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Reason TV: ‘Keith Olbermann – In Memoriam’

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  • SND97
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:18am

    The more I think about this Keith Olbermann story the more I’m beginning to think it’s a TV ratings ploy. This was neither suspension offense, nor one he should have been fired for. Maybe a reason for MSNBC to highlite the idea Newscorp gave money? Think of it, one of the main ideas the DNC was advertising was the Chamber of Commerce giving money? The so called outside money coming in? The Karl Rove giving money thing?
    Maybe Keith was due a vacation anyway and during his vacation MSNBC may have tried to take advantage? Maybe even Comcast dreamed up this scheme? They have a history of shock intro to gain ratings. This just doesn’t make sense to me. It could be as simple as Olbermanns Hostility towards Griffin, It has been widely reported the rift between Olbermann and management for a long while, and everywhere he has worked, but to be suspended for doing something that all of them on MSNBC, Fox, CNN do? They talk about Rove on Fox? CNN is loaded with James Carvill’s, and does anyone think he doesn’t give money to Dems?
    Something this side of the garbage can stinks, and putting a lid on it doesn’t keep it from smelling.

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    • panz
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:33am

      Why would anyone at FOX or CNN need to adhere to MSNBC policy? The policy that caught Olberman with his hand in the cookie jar is a long-standing MSNBC employee regulation. I’ve read CNN has a similar one, I have not read FOX does but neither has anything to do with Olberman‘s violation of his employer’s policy.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:59am

    See? This is what happens when you let children play with sophisticated broadcast equipment.

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  • Living In NYC
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:10am

    Gee the few grand that Keith spent on the DNC…had no value in comparision to this left wing reporting of the news…MSNBC…just another joke at the local cable acess news network.

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  • urbanserf
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 4:35am

    Okay, so who’s next to get the boot? Looks like Comcast is gonna start cleaning house

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    • UrsaMajor
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:29am

      My money would be on Sgt. Schultz (he knows nothINK).

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  • CaptainSpaulding
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 3:08am

    “We miss you already.”

    ….no we don’t.

    There are plenty more loud, annoying, liberal journalists where he came from.

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  • onebigassmistakeamerica
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 2:01am

    RIP, Keith. I will miss all of the laughs I had at your expense.

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    • Mithra
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 2:29am

      There still is Alex Jones to keep ya chuckling.

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  • AMERICA4EVER
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 2:01am

    I heard that Comcast is buying msnbc and if that is true, they may install some sanity there.

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  • OGUI
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:47am

    This is the best news I’ve heard since Tuesday!

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  • Itoldutheywerecommies
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:23am

    Someone created a Keith Olbermann Says Goodbye video.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_2jy1iujc

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  • BeHeardAmerica
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:17am

    We all know Maddows is actually a male and I use to think Olbermann was a ragged lunatic but maybe not so fast he could be a Alien Lizzard.

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  • American Pride
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:17am

    Wow that is funny! Right now there is a petition to bring back KO which already has 140,000 signatures. Unfortunately we just found out it is ACORN doing the petition=(

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    • UrsaMajor
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:19am

      140,000 so far, huh?

      Well, that takes care of the people who actually watch Olbermann.

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  • DMD
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:12am

    They could get better ratings with re runs on the Brady Bunch

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  • Patriot Z
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:12am

    in all seriousness. I think we should use twitter etc to show him support. say my name is *****. I am a tea party member and i support you. do it for real it would be really interesting to watch his reaction in getting support from the very people he chastized and ridiculed. :0)

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  • thegr8restoration
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:11am

    When they starve from the lack of truth they will eat their own.

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  • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:02am

    “Perhaps we should simply sigh and keep our fingers crossed until a grown-up takes the job … Fart.”

    Aahaha! That was stupid-funny.

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  • OldSoldier
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:59am

    It is getting harder to find someone to hate in the evenings! First they take Rick (I fought at the Alamo on the wrong side, so you owe me) Sanchez, now Keith (I can not keep a job for some reason) Olbermann. I’ll soon be left with FOX News and be happy for the rest of my life! BAAHH Humbug!

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  • blacksmith
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:59am

    This story is important due to the fact that the msm will do to one of their own shows us what they will do to anyone of us. The progressives will cut one of their owns throat in a heartbeat so what do you think they will do to you?

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  • LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:49am

    HA! A ‘grown-up’, like maybe the kind of grown-up who would have a “worst person in the world” feature? LOSER! €L; P

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  • KenInIL
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:49am

    I don’t think Fox will pick him up.

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    • rebel
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:06am

      i would LOVE to see fox offer him a spot. Let‘s see if he’s a sell-out or not!

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    • DaytonConserve
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:24am

      Probably go teach at the Columbia School of B. S. (Bovine Science).

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    • BlazingBlonde
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 8:35am

      Will he lose his house now, become a statistic? Will he go on welfare? Will his family starve?
      Oh wait…. He put his Own foot in his Own poop, and the free market will allow him to land on the body part he most resembles.

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:48am

    LOL. Finally! the reading was on the wall but this idiot couldnt see it.

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  • Spokavriel
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:47am

    Strange those comments reminded me of the March to Preserve Fear aspects of the Rally to Restore Sanity and or Fear

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  • faddle
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:44am

    Here is why the November 2 election turned out the way it did:

    1. An “unstimulated” economy. The original Mother of All Stimulus packages, $787 billion dollars, quickly grew to an astounding $865 billion. It wasn’t enough. Congress pumped out another $26 billion in “supplemental” stimulus in August. The results? Unemployment in the private sector remains at 9.6% – well above the eight percent Democrats promised, even as public sector workers who support Democrats were rewarded; our Democratically-controlled Congress has amassed more debt in the last four years than nearly the previous two hundred and thirty combined; the Keynesian economic model Democrats stand by is a colossal failure; the Summer of Recovery was a propaganda fiasco.

    2. The health care bill. The absolute epitome of ideological, public-be-damned arrogance. A horrendous compendium of bribes, exploding bureaucracy, runaway costs, written in secret and unread by those who passed it. It includes a mandate, likely un-Constitutional, forcing people to buy health insurance or pay a fine. The same administration which originally claimed the commerce clause of the Constitution made such a fine possible is now saying that the federal governments’s “power to tax” justifies it. Irrelevant. 60% of Americans want this monstrosity repealed, ASAP. Some have called this the worst piece of legislation ever written, let alone passed.

    3. The federal lawsuit against the state of Arizona. Again, it’s the arrogance, stupid. Despite all the hectoring from Democrats and the Obama administration about racist this, and xenophobic that, fair-minded Americans recognized four things: people have a right to protect their life and property, and if the federal government can‘t or won’t do it, they have a right to do it themselves; the idea that anyone opposing the “rights” of illegal aliens is a bigot is nonsense on stilts; the ruling class in Washington, D.C. is holding genuine border control hostage to “comprehensive reform;” the glaring double-standard of suing Arizona for violating federal immigration statues, even as the feds turn a blind eye to hundreds of “sanctuary cities” with illegal protection directives unquestionably in conflict with federal law.

    4. The demonization of the Tea Party movement. Take your pick: teabaggers, racists, angry white men, fringe elements, bigots, Astro-turfers, etc. etc. Democrats and the media have tried every one, and every one has been a miserable failure for one overwhelmingly simple reason: decent Americans know they’re decent, and getting insulted by Democrats running the country into the ground has only stiffened their resolve. Progressives want to demonize people who believe in smaller government, fiscal responsibility and a desire to return to Constitutional principles? Why not attack people who believe in guns, and religion too? Oh wait. The president already did that as well.

    5. A hopelessly compromised media. Air America tanked, CNN is tanking, and ABC, NBC and CBS news programs have been shedding viewers at historically unprecedented rates—even as Fox and the Wall Street Journal prosper. Americans don’t mind people in the media expressing their opinions, as long as they’re characterized as opinions, but they seethe when such opinions are portrayed as “hard news.“ They get even angrier when certain stories are ”omitted” by those same organizations, especially when Americans recognize such omissions are calculated to protect the progressive agenda. I wonder if it occurs to either Democrats or their media water-carriers that a majority Americans may savor whacking both groups in November. Depressed looks on the faces of Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric? In theater circles, that’s known as a “two-fer.”

    6. The Ground Zero mosque. Yet another reminder of the contempt progressives and their media enablers have for ordinary Americans who had the “temerity” to allow their feelings to be known. Despite every attempt to characterize these Americans as Islamo-phobic bigots, the public wasn’t buying, again for one overwhelmingly simple reason: decent Americans once again demonstrated their decency by separating the legality of the project from the appropriateness of it.

    7. The complete disconnect between the First Family and ordinary Americans. The golfing, the soirees, and the high-priced vacations have created the perception that we are living through another “let them eat cake” moment in history. On Tuesday, the president called the public schools in Washington, D.C. a “‘struggling’ system that doesn’t measure up to the needs of first daughters, Sasha and Malia.” Those would be the same public schools Congressional Democrats tossed 3,300 low-income kids back into when they killed funding for vouchers that had freed those kids from D.C.’s educational ghetto. The First Lady is hectoring Americans to eat healthier. Perhaps more Americans would if they could afford to: the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) stated in their Producer Price Index that the price of food increased 2.4% for March 2010. That’s the biggest increase in almost 30 years.

    8. The war on terror. A politically correct contingency operation against unnamed insurgents with a specific draw-down date? Democrats once again prove that all the talk about Afghanistan being the “good war” was complete rubbish. They want out, and victory—along with the heroic efforts of our men and women in harm’s way—be damned. Once again: has America ever fought another war where they knew the exact location of the enemy, had the ability to inflict possibly irreparable damage on them—and decided to split the difference instead? If you answered “Vietnam,” another progressively-instigated catastrophe resulting in the deaths of fifty-eight thousand American soldiers and three million innocent Asians, go to the head of the class. And when is that civilian trial of the 9/11 perpetrators scheduled to begin?

    9. Czars and nationalization. The Obama administration and Congressional Democrats may bristle when Americans call them socialists, but the nationalization of banks, car and insurance companies, student loans and healthcare sure isn’t free-market capitalism. Neither is wiping out oil jobs in Louisiana with a government-mandated ban on offshore drilling—after the feds completely bungled their role in cleaning up the spill which engendered it. Unelected czars who answer to no one but the president, along with out-of-control government agencies such as the EPA have made it clear to many Americans that this administration often considers Congress a completely unnecessary component of governance, especially if they don‘t kowtow to the president’s agenda.

    10. “Unexceptional” America. Progressive contempt for the values and traditions which make this the greatest country on earth can no longer be disguised. An American president who “believe(s) in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism” has made it plain that this is not a great nation which needs tweaking, but a fundamentally flawed one needing a complete progressive make-over. Once one understands this basic premise, everything this administration and Democratically-controlled Congress does makes sense. All of it centers around the ridiculous premise that America owes the world an apology for any number of shortcomings, many of which can only be alleviated by government-mandated “social justice.” That would be the same social justice which demanded—and still demands—that Americans manifestly unqualified to own homes be given mortgages, regardless.

    Uncertainty
    Drilling Moratorium
    DOJ racist policies
    Broken Promises
    Taxes & Spending
    Corruption
    Afghanistan
    Socialism

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    • tomin8tor357
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 3:21pm

      You forgot one key thing – Oblame-a’s total lack of honesty. “There were no shovel-ready jobs…. (I just had to pay back my union buddies with all the money and the term ‘shovel-ready’ seemed appropriate, since i was shovelling a lot of @#$% to the American public).”

      Oblame-a’s legacy will ensure that no black Democrat is ever elected president again as long as the US is a country. Shame on the American voter for believing that he could succeed, when Marion Barry (DC), Kwame Kilpatrick (Detroit), William Jefferson ($90K in the freezer), Rangle, and Watters are amongst the most corrupt politicians the WORLD has ever seen, (Yet somehow Oblame-a has a 90% approval rating amongst blacks. Duhhhhhhhhhhh!!)

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  • joseph Fawcett
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:43am

    This is getting a bit over kill, Blaze please lets move on from this guy isn’t there more important things going on in the world? I would really like to know them, not this junk. Let the story die, please.

    http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • Vince Vega
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 2:39am

      I’m with ya Joe….a constantly updated counter showing GB’s doughnut consumption would be WAY more interesting than KO news!

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    • Vince Vega
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 2:40am

      Even though the video WAS pretty darned funny!

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  • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:40am

    Summary – Olbermann is gone, who cares.

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    • Rogue
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:33am

      I care. Where am I going to get my daily laugh at Keith’s expense? I so look forward to The Blaze‘s daily story on Keith’s latest idiotic statement. I already feel a little lost…… oh wait, we still have Ed and RAchel to make fun of. nevermind, Snow – I don’t care.

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    • Highland
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 9:30am

      A tree fell in the forest and no one heard it. Olbermann is off the air, and has no fewer viewers now than before his suspension.

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    • KenInIL
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 5:11pm

      Maddow and Mathews should call for a boycott of MSNBC until they bring Olby back !!

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    • RonSpeaks
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 4:27am

      I feel no sympathy for Keith Olbermann. He is BY FAR the most cynical, egotistical, condescending blowhard of any political commentator on TV. He is so full of hate and hypocracy that it must take a truly “set-in-stone” Liberal Left Winger to even be able to take him seriously.or watch his Show. He should be an embarrassment for even MSNBC (definitely it’s parent NBC) to give voice to.

      I will not miss hearing the words “She or He’s an idiot”, a “moron” or any of the other personal insults he throws people‘s way as if he’s a journalist or commentator whose opinion matters. Nor will I ever forget or forgive his mockery of God as displayed in his response to Glenn Becks 8/28 Rally where he did a whole segment acting as God speaking into Glenn Becks ear.

      As much as he says he despises FOX News and their commentators, he spits out more hate and venom than anyone on any channel I have seen. I will not miss him nor mourn his loss for however long it stands. Let’s hope that MSNBC (and in the future Comcast) can select a better more watchable source for those who wish to watch and listen to BOTH sides.

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    • DrBeatle
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:51pm

      Perhaps Keith and Rachel will start a thierd party together called the “progressive party.” Scary thought for conservatives if they organize like the tea party. Perhaps they could recruit current RINOs like Lindsey Graham. Perhaps we can help them do that.

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  • SummerB
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:39am

    You know, if he was really bringing in the ratings, he would have only gotten like a week’s suspension at most & with pay. I think MSNBC doesn‘t think he’s that valuable, both saving a couple of bucks on not paying him (Lord knows, they need the $) & ‘possibly’ is going to take a look at their ratings during this time-slot without KO.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:56am

      Olberman’s off the air? It’s a good lucky night.

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    • Luckywon
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 1:32am

      Remember, Remember, the 5th of November. The gunpowder, Treason and Plot. I can think of no reason the gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot.
      Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 2:17am

      EXCELLENT!!
      It is not right to gloat over your enemies misfortunes, BUT THAT WAS REALLY FUNNY!!

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    • theninthplanet
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 2:48am

      I still can’t stop smiling at this… The entire situation is overflowing with hypocrisy. People at MSNBC not allowed to make campaign contributions for fear they’d show bias?

      trolololol

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:01am

      Why all the fuss about Oberman? I never watch him because I don’t watch any entertainment show that offends me. A lot of other people must feel the same as me because he has dismal ratings. He is a loser and only a loser could like him. Good riddance.

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    • Eric_Cartman
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 6:48am

      I would love for all the networks to start replacing these windbags with journalists.

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    • NickDeringer
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 7:01am

      I think this is just Comcast’s way of getting rid of the blow hard before they officially take over.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 9:32am

      Yeah, it is curious they’d let him go. His ratings are among the highest there. Could it be MSNBC is heading in a more “moderate” direction? They’re gonna die, if they don’t.

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    • tenring
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 9:55am

      Sorry, I’m not buying Oblahmann was sent home for his contributions. I can envision his layoff was a planned event to give KO a rest and have the other MSNBC talking heads rebuild his brand. This is all smoke and mirrors.

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    • WORKS FROM HOME
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:42am

      I had no idea what he looked like until I had seen this.

      IF you have the time you need to watch your reps’ every move and make sure people know about what they are doing. If a couple of people in each city got together to watch their reps they could do incredible work.
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    • sweetbees
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:58am

      Christmas has come early kids!!!!!! Celebrate!!!! :)

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    • WTH
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 4:28pm

      Wasn‘t good ol’ Keith just on the air waving to O’Reilly saying “Yup, still here” ? I guess he spoke a bit too soon.

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    • Kaen
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 4:47pm

      I’m sorry but, I really, really, REALLY get enjoyment out of the misery and misfortunes of the liberal left…

      http://thefreeamerica.blogspot.com/

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    • sabrinacle
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 4:53pm

      he was the meanest personality I had ever seen on TV. The man actually scares me! I think he could hurt someone.

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