On the May 1 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann once again named Fox News' Bill O'Reilly the winner of his nightly “Worst Person in the World” award for comments made during the April 26 edition of his radio show, in which he accused a “far-left cabal” of making “inroads, particularly at NBC News” and claiming that “no newsperson at Fox News toes any kind of ideological line at all.”
Olbermann awarded Worst Person honors to O'Reilly for opining that NBC has inroads of a “far-left cabal” but Fox is not “a right wing enterprise”
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On the May 1 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann once again named Fox News' Bill O'Reilly the winner of his nightly “Worst Person in the World” award. O'Reilly received the award for comments made during the April 26 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, in which he accused a “far-left cabal” of making “inroads, particularly at NBC News,” as Media Matters for America previously noted. O'Reilly added, "[N]o newsperson at Fox News toes any kind of ideological line at all." As Media Matters also noted, many Fox News “newsperson[s]” such as Neil Cavuto and Brit Hume, whose purported straight-news shows -- Your World with Neil Cavuto and Special Report with Brit Hume -- all contain a segment or panel discussion featuring the host's often conservative commentary.
O'Reilly, who is a frequent recipient of Olbermann's “Worst Person in the World” award, most recently receiving it on April 26, after he established a “Hall of Shame” on his website for media outlets that purportedly “smear” him.
From the May 1 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: First, time for Countdown's latest list of nominees for Worst Person in the World. The bronze goes to the Cablevision company serving Yonkers, New York. It hit a 62-year-old retired schoolteacher with a bill for $1,431 for pay-per-view porn and gangsta rap specials. It says that if she didn't order it, somebody else in her house did. She points out she lives alone. Her only regular visitor is her 81-year-old mother and, quote, “I don't think she wants to watch porn.”
Runners-up: Ronald Arnold and Ryan Dawson of Wilsonville, Missouri, accused by prosecutors there of force-feeding a bowl of vodka to an eight-week-old puppy. The dog has recovered. Hopefully they have not.
But our winner: Bill O, announcing that there is, quote, “a very powerful far-left cabal. ... And these guys have made inroads, inroads, particularly at NBC News.” Ah, here we go. He also insisted Fox News is not “a right-wing enterprise,” and then declared his conviction that he also believes in brownies and elves. Bill O'Reilly, now and forever, today's Worst Person in the World.