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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (318100)	12/31/2006 6:57:22 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572704

"Huh? Ted is blaming Bush for Olbermann losing his job at ESPN. " Must have missed that post. "He's claiming Olbermann actually wanted to move to MSNBC because (a) sportscasting, in Ted's opinion, is a dead-end job, " I saw that one. He did leave ESPN for MSNBC. But, as he explains it, he couldn't handle the pressures at ESPN. salon.com "(b) Bush supposedly motivated Olbermann to dive into politics." Well, he was pretty non-political before. He left MSNBC when his show basically became dominated by the Lewinsky scandal. Now that could be he was a rabid Clintonite, but when he had a column on Salon, he didn't write much at all about politics. Mostly he wrote about other things, despite it being in the post-9/11 period. It wasn't until after his return to MSNBC and the debacle that we call Katrina that he started to take Bush to task. So there is some reason to think that Ted's assertion has some truth behind it.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (318100)	1/2/2007 2:33:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572704

CJ, > How does the drama prove partisanship? Huh? Ted is blaming Bush for Olbermann losing his job at ESPN. He's claiming Olbermann actually wanted to move to MSNBC because (a) sportscasting, in Ted's opinion, is a dead-end job, and (b) Bush supposedly motivated Olbermann to dive into politics. That's not what I said, Harris. What I said was Olbermann wanted to do more serious journalism. That's why he moved to MSNBC which was in 2004. He didn't start his tirades until 2006 as he became more aware of how fukked up Bush and his policies are. BTW Olbermann is a child prodigy who went to your university: "Olbermann's first book, "The Major League Coaches," was published when he was 14. He began his career while still in high school as a play-by-play announcer for WHTR. Began college at age 16 and graduated with a Bachelors of science degree in communications arts from Cornell University at the age of 20." Funny, how you seem to always fall on the wrong side of class. ;-)