Olbermann Bought Out?

TMZ suggest that he wasn’t fired as much as bought out to go away:  Keith Olbermann’s Exit — Secret Deal.

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Steven L. Taylor
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter and/or BlueSky.

Comments

  1. Ben Wolf's avatar Ben Wolf says:

    Doesn’t surprise me at all Olbermann refused to toe the line set by his corporate masters.

  2. Ben Wolf's avatar Ben Wolf says:

    Actually it wouldn’t surprise me if this were the first step in moving MSNBC to the “center”, filling the channel with 24/7 Morning Joe type shows.

  3. Jeff's avatar Jeff says:

    good riddance, the man was a fool …

  4. Fancyod's avatar Fancyod says:

    The only fools are the one who don’t listen to truth and facts

  5. matt's avatar matt says:

    Ben : I find it amusing that you think a show hosted by a former Republican member of congress as being an example of the mythical “center”….

  6. matt's avatar matt says:

    I used to enjoy Olbermann back before his special comments stuff.. I also enjoyed his early special comments but anymore he just behaves like an obnoxious left winger…