Current washes Olbermann away 30 Mar 2012 When Al Gore and Joel Hyatt snapped up Keith Olbermann last year following his spectacular exit from MSNBC, they knew what they were getting… But as their relationship with him disintegrated rather publicly over the last six months – to the surprise of absolutely no one in the television business – it became clear that they were getting all of the drawbacks and none of the benefits. Those tense strands finally snapped Friday afternoon, when Gore and Hyatt announced that Current was firing Olbermann because of a lack of “respect” and “collegiality” and replacing him with a show hosted by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.














