In his first TV appearance since his ouster from Current TV last week, Keith Olbermann told David Letterman on The Late Show Tuesday that “I screwed up really big.”
“Let’s just start there,” said Olbermann, according to an early
transcript provided by CBS. “I thought we could do this. It’s my fault
that it didn’t succeed in the sense that I didn’t think the whole thing
through. I didn’t say, ‘you know, if you buy a $10 million chandelier,
you should have a house to put it in. Just walking around with a $10
million chandelier isn’t going to do anybody a lot of good, and it’s not
going to do any good to the chandelier.’ And then it turned out we
didn’t have a lot to put the house on to put the chandelier in, or a
building permit, and I, I should have known that. And it is, it is my
fault at heart … Now, I’ve been in situations in my lifetime where the
second I agreed to something, I got that sinking feeling in my stomach
and I said to myself on those occasions, ‘Holy goodness, I’ve just made a
huge mistake.’”
Did that happen to you?” Letterman asked.
