So Keith Olbermann wants to talk trash about the most-watched man in cable news, Bill O'Reilly, huh? Well, your mama, Keith, because the numbers don't lie, and here they are: fourth place. Yeah, I said it. Fourth place, people. MSNBC's tough-talking Keith Olbermann is floating belly-up in the cable news aquarium.
Let's take a closer look at who's bringing in the viewers during the breaking news out of Israel at 8pm. From July 12-20, the O'Reilly Factor has remained #1 at 8pm and #1 in cable news, with an average of 2,432,000 viewers. And Keith "Bad Idea" Olbermann has been the least watched show at 8pm, coming in FOURTH with only 454,000 viewers. Lord help him, Nancy Grace gets more viewers than Olbermann. Now that's embarassing. In the demo, Olbermann's third with only 180,000 viewers.
So now we know why Olbermann's been spreading that laughably obvious, rank lie about O'Reilly supposedly not being able to make eye contact whenever Olbermann looked at him. ("He never got within 20 feet of me," Olbermann told the Television Critics Association's summer meeting Saturday. "I swear to God, every time I looked up, he would suddenly look down.") Yeah, right. O'Reilly could turn Olbermann into a puddle of strawberry Jello with one fist tied behind his back, and everybody--especially Olbermann--knows it. But unlike Olbermann, O'Reilly has a real life and career to attend to, and he's certainly not going to spend any of it in a freaky little staring contest with an emasculated stalker like Keith Olbermann.
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