Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Top Stories. CEO who threw chair inside Capitol on Jan. Are you still close with her? I was normally in her office or she in mine, four out of five days, just to throw the crap around.
Several times I talked her out of storming out of the place, and several times she talked me out of storming out. You think they thought that? My manager and I had long discussed the prospects of going somewhere else. Keith, this is Al Gore. How soon was it that he contacted you? Saturday, the day after my last show. You broke the news of your departure on the show that Friday. At what point did you know that would be your last day? I was pretty sure that was the last day at the start of that day.
There was a lot of emotion and a lot of regret. What were your initial discussions with Al Gore like when he called? Can you afford to do it? It was that quick. I slept on it overnight, and we started going with it on Sunday. Everything since then has been like that. Do you think the Republican push for cutting the budget is going to blow up in their faces? This is about the nature of the authoritarian mind. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.
Do you really think Barack Obama would have been elected president of the United States if George Bush had been a moderate? We had laws broken in this country that involved the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in another country, and more than 4, people from our country.
It lets them know exactly what they can get away with. Everything else, particularly on health care reform, he was right and I was wrong. I thought he needed to be in there with a mallet, pounding away from Day One. Instead, he came in at the end and saved it. Two years ago I attended an off-the-record lunch he held for columnists.
It was like watching a great play—just masterful. Al is a big fan of that. It was a risky thing to do. The way it came about is a great story. I read to my father in the hospital, and the thing he enjoyed most was Thurber. He was my public-relations agent and my biggest fan. One time, he said I should color my hair. My dad had a comb-over.
The last person on earth I want to listen to about fucking hair is you. Were your politics close? He was much more cynical than I am. The first thing I remember politically is having a baby sitter, because my folks were going next door to eat with the neighbors. And before I went to bed, they were already back in the house, and my dad was in a rage. They had been talking politics, and the neighbors called my father a communist. You and Glenn Beck are both leaving your networks at the same time.
The Atlantic Crossword. Sign In Subscribe. This article is from the archive of our partner. They accuse Comcast "of forcing him out for political reasons," Carter says, adding that "several of Comcast's top executives have been financial supporters of Republicans. Olbermann were to quit soon after the takeover. The Hollywood gossip site says Olbermann's agent couldn't convince NBC's executives to pay his client more money, and that Comcast "wanted Keith gone because he was 'a loose cannon that could not be controlled.
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