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Here’s how the New York Times begins its coverage of the suspension of the “Countdown” host:
Keith Olbermann, the leading liberal voice on American television in the age of Obama, was suspended Friday after his employer, MSNBC, discovered he made campaign contributions to three Democrats last month.
The leading liberal voice? Mr. No Ratings often gets fewer viewers than the MSNBC host that follows him, Rachel Maddow. But calling anybody on that network a “leading voice” on anything is a joke. Anybody ever heard of Oprah?
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Michael L. Hauschild| 11.6.10 @ 12:32PM
I am a remote clicker. I hold the world record for minimum time elapsed between consecutive “clicks,” this milestone is nearly duplicated every time Olberman’s continence cycles into view.
Oldefarte| 11.6.10 @ 1:04PM
The one and only thing that this Jewish MOMMA'S BOY with a bad toupe [and his college diploma from a agricultural university] might be 'leading' was/is the imbecilic charge of MSNBC's group of MORON COMMENTATORS off the ratings cliff of television. Equally bad and pathetic is the corresponding Homosexual Hour that follows his show. Why anyone with brain cells would waste their time/energy viewing this network is a complete mystery to me [oh well, as Forrest Gump once proclaimed, STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES]!!!!!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 11.7.10 @ 8:16PM
He's not Jewish; he's German. If he was Jewish, he would have attended the IVY league Cornell, not the agricultural school.
Richard | 11.6.10 @ 1:12PM
Mark Levin has to love it...he hates him; just as I
disdain libs, progressives, socialists and marxists.
ECM| 11.6.10 @ 3:30PM
It'll be a cold day in Hell before the media labels Oprah a liberal.
am| 11.6.10 @ 7:49PM
This hilarous!!! I hope Chris Matthews is next!!!! I removed MSNBC&Headline; News from my TV!!! I sure wish Joyless Witch Behar would be fired too!!!
Ran / Si Vis Pacem | 11.6.10 @ 8:46PM
What baffles is the pretense of "ethical" standards in the matter of donations and the pose of "neutrality."
That overt bias of the likes of Olbermann and Maddow has already neutered MSNBC seems to be lost on them...