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Exactly two weeks after MSNBC briefly suspended Keith Olbermann over undisclosed campaign donations, the news cable channel is doing the same with Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough. Politico reports that Scarborough will be sidelined for two days without pay after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown $500 contributions to friends and family members running for state and local offices while working at MSNBC. That is a violation of NBC’s policy of banning political contributions by employees without first obtaining a permission from the network president. That policy came under scrutiny following the Olbermann suspension, which was originally indefinite but was quickly cut to 2 days, matching Scarborough’s. “I recognize that I have a responsibility to honor the guidelines and conditions of my employment, and I regret that I failed to do so in this matter,” Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, said in a statement. “I apologize to MSNBC and to anyone who has been negatively affected by my actions.”
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Sounds like Morning Douche just wanted Thanksgiving week off.
It’s good to know that the “Equal Time” rule isn’t dead Yet.
Unlike Olbermann, classy and mature position taking responsibility for his own actions. Well done. For Politico as well.
Big Difference – Keith’s suspension was indefinite – Joe’s suspension has a definte time limit. Not at all fair – not equal in my book. Maybe because one donated to Repugs and one donated to Democrats?
Actually, Keith Olbermann’s suspension lasted for two days, even though MSNBC honchos had initially announced it was going to be indefinite.
They gave Joe a two-day slap on the wrist so that they would be perceived as playing fair between him and Olbermann.
Did you just accuse MSNBC of having a right-wing bias?
Let’s see, KO was suspended on a Friday, then returned to the air on a Tuesday. Not counting the weekends where he’s not on to begin with, KO was off the air for 2 days, just like it says Scarborough will be sidelined for.
Sounds Equal to me.
The time limit thing is a wash as an argument — while Keith’s suspension was originally indefinite, it nevertheless ended up being only two days. Scarborough’s suspension is for only two days — ergo: Scarborough broke the same rule, so he got the same penalty. I say this as a flaming liberal: there’s no double-standard in either direction here; Keith ‘n’ Joe were treated equally.
— Rob
This is all a big effing joke… Soros controls everything…
You know this from watching Glenn Beck, or from watching Jon Stewart skewer Glenn Beck?
WHO?
I find the timing of Joe’s suspension interesting. Why? Next week Comcast makes announcements who’s in charge of various sectors NBC Universal. Tom Brokaw of NBC News has now stated that Keith O has damaged the MSNBC brand. Now how have these two suspensions damaged the MSNBC brand further. Question what is Phil Griffen trying to prove or is he trying to save his own job from Comcast? Afterall Comcast wants to rebrand MSNBC. Managerally I see the suspenisons damaging the lean forward of MSNBC. Questions could be raise by Comcast senior management in regards with not enforcing these sooner rather than later. Just seeing this in a larger picture that’s all.
I guess this is a new way to boost ratings
This is obviously censorship. MSNBC is a partisan network. They shouldn’t kid themselves into thinking they are objective in any manner. Self-censorship is as bad as government censorship, yet this goes on and on and on.
Okay, so first MSNBC sidelines a liberal on-air person for two days, then they do the same to a conservative one. And the conservative one there gets as much air time daily as the three most liberal ones (Olbermann, Maddow, O’Donnell) combined.
Also, Olbermann’s been ripping Obama a new one pretty much daily since well before the November election.
How again is MSNBC a “partisan” network?
You’re a joke if you think “Olbermann, Maddow, O’Donnell” are equivalent to the one conservative “Scarborough” who is a moderate conservative, almost center left. I’ve seen Olbermann and Maddow and they are far far left wing. The only reason Olbermann is slamming Obama is because Obama isn’t far left enough for him.
So yes, MSNBC is a partisan network with a far far left slant!!!
Big Difference – Keith’s suspension was indefinite – Joe’s suspension has a definte time limit. Not at all fair – not equal in my book.
Keith was suspended first, got two days. That set a precedent so now Joe gets two days. Absolutely fair. Stop looking for conspiracies where there aren’t any.
But will Joe continue to write for Politico since they’re the rats that finked him out? How dare a publication that lobbied for you to contribute turns you into a headline?
The timing is odd since this comes after all talk about Joe and Michael Bloomberg (the poor man’s George Soros) making a 2012 indie ticket.
Soros is worth $14 billion. Bloomberg is worth $18 billion.
Wouldn’t that make Soros the poor man’s Michael Bloomberg?
You people do realize all the people who signed to get Keith back on the air? I haven’t seen one yet on Scarborough. Will he also get a lot of signatures to do so?
You mean the 300,000 people who signed the petition? EXACTLY the number of viewers he has. That’s seems like a lot until you compare it to the 3.3 MILLION O’Reilly has and the 20 MILLION Limbaugh has. 300,000 would get any other host fired from his job. I’d be embarrassed if I was Olbermann at that pitiful number.
300,000 for keith how many for joe now that is a joke can u say none for joe the potatoehead now all a sudden want to be address as congress joe. what is running for and on who dime oh yeah that wouldn’t be the mayor dime good luck joe u will need it clean up your mess first[sectary matter] and stop tryin to get them to pull it.
Who at MSNBC will be suspended next, hmmmm? If “Comcast” is smart they’ll shut down MSNBC and get rid of all of them before Olbermann takes hostages!
Hi all. Didn’t Olbermann get paid for his 2 day suspension? The story says that Scarborough is getting a 2 day unpaid suspension. If this is the case then it’s hardly an equal punishment.
Keith threw a temper-tantrum and wound up getting his money. If Joe doesn’t get paid, then Keith really does have Phil Griffin’s manhood in a jar.
Joe deserves what he gets, I wish he’d take Mika with him so I do not have to see her for acouple days.
We are beyond politics now. The whole is so deep politics can’t help us.
It is fairly simple and our for fathers new it: united we stand divided we fall.
This bickering on right and left and red and blue doesn’( matter anymore.
We took our eye off the ball this is the result. Our education is low, health care and everyone is ritualistically
connected to there phones. We have become an isolated country within a country.
It’s really pretty simple- united we stand divided we fall that is what our for fathers said and they were right. Red and blue state right and left I about dividing the country and the divided will fall and we are.
Politic’s is obsolete in regards to solving the country’s problems so all this is about entertainment.
The country is in isolation witihn itself because of this split.
It seems to me that Joe is taking responsibility and explained how this kind of thing can happen. Politico probably did him a favor by releasing this story during a holiday week. As for “Morning Joe”, even though I’m a Dem, I think Joe hosts an excellent program.
One thing that has emerge from both incidents,this donation policy has caused a buzz among NBC employees. This paticular code of ethic has been called hypercrital,I read about this under the media blog in Politico. I wonder if Comcast ethics counsel is reviewing in quiet the NBC News code of ethics in regards to donations.
Still one can’t count out the fact that MSNBC Phil Griffen could be doing thses suspensions to impress Comcoast mamagement. Now that Comcast is in control of NBCU they’re considering firing Griffen or they waiting for him to screw up like his Zucker did over the Tonight show wars with Conan and Leno. And tommorrow must be scary for anyone employeed at MSNBC becouse Comcast has been moving thier execs in senior management positions.
Question is now MSNBC going to have more media public embarrassements in the future? Let’s wait and see.
I think any person in the U.S.A. has a constitutional right to support any political candidate regardless of so called employment rules. I hope that msnbc is taken to court.
don’t mind the personal contributions ,It’s just a drop in the bucket,what I don’t like is business,PAC’s
,corporate and pooled contributions of unions squeezing out the citizens voice from government.
example ; universal health care from our government pushed by the unions(never mind it would destroy their health care policies to their members in the future)and the monetary burden to citizens
from government(California’s) employee unions
most college professionals in our industry are indoctrinated left wing nut jobs anyway…
Bill Ayers? Really? Really shameful.