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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345 vacation days a year.
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What do you think this is – the EPA?
You guys crack me up! The other day I was reasonably impressed after completing the science test. You folks appear to be such knowledgeable guys. Then today, I see such serious responses to a joke from some of the same guys. Maybe they didn’t follow the link? Makes it pretty clear this is a farce. I guess we’re all human. I once hoped for cold fusion.
Latimer Alder:
“Totally meaningless elsewhere. I have never heard of Olbermann and thought Gore had retired years ago.”
Let’s just say that after reading it I wasn’t sure it was a parody. Oby really talk that way on national TV. That is, when he has a job.
I only became sure that the e-mails were parodies when I got to the middle or so. At the end, it says that it’s satire quite explicitly. But it’s an amazingly realistic satire that really nicely captures the main roles and non-roles of these two men in their mutual battle.
At first I thought this was a fake or satire. Since there is no mention of prominent client scientist/moral crusader Peter Gleick, I can only assume the email is real.
If it’s not real, it’s close enough.
Al should have had the sense too lend Keith his own golden scepter. And lend him one of his own sedans too. Or even his own stretch limo. Then peace could have reigned in the silence of the studio, unwatched and unseen by anyone.
It’s a measure of Olbermann himself that it’s so difficult to tell if this was satire or not.
I did enjoy the writing… Very clever.
There’s a famous sea side place called Blackpool
Wots noted fo fresh air an fun
and Mr & Mrs Al Gorical
went there, one day for some fun
A grand little lad was young Albert
All dressed in is best, quite a swell
with his stick with a hockey stick handle
The finest wot woolsworth could sell
Well they didn’t think much of the ocean
The waves were all piddlin an small
There were no wrecks and nobody drownded
In fact nothing to laugh at at all
So; looking fo further amusment
They paid and went into the zoo
There were lions and tigers and elephants
And old ale and sandwiches too
There was one great big lion called Olberman
His face was all covered in scars
He lay in a somnulent posture
With his face on the side of the bars
Now Albert ad erd about lions
ow they were ferocious and wild
and seing Olberman so peaceful like
Well; it didn’t seem right to the child
So straightway, the brave little fella
Not showing a morsel of fear
Took his stick with the hockey stick handle
And shoved it in Olbermans ear.
Well, Olbermans face was a picture
But his sceptre was nowhere in sight
So he wimpered and scowled at young Albert
And chewed on Al’s hockey stick all night.
There was no consoling young Albert
He wanted his hockey stick back
He wouldn’t leave zoo without it
He’d rather give stinky the sack.
There’s a moral to this story
And; for those who can’t work it out
If you don’t know what you are doing
Best to keep quiet and do nowt
With profuse apologies to Marriott Edgar
and for abusing his wonderful monologue “Albert and the lion
That was absolutely hilarious from one end to the other. SNL should pick it up for one of their sketchs. But I agree with Keith, I hate it when the proletariats actually try and communicate with me. Don’t they know who I am?
But it had me going. While reading the first couple of exchanges I was thinking to myself there is no way Algore has this level of vocabulary. But alas he doesn’t…….So all is right with the world.
Being from the UK, I have little idea who Olbermann is, and only slightly more about Gore the buffoon. What intrigued me about the story was that Gore actually runs his own tv station.
Lets get this straight…the world is on an irreversible path to CAGW caused disatster, we are already past the tipping point and ‘buffoon – Gore’ has a tv station ?
When God almighty decided we were past the tipping point, he got Noah to build an ark and take mitigating measures, but Gore goes for self-aggrandizing PR instead.
Maybe Gore thinks he is better than God
Art imitates Life.
Oh, wait. Art didn’t write it — Jamie and Will did.
Never mind…
Al Gore IS insane.
That is his “rational” framework from which his claim to science flows?
really? Seriously…
At what point need we to simply ignore all of this? Now sounds like a good time to start since we are clearly too late already.
Me’thinks April Fools Day arrived a tad late this year!
Really funny stuff – Thanks for the laughs!!!!
MtK
Oh my word..
If Al Gore was ever to admit he were not God, then at the very least he would think himself as an omnipotent deity
Two options:
If this is really an indication of their correspondence, they’re screwed.
If this is simply an April Fool’s joke, that about sums up the level to which this argument has risen.
It’s a fail-fail situation either way.
No, you are wrong. Check http://www.cornell.edu/academics/colleges.cfm and you’ll find that CALS is the ONLY one with a little asterisk next to it to indicate it is a New York State contract unit
At http://cals.cornell.edu/cals/about/overview/index.cfm you’ll find it written:
There are four statatory land grant colleges at Cornell that are NOT “Ivy League” – here they are: http://landgrant.cornell.edu/nys-established-colleges.cfm
Find me that statement in any of the other “Ivy League” colleges at cornell.edu and then maybe you’ll have something to denigrate. Keith Olberman did NOT attend “Ivy League” Cornell and does not have an “Ivy League” education from Cornell. I never said he he doesn’t have a degree with “Cornell” at the top – those are your words.
Be it known that I am not trying to put down anyone who attended those land grant colleges, they provide a very good education. But the point is the size of Olbermann’s lying head in his repeated claim to have an Ivy League education; that he does not have.
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=300
The Internet is the great sarcasm remover. I knew what this was just by the title. But apparently, we just can’t tell how far Al Gore and Olbermann will go.
April 1 joke carried too far. 345 days of vacation a year? It’s a blatant satire people. The reason why it was believable is because this is how these people speak in real life. But the emails are a spoof.
For those who didn’t understand ‘pesadia April 9, 2012 at 12:06 pm’,
here’s the original, in the correct accent. (Don’t know if the ’embed’ will work!)
[ youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3jXMsfLxhI&w=420&h=315 ]
Oh, damn! It didn’t!
Chuck Nolan says:
April 9, 2012 at 8:57 am
It was my homage to the Goricle.
It’s kind of a pity to see this (admittedly unnatural, sick and twisted) relationship broken up.
Both Olbermann and Algore have such flagrant delusions of adequacy….
@EternalOptimist says:
April 9, 2012 at 12:15 pm : Gore owns a network, named “Current”, which creates content for the wonderful world of cable and satellite television. You could think of it as a proxy for a digestive tract, where the content of the Olberman show is the same as the content of the bowel in the tract.
At 1:50 PM on 9 April, Mike M had written:
There’s the intensely cement-headed supposition on the part of millions that the quality of an education depends upon what’s offered in the curriculum instead of what the matriculant takes away from his expensive experience between his ears.
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I don’t believe the emails come from the sources they purport to because without doubt, if these exchanges genuinely reflected the kind of thing going through their heads, both parties would have been institutionalised a long time ago. And the psychiatrists would have given Banana #2 his golden sceptre (made of something nice and soft, so he couldn’t hurt himself).