Cable Wars

If you haven't been watching Countdown With Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, you've missed some pretty good news reporting. You've also missed some very funny feuding with Bill O'Reilly, who's the competition over on Fox. Olbermann often points up O'Reilly errors or quotes some of the sillier things that Bill has had to say lately. O'Reilly, who routinely insults his political opponents while lecturing them about decorum, has fired back with some pretty pompous replies. His latest is to post a petition — this one, over on his website — which urges MSNBC to bring the back the previous occupant of Olbermann's time slot, Phil Donahue, and to get rid of what's there now (i.e., Countdown).

On his show yesterday, Olbermann devoted a whole segment to O'Reilly's petition and did a little montage of a fraction of the times Countdown has slammed the Fox News host. Here's a link to an online video.