I am wondering if this was planned by MSNBC to open up pandora's box on FOX?

[Quixote1818]

The way Rachel seemed to support the decision makes me wonder if they knew this would create a fire storm and guess who is coming to Keith's side big time? Everyone over at FOX! MSNBC has drawn all the snakes out of their holes! Now I suspect for the next week the news will be shining a light not on Keith but how FOX is not really news at all but part of the Republican party. I also suspect Keith will be back in a day or two and things will be cool.

Then again, if the spotlight is not moved over to FOX and stays on Keith or if Keith is fired, I will be pissed off and never watch MSNBC again. I kind of get the feeling this was planned to make FOX look bad. I just hope I am not wrong.

[HughMoran]

1. Ya never know

I am thinking of all the possibilities as well.

[knowbody0]

2. my thoughts as well

I vision Keith sitting back watching the show. brilliant!

[kwolf68]

3. Doesn't GE OWN MSNBC?

If so I don't trust them as far as I can rebuild the Taj Mahal with cat turds and paper clips.

[veganlush]

4. wouldn't that be sweet?

too much to hope for i guess, but damn what a dream

[bemildred]

5. It's either bonehead stupidity or some kind of game.

My money is on bonehead stupidity, but you never know until its over.

[Janice325]

7. I agree with you. I think it's just bonehead stupidity

and Phil Griffin's huge ego. I hope the dipshit hits the ranks of the unemployed in the next few days. Fucking moran.

[bemildred]

10. Meg Whitman.

:hi:

[realitythink]

6. No way..

Sounds like a great plan but there is one major flaw in your argument and that's Politico. There is no way that right wing outfit would be in on such a plot. Although your theory would be the perfect out for Phil Griffin since, at this point, he has gotten himself into a whole heap of snot he surely didn't expect. I think Rachel is so fucking smart she, possibly with the assistance of Keith, just found a way for the douchebags that started this to get themselves out of it. We shall see next week, won't we?

[apocalypsehow]

8. And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. n/t.

[jillan]

9. Unless your name is Monica Lewinsky.

Did I say that? :eyes:

[apocalypsehow]

11. LOL!

Yes, you did! :evilgrin:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[gulliver]

12. Interesting point!

Thanks for posting!

[southerncrone]

13. Seems I recall KO saying a couple of yrs back that he had never

intended to do this show & he planned to go back to sports broadcasting, as that was his true love. Could this be a vehicle for him to do so w/o pisssing off his followers by leaving of his own volition?
Double treat is the exposure of Foxxxx?

[JohnnyRingo]

14. I think it's a power play of egos

Olberman knows he's the breadwinner at MSNBC, and he's come to loggerheads with network brass on numerous documented occasions. Even before this gig, he had a reputation of letting his journalistic independance irk those who work the levers.

I caught the first clue from his stand-in tonight when Roberts mentioned how uncomfortable it was to be forced into a power play. I take that as the watercooler scuttlebutt around the studio. I also noticed that suspiciously none of the expected regular floating hosts accepted the seat tonight. Perhaps battlelines were made in a textbook example of a management/worker dispute.

Or maybe not.