{"id":4884,"date":"2011-05-21T01:18:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T08:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4884"},"modified":"2011-05-21T01:22:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T08:22:49","slug":"did-keith-quit-or-was-he-pushed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/21\/did-keith-quit-or-was-he-pushed-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Keith Quit, or Was He Pushed Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That\u2019s a question lots of us have been asking, and my bet was that he had been pushed out.\u00a0 OOPS!\u00a0 When I\u2019m wrong I say so.\u00a0 His comments Thursday night leave little doubt.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"KeithO\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/KeithO1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"KeithO\" width=\"283\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did Keith Olbermann resign, or was he pushed out at MSNBC? Since his abrupt departure in January, the question has fueled much speculation among media prognosticators.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Olbermann stopped by &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; to promote the new incarnation of &#8220;Countdown,&#8221; which launches June 20 on Current TV. As always, David Letterman was there to ask the question on everyone&#8217;s mind\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/showtracker\/2011\/05\/about-late-last-night-keith-olbermann-on-what-went-wrong-at-msnbc-video.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here\u2019s the video:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/e\/iR6UlThzjBJa6LLrOxi8YDr_upL_hbq7\/cbs\/1\/\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/e\/iR6UlThzjBJa6LLrOxi8YDr_upL_hbq7\/cbs\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With Keith no longer under the corporate thumb, so to speak, we can expect great things form him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s a question lots of us have been asking, and my bet was that he had been pushed out.\u00a0 OOPS!\u00a0 When I\u2019m wrong I say so.\u00a0 His comments Thursday night leave little doubt. Did Keith Olbermann resign, or was he pushed out at MSNBC? Since his abrupt departure in January, the question has fueled much <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/21\/did-keith-quit-or-was-he-pushed-out\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}