Olbermann on O'Reilly: "Day after day he just gets weirder and weirder..."

[sabra]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060108/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_o_reilly_s_fights

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"He's writing this material for me," Olbermann said. "I'm thinking of sending him a check. Day after day he just gets weirder and weirder and weirder."

Olbermann said he's thinking of holding fire a bit lest it seem like an obsession. While he's not a watchdog in a serious sense, Olbermann said that "it's important to me that you provide an alternate perspective to whatever the elite is in a given field.

"I look at them — they're clearly the popular clique, led by the bullies in the school — so if you get an opportunity to point out what stupid thing has been said or what moronic action has been encouraged by them or simply when they have fallen all over themselves in relation to the facts, you should do it," he said.

Olbermann pleads innocent to being holier-than-thou because of his show's willingness to point out its own mistakes. "I'm sure I will eventually make the list," he said. "I will be one of the worst people in the world."

He may already be, at least at Fox News Channel's office. O'Reilly, who didn't want to talk for this article, has referred to Olbermann — although not by name — as a "notorious smear merchant" and pointed out his low ratings. (Olbermann's typical audience is about one-sixth of O'Reilly's.)

[William769]

1. What a guy!

Go Olbermann!

[xchrom]

2. another ko!

[distantearlywarning]

3. I love Olbermann.

That's my favorite show on TV, hands down. I hardly ever miss it.

Bill O'Reilly on the other hand - you couldn't pay me enough to sit through an episode of that show. That guy is the world's biggest fucking moron - angry, self-absorbed, insecure, and has a giant thorny stick up his ass (unlike Olbermann, who doesn't take much of anything seriously, including himself). I have to pretend to be selectively deaf when I'm channel surfing, because even the merest snippet of his blather makes my blood pressure go up by 20 pts. I have more tolerance for the religious channel than I do for Bill O'Lielly.

This makes me wonder who they're polling in terms of who's watching what. Because nobody, I mean NOBODY I know except for my half-senile, bigoted, fundie grandmother watches Bill O'Reilly. But I meet people all the time who watch Olbermann.

[Mr_Spock]

4. Keith is cool

huh-huh, huh-huh

[shugah]

5. and o'reilly proves what keith says

"...they're clearly the popular clique, led by the bullies in the school -"

"O'Reilly, who didn't want to talk for this article, has referred to Olbermann — although not by name — as a "notorious smear merchant" and pointed out his low ratings."

it really is too easy! i'm glad keith is around to give a media voice to what we all see so clearly.

[elehhhhna]

6. untreated syphillis can make one act crazy.

[gkhouston]

7. Keith's already been on the Worst Person in the World List

don't remember what it was for, exactly. Some instance where the press were too credulous of a story in its early stages which later turned out not to be true. Probably the poor guy that got shot in London. Anyway, several members of the media reported when they should have checked more thoroughly, and KO put that up as the Worst Person of the day, including himself on the list and putting up his picture.

:thumbsup: to a media guy who's willing to say "we screwed up".

[Missy Vixen]

8. I'll bet Keith Olbermann knows the difference

between a falafel and a, well, um, I believe they're called "sex toys"...

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html

Julie

[NYCGirl]

9. A loofah?

Not a sex toy. Unless you like your love kinda' scratchy. A loofah is a sponge.

[Missy Vixen]

10. You're right

I was so traumatized by the details that I must have blocked it out :scared:.

Julie

[NYCGirl]

11. Easily understandable.

:hi: