Keith Olbermann Defends Cutting Into Rachel Maddow's Show on Twitter The wankstorm that the "Supersized Edition" of Countdown (along with the mention that the 63-minute-runtime will be standard) generated last night was epic; the article above only covers a portion of it. I'm of about six minds on the whole thing, personally. Is he deliberately trying to torpedo MSNBC in the hopes that they'll let Rachel out of her contract early?