Change We Can Believe In: Olbermann and Matthews Out

September 8, 2008 · Filed Under MSNBC

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Starting with the beginning of the Democratic Convention, Olbermann’s and Matthews behavior on-air grew more outrageous by the day. Their over-the-top praise for Obama’s speech was laughable, as was their objectivity.

Then when the two partisan hacks began covering the RNC, Olbermann’s look of disgust and contempt was front and center. He became the official fact-checker for every Republican speech. Immediately pointing out “lies” as he saw them about Democrats after each speaker.

Thankfully, the nightmare is finally over. Keith Olbermann and his long winded sidekick Chris Matthews will no longer be anchoring live political events on The Obama Network (MSNBC). Those duties will now be performed by one David Gregory with analysis from Olbermann and Matthews.

The final straw came when Olbermann finally snapped on-air during the Republican Convention and ‘apologized‘ for a 9/11 tribute video that was shown.

“I’m sorry, it’s necessary to say this,” he began. After saying that the video had exploited the memories of the dead, he directly apologized to viewers who were offended. Then, sounding like a network executive, he said it was “probably not appropriate to be shown.”

I saw this when it happened but considering everything else Olbermann gets away with saying I didn’t think much of it. But apparently this was too much for the top brass at NBC to take. With their ratings in the toilet night after night, business at some point had to trump far left ideology — at least this week.