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To: coug who wrote (84810)	1/21/2011 9:00:46 PM
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To: coug who wrote (84810)	1/22/2011 6:47:10 AM
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To: coug who wrote (84810)	1/22/2011 9:50:32 AM
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Keith Olbermann's ouster voices.washingtonpost.com Keith Olbermann out at MSNBC By Greg Sargent Posted at 9:06 AM ET, 01/22/2011 So Keith Olbermann is out. As best as I can tell, none of the news accounts about his departure have gotten to the bottom of what happened here. But Olbermann himself offered enough clues in his final broadcast for us to reasonably speculate that he abruptly got the ax, perhaps even as late as last night. A "knowledgeable official" at MSNBC told Howard Kurtz that the separation was "mutual." But it's hard to see how that squares with this, from Olbermann's last words on Countdown last night: "I think the same fantasy has popped into the head of everybody in my business who has ever been told what I have been told, that this is going to be the last edition of your show. You go directly to the scene from the movie 'Network,' complete with the pajamas, and the raincoat, and you go off on an existential, otherworldly journey of profundity and vision... "When I resigned from ESPN 13 and a half years ago, I was literally given 30 seconds to say goodbye at the very end of my last edition of "Sports Center." As God is my witness, in the commercial break just before the emotional moment, the producer got into my earpiece and he said, `uh, can you cut it down to 15 seconds, so we can get in this tennis result from Stuttgart? So I'm grateful that I have a little more time to sign off here." Between this and the shell-shocked look Olbermann had last night, it seems clear that he may have been abruptly informed that he was history, perhaps even during last night's show. That would also square with the experience of Josh Marshall, who was actually on Olbermann last night and had no sense that anything was amiss. We already know that MSNBC president Phil Griffin had been gunning for Olbermann for some time now. MSNBC was reportedly close to firing Olbermann on several occasions. Recall that during the ridiculous flap over Olbermann's political donations, in which he responded to his suspension with a show of public defiance, Griffin flatly told Olbermann's representative: "We are at war." Soon enough we'll have a clearer sense of why this happened, and we can deal with it then. But for now, let's thank Olbermann for all his hard work. He's rich, popular and has a huge following that's likely to follow him to his next endeavor. He'll be just fine. What of Olbermann's legacy? There's a great deal of crowing on the right about Olbermann's apparent ouster. But let's be clear on what he accomplished: He helped clear a huge space on the airwaves for "unapologetic liberalism," as Steve Benen puts it, when it remained anything but certain that such a space could be created with any measure of success. The unexpected popularity of Olbermann's show early on cleared the way for MSNBC to stack its nighttime lineup with pugnacious lefty hosts. Indeed, it was Olbermann who invited Rachel Maddow on repeatedly as a guest, raising her profile to the point where she got her own show. Olbermann, followed by Maddow, proved in the face of enormous skepticism that there's a huge audience out there for real liberal talk-show hosts to adopt the sort of take-no-prisoners approach once monopolized by the right. Only they accomplished this without descending into the crackpot conspiracy mongering and all-around ugliness of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Indeed, there's already talk that CNN might be interested in picking up Olbermann. While that seems unlikely, given CNN's more staid air, the mere fact that it's being discussed at all shows how much he helped change the landscape. Olbermann may be gone, but the space he did so much to help create is here to stay. UPDATE, 9:20 a.m.: Edited slightly from original. Also: Marshall was actually on the show last night and had no hint that anything was up; I've added that above.