The Big Fight on MSNBC's Countdown?

We have a 15-round bruiser of a fight brewing here between the Executive Producer of "Redacted" and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and the Heavyweight Champion of Fox News Channel, Bill O'Reilly.

O'Reilly has been very critical of the film Redacted, and Cuban responded, not too badly it has to be said. He was speaking at the Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. It was initially reported by TV Newser, but also reported by The Brad Blog.

Mark Cuban himself is a fellow blogger , and he followed up those comments with a post of his own.

But O'Reilly himself responded with one of his talking points memos.

Now, the story has continued on, and Mark Cuban has challenged Bill O'Reilly to a debate. The venue, would be MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann! And the moderator, the host himself, Keith Olbermann. The challenge was made via Keith Olbermann himself, on Tuesday night's edition of Countdown, and communicated to Keith via email. On a side note, Cuban also came up with a new word that fits any debate between Bill O'Reilly and any sane person, Billsanity!

Somehow, probably because of Bill O'Reilly's known refusal to even acknowledge Keith Olbermann, usually referring to him as "elements at NBC News", I doubt this debate will ever happen, and I doubt that Bill O'Reilly will even acknowledge the offer. It wouldn't fit his style.

Crooks and Liars has an exclusive video clip of the film.