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====Keith Olbermann and Joe Scarborough==== On November 5, 2010, MSNBC President Phil Griffin suspended Keith Olbermann indefinitely without pay for having contributed $2,400 (the maximum personal donation limit) to each of three Democratic Party candidates during the 2010 midterm election cycle.<ref name="aujla">{{Cite news |last=Aujla |first=Simmi |date=November 5, 2010 |title=Keith Olbermann suspended after donating to Democrats |work=[[Politico]] |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44734.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106123419/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44734.html |archive-date=November 6, 2010}}</ref> NBC News policy prohibited contributions to political campaigns unless NBC News had given its prior permission. On November 7, 2010, Olbermann posted a thank you message to supporters via Twitter.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Dolak |first1=Kevin |last2=Goldman |first2=Russell |date=November 7, 2010 |title=Olbermann to Be Back on the Air Tuesday |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/keith-olbermann-breaks-silence-twitter-feed/story?id=12082531 |url-status=live |access-date=November 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118221733/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/keith-olbermann-breaks-silence-twitter-feed/story?id=12082531 |archive-date=January 18, 2012}}</ref> That same day, MSNBC announced that he would be back on the air starting on November 9.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=STATEMENT REGARDING KEITH OLBERMANN β SUNDAY, NOV. 7 |date=November 7, 2010 |url=http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=2458&NewsAreaID=2&ClientID=7 |access-date=May 11, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316033151/http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=2458&NewsAreaID=2&ClientID=7 |archive-date=March 16, 2011 |website=[[NBCUniversal]] Press Centre}}</ref> Two weeks later, Griffin announced the suspension of [[Joe Scarborough]] for similar misconduct. The ''Morning Joe'' host had donated $4,000 to Republican candidates in Florida. Like Olbermann's suspension, Scarborough's was brief, and he returned to the airwaves on November 24.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schechner |first=Sam |date=November 19, 2010 |title=MSNBC Suspends 'Morning Joe' Host Scarborough for Political Donations |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/11/19/msnbc-suspends-morning-joe-host-scarborough-for-political-donations |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916151846/https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/11/19/msnbc-suspends-morning-joe-host-scarborough-for-political-donations |archive-date=September 16, 2017}}</ref>
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