O'Reilly is Olbermann's "Worst Person" for claim that Sunni and Shia kill each other for "fun"

On the January 26 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" segment for, as Media Matters for America documented, "telling his radio listener that in Iraq, quote, 'the Sunni and Shia want to kill each other. They want to blow each other up. They want to torture each other. They have fun.'" Olbermann again cited O'Reilly's statement that kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck, after his abduction, was in a situation that "looks to me to be a lot more fun than what he had under his old parents." Olbermann asserted, "We're now beginning to get a clear picture of what Bill thinks fun is: torture, killing, and child molestation." As Media Matters noted, Olbermann previously criticized O'Reilly for his comments about Hornbeck's abduction and stated: "It reeks of perversity and inhumanity. Simply put, Mr. O'Reilly no longer deserves any place on the public stage."

Additionally, Olbermann gave the "runner-up" position to Fox News for, as Media Matters also noted, announcing it would "run scenes deleted from the Disney propaganda film The Path to 9/11, produced by a right-wing nutjob who has convinced himself it was all Bill Clinton's fault."

From the January 26 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: OLBERMANN: Our runner-up tonight: the Fox Noise Channel. It will run the scenes deleted from the Disney propaganda film The Path to 9/11, produced by a right-wing nutjob who has convinced himself it was all Bill Clinton's fault. Of course, the scenes were deleted because even ABC thought they were so wrong that they might constitute slander. So, heads up, [former Secretary of State] Madeleine Albright, you could wind up owning Fox.

But the winner: Oh, he's back. Bill Orally explains the world yet again, telling his radio listener that in Iraq, quote, "the Sunni and Shia want to kill each other. They want to blow each other up. They want to torture each other. They have fun." Fun. That's the word Bill-O also used to describe what Shawn Hornbeck was having while being held prisoner for four years in Missouri. We're now beginning to get a clear picture of what Bill thinks fun is: torture, killing, and child molestation. Bill O'Reilly, today's "Worst Person in the World."

—A.I.