Rachel Maddow personally stepped in to block former MSNBC host and her one-time mentor, Keith Olbermann, from getting her coveted primetime slot on the liberal network.
MSNBC has been searching for her replacement ever since she went on hiatus and Olbermann thought he had the inside track on the gig.
However, Maddow stepped in to shut down the idea despite Olbermann offering her a โf*ckton of money.โ
โI offered to have her production company โproduceโ the show,โ Olbermann said.
โWould give her some proxy control and a f-ckton of money but she and former MSNBC boss Phil Griffin refused.
โI do not expect to continue negotiations with the successors to this management team,โ Olbermann added before insulting management and sealing his fate.
โManagement is worse than asleep at the switch.โ
โKeith Olbermann is MSNBCโs only hope after their disastrous decision to pay Rachel Maddow eight figures not to work. Thereโs no one else,โ a longtime TV news executive told Fox News.
โHow embarrassing for MSNBC that theyโre still giving Rachel veto power over hosts who donโt pass her ideological litmus test,โ the executive said.
โCesar Conde keeps surpassing himself as the weakest executive in network television.โ
From The Daily Beast:
Maddowโs rejection of Olbermann as her replacement is especially noteworthy considering the role he played in turning her from an Air America radio host into his protรฉgรฉ as an MSNBC regular and eventual star voice of the channel.ย
While the pair were friendly during Olbermannโs glory days with the network, their relationship has soured in recent years.
Olbermann may have gotten a laugh at MSNBC, however, when this weekend the network became the internetโs โmain characterโ for a day after The Rachel Maddow Show was forced to delete a tweet and issue a groveling apology boosting a claim from Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, that Adolf Hitler didnโt kill โethnic Germans.โ
This weekโs Source Material newsletter reveals that MSNBC almost brought back Keith Olbermann to replace Maddowโuntil Rachel stepped in to kill it. https://t.co/oyyrQ0zMji
โ Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) March 15, 2022
My old boss @KeithOlbermann thinks thereโs a case for military detention of Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson, adding, โTrials are a sign of good faith and patience on the part of a democracy.โ https://t.co/DGWOOMgzyK
โ Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 14, 2022
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