The ratings are in! And it is not a pretty picture at Al Gore’s Current TV. What they surely had predicted to be a ratings landslide is nothing more than the adding a few people to an already hopeless enterprise. Sure, Olbermann has ten times the ratings than what Current used to get at 8:00pm. BUT let’s consider that they used to have a little over ten thousand people watching. That’s right. 10,000. Again, 10,000.
By those standards, Olbermann has exploded onto the scene there. But talk about being the tallest midget… He is competing with shows there that literally have more people working on them than watching them.
There are bigger problems at Current, however. It would be one thing if Olbie was continuing to build, but alas, it is exactly the opposite. As politics heated up, and it looked like financial Armageddon, people flocked to the news channels to see the latest in the debt ceiling debate. Everywhere that is except for Olbermann’s channel. His ratings continued to fall.
On Monday, his lefty competition over at MSNBC - Larry O’Donnell, somehow snookered almost a million to tune into his show. The latest ratings for Olbermann showed that he has almost ten times LESS viewers. That’s right, despite all the hype from his media friends and his own obnoxious bluster, he does not even come close to matching his replacement. Forget about Fox News. Neither if them even register a blip next to The O’Reilly Factor.
It could be getting dire over at Current. The Bloated One has lost almost half of the audience he started with only a few weeks ago. He has dropped almost 100,000 of the meager, 200,000 people who came in originally. Or, I should say, they dropped him.
A year from now (assuming he is still coming to work), I wonder what storyline the media will telling? If his ratings don’t improve or at least stop from sliding into oblivion, what will his enablers (like Brian Stelter at the NY Times) be saying? Where will they lay the blame? Will they be making excuses? OR will they just conveniently forget about him entirely?
Now onto something else that peeked our interest… From my good friend, Todd Greenberg:
The Fashion of Keith Olbermann
If you’ve been watching CURRENT this past month (I know nobody in the world is) you’ll have seen that the paunchy and middle-aged Olbermannn has been experimenting with a new look lately. It’s not surprising. In the past he’s tried wearing Ashley Banfield’s glasses in his MSNBC days. We’ve all seen his hoody/trench coat combo at Yankee stadium. But recently he surprised many with his no jacket and vest look.
There have been two styles of vests that he’s tried out so far. The black vest and the grayish/brown vest. Let’s run down whether or not he’s been able to pull off these looks as a distinguished anchor in the vein of Edward R. Murrow (Is he really still pushing that?)
As you can see from the black vest he’s trying to say I’m still a businessman but I can be casual. What he is really saying is “Welcome to Ruth’s Chris, I’m Keith what can I start you off with.” He looks like the waiter from Romano’s Macaroni Grill who gives you a smart ass response when you ask for a new napkin. Or as my friend says a blackjack dealer at an Indian casino. It doesn’t play.
The vest was kind of flashy as well. Kind of reminded me of Scott Hall at Wrestlemania 18 (A little bad guy pro-wrestler-ish). Is this what we can expect from the next episodes of COUNTDOWN? Vest number 2, Keith is trying to say I’m distinguished, classy and here for you to respect me.
What he really says is “I’m Paula Poundstone from the 1980’s and let me tell you funny jokes that don’t allude to my sexual confusion.” Really Keith? You ’re going to go back to the 1980’s on this one. I got an idea, why don’t you roll up your jacket sleeves and grow the mustache back.
Keith… It’s time to face reality. You’re not cool and you never will be. Stop trying to be hip and dress like everyone else.
