[Always Right]

"We came to the conclusion it was better not to restrain them" by making them wear "two hats,"

And Olbermann was soooooooooo good at wearing two hats. Olbermann was at his very impartial non-partisan best when he was apologizing to his audience for the offensive video the RNC showed at their convention.

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo called the move "pathetic," writing: "It seems pretty obvious that the network got cowed by complaints from the McCain campaign."

Yeah, Josh, that's got to be the reason. Couldn't have anything to do with the advertisers threatening to pull out.

[Arm_Bears]

The “News Division” doesn’t live in the real world, but the folks in Accounting/Finance/Public Relations do. The non-stop slander directed at Sarah Palin, specifically, and at Conservatives, in general, has to be taking a toll. I regularly contact alphabet network advertisers and ask them if they think antagonizing customers is a sound business strategy.

[hgro]

I got a tingle up my leg when I heard the news about these two losers.

[greyfoxx39]

Salon's Glenn Greenwald called it "extraordinary for a media company to publicly embarrass, diminish and tarnish its own principal asset.

As if these two could be additionally diminished, tarnished and embarrassments to the human race!

[Mygirlsmom]

What Keith can say on 'Countdown' and what Chris can say on 'Hardball' is a little different" than what they could tell viewers in the role of news anchors where people are actually watching

[GWMcClintock]

“Salon’s Glenn Greenwald called it “extraordinary for a media company to publicly embarrass, diminish and tarnish its own principal asset.”

That would be whom? Now, if it said, “principle a$$es”, that makes the sentence more understandable.

[edpc]

Even funnier is the decision to run Countdown, Rachel Maddow, and Countdown AGAIN as their primetime lineup. I guess airing Keith twice is the only way to increase his ratings.

[wilco200]

What’s the over under on that Rachel Maddow show? I give it 2 weeks max

[Right Wing Assault]

a little different" than what they could tell viewers in the role of news anchors

A LITTLE different? No kidding!

In other words, they didn't know the difference between being a news anchor and someone who gives opinions. Their fault or NBC? Probably both. It took them a while to do something about it.

[popdonnelly]

All these liberal idiots, including Kurtz, the author of this article, are on the same side.

[NewMediaFan]

the real bombing was their TV ratings — a dismal last place.

[Mr. K]

Sounds liketheir viewers are not happy- both of them!

[Hacklehead]

The DU and Kos nuts wont be happy until David Axelrod is in charge of the MSNBC political coverage.

I think the empty suits running MSNMC realized that to have ANY credibility as a news network they at least have to PRETEND to be non-partisan. There is no freaking way in he** way to pull that off with Bathtub boy and the Tingler as anchors.

[VeniVidiVici]

Salon's Glenn Greenwald called it "extraordinary for a media company to publicly embarrass, diminish and tarnish its own principal asset.

LOL! I'd say they did that quite well on their own.

[top 2 toe red]

"It is plainly doing so for ideological, not ratings-based, reasons: namely, it fears doing anything to anger the White House, the McCain campaign and the right in this country."

Hmmmm...seems what they really fear is that McCain and Palin ARE going to be the new occupants of the White House and that scares the bejeeze out of them.

[lowbridge]

did not exactly send a thrill up the leg of liberal bloggers.

Does it matter to the Washington Post what the conservative bloggers think? /rhetorical

[Mikey_1962]

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo called the move "pathetic," writing: "It seems pretty obvious that the network got cowed by complaints from the McCain campaign."

Jesus Josh, Get a shovel!

[autumnraine]

Liberals seem to think that everyone agrees with them. And if by chance someone doesn’t, they don’t count.