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Olbermann's comments after the 9/11 tribute during the RNC was one of the lowest moments for network news. I would hope that Tom Brokaw was horrified by his remarks.

Here is his quote, which, as the events of 9/11, we will never forget:

“I’m sorry, it’s necessary to say this and I have to separate myself from the others on the air about this. If at this late date, any television network, had on its own accord, should show that much videotape and that much graphic videotape of 9/11, and I speak as someone who lost a few friends, there, it, we, would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by the Republican party itself, for exploiting the memories of the dead, and perhaps even for trying to evoke that pain again. Uh, if you reacted to that videotape the way I did, I apologize, Uh, it is the subject of great pain for many of us still and probably was not appropriate that it be shown.”

I can only imagine that the sponsors of the network were involved with this. NBC is such a leftist organization that I find it hard to believe that they would take this upon themselves to make this change.

There was a sponsors boycott waged against MSNBC this summer by Hillary Clinton's followers because of the bias against her campaign (see: http://www.womenboycottmsnbc.com/). While I have not seen any organized efforts from the Conservative base, it wouldn't surprise me if the treatment by the media regarding Sarah Palin rekindled this effort by women across the nation.