Politico reports:
Keith Olbermann thanked his viewers for a “ground-rattling” level of support and apologized to them for causing “such anxiety and unnecessary drama” in an open letter, obtained by the New York Times.
There were no apologies for MSNBC, though, only an angry tone at the way the suspension was handled. Olbermann claimed he knew nothing about the rule against donations, and was told through a representative that he wouldn’t be suspended, only to find out the contrary via the media.
He continued:
You should also know that I did not attempt to keep any of these political contributions secret; I knew they would be known to you and the rest of the public. I did not make them through a relative, friend, corporation, PAC, or any other intermediary, and I did not blame them on some kind of convenient ‘mistake’ by their recipients. When a website contacted NBC about one of the donations, I immediately volunteered that there were in fact three of them; and contrary to much of the subsequent reporting, I immediately volunteered to explain all this, on-air and off, in the fashion MSNBC desired.
The full letter is here.
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