Look, folks, if the policy at NBC/MSNBC is "thou shalt not make donations to political campaigns" and if Keith Olbermann did make donations to political campaigns, then guess what: If you spit in the face of your bosses, you will often get fired.
When you take the King's shilling, you had best follow the King's rules.
If he wanted to work at a news network that permits its on-air personalities to make political campaign donations, he should have gone to work for Fox News.
MSNBC will probably figure out some way to rehabilitate Olbermann and get him back on the air. I'm guessing that he's going to be making charitable donations equal to or greater than his political ones. They could not let this one slide and they should get some credit for hammering their top star for this.
Observational Skill: 10/10. Timing: -10/10.
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Will any other "celebrity citizens" be treated equally?
What about corporate officers, directors, stockholders?
What about those that contributed to independents or the Green Party?
What about a 2nd amendment solution to all this? (If Sharon can say it, so can anyone else, eh ?)
What you say does hold true when you have eaten the King's salt. But when Sahibs Scarborough and Buchanon have done it, in this day and age it seems only fair that a punkah wallah like KO can do it, too.
I'm not boycotting them because they are enforcing their rules. I'm boycotting them because those ridiculous rules exist in the first place. American freedom is a sham. A thin veneer draped over the hell of corporate tyranny.
The supposed reason for these rules is to keep newsmen from appearing partisan. Err, has anybody ever argued that Olberman is *not* carrying water for the Democrats? The only difference between Olberman and Bill O'Reilly is that Olberman isn't a liar. Both are partisan backers with a clearly defined ideological bent, and it seems rather odd that they're punishing Olberman for being, well, Olberman. Funny, that, eh?
- Badtux the Partisan Penguin
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