Keith Olbermann gave Fox & Friends the gold on the Worst Persons list last night.

That's the short story. The long story has actually very little to do with either the Countdown anchor or the FNC morning show. It goes back to Friday night, and involves MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews and Drudge Report editor Andrew Breitbart (and Breitbart.com), among others.

What's the story? After the jump...

Around 8:20pmET on Friday night, Chris Matthews (who had been vacationing in Paris when the news of Tim Russert's death broke) finally got on the air to give his thoughts. As Townhall.com's Scott Ott reported, Matthews initial comments referenced the fact that, behind the scenes, Russert supported the Iraq war when it first began.

Matthews gave some initial thoughts, then said, "It may be tricky to say this, and I'll say it." He continued:

I said, 'How can you believe this war is justified.' And he said, 'The nuclear thing. If they have a bomb that they can use we got to deal with it. We can't walk away from that. And that to me was the essence of what was wrong with the whole case for the war. They knew the argument that would sell with Mr. America, with the regular guy, with the true American patriot. They used the argument that would sell.

Several right-wing blogs picked up on this, including Townhall.com.

Fast forward to Monday morning. The Fox & Friends anchors spent five separate segments dedicated to Tim Russert. In the first, co-anchors Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade discussed Sunday's Meet the Press tribute. The next segment featured a discussion of Russert's life. A sample quote: "It was so unbelievable to see one man's impact — his sudden passing, but his career, affected so many," said Kilmeade. "That was an amazing show yesterday. I watched it, just incredible."

The next segment focused on who will replace Russert. "He's going to be hard to replace because he was fair," said Doocy. "And so many people on TV these days take one side or the other, they're not in the middle." One guest suggested David Gregory should get the job, while Doocy suggested Tom Brokaw. Co-anchor Gretchen Carlson joined the tributes in the next segment. "Amazing courage of that young adult," said Carlson of Luke Russert.

The final segment included Breitbart as a guest. "He was the last of an old breed of journalists who came from the Democratic party who felt incumbent of them to be fair to both sides," he said of Russert, although acknowledging Russert was a liberal. Kilmeade and Breitbart discussed some possible options, and Breitbart called out Matthews and Olbermann by name for a "leftward lurch." Then, Breitbart described how Matthews brought up the Iraq war in his initial tribute to Russert, calling it "classless."

Fast forward to Countdown at 8:45pmET last night on MSNBC. Olbermann gave the "Worst Person in the World," award to Fox & Friends. He didn't mention what segment of Fox & Friends he is referring to, or quote any part of what was said, but he seems to take offense to the Breitbart interview.

"You want to do a segment dismissing the late Tim Russert as a member of the liberal media?" he said. "You want to continue to feed the delusions of your viewers that the failures of their lives are the fault of somebody else, like TV news, and not their own responsibility?"

Below, both Breitbart's F&F segment and WPITW from last night: