Ah, bathtub boy Keith Olbermann. You don’t get to be more scummy than Olbermann. The failed sportscaster, turned political hack, turned unemployable was going to fill in for Rachel Maddow while she was on hiatus from her show to film some stupid movie. MSNBC eggheads wanted Olbermann to fill in for Maddow. Olbermann, desperate for work wanted to fill in badly. But Rachel Maddow killed it. Even she knows what scum Olbermann is.
One replacement host who could have managed to draw an audience to the struggling network is liberal firebrand Keith Olbermann, a former MSNBC star who rose to prominence at the network from 2003 until 2011. Olbermann told The Daily Beast on Monday that he was in talks with MSNBC’s corporate overlords to take over the struggling 9 p.m. timeslot but Maddow “stepped in to personally veto him” as her replacement.
“Keith Olbermann is MSNBC’s only hope after their disastrous decision to pay Rachel Maddow eight figures not to work. There’s no one else,” a longtime TV news executive told Fox News Digital.
“How embarrassing for MSNBC that they’re still giving Rachel veto power over hosts who don’t pass her ideological litmus test,” the executive added. “Cesar Conde keeps surpassing himself as the weakest executive in network television.”
Indeed, NBCUniversal News Group chair Cesar Conde agreed to pay Maddow a reported $30 million annually a few months before she announced her planned hiatuses.