Keith Olbermann Concedes An O’Reilly Comment On His Show Was ‘Over-The-Top’

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by Frances Martel | 9:07 pm, August 17th, 2010

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Is this Keith Olbermann‘s way of apologizing for taking things too far? In an opening to a segment on Countdown tonight, Olbermann noted that longtime nemesis Bill O’Reilly had done a story regarding his corporate overlords, GE, and categorized it as not newsworthy, but vengeful. The reason for pointing this out? Olbermann was about to do a segment on News Corp, Fox News’ parent company, but he wanted to make clear that it wasn’t a “tit-for-tat” story.

Why would O’Reilly seek retaliation? It seems that a large chunk of Countdown is devoted to attacking Fox News and especially O’Reilly on a regular basis, but Olbermann called the comments that he believe led to O’Reilly’s GE story as “over-the-top.” He didn’t specify which comments those were, however,or who made them):

“Last night on his program, Bill O’Reilly went after MSNBC’s parent company, GE, for something that even O’Reilly acknowledged was ‘hard to be outraged about.’ It was not news, but appears to be a response to some over-the-top remarks made here about O’Reilly.”

He later went on to clarify that his story on News Corp was not of that nature, but did not clarify what the enigmatic “over-the-top” comments were. The best guess? The only thing Olbermann has said on his program lately that is legitimately objectionable despite any political bias: bringing in potential abuses O’Reilly suffered as a child to comment on his silly feud with Jennifer Aniston. Olbermann is not one known to apologize for taking things too far, so even acknowledging that, maybe, something said on his program was a bit of a low blow is noteworthy, even if, in the future, Olbermann doesn’t bother to clarify what he was talking about. We’ll post an update if Olbermann does clarify which comment he was talking about.

The clip from tonight’s Countdown via MSNBC below:

Bill O'Reilly, Countdown, fox news, GE, keith olbermann, msnbc, News Corp.

NORBIT

Are you kidding me?

Immelt has more Obama-Chills running up his leg than Chris Matthews!
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What if you attacked a News station people actually watch, and you’re on msnbc? – Did anyone with a working brain hear it???
BR

Keith “Tokyo Rose” Olbermann is a vile person due to being molested by his father.
lanquihue

This dude’s gonna snap someday, kind of like that guy on the movie “Network”
Azarkhan

“We’ll post an update if Olbermann does clarify which comment he was talking about.”

Don’t bother. It will be easier to e-mail the three people who care.
Kird

Embarrassing petty. If all he wants to talk about is Fox then why are supposed to watch him?
http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

Herr Olbermann und Larry O’Donnell are going to have a crazy- off each night starting next month , until Comcast pulls the plug .
Arkansas Steve

I don’t want to be crude, but in the 6th grade my friends and I would have said:

Keith Olbermann is not fit to carry Bill O’Reilly’s jock strap!
ZoneDaiatlas

General Electric (GE) today announced that it had reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over charges of illegal kickbacks its subsidiaries paid to win contracts in the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Program. As a result, GE has agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and give up the estimated $22.5 million in profits plus interest earned on the transactions.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/ge-settles-kickback-allegations-in-oil-for-food-program-with-sec/19570281/
ReFlex76

NORBIT said:
Are you kidding me?

Immelt has more Obama-Chills running up his leg than Chris Matthews!

Must be after he said “we are all Neocons now!” Matthews is at least right-of-center, certainly a wannabe conservative.
http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

So to paraphrase: “Bill was out of line for going after our parent company, but while I was going after his parent company it was sound journalism, and Bill was simply being vindictive, even though I was going to do the exact same thing, but I was planning on doing it anyway, so I was not vindictive, even though he did it first.”

Briother . . .
murf

ReFlex76 said:
Must be after he said “we are all Neocons now!” Matthews is at least right-of-center, certainly a wannabe conservative.

With that, you have lost all credibility.
BatBoy

Please join me in never commenting here when a story of Kieth Oberman appears….

I shall monitor thru 9/30 without comment.

He is not worth our written words.
puck30

ZoneDaiatlas said:
General Electric (GE) today announced that it had reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over charges of illegal kickbacks its subsidiaries paid to win contracts in the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Program. As a result, GE has agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and give up the estimated $22.5 million in profits plus interest earned on the transactions. http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/ge-settles-kickback-allegations-in-oil-for-food-program-with-sec/19570281/

Jeff Immelt was also named one of the five worst Non-Financial-Crisis-Related CEOs of 2008 by the Free Enterprise Action Fund. Since taking over, GE’s stock has dropped nearly 60%. In February 2009, Immelt was appointed as a member to the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the president and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America’s economic downturn.

One of the five WORST CEOs and he gets appointed to Obama’s circle?
notsofast

KO, copying “The Factor” will not improve your ratings. It’s YOU- not the stories you cover. It’s YOU!
juan

Who is Keith Olbermann and what is MSNBC?
The Real Royal King

Since FOX gave up any pretense of being a news organization today, this ought to end the ego heavy feud between the two bliggest bloated pischers of television. They’re no longer peers. Olbermann remains a commentator and O’Reilly is simply a propagandist for the RNC. They can put away the ruler.

WITH LIES & DISTORTIONS
FOX NEWS IS REPLETE
BUT BECK EARNS THE TITLE:
MASTER OF DECEIT!
notsofast

The Real Royal King said:
Since FOX gave up any pretense of being a news organization today,

Since you gave up any pretense of intelligence, why not keep quiet?
felixw

Olbermann isn’t a political pundit, just a hit man specializing in character attacks of the lowest, most vile sort. It’s just like him to make classless comments of this sort. These things aren’t exceptions, but regular occurrences on his show, which should be called Meltdown, not Countdown. The fact that he is the leading TV spokesman for the American Left speaks volumes.
felixw

The Real Royal King said:
Since FOX gave up any pretense of being a news organization…

Royal King, you have the credibility of a snail….You make us laugh with your pronouncements, which are always followed by your “Mary Had a Little Lamb” songs.
lonestar77

ReFlex76 says:
August 17, 2010 at 9:30 pm (Quote)
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“Must be after he said “we are all Neocons now!” Matthews is at least right-of-center, certainly a wannabe conservative.”

Congrats! You win the award for stupidest post I’ve ever read. I would mock your comment but it basically speaks for itself.
The Real Royal King

felixw said:
The fact that he is the leading TV spokesman for the American Left speaks volumes.

Last I heard, you and your bretheren and cistern were claiming Hugo Chavez was the spokesman for the left. Please get your cockeyed stories straight.

WITH LIES & DISTORTIONS
FOX NEWS IS REPLETE
BUT BECK EARNS THE TITLE:
MASTER OF DECEIT!
The Real Royal King

felixw said:
Royal King, you have the credibility of a snail….You make us laugh with your pronouncements, which are always followed by your “Mary Had a Little Lamb” songs.

Where is your money, there is your heart.

WITH LIES & DISTORTIONS
FOX NEWS IS REPLETE
BUT BECK EARNS THE TITLE:
MASTER OF DECEIT!
felixw

The Real Royal King said:
Where is your money, there is your heart.

WITH LIES & DISTORTIONS
FOX NEWS IS REPLETE
BUT BECK EARNS THE TITLE:
MASTER OF DECEIT!

Does it go to the melody of “Animal Crackers in My Soup” or “Itsy Bitsy Spider”?
The Real Royal King

felixw said:
Does it go to the melody of “Animal Crackers in My Soup” or “Itsy Bitsy Spider”?

The Internationale.

WITH LIES & DISTORTIONS
FOX NEWS IS REPLETE
BUT BECK EARNS THE TITLE:
MASTER OF DECEIT!
tigerprez

Olbermann has some serious daddy issues, seeing that he also used his own dying father as a political pawn to score a few cheap points on the man’s final dying breaths. No wonder even his own colleagues despise him. You could call him the Maury Povich of journalism, except Povich actually has a few viewers.

Is there anyone who does more damage to liberalism on a nightly basis than Keith Olbermann?
http://bit.ly/bKGa13 dandmb50

It’s like 6 year olds in the school yard, I don’t even watch MSNBC anymore. But if it is corruption, I kinda think that is news. Yelling and screaming and tit for tat is not news. But I think one poster got it right, he is heading in the direction of the guy in Network, and he’s kinda looking a lot like Dr. Laura way too angry all the time.
And yes, no-one really cares Keith.

Daniel .. Toronto, CANADA
http://bit.ly/bKGa13
murf

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http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Here is the latest poll on RRKs approval. 29 thumbs down, 3 thumbs up.

RRK the people have spoken, you are lower that Congress and Obama. What does that mean?
It means RRK SUCKS big time.
writer

Like when Olbermann, covering Scott Brown’s election, called Brown a racist, sexist homophobe. Now that’s what the King considers straight up, unbiased journalism.
writer

BTW, King. Pennsylvania has the most trailer parks per capita. You said it was Alabama. Caught in another lie, King.
writer

One more for the road. Alabama had the most in 2005. Pennsylvania has taken the lead. So to stay current, whenever the King arrogantly looks down on anyone living in a trailer, he’ll have to focus his hateful, Little Lord Fauntleroy attitude a little farther north.
NORBIT

Pelosi calling for an investigation – not of the Imam’s background or affiliates, not of the mosque’s funding…but of the 65% of Americans protesting the location of the mosque!

This is the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE talking:
http://www.breitbart.tv/pelosi-calls-for-investigation-of-ground-zero-mosque-opposition/#idc-container
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The ENEMIES of American Freedom now go under one banner – DEMOCRATS!
NORBIT

Turning on Mediaite and seeing the Olbermann story there reminded me of something:

EVIL DOES HAVE A FACE!!!!!

lol!!!
JimBob

You want to ignore the Olbermann’s of MSNBC, but it is hard to not want to remind
yourself and others what insignificant SHITS they really are. (check ratings).
I channel surf a lot, and can usually not stand anyone on that Network for more
than a few minutes.
Last night was an exception. The guy filling in for Mr. Ed, the Talking Horses Ass
was so bad, I had to stay with it awhile to see if he could get any worse. He didn’t disappoint
me. That has got to be the dumbest management in history, if they can not see why
the ratings SUCK !! Where do they find these fools??
The Real Royal King

writer said:
BTW, King. Pennsylvania has the most trailer parks per capita. You said it was Alabama. Caught in another lie, King.

Which fact are you distorting? The number of mobile home parks per capita, or the number of mobile homes per capita? You have mangled the criteria.

EACH AND EV’RY DAY
FOX FANS RAISE THE CALL:
GIVE US RIGHTIST LIES,
OR NOTHING AT ALL!
The Real Royal King

JimBob said:
You want to ignore the Olbermann’s of MSNBC, but it is hard to not want to remindyourself and others what insignificant SHITS they really are. (check ratings).I channel surf a lot, and can usually not stand anyone on that Network for morethan a few minutes.Last night was an exception. The guy filling in for Mr. Ed, the Talking Horses Asswas so bad, I had to stay with it awhile to see if he could get any worse. He didn’t disappointme. That has got to be the dumbest management in history, if they can not see whythe ratings SUCK !! Where do they find these fools??

Indeed, a full 1% of Americans watch FOX “News”. That’s terribly significant, almost approaching the number of American bankers who wear thongs to work.

EACH AND EV’RY DAY
FOX FANS RAISE THE CALL:
GIVE US RIGHTIST LIES,
OR NOTHING AT ALL!
JimBob

You are an idiot, Queen!!
But you already know that!!
NORBIT

Pres. dropped 3 pts. since Ithtar speech. Is there any way we can drag this thing out for at least another 6-8 weeks?
- tell Patterson to Mind His Own Business! LOL!!!
The Real Royal King

JimBob said:
You are an idiot, Queen!!But you already know that!!

To quote Michelle-in-Utah, show me where my facts are wrong.

EACH AND EV’RY DAY
FOX FANS RAISE THE CALL:
GIVE US RIGHTIST LIES,
OR NOTHING AT ALL!
JimBob

Queen, you are an idiot! No matter how large the pie, FOX continues and
always will take the LARGEST PORTION as long as the only competition is MSNBC and CNN.
The Real Royal King

JimBob said:
Queen, you are an idiot! No matter how large the pie, FOX continues andalways will take the LARGEST PORTION as long as the only competition is MSNBC and CNN.

I wouldn’t call it a pie. Maybe one of this small, bite-sized fruit tortes. You know, the tiny, tiny, tiny ones, just enough to get under your bridge work, the ones that have a moldy tasting crust and the soggy bottoms?

EACH AND EV’RY DAY
FOX FANS RAISE THE CALL:
GIVE US RIGHTIST LIES,
OR NOTHING AT ALL!
writer

King, whichever state happens to have the most trailers from one year to the next, it only seems to matter to you. All I can say is, if you don’t like trailers, the next time you’re visiting relatives, stay in a hotel.
writer

A note to Michelle. Instead of a Mormon, start telling the King you’re a Muslim. That way he’d deem it politically incorrect to keep insulting you.
American

Category | Cable News RatingsRSS feed for this sectionCable News Ratings for Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Posted on 19 August 2010 by Robert Seidman (Source – Nielsen)

| Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for August 18, 2010
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,217,000 viewers
CNN – 360,000 viewers
MSNBC – 349,000 viewers
CNBC – 171,000 viewers
HLN – 274,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,435,000 viewers
CNN – 444,000 viewers
MSNBC –720,000 viewers
CNBC – 171,000 viewers
HLN – 470,000 viewers
ifpff

Why don’t they just make out already. I bet Olbermann had his apology scripted before he even made the initial comment
alex020588

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