NY Post now jumps into Oreilly & Olbermann feud, taking on fight for Oreilly

[EV_Ares]

Rupert Murdoch's handmaidens over at the New York Post this morning jumped into a feud between their Fox News shouting head Bill O'Reilly and MSNBC ranter Keith Olbermann. The tabloid's gossip page ran an item dredging up various minor controversies involving Olbermann dating back to his ESPN days, up through an alleged spat between Olbermann and fellow MSNBC personality David Gregory last Tuesday over camera time. It then insinuated Olbermann might soon explode and leave his network. The warmed-over gossip was clearly meant as cover fire on behalf of O'Reilly, a fellow News Corp. soldier, whose feud with Olbermann is detailed in the Washington Post today.

Read more @ http://gawker.com/5009656/keith-olbermann-attacked-by-post-on-behalf-of-bill-oreilly

The Wash Post Story:

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

[high density]

1. That thing with Gregory was already proven to be nothing

Why would Olbermann want to leave MSNBC? In five years he has become their #1 name.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Billo can't fight his own battles?

What a sissy.

[rusty quoin]

3. I wonder who would win in a cage match.

[HEyHEY]

4. O'Reilly and fox will lose this one

Olberman is respected by fellow REAL journalists. So, any outside commentators will rightfully skewer O'rielly.

[gratuitous]

5. What? The Post noticed the common ownership?

I believe I have a case of the vapors! Imagine the Washington Post noticing, in context and wholly appropriately, that this is a situation where two media organs share a common owner. Of course, since this is Howard Kurtz, he never does get around to the obvious point that this is really one voice trying to talk out of two mouths.

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6. Fox = Murdoch = NY Post

All part of the same multi-headed creature.