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What Would It Take For Bill OReilly To Get Fired?
Blog 8 hours 15 min ago MATT GERTZ
Over the past two years, Fox News Bill OReilly has drawn attention to President Barack Obama's clothing at a Muslim wedding and claimed Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was wearing a James Brown wig, called many African-Americans ill-educated with tattoos on their foreheads, and praised the workplace conditions of the slaves who built the White House. A co-worker accused him of reducing her on-air time on his show after she turned down his repeated sexual advances. His yarns about heroically covering conflicts in the Falkland Islands, El Salvador, and Northern Ireland were exposed as fiction. His latest biography was rejected as "a disservice to history written by "an opportunistic interloper" who "debases the historian's craft." This fall marks the 10th anniversary of OReillys shocked declaration that African-American patronsat a famous Harlem restaurant werent screaming expletives at the waitstaff.
Given this track record, what would it take for Fox News to fire Bill?
The reason OReilly has been untouchable is simple: He makes Fox News a lot of money. His show anchors Foxs prime-time programming, bringing in the most viewers in cable news for 17 years, according to the network.
There is no heir apparent. Its difficult to imagine an Eric Bolling or Greg Gutfeld filling OReillys seat. If the network loses him, its screwed. And so Fox excuses offenses that would get talent at other networks -- or lesser lights at Fox -- kicked to the curb.
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What Would It Take For Bill OReilly To Get Fired? (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Mar 2017
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LonePirate
(13,431 posts)1. Prove that he voted for Clinton
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)2. Suddenly stopped being racist
And abandoned trump and republicans.
Then and only then would they fire him.
doc03
(35,365 posts)3. Maybe if he shot Hannity on live TV. An event I would
pay to see myself.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)4. Bad ratings. They're all that matters.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)9. Beat me to it.
He can do whatever he wants as long as enough people watch.
Zambero
(8,966 posts)5. The usual things
A dead girl or a live boy. Abhorrent remarks aside, Bill-O's covered just about all the other bases, buying his way out of whatever mess he's gotten himself into.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)6. Sean Hannity claiming that Bill-O loofahed him.
...While Megyn watched...
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)7. If they caught him bowing to Mecca in the break room, maybe.
n/t.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)8. If he burned the Stars and Stripes on the Factor....
...then put out the flames by urinating on it...
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)10. Actually, I know
He could do an expose on the My Pillow product or Nutrisystem. Maybe that stupid Tommy Copper thing.