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Todd B Donating Member (809 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:28 PM
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Bill O'Reilly "slams" Olbermann on ratings

Is Bill O'Reilly feeling threatened by Keith Olbermann? On Wednesday's Factor, the FNC host felt it necessary to include this in his Talking Points Memo of New Year's Resolutions...

"Speaking of disasters, our competitor at MSNBC is a notorious smear merchant. So far this month, December, "The Factor's" third rerun at 4:00 in the morning has beaten the MSNBC's original 8:00 program more than 50 percent of the time. Unbelievable."

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/oreilly_slams_olbermanns_ratings_29856.asp?c=rss


(I couldn't find this posted anywhere else.. if it has, my apologies)

Threatened, indeed. Bill is just jealous that Keith Olbermann is TEN TIMES the journalist he'll ever be.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:29 PM
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1. AAR go under yet?? no!?!?
:rofl:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:30 PM
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2. I hope Keith is gentle
:rofl:
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WestHoustonDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:32 PM
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4. Isn't Keith off this week? How convenient for O'Lielly
that Keith isn't around to answer - yet.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:33 PM
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5. Oh, but he *did* answer.
Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 06:34 PM by gkhouston
Did you follow the link?

on edit: Olbermann responds via e-mail: "About big ratings, as they say, 800 billion flies can't be wrong." :rofl:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:42 PM
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16. "800 billion flies
can't be wrong"? Does that mean what I think it does? :D
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:43 PM
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17. Yup.
Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 06:44 PM by gkhouston
Or at least that's my reading of it. It would rather like him to imply that O'Reilly is a large mound of steaming agricultural by-product than to say so outright, now wouldn't it? :7
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:31 PM
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3. Bill is not a journalist, he is a hate-monger
He stirs up hate and bad feeling between people. That is all he is....
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Todd B Donating Member (809 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:34 PM
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6. How anyone can listen to the back and forth shouting is beyond me.
It just gives me a headache - I like Keith because he actually treats his guests with courtesy and doesn't have some pundit on only representing one side of the issue.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:37 PM
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12. and he asks the questions I'd like to ask
and the follow-up questions actually have something to do with the responses he got from the person he's interviewing. Wow, actually conversation instead of a rote recital of talking points; who'd've thunk it.
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Moochy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:36 PM
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11. Because Faux Journalism
is in your face, to the extreme!!

Like Poochy!


KO's response: priceless.

> Update: 12:47pm: Olbermann responds via e-mail: "About big ratings, as they say, 800 billion flies can't be wrong."
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:34 PM
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7. Bilge O'Reilly is a flat-out jerk, madly in love with himself.
Get life, you moran.
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:34 PM
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8. Olberman's response:
Update: 12:47pm: Olbermann responds via e-mail:

"About big ratings, as they say, 800 billion flies can't be wrong."
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 08:25 PM
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26. LMAO
.
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:35 PM
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9. Them are fighting words, let him have it Keith!
Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 06:37 PM by mod mom
Maybe a debate on neutral grounds is in order. Might I suggest a non partisan panel of fact checkers who reward honesty while penalizing outright les? What do you say O'Lielly?
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:36 PM
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10. Wait a minute... O'REILLY complaining that someone is a smear merchant?
This is the guy who was recently accused of just making shit up. I mean come ON!!! What a douche.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:39 PM
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13. ...
12:47pm: Olbermann responds via e-mail:
"About big ratings, as they say, 800 billion flies can't be wrong."


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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:41 PM
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14. He has also said that AAR is dead.
He loves to lie about ratings.
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citizen snips Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:41 PM
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15. I am going to watch keith Olbermann more.
I hope he keeps up his attacks on Bill O'Reilly.
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:45 PM
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19. Don't start today-he's on vacation. Shouldn't there be a rule about
Olbermann and Stewart not taking vacations during important news cycles. ;)
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:49 PM
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20. Usually KO only mentions him when
O'Reilly says or does something stupid.

Sounds like a pretty steady diet of snark to me. ;-)
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:44 PM
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18. That's the third one I've heard this week
Why does he keep comparing himself to other people? What is he, insecure?

First I hear him slam Franken on his book sales.

Then I hear him brag that he's given tons more to charity than Nick Kristoff.

Now he's going on about Olbermann's ratings.

He'll be getting out a ruler pretty soon and challenging them to a dick-measuring contest.

Sorry Bill, we don't do miniatures.
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rd_kent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:51 PM
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21. Who cares? His numbers are big, but so what?
Only kool aid drinkin freepers watch that show. Bill days are numbered. He's digging himself into holes he wont be able to get out of.
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:53 PM
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22. Bill O'Reilly isn't fit to tie Keith Olbermann's shoes
And I bet he wishes he was at least a smidgen as sexy as Keith is :loveya:

Jealous, jealous, jealous
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Batgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 07:00 PM
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23. O'Reilly must be seething with envy
His "How I Saved Christmas" routine was greeted with a lot of ridicule this year, so like so many losers he declared victory and pulled out. Plus he's getting long in the tooth. There must be a lot of days when the joints are creaking and the old loofah doesn't lather up quite as easily.

Now here's KO getting all the buzz, drawing the non-yahoo demographic that wouldn't touch O'Reilly with a 10-foot falafel. KO is also younger, smarter, waaaaay cuter, and a respectable journalist.

O'Reilly obviously cherishes the idea that he's the biggest baddest rooster in the henhouse. He's simply strutting around trying to guard this self delusion from perceived threats. Another rightwing bullying coward.

I so look forward to O'Reilly's inevitable downfall. It's bound to be spectacular.
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emdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 07:35 PM
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24. I'll bet that what O'Reilly *didn't* do
is address KO's comments about him. Why? Because Keith speaks the truth!
:rofl:
emdee
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 07:40 PM
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25. And NBC news kills OReally twenty to one.
Whats the point.

A trainwreck would get higher ratings than a bush speech...In other words people tune into Oreally for laughs.
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