Hey guys, remember when MSNBC suspended Olbermann for donating $2,400 to three campaigns?
MSNBC: more integrity than ABC. Contemplate that.
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) May 14, 2015
In 2010 Keith Olbermann, then at MSNBC, donated the maximum $2,400 to Arizona congressmen Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords, and to Kentucky attorney general Jack Conway, who unsuccessfully ran against current Kentucky senator Rand Paul. Olbermann was suspended indefinitely without pay.
Olbermann was back on air four days after the suspension was announced, but his contract was not renewed, and in January 2011 he left MSNBC.
The problem of George Stephanopoulos’s bias would not be solved by a temporary suspension. It’s not as if he would not return to This Week as an objective straight-shooter. But at least MSNBC made the pretense of upholding some sort of journalistic standards.