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.

'Will You Lick My Swizzle Stick?'

Who does this loser think he is, Bill Clinton?

Talk about an amateurish pickup line.

Of course Romeo was rejected after that junior high line, but things just went downhill after there.

An ex-Weather Channel anchorwoman has won a sexual-harassment claim against her male co-anchor, whom she accused of repeatedly asking about her sex life and making such crude remarks as, "Will you lick my swizzle stick?"

An arbitrator ruled on Jan. 31 that that Bob Stokes, 50, had subjected Hillary Andrews, 38, to "severe and pervasive" sexual harassment that was "extreme and offensive," The Post has learned.

Andrews, who left the cable channel in August 2006 and now temps as a CNN weather forecaster, received an undisclosed monetary award.

Court papers said Stokes was fired in February.

Looks like the Weather Channel doesn't want their dirty laundry aired in public as Andrews had a clause in her contract that any claims were to go to arbitration rather than court.

What's that, an attempt to keep the lid on some frathouse hijinx?

Andrews worked for the Weather Channel from Sept. 2, 2003, through Aug. 30, 2006. The terms of her contract required that she take sexual-harassment claims to arbitration rather than go to court.

She outlined her claims against Stokes in a suit, filed in Atlanta federal court on April 24, that seeks to make the arbitrator's findings public. The Weather Channel is fighting the request.

In the suit, first reported by The Smoking Gun Web site, Andrews said Stokes began coming on to her soon after she was hired to be his co-anchor on a prime-time weekend show.

"Stokes began telling her he was attracted to her," the suit said. "He told her that it had been a long time since he had been so attracted to someone. He repeatedly asked whether she was attracted to him. He repeatedly asked if she would go out with him. He made crude sexual remarks (e.g., 'Will you lick my swizzle stick?')"

Stokes then started asking intimate questions about Andrews' former husband and her sexual relationships, the suit said.

When Stokes finally realized he was never going to get anywhere, he began to sabotage her on-air performance, the suit said, making "insulting comments to her" on camera, the suit said.