Keith Olbermann Signs New Contract to Stay at MSNBC and Also to Contribute to NBC Nightly News

Great News for All Americans...Not So Much for Bill O'Reilly

By Timothy Sexton, published Feb 19, 2007
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That sound you hear is Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly crying. GE has re-signed their most popular news personality Keith Olbermann to a new contract. In fact, not only will Keith Olbermann continue his job as the only journalist in American currently taking Pres. Bush to task for his continual incompetent leadership, but now Olbermann will also be a regular contributor to the NBC Nightly News.

Over the past year ratings for Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show Countdown have risen a spectacular 85%. By contrast, ultra-right wing O'Reilly has lost 3% of his viewership over that time. Olbermann's show has been airing for several years, but it has really only been since the anniversary of 911 and Olbermann's scathing indictment of Pres. Bush's use of the politics of fear that his show has received recognition, outrage and ratings increase.

In a country that has witnessed a near-total collapse of journalistic integrity in the last six years; a country in which not one single mainstream journalist stepped up to challenge the evidence that Pres. Bush was using to trump up support for a war he desperately wanted-evidence that even then was flimsy to anyone who cared to investigate it-Keith Olbermann's outrage is a welcome relief. Accused of being at the head of the Great Liberal Media Myth, it is certainly ironic that in a business supposedly hell-bent on turning American into a socialist dictatorship-despite that business being owned by some of the richest capitalists in the world-Keith Olbermann is the only mainstream media player on television who has faced the camera directly and called the President of the United States a liar.

Keith Olbermann Signs New Contract to Stay at MSNBC and Also to Contribute to NBC Nightly News
Takeaways
  • Olberman signs new contract with MSNBC.
  • He will also regularly contribute to NBC Nightly News.
  • Olbemann's ratings have risen 85% since he started taking Pres. Bush to task.
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I'm guessing proper names help with keyword density as opposed to using pronouns.

Posted on 03/03/2007 at 12:03:00 AM

 
Keith Olbermann is simply a pathetic minion of the far left with his Ivy League elitism. He will never be able to sniff Bill o"reilly's jock in the ratings!

Posted on 02/21/2007 at 1:02:00 PM

 
Thank you Keith Olbermann! Your spineless colleagues taking the middle road encourage Bush, Rove and the White House bullies. Happily, you speak to the voters of November 2006!

Posted on 02/21/2007 at 3:02:00 AM

 
Thank goodness there is someone does not roll over to Rove thank you NBC

Posted on 02/20/2007 at 7:02:00 AM

 
HUZZAH!

Posted on 02/20/2007 at 1:02:00 AM

 
I was so happy to hear this...Olbermann keeps the pressure on the bush admin, shining a bright light on the rats and cocroaches, and he is a credit to the profession....

Posted on 02/19/2007 at 6:02:00 PM

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