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Hes leaving and msnbc issued a statement only saying it has ended its contract with the controversial host without further explanation, olbermann hosted the networks top rated show. im jamie colby. great to have you with us on fox. back to "bulls & bears." more headlines 30 minutes away. >> say good-bye to regulations hurting jobs and businesses. thats what president obama says his new executive order to review government rules will do. but a federal judge says not so fast! hes rejecting a white...

>> heather: back to the headlines were following for you. a japanese rocket with supplies for the international space station takes off in southern japan. the rocket is carrying nearly six tons of food, water and clothing and experimental equipment. >> keith olbermann calling it quits live on his show last night. he did not give a reason. the network only saying it had ended his contract with him. >> and atlanta county sheriff is planning to suspend 120 workers because they didnt show up. deputi...

Opening bell and computer giant apple may be in for a pretty rough morning. after being closed for the mlk holiday, the markets are digesting news that co-founder steve jobs is taking a medical leave of absence. apples stock prices fell almost 16% at the opening bell. a mans headless body was found in the offices of the networks bridging tv designed for muslims living in the u.s. charges filed against a muslim dictator who made an unexpected return over the weekend. he has been accused of st...

Writes tim graham on newsbusters "mocked conservatives for having no respect for freedom of religion this from comedy central the network that mocks jesus and christians relentlessly but censors whenever the radical muslims threaten them? yes, stewart was arguing for the greatness of islam that it should be accepted with great tolerance as a global religion." except when comedy central folded in front of muslims stewart knocked comedy central. you know how i know that? grahams own media research...

Independence. in 2010 fox news said it will no longer support israel. coincidence or the hand of god? >> coincidence. the u.s. denied the fox story, much of which it reported not on april 19th but on april 18th. number three, if all that he said had been true, why didnt god use his hand in judgment that day rather than waiting until the 20th? are you suggesting he took the night off? nowhere in the bible does it say god has cable. but our winner, congressman dan burton, republican of indiana, wh...

As republicans. his biographier said if murdoch could make as much as money from a liberal network as from a conservative one, he would do it. is there something to be said for murdoch as a propagandist? >> he has expressed conservative views before. its that the basket of conservative beliefs includes for the most part really restrictive immigration policies. hes never really confronted that before. is there less money to make in this? i dont know where fox viewers would go if they were outrage...

>> is it possible this was just to cover his own head? it would be one thing if fox took a skeptical view of immigration reform. he consistently takes problems with undocumented workers and splices that together with the lies and gross exaggeration. doesnt that machine chew up one or two guests who might speak reasonably on the subject, even if one of the guests is rupert murdoch? >> you have to do a lot of reprogramming to get this out of the bloodstream of conservative media. theyre giving it ...

Lets turn instead to david weigel, also author of the blog, right now. dave, good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> are we sure mr. murdoch knew where he was this morning? >> he did have a zen attitude twashd d toward the media, considering he controls whats on this network. but i have sympathy, because i have never interviewed my own boss in such a fashion. i dont know what i would say. im not sure if he is taking the right tack here. we have seen a couple efforts where multimega billionaires...

People like murdoch than not. >> never mind what the viewers of that might have made of it, what would the ripple effect have been through fox news such as it is when you hear the boss talking essentially against, if not the main principal point of the networks existence, one of the top five? >> we dont have any sign that fox -- its been a day -- we dont have any sign fox is going to change the way it covers this issue. its a sticky thing to talk about. the owner of news corp putting the word ou...

Rupert murdoch visited his own network this morning, and spoke of the need for immigration reform, as if. in our third story tonight, as if his network, fox news, had not regularly maligned immigration reform. as if his network had not equated documented workers as criminals. as if his network used the word undocumented workers instead of illegals. the bizarro world rose when mayor michael bloomberg of new york enlisted big city mayors, including murdoch to push for comprehensive reform and its ...