Olbermann named O'Reilly "Worst Person" for stating "a lot of Jewish liberals" think terrorists "have the right" to "behead people on camera"

On the July 20 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host Bill O'Reilly the winner of his nightly "Worst Person in the World" award for stating, as Media Matters for America noted, that there are "a lot of Jewish liberals" who believe that terrorists "have a right to do whatever they want -- behead people on camera, all this terrible stuff." Introducing O'Reilly's statement, Olbermann said: "This is a doozy from the radio. I'll just read it because other than the overlying religious element, I don't even think he knows what he meant by this." Olbermann concluded of O'Reilly's remark: "And here comes the anti-Semitism."

From the July 20 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: But tonight's winner, Bill-O again. This is a doozy from the radio. I'll just read it because other than the overlying religious element, I don't even think he knows what he meant by this: "We have a very big split in the Jewish-American community. You got a lot of Jewish liberals, a lot of Jewish far-left people who basically feel that, you know, you don't have a right to go after terrorists because it's our fault, the United States' fault. And some say, it's Israel's fault because we've been mean to them. Therefore, they have a right to do whatever they want, behead people on camera, all this terrible stuff. OK. That's a far-left position." And here comes the anti-Semitism.

STEWIE GRIFFIN (character on Twentieth Century Fox's Family Guy) [clip]: Bill O'Reilly: today's "Worst Person in the World."

—K.D.