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Has the Countdown to Olbermann’s Firing Begun? (PLEASE GOD LET IT BE!)
The Rhetorican via Ace of Spades ^ | Feb. 28, 2010 | Jehuda

Posted on 02/28/2010 2:02:14 PM PST by pillut48

NBC insiders are starting to sweat Keith Olbermann. But not because of Olby’s politics. Thing is, Olbermann may have become a liability for NBC, literally:

Olbermann…went after former MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams Wednesday night, claiming Abrams had been fired and had a grudge against the network.

The tirade left NBC executives red-faced because Abrams, a lawyer, is still employed by NBC as a news analyst on legal issues.

(Excerpt) Read more at rhetorican.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: keitholbermann; moonbats; msnbc
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Oh, Lord, please hear our prayers! This blowhard has to GO!!
1 posted on 02/28/2010 2:02:14 PM PST by pillut48
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To: pillut48

Didn’t have room to add that hat tip goes to Stephen Kruiser on Twitter!


2 posted on 02/28/2010 2:05:02 PM PST by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
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Dirka, dirka, Siiiir.


3 posted on 02/28/2010 2:05:31 PM PST by chris37
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The guy is really not well. He needs help, not a public audience.


4 posted on 02/28/2010 2:07:24 PM PST by HGSW0904
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To: pillut48

No! No! Keep him on to the bitter end, I say!

Hmmm, then again, in the movie “Network”, mad pundit Howard Beale’s employers realized he had become a ratings liability and dealt with him—not by firing—but by arranging for a radical domestic terrorist group to rise out of the audience and blow him away on camera.

Makes you think...


5 posted on 02/28/2010 2:09:20 PM PST by sinanju
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To: pillut48

Why? I think that he is a useful idiot. His delusional comments and rhetoric are so far out there that he causes anyone with more than two brain cells to embrace the right.


6 posted on 02/28/2010 2:09:32 PM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing, Freeper)
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To: pillut48

Better get ready with the clorox and lysol to dung out his office. Call the ASPCA to pick up the gerbils.


7 posted on 02/28/2010 2:09:45 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Deathcare...a solution desperately looking for a problem.)
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To: pillut48

I’m sure he’ll find a job at CNN, ABC, or CBS. If worse comes to worse, he can go to PBS, though I am sure Moyer doesn’t want the competition.


8 posted on 02/28/2010 2:10:47 PM PST by Brilliant
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This blowhard has to GO!!

To present a contrary view, as long as Keith Olbermann remains as a spokesman for the Democrat machine, that's a liability for them. I personally see him in the same role as Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, an albatross that we on the Conservative side can use very much to our advantage.

9 posted on 02/28/2010 2:11:15 PM PST by re_nortex
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I don’t want them to fire him. He is a buffoon. He is a laughing stock and is dragging Dems down with him. Each time he opens his mouth, he illustrates the idiocy of their beliefs and causes. He has a nasty temper and is short on self-control. He lacks discretion. He is losing money hand over fist for MSNBC, and NBC. I don’t have to watch him, so if they want to subsidize him despite his dwindling audience, fine with me.


10 posted on 02/28/2010 2:11:34 PM PST by La Lydia
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He will lose BOTH of his viewers.


11 posted on 02/28/2010 2:11:57 PM PST by Mark (Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
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To: La Lydia

Agreed. We need useful idiots like Olberman to remind us that liberalism is truly a mental illness.


12 posted on 02/28/2010 2:16:26 PM PST by Sir Clancelot
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To: La Lydia

Agree with you completely. Olbermann is a joke and no one watches him. If he keeps draining profit away from NBC, so much the better.


13 posted on 02/28/2010 2:20:01 PM PST by Astronaut
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I hope they keep him and Maddow on the air spouting their ignorant poison. Just getting football head off Sunday night football is good enough for me. I wouldn't ever have to see his long face if the NFL would smarten up.
14 posted on 02/28/2010 2:24:56 PM PST by peeps36 (Democrats Don't Need No Stinking Input From You Little People)
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To: Brilliant

Does he still have a gig with ESPN?


15 posted on 02/28/2010 2:27:07 PM PST by All Blue State
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Oh, it’s a blog, that excerpts ...


16 posted on 02/28/2010 2:28:17 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: All Blue State

That’s probably why he’s committing suicide with MSNBC. Figures he’ll get himself fired for doing something that’s very bad, but not a violation of his contract, then sue them for millions, while making money on ESPN.


17 posted on 02/28/2010 2:28:58 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: La Lydia

Maybe so, but who the dickens listens to him?


18 posted on 02/28/2010 2:30:30 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (My respect and admiration for Cmdr. McCain are inversely proportion to my opinion of Sen. McCain.)
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What difference does that make? The more money he loses for NBC, the better. A few media pundits watch him so we don’t have to.


19 posted on 02/28/2010 2:32:08 PM PST by La Lydia
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To: pillut48

If he gets fired - he will just run for Congress!!!!


20 posted on 02/28/2010 2:36:25 PM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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