Posted on 03/16/2006 9:25:24 AM PST by rcocean
Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert’s nightly conservative/O’Reilly-mocking show "The Colbert Report" invited on MSNBC host Keith Olbermann Tuesday night to double up on the O’Reilly bashing. It started predictably, before the word "Nazi" came out:
Colbert: "Why do you have a problem with my hero, papa bear Bill O'Reilly? You guys have been going at it, hammer and tongs."
Olbermann: "Well, Stephen, he's an idiot."
Colbert: "You say that like it's a bad thing. I think he sees the world simply, okay? Without all your complicated facts."
Olbermann: "We're both saying the same thing. He's an idiot."
Did Olbermann really have to drag out the word "Nazi"? Oh yes, even if it violates Jon Stewart’s "Hitler reference" comedic principle from that other Comedy Central show. Colbert drew out the spat O’Reilly had with Olbermann fans on his syndicated Westwood One radio program:
Colbert: "Isn't it illegal for anyone to say the name Olbermann on his radio show now?"
Olbermann: "Apparently so."
Colbert: "Tell me what happened."
Olbermann: "Apparently last week or the week before somebody called up and used my name. He cut them off and then explained that they'd be getting a little visit from Fox security and that Fox security would then contact the local authorities. So Mike from Orlando, ‘will be getting a little visit.’ (Said in mock moron voice.) Two or three of these people who did call up and mention my name actually got phone calls from Fox security. [Here's one claim of that.] Which is, you know, fascinating if, you know, we're living in, say, Nazi Germany, it’s a good idea. Otherwise it's kind of....you're going to arrest people who disagree with you."
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Oh you're missing a real comedy show. He’s a nut job who thinks he’s smart and funny. It’s the fact that he thinks he’s both while being neither that makes the show funny.
Had BOR attacked Olbermann, Olbermann not only would have shown it on his show, but DU, Crooks and Liars, DailyKos, and every other liberal blog would have brought it up.
Even when BOR discussed the petition to bring back Donahue he *NEVER* mentions Olbermann's name.
BTW, He never says Francken's name. He calls him "Stuart Smalley".
Olbermann is too obscure to have a nickname. KO hates Bill O'Reilly but BOR doesn't care about Keith at all. Its like some obscure Liberal talk show hosts and Rush Limbaugh.
He did a whole segment on having MSNBC replace Olbermann with Phil Donohue just a week or so ago and followed it up with remarks every other night for 3 or 4 days.
Last week he talked about how he dominates the time segment with 9 times the number of viewers of the second place show. Which we know to be Olbermann because back when he was doing the bit about MSNBC should replace Olbermann with Donohue, O’Reilly told us he was in second place.
Then one night last week he was talking about Olbermann having to take shots at him to get people to watch him.
I don’t have transcripts and dates. I just started watching Olbermann because of something O’Reilly said a few months ago, and got hooked on watching for the barbs.
O'Reilly, Olbermann Take TV Feuds to Another Level
Posted by Matthew Sheffield on February 26, 2006 - 14:38.
Too often, the media operate on a sort of "gentlemen's agreement" not to criticize each other so it's sometimes entertaining to see reporters and commentators step out of the "objective" pose, no matter how bizarrely.
It all started last Thursday when FNC host Bill O'Reilly announced a petition drive to get MSNBC to bring back fired host Phil Donahue out of "concern" for the network since the replacement host, Keith Olbermann, has actually lost viewers in the timeslot compared to three years ago when he first took over:
Time now for "The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day." Bring back Phil Donahue. It was three years ago this month that MSNBC fired Mr. Donahue for low ratings. We felt bad for Phil. They didn't give him much of a chance.
Phil actually said his firing was a mistake, and he was right. His successor after three long years on the air actually has fewer viewers now than Donahue did when he left. That is a disaster.
So in the interest of fairness, we have a petition on BillOReilly.com to bring Phil back, and Marlo, too, if she wants. Kind of like that Maury- Connie thing. If enough of you sign the petition, we'll send it over to NBC and hopefully, Phil Donahue will get the chance he deserves. Let's go to bat for our friend Phil. To not do so would be ridiculous. Maybe we should get a bumper sticker.
Now you could say the feud started when Olbermann started making attacking O'Reilly a regular feature of his program, largely in an effort to pander to liberal viewers, but also partly out of a desire to get O'Reilly's goat. In any case, Olbermann was immensely pleased with the mention, responding on Friday's "Countdown" with an eight-minute-plus salvo, including a rehearsed signing of O'Reilly's petition, and a montage of MSNBC staffers doing the same.
Worth noting in the clip (if you can stand to watch something so dreadfully self-absorbed) was the unintentional irony of Olbermann slamming "Factor's" older viewership after earlier doing an impression of Ted Baxter, the fictional anchorman of the 1970s' "Mary Tyler Moore Show."
http://newsbusters.org/node/4192
Olbermann Attacks O'Reilly for Something He Didn't Say, Calls Him a "Joke"
Posted by Brad Wilmouth on January 28, 2006 - 01:49.
On his Countdown show Friday night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann delivered his latest attack on FNC host Bill O'Reilly during his show's regular "Worst Person in the World" segment for saying something the FNC host did not actually say. Referring to O'Reilly as a "joke," Olbermann accused O'Reilly of attacking MSNBC for not covering the case of a Vermont judge who initially sentenced a child rapist to only 60 days in jail. In fact, O'Reilly complained that the "network newscasts" had ignored the story, which would only include ABC, CBS and NBC newscasts.
During his regular "Worst Person in the World" segment, Olbermann normally chooses three nominees to be awarded the dishonor of that name. His three nominees are labeled as "Worse," "Worser," and "Worst." On Friday's show, after giving the second place distinction of "Worser" to conservative columnist Ann Coulter for joking that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned, Olbermann moved on to dishonor O'Reilly with the label of "Worst": "Speaking of jokes, tonight's winner. [Photograph of O'Reilly displayed on-screen] Him again. He walked right into another propeller."
Olbermann went on to recount erroneously that O'Reilly had criticized MSNBC for ignoring the story of Judge Cashman and pointed out that he had covered the story on his Countdown show on January 6th. Olbermann concluded by quipping that he had made a bet in the "'When does [O'Reilly] have his actual nervous breakdown?' pool."
An examination of the Thursday January 26 'Talking Points Memo' segment of The O'Reilly Factor shows that the FNC host, instead of attacking MSNBC for ignoring the story, in reality charged that "the big liberal newspapers like The New York Times and the network newscasts totally ignored the story."
After recounting that "far-left media," including several Vermont newspapers, had attacked O'Reilly for pursuing the story, O'Reilly's reference to MSNBC came when he veered somewhat off topic charging that his show's "power threatens the left-wing media" because his show "holds them accountable for their selective reporting and spin." Then, without using Olbermann’s name but instead naming MSNBC, O'Reilly referred to the Countdown host's tendency to "cheap shot Fox News on a daily basis."
Though not stated directly, O'Reilly was referring to Olbermann's frequent and gratuitous attacks on O'Reilly, and Fox News in general, routinely delivered on his Countdown show. In fact, on January 25th, just one day before O'Reilly made his comments, Olbermann had contended that O'Reilly "has gone bonkers," and suggested that Fox News ideologically is just to the left of Vlad the Impaler, an infamous mass-murderer from the 15th century who inspired the story of Dracula. (See earlier Newsbusters posting for more details.)
http://newsbusters.org/node/3788
Me too. Dan Patrick is the premier talent in sports talk. Herr Olbermann is an insufferable prick.
I have to agree with SUSSA , and his memory, in fact it was O'Reilly that got me to check out Olberman.
Those aren't transcripts. You had to see what went on before.
Look, believe anything you want. Watch who you want to watch. Even believe them for all I care. I'm enjoying watching two self-promoting, blowhards go after each other and think it's funny as hell.
But in writing about all of this, Lloyd Grove of the NY Daily News came up with the nickname "Krazy Keith" for Olbermann.
As long as Krazy Keith is going after O'Reilly left and right, it hides the fact that the entire NBC network is tanking right now.
Oh yes ("Sex in The Media").
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Michelle Malkin and Megyn Kendall aren't too bad either (for me)
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Not that I much care for o'blowhard, but olbermann is infinitely worse.
Watch who you want to watch. For all I care you can even believe they are serious journalists rather than entertainers.
I'm enjoying watching two self-promoting, blowhards go after each other and think it's funny as hell.
I can't stand Olberman, he is a major douchebag, but O'Reilly is sounding NUTS with all of the threats to listeners.
How would you like it if every night on his PMSNBC show Keith Olbermann is bashing you in the nastiest of terms, endlessly? What's O'Reilly supposed to do, be a complete punching bag and just take it (like Bush does w/his enemies, a big pinata). Olbermann is a real sicko, and he doesn't stop w/just bashing O'Reilly on his show. He regularly goes after Brit Hume too (can you imagine that?) and Fox News Channel itself, and Murdoch, and now he is branching out to attack others on other stations or at various newspapers.
How his bosses allow him to get away w/this says volumes about the management of NBC. How desperate for ratings they much be to have people tune into their show just to here what hateful, spiteful tripe they are spewing each night. And still PMSNBC is at the bottom of the ratings barrel. That's what gets Olbermann's goat more than anything. He will always be a midget to O'Reilly's giant status. Must be eternally galling to him.
"I watch Olberman and catch the replay of O'Reilly just to see how the fight is going. LOL The two of them should really meet on the Jerry Springer Show and fight for the whole hour."
You know, I watch both frequently, O'Reilly because I get a kick out of him, and Olbermann to see what the enemy is up to. Bill O'Reilly, whatever his faults may or may not be, never discusses Olbermann, or gets into it with him. The "battle" if you want to call it that, is all one-sided, Olbermann attacking BOR. And it is constant, and it is obnoxious. Almost nightly now. And his bosses allow him to do it. Out of desperation, it seems, as Olbermann's ratings are so low, especially in comparison to BOR's.
I think Keith is doing this in a desperate attempt to boost his ratings by being the new Sid Vicious of the left. He'll get about as far as little Chrissy Matthews has, which is still stuck in the bottom of the ratings barrel. BOR has NOT stooped to Olbermann's level, has not gone on the attack against him; in fact part of me wishes he would fight back; however, that would be a mistake, in reality, because it would be giving Olbermann what he wants, a continuous and endless sparring match to use to try to improve his rotten ratings. Hope the scum bucket is canned one day if the lightbulb ever goes on in his bosses' brains; however,I'm sure that's too much to ask for.
What's O'Reilly supposed to do?
He's supposed to either fight back or ignore it.
He's not supposed to threaten listeners with the "Authorities" for no crime at all.
Ooooh, you called my show and said bad words (Olberman being one of them), we're going to call the police on you!
As far as I'm concerned, Olberman is the scum of the earth. I wish him constant pain.
But O'reilly isn't fighting back at Olberman, he's threatening to tattle to the cops on listeners that call in and SAY things he doesn't like. He should report them if they make threats (But BOR has never alleged that anyone has), but if they just mock him or are nothing more than pests, its BOR that's being a pussy.
March 17, 2006:
"First, Patrick volunteered that he thinks one day he and Keith Olbermann might be reunited on "SportsCenter."
"My feeling is somewhere down the road we will do 'SportsCenter' together," Patrick said.
Patrick said he has spoken with ESPN executive vice president John Skipper about it.
"I just said, look, keep it in the back of your mind if that ever comes up that we can do something again," Patrick said. "If the answer is 'No,' then the answer is 'No,' and I'll never bring it up again. He said, 'Look, I'm a risk-taker. I'm open to it, and one of these days we'll broach the topic.'"
Olbermann, who currently has his own nightly MSNBC news show, appears one hour each day on Patrick's daily ESPN Radio show. An ESPN spokesman said there are "no plans" for Olbermann to expand his current role on the sports network."
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