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PASADENA -- Conan O'Brien has stated his intention to leave. The question now is how long will NBC allow him to stay?
A difficult situation is quickly becoming untenable, as the (for now, but probably not for long) host of The Tonight Show is now using the once-proud NBC franchise to heap trash-talk upon the network on which it airs.
And one can't help but wonder how much longer the corporate bosses at the Peacock Network are going to allow such nasty monologue skewering to continue.
The betting here is the answer will be measured in minutes and hours, not days and weeks.
Even as media types and fans were scrambling to digest the content of O'Brien's crisply-worded statement on Tuesday, in which he declared he will not participate in the "destruction" of The Tonight Show, rumours began circulating that NBC was hastily assembling a roster of guest hosts to take O'Brien's place on the show.
And...