Fox News Sings Soprano

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Fox News Channel chairman and CEO Roger Ailes responded to Keith Olbermann's latest critical volley against Bill O'Reilly on Monday, saying the MSNBC host's behavior ''is over the line.''

Ailes, appearing Monday at the summer meeting of the Television Critics Association, was referring to a weekend incident at the gathering in which Olbermann whipped out a mask of O'Reilly and gave a Nazi salute.

Ailes said Olbermann picks on Fox's O'Reilly to boost his ratings.

''Clearly he has no viewers except those he gets when he attacks Fox News,'' Ailes said.

Of Saturday's incident, Ailes said, ''I really think that's over the line.''

What...a...freaking...whiner.

 

If that's the case, then why aren't you ignoring him, Rog?

 

The Foxies built-in response to any form of criticism is to brush it off as jealousy over inferior ratings, and then to "wish them well.'' It's an attack the messenger strategy the administration uses and the over-abundance of dumbasses in this country buy hook, line and sinker.

 

As much as I detest O'Reilly, Olbermann coming out with his mask and giving a Nazi salute is pretty strange.

 

O'Reilly is too bombastic for my taste. But imagine the outcry around here if he had put on an Olbermann mask and done a Nazi salute. Apparently, however, it's OK for Keith to do so.

 

O'Reilly did slander the memory of U.S. soldiers who died WWII, so there is that. Had Olbermann made the same mistake, the scrutiny from Fox would have been so much worse, filled with absolute hate.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/27524/

 

And Olbermann's response to O'Reilly isn't filled with absolute hate? You're citing a hypothetical.

 

More like contempt in the previous example. Not defending this past one.

 

O'Reilly (very wrongly) has compared more than one person who doesn't fall into total lockstep with his way of thnking to a Nazi, which in a way, O'Reilly is being a Nazi himself.

How does that make what Olbermann did ok?
Why is he getting a free pass on this one?

 

There was actually a pretty good story about the "wish them well" line from AP.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060723/APE/607230599

 

Yes because Bill O is
Very
http://mediamatters.org/items/200501210003
very
http://mediamatters.org/items/200407290004
careful
http://mediamatters.org/items/200511300009

not to idly compare people to Nazis.
And the Malmedy bullshit should have gotten him fired.

 

This will shock some of you, but I'm not real crazy about O'Reilly, who's in the Sean Hannity school of style: never let someone make or finish a point. I also detest Olberman, who makes being smug an art form. They're both pricks.