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What Truce? O'Reilly, Olbermann Back in the Ring

Olbermann calls O'Reilly 'worst'; O'Reilly attacks GE

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 6, 2009 11:12 AM CDT

(Newser) – The feud between Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann continues, despite word of a peace deal: On Monday Olbermann said there was no truce and awarded O’Reilly the silver medal for “World’s Worst Person.” Then he gave the gold to Fox News honcho Rupert Murdoch. O’Reilly kept up the battle last night with an attack on MSNBC-parent company General Electric, the Huffington Post reports.

O’Reilly slammed GE's CEO for cozying up to President Obama and getting bailout cash while at the same time paying $50 million to settle an SEC investigation over accounting fraud. “Think about that: GE defrauds the public, has to pay $50 million in fines, but could conceivably use taxpayer loan money to do it,” O’Reilly said. He also hammered GE for polluting.

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Shannonals

Aug 8, 2009 2:46 AM CDT

Regardless of why O'reilly went after GE CEO's, it was the correct thing to do.

Derni

Aug 7, 2009 12:55 PM CDT

O'Reilly has issues he needs to address with a psychologist-why would anyone watch or let alone go on his SHOW (comedy) -he doesn't want the truth (veritas) and he doesn't want you to hear the other person's opinion-he just likes to scream and put others down-we have medication for hiom and treatment-but I know some will continue to support his sickness on the air-look how many supported other sick public figures

Spudsy

Aug 7, 2009 3:29 AM CDT

they are both geniuses. Making money off of chumps that pay to have their own thoughts validated. I wish I could make money with my gigantic brain.

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What Truce? O'Reilly, Olbermann Back in the Ring