Conservative Politics Today

Substance and style goes far. Keith Olbermann, of Countdown With Olberman, MSNBC, has been trying to take down Bill O’Reilly of the O’Reilly Factor, Fox News, for years now. Their two shows go head to head at 8 p.m. EST. O’Reilly regularly tortures Olbermann in the ratings war each night. Olbermann has tried to cash in on O’Reilly’s popularity by attacking him at every opportunity in hopes that O’Reilly’s reply will increase ratings. Olbermann’s plan has failed miserably as O’Reilly averages twice the amount of viewers as Olbermann’s number 1 rated show on MSNBC.

Desperate to improve his failed ratings, Olbermann has now decided to go after Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, the two biggest names in talk radio. He openly declared Limbaugh and Hannity racists, and used out of context statements from both to assert his false claims. Olbermann said, “What Hannity means when he says nobody has made an issue of Obama’s race is: He and Limbaugh haven’t called him the ‘N’ word.” After a brief pause, Olbermann added: “Yet.”

The question is do these media giants even acknowledge this petty little man who is eager for better ratings? If they do, will it help that wretched little man in any way? We shall see.