Feud With Olbermann Fuels Bill O'Reilly's Blasts at GE

[EV_Ares]

GE's Jeffrey Immelt issued a memo saying that Fox viewers have been misled about GE's business in Iran. (Chris Warde-jones - Bloomberg News)

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 19, 2008; Page A01

Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News star, is mounting an extraordinary televised assault on the chief executive of General Electric, calling him a "pinhead" and a "despicable human being" who bears responsibility for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq.

On the surface, O'Reilly's charges revolve around GE's history of doing business with Iran. But the attacks grow out of an increasingly bitter feud between O'Reilly and the company's high-profile subsidiary, NBC, one that has triggered back-channel discussions involving News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, NBC chief executive Jeff Zucker and General Electric's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt.

NOTE: Ailes called Zucker on his cellphone last summer, clearly agitated over a slam against him by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. According to sources familiar with the conversation, Ailes warned that if Olbermann didn't stop such attacks against Fox, he would unleash O'Reilly against NBC and would use the New York Post as well. (((This is how the media is when they are a corporation, using their power for themselves))).

Both Fox and the Post are owned by Murdoch, who complained about Olbermann's conduct in separate calls to Zucker and Immelt.

Link to entire Wash Post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/18/AR2008051802313.html?nav=hcmodule

[Hubert Flottz]

1. The bawl babies can't take it when the sand gets kicked back into

their own lying faces.


And IF NBC and MSNBC were any more under BushCo's thumb the democratic voice would be silenced completely on TV.

Even a tiny bit of the truth is like poison to the GOP misleaders and their totally greed driven backroom benefactors.

Just like the spoiled little bully boyz at school when somebody called their bluff.

Little Billy O' should maybe hold his breath until all the troops pull out, if Keith don't "quit it!"