O’Reilly/NBC Feud Takes New Turn; Network Exec Happy It “Has Nothing To Do With Us”

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by Steve Krakauer | 9:24 am, August 20th, 2009

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gregory_8-20 When we talked to CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus this week about the network’s big victory Sunday, we ended the conversation with a question about the GE/FOX feud. “Thank heavens it has nothing to do with us,” he told Mediaite.

The GE/FOX feud shows no signs of letting up, with Keith Olbermann again targeting Fox News hosts during his “Worst Persons” segment last night, and still throwing in a Bill O’Reilly reference at least once a week. And on The O’Reilly Factor, the Fox News host turned his attention to a new NBC News anchor.

In a segment that was teased online and on-air all day yesterday, O’Reilly had Bernie Goldberg on to talk about several stories, including a comment from David Gregory during Sunday’s Meet the Press. “The show is now declining in the ratings fairly quickly, because Mr. Gregory is a left-wing guy, and says stuff like this,” said O’Reilly, before playing a clip of Gregory describing the New Hampshire gun carrier at the town hall event while also talking about Timothy McVeigh.

“If you look at the sum of NBC’s reporting on the protests for the last five weeks, it’s all the same,” said O’Reilly. “It all comes down to groupthink. And the groupthink is ‘these people who come out to the town hall meetings, protest health care, are all a bunch of yahoos.”

Attacking NBC News anchors, whether it be Gregory, Brian Williams, Matt Lauer or others, has a more stinging effect than again going after MSNBC (or “NBC properties” in general). And the cycle continues…

Here’s the clip from The Factor (segment begins around 1:45):

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lbizman

Let them talk about what they wish… Hushing someone isn’t going to do any good!
Electronic Cigarette
ChrisNH

Olbermann looks angry and enraged because he’s shooting his ammo in a much smaller universe than O’Reilly is. The effect is strongest from O’Reilly, because he’s (correctly) dragging in parent company GE. Untold millions in sales are going to other appliance manufacturers because viewers are agreeing that the too-cozy relationship between Obama and GE is simply dangerous. For example, do we see Obama wagging his finger at GE’s profits, which only stand to skyrocket because of this ‘coziness?’ No, we do not. Therein lies the rub.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gaynielle-H-Neville/739092069 Gaynielle H. Neville

There is a misconception about who has the most viewers. The ratings goes as followed, Fixed News has more ratings because the older people are sitting at home watching fixed news all day. They are paranoid right wing nuts who didn’t vote for Obama anyway.
Working young Americans are not watching fixed news they know better. At least Kieth Olbermann tells the truth where the Fox News Crew, O’Reilly, Beck, Hannity are ill-informed racist who don’t know what the hell they are talking about and have a jealousy for this President.
I didn’t hear none of them complaining when Bush was spending Trillions in a war that is still costing us money. Fox is a war mongering channel owned by the racist Rubert Murdoch ( The Australian) who hates minorities.
If any channel sickens me it’s Fixed News.