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Olbermann Tidbit DuJour: NYT Quotes Rupert Murdoch, “I Fired Him, He’s Crazy”

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The life and career of Keith Olbermann gets a full vivisection in the world’s newspapers this morning, from the jobs he’s abandoned in past years to a series of near-firings at MSNBC in recent months. The New York Times describes the Friday night conclusion to Olbermann’s stellar rise at MSNBC as a split that came “after years of tension.”

The Times story, by Brian Stelter and Bill Carter, is a rich read full of fascinating detail, like a quote from Rupert Murdoch after Olbermann’s departure from the Fox Sports Network: “I fired him, he’s crazy.”

Stelter and Carter describe Olbermann as “a highly talented broadcaster, a distinctive and outspoken voice and a mercurial personality with a track record of attacking his superiors and making early exits.”

In the New York Post, Michael Shain and Michael Starr report Olbermann’s sudden exit at MSNBC was a months-long work in progress, with the “MSNBC bloviator” attempting to leave the cable network as early as last spring, with the host “trying to persuade his bosses to let him bow out of his $7 million-per-year contract, sources told The Post.

And in the St. Petersburg Times this morning, Eric Deggans sums up the tea leaf reading this way:

Conspiracy theories about meddling by newly approved majority owner Comcast also abound, but logic argues their denials of involvement seem genuine. Regardless of the company’s philosophy, thy want to make money and maintain market dominance — it would make no sense for them to start a tenure running NBC by decapitating the cable channel’s biggest star. The morel ike scenario seems that Olbermann and MSNBC decided to make their split final before the new overlords had to get involved at all.

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  • Pablo

    Conspiracy theories about meddling by newly approved majority owner Comcast also abound, but logic argues their denials of involvement seem genuine. Regardless of the company’s philosophy, thy want to make money and maintain market dominance — it would make no sense for them to start a tenure running NBC by decapitating the cable channel’s biggest star. The morel ike scenario seems that Olbermann and MSNBC decided to make their split final before the new overlords had to get involved at all.

    Damn. Another Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Theory down the crapper.

    “I fired him, he’s crazy.”

    That sounds about right.

  • skyfet

    This is old news, Rupert said thes ages ago he fored him when he ran some dip stuff about Rupert. In simmilar fashion he fired Pierce Morgan (CNN) , when he worked for him in one of us Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers.

    As a business man he likes cash cow who would follow the order from above and parrot like morons or just acl like morons by themselves. For good old Rupert, it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you bring in the bacon (cashflow). Don’t be too nosy or put hm in a spot, that he would find difficult to defend himself, if you can avoid that, then you should be fine.

  • The Real Royal King

    I can buy Olbermann being fired for being crazy, but how is it that Gle(n)n Beckerhead is still working, then?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    i think that is the vicissitudes when dealing with a brilliant person like keith olbermann.

  • The Real Royal King

    BTW: I see that Ms. Obama has invited Daniel Hernandez, Jr., to set with her at the State of the Union. This is dreadful. Hernandez wasn’t even shot. Why no Sarah Palin? There is no better victim of Tucson than she. This is so-o-o-o-o-o Obama.

  • The Real Royal King

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    i think that is the vicissitudes when dealing with a brilliant person like keith olbermann.

    He does seem to have an artistic temperament.

  • rayy

    But then again, Pablo, you really don’t know, do you. Comcast may or may not have been involved. Maybe they think they can make more money, in the long run, by getting rid of him. I hope it was his choice, but who knows.

  • rayy

    Royal King–good one!

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    skyfet says:
    January 24, 2011 at 9:06 am skyfet(Quote)

    Son, do you have your padded room draped in black today?

    Bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The Real Royal King said:
    I can buy Olbermann being fired for being crazy, but how is it that Gle(n)n Beckerhead is still working, then?

    Duh, Could be because Beck isn’t crazy. It is clear that you are crazy so why don’t you go join Olberdork in the home. You can give each other shock treatments.

  • skyfet

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Duh, Could be because Beck isn’t crazy. It is clear that you are crazy so why don’t you go join Olberdork in the home. You can give each other shock treatments.

    Are you talking from experience?

  • notsofast

    gordonbloyershow said:
    You can give each other shock treatments.

    KO got his during a brown out!

  • Pablo

    rayy said:
    But then again, Pablo, you really don’t know, do you. Comcast may or may not have been involved. Maybe they think they can make more money, in the long run, by getting rid of him. I hope it was his choice, but who knows.

    Comcast hasn’t taken over yet. Phil Griffin is still 100% in charge of MSNBC. Everyone familiar with the situation says that Keith has been trying to get out for about a year unless he got more money. No one on the inside is suggesting that Comcast had anything to do with it.

    God may or may not have told Griffin to fire him. You really don’t know, do you?

  • skyfet

    notsofast said:
    Son, do you have your padded room draped in black today?

    Bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    I heard you have a close friend here now. The other day I was seeing double, I thought you couldn’t handle it anymore so you brought a colleague of yours to help you out. So now there are two of ya, notsofast and nutsofast.

    Get a life. Capiche?

  • The Real Royal King

    skyfet said:
    I heard you have a close friend here now. The other day I was seeing double, I thought you couldn’t handle it anymore so you brought a colleague of yours to help you out. So now there are two of ya, notsofast and nutsofast.

    Get a life. Capiche?

    Some people believe Nutsofast to also be Basil Marceaux, I mean Gordon Blower. There are, in fact, stark similarities. I still need to see Nutsofast in Marceaux’s, I mean Blower’s orange prison jump suit to say with certainty.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    The other day I was seeing double,

    That’s everyday, son.

    And your non response to my question is proof that your padded room is draped in black!

    LOL

  • skyfet

    The Real Royal King said:
    Some people believe Nutsofast to also be Basil Marceaux, I mean Gordon Blower. There are, in fact, stark similarities. I still need to see Nutsofast in Marceaux’s, I mean Blower’s orange prison jump suit to say with certainty.

    I think he wears orange when he wants to accuse people of being cowards and phonies hiding behind fake names.

    And he becomes notsofast when he just want to be downright mean and obnoxious.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    nutsofast.

    LOL

    Sorry son- that’s another King pseudonym . I upset you libs so much that you guys come on in various disguises to attack me but you fail regardless of the names you assume.

    Try again!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andr-Kenji-De-Sousa/731129656 André Kenji De Sousa

    1-) Cable news is not about just ratings(CNBC is a good example). Part of the problem is that MSNBC began to have shows with decent ratings and much better reputation than Olbermann had. Morning Joe became a fixture among political junkies, and Maddow and O´Donnell have better reputation as news anchors than Olbermann has.

    2-) At least since some years from now Olbermann began to be absent from his job as anchor, taking long vacations and leaves. Even without the time that he spent away because his father he probably stayed away from his show something like two, three months last year.

    No employer would support a employee that is so much absent.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Not surprising. It seems that people he’s worked with are always saying the same.

    Royal Pain in the Butt, any links to people Beck has worked with that say the same.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Andre says:

    No employer would support a employee that is so much absent.

    We haven’t fired Obama, YET. We’ll have to wait til 2012 to do that.

  • notsofast

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    i think that is the vicissitudes when dealing with a brilliant person like keith olbermann.

    LMAO!

    Funniest post of the year!

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Not surprising. It seems that people he’s worked with are always saying the same.

    Royal Pain in the Butt, any links to people Beck has worked with that say the same.

    No, but I don’t know anybody on the compound.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    K then I guess your cracks about Beck being as crazy as Olbermann, are:

    A) LIES
    B) Wrong assumptions

    You’re guilty of using both frequently, so it’s hard to know which is correct this time.

  • Oregon Conservative

    What on earth will the Weasel do now that the televised version of his blog is off the air?

    Olbermann was a rip and read (from only far left bomb sites) hack. How and why MSNBC put up with it for so long is beyond me, but they’ve righted themselves somewhat. I say somewhat because they still employ Fattie Schultz (now in prime time!) I admit to sometimes watching O’Donnell’s show. It’s great television to watch a Socialist (himself) go after and eviscerate a loonier Marxist who’ll proclaim Obama isn’t left enough.

    Murdoch was right, Keith is nuts. Next stop, Bellevue.

  • skyfet

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    K then I guess your cracks about Beck being as crazy as Olbermann, are:

    A) LIES
    B) Wrong assumptions

    You’re guilty of using both frequently, so it’s hard to know which is correct this time.

    Am i surprised that Mitchell is here backing her Mormon brother as usual? No.

    It’s sad that you’ve never admitted that he has gone wrong in any of his madness. I wonder when/if you’d ever admit any wrong he has done, even if you see him do it. You’d probably say, it’s a liberal propaganda. Your blind following is shameful.

  • notsofast

    Oregon Conservative said:
    What on earth will the Weasel do now that the televised version of his blog is off the air?

    I don’t know but there are reports that he just bought a house with multiple basements.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    K then I guess your cracks about Beck being as crazy as Olbermann, are:

    A) LIES
    B) Wrong assumptions

    You’re guilty of using both frequently, so it’s hard to know which is correct this time.

    Michelle, my dearest, I am not as fond as you are of gossip, hearsay and secondary sources. I have observed Beckerhead on the “Olde Tyme Heresy Hour” and have listened to “Babbles and Blunders with Beckerhead” on the radio. He is demonstrably a lunatic. I don’t need secondary sources about him anymore than I did about my uncle who walked down the beach with a metal pyramid on his head, put up a grocery store turnstile at his front gate in Pearland, Texas, to halt the advance of “Commanists” and spoke in tongues on request. They are markedly similar.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    It’s sad that you’ve never admitted that he has gone wrong in any of his madness.

    Tell us what madness, son

  • skyfet

    notsofast said:
    LOL

    Sorry son- that’s another King pseudonym . I upset you libs so much that you guys come on in various disguises to attack me but you fail regardless of the names you assume.

    Try again!

    I’m not a lib, but you don’t upset me. I’m only upset because the Govt. failed you, you didn’t get a proper education. The policy of no child left behind failed miserable, and you are an evidence for that, they left you behind.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    I’m not a lib,

    LOL

    Yes you are, son!

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    The policy of no child left behind failed miserable, and you are an evidence for that, they left you behind.

    That wasn’t funny the first 1000 times you posted it.

    You really need to get original, son.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Royal Pain in the Butt says:

    Michelle, my dearest,

    UM, only a precious few are allowed to call me that and cyber-stalkers aren’t part of that group.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Royal Pain in the Butt says:

    Michelle, my dearest,

    UM, only a precious few are allowed to call me that and cyber-stalkers aren’t part of that group.

    Now, now, Michelle, my dearest, I’m going to have to ask you to go to one of your disreputable rags to support that.

  • skyfet

    notsofast said:
    Tell us what madness, son

    If the target of a 78yr old woman is not madness to you, then both you and your hero are in the same league.

  • skyfet

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Royal Pain in the Butt says:

    Michelle, my dearest,

    UM, only a precious few are allowed to call me that and cyber-stalkers aren’t part of that group.

    I think you’ve mentioned him, even when he is not around. I think you missed him. So I’d be careful calling someone a stalker (especially with the overwhelming evidence).

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    78 yr old woman can be evil too.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Oh, that’s cute, it look like someone is jealous I don’t mention him more. Well, let me put your mind to ease, I couldn’t possible care any less about either or you. Though I do pity those who have to spend time around you every day.

  • skyfet

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    78 yr old woman can be evil too.

    In future your daughter in law might say that about you. Evil is in the mind of the beholder.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    If the target of a 78yr old woman is not madness to you, then both you and your hero are in the same league.

    So you can not attack the radical ideas of people after a certain age? BTW, she has held those beliefs for a long, long time. Suddenly she is an “old widowed college professor”?

    Nice talking point.

    LOL

  • skyfet

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Oh, that’s cute, it look like someone is jealous I don’t mention him more. Well, let me put your mind to ease, I couldn’t possible care any less about either or you. Though I do pity those who have to spend time around you every day.

    So you do admit now that you are the one stalking. I’m glad we’ve come to an agreement.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    possibly, before the self-appointed Royal Spelling and Grammar Czar cites me.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    The Real Royal King said:
    BTW: I see that Ms. Obama has invited Daniel Hernandez, Jr., to set with her at the State of the Union. This is dreadful. Hernandez wasn’t even shot. Why no Sarah Palin? There is no better victim of Tucson than she. This is so-o-o-o-o-o Obama.

    maybe palin will go to hear the gymnasticley difficult speech by scalia to new members of congress on how the separation of powers apply to everything except when it comes to the donating practices of large corporations. anybody would be tired after listening to that load of crap.

  • skyfet

    notsofast said:
    So you can not attack the radical ideas of people after a certain age? BTW, she has held those beliefs for a long, long time. Suddenly she is an “old widowed college professor”?

    Nice talking point.

    LOL

    Is it against the law to have an opinion? if that’s the case she should have been locked up ages ago. Still it doesn’t justified your friends from the Blades making threats against her. It’s shameful, even a wretch like you can admit that.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    Is it against the law to have an opinion?

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, who said it was?

    And you and your lib friends have made death threats against BD and O’Reilly for years.

  • skyfet

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    possibly, before the self-appointed Royal Spelling and Grammar Czar cites me.

    Well that’s not the only one, but it’s not my business. Since you made a fuss about that spelling, let me also mention that you used “or” instead of “of”.

    You should have moved on, no one cares, it’s a blog and sometimes we write out of emotion and we don’t bother to check spellings or grammar.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Sky says:

    Is it against the law to have an opinion?

    Not yet, but you libs aren’t done “transforming” America into Cuba or Venezuela yet.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    let me also mention that you used “or” instead of “of”.

    You are really a child, aren’t ya.

    I thought so.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    notsofast said:
    LMAO!

    Funniest post of the year!

    you’re welcome for that and you remind me of the great sense of humor keith has and how much i will miss that. maybe he will write a weekly column or a collection of short stories like his hero james thurber.

  • skyfet

    notsofast said:
    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, who said it was?

    And you and your lib friends have made death threats against BD and O’Reilly for years.

    Evidence please?

  • notsofast

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    you’re welcome for that and you remind me of the great sense of humor keith has and how much i will miss that. maybe he will write a weekly column or a collection of short stories like his hero james thurber.

    If Thurber were alive today and read what you said, he would be rolling around in his grave ;)

  • skyfet

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Sky says:

    Is it against the law to have an opinion?

    Not yet, but you libs aren’t done “transforming” America into Cuba or Venezuela yet.

    Another right wing mad talk. Do you actually believe what is coming out of your mouth?
    Do you just listen to those entertainers say on radio without using your own brains?
    What’s the point of having a brain if you are not going to make use of it.
    It’s embarrassing, to see you parrot the entertainers.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    Evidence please?

    Ah,they have talked about the threats many times just like Piven recently did about hers and they take bodyguards with them when they travel. Does Piven have bodyguards?

    And don’t pull your lib B.S. that we should believe her and not them, son.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Sky says:

    Another right wing mad talk. Do you actually believe what is coming out of your mouth?
    Do you just listen to those entertainers say on radio without using your own brains?
    What’s the point of having a brain if you are not going to make use of it.
    It’s embarrassing, to see you parrot the entertainers.

    Yawn.

    We need to fundamentally transform American.

    Barack Obama

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    notsofast said:
    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, who said it was?

    And you and your lib friends have made death threats against BD and O’Reilly for years.

    skyfet said:
    Evidence please?

    yeah, i’d like to see a death threat you made sky.

  • skyfet

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Sky says:

    Another right wing mad talk. Do you actually believe what is coming out of your mouth?
    Do you just listen to those entertainers say on radio without using your own brains?
    What’s the point of having a brain if you are not going to make use of it.
    It’s embarrassing, to see you parrot the entertainers.

    Yawn.

    We need to fundamentally transform American.

    Barack Obama

    And in your twisted mind, that means Cuba. I don’t think you are aware of history Mitchell.
    Do you know the actions that took place in Cuba, that lead to the creation of the present state.
    You sit in your room and talk crap like this. Do you know Castro and his henchmen killed opponents after the coup d’ etat was successful. Trying people in kangaroo court and sentencing them to death witout due process.
    Do you actually believe this is coming to America?
    If you do then, you are dumb chick, who needs history lesson.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    “Every single moment that we are stroking our beards and gazing at our navel and thinking about the world we’d like to be and singing ‘Kumbaya’ is another day we’re not punching Bill O’Reilly in the nose.”

    Anthony Weiner

  • skyfet

    notsofast said:
    Ah,they have talked about the threats many times just like Piven recently did about hers and they take bodyguards with them when they travel. Does Piven have bodyguards?

    And don’t pull your lib B.S. that we should believe her and not them, son.

    So you have no evidence? case close, you could be sued for crap like that. Pulling crap out of your ass is not facts, it’s your opinion.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    Do you know the actions that took place in Cuba, that lead to the creation of the present state.

    Yes, and guess what kind of state the Cubans got in return? A Communist state run by a dictator. Great improvement , son

    skyfet said:
    Trying people in kangaroo court and sentencing them to death witout due process.

    That happened and continues to occur in Cuba today.

    Have you ever read a history book?

    MG!

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window
  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    So you have no evidence?

    So you have no evidence that Piven has received death threats.

    You pathetic lib- I knew the talking point you would try!

    Is this a great country or not?

    LOL

  • skyfet

    notsofast said:
    So you have no evidence that Piven has received death threats.

    You pathetic lib- I knew the talking point you would try!

    Is this a great country or not?

    LOL

    Are you kidding me? go to the Blaze and you’d find as much as you want. As a Glenn Beck fan, I assume you know what the Blaze is.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Just for fun, here’s a few more (see John, when we say someone uses violent rhetoric, WE actually back it up):

    “…In an ideal world, American consumers could be convinced to do the right thing through an appeal to logic with public service messages like the ‘What Would Jesus Drive?’ TV campaign, but the kind of people who would buy a car that increases the risk to other motorists in an accident can’t be reasoned with. They’re selfish and stupid. It’s unfortunate that drivers must worry that their SUVs are being targeted by insulting stickers and Molotov cocktails, but one thing’s for sure: It couldn’t be happening to a more deserving group of people.” — Ted Rall winks at ecoterrorism

    “F*** God D*mned Joe the God D*mned Motherf*cking plumber! I want Motherf*cking Joe the plumber dead.” — Liberal talk show host Charles Karel Bouley on the air.

    “Republicans don’t believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don’t give a hoot about human beings, either can’t or won’t. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm.” — The Village Voice’s Michael Feingold, in a theater review of all places

    (Rush Limbaugh)” just wants the country to fail. To me that’s treason. He’s not saying anything different than what Osama Bin Laden is saying. You might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight. … Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that?” — Wanda Sykes

    “You guys see Live and Let Die, the great Bond film with Yaphet Kotto as the bad guy, Mr. Big? In the end they jam a big CO2 pellet in his face and he blew up. I have to tell you, Rush Limbaugh is looking more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody’s going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he’s going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come. Not yet. But we’ll be there to watch. I think he’s Mr. Big, I think Yaphet Kotto. Are you watching, Rush?” — Chris Matthews

    “I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow….I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.” — Bill Maher

    “If I got (Condi Rice) a— on camera, I would put my Mars Air Jordans so far up her butt that the Mayo Clinic would have to remove them.” — Spike Lee

    “O&A – ‘Condoleezza Rice’”
    Charlie – “I’d love to f— that b*tch dude” (laughter)

    Charlie – “She’s the F—in man”

    O&A – “yeah”

    Charlie – “I’d F…that b*tch….”

    O&A – “I just imagine the horror in Condoleezza Rice’s face….”

    - “(laughter) ….. as she realizes what’s going on”

    - “…as you were just holding her down and F’n her.”

    Charlie – “punch her all the F’n face, shut the F— up b*tch”

    O&A – “that’s exactly what I meant” (laughter in background)

    Charlie – “you know F— it …. and George Bush wife? I’d F— that b*tch to death” — “Shock Jocks” Opie & Anthony talk rape & violence with their guest “Homeless Charlie.”

    “For those of you who do, as a matter of principle, oppose war in any form, the idea of supporting a conscientious objector who’s already been inducted [and] in his combat service in Iraq might have a certain appeal. But let me ask you this: Would you render the same support to someone who hadn’t conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit?” — University Professor Ward Churhill on supporting soldiers who frag their officers

    “Drudge? Aw, Drudge, somebody ought to wrap a strong Republican entrail around his neck and hoist him up about six feet in the air and watch him bounce.” — Liberal radio host, Mike Malloy

    “I know how the ‘tea party’ people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their ‘Obama Plan White Slavery’ signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads.” — The Washington Post’s Courtland Milloy

    Yeah, it’s the right that uses violent, hateful rhetoric.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    Are you kidding me? go to the Blaze and you’d find as much as you want.

    Son, I predicted your talking point response.

    LOL

  • BFD

    It wont be as sweet for me unless he was fired. I don’t want to hear he quit or that it was a mutual agreement, I want to hear he was shit-canned because MSNBC is going to stop being a left-leaning Fox News.

    Anything less in unacceptable to me..

  • skyfet

    notsofast said:
    Yes, and guess what kind of state the Cubans got in return? A Communist state run by a dictator. Great improvement , son

    That happened and continues to occur in Cuba today.

    Have you ever read a history book?

    MG!

    ee what I say about your educational background. Those quotes were not used to support Cuba (dummy). It’s used as an evidence against Mitchell who is paranoid about what she’s heard on radio, in regards to America turning into Cuba.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    skyfet said:
    ee what I say about your educational background. Those quotes were not used to support Cuba (dummy). It’s used as an evidence against Mitchell who is paranoid about what she’s heard on radio, in regards to America turning into Cuba.

    yeah, but just think how much cheaper those cigars will be.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Hey sky, it’s Piven that is calling for the unemployed in this country to rise up and start riots like those in Greece and other parts of Europe. You know, the ones that killed people.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    Those quotes were not used to support Cuba (dummy). It’s used as an evidence against Mitchell who is paranoid about what she’s heard on radio, in regards to America turning into Cuba.

    skyfet said:
    Do you know the actions that took place in Cuba, that lead to the creation of the present state.

    Son, that sentence clearly is a reference to the PRIOR govt in Cuba run by the dictator Batista who was overthrown by Castro who in turn implemented his own dictatorship of terror.

    Please learn how to construct a theme properly.

  • Rio

    notsofast said:
    I don’t know but there are reports that he just bought a house with multiple basements.

    Does the front door have a half moon on it?

  • justanotherconservative

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    We need to fundamentally transform American

    he’s transforming things all right. quickly, too. i agree that we will become another cuba or venezuela and anyone who doesn’t see this coming better pull his/her head out of the sand.

  • skyfet

    notsofast said:
    Son, that sentence clearly is a reference to the PRIOR govt in Cuba run by the dictator Batista who was overthrown by Castro who in turn implemented his own dictatorship of terror.

    Please learn how to construct a theme properly.

    You are embarrassing. Let’s say what is the reason for notsofast for being like this. I’d highlight the missteps in your life etc, these in turn will lead me to say this is the outcome. I was doing the same for Mitchell, who was making an equivalent of the disaster in Cuba to America. I put to her the terrible things that happened there (since she is unaware) , and put it to her if she thinks and hope those kind of atrocity are coming to America.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    notsofast said:
    If Thurber were alive today and read what you said, he would be rolling around in his grave ;)

    one of my favorite thurber’s…
    The Bear Who Let It Alone, by James Thurber

    In the woods of the Far West there once lived a brown bear who could take it or leave it alone. He would go into a bar where they sold mead, a fermented drink made of honey, and he would have just two drinks. Then he would put some money on the bar and say, “See what the bears in the back room will have,” and he would go home.
    But finally he took to drinking by himself most of the day. He would reel home at night, kick over the umbrella stand, knock down the bridge lamps, and ram his elbows through the windows. Then he would collapse on the floor and lie there until he went to sleep. His wife was greatly distressed, and his children were very frightened.
    At length the bear saw the error of his ways and began to reform. In the end he became a famous teetotaller and a persistant temperence lecturer. He would tell everybody who came to his house about the awful effects of drink, and he would boast about how strong and well he had become since he gave up touching the stuff. To demonstrate this, he would stand on his head and on his hands, and he would turn cartwheels in the house, kicking over the umbrella stand, knocking down the bridge lamps, and ramming his elbows through the windows. Then he would lie down on the floor, tired by his healthful exercise, and go to sleep. His wife was greatly distressed, and his children were very frightened.

    Moral: you might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

  • b4peace

    notsofast said:
    If Thurber were alive today and read what you said, he would be rolling around in his grave ;)

    Gosh, I sure hope that if Thurber were alive today he would not be rolling around in his grave.

  • skyfet

    b4peace said:
    Gosh, I sure hope that if Thurber were alive today he would not be rolling around in his grave.

    That would make him a vampire that is having a tough time having enough space in his casket.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    KING on employment . It is no shame to be terminated . I have been fired from many hairdressing jobs . Also , let go as pool boy , bath house attendant , parking lot attendant at an alternative night club , chef in charge of green bean station at a cafeteria , flight attendant on Hooters Air ( icky ! ) , garden hose roller at K-Mart , and many , many others . So keep your chin up , Keith !

  • The Real Royal King

    No wonder Google is running so slowly. Michelle-in-Utah is using all its bandwidth to ferret out obscure, inane, irrelevant commentaries.

  • ROCKSTEADY

    ImRubberYoureGlue said:
    Oh my god, that is the fracking funniest thing I have read in weeks

    Wait untill you read about the Republican Vampire running for President.

  • StewartIII
  • Real Royal Spelling and Grammar Czar

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    possibly, before the self-appointed Royal Spelling and Grammar Czar cites me.

    Good catch and correction. I’ll let you off with a warning.

  • milynily

    If Murdoch fired everyone who worked for him that was crazy, half the workforce at Fox would be in the line of fire.

  • Liberty_Hound

    Ok… How many “Keith Obiteme got fired” stories is mediaite.com going to run. Who gives a crap? Maybe someone will give him a radio show on a different channel opposite Beck, or Rush or Hannity. Oh ya, Air America is already off the air. Oh,well too bad for the 7 people that would have listened in.

    Now enough stories about Keith Obiteme unless of course he goes off on a suicide rant killing people at random.
    Otherwise enough about Keith. Good bye and good riddance.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The real reason Olberdork left was because that bombshell GBR said was about Beck, it was about Olberdork. He thought GBR was going to use it on him.

  • beamangrow

    some one explain,how can the idiot boss from fox claim keith is crazy with a straight face whiles he has bill,sean,beck palin,and all the right wing nut jobs on his channel. why is anything that weasel says is news?he is a liar,i think the whole fox news channel has blood on thier hands.

  • beamangrow

    it seems most of you commenting here are crazy,who told the truth when bush lied the country into a war of choice?to most of you here 9/11 has something to do with iraq,there were weapons of mass distruction in iraq,bush was a good president,that is sad,because the rest of the world look at your kind as ignorant.You live in your own world free from facts,so if you have someone like keith who will tell the truth to your face you cant handle it,sad.

  • remoriah

    Good God, he’s finally gone. Can’t we just forget him and stop all this.

  • beamangrow

    i think if you work for fox,you are been paid with blood money.tiller the baby killer says bill o.shoot them in the head beck.
    you all can deny all you want,i never heard keith telling people to shoot others in thier head.

  • beamangrow

    notsofast says:
    January 24, 2011 at 9:53 am notsofast(Quote)
    11 2
    skyfet said:
    If the target of a 78yr old woman is not madness to you, then both you and your hero are in the same league.

    So you can not attack the radical ideas of people after a certain age? BTW, she has held those beliefs for a long, long time. Suddenly she is an “old widowed college professor”?

    Nice talking point.

    LOL

    you can lol all you want,he asked his viewers to shoot others in the head. i think you have some screws loose.
    go for check up

  • DaTruth

    milynily said:
    If Murdoch fired everyone who worked for him that was crazy, half the workforce at Fox would be in the line of fire.

    Lucky you that the same kind of philosophy doesn’t exist for inane and immature commenters here.

  • beamangrow

    DaTruth says:
    January 24, 2011 at 12:45 pm DaTruth(Quote)
    0 0
    milynily said:
    If Murdoch fired everyone who worked for him that was crazy, half the workforce at Fox would be in the line of fire.

    Lucky you that the same kind of philosophy doesn’t exist for inane and immature commenters here.

    what milynily said is true why are you attacking?

  • beamangrow

    it’s actually really funny to see the teabaggers compare Keith on Twitter with their queen of Alaska quitting her government job to tweet!
    It ain’t the same people! I mean we know you are not bright being a teabagger and all, but at least try to make sense a little!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Denny-Flojak/1550780778 Denny Flojak

    Hey, beaman, first, finish your high school classes before you try to lock horns with grownups that can actually spell and write. . Second, fact me some information to back up Keith’s excellence in broadcasting. He’s hated by his bosses and his employees. He’s an off the charts ego run amok in the business of television, and he will have a hard time finding a new job because of his reputation. Because he yells louder than most doesn’t make him right. Oh and by the way, mostly his show consisted of his whining about Fox and their employees because he couldn’t find his way into their league, as in viewers. Crybabies don’t keep their jobs, especially when most of his wit is spent putting others down, and never bringing anything new to the table. Good riddance for now to a bloviating ass.

  • beamangrow

    As someone in the media who — on a much, much smaller scale — was also radicalized by the war in Iraq, the massive failure of our profession in exposing that war’s faulty underpinnings, and other Bush-era outrages, I can also understand why — leaving aside the role of personality conflicts and the looming arrival of MSNBC’s Comcastic new management — Olbermann might have felt that now was the time to go. What he inspired during Bush’s presidency was nothing less than a revolution, and it’s often hard to adjust when the romance of revolution fades. I doubt that covering the ups-and-downs and occasional broken promises of the Obama White House had the same thrill as exposing Obama’s thoroughly corrupt predecessors.

    Ironically, Olbermann’s tenure at MSNBC may have really ended because of something very much like the thing that he rightfully ridiculed Bush for more than anything else, the words that he reminded his viewers about night after night after night.

    Maybe he really left because of a Mission Accomplished.

    huff post

  • beamangrow

    People who try to define Olbermann’s significance as “finally a liberal came along as a counterweight to Fox News Channel” totally don’t get it. Olbermann started the 2000s not as a liberal but a guy who still wanted to be a sportscaster. Things changed because he registered his disbelief at things that so many other regular Americans also could not believe were happening — that America has preemptively invaded another country on false pretenses, that a country founded on civil liberties was now promoting torture and indefinite detention, that the government was not capable of responding to the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina. There was a time when so many citizens who saw these things and were appalled by them did not have any voice in the mainstream media — until Olbermann spoke up.

    huff post

  • beamangrow

    where were you then
    drinking the cool aid from bush

  • Pablo

    milynily said:
    If Murdoch fired everyone who worked for him that was crazy, half the workforce at Fox would be in the line of fire.

    WHY ARE YOU INCITING VIOLENCE AGAINST NEWS PEOPLE?????

  • Pablo

    The Real Rabid Kook said:
    Now, now, Michelle, my dearest, I’m going to have to ask you to go to one of your disreputable rags to support that.

    Have you been leaving your underwear in her yard, Kook?

  • juan

    beamangrow said:
    some one explain,how can the idiot boss from fox claim keith is crazy with a straight face whiles he has bill,sean,beck palin,and all the right wing nut jobs on his channel. why is anything that weasel says is news?he is a liar,i think the whole fox news channel has blood on thier hands.

    Go FOX News and Rupert!

  • Georgia999

    $7 Million a year ! HA–now that’s funny! And MSNBC is stupid for paying that. Maybe he could join Conan on another cable cvhannel??

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    How ironic: Murdoch thinks Olbermann is “crazy,” but Glenn Beck, who has called upon his audience to shoot radicals in Washington in the head, well that’s just perfectly fine in the la la land of the far-right echo chamber. Beck is an embarrassment and Fox is a sham!

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2011/01/glenn-becks-pledge-of-nonviolence.html

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