Keith Olbermann named both Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck among his "Worst Persons in the World" Tuesday night on "Countdown."
O'Reilly was runner-up, earning the "Worser Person" badge for claiming thathis producers' ambush interviews with Bill Moyers forced the PBS broadcaster to retire from his weekly program.
"In the ambush interview from O'Reilly's stalker producer [Jesse Waters], Moyers mopped the floor with the kid," Olbermann said. "He invited Waters to come on the show because O'Reilly didn't have the courage to do so, he said. A year later, O'Reilly sent his other flunkie, Porter Berry, to try to side swipe Moyers, and no one has seen Berry since. And these interviews from two and three years ago, that's what Bill-O thinks drove Moyers out of PBS. Bill also thinks he has his own police force and that he schedules the tides. Notice, O'Reilly never does these ambush interviews himself because, well--here kitty, kitty, kitty."
But Beck took top honors, winning "Worst Person" status for two reasons: his tireless promotion of gold and his branding of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) as a "prostitute."
"Once again, Beck's dirty little secret is that American society means as much to him as faith means to a televangelist," Olbermann said. "It's a scam. It's a cash cow. He's in it for the money. He keeps trying to sell people gold, largely because his a disproportionate number of his advertisers sell people gold."
Olbermann also asked why conservative feminists aren't responding in outrage to Beck's comments about Landrieu.
"Where are the conservative feminists?" he asked. "A women politician is called a prostitute and you're OK with that. It's OK if I call Sarah Palin that? The hell it is."
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