Uhm.......Lil'Tommie? Have you looked at the ratings recently?
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
Say Goodnight Faux Noise, Glenn Beck, Gretchen Van Snide of Mouth and
The Rest Of The Crazy Wing Nut Unfair and Unbalanced Pundits
>> http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/>
On 1/22/11, Keith In Köln <keithintampa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Once Comcast completes the buy-out from G.E., rest assured that NBC, and
> MSNBC will return to profitability, and hopefully, a sense of rationality.
> I tend to believe this is the reason that Moonbat extradordiniare Olbermann
> flew the coop now, versus being termianted. The writing was on the wall.
> Say G'Night Maddow, Schultz, and the rest of the crazy
> Anti-American's.....Your fifteen minutes of fame are over!
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>> Olbermann Leaves 'Countdown' on MSNBC
>> By BILL CARTER
>>
>> Virginia Sherwood/MSNBC
>>
>> Keith Olbermann in November.
>> 12:05 a.m. | Updated Keith Olbermann, the highest-rated host on MSNBC,
>> announced abruptly on the air Friday night that he was leaving his
>> show, "Countdown," immediately.
>>
>> The host, who has had a stormy relationship with the management of the
>> network for some time, especially since he was suspended for two days
>> last November, came to an agreement with NBC's corporate management
>> late this week to settle his contract and step down.
>>
>> In a closing statement on his show, Mr. Olbermann said simply that it
>> would be the last edition of the program. He offered no explanation
>> other than on occasion "all that surrounded the show – but never the
>> show itself – was just too much for me."
>>
>> Mr. Olbermann thanked his viewers for their enthusiastic support of a
>> show that had "gradually established its position as
>> antiestablishment."
>>
>> In a statement, MSNBC said: "MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended
>> their contract. The last broadcast of 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'
>> will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in
>> MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors."
>>
>> NBC executives said the move had nothing to do with the impending
>> takeover of NBC Universal by Comcast. With viewers and fans of Mr.
>> Olbermann suggesting that Comcast was responsible for forcing Mr.
>> Olbermann out, Comcast also released an official statement late Friday
>> night:
>>
>> "Comcast has not closed the transaction for NBC Universal and has no
>> operational control at any of its properties including MSNBC. We
>> pledged from the day the deal was announced that we would not
>> interfere with NBC Universal's news operations. We have not and we
>> will not."
>>
>> MSNBC announced that "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell would
>> replace "Countdown" at 8 p.m., with "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz
>> taking Mr. O'Donnell's slot at 10 p.m. Mr. Olbermann did not discuss
>> any future plans, but NBC executives said one term of his settlement
>> would keep him from moving to another network for an extended period
>> of time.
>>
>> Mr. Olbermann signed a four-year contract extension in 2008 for an
>> estimated $30 million. He had hosted "Countdown" at 8 p.m. since 2003
>> and it became the foundation of the channel's surge to its status as
>> the second-ranked news channel on cable television, after Fox News,
>> surpassing the one-time leader CNN.
>>
>> Mr. Olbermann's outspoken, and sometimes controversial, support of
>> liberal positions and Democratic candidates redefined MSNBC from a
>> neutral news channel to one that openly offered a voice to viewers on
>> the left, much as Fox News has done for conservatives.
>>
>> Mr. Olbermann challenged Fox News publicly on numerous occasions,
>> especially the top-rated cable host Bill O'Reilly.
>>
>> Ratings for Mr. Olbermann's show grew, though he never approached Mr.
>> O'Reilly's level of popularity. But he helped expand the MSNBC brand
>> by his frequent invitations to Rachel Maddow, who was eventually
>> offered her own show on MSNBC.
>>
>> Ms. Maddow became the 9 p.m. host following Mr. Olbermann and has
>> built such a successful show that some NBC executives felt less
>> concerned about losing Mr. Olbermann as the signature star of the
>> network.
>>
>> According to several senior network executives, NBC's management had
>> been close to firing Mr. Olbermann on previous occasions, most
>> recently in November after he revealed that he had made donations to
>> several Democratic candidates in 2010 — one of them, coincidentally,
>> was Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who has been the subject of
>> many of his recent shows after being shot in an assassination attempt.
>>
>> The top MSNBC executive, Phil Griffin, said the donations had violated
>> NBC News standards and ordered Mr. Olbermann suspended. His fans
>> responded with a petition to reinstate him that attracted over 250,000
>> signatures. Mr. Olbermann returned two days later. In his response he
>> said the rules on donations had been "inconsistently applied."
>>
>> More:
>>
>> http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/olbermann-hosts-last-countdown-on-msnbc/?hp
>>
>> 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 actually on Olbermann
>> last night and had no sense that anything was amiss.
>>
>> We already know that MSNBC president Phil Griffin had been gunning for
>> Olbermann for some time now. MSNBC was reportedly close to firing
>> Olbermann on several occasions. Recall that during the ridiculous flap
>> over Olbermann's political donations, in which he responded to his
>> suspension with a show of public defiance, Griffin flatly told
>> Olbermann's representative: "We are at war."
>>
>> Soon enough we'll have a clearer sense of why this happened, and we
>> can deal with it then. But for now, let's thank Olbermann for all his
>> hard work. He's rich, popular and has a huge following that's likely
>> to follow him to his next endeavor. He'll be just fine.
>>
>> What of Olbermann's legacy? There's a great deal of crowing on the
>> right about Olbermann's apparent ouster. But let's be clear on what he
>> accomplished: He helped clear a huge space on the airwaves for
>> "unapologetic liberalism," as Steve Benen puts it, when it remained
>> anything but certain that such a space could be created with any
>> measure of success.
>>
>> The unexpected popularity of Olbermann's show early on cleared the way
>> for MSNBC to stack its nighttime lineup with pugnacious lefty hosts.
>> Indeed, it was Olbermann who invited Rachel Maddow on repeatedly as a
>> guest, raising her profile to the point where she got her own show.
>> Olbermann, followed by Maddow, proved in the face of enormous
>> skepticism that there's a huge audience out there for real liberal
>> talk-show hosts to adopt the sort of take-no-prisoners approach once
>> monopolized by the right. Only they accomplished this without
>> descending into the crackpot conspiracy mongering and all-around
>> ugliness of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
>>
>> Indeed, there's already talk that CNN might be interested in picking
>> up Olbermann. While that seems unlikely, given CNN's more staid air,
>> the mere fact that it's being discussed at all shows how much he
>> helped change the landscape.
>>
>> Olbermann may be gone, but the space he did so much to help create is
>> here to stay.
>>
>> More:
>>
>> http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/olbermann-hosts-last-countdown-on-msnbc/?hp
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>> Have a great day,
>> Tommy
>>
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