Some people just can’t resist picking a fight and for the Daily Caller and Keith Olbermann the preferred medium last week was the microblogging service Twitter.

From Fishbowl DC

A nasty exchange broke out between The Daily Caller and MSNBC Host Keith Olbermann today on Twitter.

@TheDailyCaller: “Keith Olbermann talks too much about himself: We watch, because we’re paid to – http://tinyurl.com/23r8bvq #media #MSNBC #bias”

Olbermann responds: “@TheDailyCaller unfortunately I don’t read you because I don’t have to.”

Last Friday night Olbermann named The Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson among his “worst persons in the world.” It wasn’t the first time.

Olbermann and Carlson began tussling recently when former Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel resigned after nasty comments he made on a liberal listserve became public.  The Daily Caller published some of Weigel’s post which infuriated Olbermann.

Then the other day Olbermann tweeted that Larry King tried to get him hired at CNN for eight years which CNN president Jon Klein attributed to the fact that King has a “million ideas a day” and that “it didn’t work”.

If Olbermann didn’t have to read the Daily Caller then why did he bother to respond?

UPDATE:

From Twitter

12:30 p.m. The Daily Caller: Keith Olbermann knows what @KeithOlbermann is talking about http://ow.ly/29jOx

12:30 p.m. Olbermann RT @DailyCaller Keith Olbermann knows what @KeithOlbermann is talking about /Daily Caller has never known what Daily Caller is talking about

1:45 p.m. Olbermann RT @jtLOL amusing how a guy who claims not to read @DailyCaller knows so much about (it) /I worked with its founder. Bow tie contained brain

2 p.m. Olbermann: @DailyCaller Nice ratings decline. Looking forward to you on cable access /Never. Can’t deny Tuck his last TV chance

2:10 p.m. The Daily Caller: well @KeithOlbermann, @tuckercarlson is hosting @hannity tonight. Let’s see how those numbers work out.

Update:

The Daily Caller’s Sean “Jim Treacher” Medlock is clearly also getting in on the fun. He’s mentioned above…

Treacher: jtLOL @KeithOlbermann Kudos to whoever does your “hair” and makeup. Looks like a dead hamster on a basketball.

Keith Olbermann: RT @jtLOL as we’re going sartorial does that mean it’s ok to make fun of whatever that thing is on your head? /They’re called “glasses”

Treacher: jtLOL @KeithOlbermann You comb your glasses? Well, I guess they pay somebody to do that for you. For now.

It doesn’t look like this fight is over yet.

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