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Why is that a problem? I want them there, uncensored, encouraged, and free to do their thing as they have in their own special way for years. With them, at least you know what you're dealing with. There's no professionalism, no ethics, no nuanced subtleties of context or intent; just in your face right-wing fanatacism along with obssessive liberal character assassination in its' crudest form.

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They told him to lay off, and he told em to go to hell.

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you care more about some spoiled assclown quitting his job

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MSNBC's liberal crusader abruptly resigned on air Friday, ending a provocative eight-year run.

Keith Olbermann, the liberal crusader whose combative style put him increasingly at odds with his network bosses, resigned abruptly from MSNBC Friday.

The cable channel confirmed his unexpected departure as Olbermann was rather calmly announcing the demise of Countdown after an eight-year run that included a bitter feud with Bill O’Reilly, fiery denunciations of Republicans and occasional acknowledgements that he had gone too far.

A knowledgeable official said the move had nothing to do with Comcast taking control of NBC next week. This official described the dramatic divorce—Olbermann was about halfway through a four-year, $30 million contract—as mutual.

Olbermann, who quit MSNBC once before—in 1998, ripping his bosses in the process—almost single-handedly revived the network by leading it on a leftward march and aggressively attacking the rival operation he called Fox Noise. But his relations with top NBC and MSNBC executives sharply deteriorated when he was suspended for making donations to Democratic candidates.

Officially, the network offered little guidance, saying in a bland statement: “MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”

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Keith Olbermann's exit from MSNBC appeared abrupt to viewers of his show, but the talk-show host and his network were involved "in a relationship that's been failing for a long time," an NBC Universal executive said Saturday.

MSNBC simultaneously e-mailed a statement to reporters that the network and host "have ended their contract." Neither indicated a reason nor addressed whether Olbermann quit or was fired.

But the NBC Universal executive characterized it as a mutual parting of the ways, with Olbermann taking the first step. The executive spoke on condition of anonymity because settlement talks were kept confidential.

Olbermann and his manager did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Saturday. One clue Olbermann offered in his goodbye statement was that "there were many occasions, particularly in the last 2½ years, where all that surrounded the show — but never the show itself — was just too much for me. But your support and loyalty and, if I may use the word, insistence, ultimately required that I keep going. My gratitude to you is boundless."

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