Joe Oliver gets the boot

[SteveABG]

http://www.thegrio.com/specials/trayvon-martin/joe-oliver-george-zimmermans-friend-no-longer-his-media-advisor.php

NBC News confirmed that Oliver has removed himself from Zimmerman's team now that Sonner has hired co-counsel Hal Uhrig, who was a television legal analyst with an Orlando Fox affiliate during the Casey Anthony murder trial.

"My whole intention from the beginning was to help George with the media," Oliver told theGrio, claiming his many television appearances began with a mere coincidence.

"It just so happened that when I finally got in touch with Craig" to offer his services, on the day of their initial meeting just over a week ago, "ABC News was already there to interview Craig."

Oliver said he stepped forward to join the team because in his words, Sonner was inexperienced in dealing with the media, and Oliver, a former news anchor with NBC affiliate WESH in Orlando, who also worked for CNN, "was aware of what the media storm that was brewing was going to be like, having had 20 plus years experience both local and network. As a friend, acquaintance -- however you or anybody else wants to define it -- it was my obligation to offer my expertise to his counsel in dealing with the media."

This might be the first smart thing Zimmerman's lawyers have done.

[JaneQPublic]

1. Oliver disappeared after Lawrence O'Donnell grilled him. (nt)

[AtomicKitten]

2. Fucking goon.

[Catherina]

5. *Goon*, especially *fucking goon*, being a *term of endearment*

+1

[Spazito]

3. I LOL'd at this...

"My whole intention from the beginning was to help George with the media," ...."having had 20 plus years experience both local and network."

Every time he appeared on Zimmerman's behalf, he showed himself to be totally inept, uninformed and clownish....oh, wait a minute....that's also Fox network in a nutshell too.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Well seems now they are getting intelligent

And here, I was about to send them a backhoe.