On Friday, the highly partisan Democrat Keith Olbermann announced his departure from MSNBC (see video below). Naturally, the corporate media made a big deal out of what is in fact merely a game of musical chairs – Olbermann will find another nest where he can read his Pentagon generated teleprompter scripts to the camera and rebuke and make adolescent jokes about establishment Republicans and issue dire warnings about the supposed danger of people who insist the government follow the Constitution.
In November, Olbermann was suspended indefinitely without pay after it was reported that he unwisely made three campaign contributions to two Arizona Democrat members of Congress – including shooting victim Gabrielle Giffords – and failed Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway ahead of the mid-term elections.
Olbermann’s vacated slot will be covered by an equally scurrilous Democrat partisan hack – Lawrence O’Donnell. Harvard graduate O’Donnell’s career is a textbook example of a Democrat operative. He worked as a key legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He parlayed political connections with other Democrat operatives, most notably Chris Matthews, into an MSNBC gig. In October, O’Donnell revealed his true colors when he went back on an agreement with Ron Paul not to discuss other political candidates during an interview.
Democrat state-worshipper Ed Schultz will follow up O’Donnell.
Not that it matters. Corporate media news programs – including those on Fox – continue to slip as people discover that MSNBC, Fox, CNN and the rest of the establishment alphabet soup media are little more than propaganda venues for the government and the elite. In December, it was reported that Chris Matthews drew a scant 228,000 viewers while Olbermann corralled 245,000. Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell draw even less.
