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Cable news networks are highly segmented niche markets. They have the same cognitive heft found on rasslin' shows, and most anything on the "worldwide leader."

Choosing the most offensive of the bunch is a Rorschach Test of political persuasions. However, journalism schools and fact-checking outfits have put together an audit trail.

It is perhaps telling that the aforementioned rasslin' shows almost uniformly carry higher ratings than any of the cable news networks.

Dan Patrick said he'd hire him in a second.

FB, yeah, just like sports.

Olbermann is not a news journalist but he is far more careful with his facts and fact-checking than Fox News [sic].

Compare the allegations and analysis from Olbermann's old chow or Rachel Maddow's show to Hannity or Beck and you'll see that KO and RM are far more careful with facts and fact-checking than GB and SH.

Seriously? Yes, please check.

I used to like Olbermann's shtick back in his ESPN days, but he took himself way, way too seriously once his forehead settled down 3 inches in front of the MSNBC's camera.

About the only honest, non-scripted or prepared moment I ever saw from him happened a couple of years ago when he made a guest appearance on "The Soup". When the host announced a commercial break, Olbermann giggled a bit and said, "You have sponsors?"

I mean, everyone here does realize that MSNBC's ratings stank...big time. Say what you will about Fox News and I certainly won't defend their content, but Fox's sorry excuse for a morning show got better ratings than Olbermann and he had the most "popular" show on MSNBC. Comcast is going to clean house once they settle in, perhaps Olbermann saw the writing on the wall?

Olbermann can't go back to ESPN, he considers himself to be much more the show than any athlete could be...I've heard that Les Miles is going to hire him to be his spokesperson at LSU????

Sadly, I hoped Jay wouldn't let his right wing views drift into a sports blog, but he just couldn't help it.Ferris, what about the remarks on Brown were not correct?

I can visualize MSNBC doing a happy dance and toasting a toast.

Canefan, Obama's primary political flaw is that he has been far too weak, as was the democratic congress during it's brief two-year life cycle. Obama apparently doesn't have the courage to approach politics with the same set of b*lls the republicans have swung around for the better part of a decade. I'm not aware of any extension or expansion of the pathetic Patriot Act under Obama, but I do know that he's done virtually nothing to undo the harm done under Bush. A far wiser one that I once said that the democrats and republicans are each a puppet on different hands of the same puppeteer; I suspect there's truth to this to the extent that they're all bought and sold by the big lobbies. Sad, sad, state of affairs.

I smiled at this one, Pick-man. In the words of the former anchor, "Great thanks."