The whole thing seemed pretty stupid to me He is an opinion journalist, who makes no effort to appear neutral. He is a Sean Hannity for the left, just with a lot less fans. His whole program is bias so how him giving money to democrats is any kind of breach of journalistic ethics, is beyond me. His ratings, or the fact he is an idiot would be a good reason to pull him, but not because he gave money to democrats. That would seem to me to be a given.

Did I miss something is MSNBC a subsidiary of FOX NEWS????? WTF? Really why does it matter what Fox News allows or dosen't allow. He does not have a contract with Fox. Nor is Hannity or Rove Journalists.. And btw what a total Joke since when does NBC have a moral code or follow ethics? Everyone knows they support the Liberals and Democrats..who are they kidding? He got caught and is and will always be a whiny little creepy baby!!!!!!

He's An A$$ anyway!!! i found it cool that of the nites he was gone. The ratings for show neither went up or down, except for Rachel Meadows show, That was because everyone wanted to see her cry over her Girl/err Boyfriend!!!! I going to watch Tuesday!!!! because I want to see him Blow a heart valve that would be cool!!!!!!!!!!

The whole thing was a setup... Keith needed a vacation, and MSNBC needed press.

It's a ridiculous rule. It would be more understandable if it applied to ALL its employees.

FOX is ridiculous all by itself.

Every time you bring up Olbermann in this blog, it attracts tons of ALL CAP SCREAMERS seething their antagonism. Maybe you should avoid cable TV news subjects.
Plus, whenever Olbmermann is involved in an incident, there are always gossip people claiming to know "how Keith feels" about things. I think in general, that's been BS. He's always portrayed as some power-mad dictator who thinks he's bigger than the network. He never comes across that way in what he actually says, does, and writes. Even though he's probably the reason the network is still on the air. (Although I think Rachel Maddow is their more valuable asset--she's smart, focused, does more journalism, and has less theatrics.)

Keith Olbermann, is no different than the "commentators", on FOX who he critizes on at least every show. Does anyone remember Donny Deutsch getting suspended for equating Olbermann and O'Reily, where was the outcry then? And hang on, I am a democrat, did vote for Obama, still enthralled when he gives a speech, it's just that HATE talk goes both ways, and does not help our President change the climate in D.C........

KEITH SIGNED THE CONTRACT.

HE KNEW THE RULES, EVEN IF HE DIDN'T AGREE WITH THEM, HE SIGNED THE FRAKKING CONTRACT.

NO ONE PUT A GUN TO HIS HEAD AND FORCED HIM TO SIGN THE CONTRACT.

Why is that so frakking hard for some people to understand.

It's not an issue of fair or what FoxNews allows their commentators to do.

It's an issue of a man signing a contract, and then BREAKING IT.