Olbermann Attacks O’Reilly Personally, Glenn Beck Has His Back

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by Steve Krakauer | 5:55 pm, August 26th, 2009

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best_8-26 We know whatever GE/FOX “deal” there was is now dust. But last night the attacks reached heights not seen since before the summer. On Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the MSNBC host went after Bill O’Reilly personally.

And it was based on some faulty ratings – which Glenn Beck pounced on during his radio show today.

Olbermann named O’Reilly the “Best Person in the World” last night (and changed the picture), but it was more of the same – a knock at the FNC host. Began Olbermann (via J$):

In his nightly round of self-applause last night, designed to drown out the echo of daddy hitting him…

This insult takes the feud to another level – or rather, the level it was at before June when several reports say a truce of some kind was first reached.

The attack came over O’Reilly’s insult toward MSNBC’s ratings, and Olbermann answered with some new ratings info of his own. “Ours is the highest rated cable news program viewers 35 and younger and the highest rated cable news program for all viewers not on Fixed News,” he said.

Well besides the fact that “35 and younger” isn’t exactly a usual demographic, according to Nielsen, this doesn’t appear to be accurate. The lowest age level would be the 18-34 demo, which O’Reilly still beat Olbermann in during July (140,000 to 124,000). The FNC host is winning by that same percentage in August so far.

On Beck’s radio show today, he went after Olbermann. Olbermann continued last night describing the FNC audience as “tinfoil hatters, conspiracy theorists, paranoids and racists,” and Beck had a response:

I don’t know how many lines you need to cross before you get to State‑Controlled Media. Does Barack Obama need to sign the check for Keith Olbermann before we can look at MSNBC and NBC News as State‑Controlled Media?

O’Reilly won’t fire back at Olbermann – he considers that swinging down. But expect another GE takedown soon, and for the cycle to continue. With Beck involved, the ante is upped that much further.

Here’s Olbermann’s “bests” segment:

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JimW

Olbermann’s program is becoming a television “Völkischer Beobachter” for the Obama administration. Nasty propaganda spewing from the most repulsive person on TV today.
StewartIII

Glenn Beck Blasts MSNBC and Keith Olbermann!
http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2009/08/glenn_beck_blas.php
sarainitaly

It’s so laughable – Olbermann is such a liar, and pathetic, and attacks because he is dying in the ratings. Perhaps if he wasn’t such a partisan hack, and wasn’t so OBSESSED with FOX and O’Reilly someone might actually watch his show. He has turned off everyone except the very bottom of the barrel cheeto eating basement dwellers.

If his viewers wanted to know what FOX was doing everyday they would just watch FOX (which they are…) Why do they need to watch Olbermann? All he does is rant and rave about FOX, wave around his school diploma and talk about how many viewers he has. Why in the h*ll would ANYONE normal watch that?

And his PATHETIC guests like Janeane Garafolo? Spewing their bitter evil bile about average americans? The only people they are appealing to are BIGOTS.

Personally I think Olby has some freakishly sick love/obsession/jealousy thing going on with O’Reilly.

My advice to msnbc would be to quit obsessing over FOX and their viewers and report the friggin news. report, not spin.
Illinois Rez

I watched Olbermann for about a year – meh. He was always in a rage (jealousy) regarding Bill O’Reilly. One night, I tuned into The Factor to see what he was complaining about. I NEVER went back to watching Countdown with BathBoy.
FOX is laughing all the way to the bank…..keep it up Keith. The more attention he brings to FOX with his whining, the more viewers they get.
m

All of the arguments leveraged against MSNBC and Olbermann for being a ‘propaganda machine’ for the Obama Administration are just as valid as with Fox News during the Bush Administration years. Difference now is that we actually have two networks with two clear ideological differences, while back then MSNBC hadn’t even profiled itself as a liberal alternative (they didn’t really do it until they hired Maddow and cemented it in with Ed Schultz early this year).
xit1254

Y’all have it all wrong! MSNBC is not a news show – it’s NBC’s comedy channel and KO’s their top comedian – no one could be that unintentionally funny.
StewartIII

“It was like setting a match to gasoline when Bill O’Reilly unwisely decided to drag Keith Olbermann’s deceased parent into his feud with the MSNBC host. The reaction was as incendiary as O’Reilly’s attack. The staid TV Newser asked in a headline: “Has O’Reilly Crossed the Line?” Media Matters produced an instant special investigative report detailing Mrs Olbermann’s saintly existence. Gawker called for O’Reilly to be fired, commenters on Daily Kos upped the ante with colorful description of how to “off” the Factor host, and the Huffington Post splashed huge red-type headlines across the page: “O’Reilly Smear of Olbermann Family: The Last Straw?” (The question mark was their nod to impartiality and fairness.) And the newshounds produced one “original” post for each of the above that they linked to and parroted.”
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“Of course none of that happened, except maybe on Bizarro planet in an alternate universe. But the proposed reactions are not unlikely. For a nationally televised cable news personality to use his air time to attack personally one of his competitors and smear a family member in the process–that would be an act of unspeakable degeneracy. And yet, that did happen this week. Only it wasn’t Bill O’Reilly–who has steadfastly avoided personal attacks on Mr Olbermann or his family. No, it was Olbermann who, just before lying about his ratings, characterized Bill O’Reilly in this fashion:”
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‘In his nightly round of self-applause last night, designed to drown out the echo of daddy hitting him…’

Olbermann Attacks O’Reilly Personally, Glenn Beck Has His Back
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/olbermann-attacks-oreilly-personally-glenn-beck-has-his-back/
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“Does it surprise anyone that Olbermann’s diseased invective has passed almost unnoticed? Nothing from TV Newser. Nothing from Gawker. Nothing from Media Matters. Nothing from News Corpse, the newshounds, or The Daily Beast. Sites like these have posted hundreds of articles about the “feud”, yet none of them found this sick defamation newsworthy. A Google search shows a whopping nine references to Olbermann’s quote. Only one major media site noted the remark: a report from Steve Krakauer on mediaite (ironically run by MSNBC legal analyst Dan Abrams). To the rest of the blogosphere it was the dog that did not bark.”

http://www.google.com/search?&rls=en-us&q=%22+the+echo+of+daddy+hitting+him%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Olbermann Attacks O’Reilly Personally, Glenn Beck Has His Back
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/olbermann-attacks-oreilly-personally-glenn-beck-has-his-back/
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“There was one noticeable exception, and in a further dose of irony it was an Olbermann fan site: The O Files. There JFein’s increasing discomfort with Olbermann’s ways reached a breaking point with Keith’s repellent attack. JFein’s piece was quickly deleted by the site’s administrator, but has been reposted by the author where it cannot be erased:”
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‘When you start it out by joking about a matter that is so serious (child abuse), you crossed the line with me and I have absolutely had it with him. It’s wrong, it’s DAMN WRONG! You don’t make that kind of reference, no matter how much you can’t stand someone. And the sad part is, there is not a damn person at MSNBC willing to do something about it.’

Fire Keith Olbermann Now!
http://fireandyreidnow.blogspot.com/2009/08/fire-keith-olbermann-now.html
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“When will the rest of the blogosphere treat this story as they would if it had been O’Reilly–or Glenn Beck–who had said it? Or will they simply allow their silence to imply approval?”
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