While this morning’s Page Six item about Keith Olbermann recyles previous Jossip reports, it also makes one thing more clear: News Corp. has many vehicles to push its anti-MSNBC/GE crusade, and Bill O’Reilly’s diatribes are just one of them.

Repeating our previous reports about Keith Olbermann’s behavior and conflicts with other talent like David Gregory and Dan Abrams, P6 also finds itself on the front lines of O’Reilly’s battle against the network — which, it turns out, News Corp. tried to quell at the highest levels, and is now more than content to keep supporting. Just like the real war!

So the story goes, as Howard Kurtz reports in WaPo, Fox News chief Roger Ailes called NBC’s Jeff Zucker last summer, on his cellular telephone, to ask for a reprieve from Olbermann attacking him and his company. Zucker balked, which meant Ailes was free to unleash the hounds (FNC and the Post) not just on Olbermann, but also all of GE, whose business dealings in Iran give O’Reilly the perfect fodder to call them terrorist supporters. (News Corp. denies they offered to reign in either O’Reilly or the Post.)

And without Zucker offering to keep Olbermann at bay, O’Reilly has been on a rampage, going after Olbermann some more, and now GE chief Jeffrey Immelt, saying he “is doing business right this minute with Iran, who are killing our soldiers. . . . That Immelt man answers to me. . . . That’s why I’m in this business right now, to get guys like that.”

Then O’Reilly started going after NBC correspondent Richard Engel, saying he was taking an anti-war stance in his Iraq reporting, leading NBC News president Steve Capus to step in, saying this time, O’Reilly had gone to far. “It is one thing to have corporate jousting between Keith and O’Reilly,” says Capus. “When it becomes an over-the-top, inaccurate distortion and gross misrepresentation of the job being performed by Richard Engel, then I’m going to be concerned and feel the need to act.”

Cue a phone call from Capus to FNC’s Ailes early last year … that went nowhere, except for Ailes accusing Capus and NBC for being authentically anti-war.

So here we stand, with nothing solved. Except the most excellent ratings bait since Kathie Lee Gifford’s husband cheated on her.