The continuing Billo vs Keith O feud

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Cant these 2 idiots just duke it out in the ring?. Have one of those celebrity boxing matches


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051900651.html

[Furtherman]

Both are immense asses and I question anyone's intelligence who would listen to them.

[underdog]

Both are immense asses and I question anyone's intelligence who would listen to them.

Listen to them? Bill O'Reilly is my fucking ringtone!

"We'll do it live!"

[dino_electropolis]

PLEASE watch this......fkn hysterical......o'reilly is really just such a tool.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=uSAPls21xAA

[scottinnj]

Here's what got it for me:

What began four years ago as a colorful feud between rival commentators, instigated by Olbermann as a way of drawing attention, has become a tale of bruised egos and secret maneuvering at the highest levels of two multinational giants.

I used to really like both shows. Olbermann put the funny in nightime news, and I thought it was a lot from his sports journalism experience, where you have to inject humor and have a bit of fun. After all, its sports, not the news.

O'Reilly would take care of issues that concerned me, such as kid-touchers and immigration that normally wouldn't be in the news. He beat some of these topics into the ground though, and gets bent way out of shape if someone disagrees with him-e.g. Geraldo Rivera.

But now every night someone from Fox News or the network itself is "the worst person in the world" meanwhile O'Reilly brags about ratings and minimizes the POV of MSNBC because they are left-while ignoring that Fox is on the right. It actually used to be a good balance of discussion regarding topics of the day if you could get both shows in on one night.

Oh well, they'll blow themselves up and hopefully we'll get something better out of it in the long run.

[pennington]

As much as I consider both these guys blow-hards, I'm with O'Reilly on this (as least with the facts as presented in the article). Olbermann needs to find a new subject for his show.

[Tenbatsuzen]

Keith Olbermann is mentally unstable

[K.C.]

This is the worst feud since Phil Donahue vs. Neil Boortz.

But the sad thing is that you have these two news organizations tilting how they report about major issues based on revenge. Pathetic.

[scottinnj]

Keith Olbermann is mentally unstable

Yeah, but his meltdowns are fun to watch. O'Reilly is just cringe tv when he loses it.

[TeeBone]

Both are overly self-important but Keith is a linguini-spined faggot and Bill is just a prick in every sense of the word.

[epo]

As much as I consider both these guys blow-hards, I'm with O'Reilly on this (as least with the facts as presented in the article). Olbermann needs to find a new subject for his show.

Two quick points:

1. The last thing that News Corp. (Murdoch) needs is NBC digging into the details of his business. This is VERY dangerous ground for him.

2. The only time Olbermann talks about O'Reilly is when O'Reilly fucks up. If Bill keeps his facts straight and doesn't distort, then Keith would have nothing to talk about.

[badmonkey]

Two quick points:

1. The last thing that News Corp. (Murdoch) needs is NBC digging into the details of his business. This is VERY dangerous ground for him.

2. The only time Olbermann talks about O'Reilly is when O'Reilly fucks up. If Bill keeps his facts straight and doesn't distort, then Keith would have nothing to talk about.

So Olbermann's show is an O'Reilly recap with critique? I just can't understand what the point of having a show that's about another show. He should do his show about his topics and let O'Reilly do his show about whatever he's talking about and then we get less bitching from both of them.

I couldn't get through the first page of that article because they're both dumbass whiny babies. "Waaaaaa! He says mean things about me." Bleh...fuck'em both.

[K.C.]

2. The only time Olbermann talks about O'Reilly is when O'Reilly fucks up. If Bill keeps his facts straight and doesn't distort, then Keith would have nothing to talk about.

But most people who don't watch O'Reilly don't because they already know the guy is a tool.

And the people that do, aren't watching Olbermann.

So it's preaching to the choir, and a lot of it is unnecessary.

I can't stand O'Reilly, but this whole thing started for two reasons:

1) Olbermann was going head to head with him and wanted to make a dent in his viewership (or at least boost his, by starting TV News war).

2) I guarantee people saw the heat that Al Franken got behind himself from taking on O'Reilly specifically. Hell, that's half the reason I think Stephen Colbert started his gimmick (which is absolutely hilarious). Al Franken really kind of put the lying and instability of O'Reilly out there for everyone to see, and it's just snowballed from there.


When I first started watching Olbermann, I'll admit...it was funny stuff...but when you see it five days in a row, it's just beating into the ground...we get it O'Reilly's a liar. Olbermann's been doing this for years now. He just comes off as petty and small and has transformed himself into the left-wing version of O'Reilly in terms of attitude (people say Keith is as big a dick, if not more so in real life than O'Reilly).


To O'Reilly's credit...I don't know that he's really gone after Olbermann. He mostly just ignores it. He used to go after Franken all the time.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

While both have big egos, Olbermanns show is boring. Having all his guests agree with you 100% isnt helping in the ratings. He gets crushed weekly by O Reilly


http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/05/16/oreilly-vs-olbermann-through-thursday-may-15/3801

[epo]

While both have big egos, Olbermanns show is boring. Having all his guests agree with you 100% isnt helping in the ratings. He gets crushed weekly by O Reilly


http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/05/16/oreilly-vs-olbermann-through-thursday-may-15/3801

Olbermann defeats O'Reilly in key demographic: (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/06/msnbc_and_olbermann_creeping_u.html)

Last week, for the first time ever, Keith Olbermann's Countdown, program was the No. 1 cable news show at 8 p.m. for adults in the 25–54 age demographic. It defeated Bill O'Reilly's Factor, which MSNBC hadn't bested since 2001. Likewise, the network as a whole beat Fox News in prime time for the first time (not including debate nights) since the same year.

Read: MSNBC is fucking thrilled with Keith at this very moment in time.

[scottinnj]

Oh well, I've missed both shows this past week-guess DVRing Family Guy has its advantages.