Keith Olbermann: Television journalist
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Keith Olbermann Fired?
-- MSNBC relationship was 'failing for a long time', The Huffington Post reported on January 22, 2011:
"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.
Olbermann's announcement at the end of Friday's "Countdown" that it would be his last show quiets, at least for the moment, the most dominant liberal voice in a cable-television world where opinionated talk has been the most bankable trend over the past several years.
As Olbermann read from a James Thurber short story during a three-minute exit statement Friday night, 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.
habrow2 from petaluma, cal, usa (November 11, 2010)
What a freshness on TV! Little to match him and make freedom of the press so essential to our country!
Mondo Stars editors from Boulder Colorado USA (November 5, 2010)
NSNBC's Keith Olbermann Suspended After Donating To Democrats
-- Politico reported on November 5, 2010:
"MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay after Politico reported that he made three campaign contributions to Democratic candidates.
MSNBC President Phil Griffin said in a statement Friday: “I became aware of Keith's political contributions late last night. Mindful of NBC News policy and standards, I have suspended him indefinitely without pay."
Olbermann made campaign contributions to two Arizona members of Congress and failed Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway ahead of Tuesday’s election.
Olbermann, who acknowledged the contributions in a statement to Politico, made the maximum legal donations of $2,400 apiece to Conway and to Arizona Reps. Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords. He donated to the Arizona pair on Oct. 28 — the same day that Grijalva appeared as a guest on Olbermann’s “Countdown” show."
Linda Mackey from New Haven Ct (November 5, 2010)
I strongly request that any suspension of Keith Olbermann from "Countdown" will be brief. He is a national treasure. He is one of very few news sources I believe are trustworthy.
Most important: he uses humor in the ancient tradition of jesters who speak truth to power when others do not have the means to do so.
In an age when the most egregious lies are freely published and when corporations and billionaires have discovered that they can control information, his informative program serves a vital balancing role for our democracy.
from (October 22, 2010)
Mr.Olbermann ,Since when do judges take bribes is that against the law .They had to have taken a bribe to make the law change so China and other countries and big corps. Run our country .There needs to be an investigation,and remove the judges who passed this law .I can not understand why they put congress and the senate sets up for sale to the highest bidder ,why not just put the whole U.S. up for sale to the highest bidder ,cause that is what they almost have done by doing this .
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After graduating from college in 1979, Keith Olbermann worked for UPI and RKO Radio. In 1981 he joined CNN and worked as a sports anchor for a Boston TV station. He eventually moved to Los Angeles to work at KTLA and KCBS TV. He gained a positive reputation as a sportscaster, earning several awards including being named Best Sportscaster by the California Associated Press three times.
From 1992 to 1997 Olbermann and Dan Patrick co-hosted ESPN's SportsCenter. He was instrumental in launching ESPN Radio and ESPN2. He left ESPN in 1997 because he was unhappy in Bristol Connecticut. He began hosting "The Big Show," his own show on MSNBC, that same year and occasionally covered NBC Nightly News spots. He became the anchor for Fox's The Keith Olbermann Evening News in 1998. Olbermann left Fox in 2001 and became a regular on CNN and provided sports commentary for the ABC Radio Network.
MSNBC rehired Olbermann in 2003 as an anchor for the Iraq war coverage. Olbermann launched Bloggermann his Countdown web log on MSNBC.com in 2004. The blog has an open format and is used to discuss facts mentioned on the broadcast, to offer personal thoughts and reactions, and to highlight breaking news. Countdown has been the highest rated program on the cable news network.
Olbermann insists that he maintains a nonpartisan perspective. In June 2005, Olbermann returned to ESPN Radio every Friday; his co-host is former colleague Dan Patrick.
Keith Olbermann Poll Results
This poll ran from April 30 to May 6, 2007.
| Mondo Stars Poll Results |
| "Rush Limbaugh is a racist." True    1271/47%False 1453/53% |
| Votes: 2724 |
Keith Olbermann, who names the three "worst people in the world" each night on the MSNBC cable news program Countdown With Keith Olbermann.
Olbermann selected Rush Limbaugh on March 5, 2007, saying "comedian Rush Limbaugh, pointing out that since ancestors of Al Sharpton were slaves and ancestors of Senator Barack Obama were slaveowners, quoting (Limbaugh) again, 'could we not say that if Obama wins the Democratic nomination and then wins the presidency, he will own Al Sharpton?'"
Olbermann added: "No, actually, we couldn't say that. But we could say that any lingering doubt about this is at an end: Rush Limbaugh is a racist."
This poll ran from March 12 to 19, 2007.
| Mondo Stars Poll Results |
| "'The war on terror' is a meaningless phrase." True 918/57%False 683/43% |
| Votes: 1601 |
Keith Olbermann, from a "special comment" on the MSNBC cable news program Countdown With Keith Olbermann on January 3, 2007.
Speaking of the Iraq war and addressing his comments to President George W. Bush, Olbermann said "It has succeeded, Mr. Bush, in enabling you to deaden the collective mind of this country to the pointlessness of endless war, against the wrong people, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
"It has gotten many of us used to the idea — the virtual 'white noise' — of conflict far away, of the deaths of young Americans, of vague 'sacrifice' for some fluid cause, too complicated to be interpreted except in terms of the very important-sounding but ultimately meaningless phrase 'the war on terror.'
"And the war's second accomplishment — your second accomplishment, sir — is to have taken money out of the pockets of every American, even out of the pockets of the dead soldiers on the battlefield, and their families, and to have given that money to the war profiteers."
