Keith Olbermann was on David Letterman last night where he explained for the first time on TV why he left MSNBC. Here is the video from CBS: Keith Olbermann called his MSNBC departure a long and boring story, and said, “At some point in the last few years that I have been doing the news in the way that I do, it has occurred to me that the best place to continue doing the news in that way would be to do it at a place that is just in the news business and nothing else. It doesn’t also own an amusement park in Orlando, it doesn’t have outdoor advertising, or beet plantations in the Azures. It’s a company that just did news and we could kind of make every decision relying on that.” Olbermann said he has had nine full time employers and three of the later hired him back. He also discussed how they took the name Countdown with him and said, “We just sort of did it. I’m sure will hear from them if they’re not happy.” NBC never bothered to trademark the name Countdown, so it looks there was nothing stopping him from doing it. It [...]PoliticusUSA - Real Liberal Politics ~~ No Corporate Money, No Masters