MSNBC Lifts Olbermann Suspension
The two episode suspension of Keith Olbermann lends credence to the theory that the whole thing was a publicity stunt designed to support MSNBC's assertion that its opinion shows are somehow more pure than the shows on FOX.
Well, that was a short-lived punishment:
Keith Olbermann will be allowed to resume his nightly program on MSNBC on Tuesday, the channel’s president said Sunday night, after he was suspended for donating money to three Democratic candidates.
The policy at MSNBC’s parent, NBC News, says journalists cannot make political contributions without permission from the head of the news division. “After several days of deliberation and discussion, I have determined that suspending Keith through and including Monday night’s program is an appropriate punishment for his violation of our policy,” the MSNBC president, Phil Griffin, said in a statement. “We look forward to having him back on the air Tuesday night.”
Mr. Olbermann has declined interview requests since Friday, and he did not immediately confirm that he would resume his program, “Countdown,” as of Tuesday. But on Sunday afternoon, he posted to Twitter a thank-you to fans for “support that feels like a global hug.”
“MSNBC Folds!” read a headline on Daily Kos, one of the leading Web sites for progressives, on Sunday night after Mr. Griffin’s statement was released.
Mr. Olbermann’s program, “Countdown,” is a megaphone for Democrats and the most popular program on MSNBC.
The donations would have drawn attention at any time, but they were especially notable given that he had anchored MSNBC’s election night newscasts.
The length of the “suspension” lends credence to the theory that the whole thing was a publicity stunt designed to support MSNBC’s assertion that its opinion shows are somehow more pure than the shows on FOX.
***Mr. Olbermann’s program, “Countdown,” is a megaphone for Democrats and the most popular program on MSNBC.***Mr…..lol
I prefer Lockup, the Megaphone for liberal social engineering….
A stunt? Really? Another forceful reminder that liberals and conservatives don’t agree on the color of the sky.
re your Iowa supreme court diatribe: Many Iowans support the judicial retention system and an independent Judiciary. The status of the Supreme Court is so much more complicated than one issue. The Legislature gave the Chief Justice complete control of the judicial system and for over 20 years successive Chief Justices have mismanaged Iowa court services from crisis to crisis until we find our State in disaster. The Justices have stripped rural Iowa of any voice in assigning judicial assets. Rural court personnel continually have their jobs reassigned to urban Iowa.
We pay taxes for these services and rural court services are the first item cut in their manufactured budget crisis .Rural main street businesses depend on the traffic that court services bring just like businesses in urban Iowa. Every single county clerk’s office brings in more money in fines, fees and surcharges than they use to provide local court services. The Chief Justices have used their budget to build an enormous and cumbersome bureaucracy in Des Moines. The legislature has left us no alternative but to oust these incompetent managers from office.
The incompetence of the Court in its administrative duties has been a battle for years. Urban Iowa is where the newspapers are located and their editorial boards have cheer lead the consolidation of government and schools. The Urban counties will be the big winners in the forced shift of huge amounts of tax dollars from Rural Iowa to Urban Iowa. Consolidation has not worked as the degradation of Court services has shown. It has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and we have 2/3 of the services. If you look at the no votes for the justices in years past you will see a steady climb in them election to election. Our campaign to oust them has been years in the making. While the same sex marriage issue pushed the numbers over the top, I feel a majority of the no votes was a rejection of their poor performance as administrators. Iowans used to be able to vote out a County Clerk of Court for this, but the Supreme Court wanted their power and now they have it. All I have is the retention ballot and I used it.