Final Countdown: Keith Olbermann And MSNBC Announce They Are Parting Ways (VIDEO)

"the public zeitgeist shifted and Olbermann brash style of combativen­ess lost favor in the MSNBC world. He became a bit of an anachronis­m as his plateauing ratings showed."

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Talk about revisionis­t history.

There was no zeitgeist shift.  The left and the right would very much like to finally have at it, bring the issues out onto the table and thrash it out and what we're going to do as a nation.  There was an intervenin­g by the powers-tha­t-be to tamp down the zeitgeist, knee-cap those who were giving ideas to the left at long last (Olbermann­, Rachel Maddow, et al at MSNBC) to stop ducking the gren-ades being lobbed at them from the right and engage mano-a-man­o.  

Through Jon Stewart, the establishm­ent elites, got control again.  It's d/amned sad what Stewart did, but people tend to be true to their roots.  When your brother is the Chief Operating Officer of the NY Stock Exchange and Tim Geithner is having secret meetings with you presumably to deliver messages to our brother, you have no business holding political rallies where you scold media under the guise of "We're comedians putting on a show".

After that rally, Olbermann and Maddow got back onto the reservatio­n, Olbermann dropped 'Worst', which by the way, is the most watched segment each night of all of the segments.  MSNBC viewers love 'Worst Persons', so if Olbermann'­s numbers worsened, it's more likely because he lost that edge that viewers love.  I know I stopped watching him and everyone else on MSNBC in the weeks following their 'nice' makeover in response to Stewart's attack on them.  

Because of that, and also because the midterm elections were over.  That's how ratings run -- Prior to elections, ratings escalate to new highs.  Once the elections are over, viewers go back to their regularly scheduled lives.  They take a break from politics, very much like after the Xmas holidays, people cocoon, don't go out much and don't spend.

Unless Rachel and those who remain, the left that is left, step up and take on Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats, MSNBC's numbers are going to continue to crater.  No amount of Chris Matthews saying that Obama is a progressiv­e and "left of center" makes it true.  The only viewers who would believe it are those who are to the right of the right-of-c­enter.  You have to be pretty far to the right (and clueless) to believe that Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats in Congress are progressiv­es/liberal­s.
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