Forum Moderator Olbermann: Union Card May Have Saved His Broadcast Career

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/08/03/forum-moderator-olbermann-union-card-may-have-saved-his-broadcast-career/

Forum Moderator Olbermann: Union Card May Have Saved His Broadcast Career

by Mike Hall, Aug 3, 2007

Keith Olbermann says he’s not surprised that “an informed audience like the AFL-CIO membership” has responded overwhelmingly to next week’s presidential forum. He also says a union card may have saved his broadcast career.

The host of MSNBC’s “Countdown,” Olbermann is set to moderate the AFL-CIO’s Presidential Candidates Forum in Chicago on Tuesday evening. The response from union families has been so great that the forum will be held at Soldier Field, where as many as 15,000 union household members are expected.



The forum will be broadcast live on MSNBC starting at 7 p.m. Eastern (6 p.m. Central) and on XM radio. (Find out how to host a Watch Party here.) There also will be up-to-the minute commentary and coverage on the AFL-CIO Now blog.

Some of the questions Olbermann will ask the seven Democratic presidential hopefuls will come from the more than 2,200 submitted by union members at the AFL-CIO’s Working Families Vote 2008 website. You have until Sunday at midnight to vote for your favorite among the final 10 questions.

Yesterday in a phone interview from New York, Olbermann talked to me about his emergence as a political commentator, impressions of previous debates, the role of unions in politics, his early career and the one question he would ask President Bush if he was guaranteed a truthful answer. Here are some excerpts.

FULL story at link.

Damn I have a meeting. I know they will rerun it but still I was so looking forward to this.

there has been so little said about this post.