{"id":3686,"date":"2010-11-05T15:38:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T19:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2010-11-08T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:04:40","slug":"keith-olbermann-suspended-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/05\/keith-olbermann-suspended-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Olbermann Suspended&#8230; Indefinitely&#8230; Without Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/40028929\/ns\/politics-decision_2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">indefinitely suspended<\/a> host Keith Olbermann for making political contributions to three Democratic candidates this fall, including one on the same day he appeared on Mr. Olbermann&#8217;s Countdown program.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Olberman reportedly donated $2,400 apiece to the campaigns of Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway and Arizona Reps. Raul Grivalva and Gabrielle Giffords in violation of NBC policy, which prohibits its employees from working on, or donating to, political campaigns unless a special exception is granted by the news division president.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, personally, I suspect NBC has been looking for an excuse to indefinitely suspended Mr. Olberman without pay for a long time and he&#8217;s finally given them the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like Keith Olbermann or his brand commentary and I&#8217;m certainly not going to miss him (not that I ever watched him), but this is a lousy way to get rid him\u2026 There\u2019s just something distasteful about barring political employees from making political contributions in my book.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span> (Monday, November 8, 2010): Color me surprised, MSNBC has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com\/Content\/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=2458&amp;NewsAreaID=2&amp;ClientID=7\" target=\"_blank\">reinstated<\/a> Keith Olbermann effective Tuesday&#8230; I would have bet almost anything that given his dismal ratings reportedly high salary he was toast after news of this\u00a0 non-scandal scandal broke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/wheels-within-wheels-is-keith-olbermann-kerfuffle-just-a-publicity-stunt\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediaite%2FClHj+%28Mediaite%29\" target=\"_blank\">Wheels Within Wheels: Is Keith Olbermann Kerfuffle Just a Publicity Stunt?<\/a> &#8211; Tommy Christopher, Mediaite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has indefinitely suspended host Keith Olbermann for making political contributions to three Democratic candidates this fall, including one on the same day he appeared on Mr. Olbermann&#8217;s Countdown program. Mr. Olberman reportedly donated $2,400 apiece to the campaigns of Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway and Arizona Reps. Raul Grivalva and Gabrielle Giffords in violation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[1103,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-3686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-keith-olbermann","9":"tag-msnbc","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-Xs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4102,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/30\/about-mark-halperins-comments\/","url_meta":{"origin":3686,"position":0},"title":"About Mark Halperin&#8217;s Comments&#8230;","author":"Jeff","date":"June 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, so the the interwebs and talk radio are buzzing about MSNBC senior political analyst Mark Halperin's surprisingly blunt assessment of President Barack Obama's performance at yesterday's press conference... 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