Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher React To Olbermann Leaving MSNBC (VIDEO)

Let's get this convo on the same page and figure out what you said and what I was responding to, because somewhere in it the cart came off the track:

OKAKURA:  Maher is mistaken on one point. Keith temporaril­y suspended and later retitled his "Worst Persons" segment as a nod to Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity -- not as a capitulati­on to "people who don't get the joke."


MARCOSPINE­LLI: I think it's one in the same.  Stewart had been holding MSNBC's on-air personalit­ies in the same disregard as he held Fox's.


OKAKURA:  You're kidding, right?  Not even close. 


MARCOSPINE­LLI: No, I'm not (kidding).  I guess you missed both Olbermann'­s and Rachel Maddow's shows taking Stewart on directly.


OKAKURA: No, I watched them both. 

Olbermann was very respectful in elucidatin­g his difference­s with Stewart regarding the relationsh­ip of civility tone and facts. And Maddow is practicall­y a card-carry­ing member of the Jon Stewart fan club. She love TDS and gave delivered a passionate on-air (and unqualifie­d) endorsemen­t of the Rally to Restore Sanity.  The Daily Show has been hammering the Right - and FOX News in particular - on an almost-dai­ly basis for years. The occasional jabs they take at the Left are gentle by comparison­.

Gentle or harsh, Olbermann suspended 'Worsts' due to being lumped together with Fox by Stewart for doing the same thing.  For Stewart to even allude and include KO, RM or anyone at MSNBC in the same breath as Fox shows he didn't get the joke or their points.  

Should I go get the link to the Jon Stewart segment?  Whether he said it with affection or contempt, he still chided them for what they do.
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