Keith Olbermann Issues Special Comment On Arizona Shooting: Violence Has No Place In Democracy

I applaud your statement, Mr. Olbermann. I salute you. Without the need to name specific names and without pointing fingers to specific persons (everyone of us sure has quite a list of culprits), your call to drop aggresive, belligeren­t language was the right thing to do.

Victims are victims, regardless of their political affiliatio­n, and to express our solidarity first, must be today's lesson. The impulse to rush and capitalize on such a tragedy must be condemned and banned without hesitation­, that's another lesson.
I cannot take out of my mind that a 9 year old girl (born on 9/11, no less!) was killed in this utterly despicable carnage. I pray for her, for all the victims and their relatives.

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Olbermann Apologizes To Viewers, Strikes Back At MSNBC [UPDATE]

This reeks so of publicity stunt! A two-day suspension for making political donations? Again, as I said before, this does not make any sense. But if you consider the gallons of ink and pixels spent on Olbermann, well, there's not such a thing as bad publicity. GE/NBC/MSNBC still has a lot of 'splainin to do.

ON THE OTHER side, Olbermann's statement was a truly classy one. When he wrote: "I would also like to acknowledge with respect the many commentators and reporters, including those with whom my politics do not overlap, for their support", well, that made my day. Welcome back.

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Keith Olbermann: "Greetings From Exile!"

This is a truly embarrassing one for GE/NBC/MSNBC: a contributor can rant and ramble his way 24/7 (making a living in the process), and support his ideology and party on the air, but it is a big no-no to contribute with money to their favorite candidates? Give me a break. Everybody knows where Olbermann's money is, as everybody knows the same about Hannity, Coulter, etc.

It has no logic, it does not make any sense. It's so obvious, even rightwingers say on this "huh?". If it were a ratings matter, why did not MSNBC said so? Again, did they think Olbermann's journalistic integrity was compromised by giving money to politicians? Would that make more of a "sock puppet" out of him?

It would have made more sense if he complained bitterly about GE/NBC/MSNBC on air.

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