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Keith Olbermann announces tonight's Countdown as his last show!

I am sure the wet dream of every right winger just was achieved. Dissent just took it on the chin as now right wing talk can have even more of the air in the USA with less to worry about from anyone who sees things differently. I wonder if the corporate merger had anything to do with this?

It could be for personal reasons, not politics. .

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Congratulations my dear friend!!

I just simply can't understand the left wing mind.

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Thanks for the compliment.

But next time, try for your own original thoughts and style. Either that or send me royalties.
 

Olbermann did this for his own reasons... "I want a mass health care free clinic every week in the principle cities of the states of the six senators key to defeating a filibuster against health care reform in the Senate."... NOT just because it was the right thing to do for the people.

Compare that with Glenn Beck and the money and attention he helped raise for Wilmington, OH.
http://www.debatepolitics.com/bias-media/88968-glenn-beck-paints-beleaguered-wilmington-ohio-real-life-bedford-falls.html#post1059193903

Big difference between doing something positive in order to make a point to Senators on how YOU think they should vote on a bill.... and doing something positive to do something positive.
 
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Thanks for the compliment.

But next time, try for your own original thoughts and style. Either that or send me royalties.

He'd ahve to send the royalties to Media Matters, since that's where you get your 'original thoughts' from! :rofl:
 
He'd ahve to send the royalties to Media Matters, since that's where you get your 'original thoughts' from! :rofl:

I would be happy to have a donation made in my name to such a worthy organization. By all means, proceed.

Laughing at your own lame attempts at humor ... is .. .well... as much as you do it ... its lame.
 
I would be happy to have a donation made in my name to such a worthy organization. By all means, proceed.

Laughing at your own lame attempts at humor ... is .. .well... as much as you do it ... its lame.

Your retorts have become increasingly less witty (not that they were ever overly so to begin with) since Olbermann's firing. A tad depressed?
 
Olbermann did this for his own reasons... "I want a mass health care free clinic every week in the principle cities of the states of the six senators key to defeating a filibuster against health care reform in the Senate."... NOT just because it was the right thing to do for the people.
Compare that with Glenn Beck and the money and attention he helped raise for Wilmington, OH.
http://www.debatepolitics.com/bias-media/88968-glenn-beck-paints-beleaguered-wilmington-ohio-real-life-bedford-falls.html#post1059193903

Big difference between doing something positive in order to make a point to Senators on how YOU think they should vote on a bill.... and doing something positive to do something positive.
This is your opinion. BTW, Wilmington, Ohio hasn't got it's share of the ticket sales yet.
 
This is your opinion. BTW, Wilmington, Ohio hasn't got it's share of the ticket sales yet.

No... it's directly from the link YOU posted...
"I want a mass health care free clinic every week in the principle cities of the states of the six senators key to defeating a filibuster against health care reform in the Senate.".

As to the ticket share thing... got a link to a credible source for that?
 
Your retorts have become increasingly less witty (not that they were ever overly so to begin with) since Olbermann's firing. A tad depressed?

Actually these sort of things have the opposite effect on me. But thank you for noticing my witty remarks.
 
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Thanks for the compliment.

But next time, try for your own original thoughts and style. Either that or send me royalties.

You have to wait till I am famous, so I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you my friend. :lamo
 
Failures!!!!!????!!!!!!

That is the totally weird thing about this story. KO was the most successful personality on the entire network. KO had the only show that averaged more than a million viewers five nights a week. KO brought MSNBC past CNN and put them in the second spot. KO came up with the idea of giving a show to Maddow and now she is the second most watched show in the evening block. KO helped MSNBC make money.

If that is failure than you have a very very strange definition of it.


I am sure you can back all these claims up with links, right?
 
I am sure you can back all these claims up with links, right?

all you have to do is read the many Olbermann threads .... links are everywhere and the facts have been reprinted here for all to see
 
btw- the Comcast takeover of NBC was first announced over a year ago. They have had plenty of time to make their feelings known to NBC management about the company they wanted in place when the deal became approved and official. And anyone who believes they have not let NBC know their feelings about such things --- well, now its my turn to say perhaps you don't know much about business.

Rachel Maddow Squashes The Comcast Fired Olbermann Conspiracy TheoryPoliticususa
Maddow made it clear that Keith and MSNBC decided to end the show and Comcast had nothing to do with it...

Without mentioning them by name, Maddow also addressed the rumors that Comcast forced Olbermann out and is going to move MSNBC to the right, “We are all sorry that Keith and MSNBC decided to end his run here...

Olbermann and MSNBC parted ways because of the problems between Keith and Phil Griffin. It is that simple. The whole notion that Comcast is going to come in and change MSNBC to fit ownership’s political ideology was another bit of dark fantasy.

And there you have it. The truth, from Maddow herself. Of course, she's just a shill for the vast right wing conspiracy led by MSNBC... right Hay?
 
wtf was olberman--a second rate student at Cornell who started his career as a jocksniffing sports reporter with no real athletic background.....

.....then that same schmuck started commenting about politics with about the same level of education and experience that he brought to sports

I'm not sure why you think he was a 2nd rate student, unless you are privy to his transcript. He is a graduate of an Ivy league school. If you think Keith lacks the academic background to do what he does, than surely you must Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh far less qualified to do what they do as each is either a college drop-out or never attended. I don't know about you, but that sure tells me a whole lot.


nothing is funnier than watching a guy who never was an elite athlete pretending to know about sports and competition.......

......the guy is pretty much a joke to me

So you must think a night of watching or listening to Peter Gammons, Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Jim Rome.... (insert most of your favorite sports analysts and play-by-play men here) funnier than a night at the Improv?
 
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are you calling Rachael Maddow a liar? The other liberals will have your badge for that!

The "you have no clue why he was fired...." is not my quote.... it comes from TurtleDude. You grabbed my post before I was able to edit it out. Hopefully the "Board" will overlook the sloppiness of my post and allow me to retain my badge.
 
The "you have no clue why he was fired...." is not my quote.... it comes from TurtleDude. You grabbed my post before I was able to edit it out. Hopefully the "Board" will overlook the sloppiness of my post and allow me to retain my badge.

then consider my post re-directed at Turtle...lol
 
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