The constant feud between Keith Olbermann and Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly is a good general source of amusement. They both seem generally hateful and not very worthwhile to me, but I appreciate Olbermann’s approach more. It tends to come across as an elementary-school playground battle where the not-so-bright bully beats up the classs smartass every day, but the smartass keeps coming back and making everyone laugh at the bully.

Not this time. This time, smartass Olbermann has chosen to punch the O’Reilly bruiser right in the teeth.

It’s almost too bad they had an existing feud, because this would have been better-delivered by someone for whom it wasn’t personal. Still, someone had to do it, and Olbermann did it reasonably well.

Enough background; on to the story.

Last week, the day after Memorial Day, O’Reilly falsely accused US troops during WWII of a massacre in Belgium. This was the second time he had made this accusation. Both times, it was in an attempt to shut up Wesley Clark, his guest on the show. After O’Reilly’s viewers complained about his disgraceful slander of dead American troops, the FOX transcript of his claim was altered to “fix” the claim. (FOX has since changed it back again, after this aired and caused a stir.)

In addition to all of this, O’Reilly doesn’t even have the decency to apologize for his mistake or retract his words. Instead, he makes the clearly false claim that he wasn’t actually referring to Malmedy but instead to some vague idea that we also killed prisoners.

This man is slime of the lowest caliber. Busted.

I found the transcript of the show. To find the relevant segment, search forward for “Lincoln”.

The video link I had has gone off the air. If I notice another copy of the video, I’ll link it in a comment.