His credibility is in the crapper.

Short answer : Hell No....

In my opinion.

He can continue his act on Countdown .

 Thanks, Josh. We really needed to stir up the sexist debate. Haven't had nearly enough lately.

but he would have to tone it down a lot. Also... I want a REAL journalist running the news! We also need MORE world news.

I think Keith is too much like a Bill O'Reilly- only progressive.  He has proven that recently with his self righteous diatribes.  Not a real journalist- even though I usually agree with him (EXCEPT for his Clinton- hate / Sexism).

Please, the news is bad enough.  Can we get a real journalist up in here??????????????

no.  He starts out OK (honeymoon period) and then it goes to his head.

I used to adore KO.  I don't anymore.  The blinders have been removed.  

he'd become no better than Couric, Williams, or Bootlicker Gibson. The quality of the anchor has almost nothing to do with the integrity of the anchor, but rather, with the express agenda of the network s/he works for.

The sooner we acknowledge this, the better. The problem isn't with the anchors, but with the networks. They're the ones who set the agenda of what can and cannot be discussed. The anchors are simply the figureheads on the sinking ships.

I love the guy, he isn't afraid to voice his opinion regardless what people think of him.  He is one of the best commentators on the network.

I can't see Olbermann producing any better results than Couric.  Furthermore, from a journalistic prospective, it's exceptionally difficult to migrate from a more editorial footing to a solidly objective footing.  He'll be remembered for Countdown and that'll tint the glasses of entire audiences watching him as a serious journalist.

to boycott CBS News.

If Olbermann was the anchor, I would have a reason.

I heard that ABC asked Jon Stewart to move to their network and he declined.  

Similar situation.  Both guys are really able to say what they want, no matter whose feathers they ruffle, where they are now.  This is especially true since both have been so successful ratings-wise (Olbermann's not only MSNBC's highest-rated show, and now beating O'Reilly in demo, but he's raised ratings across the network).  

But move them to a network, and they'd be hamstrung.  PC police, left and right, would be all over them.  

Heck, look at the comments here.  Olbermannn has been a big Maddow champion at MSNBC, and was personally friendly with both Clintons before the campaign.  Yet the fact that he voiced his beliefs about her campaign tactics have made many who supported Clinton dislike him strongly, accusing him of being biased against Hillary in particular and women generally.    

Olbermann would have them on top instead of in the crapper.

But I'm glad he would up staying at MSNBC where he fets a full hour to expose political trash.

Nope, keep Olbermann where he is. News anchors are too hamstrung now, especially ones that work for the top broadcast networks.

While I think Olbermann can go over the top on occasion, he's still a pretty good guy by and large. The only people who seem to really dislike him are NeoCons and Hillary supporters who saw conspiracies everywhere...

It would be the worst thing to happen to network news since Rupert Murdoch bought Fox.

"Somebody who can take him (KO)into a room and only he (not KO) comes out."

Screw KO and MSNBC.

I like Olbermann, but I don't think he'd work well in a 'real' nightly news format.  

Although anything would beat Couric.  I like this quote from, oddly enough, Miss USA 2007 Rachel Smith:

"I just don't want to end up like Katie Couric. I want people to take me seriously."

"But, just as Obama must work to win Clinton supporters for the fall campaign, Phil Griffin has to repair a fractured audience base, a portion of which saw sexism in his network's Clinton coverage and vowed to boycott MSNBC. Griffin knows that some of that anger is aimed at his star anchor. "It was, like, you meet a guy and you fall in love with him, and he's funny and he's clever and he's witty, and he's all these great things," Griffin said of the relationship between Olbermann and the Clinton supporters among his viewers. "And then you commit yourself to him, and he turns out to be a jerk and difficult and brutal. And that is how the Hillary viewers see him. It's true. But I do think they're going to come back. There's nowhere else to go."

What a sickening analogy.  Yeah, don't we always go back to our abusers?  What else are we going to do?

After his behavior on Countdown this year where he turned of half of his viewers, I think he is off the short list.  Too bad, he did it to himself.

Folks forget that MSNBC's news division is made up--to a great extent--of folks that were brought in and nurtured by none other than Roger Ailes...the architect of George Bush, Sr's media and Dubya's first term.

Indeed, Dan Quayle was a direct byproduct of Roger Ailes, being handpicked by Ailes to counterbalance George H.W. Bush's age. We all know where that led us, don't we?

In any event, Ailes went on to handle media duties for folks like Al D'Amato, Mitch McConnell, Orrin Hatch, Connie Mack and many others. Ailes was the go-to media guru throughout the 90's for the Rethugs.

From MSNBC, Ailes went onto Fox. Indeed, to a great extent, Ailes implemented Rupert Murdoch's mandate for audience above all else, no matter what had to be done to bastardize news programming to facilitate that.

And, that's where we are today.

Indirectly--at the very least--Olbermann is a byproduct of this rightwing management and content development school.

That's why he sucks! That's why Olbermann sucks.

To this very day, MSNBC's news bears the imprint of none other than Roger Ailes.

To that I say, shame on MSNBC. Shame on Fox. And, to hell with Roger Ailes!

If I want my "news" stylized, opinionated and with a definitive conservative slant, I'll tune into MSNBC or Fox...or a variety of other pathetic excuses for "news" available in this country.

Olbermann, a byproduct of this machine, represents everything that's wrong with news coverage in this country, today. It doesn't matter if you're conservative or liberal, subjective news coverage SUCKS!

Not Olberman or anyone else hired for the anchor could return us to the quality investigative news reporting of the Walter Cronkite era.  Cronkite edited the incoming reports into that 22 minutes. But he had excellent incoming reports to edit then present. Thoughtful opinions by Eric Sevareid, field reports from Charles Collingwood, Robert Trout, Richard C. Hottelet, Daniel Shore, Charles Kuralt, Morton Dean, Leslie Stahl and Dan Rather.  Will the network hire or can they even find that collective level of reporters to give the nightly anchor such concise in depth news reports each and every evening? Alas, my friends, its not a matter of who the anchor will be, it is a matter that the network news has been cancelled. The news divisions no longer exist and it all belongs to the entertainment division whose job it is to spice it up for entertainment ratings values. In such a non public service environment, we cannot report the news, we can only listen to a nightly magazine show and we are all made much poorer for it!

NO

Isn't it important for a network anchor to have some credibility?

I would like regular nightly news shows to devote some time to what's going on in our government.  A few minutes talking about the FISA bill or the fight over SCHIP funding or lack of funding for NCLB, etc. would help inform the masses about what our government is up to.  So many people don't realize the true scope of how awful Bush & Co has been for this country.  Not everyone watches C-Span or reads the blogs.

I like Olbermann where he is because he isn't constrained by the silly notion that he needs to 'balance' facts with bullshit.  However, would love to see someone with his ability, and his great voice, be given at few minutes at the end of nightly news...like an op-ed piece in the paper.

one i happen to agree with most of the time, but still an ass.

Keith Olbermann takes over Meet the Press as the man knows how to do his homework, no doubt about it...

Rachel Maddow takes over Countdown..and makes it Countdown with Rachel Maddow.

Done.

GOBAMA!!!

fan.............but now that she has spoken up for women,  I have started to tune in.  I like what I see.  She does a fantastic job with the news, and she is a top notch journalist.  I am sorry I misjudged her.  I plan on watching her every night from now on.

You know I really used to watch Olbermann every night & enjoy the show. But some of the things he did in this primary just was not helpful and often he made actual mis-statements. That changed my perception of him.  However I will say to his benefit that I think he has a more commanding presence as an evening anchor. To his detriment I think he would have been "Dan Rathered" pretty quickly - I mean the station has not treated Rather fairly I think at all towards the end - I can't believe they would hire another outspoken reporter who is viewed as very liberal by the public. I don't think that would've went over well.  I think overall at this point I think it is to his personal/professional benefit that he didn't wind up at CBS, at least not right now.

Drafting KO is kind of like drafting TO.  You'll get a high-performer, but you'll also get a lot of drama.  It'll help in the short term, but as for the long term...who knows?

Who cares?

The national evening half-hour news broadcast is going the way of the afternoon newspaper. In the age of on demand news it is simply not relevant. Convert that spot into a showcase of investigative journalism with stories that can be chopped into parts for continuation pieces and you have a show that will reverse the slipping demographics.

For the people that like to rip into KO for commenting on his comment show about how the Clinton campaign had gone off the rails, what did you expect? He all but admitted that he voted for her, and really started criticizing her when she started with the "McCain and I are better qualified" crap.

Olbermann wants the Republicans to lose full stop. He hates them cause they tore up the Constitution and used it for toilet paper. He turned against Hillary when she started blowing up the party in an effort to stem her primary losses. The Clinton strategy didn't work but it probably bought Jerome a nice vacation with all the traffic it brought here. Either way KO has a better spot where he is, rather than doing the Poremkin patrol around Iraq like Katie Couric.

I admire KO's courage but I don't expect him to bite down too far on the hand that feeds. He is doing well now, but who knows what a change in office can bring.

Plamegate would have been a story from day one.  CNN would not have been able to ignore it for moteh than a year.  The other networks would have followed suit.  Same goes for the Attorney Firings scandal.  Same goes for telcom immunity.  A host of stories that would have got NO coverage if the usual band of fools who protect us from non-stories had their way.

Olbermann may take sides at time, because that is the format of his show, but at least he covers real stories.  And you can thank the other Hillary-pariah, David Shuster, for that as well, because he covered those stories for MSNBC when they weren't considered newsworthy by people like NBC's Jay Carson.

I am just astonished that whatever grudge the Hillary hold-ons have for Olbermann could override the overriding need for us to have any basic outlet for stories of interst to progressives that the rest of the media all ignore.  Instead, they post diaries that make the rec list honoring Fox and O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

If Olbermann is sexist for criticizing Hillary Clinton, image what Mark Penn must be for ruining her whole friggin' campaign!  Penn should be banned from participating in any Democratic candidate's efforts.  Forever.  And ever.  Seriously, if you simply must blame a man for Clinton's loss......

I am an unabashed Olbermann fan, and will continue to be one.  However, KO is a commentator, not a reporter, and network anchor chairs should be filled by reporters.  The same goes for the currently vacant MTP chair.  Keith has his successful forum, and should remain where he is for the time being.  

No to Keith Obamamann.  Ed Murrow NOT.  He should be fired for his dispicible performance on MSNBC.

This post also explains further motivation for his recent disgusting WPITW -- some personal vendetta on his part.

I just think Olbermann's ego has inflated to exceed the size of any room he broadcasts from - and I started thinking that long before any of this stuff many perceive as sexist treatment of Clinton occurred.  I thought his first "special comment", last year sometime, was effective - but you can't keep that up without starting to sound like Paul Harvey or Rush Limbaugh. And that's what he's become - of course, he comes at it from slightly left of center, so I tolerate it a bit better.  But he's still become a blowhard so full of himself that he's lost all perspective.  And newsman?  journalist?  Well, he used to be a sportscaster, but I don't know that he's ever really been a journalist.  I would LOVE to see Amanpour in that spot - but she might not want to do it.  Now there's a woman with credibility and gravitas.

I don't care for Couric - she's an entertainer, not a newsperson - but I may start watching CBS, just because I can't stand any more Tim Russert hagiography pieces on NBC.  Enough already.

The animosity toward Olbermann apparently stems from two sources: his "bring them both in a room and only one comes out" comment, and his calling out Clinton on her Rovian campaign tactics. On the first, he was obviously speaking metaphorically, but he did it very clumsily. He apologized the next night. On the second, he was entirely justified. Clinton ran the most appalling right-leaning campaign by a Democrat I've ever seen. The most devastating part of Olbermann's last Special Comment on Clinton was the long list of tactics you would've sworn came from a Republican.

If you don't like sexism on MSNBC, you need to train your guns on the right target: Chris Matthews.

From reading MyDD you'd think Olbermann was worse than the lovechild of Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly.

Why attack your enemies when you've got friends whose backs are turned, eh?

Two points:
   KO would probably not fit for the CBS spot not because of his editorial opinions, which are part of the format of his program, but because the Evening News position is part of the flagship trademark of a network, and the person seated in that ch