No bagels are safe tonight......OLBERMANN resigns!

POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 06:30
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NIKI2

Sunday, January 23, 2011 10:15 PM

Sigh...he wasn't fired, period. If he'd been fired, he'd have been talking about it. Some kind of agreement was made, which we'll no doubt here about eventually. You have no indication he was fired, nor will you. Geez, you guys get something into your head and no facts stand in your way for a second, do they?

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

PIRATENEWS

Monday, January 24, 2011 12:04 AM

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Originally posted by Niki2:

Sigh...he wasn't fired, period.

He was 'told not to come in to work tomorrow.'

So he quit...?

AURAPTOR

Monday, January 24, 2011 12:24 AM

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Originally posted by Niki2:

Sigh...he wasn't fired, period.

Yeah, he was. Period. You make yourselves feel better over the semantics, but he abruptly is no longer employed there.... he's out, he was "sacked".

Period.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

NIKI2

Monday, January 24, 2011 6:46 PM

Amusing that you guys are so desperate to believe he was "sacked". I'm not; "sacked" or "quit", I don't care if we ever know. I just find your vehement insistence that he was fired terribly amusing.

Essentially, we don't know yet, in truth, and will have to see if anything definitive comes out, if we care. You can find both versions on the internet; here's one side:

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MSNBC's liberal crusader abruptly resigned on air Friday, ending a provocative eight-year run.

Keith Olbermann, the liberal crusader whose combative style put him increasingly at odds with his network bosses, resigned abruptly from MSNBC Friday.

The cable channel confirmed his unexpected departure as Olbermann was rather calmly announcing the demise of Countdown after an eight-year run that included a bitter feud with Bill O’Reilly, fiery denunciations of Republicans and occasional acknowledgements that he had gone too far.

A knowledgeable official said the move had nothing to do with Comcast taking control of NBC next week. This official described the dramatic divorce—Olbermann was about halfway through a four-year, $30 million contract—as mutual.

Olbermann, who quit MSNBC once before—in 1998, ripping his bosses in the process—almost single-handedly revived the network by leading it on a leftward march and aggressively attacking the rival operation he called Fox Noise. But his relations with top NBC and MSNBC executives sharply deteriorated when he was suspended for making donations to Democratic candidates.

Officially, the network offered little guidance, saying in a bland statement: “MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”

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Keith Olbermann's exit from MSNBC appeared abrupt to viewers of his show, but the talk-show host and his network were involved "in a relationship that's been failing for a long time," an NBC Universal executive said Saturday.

MSNBC simultaneously e-mailed a statement to reporters that the network and host "have ended their contract." Neither indicated a reason nor addressed whether Olbermann quit or was fired.

But the NBC Universal executive characterized it as a mutual parting of the ways, with Olbermann taking the first step. The executive spoke on condition of anonymity because settlement talks were kept confidential.

Olbermann and his manager did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Saturday. One clue Olbermann offered in his goodbye statement was that "there were many occasions, particularly in the last 2½ 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 that I keep going. My gratitude to you is boundless."

You can find the other side just as easily, depending on which you choose to believe.

As I see it, given his fiery rhetoric, and an insider having said he was "job shopping" for a while, and given the new ownership of MSNBC (tho' they deny it), I can't see him having been fired against his will and not saying a thing about it. He was never one to keep his mouth shut, and certainly made it clear how he felt about his "suspension" recently.

So choose however you want to view it; personally, I'm not going to make any more suppositions; if we find out, we find out, and it's of no import to me anyway. Like I said, I haven't watched him in quite some time and I just find the righties NEED to see him as fired funny.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

WULFENSTAR

Monday, January 24, 2011 6:51 PM

Hehehe

Maddow is next.... Im sure THAT you will care about VERY much.

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

WULFENSTAR

Monday, January 24, 2011 7:05 PM

The tides are going back out.

Light is starting to shine.

America is coming back to its liberal-conservative (even anarachistic) views.

Not its populist-socialist-communist ones.

Heheheheh

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/21/AR2011
012104561.html

"The American Creed's values are liberal, as that term was understood until liberalism succumbed to 20th-century statism. "

Herein may lie the compromise.

"After the Founding, there was, Huntington thought, a change in Americans' "dominant conception of human nature." The image of man as inherently sinful, dangerous and in need of control by cleverly contrived political institutions yielded to a much more benign image of man as essentially good and potentially perfectible. But, Huntington wrote, "both views were used to justify limitations on government." If men are bad, government should be weak lest men put it to bad uses. If men are well-intentioned and reasonable, strong government is not necessary to control them, so "government should be weak because men are good."

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

NIKI2

Monday, January 24, 2011 9:17 PM

You keep on believing both of those, Wulf, I'm sure it pleases you. Keep on ignoring reality, we wouldn't want you to be too shocked...or depressed...by what really IS.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

SIGNYM

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 6:30 AM

As usual, more lack of insight.

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