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The ink wasn't even dry on FCC and Anti-trust approval of the Comcast - NBC merger when the channel's highest rated host got the ax. Keith Olbermann has been fired. At least they let him say good-bye (contrary to standard industry practice). This, of course, is not the first time NBC has done something dumb (probably not the last, either). Nor is it even the first time MSNBC has fired it's highest rated - and coincidentally liberal - host: Phil Donahue was dumped for daring to challenge Dubya's invasion of Iraq (that one may have had something to do with...

The move is simultaneous with new owner Comcast starting to show its hand over the broadcast network and cable after receiving FCC approval. "He's been very problematic," an NBCU source told Deadline about Comcast's attitude to Olbermann. Officially, the Comcast takeover is next week. But word has been circulating for months now that the new owners have wanted to "tinker" with MSNBC and had many changes in store, including a right turn for the left-wing cable channel so that it represents both political points of view more evenly.

Sources tell Mediaite Keith Olbermann and MSNBC were headed for a breakup long before Comcast’s rise to power, but clearly something set the divorce into motion quickly today, with network promos set to run touting Olbermann’s role in MSNBC’s coverage of next week’s State of the Union address–and, notably, a Keith Olbermann promo running on MSNBC in the hour after the host signed off and left the network. MSNBC executives have long planned for the day the network’s star might be sent packing, and the rise of Rachel Maddow at MSNBC–along with the grooming of Lawrence O’Donnell as a potential...

Keith Olbermann was fired by MSNBC sources tell TMZ, and we're told it had everything to do with Comcast's acquisition of NBC. Sources connected with the network tell us ... Comcast honchos did not like Keith's defiance and the way he played in the sandbox. Our sources say Keith has around two years left on his contract, and he'll be paid his salary -- around $7 million a year. We don't know if Comcast will let Keith make a deal with another network as part of an exit agreement, but it's a good bet he'll be benched for a minimum...

On his radio show back in November, Glenn Beck correctly predicted that an NBC-Comcast Merger would mean no more Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. Looks like he was right after all. Let's just hope he's wrong about the Fox News part... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0m_5TluJ-Y

Keith Olbermann announced Friday that it was his last show with MSNBC. Details are still coming out. But one thing's for sure: Keith Olbermann spoke truth to power and he deserves our thanks. Please sign the "Thank you, Keith" statement -- and then pass it on. You can also leave a comment for Keith and make it public for those of you that would like to tell Olberdouche how you really feel. ;)

General Electric's sale of NBC/MSNBC/CNBC -once they'd utilized the their Obama-pumping propaganda machine to the fullest in acquiring TARP funds, spoon-fed deals with Russians/Chinese etc- had just gone through yesterday when Kieth Olbermann announced on air that the show would be his last with the network, now owned by Comcast. This was predicted here back in December 2009 when the deal was first proposed, Comcast has little use for such Obammunist shills in it's newsrooms with MSNBC ratings in the toilet... they're not sucked-up to the Team Obama teat like Jeff Immelt's GE, thus will need a credible news...

Blowhard Olbermann's countdown has finally come to an end. The liberal lip was unceremoniously dumped in the middle of a four-year $30M contract.......MSNBC network brass basically paid the pontificating pundit to scram via an agreement to give up his show and continue to be paid. The garrulous gasbag will likely also have to stay off the air at least until fall .........the unemployed Uberdork was suspended in Nov for making political contributions. He bid farewell in a long-winded segment touting his progressive platform that he felt spoke truth to power.

Cable host Keith Olbermann and news channel MSNBC abruptly parted ways Friday night, as the network announced that his contract had ended and the last installment of his show would air that evening. The surprise announcement strips MSNBC of its most-watched evening anchor after an increasingly tempestuous relationship, coming less than three months after the network briefly suspended the fiery host. "MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors," the network said in an emailed statement just before the end of Mr. Olbermann's program. MSNBC and Mr. Olbermann have...

Keith Olbermann goes ballistic on hearing that President Obama didn’t raise taxes. Basically Keith calls the president a low-down, plate-licking, dime-pinching, two-faced, snake oil salesman for not raising taxes just when the economy needs it most. That’s the polite version. What he actually says is worse. You can read it yourself. Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the tax compromise.To paraphrase Churchill, again, let me begin by saying the most unpopular and most unwelcome thing: “that we have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which will travel far with us along our road. We should...

Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: Every dime the U.S. Government doesn’t take from you, every penny it lets you keep by its good graces, let’s face it, your whole paycheck has to be borrowed from China. While the whole mainstream media’s insistence on calling keeping the tax rates the same is a “tax cut,” implies that all your money really belongs to the government, Keith Olbermann and an obscure Democrat Congressman, Bobby Scott, just came out and expressed that totalitarian view last night in a segment curiously entitled, “America’s Secret Debt.” ( Secret?) In fact, Scott objects...

Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: Every dime the U.S. Government doesn’t take from you, every penny it lets you keep by its good graces, let’s face it, your whole paycheck has to be borrowed from China. While the whole mainstream media’s insistence on calling keeping the tax rates the same is a “tax cut,” implies that all your money really belongs to the government, Keith Olbermann and an obscure Democrat Congressman, Bobby Scott, just came out and expressed that totalitarian view last night in a segment curiously entitled, “America’s Secret Debt.” ( Secret?) In fact, Scott objects to...

How angry has the professional Left become? Their oracle on MSNBC isn’t just warning that Barack Obama won’t get re-elected after cutting a deal with Republicans, but won’t even be on the ticket come November 2012. Keith Olbermann warned in his Special Comment last night that Obama won’t survive a primary challenge if he persists, because Democrats and progressives are wedded to principles, not personalities: Er, doesn’t the nomination of Obama in 2008 more or less rebut that notion? Obama didn’t offer any different rhetoric than did John Edwards did, or even Bill Richardson, who was a lot more experienced...

Did MSNBC have a problem with Keith Olbermann dubbing Bristol Palin 'Worst Person in the World' last week? According to Bill Zwecker at the Chicago Sun-Times "an MSNBC insider reports the talk-show host was “called on the carpet” by his bosses for declaring Bristol Palin “the worst person in the world” on his show last week — calling it “tacky” and “a cheap shot that was uncalled for.” It'd be interesting to know what being 'called to the carpet' consists of in Olbermann's world. Olbermann wields a great deal of clout at MSNBC and it's hard to imagine one 'worst...

FLASH NEWS BULLETIN THE "FEMALE CAPTAIN BLIGH" ESCAPES JUSTICE HORRIBLE HOLLY GRAF TO BE RETIRED IN-GRADE GETS GENERAL DISCHARGE BUT NO PUNISHMENT FOR EGREGIOUS CONDUCT - STAYS A CAPTAIN BUT AT LEAST WILL NEVER BE ADMIRAL - BOARD OF INQUIRY SPLIT ON VOTE 2-TO-1. ONE FEMALE ADMIRAL ON THREE-MEMBER PANEL - CREW OF COWPENS CONTACTS MILITARYCORRUPTION.COM CALLS GRAF SLUR "WORST SHIP ON WATERFRONT" A FLAT-OUT LIE - "WE WERE BEST, DESPITE HER." Copyright © 2010 MilitaryCorruption.com The verdict is in, and Horrible Holly Graf has escaped justice. She will be retired in her present grade, despite a laundry list of...

Recently, a left wing commentator named Keith Olbermann attacked me for being a spokesperson for abstinence education and for being an Ambassador for the Candies Foundation, which promotes teen pregnancy awareness and prevention education. He went so far as to call me "the worst person" he knows, apparently, for my efforts to educate teenagers about the real world risks of premarital sex. Accusing me of hypocrisy is by now, an old canard. What Mr. Olbermann lacks in originality he makes up for with insincere incredulity. Mr. Olbermann fails to understand that in order to have credibility as a spokesperson, it...

"HORRIBLE HOLLY GRAF" PULLS A CAPT. QUEEG BLAMES CREW FOR HER TROUBLES - DEFENSE ATTORNEY CHARLES GITTINS PORTRAYS GRAF AS "VICTIM" OF "SEXIST AND VENGEFUL" WARDROOM SAYS SCREAMER WHIPPED "WORST SHIP ON THE WATERFRONT" INTO "BEST IN PACIFIC FLEET" HIGH-RISK STRATEGY TO REMAKE IMAGE OF THE MOST HATED WOMAN IN THE NAVY - HOW WILL COWPENS CREW REACT TO THIS? WILL "PC" SAVE CAREER OF "WOMAN" WHO PHYSICALLY ATTACKED AT LEAST TWO SUBORDINATE OFFICERS ON SHIP INCLUDING AN OFFICER OF THE ROYAL NAVY? Copyright © 2010 MilitaryCorruption.com In the famous motion picture THE CAINE MUTINY, a crazed Capt. Queeg rolled...

Ted Koppel on Sunday published an op-ed at the Washington Post wherein he claimed that opinionated television personalities like MSNBC's Keith Olbermann represent the death of real news. The "Countdown" host apparently isn't taking this lying down for he tweeted the following Sunday evening: FYI Special Comment tomorrow night: Koppel, False Equivalence, and his part in the real "death of news" [sic] Here's what's caught Olbermann's ire this time: To witness Keith Olbermann - the most opinionated among MSNBC's left-leaning, Fox-baiting, money-generating hosts - suspended even briefly last week for making financial contributions to Democratic political candidates seemed like a...

If MSNBC were consistent, Keith Olbermann would not have been the only on-air personality disciplined for making political contributions. For those who don't watch his "Countdown" program (which would be most of the country), Olbermann was suspended "indefinitely" after it was learned he donated money without approval from management to three Democratic congressional candidates. The problem for MSNBC was not only Olbermann's failure to get permission, but that he anchored part of the network's Election Night coverage. Apparently at MSNBC, the chair you sit in matters more than the content of your journalistic character. Unlike Juan Williams, who was fired...

This YouTube video reminded me that I was the person who introduced Keith Olbermann to America. Keith was a sportscaster at the local CBS affiliate in Los Angeles at the same time I was doing a talk show for that network. I thought Keith was pretty funny on the air, and I suggested we have him come on the show and talk sports. This was the first of several appearances he made on the show, and he always did a nice job. Keith tended to wear out his welcome at stations and networks, and he bounced around to several places...