Olbermann Signs Off

[Brigandier]

NY Times says part of his exit agreement stipulates that he can't go do a show elsewhere (for a while anyway).

That sucks ass, I'd hate to have to choose between 7 mil and doing what I want.

It seems like a devil's bargain to me.

 

[dmcowen674]

It's already begun.

Really

Gotta love the idiots that say Free Market blah blah blah, it's all about the politics now just like there is no such thing as supply and demand anymore.

Everything is manipulated by the Corporations and the dumb ones online still hold on to beliefs from years ago before the CEO's took over.

 

[Painman]

Dave's not... always wrong.

Cable news shnews though... I haven't watched Olbermann's show in a while. I agreed with him lots, but never liked his haughty blowhard presentation.

CNN is the only cable news network (that I'm willing to watch) that gets broadcast onto my kitchen TV, so I see a lot of Wolf, John King USA and Parker Spitzer. I throw a lot of food at the TV during John King's False Equivalence Fest. Spitzer pretty much spitzes all over Parker's face on a nightly basis. He's a WAY better seat-of-the-pants debater than she is... it's not even really a contest. I get to wondering if the show was even meant to be.

Piers Morgan... Ehh... by 9PM I've usually turned the TV off already. I only really watch it in the kitchen.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

I once said that I respected KO because he was a good man trying to fight for what was right.

I was running a 104 degree fever.

 

[dmcowen674]

Dave's not... always wrong.

<shock> 😱 Thank you :thumbsup:

 

[Red Dawn]

To put it in different terms

[b][u]THURS. JAN. 20, 2011[/u][/b]
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,918,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,079,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 1,940,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 1,786,000
FOXNEWS BECK 1,780,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,460,000
[b]MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,106,000[/b]
CNN PIERS 1,025,000
MSNBC MADDOW 976,000
MSNBC O'DONNELL 855,000
MSNBC SCHULTZ 760,000
CNN COOPER 740,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 700,00

Fox's numbers also coincide with the number of Rascal Scooters sold.

 

[boomerang]

I'm hoping Chris Matthews is next.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

if MSNBC knew what was good for them they would run an even MORE conservative network; something with a tag like "everything else is a communist conspiracy"

 

[Red Dawn]

if MSNBC knew what was good for them they would run an even MORE conservative network; something with a tag like "everything else is a communist conspiracy"

You mean go directly after Fox's audience? It'd be tough, I think Fox has all the Red Assed Bloated Faced Wingnut Talking Heads sign to a contract with the exception of Limbaugh and we've already seen that he doesn't translate well to TV.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

You mean go directly after Fox's audience? It'd be tough, I think Fox has all the Red Assed Bloated Faced Wingnut Talking Heads sign to a contract with the exception of Limbaugh and we've already seen that he doesn't translate well to TV.

Create new ones; but make them even more crazy!

It will be the all-patriot Chanel and anyone who doesn't agree with the disillusion of the US government (except the much under-utilized war machine), in the name of the constitution, is un-American!

B-list radio commentators write the gag-material for what will consist of only big-breasted women with very low cut 'professional' blouses.

The only thing that differentiates the 6,7,8 and 9pm from one another is blond, brunet, red head and twins!

 

[bamacre]

I once said that I respected KO because he was a good man trying to fight for what was right.

I kinda thought that way when I watched him while Bush was in office. Now that Obama is in office, he's shown his true colors.

 

[bamacre]

You mean go directly after Fox's audience? It'd be tough, I think Fox has all the Red Assed Bloated Faced Wingnut Talking Heads sign to a contract with the exception of Limbaugh and we've already seen that he doesn't translate well to TV.

That may change when widescreen TV's get more popular.

 

[Red Dawn]

Maybe he'll join the other nutjobs and start working for Faux News.

 

[Red Dawn]

Create new ones; but make them even more crazy!

Tough task at hand trying to out crazy Faux

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Maybe he'll join the other nutjobs and start working for Faux News.

Heh I wondered about that. I also wondered if we'd hear "well if he wasn't following corporate directives then he should have been fired", but I was pretty sure that wouldn't be the case.

The thing mentioned that I find strange is that his exit agreement says he can't go to another network for a time. IF that's true then he either got a sweet deal or no one else wants him.

Of course Rush is going to have a field day with this. Too bad he won't shut up but he's self employed and has no real life outside of his show.

 

[Medellon]

Hell Ya! Seems that most people on these boards, though overwhemingly liberal, do not care for the extremes. Keith Olbermann spewed forth more vitriol than anyone on the right. Dumbass was probably fired over his asinine remarks regarding the Tuscon shooting, surely that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Now let's get Krugman fired from the New York Times, another idiot.

 

[IBMer]

Hell Ya! Seems that most people on these boards, though overwhemingly liberal, do not care for the extremes. Keith Olbermann spewed forth more vitriol than anyone on the right. Dumbass was probably fired over his asinine remarks regarding the Tuscon shooting, surely that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Now let's get Krugman fired from the New York Times, another idiot.

Have you ever watched Glenn Beck? Wait I know you have because your using the new rightwing word of the day, "vitriol".

 

[nick1985]

he's one of the two decent tv news shows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IartscRgyaU


Seems like a decent "news" show. 🙄

 

[nageov3t]

There must be some crazy back drama.

I've read it in enough different sources and often enough that Keith Olbermann is fucking terrible to work with that I give credence to it as common knowledge.

if it has to do with the Comcast merger, I'm guessing it's that the Comcast execs didn't want to put up with his drama and prima donna-ness, not that Comcast execs are trying to silence a liberal voice.

because if it was about censorship and politics, why would Keith Olbermann be fired while Ed Shultz remains on the air? The Ed Show is pretty much Glenn Beck without the ratings; KO is at least watchable.

I wonder if MSNBC is going to hold him to his contract and keep him off the air for 2 years just to be dicks, though.

 

[brencat]

That sucks ass, I'd hate to have to choose between 7 mil and doing what I want.

It seems like a devil's bargain to me.

Standard non-compete clause. Happens in lots of industries. And I'd have no problem sitting home for 6 mos - 2yrs with that kind of annuity coming in.

 

[Craig234]

I've read it in enough different sources and often enough that Keith Olbermann is fucking terrible to work with that I give credence to it as common knowledge.

if it has to do with the Comcast merger, I'm guessing it's that the Comcast execs didn't want to put up with his drama and prima donna-ness, not that Comcast execs are trying to silence a liberal voice.

because if it was about censorship and politics, why would Keith Olbermann be fired while Ed Shultz remains on the air? The Ed Show is pretty much Glenn Beck without the ratings; KO is at least watchable.

I wonder if MSNBC is going to hold him to his contract and keep him off the air for 2 years just to be dicks, though.

I'd be surprised if Olbermann is 'terrible to work with' in any important way. He strikes me as the opposite - except maybe for management.

I don't know if this was a desire to rebrand the network away from the 'liberal' flavor of some of its shows, but it it were, this would make sense.

They wouldn't 'clean the house' in a way that was clearly ideological and infuriate most of their customers, and maybe even some principled conservatives.

But by going after him as the 'leader' of the liberal faction, it makes it much easier to pave the way to remove the others over time (or maybe send a message to 'reform'.)

While we don't know the story, there is something going on, as they once again get rid of their top rated show (referring to Donahue earlier).

Whatever the story, as I said, it's a loss for the nation of a rare good news show.

It does leave the TV news field almost entirely to a split between the corporatist and right-wing segments, making our country even more ideologically bombarded.

 

[Craig234]

Hell Ya!

So you cheer the silencing of the truth, in the tiny bit of the media that has it.

Seems that most people on these boards, though overwhemingly liberal

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Sadly very wrong, as shown many times.

, do not care for the extremes.

The extreme right does pretty well here. Olbermann is far from 'extreme left' whether the 'extreme left' is right or wrong.

But you do sound like you fall for the 'centrist fallacy', the 'sides' are always wrong.

Keith Olbermann spewed forth more vitriol than anyone on the right.

Yes, and the Jews were behind a holocaust of Germans. Quite wrong again - not to mention, not all 'vitriol' is bad. MLK had some 'vitriol' against racism, for example.

Dumbass

Nominee for irony of the week.

was probably fired over his asinine remarks regarding the Tuscon shooting, surely that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

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The first time I'm heard that bit of delusion, since the main criticism of his remarks might be they were too 'centrist' - mainly 'vitriol should be toned down'.

Now let's get Krugman fired from the New York Times, another idiot.

Yes, now that we've silenced any decent tv show telling the truth except Rachel Maddow, let's censor the few places the truth is told in other media.

You calling Krugman an idiot, ok, by default unless something comes up today, you get the irony of the week out of a half dozen good nominees.

But your agenda is clear - spread dishonest, and harmful, propaganda as the only message allowed, and censor any message with the truth. 'Hell ya', censor the truth.

This is what the ugliness of idiots who are propagandized look like, in your post.

 

[Craig234]

Maybe he'll join the other nutjobs and start working for Faux News.

Except Olbermann is far from a 'nutjob'. A nutjob would say he is one.

I consider the same point about Fox getting him as a joke, but clearly, Fox is a spreader of ideology that Olbermann does not fit.

And Olbermann is clearly not interested in working for a propaganda, harmful network like Fox, given his principles.

It's just a bad thing for the country at this time.

 

[Red Dawn]

Except Olbermann is far from a 'nutjob'. A nutjob would say he is one.

If that were true you already would have.

Actually besides Beck, the rest aren't nutjobs, they just play one on TV.

 

[dmcowen674]

It does leave the TV news field almost entirely to a split between the corporatist and right-wing segments, making our country even more ideologically bombarded.

It's becoming a replica of the 1930's brain washing machine all over again.

Of course by design.