Keith Olbermann returns to the air on Current TV

Keith Olbermann returns to the air on Current TV : NEW YORK - Keith Olbermann returned to air long-term "issue of contextualization."

Five months after his abrupt departure from MSNBC, frankly liberal host premiere Current TV network on Monday night is awash in media attention to his arrival at the new house.

His new night show, as the old one, called "Countdown", and it retains the signature riff of music from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

It also has a left-wing point of view and attitude that made the most popular host Olbermann MSNBC, attracting nightly audiences averaging more than a million viewers.

Oddly there is no current first show, for better or worse: the reverse ranking is formatted so that he gave "Countdown" to its name.

"As I said," Olbermann said in an hour at the top that was certainly a tribute to the master of night host Jack Paar, as if to resume his post in the middle of a five-month hiatus after thought.

"The nation lost its independence through the abuse of one political party and the timidity of others," he said in his first special comment, and a means of ordinary citizens, he added, "Even if you and I should not have been the last line of defense appears to be we are, so that we, hell be better to start it. "

Initially, at least Olbermann likely to attract far fewer viewers on the current six-year-old chain was founded by former Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt, former Democratic National Committee finance chairman. Current is available in 60 million homes, about one-third lower than MSNBC, and yet its audience was minuscule.

But Olbermann is meant to be the new face of current, attracting new viewers to the network as a whole as they seek to show.

Viewers who are connected with Olbermann on Monday heard him bash the U.S. Supreme Court Clarence Thomas, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, along with other familiar targets.

Olbermann welcomed its first guest, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, with whom he has joined the criticism of Barack Obama for choosing to give up for legal reasons the word "military action" to describe U.S. involvement in the civil war in Libya.

He zinged members of Congress, quipping they spend "too much time for it to be just a hobby, but they do not take it seriously enough to be full-time job."

In the hour segments included "Inside the Cult of the Republican" and "Worst Persons".

And as if to show he is responsible for the current in the path of his old bosses at MSNBC, will not let him be, he allowed the "Countdown" to work long hours four minutes.

Then he signed with his trademark flip card with padded his script into the camera. But before he did, he told his audience: "Thank you for helping us to preserve the freedom of news.."