AND....that's ALL Rachel had to say?????

[trayfoot]

I am stunned!

[C_U_L8R]

1. at liberty to say....

she does have a job to keep

[Leithan]

20. Agreed

One can only defy The Bosses to an extent.

[thrift_store_angel]

2. I as expecting a bit more too

Not even a "We will miss him"?

[dkf]

3. She says she won't have to change but I'm skeptical.

Just the fact that she made a pretty tepid statement says a lot to me.

[trayfoot]

5. TEPID is a good description!

[Poll_Blind]

4. What is all this about?

:shrug:

PB

[trayfoot]

7. This is about all she said:

No way I would have ended up with a show without Keith nudging network, and for Keith to get the network to make way for liberals.

[TuxedoKat]

6. She seemed like she

was getting a little emotional so maybe she had to cut off her remarks.

[valerief]

8. She needs Orangeman to cry out her last five minutes.

:rofl:

[jwirr]

9. I didn't expect more. This is KO's story to tell, not theirs.

[Tx4obama]

10. Rachel said quite a lot and to the point

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x266089

[KansasVoter]

11. All of them kissed up to management tonight!

[rainbow4321]

12. Someone one of the KO fan Facebook pages said...

that her statement came across as: Please keep watching us or "we're still be here".

[snappyturtle]

15. That was my initial impression too! nt

[May Hamm]

13. Someone was fired and the clan here at DU went off the deep end

So what happens now? Does anyone who didn't go off the cliff get denounced? Agree or die! Sounds like Bush/Cheney and the republicans.

[leftynyc]

16. What is it you're babbling about? (n/t)

[snappyturtle]

17. Would you explain 'deep end"? nt

[sufrommich]

18. What? nt

[snappyturtle]

19. Would you explain what you mean by "deep end"? nt

[sabrina 1]

22. What is your point? That someone BUILT MSNBC and

without that someone there would be no Rachel Maddow Show or Ed, or Cenk. O'Donnell maybe as he is a 'centrist' but liberal voices on MSNBC were being fired and the network was no longer worth watching, their attempt to emulate Fox failing, as should have been expected.

If you don't stand up when they come for one of your colleagues, don't expect anyone to stand up when they come for you.

Having said that, we don't know what Keith wanted them to say or what his plans are.

I for one won't be watching MSNBC. Their suspension of Olbermann and NOT Scarborough for essentially doing the same thing, made their position regarding liberal voices very clear.

[TicketyBoo]

14. Lawrence O'Donnell

actually gave a thorough and moving tribute to Keith at the end of Last Word.

Very, very nice. Rachel even complimented him on it and thanked him for it.

I mean, he probably has more freedom to speak than Rachel does. What are they gonna do, can him? Yeah, what then?

[TicketyBoo]

21. Here…

http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/24/5911691-lawrence-talks-keith-olbermann

[SoCalDem]

23. Then what?: "The Pat Buchanan Hour"

:)

[inna]

24. I thought even Lawrence made a better statement than Rachel. nt