Is Bill O'Reilly finally on his way out? - Yes! He's outta here!

Advertisers are leaving his show in droves.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.


Howard Stern made an interesting point this week. Yes, advertisers are fleeing from O'Reilly BUT they simply are just shifting their ads to other Fox shows like Hannity or The Five. Fox itself isn't losing any ad revenue and from what I've read, O'Reilly's ratings are still incredibly strong (even getting a boost when Trump tweeted his support for Bill -- SIGH).

I don't know how Bill was allowed to accumulate millions in payouts without being fired. His creepiness stems back decades. Fox needs to ask themselves in the light of Bill and of course Ailes, what type of company do they want to be? The one that hires good looking blonds who summarily get sexually harassed by on air talent, or a company that takes HR and federal laws seriously. IMO, the behavior is so engrained, it's most likely the first one.


One can hope he is gone quickly but I would have preferred to see Hannity get the axe.


I'm actually surprised that so many advertisers jumped, good for them. Beyond that, am not optimistic that anything will happen. If you like the guy, it's easy to look past it and to say there isn't any hard evidence. If you don't like the guy, you're probably not watching anyway.

I think the shock of, say, Bill Cosby is that he projected a nice, wholesome family guy image for many years. O'Reilly has always positioned himself as somewhat of a loud, arrogant jerk, so I think he has a better chance of surviving negative publicity.


O'Reilly currently has a best seller about Family Values.

apple44 said:

I'm actually surprised that so many advertisers jumped, good for them. Beyond that, am not optimistic that anything will happen. If you like the guy, it's easy to look past it and to say there isn't any hard evidence. If you don't like the guy, you're probably not watching anyway.

I think the shock of, say, Bill Cosby is that he projected a nice, wholesome family guy image for many years. O'Reilly has always positioned himself as somewhat of a loud, arrogant jerk, so I think he has a better chance of surviving negative publicity.



Good point, and I think he also has at least one kids' book. I still think that Cosby had a much stronger "nice family guy" image - it was communicated over decades, and his NBC show had huge reach. Books by tv personalities, people buy them or give them as gifts, and they often go unread. People watched and talked about The Cosby Show.

drummerboy said:

O'Reilly currently has a best seller about Family Values.

apple44 said:

I'm actually surprised that so many advertisers jumped, good for them. Beyond that, am not optimistic that anything will happen. If you like the guy, it's easy to look past it and to say there isn't any hard evidence. If you don't like the guy, you're probably not watching anyway.

I think the shock of, say, Bill Cosby is that he projected a nice, wholesome family guy image for many years. O'Reilly has always positioned himself as somewhat of a loud, arrogant jerk, so I think he has a better chance of surviving negative publicity.




Yeah, O'Reilly is certainly no Cosby in terms of image - plus, O'Reilly's audience is clearly kind of damaged in the first place, so they'll put up with anything from him.

apple44 said:

Good point, and I think he also has at least one kids' book. I still think that Cosby had a much stronger "nice family guy" image - it was communicated over decades, and his NBC show had huge reach. Books by tv personalities, people buy them or give them as gifts, and they often go unread. People watched and talked about The Cosby Show.
drummerboy said:

O'Reilly currently has a best seller about Family Values.

apple44 said:

I'm actually surprised that so many advertisers jumped, good for them. Beyond that, am not optimistic that anything will happen. If you like the guy, it's easy to look past it and to say there isn't any hard evidence. If you don't like the guy, you're probably not watching anyway.

I think the shock of, say, Bill Cosby is that he projected a nice, wholesome family guy image for many years. O'Reilly has always positioned himself as somewhat of a loud, arrogant jerk, so I think he has a better chance of surviving negative publicity.






O'Reilly isn't going anywhere. Fox views the $13 million as the cost of doing business with O'Reilly. His show takes in hundreds of millions of dollars.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...

"The reason Fox News is willing to bet on O’Reilly? Money. The O’Reilly Factor generated $446 million in advertising revenue for the network from 2014 through 2016, according to Kantar Media. Last year, the show brought in an estimated $110.8 million in ad revenue, according to iSpot.tv. That compares to the 2016 of $20.7 million in advertising for MSNBC’s biggest star, Rachel Maddow, who is on an hour later. Fox News makes up about 10% of its parent company 21st Century Fox’s revenue and about 25% of its operating income."


I was in a bookstore yesterday and flipped through O'Reilly's latest book. He goes on about the difference between "old school" and "snowflakes". It gets real old real fast, but maybe not for his fans. One example: I learned that "old school" dresses up when taking a flight, and "snowflakes" wear track suits. I have no idea what the point of that is.

I also learned that Billy Joel is "old school", based on how he worked hard to succeed. That is true, of course. It's also true that Billy is on Wife No. 4 and has a history of substance abuse, but that wasn't mentioned in Bill's "family values" book. I'm not criticizing Billy Joel, just noting that in the Bill O'Reilly world the slightest transgression can get a person labeled a "pinhead".

Also, Bill might have been looking for a celebrity who he didn't think had supported Democrats, but he failed in that -

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...


Those are some freaking frightening financial figures...

yahooyahoo said:

O'Reilly isn't going anywhere. Fox views the $13 million as the cost of doing business with O'Reilly. His show takes in hundreds of millions of dollars.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...


"The reason Fox News is willing to bet on O’Reilly? Money. The O’Reilly Factor generated $446 million in advertising revenue for the network from 2014 through 2016, according to Kantar Media. Last year, the show brought in an estimated $110.8 million in ad revenue, according to iSpot.tv. That compares to the 2016 of $20.7 million in advertising for MSNBC’s biggest star, Rachel Maddow, who is on an hour later. Fox News makes up about 10% of its parent company 21st Century Fox’s revenue and about 25% of its operating income."



Family values? We think not:

And here's where it gets interesting. In October 2011, McPhilmy took O'Reilly to court after learning that the woman she thought had been a neutral therapist serving the needs of her children was in fact a member of her ex-husband's household staff. The therapist, a Long Island licensed social worker named Lynne Kulakowski, was working long days and some evenings in O'Reilly's house, on his payroll, and basically acting as the children's nanny. From the opinion:

The mother claimed that the [father] had repeatedly violated conditions of the agreement. The mother further alleged that, after the execution of the agreement, the father had hired the children's therapist as a full-time employee to perform virtually all of his parental duties.... The mother's affidavit contained specific allegations concerning the father's repeated violations of the custody provisions of the agreement since its inception.... Moreover, the full-time employment of the children's therapist, the person designated in the agreement as a neutral third-party "arbitrator" of custodial disputes, by the father, constitutes a significant change of circumstance which could undermine the integrity of the agreement's custodial provisions.

And this....

The preference of McPhilmy and O’Reilly’s 17-year-old daughter is not particularly difficult to guess: As we noted last year, she told a court-appointed forensic examiner that she witnessed O’Reilly drag her mother down a staircase by the neck. (According to court transcripts obtained by Gawker, she also viewed O’Reilly as a temperamental, absentee parent who was uninterested in developing a relationship with her.) At a January 22 hearing, the children’s court-appointed lawyer, Barbara Kopman, told the appellate court that both the daughter and son strongly preferred living with their mother over their father. (Gawker was able to attend but not record the court session, which was open to the public.)


So Bill O'Reilly took a few days vacation to go somewhere so he can sexually abuse Bill O' Reilly.


Here's another one. Bill O'Reilly is always the first to tout his admiration for police officers, but that apparently didn't extend to the man in blue who started dating O'Reilly's wife after their marriage ended. He dangled a large donation to a Nassau County Police supervisor, who in turn launched an internal affairs (no pun intended) investigation in an attempt to dig up dirt on the former Mrs. O'Reilly's new love interest.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...



Of course, a quiet departure from his show is hardly his just desserts. He is a vile, vile man who has been rewarded in remarkable and shameful ways.




Stoughton said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Hard to beat the Daily Mail: it has been reported ... allegedly separated ... is said to ... sources claim ... according to Gawker ...



drummerboy said:

Of course, a quiet departure from his show is hardly his just desserts. He is a vile, vile man who has been rewarded in remarkable and shameful ways.


True that.  Rumor is that Bill's sexual harassment iceberg is a lot deeper than what's been seen on the surface; there's potential for more victims coming forward.  


"Hot Chocolate?" What a dirtbag. What a Fox culture. Doughy old white guys who somehow think they're desirable, given their wealth/influence.


Wow, I didn't think Fox News would cover it, but the web site has what seems to be a detailed and even-handed article.

http://www.foxnews.com/enterta...


Prepare to enter the unemployment zone!


At the White House, aides are trying to hide DJT's Twitter machine. Please. Say. Nothing. Sir.



yahooyahoo said:

Prepare to enter the unemployment zone!

For about 10 minutes. Trump will probably appoint him to the Cabinet.


Now they can replace Spicey!  Imagine, Just Imagine!

Best Regards,

Ron Carter


Money always talks and when he started bleeding it, they rid of him. Had we not found out about the massive payouts, he'd still be working at Fox, sexually harassing women. There is something terribly wrong with a company that condones sexual misconduct and rewards the harasser. Working there must be like working at Delta Tau Chi.


money talks, but it wasn't the settlement money that did BillO in. It was the advertisers pulling out. 


Well, in general Fox has a bunch of stuff "terribly wrong" about itself, not least of which that it is a network devoted to deceiving its public while sucking up to one political party. They were born in sin.

It always seemed to me that a lawsuit targeting Fox and the R party for some kind of "in kind" illegal political spending might have gone somewhere - at least pre-Citizen's United.


kibbegirl said:

Money always talks and when he started bleeding it, they rid of him. Had we not found out about the massive payouts, he'd still be working at Fox, sexually harassing women. There is something terribly wrong with a company that condones sexual misconduct and rewards the harasser. Working there must be like working at Delta Tau Chi.



Bill O'Reilly. Chris Christie. Monica Crowley. Michael Flynn. Paul Manafort.

My pick for the next "Trump ally who will soon wish that Hillary had won the election" is Rudy Giuliani.


I see your Rudy, but I raise you a Trump inner circle Spicey. I think he was actually a credible individual before aligning himself with the Don. That and he looks like he's one decimal away from popping a blood vessel, he's so stressed. 

Stoughton said:

Bill O'Reilly. Chris Christie. Monica Crowley. Michael Flynn. Paul Manafort.


My pick for the next "Trump ally who will soon wish that Hillary had won the election" is Rudy Giuliani.



My guess is O'Reilly winds up on some cable network or talk radio with another big paycheck.


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