Last week, the trade magazine “Broadcasting & Cable” interviewed Bill O’Reilly on the event of his 100th week as the top-rated cable news show. On Monday, Keith Olbermann had a field day with O’Reilly’s gaffes and misstatements, particularly including his delusion that being first for 100 weeks is a record.

Transcript:

First, the funniest, most embarrassing O‘Reilly mistake. Ms. Guthrie, “congratulations on 100 consecutive months as the top rated on cable news. That‘s quite an accomplishment in this day and age.”

Olbermann (imitating Ted Baxter as O’Reilly): “I don‘t think it has ever been done in any kind of TV milieu. We had our people research all programs going back to the ‘50s like “Gun Smoke” and things like that. Nobody has ever stayed on top this long.”

See, you need new people. “The Today Show” has been in first place for 694 consecutive weeks, as of last Friday, which calculates out to 166 executive months, every one of them since May 1995. “Meet the Press” has been in first place for 131 consecutive months, ever since May of 1988.

Bill, you are not only not the longest running top rated program ever in any kind of TV milieu, you are not even the second current longest running top rated program this week. How embarrassing for you. How embarrassing nobody at Fox knows enough about television to tell you this obvious fact.

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Here are two embarrassing admissions that pertain to the president and ratings, and what Bill-O thinks of his colleagues at Fox. “I think that the ratings over the past three months prove beyond any doubt that many Americans are uneasy with the direction of the country. Sixty two million Americans voted against Barack Obama. Some of these people are concerned.”

Apparently not that many; 62 million people voted against Obama. Since the election — since October 31st of last year, O‘Reilly‘s audience is up, let me get the number, oh, I‘m sorry. Since October 31st of lastyear, O‘Reilly‘s audience is down 568,000 viewers a night, down. Gosh, Bill, using your logic, doesn‘t that mean more people are uneasy with the direction of your show than the direction of the country?

“My program is the least skeptical of the so-called conservative programs. We give the president the benefit of the doubt. And we never cheap shot him.”

Uh-oh. By implication, Bill is saying the other conservative shows do cheap shot him? So Bill, does Sean Hannity cheap shot Obama? Glenn Beck? Bill, who will never go deaf listening to colleagues tell him he is a team player, didn‘t think this part ofthe interview through. Did he?

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Olbermann (mimicking Ted Baxter as O’Reilly): “NBC is corrupt top to bottom. They say, oh, it is only MSNBC. No, it‘s not. It is across the board. What they did to the Branchini family was disgraceful. Every media outlet in the country should come in on that.”

The Branchini family? You mean Alexa Branchini of It Happened to Alexa Foundation? What on Earth are you talking about? Miss Guthrie, “What did they do?” Bill-O, “They attacked a foundation that helps rape victims and their families for having me MC a charitable event.”

We didn‘t attack them. We attacked you for having had the hypocrisy to attend a fund raiser for rape victim after you twice came out and blamed rape victims for their own victimization and, in one case, death.

Ms. Guthrie, “NBC has denied that they had anything to do with that.”

Bill-O, “that‘s a lie. NBC‘s air drove all of that. The Internet cannot get traction unless it has an outlet, a national outlet. NBC provided that. I hope you‘re understanding this. There aren‘t two sides to this story. There‘s what happened and the NBC lie about what happened. That is it.”

Let me see if I‘m correctly summarizing your evidence of what you previously described as a well-financed cabal to smear you about this. One, you called the raped and murdered Jennifer Moore moronic and you described how her drunkenness and scanty attire led to her horrible death. Two, you said the raped and molested teenager Sean Hornbeck enjoyed parts of his captivity more than he had life with his family.

Three, in a bitter irony, you wound up headlining a fund raiser for rape victims, a fact promoted by the support group. Four, the irony was noted on several websites. Five, we raised it here. Six, Amanda Terkel wrote about it at ThinkProgress.org. Seven, you sent an employee to follow her and stalk her in a car for two hours.

Therefore, eight, this is a conspiracy against you.

Bill, a rhetorical question, in private, has any doctor ever used the word “megalomania” to you?