{"id":23244,"date":"2010-11-07T20:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T03:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=23244"},"modified":"2010-11-17T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T16:36:47","slug":"keith-olbermanns-suspension-is-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/11\/keith-olbermanns-suspension-is-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Olbermann&#8217;s suspension is like&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23248\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23248\" title=\"Olbermann, Keith\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Olbermann-Keith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Olbermann<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Conservatives are rejoicing.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, even I raised a glass of sparkly last night when I learned from&#8230; well, let\u2019s just call him an inside gamer&#8230; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3036677\/\">Keith Olbermann<\/a> of MSNBC\u2019s Countdown was suspended indefinitely, without pay, for making political contributions to Democrats in this most recent midterm cycle. You can, and should, read the delicious details on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1110\/44734.html\">Politico<\/a>. (Now they&#8217;ve announced that his suspension will <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101108\/ap_on_en_ot\/us_tv_olbermann_suspension_8\">end Tuesday<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann is quite possibly the most divisive and visceral anti-conservative\/anti-Republican out there. Suffice is to say that Keith Olbermann is the Democrat\u2019s own Rush Limbaugh. (To be fair, please note that colleagues report that Maddow is actually a complete gem when it comes to the interviewer-interviewee relationship \u2013 meaning she is a gracious host. That said, all graciousness is lost when it comes to her breakdown of Republican policy and politics&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Back to the topic at hand: Olbermann has spared no nanosecond of a moment throwing FOX News and any number of business entities and individuals under the bus for their contributions to x, y, or z-Republican political candidate. Sitting atop his high throne at MSNBC, Keith attempted to verbally slaughter donors for their individual right to make<em> legal <\/em>political donations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, talk about the pot calling the kettle black. We now know that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1110\/44734.html\">despite MSNBC\u2019s embrace of a more opinionated format, NBC News has a policy against its employees making political contributions \u2013 and it appears that Olbermann ran afoul of that policy, even by contributing to candidates he gave a platform on his show<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Applause, applause, applause to MSNBC for making the tough decision to abide by their corporate principles at the risk of losing revenue to the temporary suspension of one of their top agitated hosts. Awesome, right?<\/p>\n<p>Not quite. While this might seem like a contrition move on behalf of MSNBC in the face of Tuesday\u2019s political blowout, what was MSNBC <strong>really <\/strong>trying to do? Let me just leave you with this closing thought\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Keith Olbermann\u2019s suspension from MSNBC is about as strategically perfect as a rapper going to prison.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ratings up, albums up \u2013 it\u2019s all the same difference.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sarah Lenti is the blogger behind NMPolitics.net\u2019s <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/the-savvy\/\"><em>The Savvy<\/em><\/a><em>. E-mail her at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:sarah@nmpolitics.net\"><em>sarah@nmpolitics.net<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applause, applause, applause to MSNBC for making the tough decision to abide by their corporate principles at the risk of losing revenue to the temporary suspension of one of their top agitated hosts. Awesome, right? Not quite. Here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1196,181],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-23244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-the-savvy","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}