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Post by lakhota on Jan 21, 2011 22:05:22 GMT -5
Final Countdown: Keith Olbermann And MSNBC Announce They Are Parting Ways (VIDEO) Keith Olbermann and MSNBC have ended their contract, according to a statement from MSNBC. The last episode of "Countdown" aired this evening. MSNBC's statement reads as follows: MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. The last broadcast of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors. As for the updated schedule, Lawrence O'Donnell's show will be moved to 8 p.m.; while "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz will air at 10 p.m. Rachel Maddow will stay in her regular slot at 9 p.m. MSNBC released the following statement on their new programming order: Starting Monday, January 24, "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" will move to 8 p.m. ET/PT and "The Ed Show," hosted by Ed Schultz, will move to 10 p.m. ET/PT on MSNBC. The announcement was made today by Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC. "The Rachel Maddow Show" will continue to air live at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Also starting Monday, Cenk Uygur, MSNBC contributor and host of the popular web show "The Young Turks," will be filling in as host of the 6 p.m ET hour. Olbermann says in his final sign off tonight that he was told, "This is going to be the last edition of your show." (Full video below.) He also thanked the audience for supporting him when he felt he could not continue the show: There were many occasions, particularly in the last two-and-a-half years, where all that surrounded the show--but never the show itself--was just too much for me. But your support and loyalty and, if I may use the word, insistence, ultimately required me to keep going. My gratitude to you is boundless and if you think I've done any good here, imagine how it looked from this end...this may be the only television program wherein the host was much more in awe of the audience than vice versa. WATCH: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/keith-olbermann-countdown-over_n_812506.html
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Post by lakhota on Jan 21, 2011 22:10:37 GMT -5
A sad, sad day. Best wishes, Keith.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2011 22:11:52 GMT -5
LOL, Lakhota!! Okay-- you got the scoop!!
I hope he ends up on FOX as an opposition speaker since FOX is good at showing both sides. That would be a laugh riot!!!
BUT-- I doubt it..........
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Post by sanityjones on Jan 21, 2011 22:12:11 GMT -5
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Post by sanityjones on Jan 21, 2011 22:15:07 GMT -5
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Post by midwesterner (banned) on Jan 21, 2011 22:15:22 GMT -5
The Final Countdown
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Post by dancinmama on Jan 21, 2011 22:15:23 GMT -5
Hey Keith, don't let the door hit ya on the way out!!
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Post by lakhota on Jan 21, 2011 22:16:48 GMT -5
My guess is that Keith is gone for one reason: COMCAST.
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Post by sanityjones on Jan 21, 2011 22:21:17 GMT -5
Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me Lakhota, I didn't think you were vulnerable to those, LOL. He has a history of policy violations, had poor ratings, and was a pain in the ass.............what more needs said?
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Post by lakhota on Jan 21, 2011 22:24:12 GMT -5
Well, we all know those on the left don't need their daily feeding like those on the right. You know, keep them in the dark and feed them ****.
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Post by sanityjones on Jan 21, 2011 22:32:54 GMT -5
Look. Olbermann just didn't have enough lead in his pencil to perform. I'm sure it is a very minor setback and nothing that Mr. Soros cannot overcome with those deep pockets of his. All he needs to do is find another gullible and soulless Lefty who believes in nothing other than what they are told by the emotionally driven, pot smoking, crybaby pseudo-majority shysters; who is willing to sit in a climate controlled studio telling blatant lies for a few hours a day while appearing to be completely serious.
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Post by traelin0 on Jan 21, 2011 22:33:30 GMT -5
Phenomenal song, mid. I dedicate it to the US Constitution.
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Post by lakhota on Jan 21, 2011 22:37:37 GMT -5
Look. Olbermann just didn't have enough lead in his pencil to perform. I'm sure it is a very minor setback and nothing that Mr. Soros cannot overcome with those deep pockets of his. All he needs to do is find another gullible and soulless Lefty who believes in nothing other than what they are told by the emotionally driven, pot smoking, crybaby pseudo-majority shysters; who is willing to sit in a climate controlled studio telling blatant lies for a few hours a day while appearing to be completely serious. Whenever I remotely consider cutting you some slack (credibility), you come up with another unhinged statement. What exactly does George Soros have to do with this? Apparently you don't have a problem with Murdoch or the Koch brothers? You don't have enough matches to light my rockets. George Soros is a great man, by the way...
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Post by sanityjones on Jan 21, 2011 22:45:13 GMT -5
Seriously Lakhota, I'm just pulling your chain a bit, no harm intended. I do realize you must be grieving right now so I'll let it slide for a few days. I only meant to point out how easy it will be to replace him. Hope that helps.
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Post by lakhota on Jan 21, 2011 22:46:28 GMT -5
Cool...
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Post by stayput on Jan 21, 2011 23:00:45 GMT -5
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Post by ed1066 on Jan 21, 2011 23:42:49 GMT -5
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
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Post by deziloooooo on Jan 22, 2011 2:28:12 GMT -5
Ed I think I and others have told you before, if you want to be listened to and be considered with it, HAHAHAHA is so old, makes you resemble a shloomp which possible fits, so if you want to be so considered , guess stay with the HAHA...but LOL, or even lol, much neater and cooler. Understand know one ever suggest anything to mr ed so guess its HAHA right. {sigh, hey we have tried} nite all
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Post by Loopdilou on Jan 22, 2011 2:33:01 GMT -5
Don't worry, Lakhota, he's not going to disappear completely. We all know MSNBC sucks as a news source anyway. (Not as much as Fox, but nearly)
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Post by lakhota on Jan 22, 2011 2:47:10 GMT -5
I agree. Olbermann was the left's version of Beck and Hannity - except Keith told the truth.
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Post by Value Buy on Jan 22, 2011 11:33:26 GMT -5
Ah.... it is going to be a nice weekend, isn't it........
I wonder if this was part of the deal to schlep the NBC franchise to Comcast? Did Comcast demand theat he not be part of the package deal?
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Post by Value Buy on Jan 22, 2011 11:35:14 GMT -5
Maybe, if Jeff Immelt had cut the Cancer of Olberman and company a few years ago, NBC would have been worth more to GE'S bottom line and they would not have had to do the fire sale.
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Post by ugonow on Jan 22, 2011 12:07:40 GMT -5
A huge victory against the state run media. One lib down,many more to go,but it is a start.
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Post by verrip1 on Jan 22, 2011 12:57:30 GMT -5
When your ratings suck so bad that even MSNBC has to fire you, your career options become limited. Next stop for Keith? The new Bozo the Clown in Peoria.
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Post by ugonow on Jan 22, 2011 13:01:44 GMT -5
Now that Sarah's show is done filming,they should consider giving her the slot.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jan 22, 2011 13:06:24 GMT -5
Um, I think CNN and MSNBC combined have what? 12 viewers?
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Post by Loopdilou on Jan 22, 2011 13:12:29 GMT -5
Libs don't like spoonfed news.. they prefer to think
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Post by safeharbor37 on Jan 22, 2011 13:27:43 GMT -5
Related thoughts: The Ed Show reminds me of the Mr. Ed show except the Mr. Ed show emphasized the other end of the horse.
I too wonder where conservative talks shows get their audience. There are so many of them that listening/watching all of them would require that a single person attend continuously ~ with no sleep ~ and I'm not sure that would do it. When I'm channel/station surfing I keep coming up with conservative [and a few liberal] talk shows that I'd never heard of. It's like the 200+ channels on cable/satellite. I've only got maybe sixty channels on my cable and, of course XM. I occasionally surf the cable and broadcast just to see what's there [they, particularly broadcast, keep changing] but I've never even surfed all the XM channels, but I have looked at the schedule. The point is that there is so much out there that there just isn't enough time ~ even if one were interested. The odd thing is that there are more liberal sources on TV and more conservative sources on radio even though the conservative are [allegedly] much more popular in both venues. But ~ where does the audience come from? Liberals tend to congregate on the internet where they can spend their employer's time and facilities espousing their views [which they try to pass off as ideas]. That's understandable. Conservatives tend to do their jobs, particularly the jobs for which they are being paid ~ and I suppose that's why talk radio is their favorite venue, since they can work and listen at the same time. [It's difficult to view, listen and work at the same time ~ and impossible to read and text and work at the same time.] At one time or another I've listened to Limbaugh, Hannity [& Colmes], Beck, Savage, Boortz, Medved, as well as Franken, Maddow, Jim Hightower, etc. The question is how anyone can follow even a few of them since each occupied 2-3 hours a day so that, even with multitasking, there simply isn't enough time. If you read a paper, listen/view the network news [even one] and do anything else, all your time is used up. It's inevitable that hardly anyone knows what each of these personalities is doing and, obviously, rely on what others say to determine who is a "reputable" source and who is not. The bottom line is that "successful" broadcasters are the popular ones, the ones most viewed/listened to, therefore the most influential. "Unsuccessful" broadcasters lose market share, outlets and [eventually] their jobs. I'm sure that Olbermann will continue to eat and have a roof over his head. Life goes on.
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Post by humok on Jan 22, 2011 14:40:04 GMT -5
Gosh I wonder if Maddow is next? One can only hope.
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Post by ed1066 on Jan 22, 2011 15:52:52 GMT -5
I would suggest he go back to football commentary, but he sucked at that and got canned from ESPN, too...I guess as a washed up liberal bigot, he has no choice but to join Obama's administration...LOL!
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