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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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1 posted on 07/16/2013 10:10:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Thank the Lord Fox Sports 1 is starting up next month. No more ESPN for me.


2 posted on 07/16/2013 10:13:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Keep your powder dry.)
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To: nickcarraway

Glad I don’t get ESPN anymore.


3 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!)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s what comes around goes around.


4 posted on 07/16/2013 10:18:56 PM PDT by Wiggins
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I bet they’re not hiring Limbaugh any time soon! Bye ESPN!


5 posted on 07/16/2013 10:20:11 PM PDT by winner3000
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’m sure Fox Sports won’t be any better.


6 posted on 07/16/2013 10:21:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He can join Skip and Stephen A in their daily quest to prove who is blacker. :)


7 posted on 07/16/2013 10:22:47 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: nickcarraway

What’s the over/under on how long he takes to break his terms of employment?


8 posted on 07/16/2013 10:27:17 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Let me know if you find anyone who would give odds on that.


9 posted on 07/16/2013 10:29:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I’ll bet his new co-workers are thrilled!


10 posted on 07/16/2013 10:30:00 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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Lord...now I can’t watch ESPN....I hate that crazy loon....he’s an angry angry bitter liberal....


11 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.)
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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?


12 posted on 07/16/2013 11:06:02 PM PDT by JLS
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To: NonValueAdded
A related, earlier article has some great observations by ex co-workers in the last paragraph: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/keith-olbermann-might-go-back-to-espn.html
13 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)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Well, this confirms it. ESPN is run by idiots.


14 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)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Will Fox Sports 1 cover hockey?


15 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.)
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To: nickcarraway
he is very talented

His ratings state otherwise......

16 posted on 07/17/2013 12:00:45 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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Ovey! The humiliation.


17 posted on 07/17/2013 12:15:04 AM PDT by Usagi_yo
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To: Slings and Arrows

I give him 30 days this clown won’t shut up


18 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)
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To: nickcarraway; Jimmy Valentine

See post #18.


19 posted on 07/17/2013 2:33:56 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: nickcarraway

That caveat won’t last 5 minutes.


20 posted on 07/17/2013 4:30:23 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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