Thursday, January 05, 2006

Olbermann to O'Reilly: "If people cared about the personal lives of people in newspaper or TV, you would be working the change booth at a video arcade

On the January 3 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, host Keith Olbermann once again bestowed a "Worst Person" award upon Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, this time because O'Reilly threatened to "get into" the "lives" of New York Times columnist Frank Rich and executive editor Bill Keller. O'Reilly made his comments -- documented by Media Matters for America -- on the January 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor during a discussion with NPR senior correspondent and Fox News contributing political analyst Juan Williams. Kicking off his "Worst Person" list with O'Reilly's award, Olbermann said: "Bill, nobody cares about their [Rich and Keller's] lives. If people cared about the personal lives of people in newspaper or TV, you would be working the change booth at a video arcade by now."
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