Bill O'Reilly has been canned by Fox News

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/19/2017 at 14:51 • Filed to: None

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He got fired for allegations of sexual harassment. This has really been a long time coming, though.

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Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 14:52

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Nothing of value was lost

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 14:55

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Fox only cared after it became a PR thing.

Shamoononon drives like a farmer > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 14:55

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ttyymmnn > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 04/19/2017 at 14:56

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Yes and no. Once Roger Ailes left, there was nobody at the top to protect the culture of misogyny and harassment. Oncer the high-dollar advertisers started pulling out, that’s when things got real. Because Rupert Murdoch is all about the money.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 14:57

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For Sweden > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 14:58

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Neat.

Let’s lock up Polanski next.

Sweet Trav > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 14:59

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Remember Fox News is not a news channel but an entertainment channel.

Textured Soy Protein > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 14:59

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I cringed at Christmas when my mother-in-law opened her gift of one of his books about some war and mentioned it was “just what she asked for.”

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:00

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He got fired for because allegations of sexual harassment became newsworthy . This has really been a long time coming, though.

fintail > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:00

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He’d make a good appointed presidential adviser.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:00

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Say what you want about the guy, but he’s really the prototype talking head douchebag for all of cable news. If not for O’Reilly, Olbermann would still be doing sports, Hannity would be on some fringe nutjob XM station, and Rachel Maddow would be out playing golf.

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 04/19/2017 at 15:02

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A very long time. I wonder if he gets to keep his loofah ? That one goes all the way back to 2004.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:02

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True, but it was the bad PR that got the advertisers to start exiting.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:02

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Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Ash78, voting early and often 04/19/2017 at 15:03

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i wonder what her handicap is now compared to before she had the tv gig

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:03

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Yeah, I didn’t bother to look, but it seemed to me that these allegations have been in the background for a loooooong time...

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 04/19/2017 at 15:04

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Personally, I think our slide into the gutter began with Morton Downey Jr. He even predates Jerry Springer.

ttyymmnn > fintail 04/19/2017 at 15:04

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Hell, it worked for our President.

ttyymmnn > Textured Soy Protein 04/19/2017 at 15:05

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As an armchair military historian, I’d be interested to read how he spins things.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:05

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He’s the 1st one that I remember —-

ttyymmnn > Sweet Trav 04/19/2017 at 15:05

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They’re all entertainment. I’ve always said that the news media isn’t liberal or conservative, it’s capitalist.

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 04/19/2017 at 15:07

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That was the first syndicated show that I can remember where you could be as ugly as you wanted to be and people applauded you for it. It was truly degrading and horrible, and people loved it.

Textured Soy Protein > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:09

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I can’t remember which book it was. I went on the Bill O’Reilly Books website and they have an interesting idea of what qualifies as a kids book though.

Berang > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:10

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If only they’d fire Trump for being a philandering rapist.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:10

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Yup, Morton was pretty bad, as well as Richard Bey a few years later. Both of them went “Full Springer” well before Jerry did. But those were daytime TV sideshows, while the others were pretending to be legitimate Prime Time news outlets.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:11

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I wonder what “book” he will write next. I can’t imagine what Colbert and Stewart’s reaction is.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 04/19/2017 at 15:12

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But they were also the trailblazers who showed the world that being an asshole on TV pays off. It’s been all downhill since then.

ttyymmnn > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 04/19/2017 at 15:12

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I’m sure he’ll find some way to make money off of this. Not that he needs it.

ttyymmnn > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 04/19/2017 at 15:12

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I’m sure he’ll find some way to make money off of this. Not that he needs it.

ttyymmnn > Berang 04/19/2017 at 15:13

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Normally, that would have kept you from being hired in the first place.

Textured Soy Protein > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 04/19/2017 at 15:13

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Fox only cared after it became a PR money thing.

FTFY

(Basically all of their advertisers pulled their spots from his show once the harassment news came out.)

ttyymmnn > Textured Soy Protein 04/19/2017 at 15:13

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I’m not sure if it’s even history or historical fiction. For Bill, there might not be much of a difference.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:14

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“Killing O’Reily” will be written. Because adding killing to it makes it a good book.

/s

Textured Soy Protein > WilliamsSW 04/19/2017 at 15:14

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They fired him because all the advertisers pulled their spots from his show.

Mercedes Streeter > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:14

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While I agree, it depends on which news you’re talking about. Places like ThinkProgress and Breitbart have motives beyond simple capitalism... Manipulation and Propaganda. :/

ttyymmnn > Mercedes Streeter 04/19/2017 at 15:16

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Agreed. But there’s a lot of propaganda even at the Washington Post, a paper I’ve been reading regularly for 20 years. It’s not just in the Op Eds, but in what stories they choose to cover and how they cover them. It’s a very interesting exercise to take a look at the Wa Po front page and then click over to Fox News. Then compare the stories they have chosen to report, where they report them on the page, and how they write their headlines.

BritishLeyland™ > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:17

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Mercedes Streeter > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:20

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Oh yeah, so agreed about that! I tend to get my news from numerous sources because of it. So like, I’ll listen to TYT, check out HuffPo, carefully tread through Breitbart or The Blaze, and so on.

I prefer independent news media, but even they get screwy sometimes.

EL_ULY > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:24

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lol PEN DAY HOE!

ttyymmnn > Mercedes Streeter 04/19/2017 at 15:26

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Check European sources too. They can be much better reporters of American news than American media.

DipodomysDeserti > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:42

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He got fired because of bad publicity. Multiple allegations have been made over a course of decades. They don’t give a shit about the allegations.

WilliamsSW > Textured Soy Protein 04/19/2017 at 15:45

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Yep, and that was only because it blew up in the news to the point where they couldn’t ignore it any more. Amazes me that some of them seemed to take a while to do it, too...

facw > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 15:56

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He’s got two hardover nonfiction bestsellers on the NY Times list right now. Killing the Rising Sun is a good bet for this one:

I’m guessing it’s not exactly a measured take.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > facw 04/19/2017 at 16:14

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I read a lot of WWII history books and downloaded that one from my library, nothing really new in it, sort of a readers digest condensed book with a heavy dose of dumbass. It is for the most part historically correct. That’s the highest praise I can give it.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 16:43

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Haha, dick.

Your boy, BJR > ttyymmnn 04/19/2017 at 22:41

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God, that show ruled.

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 04/20/2017 at 07:13

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no loss.

hopefully his replacement will be better

ttyymmnn > pip bip - choose Corrour 04/20/2017 at 08:06

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Tucker Carlson? He’s an even bigger shitbag, but perhaps minus the misogyny.