Over 116,000 (and growing) sign Olbermann petition and reporters speak out against suspension

[sabrina 1]

MSNB has started a movement. Tens of thousands have already signed a petition demanding that Keith be restored.






http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-green/50000-sign-petition-for-o_b_779790.html

As Danny Shea, Sam Stein, and others are well documenting, Keith Olbermann's suspension is getting a ton of attention. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is organizing the public to do something about it. In just a few hours, 55,000, 75,000, 90,000 MSNBC viewers signed our petition saying:

"Keith Olbermann made your network a success. If you want your viewers to keep tuning in to MSNBC, put Keith back on TV now!" Sign here - keep the momentum going!.

This is a no-brainer. Keith was one of the only people speaking truth to power for years -- and we need to speak truth to power now, for him. Sign the petition today -- then tell your friends.

The numbers are growing by the minute. You can sign the petition HERE

Edited to update the numbers, which is hard to do as they keep growing. But from the petition site, the latest update:

116,354 people have taken action—93% of our goal of 125,000!

That was fast, I hope they keep it going!

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. I never sign online petitions but-----

I sure as hell signed this one

[sabrina 1]

2. Thanks, I'm going to try to edit the title as the numbers are growing

rapidly.

I think MSNBC started a firestorm they probably didn't expect.

I don't bother with petitions either as I didn't think they mattered much.

But they DO seem to affect the media. I remember sending around the petition for Colbert the night of the Annual press dinner, when it was thought he was going to be fired. That petition grew fast also, although not as fast as this. And it definitely took a lot of people by surprise.

Thanks for signing, I have also.

[JitterbugPerfume]

20. I am pretty sure I signed the Colbert petition too!

[sabrina 1]

28. I signed it and passed it around to as many people as I could.

They really didn't get his humor, and it did look like he might be fired. But the overwhelming response was impressive and the rest is history lol!

[EFerrari]

26. I never use Twitter and I was on for hours this afternoon.

lol

[sabrina 1]

31. Lol, I have a twitter account for ages that I never used but

have had several requests from people who say they want to follow me.

Why would anyone want to follow someone who has said nothing at all? :rofl:

[Doremus]

3. Signed. K&R

[sabrina 1]

4. Thanks, they have nearly reached their goal already!

Btw, I love that disgruntled baby!

[annabanana]

5. done.............. kick

[sabrina 1]

7. Thank you, I can't believe how angry I am

about this. As they say at the petition site, Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough also donate to politicians.

They treat people like children, Keith was supposed to ask 'mommy' who he could give his money to.

But even that was a lie, as their policy states that is the case ONLY IF there is a conflict of interest.

There was no conflict of interest. Everyone already knows Keith's political views and what party he supports.

The stupidity is sickening and seeing that weasel Griffith being defended on this board makes me even more sick.

:kick: to get Keith back on the air. And FIRE GRIFFIN.

[Jade Fox]

6. signed

[Politics_Guy25]

8. This is proof positive that the media is controlled by pro-GOP CORPORATE SHILLS

ALL DOUBT IS GONE. FrenchieCat is 1000% right in all of her posts. I am beyond furious as well.

[calimary]

13. Can't disagree.

I too am BEYOND FURIOUS!!!!!!

I hope those bastards get NO sleep and NO peace all weekend.

[laundry_queen]

9. It won't let me sign

because I'm in Canada, but I find that odd - I get the channel I should be able to sign too. *sigh* oh well. kicking this so more people will sign!!!

[sabrina 1]

17. That's too bad, you should be able to sign. Send them an email

from Canada. The more they get, the better.

[DearAbby]

39. Better yet, call them

Call MSNBC at 212-664-4444, Point made, please return Keith to his show.

[shireen]

10. 118,931 @ 9:45 pm EDT.

[Contrary1]

11. 121,467 now. 97%

[David Zephyr]

14. I was posting when you were. Thanks for the update.

Didn't know you were posting it, too. Thanks. :)

[sabrina 1]

22. Wow, this is happening fast! 130,505 now.

They have exceeded their goal. I hope they leave it up though.

130,505 people have taken action—104% of our goal of 125,000!

[David Zephyr]

12. 121,467 as of 9:50 EST.

Wow.

[Terra Alta]

15. signed it a few hours ago

It was just over 50,000 signatures then.. amazing to see how fast it has grown since then. So many people want Keith back; I hope MSNBC listens.

[bdamomma]

16. kick and rec

[TBF]

18. It's past 125,000 signatures now -

I've never watched the show (other than a few clips on here), but I did watch Rachel for the first time tonight. I quite liked her.

[sabrina 1]

23. She is very good. Both she and Keith provide facts and often

correct the lies being told on Fox. They are doing an invaluable and very necessary service. Glad you go to see her. Keith was the one who got her on TV and helped to get her her own show.

[Inuca]

19. 102% at 9:20

128,306 signatures

[shireen]

21. 130,505 @ 10:30 PM EDT

[RedCloud]

24. Why we call him "Doberman"

At a time when the barbarians are banging down the last gates of sanity, you chose to silence one of the few who stands up to them.

We affectionately call him "Doberman" because he takes a bite out of their pompous derrieres.

[sabrina 1]

25. 132,467 @ 10.46 P.M.

[neobeetle]

27. Now 107%

134,451 & counting

[sabrina 1]

29. Now 143,464 @ 11.44 P.M. That's 114%

143,464 people have taken action—114% of our goal of 125,000!

[Parker CA]

30. 143,000 and counting!

[BurtWorm]

32. Is there a petition to get back the jobs of the millions who were not just suspended but axed

because the economy went south?

(See what I mean by proportion?)

[sabrina 1]

34. Yes, I've been on that for a long time. Calling Congress, emailing

supporting candidates who support building jobs.

You mean you've been sitting around doing nothing about jobs, you've missed the calls to action all this time? But you do have time to try to stop others who actually do something about what they believe in.

Would you like me to give you some numbers to call about job creation, about stopping sending jobs overseas eg? I'll be happy to do so.

[BurtWorm]

35. I wouldn't want you to take time away from the important Olbermann project.

;-)

[sabrina 1]

36. I am very good at multi-tasking. It's not a problem!

The Olbermann Project! I like that! It almost sounds well, covert or something, but definitely important! Maybe some buttons and bumper stickers? I can see millions of Americans wearing them. Great idea, thanks for helping!

We'll give you credit if we use it of course :-)

[the redcoat]

33. Wow, this is truly amazing. Signed it a few hours ago. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. close to 150K now

[sabrina 1]

38. 150,896 @ 12.54, since you made your comment!

That's nearly a thousand in about 20 minutes, late at night! I hope they leave it up all day tomorrow.

[Turborama]

40. 151,478 at the time I write this, that's 121% of their target so far

Thanks for posting this, Sabrina.

:hi:

[sabrina 1]

41. Wow, that's nearly 600 more in about ten minutes!

You're welcome. At least I feel like we are doing something. I called that weasel, Griffin, today before he stopped answering calls. I was polite, but gave them an earful.

This reminds me of the Colbert petition after his appearance at the annual press dinner. Since Bush thought he was being attacked by an actual journalist, everyone expected Colbert to be fired. So, someone set up a petition and it got so many signatures I guess they felt it wouldn't be a good idea to fire him. Lol!

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. This is their average daily demo

I know that would scare me

[Beartracks]

43. Signed, kicked, recced.

At least, I *think* I signed it; the # did not increase afterwards.

On edit: Wait, here we go... 153,928 people have taken action — 123%!

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[sabrina 1]

44. 156,922 @2.33 A.M.

So since you posted, 3,000 more people have signed.

They've raised their goal to 175,000 now and are already at 89% of that goal.


Yay, people are really coming through for Keith! :applause:

Thanks for helping, Beartracks (love that name :-))

[Hekate]

45. Signed hours ago. It's now 157,326 sigs. KnR.

[sabrina 1]

46. 158, 904 @ 3.33 A.M. Thank you Hekate for the kick.

They have reached 90% of their new goal of 175,000. It's after 3.00 A.M. on the east coast and 12.00 A.M. on the west. And people are still signing the petition.

[Rhiannon12866]

47. "160,588 people have taken action—91% of our goal of 175,000!"

:woohoo: :kick:

[sabrina 1]

48. 175,577 @ 11.07 A.M.

They've reached their second goal of 175,000!

I hope they raise it again!

[Celtic Raven]

49. 180K+ now

170K when I signed it this morning.

:woohoo:

[sabrina 1]

51. I hope they keep it going! They'll

easily get over 200,000. That's more than the audience of some shows on cable get.

[Celtic Raven]

54. I'd be willing to bet

that it'll fly by 200K easily.

[bigwillq]

50. Done

:bounce:

[varelse]

52. Done :)

[Turborama]

53. They earlier changed the target to 175,000 & now the total number of signatories is 189,615

At the time of writing. That's 108% of the new total. They should just go for it and raise the target to 1,000,000 at this rate...

[nadinbrzezinski]

55. 190,865 people have taken action—109% of our goal of 175,000

[Turborama]

56. Judging by the difference between our posting times, that's an increase of over 1,000 in a minute!

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

57. Yeah, Mike Malloy didn't think it would make a tinkers damn

of a difference... but hey we have to try... he did sign it, but he was going over his own experience with Air America.

[sabrina 1]

62. I can understand how he feels, but someone should remind

him of at least two other petitions that actually worked, with phone calls and threats of boycotts also of course.

One was Colbert who had so upset the Bush crowd there was a fear his new show was going to be cancelled. A petition circulated quickly to try to inform those in charge that he was a comedian etc. etc. Anyhow, he is still there.

Then when Kerry was running for office, there was phony 'documentary' that was about to shown by some rightwing Media people. Again, a petition was cirulated, calls to advertisers were made, the Rightwingers were arrogant at first, laughed at liberals trying to 'protect' Kerry. Until the stock in their corp began to plummet. That was fun to watch.

So they caved but I don't know if they ever recovered from the freefall of their stocks.

People Power, it works! Mike is probably depressed.

[chill_wind]

58. 192,042 as of now. Keep the issue active this weekend.

96%

192,042 people have taken action—96% of our goal of 200,000!

(they're going for 200,000 now).

http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann/?source=bp

[sabrina 1]

59. And since you posted, it's 194,694, @2.06 A.M.

That's over 2500 since you posted. At this rate they will easily get to 200,000 in the next couple of hours.

[chill_wind]

60. There it is! 201,070 n't

[sabrina 1]

61. Nearly 7,000 in approx. 30 minutes!

I thought it would take a couple of hours at least!

That is really amazing.

[Poboy]

63. 205,743 people have taken action. -nt

[chill_wind]

64. Maybe they'll just keep going and go big-- 500,000 by Monday :-)

Somebody there knows something about SEO. When you type his name this petition is at the very top of the google.

[sabrina 1]

65. That's looking very possible. Thousands are signing up

every hour. I bet Griffin didn't expect the reaction he's getting.

I think some other networks might want to approach Keith and Rachel right now. Rachel will probably be next, just like Banfield, if she continues to speak out against Republicans now that they are back in power. I'm sure the networks have heard from them already.

Can't let it happen again. But they have the money and control so it will be hard. We'll have to be relentless or all liberal voices will once again disappear.

[sabrina 1]

66. Ha, you're right about Google, I just checked!

Now they've raised the goal again, to 250,000. And it looks like they will have no trouble getting there today:

213,316 people have taken action—85% of our goal of 250,000!

And it's 4.41 P.M.

[chill_wind]

67. :-)

[bluedigger]

68. They must be tired of updating their goal, lol!

New target - 250,000!

[sabrina 1]

71. I know, but they are doing it. Now at 223, 613 @ 7.00 P.M.

They will definitely reach their new target by midnight, I think. :-)

[Turborama]

72. 234,390 now.

As I said upthread, they might as well bite the bullet and go all out for 1,000,000.

[sabrina 1]

73. 242,024 @ 12.01 A.M.

Hi Turborama, I think you're right, I think they could go for a million! :-)

96% of our goal of 250,000!

[laughingliberal]

69. K & R nt

[amborin]

70. done

[sabrina 1]

74. 263,178 @ 1.39 P.M

They have passed their goal of 250,000

[Celtic Raven]

75. 265,061 this morning

:kick:

[Beartracks]

76. 270,606 now - 108% of the re-stated goal. :) n/t

[sabrina 1]

77. It's over 280.000 now. But for some reason I can't get the updates

anymore ~ :-(

[Beartracks]

79. Hmm... I keep checking the petition site...

...at http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann">http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann to check the progress.

Were you getting emailed updates or something?

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[sabrina 1]

80. No, I was checking the petition site also. But now it takes me

to the page where you vote. And I can't get past that, so I voted again, which I thought would say 'you've already voted' but it didn't. Still didn't get me to the updates though.

Just checked your link, and it takes me to the voting page. No updates.

I am getting emails but not actual numbers. Good you can still check though :-)

[Beartracks]

81. Hmm. For me, that's the same page.

There's a form on the right side where you can sign the petition; underneath that form is the status info.

I clicked my link again just now, and the page loaded without the status, but when I refreshed, it showed up.

And in the last 15 minutes or so... the goal has been upped to 300,000! Of course, we're already 97% there! :D

"293,767 people have taken action—97% of our goal of 300,000!"

[Beartracks]

78. Keith responds!

"A quick, overwhelmed, stunned THANK YOU for support that feels like a global hug."

http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann/?source=huff>http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann

:grouphug:

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[spooky3]

82. does "[e-mail]" still work to send messages to Keith?

[Beartracks]

83. I don't know. The Keith quote...

... was posted at the petition site:

http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann">http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann

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[Beartracks]

84. Oops, self-delete. Superfluous post. :)

[Tx4obama]

85. 294,834 on the petition link below....

http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann

[sabrina 1]

86. Yes, i know but the updates are not there anymore for some

reason. Weird!

[Beartracks]

88. Yeah.... It's inconsistent.

If I refresh a few times, it comes back.

But did you see the thread re. Keith returning to MSNBC on Tuesday?! :toast:


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[sabrina 1]

89. Lol, yes, yes, I did!

We Won! Lol! Now on to the next. :applause:

[sabrina 1]

87. Thank you! We Won! Keith will be back on Tuesday!

Thanks for the link, that's the one I was using but for some reason, the updates just weren't there anymore, just the vote box.

Nearly 300,000 though, that was impressive!

[Beartracks]

91. And thank YOU for this thread!

There were a lot of KO threads, but this was the one that kept me coming back. :)

btw, 303,800 now!!!!!!! That's 101% of their latest goal -- or 243% of their original goal!!!!!!

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[sabrina 1]

95. You're welcome,

Thank you for helping to keep it going. And thanks for the update, the glitch on the petition site never resolved itself for me.

I guess they can stop now LOl! But wow, over 300,000 in what, less than 48 hours?

I love that organization. They do some really good work. I do get their emails. They are very active, instead of just talking they do things!

Anyhow, it was fun doing this with you and others, but mission accomplished, on to the next! Lol!

[Tx4obama]

90. 297,078 have signed the petition. And Keith will be back Tuesday !!!

[laughingliberal]

92. Yay! Bet they thought no one would notice. Guess Keith's support was a little broader than they...

thought.

[Waiting For Everyman]

93. Wow, contrary to myth the billpayers (us) do have an effect after all.

Voting every day with dollars might make our votes every two years go a lot farther.

[Poboy]

94. 305,171 people have taken action

[sabrina 1]

96. And still going 317,600 @8.40 P.M.

105% of our goal of 300,000!

If he has not been reinstated, I think this would have made it to one million. People are still voting even though the goal has been accomplished.