“One week ago, on the night of Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010, after a discussion with a friend about the state of politics in Arizona, I donated $2,400 each to the reelection campaigns of Democratic Representatives Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords,” Olbermann said. “I also donated the same amount to the campaign of Democratic Senatorial candidate Jack Conway in Kentucky.”
He went on to emphasize that he did not use his TV show to encourage anyone else to make the same donations. “I did not privately or publicly encourage anyone else to donate to these campaigns, nor to any others in this election or any previous ones, nor have I previously donated to any political campaign at any level,” Olbermann’s statement said.
But Olbermann’s explanation was not enough to skirt the ethics rules at NBC News, and Griffin apparently had no choice but to suspend him, possibly leading to the dismissal of his network’s highest-rated personality, whose show, ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann,’ at 8 p.m./7c, draws more than 950,000 viewers nightly.
So NBC suspends a commentator for donating to a campaign and FOX just donates millions.
It's looking like NBC is in the bag with the GOP now. Who's next? Maddow?
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