Olbermann NAILS IT on ABC w/George Stephanopoulos this morning:

[liberalmike27]

49. I was with him

Until he burned the bridge at Current. I get it, his video room missed a cue once and a while, it wasn't widescreen, it had problems. But he needed desperately to remember, he'd already left a string of burned bridges behind him.

All he had to do was stick it out there for a year or two, and he'd have made the network, his crew would have slowly improved, and his ratings would have been upped. He was the root of the nighttime shows, and now they've got two sort of uninteresting (to me) shows. I watch Fugelsang when he sits in, but I don't regularly watch the others. Stephanie Miller, and Bill Press (for those up at insane, and stupid O'Clock) are fantastic additions to the morning line up.

I'm a fan of Keiths, I'll watch him again--but Al Gore didn't deserve that. Keith even chose the building they were in, then complained about it later. I don't mind him having an ego, but he needs to understand that not everyone, in fact very few are going to work up to his level. He should have stuck it out. I can't blame Gore, as Keith had gotten to where when he did show up to work, which was rare (I watched every night, was so happy when he rarely showed), he had taken to directly insulting the network on air. When the production room made an error, missed a clip he'd make some snippy retort on air. I used to play in a band, and the first thing you learn is, when you make a mistake, don't announce it, you don't act embarrassed and frustrated, you just keep on singing, talking, or dancing, and smooth it out.

Not many more bridges are going to be behind him--maybe he should occupy a little chunk of the web for a while, until he stabilizes. He could probably do that with a few employees he can hire himself, from anywhere he wants.