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We've Got Your Olbermann Fix Right Here

Nick Gillespie | 11.8.2010 10:02 AM

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So Keith Olbermann will be back on the air tomorrow, following his days-long suspension for violating an NBC policy about donating to political campaigns. So you won't have to rely on the Twitter to get your fix. Whew.

But for those who can't wait until tomorrow and have 51 seconds to spare, click above and get a pure shot of Olbermannia to start your Monday. And to remind you that donating to the campaign of folks like retired Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) is among the less odious antics of the once and future Countdown host.

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  1. P Brooks   15 years ago

    Will he be wearing sackcloth and ashes?

  2. Cyto   15 years ago

    Wow, a four day weekend and a few tens of millions in free publicity! That seven grand was money well spent!

  3. chance   15 years ago

    Thank god they're leaving him on the air. This way the almost non audience they have won't get any bigger. NBC clearly dose not want to grow. Leaving this moron on is clear evidence of that. You go MSNBC bunch of commie libs

  4. Fist of Etiquette   15 years ago

    Pull Keith's finger!

  5. Mr. FIFY   15 years ago

    How can we miss him if he won't stay gone?

  6. Number 2   15 years ago

    So much for my theory that this was an excuse for MSNBC to get him off the air without having to buy out his contract.

  7. Dello   15 years ago

    Maddow said that Olberman's suspension was proof that that MSNBC is a REAL news outlet, unlike FOX which has no problem allowing it's TV personalities to be partisan. Of course, she also called for Olberman to be reinstated, thus defeating any "real news outlet" claim she may have had.

    1. Woodrow   15 years ago

      Maddow, like most lefties, is fine with applying rules to her enemies, but when it comes to her and her friends, they are irrelevant.

  8. bigbigslacker   15 years ago

    Publicity stunt.

  9. Woodrow   15 years ago

    Our long national nightmare is restarting.

  10. noislam   15 years ago

    The problem here is so simple really. It started when someone decided that there was a 'War on Terror'. This would be similar to a 'War on Sniping' or a 'War on Pincer Manuevers'. The US went to war against a tactic.

    In WW2 we were at war with Nazism and Fascism--and we fought the supporters of those ideologies at home, and abroad.

    We have avoided even the appearance of being engaged with the ideology that is fighting us now.

    We are at war with Islam.

    Islam is a faith, but it is a faith designed as a political system, a faith designed as a world conquering ideology.

    In WW2 we fought the ideologies of Fascism and Nazism in all the places it appears--against nations and groups.

    And we did not hide from what we were fighting against.

    Now, we fear speaking the truth. Even supporters of the 'War on Terror' refuse to make this connection--to them, we fight 'jihadis', or 'islamists'. And we do this because not all Muslims are jihadis.

    Not all Germans were Nazis, Not all Italians were fascists--but we understood that we had to fight, and win--or die.

    Then, we chose our life, and the life of our ideals over the lives and ideals of those promoting horror.

    We must make that same stance today.

    The Bund is building centers to teach the lessons of Mein Kampf. Why can we not see that?

    Because it calls itself a faith?

    1. Olberdork   15 years ago

      Have you no shame, sir??!!

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