
President Bush is leaving office, but liberals have just been sentenced to four more years of Keith Olbermann. According to the Times, MSNBC, in a melodramatic gesture that befits the Countdown host’s personality, “tore up his February 2007 contract (reported to be worth up to $4 million a year) and wrote a new one,” worth about $7.5 million a year. Then they chucked it into the glass with a smarmy “Good night and good luck.” [TV Decoder/NYT]