Keith Olbermann, the liberal host of MSNBC's Countdown, has been suspended without pay for violating NBC's code of ethics, which bars employees from donating to political campaigns. 
From the article:
"I became aware of Keith's political contributions late last night," Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC, said in a statement. "Mindful of NBC News policy and standards, I have suspended him indefinitely without pay."
I can't help but compare this to Juan Williams' recent firing from NPR after making unsavory comments on FOX News. Conservatives rallied around Williams, and he was granted a $2 million contract with FOX. Particularly, Gov. Sarah Palin claimed that NPR was at fault here for refusing to honor Williams' "first amendment rights." Like Olbermann, Williams was fired not for his views, per se, but for breaking his employer's policies. I wonder, will Palin and her acolytes rally around Olbermann like they did with Williams? If so, I'll hand it to them for sticking to their principles.
As Williams goes, so does Olbermann
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Measured enough? (And in my view there's a difference between breaking news and using news as a "gotcha" moment against people with whom one has political disagreements).
2. NPR is partly supported by taxpayer money; MSNBC in not.
3. I would have thought that MSNBC employees would have been required to make contributions to the Democratic Party as a condition of employment; it is quite surprising that they are not even allowed to.
I don't think any reasonable, measured person would think that Juan William's descriptions of his emotions were unsavory. Especially since Williams then says that our human rationality should not allow our passions/emotions to cause us to generalize and stereotype.
This website should not bear false witness against another man such as Juan Williams.
"MSNBC’s suspension of Keith Olbermann is ludicrous." Bill Kristol.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/keep-keith_514980.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/252650/defense-keith-olbermann-kathryn-jean-lopez
Paging Mr. O'loughlin.
Jonah Goldberg: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/252614/olbermanns-ethics-problem-jonah-goldberg
Stephen Spruill: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/252622/re-olbys-ethics-stephen-spruiell
What's the count of liberals standing up for Juan Williams?
Mr. O'Loughlin?
Fox-News apparently had several liberal commentators on their election coverage but Dana Millbank implied they had only one in an editorial he wrote. I turned on Fox News for a short time on Tuesday night as I flipped back and forth from CNN and a local news station and in a total of about 20 minutes saw Juan William, Joe Trippi, Geraldine Ferraro and someone else arguing vehemently with Carl Rove so I guess he was a liberal too.