As it turns out, Keith Olbermann still had a thing or two more to say. In his return to TV on Current, the fiery, progressive host was again naming Worst Persons in the World, delivering Special Comments and promising to speak out against powerful business interests.
Chief among those businesses: his former employer MSNBC, which he left in January after years of friction. One of his first guests, blogger Markos Moulitsas, dished about a past feud with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. And Olbermann scheduled his new show, still called Countdown with Keith Olbermann, to run a few minutes long — and thus, he hopes, cut into the audience for his MSNBC protg, Rachel Maddow. Defending the move on Twitter, the former sportscaster wrote, “This is not flag football.”
