Phil Griffin Threatened to Fire Keith Olbermann
"We are at war," the MSNBC president told Olbermann's manager, according to a new report detailing the fallout from the Countdown host's political donations.
Keith Olbermann was nearly fired from MSNBC after donating to three political candidates -- and threatening to make the morning talk-show circuit rounds to discuss it, according to a detailed new report in The Daily Beast.
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