Divide and Conquer Tactics At Work Among Liberal media personalities

[Bullet1987]

We should have seen this coming. The liberal bloc of dissent and criticsm is being chipped away at and people are being payed off. First it was Stewart going after Olbermann and stupidly (yes stupidly) lumping him in with Beck and O'Reilly. Saying that Olbermann is falsely part of some extreme. An extreme that only extremists will listen to. This is classic divide and conquer! Paint Olbermann as someone that should be ignored by those that most respect him, create just a little bit of skepticism and it seems to have worked. But also paint anyone that sounds like Olbermann as also being part of that extreme. This not only forces people like Ed, Cenk, etc to "go to the middle," but it also creates conflict within the "movement." This tactic has been used for decades against civil rights and other activist groups and it's now at work with the liberal media personalities. Look for a purging of content and maybe other anchors in the next year. People that don't get on board with the message will be let go. Meanwhile, FOX News will continue its assault on democracy without ANY correction and weak opposing views. Then, it was Rachel Maddow's covering for MSNBC's antics last night, repeating the myth that Olbermann broke some rule, when it's been shown that other MSNBC talking heads also contributed to political campaigns (like Scarborough). Divide and conquer by immediatly rejecting the idea that Olbermann being let go wasn't politically-motivated...and use a self-described liberal to say it. So it MUST be true (sarcasm)!! I don't know whether Keith will come back or not. If I'm a betting man, I say he's being coached up right now to submit an order of resignation to MSNBC can take even less blame.

This stinks to high hell, but we should never have trusted the MSM as much as we did anyway. Especially since it's been very recent in history that MSNBC was just another Republican shill network.

[mediaman007]

1. Keith came back from better gigs that this!

[PerpetuallyDazed]

2. Hmmm...

I think Stewart's contention was with the tactics pundits use to make their arguments. Olbermann himself has admitted to sometimes going overboard. A regular viewer of both programs might recognize that Stewart and Olbermann actually have a lot in common ideology wise -- which is why over on Fox News they consider Stewart and his ilk part of the "extreme left" (this according to O'Reilly, self-professed "centrist" and quite possibly the least insane pundit over there).

[Better Today]

3. hysterical much?

First, KO isn't fired. Second Rachel didn't cover for MSNBC, she praised it for having a policy that gives MSNBC and it's pundits more credibility than Fox's. Lastly, KO wasn't fired for contributing, but for not getting approval first, which supposedly the other talking heads did, which Rachel specifically commented on.

[sufrommich]

4. "I say he's being coached up right now to submit an order of resignation "

What? Coached by who?