{"id":5300,"date":"2007-11-14T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2007-11-15T07:49:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T15:49:12","slug":"videos-olbermann-enters-the-fray-in-oreilly-v-cuban-dustup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5300","title":{"rendered":"VIDEOS: Olbermann Enters the Fray in O’Reilly v. Cuban Dustup"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brad Friedman…trying to keep up with all from the road…<\/em><\/p>\n

Our story so far…<\/em>Last Friday<\/strong> I was at the BlogWorld Expo in Vegas, where billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner, HDNet media impresario, and blogger Mark Cuban gave the closing keynote address. I asked him about the various attacks on him from Bill O’Reilly concerning Redacted<\/i><\/a>, the new Brian DePalma film which HDNet is releasing this week…and which O’Reilly has not seen…but has declared to be “anti-troop” nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Cuban told me that he’s “very grateful” to the far-Right Fox “News” desk-jockey for the publicity he’s brought to what would otherwise have been a small film release. “Bill O’Reilly is my new best friend!” he declared. My coverage of that, blogged from the conference room just after his address, is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Sunday<\/strong>, Cuban himself blogged<\/a> more on the topic at his BlogMaverick site, in a post which begins, “I’ve grown to love Bill O’Reilly. Seriously. If there is anyone who can publicize a political movie, it’s Bill and I truly appreciate that about him.” Cuban then goes on to speak to O’Reilly’s concerns about the film…which O’Reilly has not seen.<\/p>\n

On Monday<\/strong>, a visibly angry (or mock-angry, as the case usually is) O’Reilly shot back. He ranted that in a different day FDR “might have incarcerated” Cuban and that “General Patton would have slapped the tar out of him.” O’Reilly’s ingenious plan to teach Cuban a lesson: A campaign calling for Dallas Mavericks fans to display “Support the Troops” signs at games, and for protesters to show up outside movie theaters showing the film with “Support the Troops” signs. O’Reilly said he would be doing so himself. We posted video of his silly rant yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Which brings us up to yesterday<\/strong>, when O’Reilly railed again against Cuban, calling him an “extremist.” Ironically, Ann Coulter would join him for the conversation…about the film O’Reilly hasn’t seen.<\/p>\n

At the same time, MSNBC’s Kieth Olbermann (O’Reilly’s actual<\/i> arch-enemy) jumped into the fray to have much fun at O’Reilly’s expense from the night before. His report included a video-taped look at the actual answer Cuban gave to my question last Friday at the BlogWorld Expo (though not the question itself), along with an examination of O’Reilly’s claim that Cuban would have been locked up by FDR and slapped by Patton for having produced the film…Which O’Reilly hasn’t seen.<\/p>\n

Olbermann also notes that the Dallas Mavericks had previously planned a “Support the Troops” night for the Texas National Guard at their upcoming home game anyway, but we’re sure that O’Reilly will take credit for the thousands of green shirts with such a message — long-planned to be given out to fans<\/a> that night — along with the Mavs’ long-standing “Seats for Soldiers”<\/a> program as some response to his ingenious plan to teach Cuban a lesson…by “promoting” his film for him, even though he hasn’t seen it.<\/p>\n

Here’s last night’s O’Reilly and then Olbermann videos, courtesy of our own video-ace, Alan Breslauer…<\/p>\n

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Lastly, Olbermann had a short follow-up segment with a former Reagan Administration Official, Constitutional Attorney Bruce Fein, for a historical look at FDR’s actual<\/i> imprisonment plans during WWII…<\/p>\n

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So now, if you cared, you’re all up to date!<\/p>\n

And a personal message for Cuban from The BRAD BLOG<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong> Hey, it’s been our pleasure to give your film all this free publicity! Sorry we haven’t called you an extremist or called for you to be locked up, but it’s the best we can do. (We also did a fairly good job of making noise with Dan Rather’s blockbuster HDNet expos\u00e9 on touch-screen voting machines<\/a> to boot!) Both have been our pleasure. But, feel free to say thanks by purchasing a BlogAd here<\/a>, as you’ve done on a number of the other<\/em> progressive blogs, but not ours \ud83d\ude41 — We could certainly use the support to keep taking down the bad guys! Not to mention an ad buy here is a great way to “thank” O’Reilly for all he’s done for ya! \ud83d\ude42 Hope you’ll consider it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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