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It's a great day...Keith Olbermann is GONE!

Posted: Jan 21, 2011

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Great day indeed! He was disgusting. - and a liar. nm

Comcast control, Fox control - Thought manipulation

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Keith will be back somewhere. Interesting to see if the other shows change significantly. I heard earlier if the merger went through, the liberal voices would be out. Here is comes. Third world Amercia thanks to Fox and Comcast.

I'm going to genuinely miss Keith, but I think he'll be back somewhere. - me

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Hubby and I would watch him every night. He was very entertaining and thought-provoking.

News stated Comcast had nothing to do with it. - Backwards Typist

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He wasn't as bad as some of them. Ed Shultz should have been the first to go.

Neither MSNBC nor KO is saying anything. This probably goes back to the story a couple weeks ago where MSNBC stated they were going to lean a little more to the right. I don't think KO cared for that.

Don't think he will be back somewhere soon unless he pays to get out of it. He has a 2 year contract in place yet and probably will not be able to break it. Look at all the other commentators that had left networks. They all have a non-compete clause. They couldn't work for another network for the remainder of their contract.

I don't believe Comcast any more than - I believe anything from Rupert/Roger nm

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maybe - skippy

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it wasn't because of conspiracy with Fox and Comcast. Maybe it was because he had no ratings. He probably needs a break anyway - he seems like an angry Grumpy Gus. That's probably what amazed me the most, is that his guy was in the White House, Dems had control of the House and the Senate but still, he seemed angry all the time. Go figure.

How could he help it? - He was in a position

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where he had to be informed of what the idiots on the right (Beck, Hannity, BO, ans Palin) were saying and doing. It just made him so mad, as it would anyone with half a brain, that it had to blow somewhere. I hope he gets Workers Comp.

Anger was part of his schtick. - LK

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He had a niche that was all "angry liberal," although spoiled baby was more what he came across as. Apparently some people like watching others throw temper tantrums on TV.

Here's an article (blog) that delves further into KO's leaving - Backwards Typist

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I'm sure more will come out in the next few days, but for now, this blog does have quotes about his leaving. It sounds to me, but I'm speculating here, that it was a long time in coming.

Keith Olbermann out at MSNBC

By Greg Sargent

So Keith Olbermann is out. As best as I can tell, none of the news accounts about his departure have gotten to the bottom of what happened here. But Olbermann himself offered enough clues in his final broadcast for us to reasonably speculate that he abruptly got the ax, perhaps even as late as last night.

A "knowledgeable official" at MSNBC told Howard Kurtz that the separation was "mutual." But it's hard to see how that squares with this, from Olbermann's last words on Countdown last night:

"I think the same fantasy has popped into the head of everybody in my business who has ever been told what I have been told, that this is going to be the last edition of your show. You go directly to the scene from the movie 'Network,' complete with the pajamas, and the raincoat, and you go off on an existential, otherworldly journey of profundity and vision...

"When I resigned from ESPN 13 and a half years ago, I was literally given 30 seconds to say goodbye at the very end of my last edition of "Sports Center." As God is my witness, in the commercial break just before the emotional moment, the producer got into my earpiece and he said, `uh, can you cut it down to 15 seconds, so we can get in this tennis result from Stuttgart? So I'm grateful that I have a little more time to sign off here."

Between this and the shell-shocked look Olbermann had last night, it seems clear that he may have been abruptly informed that he was history, perhaps even during last night's show. That would also square with the experience of Josh Marshall, who was in MSNBC's studios last night and had no sense that anything was amiss.

More here:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/keith_olbermanns_ouster.html

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