BILL O'CRY-LY

From one of last week's Studio Briefings:

Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes phoned NBC chief Jeff Zucker last summer and threatened to "unleash" Bill O'Reilly against NBC and its parent, General Electric, unless Zucker reigned in MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who was regularly attacking O'Reilly (as "the worst person in the world") and Ailes himself, the Washington Post reported today (Monday). The complaints were later echoed in phone calls to Zucker from Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, which owns Fox News, the Post said. After the appeals failed, O'Reilly began an assault on GE chief Jeffrey Immelt, accusing him and his company of supporting the Iranian government. "If my child were killed in Iraq, I would blame the likes of Jeffrey Immelt," O'Reilly said during one broadcast. GE spokesman Gary Sheffer insisted that "nothing we supply ... to Iran is in any way endangering U.S. troops." He said that News Corp execs "tell us if the attacks on O'Reilly end, the attacks on GE will end."

I love this story on so many levels that it just makes me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside ... Fox News has got to be the biggest bunch of cry babies on the planet. Day after day, they spew forth nothing but vitriolic hateful garbage against the Left. Yet, if one person dares to call them on their BS, they run around like a two-year-old who just had their ice cream cone stolen.

Let's not forget it wasn't that long ago that O'Reilly and company tried to sue Al Franken for using the term "Fair and Balanced" in his book title. And -- as you may recall -- they were literally laughed out of court.

My message to Keith Olbermann: Bill O'Reilly is indeed the worst person in the world, and I hope you keep saying as much ... every ... single ... day.

P.S. BTW, did you know that Halliberton also does business with Iran? I wonder if Fox News ever brings that up?