HE'S BACK! Good ole, Keith Olbermann, is back on MSNBC!
An email from, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
We did it! The president of MSNBC just announced that Keith Olbermann will be back on the air on Tuesday night!
This is a huge victory for the whopping 300,000 of us who signed the petition, which was delivered directly to MSNBC's president and reported on by many top news outlets.
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It's clear MSNBC took notice of the public outrage. Progressives proved that when one of our own is targeted, we will fight back.
And Keith Olbermann knows what an important role his supporters played. He posted on Twitter: "Greetings From Exile! A quick, overwhelmed, stunned THANK YOU for support that feels like a global hug..."
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Thanks for being part of this successful campaign and for being a bold progressive.
-- Stephanie Taylor and Adam Green, co-founders, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
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My email to Keith Olbermann below:
Hi Keith, OMG, I am so happy to hear that you
will be back up there on my TV screen come Tuesday night…
When I had heard you were suspended I thought, HOW CRAZY IS
MSNBC, TAKING DOWN THE BIGGEST VOICE OF REASON WE HAVE ON
MAINSTREAM TV. Although, I do like Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow ,
the main reason I pay extra for the MSNBC package from my
Satellite provider, is YOU. If the powers that be, on MSNBC
intended to throw you off the air for good, I was going to throw
MSNBC off my TV for good.
We, the (as BP's Swedish chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg calls us)
‘small people’, have so little voice on the side of
reason, that is why we fiercely need your voice, Keith. You speak
for so many of us whose thoughts and words of logic go silently
into the night (drowned out by the likes of tea partiers and
such).
I am one happy ‘small people’ that MSNBC and its
president Phil Griffin have come to their senses.
thinkingblue.blogspot.com, Live Oak Florida
PS: I just came across this little snippet,
From Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC:
“After
several days of deliberation and discussion, I have determined
that suspending Keith through and including Monday night's
program is an appropriate punishment for his violation of our
policy. We look forward to having him back on the air Tuesday
night.”
“APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT FOR HIS VIOLATION…” Good
Grief, who is Phil trying to kid? Poor old guy, he’s so, too
big for his britches, he doesn’t even know how to SAVE FACE
properly!