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MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« on: September 07, 2008, 09:11:55 PM »
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Kurt_and_Hunter  (1000+ posts)      Sun Sep-07-08 09:59 PM
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Possibly premature to organize a mass movement based on a DRUDGE blurb (re MSNBC) 

There is no story link I can see. Just this blurb from Matt Drudge:

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

http://www.drudgereport.com /

It is probably true. I don't have reason to doubt it. But you might want to wait a half hour, just to see the actual story.

Or not.

I'm not telling anyone what to do, just noting the fact.

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Apparently, the embarrassing behavior of Keef and Matthews covering the conventions was too much for the grownup socialists at MSNBC. Any reduction in Keef's role will cause some really comical outrage at the DUmp.
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MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2008, 09:24:01 PM »
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yourguide  (1000+ posts)      Sun Sep-07-08 09:40 PM
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MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair... David Gregory will anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night.... Developing...

From sludge report. WHAT THE ****!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Confirmed via NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.co...


CALL MSNBC NOW!


The woman answering the phone is a B*TCH!

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akangel2008 (75 posts)      Sun Sep-07-08 10:00 PM
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38. They'll run Kaite Couric. This is brilliant!!!
 So she can hammer the pants off Palin without coming across as mean. This is actually a great move!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!  :rotf:

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rbrnmw (38 posts)       Sun Sep-07-08 09:54 PM
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25. THEY MAY HAS WELL
 I am going to do the same thing I have done with Faux Slews never watch it If this is true they have lost their ****ing mind
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EV_Ares  (1000+ posts)       Sun Sep-07-08 09:45 PM
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9. Well, won't be watching Gregory for sure. Pretty soon I am going to run out of cable or networks.
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rbrnmw (38 posts)       Sun Sep-07-08 09:52 PM
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22. Oh HELL NO
 HELL NO WE CANT LET THEM DUMP KO WTF IS WRONG WITH MSNBC ?
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optimisticin08 (51 posts)      Sun Sep-07-08 09:55 PM
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27. MSNBC has caved to mccain!!!
 I hope KO has something to say about this tomorrow!!
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FrenchieCat  (1000+ posts)       Sun Sep-07-08 09:58 PM
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32. We should have stopped watching that Gregory asshole a long time ago!

Anger... denial... depression.  It's all there.  But mostly anger. 

Awesome news.
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2008, 09:26:51 PM »
And another thread... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3476338
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Drunken Irishman  (1000+ posts)       Sun Sep-07-08 10:09 PM
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3. Of course, take the two people I like and move 'em for people I don't.
 **** YOU NBC! 
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Diane R  (1000+ posts)     Sun Sep-07-08 10:10 PM
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8. ONE network isn't in the tank for the fundies, and that's apparently too much. This is mind control
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billyoc  (1000+ posts)       Sun Sep-07-08 10:14 PM
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14. Boycott MSNBC, Maddow and all.
 **** 'em.
Woohoo!  Boycott!  :loser:
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bemildred  (1000+ posts)      Sun Sep-07-08 10:22 PM
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24. I guess we all could learn to read again.
Unintentional funny.
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geekgrrl (617 posts)      Sun Sep-07-08 10:22 PM
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25. Gregory is SUCH A HACK!! I am SO UPSET! Keith is the best-- and I've always stood by MSNBC bc of him
 I'm so thoroughly disgusted.

I wonder how Chris and Keith are taking this-- they ought to be pretty pissed. Don't they anchor 2 of the top rated evening news commentary shows? Don't they have something to argue with?

How will I survive election night?
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2008, 09:30:12 PM »
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DemocracyInaction (1000+ posts)       Sun Sep-07-08 10:16 PM
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Didn't MSNBC Boast Top Primary Nights Coverage?
   Advertisements [?]

I believe they ended up being #1; so you can sure as hell fill in the blanks. No network takes a "winning" team and dumps it so that it can end up on the bottom of the ratings. In a word, corporate America said "you put them on and bye, bye advertisement". The putting Pres. McCain in the White House is just beginning. Obama will be a footnote to history in about 4 weeks. You are not going to ever get your country back from the people who own it..ever! We are the peons and they are the "money".

 


 AZDemDist6  (1000+ posts)         Sun Sep-07-08 10:22 PM
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1. no
   Edited on Sun Sep-07-08 10:23 PM by AZDemDist6
http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/top-news/cab...

Here’s some cable/broadcast viewer data and historical/competitive comparisons about the McCain speech and the Republican National Convention last night. I’ll be posting the complete cable news data momentarily.
MCCAIN SPEECH 10-11:15PM
FOX NEWS – 9.2 MILLION
NBC – 8.7 MILLION
ABC: 6.0 MILLION
CBS: 5.3 MILLION
CNN – 4.8 MILLION
MSNBC — 2.5 MILLION

McCain and Palin’s speeches tied to mark FOX News Channel’s highest rated convention telecasts in both FNC’s history AND in cable news history.
McCain’s speech is tied for FNC’s third highest telecast in its history along with Gov. Sarah Palin’s on Wednesday night (9.2 million viewers) – these were only bested by the Presidential address on the eve Iraqinvasion on 3-19-03 (9.7 million viewers) and a Bush/Kerry presidential debate on 9-30-04 (9.5 million viewers).
Nearly ¼ of the 38.9 million viewers watched this speech on FOX News.
FNC’s primetime average last night of 7.4 million viewers was the highest rated primetime convention coverage in the network’s history and marked the third highest rated primetime ever for FNC……only eclipsed by election night 2004 (8.2 million viewers) and the Bush-Kerry Presidential debate on 9./30/04 (7.5 million)
FNC beat CNN & MSNBC combined for the speech from 10-11:15pm and in prime-time

And for Obama's speech

The final night of the Democratic Convention, featuring Obama’s speech, lifted CNN to wins in prime-time for viewers, adults 25-54 and adults 35-64. What is likely to be a rare trifecta after this week for them.
The 10-11pm hour featured monster ratings for all the cable newsers. CNN topped out at 8.056 million viewers winning the hour and besting its broadcast competition.
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,359,000 viewers
CNN – 1,503,000 viewers
MSNBC – 849,000 viewers
CNBC – 204,000 viewers
HLN – 312,000 viewers

I chuckled.  I felt badly about it.  Such delusions should not be the source of humor for others.  (Bullshirt!)
   
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2008, 09:31:59 PM »
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2008, 09:35:39 PM »
I wonder if this embarassing exchange during the convention had anything to do with it.

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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2008, 09:42:33 PM »
Sending healing white light to KO.

Hope it helps.
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2008, 09:47:58 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on September 07, 2008, 09:30:12 PM
I chuckled.  I felt badly about it.  Such delusions should not be the source of humor for others.  (Bullshirt!)

Even when they're all showing the same thing, MSNBC still winds up at the bottom of the heap.  I think Telemundo had a bigger audience that night.
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2008, 09:57:12 PM »
Quote from: Chris on September 07, 2008, 09:35:39 PM
I wonder if this embarassing exchange during the convention had anything to do with it.

[youtube=425,350]_Q2WRNiQFf4&[/youtube]

Lordy!  I watched all 8:49...I had no idea!  You could practically hear the squishy noise of the AnalGlide Lubricant in use.

I was laughing throughout knowing that all that gush and panting and hyperpromise was all for nothing.  The next day, it all meant nothing.  No one even remembered Obama gave a speech the night before.  Sarah Palin sucked every bit of all that enormous energy right out of the atmosphere.

Maybe he is John McBrilliant.
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2008, 10:02:31 PM »
It could have something to do wit h KO trying to step outside of his job description and try to tell his bosses what and who is in charge there (KO) and how things were going to run. Tonight his stupid ass was on NBCs football tonight so that made it not worth watching till they went to the game.
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2008, 10:04:38 PM »
I don't think keef and tweety had the right kind of knee pads and/or they used teeth on Teh Obama.
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2008, 10:04:51 PM »
Quote from: Airwolf on September 07, 2008, 10:02:31 PM
It could have something to do wit h KO trying to step outside of his job description and try to tell his bosses what and who is in charge there (KO) and how things were going to run. Tonight his stupid ass was on NBCs football tonight so that made it not worth watching till they went to the game.

Oh wow.

Skins's island is exploding.

Two pieces of bad news for the primitives; this, and the latest Gallup poll.

The island's rocketing, but this isn't the Great Discombobulation yet, that I guessed is going to happen.

But it's quite a double discombobulation.
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2008, 10:07:12 PM »
Quote from: Airwolf on September 07, 2008, 10:02:31 PM
It could have something to do wit h KO trying to step outside of his job description and try to tell his bosses what and who is in charge there (KO) and how things were going to run. Tonight his stupid ass was on NBCs football tonight so that made it not worth watching till they went to the game.

Yep.  Keith's mouth got him in trouble. 
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2008, 10:09:14 PM »
oberman was a marginal sports guy here in L.A. a few years ago.

Why is it sports guys think they are equipped to handle grown-up news?  We also have al martinez here at the l.a. times and he is more of a stupid libtard than the prtentious (and unfunny) oberman.
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2008, 10:10:05 PM »
"Core breach in progress!"
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2008, 10:11:13 PM »
Quote from: Chris on September 07, 2008, 09:35:39 PM
I wonder if this embarassing exchange during the convention had anything to do with it.

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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #17 on: September 08, 2008, 06:54:25 AM »
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2008, 07:38:07 AM »
I wish they'd drop Olbermann TIED to an anchor in about 50 fathoms of lamprey-infested water.  I can't stand his smug and gradually-fattening mug.
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #19 on: September 08, 2008, 07:41:10 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on September 08, 2008, 07:38:07 AM
I wish they'd drop Olbermann TIED to an anchor in about 50 fathoms of lamprey-infested water.  I can't stand his smug and gradually-fattening mug.

You have a pretty low opinion of lampreys!
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #20 on: September 08, 2008, 07:48:18 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on September 08, 2008, 07:41:10 AM
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on September 08, 2008, 07:38:07 AM
I wish they'd drop Olbermann TIED to an anchor in about 50 fathoms of lamprey-infested water.  I can't stand his smug and gradually-fattening mug.

You have a pretty low opinion of lampreys!

True, but I figure they can get the taste out of their raspy little mouths on a rotting whale carcass, so they'll get over it.  They're pretty resilient little bastards.
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #21 on: September 08, 2008, 07:57:30 AM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on September 07, 2008, 09:57:12 PM
Quote from: Chris on September 07, 2008, 09:35:39 PM
I wonder if this embarassing exchange during the convention had anything to do with it.

[youtube=425,350]_Q2WRNiQFf4&[/youtube]

Lordy!  I watched all 8:49...I had no idea!  You could practically hear the squishy noise of the AnalGlide Lubricant in use.

I was laughing throughout knowing that all that gush and panting and hyperpromise was all for nothing.  The next day, it all meant nothing.  No one even remembered Obama gave a speech the night before.  Sarah Palin sucked every bit of all that enormous energy right out of the atmosphere.

Maybe he is John McBrilliant.

LOL I could only watch about half of it.  I agree with your analysis. 
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #22 on: September 08, 2008, 10:41:58 AM »
I wish they would have kept them on.  Now it'll be the same liberal gushing over the Dem and rebuke of the Republican but with the  subtle obviousness of the partiality rather than the over-the-top worship.

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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #23 on: September 08, 2008, 11:24:51 AM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on September 07, 2008, 09:57:12 PM
Quote from: Chris on September 07, 2008, 09:35:39 PM
I wonder if this embarassing exchange during the convention had anything to do with it.

[youtube=425,350]_Q2WRNiQFf4&[/youtube]

Lordy!  I watched all 8:49...I had no idea!  You could practically hear the squishy noise of the AnalGlide Lubricant in use.

I was laughing throughout knowing that all that gush and panting and hyperpromise was all for nothing.  The next day, it all meant nothing.  No one even remembered Obama gave a speech the night before.  Sarah Palin sucked every bit of all that enormous energy right out of the atmosphere.

Maybe he is John McBrilliant.

I watched two minutes of it and that was hard.

KO helped Maddow her job and he get's canned. Hope he doesn't steal her luggage.

I say bring back Tucker. That would really piss of the liberals. :naughty:
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Re: MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair
« Reply #24 on: September 08, 2008, 12:29:47 PM »
Quote from: Tucker13 on September 08, 2008, 11:24:51 AM
I watched two minutes of it and that was hard.

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