Keith seems to place a premium on being a team player with other NBC talent, even when he presumably thinks they suck (which I, craven tool that I am, think is excusable because we need him to hold his position and keep firing at the schmucks on
other companies' shows).
More than that, he may be keeping all his criticisms "in the family"; a review of his statements* when Imus was fired may be instructive:
"Was I guilty of maybe not making as big a stink about this as I should have? Yeah. But you don't have free rein to shoot internally. Really, I feel like you don't, and I know, more importantly, and possibly the deciding factor and my primary defense about this is, if I had started to make Don Imus the Worst Person in the World when I first wanted to, which would have been--when did we start Worst Person in the World?--July of 2005--I would probably have done it within the first month at some point, for something he did.
"If I had done that, there would have been a constant battle. I would have been happy to join that battle with him (but) there would have been a constant battle involving the people who work for me--my producers, my staff--who have no business being trotted out. And they would have been mentioned by name on Imus's show. They would have been mentioned by name, there would have been problems involving them internally, there would have been complaints about them. I didn't think I had a right to do that. And I thought had a responsibility to my employers to go along with them, and after the management change about a year ago, I figured there was probably--something was going to happen. And finally, something did. Imus took care of it himself."
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