MSNBC Countdown/Gone????

[ls317]

It might be a good idea for Keith Olbermann and Rick Kaplan to give each other a wide berth until things cool down.
I hear that MSNBC staffers in the Secaucus newsroom-studio watched in horror Monday night as the volatile Kaplan, the president of the cable outlet, publicly laced into the eccentric Olbermann, anchor of the 8 p.m. show "Countdown," after the latter eulogized lung-cancer victim Peter Jennings with a graphic rant about his own cancer scare.

Olbermann - a former pipe and cigar smoker - is said to have looked stunned as Kaplan raced onto the set and shouted at him after he signed off.




http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/335981p-286995c.html

[Goldmund]

1. It's their highest-rated show

Not that it stopped them from firing Donahue...

[Mister Mark]

2. They don't like honesty at MSNBC

To paraphrase the nut jobs who call in on the "support Bush" line at C-SPAN (and I mean this sincerely):

"I support Keith Olbermann ONE HUNDERD PUR-CENT!"

Keith is too good for MSNBC, in my opinion.

[Pirate Smile]

3. Here is a thread on this topic.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4304999

[Lex]

4. If Olberman goes, I'll not have a single reason to tune to MSNBC anymore.

So screw 'em.

[xxqqqzme]

8. same here - nothing else of interest.

n/t

[lonestarnot]

11. If KO goes, no reason for me to ever turn their way again!

[LSparkle]

5. Just noted this in another thread -- if they can "Countdown"

Charter Communications can kiss my cable subcription goodbye. ANY effing excuse to rag on a reporter who leans even SLIGHTLY liberal.

[tridim]

6. Keith should walk IMO

and give a hearty "Fuck you" as he walks out of the studio. Someone will hire him.. at which point he should remind people daily that Rick Kaplan and MSNBC are pro-cancer.

[ClassWarrior]

17. He's done it before.

NGU.

[DemInDistress]

7. WTF....

Seems like insanity rules at MSNBC..I LIKE KEITH,I HATE ALLISON..PETER JENNINGS KNEW THE RISK OF SMOKING CIGARETTES AND KEITH WAS FORTUNATE TO OVERCOME HIS HABIT....SHAME ON KAPLAN

[BlueEyedSon]

9. The jury is still out on the connection between smoking and cancers

so Olbermann was being totally irresponsible!

[annabanana]

10. which jury is that?...n/t

[understandinglife]

12. is that the faith-based, neo-creationist, intelligent-design jury ....

Matthew Donaldson, an independent visual artist from Auckland. “On this, the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima's bombing, my grief for all of those murdered and yet to be murdered by America's weapons - of mass destruction or otherwise - overwhelms me” said Matt.

It overwhelms me, as well, Mathew.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

[LSparkle]

13. I hope you're being facetious ...

Kaplan should be absolutely called on the carpet for his behavior. What he did was as bad as someone telling an employee they SHOULDN'T counsel against drug addiction.

Wonder if Kaplan objected to Keith's soliloquy because it led into a program hosted by a woman who SOUNDS like she's smoked two packs a day for her entire life??????

[BlueEyedSon]

15. 8^)

[Journeyman]

19. Taking a smoke break, I presume?. . .

n/t

[Malikshah]

14. Uh...how many threads are we gonna have on this

quoting the same damn story?

[Mister Mark]

16. Guess nobody's minding the shop (n/t)

[joemurphy]

18. Oh good, maybe we can replace Keith with Ashley Banfield!

Just kidding!

[ls317]

20. Hmmmm

How is Mrs Eyeglasses doing BTW... I havent seen here around

[Demonaut]

21. don't bash Banfield, she's way too hot and liberal

I really miss her....sob!

[ls317]

22. Not Bashing

Just asking is she working in Televison any where thats all?????

[wli]

23. Olbermann's spoiling the propaganda operation

He'll get canned.