It has been announced that Keith “Irate Man” Olbermann and Chris “Leg Thrill” Matthews have been demoted… they have now been given lesser roles as commentators on the NBC owned cable news channel, MSNBC.
MSNBC said Sunday it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators.
The change reflects tensions between the freewheeling, opinionated MSNBC and the impartial newsgatherers at NBC News. Throughout the primaries and summer, MSNBC argued that Olbermann and Matthews could serve as dispassionate anchors on political news nights and that viewers would accept them in that role, but things fell apart during the conventions.
You don’t say? Not that I didn’t see this coming, but I’m surprised it took them this long.
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