if there was any beer involved.

I read this last night and it's highly disturbing. The 'feud' was somewhat based on the corrupt relationship between GE and NBC/MSNBC and the Bamster's administration. That corrupt relationship doesn't go away with some gentleman's agreement.. I'll be very disappointed in Fox News if they drop valid criticism of GE based on this.

Interesting.  I watch O'Reilly often.  I've flipped over to Olbermann only on occasion.  Probably a 20 to 1 ratio.  Nearly everytime I flip to Olbermann, I catch him mention O'Reilly's name in a ridiculing piece.  For that 1 time I'm there, I see O'Reilly 20 times.  So I hear O'Reilly mention Olbermann 20 times as much (based on my being there to see each), correct?   NOT EVEN CLOSE.  Olbermann has an obsession with O'Reilly.   O'Reilly gives mention of MSNBC, but not very often of Olbermann himself.  There is no comparison.

Real smart saying, I didn't agree to a deal, when you have 1/4 the ratings of BOR. You think Immelt needs you, KO the JO when he's got BO? Oh no, don't think so.

This just removed half of keith's material.  50% of the time he was talking of the arget of his hat.  People stopped watching him and watched fox directly.

MSNBC is still in business?
Olbermanless is a good example of why women should never sleep on the wet spot.

Olbermann tries to fit an O'Reilly insult in every show while O'Reilly hasn't even muttered Olbermann's name in how many years?...

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”

Samuel Adams

I also think that the reason The Daily Show is the most trusted news source for many [40%] Americans is that it is openly fake news, as opposed to the clandestinely fake BS on the uber-left MSNBC & the rightist FoxNEWS, which at least has token-left-of-center viewpoints aired, if only to be shot down by the hosts. MSNBC is straight leftist treacle. CNN is MOR treacle, vaguely left of center. Jake Tapper is the only network news dude I can stand to watch, although Gibson occasionally is halfway decent....

I was an assistant producer on several news projects for the three major networks in the early '80s and journalistic integrity took a distant second to business considerations in most cases---although a 20/20 project was surprisingly the best among the several I worked with.

What Fox News loses is their obligation to inform us of General Electric's corrupt relationship with the Bamster administration.

Another question that needs to be asked of both FNC and NBC/MSNBC; as in the CNN/Pre-War Iraq coverage, what other agreements are there that we do not know about?

with Olbermann's embarrassing bashing of O'Reilly non-stop on MSLSD as it does with propping up Olberman's return to NBC Sunday Football Night in America and consequent ratings.

All football fans I know boycotted Olbermann's return and I imagine all FOX viewers (particularly O'Reilly fans) detested Olbermann returning to NBC football.

I beleive concern for the success of Football Night in Ameria on NBC impacted Immelt's decision to try and silence Olbermann's over-the-top rhetoric on MSLSD rather than any concern for his failed MSLSD channel which is a drain on GE's bottom line. 

“I am party to no deal."

 Yeah right.  A couple weeks after this meeting is said to have taken place, Olbermann decides to "retires the O'Reilly schtick" and never mention him again?

Just a coincidence?

Newsbusters of all places shouldn't be replicating the talking points of Progressive media outlets by referring to Olbermann's O'Reilly pathology as a rivalry. For years media organs sympathetic to Olbermann's politics (i.e. "The New Yorker," "Rolling Stone") have run stories about how Olbermann is the "liberal O'Reilly" and that he is an all-consuming thorn in the side of Fox News' biggest star.

In reality, Olbermann's audience consists of about a three-quarters of a million to a million hardcore Progressives. He rips his analysis directly from places like Media Matters and the Daily Kos. His views are those of someone on the fringe of Progressivism, stating Fox News is more dangerous than both the KKK and Al-Qaeda, and giving major forums to staged waterboardings and Seymour Hersh's nebulous, "off the record" claims of Cheney Death Squads. Laughably, Olbermann presents himself as some type of objective "truth to power," and yet, almost unheard of in the realm of political talk shows, steadfastly refuses to allow opinions different from his own on "Countdown." People he disagrees are not challenged to debate, but instead labeled "The Worst Person in the World" or made the subject of a pedantic, pseudo-intellectual, self-affirming (at this point self-parodying) "Special Comment." Targets of Olbermann's influential-in-his-own-mind disdain (cf. Betsy McCaughey) who wish to appear on his show and defend themselves are ignored.

O'Reilly on the other hand is a center-right populist, talking incessantly about "protecting the folks" from the "smear merchants" and "loons." He isn't as blue-collar as he pretends (his father was an accountant) and his moralizing can sound hypocritical when you consider he was the defendant in a major sexual harassment case, but it's clear O'Reilly is no idealogue, and knows what he's doing. He's one of the best-selling authors in the country, a venture where Olbermann has been an unmitigated failure. In contrast to his MSNBC "rival," he looks forward to debate and taking it to the other side. O'Reilly beat the pants off Paul Krugman on Tim Russert's CNBC show and has engaged in fiery confrontations with Barney Frank and Joan Walsh among others. These incidents give him much more credibility vis-a-vis the mythical mantle of "speaking truth to power." Like the more ideologically-pure Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilly has transcended the narrow persona of talking head and has become a full-blown pop culture phenomenon, a fact that more than anything else informs the craven Edward R. Olbermann's deep-seated obsessive animus.

Let's not forget O'Reilly 's ratings consistenly triple and quadruple those of Olbermann.

So if O'Reilly no longer mentions MSNBC, does that mean they no longer exist??  That can't be good for them.

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