Keith Olbermann, MSNBC Abruptly Part Ways

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One opinion on why he was fired:

Did Lyin Joe Lieberman Use His White House Connections to Get Keith Olbermann Fired?

Posted on January 21, 2011 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: The liberal blog-o-sphere is a buzz this morning and it appears the spin is to blame it all on the Comcast merger. No one is talking about what Keith O said about Lyin Joe less than 24 hours before he got sacked. "don't let the delusional liar door hit you in the delusional liar butt on the way out." "goodbye, Joe Lieberman, and good riddance." he accused Lieberman of "lying even on the way out the door."

"The bizarre timing of the announcement has raised a number of speculations, from Olbermann's suspension last November to the departure of NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker in light of the network's recent acquisition by Comcast." Huffington Post

You see? Not a word about the obvious friction between Lieberman and Olbermann. Not even on the fake "progressive" sites. Don't buy into the "Comcast did it" crap. That's just there to protect Lyin Joe. Well, actually, if Lyin Joe got Olbermann fired, he did it through his White House connections… which means… Obama did it. And THAT is why you won't hear a peep about this connection from the fake "progressive" left. They don't want to do anything that might hurt the great one's all important approval rating even if that means turning their backs on their hero, Keith Olbermann.
No corporation is going to come in with a new investment and kick out the big star just because they want to end net neutrality. That's just stupid. The following is Comcast's statement on the matter.

" "Comcast has not closed the transactio*n for NBCU and has no operationa*l control at any of its properties including MSNBC. We pledged from the day the deal was announced that we would not interfere with NBCU's news operations*. We have not & we will not."

Olbermann brought up MSNBC from the doldrums and his fan base is extremely loyal. This is going to hurt MSNBC's ratings which will hurt Comcast's new investment. If anything, Comcast is pissed off right now. They paid for a #2 news network and right before they took ownership, someone at that network canned their star anchor. There are 6 thousand comments on the MSNBC article about this and it's just 6:25am the morning after. The majority of those comments are similar to this one.

"A huge mistake for MSNBC to lose Keith. I am finished with their shenanigans. I will follow Keith wherever he goes." ex-MSNBC viewer

If anyone tries to tell you this was done by Comcast, don't buy it. That's just PR guys trying to fix the story. This is all about Lyin Joe Lieberman throwing a hissy-fit and GE's CEO taking a new job at the White House.
This came on so suddenly, a promo for Olbermann's show ran at the halfway point of Rachel Maddow's show which comes on after Keith's. Had this been Comcast, they would have seen it coming. No, this is about Lyin Joe calling a marker with the Obama White House, so really, this is about Obama getting Olbermann fired. It wouldn't be the first time the White House got MSNBC's star personality fired… Phil Donahue?

It's hard to say what happened right now but as far as I know, Keith Olbermann, who had signed a 4 year contract extension in 2008, did his last Countdown show tonight.

"Mr. Olbermann had signed a four-year contract extension in 2008 for an estimated $30 million. He hosted "Countdown" at 8 p.m. since 2003 and it became the foundation of the channel's surge to status as the second-ranked news channel on cable television, after Fox News, surpassing the one-time leader CNN." New York Times

Keith had recently done a piece about Joe Lieberman in which he called him a liar, flat-out.
And he is a liar.
And a traitor in some people's eyes.
There isn't a piece of fascist legislation that Joe Lieberman doesn't drool over at night when he rocks himself to sleep while dressed up in his peasant girl costume.
The IDF could line up 50 blind kids against a wall and shoot them with bullets that we paid for and Lyin Joe would swear on his mother's life with tears in his eyes, that Hamas had used them as human shields and that Israel was the real victim.
Because Joe Lieberman is a delusional… and pathological… liar. Period.
He would lie about just about anything as long as it advanced his career. He is the personification of the used car salesman politician.
Sorry. I shouldn't insult used car salesmen that way. At least they work for a living.

"In one of them, he said, "don't let the delusional liar door hit you in the delusional liar butt on the way out." In another, he said, "goodbye, Joe Lieberman, and good riddance." And in still another, he accused Lieberman of "lying even on the way out the door." Huffington Post

In his press conference, Lying Joe praised himself over and over again for all the great things he has done for us. Keith ran with a piece in his show last night picking apart Lieberman's delusional farewell speech. Lieberman will remain in office for 2 more years so I don't know why he chose to honor himself with such a melodramatic masturbatory celebration of self, but that's Lyin Joe for you.
Today, Obama announced General Electric's CEO will be heading up an important advisory council in the White House. This shit can't be unrelated. GE owns 87% of MSNBC which means Olbermann's ex-boss, Jeffrey Immelt, will be the man advising the president on policies that MSNBC will be reporting on. Even after the transition to Comcast slated for the end of this month, GE will still own 49% of NBC Universal which owns MSNBC.
I wonder how tough MSNBC's journalists will be on Obama's domestic policies, now that they know their boss (the guy who literally signs their paychecks) is the one who actually wrote those policies.
I hope, in my heart of hearts, that Keith O quit today because he just couldn't bring himself to work in a situation like that. I really do. I used to like Keith Olbermann. Yeah, he did some things I really didn't like; he carried water for the Obama regime when he damn sure shouldn't have. But overall, I think he may have had some integrity at some point. I really hope he quit on his own over this Immelt fiasco. I do.
But something tells me that is just more fantastical thinking on my part. More than likely, a smarmy little weasel, Lyin Joe Lieberman, called up his connections in the White House and got them to pressure Immelt into shit-canning Keith Olbermann because he had the audacity to call out Lyin Joe for his pathetic display of a self-serving good-bye speech. People like Lyin Joe can't stand it when the entire country is laughing at them.
Because deep down inside, Lyin Joe knows he's lying and he can't stand knowing that he isn't as convincing as he thinks he is.
My guess is, Lyin Joe is leaving the senate so that he can be in some other position like secretary of defense or some other cushy government paycheck. I mean, where else is he going to get a fat paycheck for behaving like a raving fascist? Haiti? They already got Baby Doc. What do they need with Lyin Joe and his peasant girl costume?
Having Keith's ridicule go unanswered would besmirch Joe's reputation and possibly even embolden more criticism. So of course, Lyin Joe probably put in a call to his fellow fascists in DC and now Keith O is out.
Somewhere Lyin Joe is sitting around, patting himself on the back again, sipping $400 a bottle scotch (that we paid for), and telling everybody that will listen about all the power he wields. In a couple of drinks, with his audience bored and gone, he might even start believing his own bullshit again… and then all will be right in the world of Lyin Joe Lieberman.
Keith O gave Lyin Joe a painful glimpse of reality… and Joe didn't like it. Delusions are so much more comfortable these days.
Olbermann is better off anyway.
If you think MSNBC was the "all Obama" channel before, now that Barack has hired their CEO, you can expect them to turn up the Ministry of Truth act full throttle. No self-respecting journalist should stay at MSNBC. Talent flight should be the next migration pattern over there, that is, if there are any journalists left.
I hope this breaks MSNBC for good. Then all we got to work on is Fox and CNN.
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