Keith Olbermann recently gave his audience a shock by announcing that his show was over.

After eight years, MSNBC’s top-rated anchor was suddenly done.

The network issued a brief statement during the host’s sign-off saying that MSNBC and Olbermann had “ended their contract” and the cable network wished him “well in his future endeavors.”

Olbermann had two years left on his four-year $30 million contract.

Even staffers at the network were apparently caught off guard as promos for Olbermann’s show continued to air after his departure announcement.

On HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” another MSNBC uber-liberal, Rachel Maddow, was asked about Olbermann’s sudden exit. Maddow said all she knew was that “he and the company made a mutual decision that ‘Countdown’ is done.”

Maher’s reply was “that’s always bull—t.”

So why did Olbermann’s tenure with MSNBC end at this particular point in time?

Olbermann and his reps have no doubt been aware of the tensions that have been present among certain NBC personalities over Olbermann’s on-air style. Longtime NBC news anchors, including Tom Brokaw and Andrea Mitchell, have made grumblings about the MSNBC host.

According to the New York Times, executives at NBC were even thinking about changing the name of the news Web site, MSNBC.com, to distance it from the Peacock.

The darling-of-the-left host has quite a reputation for giving his employers a hard time. His career is actually riddled with sudden departures.

Olbermann was suspended by ESPN when he made an unauthorized appearance on then-host Craig Kilborn’s “Daily Show” to promote a book. It didn’t help his relationship with the network when while on the show Olbermann referred to the ESPN set as a “godforsaken place.”

A former ESPN colleague told the New Yorker that when Olbermann left “he didn’t burn bridges here—he napalmed them.”

Olbermann quit MSNBC once before in the 1990s over the coverage of the Monica Lewinsky affair, claiming the coverage gave him the “dry heaves.”

He even worked for two years at Fox Sports. Rupert Murdoch said Olbermann was fired because he was “crazy.”

In November 2010, Olbermann was given an indefinite suspension for donating money to the campaigns of two Democratic candidates.

The timing of Olbermann’s farewell and its coinciding with the government approval of the NBC Universal-Comcast merger is raising a lot of eyebrows.

Thanks to the merger, Olbermann lost his strongest executive ally, NBC head Jeff Zucker.

Sources told the New York Times that for the last several weeks Olbermann has been negotiating a buyout of his contract.

It’s possible that he may have sensed that his position was in jeopardy and tried to test the management via a renegotiation.

According to TMZ, talks started out with Olbermann’s agent telling NBC that the MSNBC host should be paid more than his current $7 million-plus per year contract. NBC turned that request down.

His buyout agreement was completed on the same day Olbermann made the announcement.

The deal contains time limitations on when Olbermann can anchor another show or give interviews. However, he can return to sports broadcasting.

So where will Olbermann ultimately end up?

He will be all over the left-of-center Internet for sure.

But I can see him hopping on over to a network that has reportedly expressed interest in him before, CNN. Taking over the ratings-challenged primetime show, “Parker Spitzer,” might be just the Olbermann ticket.

With a petition signed by 10,000 people, a group launched an attack on Fox News host Glenn Beck, demanding that Beck be fired.

The Fox host featured nine people of the last century who had been contributors to what Beck characterized as the “era of the big lie.”

The group, Jewish Funds for Justice (JFJ), claims that Beck’s show was anti-Semitic.

One of the people Beck focused on was George Soros, a billionaire currency trader. Beck referred to him as the “puppet master.”

The other eight figures were of Jewish heritage, including Sigmund Freud and Walter Lippman.

A look at the funding for JFJ helps to provide insight into the possible motivation for the attack on Beck.

The group gets its money from Soros’ Open Society Institute, which gave the group $150,000 in 2009 and $200,000 in 2010.

Its Web site is filled with the language of the left, including phrases such as “economic justice” and “social change.”

Soros is increasingly becoming a player in the media, particularly within the film industry.

He entered the world of documentary production in the mid-1990s with his Soros Documentary Fund, which was dedicated to creating films that dealt with “social justice and human rights.”

In 2002 Soros moved the personnel and mission of his documentary fund to the Sundance Institute and Robert Redford, and granted a start-up fund of $4.6 million to the endeavor.

The institute doles out millions each year for propaganda-style films designed to massage minds.

In 2006 Soros shelled out $900 million for 59 films that constitute the DreamWorks SKG library, and in the process obtained a valuable set of film rights while gaining a power position as an entertainment media mogul.

With all that in place, he can pull a lot of strings.

As some on the Left try to politicize the tragedy in Tucson, it would be wise for them to go back and examine some of the toxic words that have emanated from their own side of the political aisle.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Madonna, while on her Sticky & Sweet Tour, decided to add a few political rants to her musical mix. Sarah Palin, the then-GOP nominee for vice president, was the object of Madonna’s disaffection.

The singer banned Alaska’s former governor from the tour, saying, “Sarah Palin can’t come to my party! Sarah Palin can’t come to my show!” She then threatened to “kick her a**.”

When confronted with her contentious statements at a red carpet premiere, Madonna dismissed the language. “It’s a metaphor,” she said. “She’s in the Republican Party, I’m in the Democratic Party.”

In October of 2009, MSNBC host Chris Matthews shared a malicious fantasy involving radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

“You guys see ‘Live and Let Die,’ the great Bond film with Yaphet Kotto as the bad guy, Mr. Big?” Mathews asked. “In the end they jam a big CO2 pellet in his face and he blew up. I have to tell you, Rush Limbaugh is looking more and more like Mr. Big and at some point somebody’s going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head… .”

In October of 2009, MSNBC cable host Keith Olbermann went on the attack against best-selling author and commentator Michelle Malkin. He pinned her with the “total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred” label and said that without such attributes she “would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”

In February of 2010, MSNBC cable host Ed Schultz concocted some sick imagery involving Dick Cheney. Schultz was engaged in a discussion about the former vice president’s health and its political implications.

Schultz referred to Cheney’s heart as a “political football.” He then said, “We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him.”

In November of 2010, Bristol Palin, a mere contestant on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” show, was the recipient of death threats, which necessitated heightened security measures and even evacuation of the premises. Powder resembling anthrax had been mailed to the show’s studio.

In December of 2010, Salon, a left-leaning online magazine, published a letter to the editor, which called for the murder of Sarah Palin.

Sadly, the Left, opportunistic partisans and the mainstream media are making subtle references, laying guilt on shoulders and sullying reputations in the worst possible way.

From the earliest moments of the shooting’s aftermath, some have pushed a narrative. Certain charges that were made were implicit, others explicit. The narrative was meant to convey that in one fashion or another the Right was to blame for the murderous rampage.

This is not only untrue, it is unethical and unconscionable, as would be the case if the Right were trying to pin such a tragedy on the Left.

As human beings, we strive to keep our emotions in check and weigh our words carefully, especially at times like these. These are noble goals but also constant struggles.

The Golden Rule remains our best private, public, political, civic and societal measure.

A particular Oscar campaign that may be of interest to
movie-loving conservatives is one that involves Disney. The Mouse House
is going after a nomination in the Best Picture category for “Toy Story
3.”

The company is running ads in trade publications that show past Best
Picture Oscar winners such as “Shakespeare in Love” with Toy Story
characters superimposed. Excerpt: for more CLICK HERE

Democrats wanted to use Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s rally this past weekend to motivate young voters to participate in the midterm elections.

The crowd was mostly Dems. But it also contained some generally apathetic Comedy Central fans.

The three-hour rally consisted mainly of satire and comedy with humorous sketches and surprise musical guests including Kid Rock, Ozzy Osbourne, the O’Jays, Sheryl Crow, Tony Bennett and the former Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam.

In one rare quasi-political stunt, Stewart gave a “Medal of Reasonableness” to Velma Hart, the now famous lady who told Obama that she was “exhausted” from having to defend him.

A host of left-leaning organizations were there in an apparent attempt to politicize the event.

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Bill Maher, who years ago hosted the ABC late-night talk show “Politically Incorrect” and currently hosts HBO’s “Real Time,” has consistently demonstrated an antipathy for religion, religious expression and the Judeo Christian God.

Maher’s attitude is typically condescending. At the same time, he
tends to ignore the fact that the vast majority of faith-filled folks
aren’t the extremists he cites as his examples.

On a recent installment of his show, Maher took issue with something that Glenn Beck had shared with the public. Maher groused that Beck had said that before he got married his then-fiancé wanted to pick out a religion.  Read more…

Hey writers tweet those TV ideas. The new trend in television may be developing a series from a Twitter page…

CBS is developing two new comedies, including a project based off a Twitter feed produced by social-media master Ashton Kutcher.

Following on the successful launch of its Twitter-inspired comedy
“$#*! My Dad Says” last week, CBS has made a script deal for “Shh …
Don’t Tell Steve,” based on a Twitter feed by the same name.

Not content with their cash merely influencing the politics of the Left Coast some big names in the entertainment field are providing bucks in Wisconsin for beleaguered Democrat Russ Feingold. As reported by The Hill,

Among Feingold’s contributors are filmmakers Steven Spielberg and
Harvey Weinstein, actors Michael Douglas and Edie Falco, as well as
NBC’s Jeffrey Zucker, music executive David Geffen, and producer
Jeffrey Katzenberg and his wife, Marilyn, according to
CQMoneyLine.com.

Writer and producer Tom Fontana, creator of the television series
“Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Oz,” also ponied up for Feingold,
as did actress Kathryn Erbe, who has appeared in “Law and Order” and “Oz.”

Amazingly, three of the donors were so anxious to contribute that they violated campaign finance limits.

…Weinstein, Douglas and Fontana all gave donations that were
over the $5,000 legal limit per cycle and had to be reimbursed for the
surplus.

Judge Eldon Fox, obviously has run out of patience for Lindsay Lohan.

The jurist ordered Lohan to go directly to jail with no bail pending an Oct. 22 hearing.

Lindsay was led away in handcuffs after the hearing.

The terms of her probation provided that if she missed a drug test or got a positive result, she could face 30 days in jail.

Lohan was ordered back to court after failing a drug test last week,.

This was only a month after being released from jail for violating her parole in a drunk driving case.

In 2008 Lohan was arrested twice over a three-month period for driving under the influence. She pleaded no contest and agreed to attend alcohol education classes.

But alleged parole violations placed her back in court before Superior Court Judge Marsha N. Revel in Beverly Hills. Before her sentencing in July, Lohan said, “I’m not taking this as a joke. It’s my life. It’s my career…. I take responsibility for my actions,” she told the court. “I’ve tried to do the best I can. It’s been such a long haul…. I don’t want you to think that I don’t respect you.”

Revel responded that Lohan was lying about her role in two drunk driving-related incidents, failing to attend alcohol education classes and other violations. Revel also notes that when a white substance was found in Lohan’s pants and Lohan tested positive for the drug. Lindsay had claimed the pants belonged to someone else. They turned out to be “her favorite pants.”

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Americans expect senate candidates at this critical time to know how to spell their names – – especially when they are write-in candidates.

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski announced that she would
launch a write-in campaign to hold onto her seat after losing the
Republican primary. At the time she brought need for spelling in the write in process.

“You’ve got to learn how to spell my name, but that’s not as tough as
it sounds, and over the next 45 days we’ll be teaching you how to spell
it,” Murkowski said, drawing a smattering of laughter from the crowd of
supporters in Anchorage.

But her first ad misspelled the URL of her Web site.

The online ad that was posted on YouTube on Monday was originally
titled, “Vote Lisa M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I Public Service Announcement,” but
the URL that flashed on the bottom of the screen at the end of the ad
directed viewers to visit LisaMurkwski.com. Read more…