MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair... David Gregory will anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night.... Developing...

9/7/2008 9:56:03 PM

Hi let's drop our two most popular anchors. That's smart.

9/7/2008 10:16:29 PM

they're in time out after their little outburst at the Dem Convention

9/7/2008 10:20:16 PM

HAHAHA

this is great.....those two are such hacks...

9/7/2008 10:24:45 PM

they both suck

9/7/2008 10:25:05 PM

Olbermann is too busy doing Sunday Night Football with Dan Patrick now so I am sure he won't mind getting dropped [/sarcasm]

9/7/2008 10:25:42 PM

olberman blows, matthews is meh...i applaud this decision

9/7/2008 10:29:43 PM

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"they're in time out after their little outburst at the Dem Convention "

What outburst?

9/7/2008 10:40:00 PM

I thought Olbermann busted at the 9/11 thing at the RNC....

9/7/2008 10:56:15 PM

I like Chris Matthews. Keith Olbermann is the mother of all douchebags. Terrible, F.

9/7/2008 11:03:20 PM

Matthews was having too many tingles up his leg.

9/7/2008 11:16:03 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/business/media/08msnbc.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

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"While some critics argued that the assignment was akin to having the Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly anchor on election night — something that has never happened — MSNBC insisted that Mr. Olbermann knew the difference between news and commentary."

That pretty much sums up why Olbermann shouldn't have been hosting political coverage. Cause apparently he doesn't know the difference.

9/7/2008 11:21:02 PM

Excellent.

The sooner that hacks like Olbermann and O'Reilly are formally ostracized from news reporting, the better. We've always had commentary from widely disparate viewpoints, but the polaraization of news reporting is a recent and disturbing trend in journalism. It's one of the main reasons that 2 groups of people can hear about the same event and come up with such different conclusions.

9/8/2008 2:12:31 AM

I used to kind of like Olbermann's show a few years ago. Now he's just way too full of himself.

9/8/2008 5:12:48 AM

I watched the conventions (parts of them) on PBS.
What did Olbermann and Matthews do?

9/8/2008 6:20:54 AM

My problem with it was that MSNBC presents those guys like they are "unbiased news casters". When Olbermann does his thing on The Countdown, I still think he is an idiot, but, hey...its his show...he can give an opinion about anything he wants. Foxnews knows that O'reilly is hack so they dont let him be a news anchor, which is appropriate. They are hacks and should be portrayed as and treated as such.

9/8/2008 6:58:04 AM

^^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/26/joe-scarborough-vs-keith_n_121420.html

9/8/2008 7:01:28 AM

Everything that Olbermann said during the RNC was true.

Besides, Sean Hannity et. al. did commentary for both the RNC and DNC, and you don't hear anyone calling for their heads. I guess they're expected to show bias, though.

[Edited on September 8, 2008 at 8:39 AM. Reason : ]

9/8/2008 8:32:44 AM

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"Everything that Olbermann said during the RNC was true."

did you even see the videos and youtube clips and stuff??

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"Besides, Sean Hannity et. al. did commentary for both the RNC and DNC, and you don't hear anyone calling for their heads. I guess they're expected to show bias, though."

commentary dude...commentary....that different than being the anchor

[Edited on September 8, 2008 at 8:57 AM. Reason : asdf]

9/8/2008 8:56:17 AM

yeah, there is a big difference.

hannity is also way less of a douche than olbermann. i disagree with both of them more often than not, but i can't even watch or listen to olbermann...he just grates on my nerves.

9/8/2008 9:28:49 AM

they are all pretty shitty

9/8/2008 10:57:02 AM

Chris Matthews is awesome

9/8/2008 1:49:18 PM

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"hannity is also way less of a douche than olbermann. i disagree with both of them more often than not, but i can't even watch or listen to olbermann...he just grates on my nerves."

I feel the exact opposite. Olbermann can be a bit preachy at times, but he's the only one in news who's shouting loudly about the shit going down in this administration. Hannity is just, well, Hannity.

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"did you even see the videos and youtube clips and stuff?? "

Yes, and I agree with everything he said.

9/8/2008 2:19:35 PM

Jesus, God, why don't you get a shovel?

9/8/2008 2:25:14 PM

Olbermann hasn't been shit since he left Sportscenter

good job, MSDNC

9/8/2008 2:26:37 PM

I find it funny that MSNBC is so quick to claim it isn't biased when Fox News doesn't even care anymore.

9/8/2008 2:44:26 PM

Olbermann shouldnt have left sports

9/8/2008 4:57:56 PM

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"hannity is also way less of a douche than olbermann"

false.

9/8/2008 5:06:17 PM

Good to see that when the GOP whines about biased coverage and literally threatens to drop out of the NBC moderated debate that the networky capitulates.....where as you've got Obama willing to go on Fox News and get trashed but do you hear him bitching? Nope. Double standard.

Now, keep in mind that Olbermann definitely kicks like a donkey, pretty hard actually. More than I like in fact as it would surprise many of you to hear me say. But god man, no more than the wingnuts over on Fox and how ridiculously biased to the right they are. Hannity, O Reilly, Hume, Carlson? So many I can't count straight.

Just goes to show you which party knows how to game AND whine more.

9/8/2008 5:08:46 PM

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"Good to see that when the GOP whines about biased coverage and literally threatens to drop out of the NBC moderated debate that the networky capitulates.....where as you've got Obama willing to go on Fox News and get trashed but do you hear him bitching? Nope. Double standard. Now, keep in mind that Olbermann definitely kicks like a donkey, pretty hard actually. More than I like in fact as it would surprise many of you to hear me say. But god man, no more than the wingnuts over on Fox and how ridiculously biased to the right they are. Hannity, O Reilly, Hume, Carlson? So many I can't count straight. Just goes to show you which party knows how to game AND whine more."

Wow, did you even read anything about this? Or know anything about this? Yeah, FOX news has all those right wingers, but they aren't anchoring political events are they? You might see Hannity do commentary, but he is with Colmes, so it at least has two viewpoints, and again he isn't anchoring.

Olbermann shouldn't have been doing it, but he had a chance, and he blew it by going out of line.

9/8/2008 6:21:57 PM

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"but he is with Colmes, so it at least has two viewpoints"

lol

9/8/2008 7:25:43 PM

I like hannity, but come on....

Colmes is like a dormat on that show.

9/8/2008 8:36:50 PM

lol, okay I'll take your word on Colmes, I don't watch that crap so I have no idea. But it's irrelevant since neither of them anchor/host political events.

9/8/2008 8:48:57 PM

Obama is on Olbermann right now.
Even though Olbermann is a total ass, Obama comes off really well.
Sometimes, I really hate that I can't vote for him.

But I really really do believe his policies would be a disaster. I think his health care policies would lead to a collapse of the private insurance market, raising the corporate income taxes will hurt US businesses and workers, nuclear power is not bad, etc etc etc.

Besides, I really like McCain as a person too. He's a hard fighting SOB that may not make a good speech, but could make a damn good President.

9/8/2008 10:33:41 PM

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"I think his health care policies would lead to a collapse of the private insurance market"

This is a good thing?

9/8/2008 10:40:35 PM

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"hannity is also way less of a douche than olbermann."

wow, seriously?

9/9/2008 1:28:35 AM

Is this the video in question? It appears to be either the Republican Convention or an episode of Countdown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm-9MbC3IdU

9/9/2008 2:06:50 AM

^^ Yeah. Seriously.

I mean, Hannity's a douche, too, but Olbermann is on a whole different level. Olbermann is as big of a douche as Rush Limbaugh...Sean Hannity is definitely not that bad.

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 2:24 AM. Reason : asdfasd]

9/9/2008 2:22:45 AM

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"Olbermann is as big of a douche as Rush Limbaugh."

I've never seen Olbermann make fun of someone that is handicapped to further his political agenda. Limbaugh wasted no time in ripping M.J. Fox and his disease when he disagreed with his stance on stem cell research.

Olbermann may be fiercely liberal, but he's at least humane about it.

9/9/2008 7:34:06 AM

David Gregory will eat the news.

That is one gigantic human being.

9/9/2008 10:18:04 PM

Did anyone see the SNL sketch with Affleck as Olbermann? I thought it was absolutely hilarious.

11/3/2008 1:24:11 PM

i thought it would never end

11/3/2008 1:50:05 PM

I keep wathcing it over and over again

Funniest thing Affleck has ever done.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/805561/

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11/3/2008 1:58:33 PM

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"Funniest thing Affleck has ever done."

I agree 100%.

11/3/2008 2:09:17 PM

^^haha, that was pretty good

11/3/2008 2:13:45 PM

yeah, but we just need the damn giraffe skit.

11/3/2008 2:16:01 PM

^^^ yep.

11/3/2008 2:17:28 PM

I acutally didn't think it was funny, and I DO think he should be parodied...so it's not because I don't think there's potential in the subject.

I just think Affleck overacts (what's new) and is a huge douche. Also, Olbermann doesn't speak in like Shakespearean high tone like that so it's not believable. Definitely a terrible impression.

11/3/2008 3:57:38 PM

Olbermann does speak like that in some of his rants - I watch countdown at work every day. I think it was great.

11/3/2008 3:58:49 PM

I'm a pretty big Olbermann fan and I had to cut that crap off after like 2 minutes. That was terrible.

11/3/2008 4:09:12 PM