The suspension confuses cause and effect. Giving to candidates doesn't cause partiality; partiality causes someone to give to a candidate. I can't imagine anyone is shocked that Olbermann donated to Democrats. Sheesh, it's like being shocked that officeholders generally want to be re-elected. Olbermann wasn't being paid to be impartial; I don't think he ever did straight reporting in his life. What story did he ever break? What great investigative piece did he ever do? I can't think of one. All he ever did was mouth off about his opinions. So who the heck cares that he donated money to candidates?
MSNBC behaved like jerks on this one.
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