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Keith Olbermann Is Headed Back to ESPN, With a Caveat
New York Magazine ^
| 7/16/2013
| Adam Martin
Posted on 07/16/2013 10:10:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It has been a long flirtation, but after 14 months of "intense discussion" between Keith Olbermann and ESPN, the network reportedly plans to announce Wednesday that it's taking the anchor back— provided he stays away from politics. Apparently Olbermann's stint hosting Countdown on MSNBC made him nearly too politicized to hire, The New York Times reports: "On his new show, Olbermann will be free to discuss matters other than sports, including pop culture and current events, but not politics, the two-year pact specifies." But he's a draw, so they're trying him out. Not everyone at ESPN will be glad to hear it. After Olbermann left 16 years ago, "he didn't burn bridges, he napalmed them," an executive there said. But those bridges didn't reach current president John Skipper, who told The Hollywood Reporter last month: "I wasn't here when Keith was here, but he is very talented." And buzzy.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: olberwomann
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To: nickcarraway
Thank the Lord Fox Sports 1 is starting up next month. No more ESPN for me.
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posted on
07/16/2013 10:13:16 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Keep your powder dry.)
To: nickcarraway
Glad I don’t get ESPN anymore.
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posted on
07/16/2013 10:17:27 PM PDT
by
VerySadAmerican
(If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
To: nickcarraway
It’s what comes around goes around.
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posted on
07/16/2013 10:18:56 PM PDT
by
Wiggins
To: nickcarraway
I bet they’re not hiring Limbaugh any time soon! Bye ESPN!
To: FlingWingFlyer
I’m sure Fox Sports won’t be any better.
To: nickcarraway
He can join Skip and Stephen A in their daily quest to prove who is blacker. :)
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posted on
07/16/2013 10:22:47 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
(CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
To: nickcarraway
What’s the over/under on how long he takes to break his terms of employment?
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posted on
07/16/2013 10:27:17 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Let me know if you find anyone who would give odds on that.
To: nickcarraway
I’ll bet his new co-workers are thrilled!
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posted on
07/16/2013 10:30:00 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
To: nickcarraway
Lord...now I can’t watch ESPN....I hate that crazy loon....he’s an angry angry bitter liberal....
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posted on
07/16/2013 11:05:08 PM PDT
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(It is going to be Foot to Ass combat on election day....my foot and a Rat's ass.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Also there is the new CBS sports network. ESPN has long abused their audience a good portion of whom do not share the ESPN political slant.
I wonder if the new competition will lead to ESPN going the way of CNN after they got competition in news?
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posted on
07/16/2013 11:06:02 PM PDT
by
JLS
To: NonValueAdded
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posted on
07/16/2013 11:07:31 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(They Old School. We New School. We don't read cursive in New School. My Generation. We retahded, sir)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Well, this confirms it. ESPN is run by idiots.
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posted on
07/16/2013 11:13:20 PM PDT
by
JaguarXKE
(1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Will Fox Sports 1 cover hockey?
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posted on
07/16/2013 11:19:15 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
To: nickcarraway
he is very talented His ratings state otherwise......
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posted on
07/17/2013 12:00:45 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/17/2013 12:15:04 AM PDT
by
Usagi_yo
To: Slings and Arrows
I give him 30 days this clown won’t shut up
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:13:47 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: nickcarraway; Jimmy Valentine
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posted on
07/17/2013 2:33:56 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: nickcarraway
That caveat won’t last 5 minutes.
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posted on
07/17/2013 4:30:23 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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