Report: Rachel Maddow vetoed MSNBC's attempt to bring back Keith Olbermann
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The Daily Beast's Lachlan Cartwright reports Olbermann was "in lengthy discussions" to fill Maddow's void in the 9 p.m. ET timeslot while she was on a months-long hiatus from her show. “I offered to have her production company ‘produce’ the show. Would give her some proxy control and a fu*kton of money but she and (former MSNBC president-turned-consultant to Maddow’s production company) Phil Griffin refused,” Olbermann tells Cartwright, claiming that the network also offered him a show in 2016. “I do not expect to continue negotiations with the successors to this management team,” he adds. “Management is worse than asleep at the switch.” As Cartwright notes, Maddow was once Olbermann's protégé at MSNBC, but their relationship has soured in recent years.
TOPICS: Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel Maddow, Cable News
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