And for those of you who were starting to doubt the existence of a merciful, righteous and just God...

Keith Olbermann -- Fired By MSNBC
1/21/2011 8:45 PM PST by TMZ Staff

Keith Olbermann was fired by MSNBC sources tell TMZ, and we're told it had everything to do with Comcast's acquisition of NBC.

Sources connected with the network tell us ... Comcast honchos did not like Keith's defiance and the way he played in the sandbox.

Our sources say Keith has around two years left on his contract, and he'll be paid his salary -- around $7 million a year.

We don't know if Comcast will let Keith make a deal with another network as part of an exit agreement, but it's a good bet he'll be benched for a minimum of 6 months, and probably longer.

Good riddance, but I have to wonder, with their chief asshat no longer present to make Liberals look even more ignorant and bat-shit insane than they already are, one would think that the station's ratings might finally start going up. I mean, since MSNBC gets the best ratings of all Liberal MSM news outlets, where, oh where will all the modern Marxist revolutionaries go now for their daily dose of leftist vitriol?