On the January 8 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter compared Fox News' Bill O'Reilly to a "blimp ... balloon in one of those parades," adding that O'Reilly is "so full of himself" and is "so inflated, it's coming out of his ears." Host Tucker Carlson had asked his guests what they thought "of the meltdown occurring in public of Bill O'Reilly," saying that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, host of Countdown, "has set out to drive Bill O'Reilly crazy, and apparently he's succeeded." Carlson also stated that he is "not a huge fan of the [Fox] network -- but some of [the people that work there] are decent, and some of them are -- actually are intelligent." Tucker's other guest, retired Col. Jack Jacobs, concluded of O'Reilly's flagging ratings that "there's a finite life to everything."... http://tinyurl.com/wu74b [Open in new window]