It’s no big news that Keith Olbermann hates Bill O’Reilly — what sane person doesn’t? — and vice versa, but the Washington Post today reports that the feud between the newsmen has grown from funny to scary, and that it has borne a very real insidious plot at Fox News.
Were you foolishly watching Fox News in recent weeks, you may have noticed that O’Reilly and other powers that be at Fox have been ramping up their attacks on General Electric, parent company of Olbermann’s network, MSNBC. This anti-GE campaign has been veiled as outrage over GE doing business with Iran, thereby supporting terrorism. (O’Reilly even said that if he had a kid killed in Iraq, he’d “blame the likes of [GE CEO] Jeffrey Immelt.”) Typical Fox fearmongering, right? Wrong, according to the Post, which claims insiders are saying that Fox’s negative portrayals of GE are just Fox’s way of attempting to get MSNBC to rein in Olbermann’s nightly attacks on O’Reilly. If MSNBC were to reprimand Olbermann, says the article, Fox would be sure to make its negative coverage of GE go away. Neat, huh?
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