Just can’t cut slime time nuts
would go? Suddenly becoming a network star again would put the crazy back in the bottle? Sorry — that’s not how it works.
Need more proof? When Rosie O’Donnell returned to “The View” in 2015, she promised “a calmer version” of herself, according to Variety, after previously bouncing from the program in 2007 and leaving before her contract was through, a single season in.
But it was only a matter of time before O’Donnell’s famous temper, ego and unwillingness to work well with others resulted in her second departure, just five months in. Again, she had an 11-month contract worth $5 million.
In addition to her attitude problems, hiring a 9/11 truther whose Twitter timeline might as well be written in feces on the wall of a padded cell probably didn’t make much sense the second time either.
Then there’s everybody’s favorite misogynist, Keith Olbermann, the putrid living embodiment of Bobby Riggs and Ernest Hemingway. He was just rehired by ESPN for “SportsCenter,” the sixth time the network has hired him.
The very brief overview of his career highlights include:
Calling Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a “Motherf---er,” slurring Ann Coulter as a “guy (who) wants to live his life as a woman,” conservative commentator Michelle Malkin as a “big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it,” and yours truly as “the perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.”
OK, so maybe he only hates a certain kind of woman.
He’s been suspended and/or fired by nearly every outlet he’s worked for, including ESPN, MSNBC, and CurrentTV, which said at the time, “Current was ... founded on the values of respect, openness, collegiality, and loyalty to our viewers. Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it.”
The new(ish) face of ESPN, ladies and gentlemen.
Why bad people — who are bad to other people — keep getting hired after they have proven their selves time and again is a mystery to me.
But they’ll be fine. The worst part of this is the vast numbers of talented people left in their wake. Castmates like John Goodman and Sara Gilbert took a chance on Roseanne and “Roseanne,” and are now left holding the bag. Likely dozens of crew members, writers and producers are also without a job suddenly. Same for every failed Olbermann venture and O’Donnell flop.
With a world teeming with fresh new talent, it seems wholly unnecessary to keep going back to the same, polluted wells that reliably end up stinking up the joint.
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