It’s silly, but it’s August and news is slow. First up, Keith Olbermann named Lou Dobbs the worst person in the world on Tuesday for giving the Birthers a platform to and for attacking Olbermann on his radio show. Dobbs seems to have taken offense at this part of Olbermann’s lucid commentary:

Thirdly, meds, Lou? CNN’s fading shot only in soft focus birther embracing, former star, men who during the week makes millions off bashing immigrants, especially Hispanics, even though his wife and kids are Hispanic, the man who, when he was 37, threatened to beat up his wife’s 62 year old boss because he wouldn’t let her anchor sports casts anymore?
What do you want, Lou? To come take a swing at me? That Lou Dobbs? Meds? Have you had your tranquilizer dart yet today, Lou? Lou Dobbs, today’s worst person in the world.

Dobbs then followed up on his radio show calling Olbermann, among other things, a “punk” and a “liar” and threatened to expose some deep, dark secret concerning Olbermann’s tenure at CNN. Politico has the audio here.

Olbermann felt the need to fire back yet again, and gave Dobbs the WPITW bronze on Wednesday for, it seems, attacking Olbermann on the radio:

The bronze tonight to Lou Dobbs. I’ve never actually seen a full fledged on the air nervous breakdown before. But as Lou sheds still more viewers and more sanity, it seems to be coming to that and quickly and about me. “The real stories are just waiting to come out on his tenure at CNN, if he wants to play those games. If you’re wondering why I’m a little annoyed with the punk, he attacked my wife and my daughters. I just can’t think why in the world this guy would risk infuriating, annoying, and provoking to anger my wife, because she would whip his sorry butt. I guarantee you that. So we’re going to be having a lot of fun with Mr. Olbermann, I’m sure, for some time to come. I want to throttle him.”
OK. I got my first job at CNN in part because Lou was out of the office on one of his stories, if you’d like to play that game, Lou. And I attacked your wife and daughters by mentioning that they were Hispanic? And, Lou, Debbie is going to attack me? Maybe with that gun she tried to bring onto the flight in Newark six years ago? You’re going to throttle me? Are you threatening somebody younger than you? Isn’t your current age range for insane physical violence now men aged 80 to 206?

I actually would pay decent money to watch a boxing match of sorts between Dobbs and Olbermann. I can’t be the only one.