It's no big news that Keith Olbermann hates Bill O'Reilly, and vice versa, but the Washington Post today reports that the feud between the newsmen has gone from funny to scary, sparking some very real insidious scheming at O'Reilly's employer, Fox News.

If you've foolishly been watching Fox News in recent weeks, perhaps you've noticed that O'Reilly et al have been ramping up their attacks on General Electric, parent company of Olbermann's network, MSNBC. Veiled as outrage over GE's business dealings with Iran (and thus terrorists), Fox's finger wagging was culminated by O'Reilly declaring that if he had a kid killed in Iraq, he'd "blame the likes of [GE CEO] Jeffrey Immelt." Typical Fox fearmongering, right? Wrong, according to the Post, which claims that Fox's negative portrayals of GE are just the network's way of attempting to get MSNBC to rein in Olbermann's nightly attacks on O'Reilly. If MSNBC agrees to reprimand Olbermann, says the article, Fox will make its negative coverage of GE go away. Neat, huh?

Despite it all, The O'Reilly Factor is still the most-watched cable news show on television.

Click through for one of Olbermann's many blistering attacks on "Bill-O."

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