Keith Olbermann gives abrupt goodbye to MSNBC show

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  1. BLAZER PROPHET

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    Yes, all of them.
     
    BLAZER PROPHET, Jan 23, 2011
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    That would be the day.
     
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    Limbaugh is actually entertaining... but maybe I'm just used to his sense of humor.

    The other guys? Not so much.

    Not that I listen or watch any of them on a regular basis.

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    You listen to Limbaugh and talk shit about Olbermann?

    lol bwhahahhaha!
     
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    Nice reading.

    "Not that I listen or watch any of them on a regular basis."

    Did you see that part of my post?

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    Since you had said "The other guys" I can see why he thought you were implying you don't watch the others much but DO watch/listen to Limbaugh.
     
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    He was in a hurry to see hypocrisy in my post, rather than assume that I was putting my sentences in different paragraphs for a reason.

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    Is it hard to say the words "oh, I can see what you mean"? :)
     
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    I've probably seen 4 Beck episodes at random times, and haven't seen why he's in the same sentence as Hannity or Olbermann. Maybe I've only seen his 4 best, but each time he used video "proof" of present-day figures with historical precedents. Pretty fascinating, actually. Some were political (one was about Soros), one was on a guy named Bernays (sp?) who was able to habituate people to things through media (like eating bacon for breakfast, women smoking, etc.), and one was on what guys like Che Guevara and Mao actually did to their people, rather than the romantic ideal some people think of today. The last was a group of (cherry-picked) video comments from people like Van Jones and others (forgot their names) who were saying pretty outlandish things while in positions of authority within the gov't.
     
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    Yeah that kind of ignorant rhetoric and subjectivity is awful for News. Dan Abrams was a lot better than him for a liberal commentator and brought on guests that actually disagreed sometimes.
     
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    I find myself wondering what the hell I'm going to do at 5 PM.
     
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    Read a book and stop poisoning your brain with hateful rhetoric?

    Watch Jersey Shore and actually laugh once in a while?

    Turn on TBS and watch Family Guy?

    Hopefully we'll see a change in your partisan-based posts now that Olbermann isn't spewing his divisive vitriol to you on a nightly basis. That you watched the guy every night explains a lot about your posting patterns.
     
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    I used to really enjoy MSNBC, especially before Obama came on the scene. After that, Matthews (who I really enjoyed) came unhinged. Actually, I think what broke that network and sent it into looneyland was the death of Tim Russert. They've never recovered; he was their anchor.
     
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    I really liked and respected Tim Russert. Even though he was a Moynihan disciple, he played it straight and objective. His son Luke actually asks tough questions as well. How dare "NBC" ask a Democrat a tough question!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCiQhE5ePcs

    [video=youtube;YCiQhE5ePcs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCiQhE5ePcs[/video]
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    No Olbermann for at least six months. I think we'll see him on CNN.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/24/keith-olbermann-off-tv-six-months_n_812943.html

    If what is reported is true, this guy is a scumbag. He had reportedly been negotiating his exit from MSNBC for months, yet his staff didn't find out until he said he was leaving on his broadcast. The person that runs an enterprise has an obligation to his or her employees. These people now have to scramble to find a new job, without the golden parachute Olby negotiated for himself. I hope--like Conan--he has the decency to pay their salaries out of his own pocket until the find new opportunities.
     
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    maxiep, Jan 26, 2011
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    I didn't know you're a socialist. You think he owes the employees something. He's not even their employer. He didn't own the business. Will you be applying this lightning bolt of conscience to all bosses, abandoning the libertarian freedom of employers to do what they want, and embracing communism?

    Conan was making at least 5 times as much as Olbermann.
     
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    It has little to do with socialism and everything to do with loyalty, but congratulations on your pretzel logic.

    P.S. Although those people were employees of MSNBC, they lost their jobs when Olbermann bailed.
     
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    I thought that Olbermann leaving was a mutual decision between him and his bosses.

    When Bush people got Dan Rather fired, should Bush's Committee to Reelect have paid all the laid-off CBS people? Couric was just the figurehead for that coup d'etat. The real change was all the new conservative staffers.

    This new principle of paying a lot to laid-off workers will increase the cost of business, much more than paltry tax increases.
     
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