What Would It Take For Bill OReilly To Get Fired?

[Judi Lynn]

Blog ››› 8 hours 15 min ago ››› MATT GERTZ



Over the past two years, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly 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 O’Reilly’s shocked declaration that African-American patronsat a famous Harlem restaurant weren’t screaming expletives at the waitstaff.

Given this track record, what would it take for Fox News to fire Bill?

The reason O’Reilly has been untouchable is simple: He makes Fox News a lot of money. His show anchors Fox’s prime-time programming, bringing in the most viewers in cable news for 17 years, according to the network.

There is no heir apparent. It’s difficult to imagine an Eric Bolling or Greg Gutfeld filling O’Reilly’s seat. If the network loses him, it’s 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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https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/03/29/what-would-it-take-bill-o-reilly-get-fired/215862

[LonePirate]

1. Prove that he voted for Clinton

[liberal N proud]

2. Suddenly stopped being racist

And abandoned trump and republicans.

Then and only then would they fire him.

[doc03]

3. Maybe if he shot Hannity on live TV. An event I would

pay to see myself.

[Shrike47]

4. Bad ratings. They're all that matters.

[MosheFeingold]

9. Beat me to it.

He can do whatever he wants as long as enough people watch.

[Zambero]

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]

6. Sean Hannity claiming that Bill-O loofahed him.

...While Megyn watched...

[Ken Burch]

7. If they caught him bowing to Mecca in the break room, maybe.

n/t.

[Ken Burch]

8. If he burned the Stars and Stripes on the Factor....

...then put out the flames by urinating on it...

[MosheFeingold]

10. Actually, I know

He could do an expose on the My Pillow product or Nutrisystem. Maybe that stupid Tommy Copper thing.