Readers may recall I reported last year on Al Gore’s attempt to prop up slumping viewership in his mishmash of programming satellite channel Current TV by hiring Keith Olbermann. It seems that idea didn’t work out well and I can’t say I’m unhappy with this news:
Founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt have issued a big bloviating statement saying that Elliot Spitzer will replace Olbermann which you can read here. Yeah, like anyone is going to watch that.
I got a kick out of this part of their statement:
All of these additions to Current’s lineup are aimed at achieving one simple goal — the goal that has always been central to Current’s mission: To tell stories no one else will tell, to speak truth to power, and to influence the conversation of democracy on behalf of those whose voices are too seldom heard.
In that case Al, tell me when you are going to do a report on your “high school science” that couldn’t even get the basics right. See Al Gore and Bill Nye FAIL at doing a simple CO2 experiment. No one else seems to want to tell that story, so I’ll offer it to you free of charge, just say the word.
In related news, I also hear that Al Gore is exploring a new climate game show concept with these guys to be called “Wheel of Forecasts”…
MIT’s “wheel of climate” – image courtesy Donna Coveney/MIT
/sarc
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Darn. The Oil companies must have gotten to the programmer.//
al gore the ever expanding lard arse has a tv station? Who’d a thunk it. let me guess, its sponsered by the flat earth society and we never landed on the moon society. Oh wait I know, it was they “hey what the heck, no matter what we tell them they will just lap it up cause they voted obummer after all society”.
I stopped listening to those global scarists years ago after watching two docco’s back to back on the ABC in Australia, one said that the earth was going to heat up so much that all water was on the way to outterspace, apparently the magnetic field was going to “crack” all the water molocules and shoot the gas out of the atmosphere, the other using exactly the same data claimed that we are about to enter into a new iceage that will entirely wipe out all life by making the whole globe a giant ice block.
You can’t get current Tv in Canada, sounds like it was dropped in the UK, just where can you watch it, and does anyone?
The real puzzle is why ANY network would hire Olbermann for a super-high-dollar job.
He has a long record of trouble with management, and he doesn’t have any Diversity Points that would make him unfirable. (But even Diversity Points don’t always help, as Rick Sanchez discovered when he accidentally told the truth about the industry.)
Current TV. A currant is like a raisin, dried up. Al misspelled it though
I’d watch “Client #9”, maybe, with the sound turned off, If he had some of those hot Washington DC hookers on with him.
Olbermann said: “In due course, the truth of the ethics of Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt will come out. For now, it is important only to again acknowledge that joining them was a sincere and well-intentioned gesture on my part, but in retrospect a foolish one.”
Well, well. How perfectly ironic that a devout socialist can stumble into the truth regarding the crackpot authoritarian, Al Gore, and his ethical challenges. I recall Olbermann complaining about being fired from Fox by Rupert Murdoch due to (in his opinion), Murdoch’s anti-liberal corporate policies. Additionally, how ironic is it that a bloated, overpaid, under-worked, chronically-complaining laborer is sacked (once again) by a contract-breaking, left-wing employer due to under-performance and/or incompetence?
One simple change could make Current TV successful — hire conservative commentators. Duh.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007
Al you need is love is love love is Al you need.
On further review, I think “loyalty” just means something different to “client 9” and “sex poodle”.
_Jim says:
March 30, 2012 at 8:19 pm
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“Football Night in America” – Gone
The Climate Wheel is coming off.
Ed Mertin says:
March 30, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Why don’t conservatives, tea party types jump over to make something out of Constitution Party? Leave the Reflubitcrats to their rich buddies?
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What’s wrong with the “rich”?
Am I the only Liberal who doesn’t believe in CAGW? I like Olbermann. The only show worth watching now on Current is The Young Turks. They sometimes have BS stories on climate change but overall they are pretty entertaining.
John Gf,
I’m also a bit preoccupied with the slightly ‘off-topic’ high-school experiment. I just left a comment on that thread, not really noticing that it was so old. In any case, I suspect that if done carefully you should be able to observe a container with more CO2 rise to higher temperature at a faster rate. However, I agree with Anthony’s comment that this does not demonstrate the actual mechanism behind the greenhouse effect. This experiment could just as easily demonstrate that higher CO2 content will cause the gas to cool faster as a result of lower IR.
Given all of Anthony’s efforts trying to reproduce the experiment and not get the same result it may be possible that Bill Nye actually did not carry out the experiment, or perhaps they didn’t control for change in pressure which also contributed to higher temperature. It doesn’t appear to be straightforward to set up this experiment such that direct warming of the gas is the dominant effect. For example, Anthony mentioned that since the source is not visible light the container will absorb IR and how to avoid direct heating of the thermometer itself?
I agree, in part. I’ve adopted an understanding gained from David Weber’s SciFi Honor Harrington novels. If someone has strongly held moral beliefs, they feel duty bound to defend those beliefs. In fact, acting in any other way would – in their minds – be the immoral act. We may disagree with their perspective, goals, and means. But defending their closely held beliefs is not evil.
However, your position rests on two assumptions that are faulty.
The first is that they do not have any, or sufficient, venue to proclaim their position. This is demonstrably false. There is a well known dominance in all forms of mass media for beating out their message. So to posit that their voice is not being heard is patently ridiculous.
The second is the assumption that, as I stated above, that they are only trying to raise awareness of a strongly held moral position. For some this is no doubt true. But as has been made all too clear, most are using AGW – and other issues – as a cynical method to advance their agenda of power and control.
“‘Current TV’ even further down the tubes”
I’d say getting rid of Olby is UP the tubes. ;-p
Gore is hiring Spitzer for his extensive contacts, what was the name of that escort agency again?
Oh yes, the Emperors Club VIP, or as warmistas would classify it as “a global warming stress relieving agency”.
Ed Mertin said:
March 30, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Maybe he and Glenn Beck could do something together.
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cage fight
You couldn’t write better slapstick comedy than Olbermann being replaced by Spitzer. Too funny. We won’t get a laugh like this for a while so enjoy.
No sir, you are a sadist! I suppose you like to drown puppies for fun, too!! 😉
Wow….the comments at the Current website (below Gore’s announcement about KO) resemble the breakdown of an “alternative” marriage. Lots of spitting, slapping, hair pulling, and scratching about the face!
I expect we’ll see a lot more of these implosions in the coming months.
Al doing the limbo….. just how low can you go Al?