MSNBC is hearing our message!

[Contrary1]

Within hours, you and 200,000 others signed the petition telling MSNBC to put Keith Olbermann back on the air.

Our petition was covered by The New York Times -- and Rachel Maddow said on her show that MSNBC was feeling the public outrage!

Our pressure is working -- can you help continue the momentum by sharing the petition with others?

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Thanks for being a bold progressive,

-- Julia Rosen, Jason Rosenbaum, Michael Snook, and the PCCC team

[EFerrari]

1. They're shooting for 250k signature. We should try to double that.

:kick:

[breadandwine]

82. There are no boots on the ground. Why no candlelight vigil for Keith every night at Rock Center?

If they canned Glenn Beck (also at Rockefeller Center like Olbermann) there would be nightly candlelight vigils, placards, protests there.

However, progressives are "forbidden" to take to the streets and sidewalks....



•••The Phil Griffin (who fired Keith) gratitude thread. Stop the candlelight vigil at Rock Ctr!•••

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9503213



There are 19 million people in the Tri-State New York Metropolitan Area, a great many of whom work in the city and most of them are progressive. They could show up in droves every night on their way home from work on the subway with candles at Rockefeller Center. Night after night. Without even missing a day of work. Rockefeller Center actually has its very own subway station, accessible by subway to every spot in New York City, all 5 boros. (Even Staten Islanders can be there, after a short Ferry ride that is FREE. Or by subway from their Manhattan jobs BEFORE they head to the Staten Island Ferry.)

The attack on Keith is like the GOP taking over Congress TWICE.

But people don't head to Rock Center because progressives have forgotten how to take to the streets.


We're all supposed to be good little boys and girls and let the fascists and corporatists take over Congress and the media without a fight.

•8 million New Yorkers.
•19 million total in the metropolitan region.
•Largest city in America.
•Biggest progressive center in the country.
•Dems just won the key statewide races in the state.

But no boots on the ground.
No candlelight vigil.
No nothing at Rockefeller Center.

Millions of New Yorkers love Keith. If they can't head to Rock Center every night on their way home on the subway, don't blame it on someone else.

Progressives simply don't take to the streets anymore.

[Poboy]

83. Great idea. -nt

[breadandwine]

91. New York City Subway Map -----

http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/subwaymap.pdf



Rockefeller Center subway station smack dab in the middle, accessible from every one of the 468 stations in the city with free underground transfers. Biggest subway system on earth.


Subway ride: $2.25 to anywhere in the city, no restrictions.

Where are all the people? Where are all the YOUNG people?

Busy bitching and moaning that the GOP took over Congress while they were busy staying home playing checkers.

[Thornleylv]

101. Jon Stewart might not agree with that

Ya think?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. 225,843 people have taken action—90% of our goal of 250,000!

as of right now

[still_one]

3. Only time will tell if it is. However, if it is, then that should be a loud message to those who

believe you must compromise, er, I mean capitualte

You hear that Mr. President?

[femmocrat]

4. K&R Done. n/t

[ohheckyeah]

5. Twitter is over capacity?

I've never gotten that error message before.

[tavalon]

25. Did you get the Fail Whale?

Fail Whale amuses the heck out of me for some reason.

[LibraLiz1973]

77. I am also amused by Fail Whale!!

Love that

[madmax]

There is power in numbers

Let's take this as a lesson. Can 250k of us hit DC with a single purpose, one issue to make our point. Add street theater, signs that are spelling correctly ;) no violence or at least give it our best shot.

This is what Democracy looks like. Remember that slogan - wasn't too long ago.

[madmax]

6. Dupe

[Crazy Dave]

7. K&R

:kick:

[chill_wind]

8. K & R.

[spin]

9. Signed the petition ... We need to start one to fire the management.

[cutlassmama]

10. k&r. How long is indefinitely?

[CLANG]

11. To us it means "of unknown length".

[regnaD kciN]

12. When MSNBC "indefinitely suspended" David Shuster...

...it wound up meaning "forever." :-(

[CLANG]

13. Correct. Forever is a length of time, therefore a definite possibility.

[MrsCorleone]

14. "Suspended indefinitely" is legal terminology that allows for withholding of pay outlined by his

contract.

If the network fired KO, they would have to pay him as outlined by his contract. Indefinite suspension keeps KO in limbo in terms of pay, ability to find work with another network, etc. until whatever it is that they're negotiating (terms of contract?) is complete.

[tavalon]

26. It's a contract term

Can't say fired because you have to pay the rest of the contract. Basically, it means fired. However, I think you'll find sometime early next week that a certain Phil Griffin is the one who is fired and Olbermann will be back on the air.

[Liberal In Texas]

63. In my years in the TV news business, an indifinate suspension almost always means

a permanent one. They usually suspend people with personal contracts or those covered by union contracts before firing. That buys them time to get with the lawyers to get their case firmed up and gather more documentation against the employee.

[MFM008]

81. indefinitely.......

Hopefully until Monday at 5pm pst.

[Tommy_J]

15. Done K&R

[WA98296]

16. Done, Thanks!

[Rosco T.]

17. shoot for the moon? 1,000,000? n/m

[ElsewheresDaughter]

18. done

[bluesmail]

19. If I were him I'd have to think long and hard about going back to work

for Comcast, think about the abuse and backstabbing and manipulating they did to get him suspended. And LWOP. Where I worked that meant LeaveWithOutPay. Both him and comcast have had their pawns out there ready for the fight. You go Keith Olbermann. Go. :popcorn: <That's so unreal for this uneffing believeable $hit that's exploding now. I wonder, is it part of a distraction? Lots of too obvious things have happened since the R's tookover the House. Time Will Tell.

[newtothegame]

20. Backstabbing and manipulating? It was a policy. In writing.

How is enforcement of a written policy backstabbing and manipulation? :shrug:

[RagAss]

21. We've got about 5 voices on our side...they have 500 !

And they need to go to the bowels of the corporate manual to silence one of ours???

[quiller4]

29. Changing policy without renegotiating contract is a unilateral

change in working conditions.

[Jackpine Radical]

51. The policy was an old NBC policy, not MSNBC.

They apparently applied it inappropriately (and selectively).

[JJ]

97. when it is obviouly selectively enforced based upon political lean.

and it had not been enforced at all at MSNBC prior to this, only NBC.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. K&R! "244,640 people have taken action—97% of our goal of 250,000!"

:woohoo: :kick:

[deacon]

23. k + r n/t

[avaistheone1]

24. TY Bold Progressives

Great work.

[caty]

27. This is a perfect example

at how we can change things if we work together to do it. We are getting the message out about how we feel about Keith Olbermann.

Why can't we do this for the Democratic Party? I want them both back. Keith and a liberal party. I'm getting greedy in my old age (well, on my way to old age).

[pacalo]

28. Don't let them steamroll us -- please sign if you haven't yet!

[LaurenG]

30. 248,837 people have taken action—99% of our goal of 250,000! nt

[Hannah Bell]

31. how come in one day we can get 200,000 people to sign a petition to save keith

but not to save social security or end the two-front war?

[Enthusiast]

32. Curious isn't it? nt

[54anickel]

35. Did we try that here? I've not been a regular on DU for the past 3 years so could have easily

missed it. How sad if true. Maybe there are just more DUers hanging out again since the "shellacking".

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. Sucks, doesn't it?

x(

[SemperEadem]

39. Is the answer to take the power away from elected officials

construct some kind of a super mainframe comupter that the people use to directly vote for/against what they want and the politicians, lobbyists, etc. have absolutely no access to power anymore because it won't be concentrated in an 8 square mile district on the east coast anymore, can't be bought because there is no one to buy, but power is fanned out to every eligible citizen out there, like it should be.

[daleanime]

68. I think that once the cat food commission is released....

we'll have more then 200,000 against it.O8)







At least I hope so.

[Plucketeer]

85. Damned good question!

Maybe.... we have to figure a way to televize graphic visuals of US troops either dead or wounded. Not all dressed in their burial garb, or nice white bandages, but with guts dangling and blood oozing. Accompanied with the screams of agony as narrative.

Not "respectful" of their woes or their families? What the hell was respectful about standing them up as shrapnel absorbers??? Let's show "the people" what we're borrowing from foreign banks to perpetrate in the name of "winning".

[butterfly77]

90. This is the so called...

silent majority that needs to spread out and tell other people until the election what and how these bastards do what they do.

This is what we need to do on other issues that will be coming up in the next two years and drown out the mini-minor teabaggers.

I thought we would do this during the healthcare debate..

[mod mom]

33. 249,964 for a goal of 250,000 come on DU help them surpass the goal again!

[TicketyBoo]

34. 250,000 goal

has now been surpassed (noted as I signed the petition).

[txlibdem]

37. Signed it. Proud to K & R

eom

[HysteryDiagnosis]

38. Signed, it's over 250,000 now, my note to MSNBC was, first

they came for those who had an opinion.

[indimuse]

40. KNR! n/t

[indimuse]

41. KNR! n/t

[Mister Ed]

42. Up to 252,777 when I signed. n/t

[BetsysGhost]

43. YAY!

signed sealed delivered.

:hi:

[glinda]

44. If you have not signed, please think of doing so. K & R

[uncommon]

45. Over 253K at 9:48 a.m.

:)

[niyad]

46. just signed-- 101%

101%


253,452 people have taken action—101% of our goal of 250,000!

[jumptheshadow]

47. There are Facebook sites backing Keith

Here's the URL for the one with the most members as of this moment:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Keep-Keith-Olbermann-On-msnbc/138881709496821

[steve2470]

48. k and r nt

[liberalpress]

49. Olberman will be back

.. my guess is during the last week of the November sweeps.

[verges]

59. I think that's a pretty good guess.

But not if there is no support.

[laughingliberal]

50. K & R nt

[oswaldactedalone]

52. What's the count up to now?

:kick:

[laughingliberal]

53. Hmmm. Just says they've hit over 250,000. I signed day 1.

Go KO!

[NYMdaveNYI]

54. PEOPLE POWER!!! K&R. nt

[AnArmyVeteran]

55. Reced, petitioned, emailed and called!!!

[Honeycombe8]

56. Waste of time. He's coming back to his show soon. It's the #1 show on MSNBC.

So,,,,you're going to sign a petition for something to happen that's going to happen, anyway? For what reason? So you can try to say that your petition caused the event to happen?

He's suspended. Not fired. He's coming back sooner rather than later.

I would think there are more important things to sign a petition about than something that's going to happen soon anyway.

[de novo]

57. I can sign more than one petition and it doesn't take that long.

It is a good show of support. It is a certainty that he will be, at least it wasn't when the petition was started. Further, it lets MSNBC know for the future, who the people want.

[AnArmyVeteran]

62. We must not speak out, we must not speak out, we must NOT speak out...

:sarcasm:

Just kidding... We must always speak out. Our voices are the only weapon we have.

[verges]

58. And you know that for a fact how?

Unless you have access to the inner workings of the board of NBC you don't. Remember Shuster?

[Chipper Chat]

61. Excuse me

but I will decide what I do on a Sunday morning.

[Ticonderoga]

67. That's it. Piss on the parade.

[polmaven]

80. And it takes how long

to sign this on-line petition? One of the outcomes of more that one quarter of a million signatures may be to show the management that Phil Griffin amy be told he should not react as rashly in the future. It will also reassure KO about how his fans feel about the job he has done.

[xxqqqzme]

84. Phil Donohue had the #1 show too.

They got rid of him in the blink of an eye. They will be looking at ratings to see how many they lose in that time slot. I didn't watch the time slot but I did watch Maddow.

[aquart]

87. Denigrating and dismissive.

I'm surprised when there are so many more important things you could be doing with your time.

[mntleo2]

94. So was Phil Donahue's show

...who had the highest ratings on cable ~ but that did not stop MSNBC from making it permanent. This was because Phil had the audacity to oppose the war, when in fact we all know now he was right.

Cat in Seattle

[earcandle]

60. Done... on Facebook.

[droidamus2]

64. Just added my vote

We are at 102% of target 256551 I think was the count.

[Lost-in-FL]

65. done. nt

[ChiciB1]

66. DONE, Looks Like They're Up To 268,000 PLUS!! n/t

[AllyCat]

69. Now at 103%. Posted on my FB page.

And signed.

[Creative]

70. If those 200,000 each gave $20, they could pay Keith's salary.

That would put him back on the air.

[Better Believe It]

71. K & R

[stevenleser]

72. K&R

:kick:

[JDPriestly]

73. Done. Thanks.

[davidwparker]

74. K&R

Posted to FB

[Lindsey]

78. I signed the petition and also called MSNBC. Please everyone,

in addition to the petition, please call as well.

[bdamomma]

96. I called too

this is bs that they got rid of Keith, they need to bring him back.

[kestrel91316]

75. 260,881......104%....let's keep going, people!

[kestrel91316]

76. 260,881......104%....let's keep going, people!

[SeattleVet]

79. Done. My message to MSNBC:

(Paraphrased) Are you guys just looking for a business tax deduction on the loss, or are you REALLY stupid enough to alienate this many viewers?

[The Wielding Truth]

86. K&R and DONE!

[dchill]

88. K&R

Done.

[calimary]

89. It's a misleading headline.

We don't know that they're REALLY hearing our message, and we won't until/unless Keith comes back on the air - or the network brass gathers up its collective "courage" to explain why he's been banished for good (IF that's what winds up being true). Unfortunately they could indeed be "hearing our message" and deciding the proper response is - "go fuck yourselves".

THAT DOES NOT MEAN that we shouldn't keep applying pressure, though. Stranger things have happened.

[Blacksheep214]

92. MSNBC and Air America

Don't even think that we don't know where the OFF switch is. You can be the next AA

Rachel will get picked up by another station but MSNBC will just be a Fox clone with their head up Ruperts arse. The ratings somewhere around the Fox business channel.

MSNBC, tonights, WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!

[SheilaT]

93. 107%.

Over 269,000 now.

[Rosco T.]

95. now 271,000+ n/m

[EFerrari]

98. Beautiful!

:woohoo:

[hlthe2b]

99. How do you know the current counts? (not on the petition page)

[Contrary1]

100. At 276,844 now. Scroll down to the bottom of the blue box where you sign the petition to see total.

http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann/?akid=2659.758694.3src8Q&rd=1&source=e2-share-fin&t=3

[FailureToCommunicate]

102. Signed # 279,259 or there about...

[susanwy]

103. 282,119 + 1

Come on, you punished him for the "infraction", not put him back to work Monday. And in the future, try a private reprimand, it might make your life easier. Oh, and please, when you put him back on the air, provide him with proof that he can share with his audience that Joe Scarbrough got prior permission to donate to republican candidates.