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MSNBC, Olbermann Call It Quits, Cancel Show (Libs in Mourning)
wall street journal ^ | 1/22/2011 | By SAM SCHECHNER

Posted on 01/22/2011 6:38:22 AM PST by tobyhill

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To: tobyhill

The useful idiot isn’t useful anymore.


101 posted on 01/22/2011 9:17:09 AM PST by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: Scanian

This is great. I could already watch football again on NBC after he was fired there, and now this! There is hope!


102 posted on 01/22/2011 9:30:39 AM PST by stillfree? (NPR; TheNext Acorn.)
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To: therut
On Cnn last night they said he got a 20 million buy out of his contract. That makes me ill.

But in the trying to think positive mode, maybe he will take the money, buy a sailboat and sail around the world. In August. (Middle of hurricane season)

Oh, sorry. That wasn't civil was it. (hee hee)

103 posted on 01/22/2011 9:31:21 AM PST by mc5cents (Government doesn't solve problems, it subsidizes them. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: tobyhill

And yet Chris Matthews still has a job. Only MSNBC would fire their best rated hot, and keep Matthews, who OWNS last place and has for YEARS. It’s just funny. Ailes must get a big kick out of stuff like this.


104 posted on 01/22/2011 9:42:20 AM PST by Huck (The antifederalists were right.)
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To: Huck

hot= host. sticky keys. sorry


105 posted on 01/22/2011 9:43:30 AM PST by Huck (The antifederalists were right.)
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To: Scanian; tobyhill
Jeff Bercovici, writing for Forbes, puts it this way: "Comcast has its own calculations. An intrinsically conservative corporation, it’s not overly friendly to congenital boat-rockers like Olbermann. In fact, one such individual, a former employee named Barry Nolan, sued Comcast last year, saying the cable operator fired him in order to protect its relationship with News Corp., which owns the Fox News Channel. Nolan had publicly protested an award given to Bill O’Reilly, Fox News’s biggest star. Noting that Olbermann has also frequently feuded with O’Reilly, media critic Dan Kennedy predicted last year, “Keith Olbermann may prove to be Barry Nolan writ large.”

"...given the timing, should raise enough suspicion to warrant a rethinking of the FCC’s approval of the Comcast takeover of NBC Universal."

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[italics off]Olbermann will just pop up someplace else when his contract allows it..like a show similar to Bill Maher's..I am sure he is not licking his wounds, but instead plotting his revenge. His contributions to Gifford's campaign, and her almost deadly attack pushed his emotion filled rantings over the top? Did he become a hazard to the corporation aka a "legal"/ liability? Will he run for office like Al Franken and use a bigger platform to to stir up the masses even moreso on Sarah Palin?

106 posted on 01/22/2011 9:58:52 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...

Yeah, it has nothing to do with Michigan, but are you really upset that I called attention to it???


107 posted on 01/22/2011 10:05:37 AM PST by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: nina0113

I’m watching the “Beginning Collection.” This established Collinswood and some of the continuing characters around a Gothic murder mystery. There were no vampires, yet, although a ghost wafts in from time to time.

I’m no judge of Barnabas, being a straight male. My wife has a fondness for male vampires, and says he’s a “monster” vampire, as opposed to a “seducer” vampire.


108 posted on 01/22/2011 10:39:24 AM PST by warchild9
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To: windcliff

Netflix has long become my favorite friend. We even cancelled cable last month, and never looked back. Who needs it?


109 posted on 01/22/2011 10:40:44 AM PST by warchild9
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To: grellis
Yeah, it has nothing to do with Michigan, but are you really upset that I called attention to it???

Not at all grellis, thanks!

110 posted on 01/22/2011 10:53:05 AM PST by Miss_Meyet (A zebra does not change its spots~Al "Nature Watch" Gore)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I’m sorry but that has to be the funniest thing I have read in a long time!


111 posted on 01/22/2011 10:54:53 AM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice.)
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To: ridesthemiles

At some point he became an HR nightmare to someone, and if he was half as abusive off the air as he was on, then there is no telling how many complaints there were against him for bullying and verbally abusing the help.

Even NBC has some limits....


112 posted on 01/22/2011 1:21:20 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: grellis

LOL - Nope. Thanks! :)


113 posted on 01/22/2011 2:03:49 PM PST by ElayneJ
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To: 4Speed

Olberdork is such a screwball I wonder if he had the sense to put away a few millions to live on out of all that unearned booty. He isn’t worth seven dollars a day, let alone seven million a year.


114 posted on 01/22/2011 4:30:35 PM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: Ole Okie

If I am choosing between MSNBC and O’Reilly I will be watching third reruns of any damned thing on any other channel. Actually I’m lying, I will be on the web.


115 posted on 01/22/2011 4:44:26 PM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: ridesthemiles

He appears to be a totally deranged narcissist suffering from delusions of adequacy.


116 posted on 01/22/2011 4:46:39 PM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: grellis; Perdogg; Kevmo

Heh heh... I’ll go out on the limb and say he’ll wind up (mostly) on radio, promoted as a leftist response to Rush.


117 posted on 01/23/2011 5:50:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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