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!!!
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If this is real, Olbermann is mentally ill, and needs to seek help for his misplaced ego
I feel sorry for the driver. He was just doing his bit for the planet by not showering.
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings and commented:
Clever, funny though esoteric NOTE: Two of Americas Drama Queens
Most jokes made at the expense of a person or group of persons aren’t funny unless the punchline contains a modicum of truth. In this case (a) the e-mails in their entirety constitute the punchline, and (b) the punchline contains more than a modicum of truth.
Count me as a cement head. While I completely agree that the breadth of one’s education is generally much more dependent upon the individual than the particular college they attend or the cost of tuition, I don’t agree that any curriculum you choose is just as effective as another. As proof I can cite that the typical major selected by the students who ‘protest’ at the scheduled riots at UMass and throw their empty beer cans out of their SW dormitory windows – are very likely NOT enrolled in business or engineering or strict sciences like math or biology; (they have homework to do), most are taking ‘political science’ or psychology or ‘women’s studies’, or journalism, etc. (I.e. typically have no clue why mommy and daddy forced them to go to college but they had to pick ~something~, ya know?)
This article was a dreadful mistake. When people have lost contact with reality you just can NOT parody them. The reality is its own parody, and making up things for a joke merely raises the question – which of the utterly absurd things we are told they said are the real ones? – because no degree of absurdity is beyond them, in actual dreadful real life fact!
I expect as a result of this, to read real soon that “Anthony Watts has reprinted forged emails from Al Gore” – as a serious, but dishonest, of course, attack upon you. And they’ll be saying you are a hypocrite for criticising Gleick when you do the same thing yourself. (And there will be millions of fools who believe them too.)
Never, ever, ever, not in joke, not even on April 1, invent words for the mouths of the climate alarmists.
anotherfred on April 9, 2012 at 8:22 am said:
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?
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It took me 3 seconds of reading for me to figure out this email was a joke. It took me another 3 seconds to figure out that the WUWT readership will acknowledge that is a joke and then go on blithely insisting that it’s true.
You’d have to have zombies sucking half my brain out before I would become that self-delusional.
Am I ever GLAD that Wade posted first.
LazyTeenager says:
“You’d have to have zombies sucking half my brain out before I would become that self-delusional.”
So that explains it.
Anthony – you may have missed your other planned Apri Fool’s Day offering, but this was outstanding! It nails those two buffoons.
Warren in Minnesota says:
“Hmmm…gullible is also spelled with an “a” as gullable and IS in my dictionary. But then perhaps the half of the people of whom you speak have not checked . /humor”.
Probably true, Warren. However I suspect that most often those who say gullible (or the rare gullable) is not in the dictionary are actually pulling the gullible reader’s leg. The first time I saw this meme (gullible is not in the dictionary), I went to the dictionary. Then it dawned on me – “I’ve been had”. A good joke on me. The joke is getting stale, but it still catches people – et tu?
This has the potential of a followup to the Alice in Wonderland books. Imagine stepping through the TV screen and encountering preposterous characters, like the ego-maniacal OverMan and the charlatan priest, the dreamlike Algoracle. . .
/Mr Lynn
“Wot? Wasting our lives raising children?
To feed bloody lions — not me!”
You try sitting in an idling limo for hours waiting for Al and see if you’re not ripe by the end of the day!
Anthony, your blog is a breath of fresh air (111,000,000 ). You can imagine the conversations I’ve had to listen too, ………
LazyTeenager says:
April 9, 2012 at 6:40 pm
It took me 3 seconds of reading for me to figure out this email was a joke. It took me another 3 seconds to figure out that the WUWT readership will acknowledge that is a joke and then go on blithely insisting that it’s true.
As opposed, naturally, to the oh-so-smarter-than-we-are set who (grudgingly) acknowledge that Gleick’s forged HI agenda *is* a forgery, but continue to natter about it as if it were the genuine article?
howarth says:
April 9, 2012 at 12:07 pm
That was absolutely hilarious from one end to the other. SNL should pick it up for one of their sketchs.
Yeah — they might actually be funny for the first time since 1985…
I suspected this was a spoof even before I began reading it. I even set this article aside to read later, when I could use a good laugh. So there Lazy Teenager, I beat you. By the way LT, did you take that science quiz?
Next time I give a presentation I will insist on a golden scepter too. It’s only just, that’s what I say.
Reblogged this on Defender of The Light's and commented:
uhmm…finally
This is all going to come out at the trial. Hold your hats for more hilarity.
A parody hidden within a satire wrapped around comedy with a generous helping of humor.
Discussing this, pretending to believe in the authenticity of this exchange while knowing deep down that it’s a joke, this is a pantomime for the denizens of alarmist blog sites. There lies true wisdom.
Amazing! The Chandelier vs. The Climatoligist
i would certainly like one of those gold Pharoah sceptres!
Better than SNL would be South Park. But how could you improve on the sublime perfection of ManBearPig? Great read. Cheers –
Hoser says April 9, 2012 at 9:29 am.
Could be antediluvian (or playing too much World of Darkness).