Friends in High Places: Olbermann's Girlfriend Lands On-Air Job

Well, that's if you consider MSNBC a high place. They may be high over there, but their ratings are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Still, Olberdork apparently has enough pull with the suits at General Electric that he managed to get his main squeeze, who's half his age, an on-air gig at the Weather Channel.

Katy Tur, who at 25 is half the age of the MSNBC uber-dork, has landed an on-air reporting job at the Weather Channel. Conveniently, both cable networks are owned by NBC Universal. Do we sense a little preferential treatment? Olbermann huffed to TV Newser: "Anybody who suggests so is misinformed, and/or sadly unaware that in this time when the industry is collapsing around us, nobody gets a job based on 'influence,' only talent."

If that were the case, Olberfraud would be on a soup line.

I guess you could now argue both the MSNBC blowhard and his girlfriend are living on the taxpayer dime considering GE was the recipient of bailout funds.

Nice gig if you can get it.