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Olbermann: WTF? GOP spokesman fired for criticizing Limbaugh

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The Republican Party’s growing — and potentially fatal — propensity to eat its own came in for scrutiny by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann’s during Tuesday’s “WTF moment.”

Two months ago, a Wisconsin man named Kevin Stevenson wrote a column for the Wausau Daily Herald which criticized Rush Limbaugh for saying that he wanted President Obama to fail.

“Today’s politics is full of self-interest,” Stevenson wrote. “Rush Limbaugh… has a large and loyal following, but so does Rachel Maddow as an extreme liberal. Both of these people need to shock to keep their ratings high. They are entertainers who earn their living by what they say, not what they accomplish.”

As a result of those remarks Stevenson lost his job — as spokesman for the Marathon County Republican Party................

GREAT olbermann wtf moment to NO brain of steele

where do they get this shite? (the they this time is ANY republican or ANY ONE who believes the steele shite)

Olbermann butchers RNC chairman on same-sex marriage
by David Edwards and John Byrne

Same-sex marriage doesn't hurt small businesses.

That's according to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who excoriated Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on his "Countdown" program Monday.

Steele said Sunday that legalizing same-sex marriage would hurt small businesses because they'd be liable for more spouses.

"Now all of a sudden I've got someone who wasn't a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for," Steele told Republicans in Georgia. "So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money."

But Olbermann pointed out that weddings are a boon for small businesses and studies have estimated that same-sex marriage legalization will create thousands of new jobs.

"Mr. Steele, in this country, weddings are a $70 billion a year industry," Olbermann remarked. "B, billion, as in Bridezilla. Seventy billion. Most of it spread among local florists, local photographers, local hotels, local restaurants, local bridal stores..........