show off their amazing complexity and courage.
I doubt this will work though. Most folks won’t understand and will just think the whole thing’s some kind of parody.
Let me echo Wade’s call for a test of the veracity of these e-mails!
This IS comedy; here is the follow-on from AlGore (they are writing back and forth in some sort of liberal haiku, either that, or they are truly ‘tripping’ as in “acid-rain trip” but with no ‘rain’):
To use a quote from Seinfeld: Comedy GOLD
(Bolding above mine)
Never mind. I assumed Olbermann was satirizing himself. Now I feel foolish!
DJ says: April 9, 2012 at 8:30 am
BTW, there IS a golden scepter available on eBay and for a quite reasonable price… 😉
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Golden-King-or-prince-scepter-/180859204128?pt=US_Costume_Accessories&hash=item2a1c0c7220
Please! Does anyone really think WUWT would publish stolen emails?
No way!
A kingdom cannot have 2 kings. I had heard of Olbermann’s contempt for the average man, bu this seems more like a parody than reality. Still, it would not surprise me. Liberals hate the common man.