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O'Reilly Blasts at GE Coming From Upstairs

Posted May 19, 08 11:12 AM CDT in Business 

(Newser) – Bill O’Reilly’s campaign against General Electric—the Fox News host has called CEO Jeffrey Immelt a “despicable human being” for doing business with Iran—is part of a feud with NBC that extends far up corporate ladders, the Washington Post reports. Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes apparently loosed O’Reilly on GE in retaliation for attacks by host Keith Olbermann on GE subsidiary MSNBC.

Fox denies such backroom jousting. “Bill doesn’t run topics by Roger, or anyone else,” said a Fox spokesman. But GE confirms that Fox is offering a trade—if Olbermann stops attacking Fox, O’Reilly will stop bashing GE. Meanwhile, O’Reilly’s attacks have grown harsher. “If my child were killed in Iraq, I would blame the likes of Jeffrey Immelt,” he said recently.

Source Washington Post

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Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly appears on the Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor," on Jan. 18, 2007 in New York.   (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
Fox news anchor Bill O'Reilly attends Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala on Thursday, May 8, 2008 in New York.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
Bill O'Reilly attends the book release party for Sirio   (AP Photo)
Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric Co., speaks at the company's health care summit in this May 15, 2007 file photo in New York.   (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
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