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O’Reilly out at Fox News


Reported By Elliot Smilowitz and Joe Concha – 04/19/17 02:34 PM EDT

URL of the original posting site: http://thehill.com/media/329541-oreilly-out-at-fox-news

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly will not return to the network, 21st Century Fox announced Wednesday. After a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the Company and Bill O’Reilly have agreed that Bill O’Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel, the network said in a statement.

Reports emerged this week that 21st Century Fox was leaning toward ousting O’Reilly in the wake of sexual harassment allegations.

New York Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman reported hours earlier that Fox News had decided to oust O’Reilly and execs were in talks about how to end the relationship “without causing collateral damage to the network.”

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O’Reilly’s show lost about 90 advertisers after The New York Times reported earlier this month that five women were paid $13 million to settle sexual harassment suits.

21st Century Fox owner Rupert Murdoch had reportedly said he was reluctant to fire O’Reilly because it would look like The New York Times report forced his hand.Fox also announced Wednesday that Tucker Carlson is moving into O’Reilly’s highly coveted 8 p.m. time slot. “The O’Reilly Factor” has been the top-rated cable news show for the past 15 years, creating big shoes to fill. But Carlson has shown a knack for big ratings at Fox. Originally airing at 7 p.m. when it debuted in September, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” was moved to the 9 p.m. spot after Megyn Kelly left Fox News in November. Kelly had been the second most-watched host on cable, but Carlson bested her ratings in the time slot.

Taking over at 9 p.m. will be “The Five,” a panel show with six co-hosts: Kimberly Guilfoyle, Dana Perino, Bock Beckel, Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters and Juan Williams.

And the newly-open 5 p.m. spot will go to a new show hosted by Eric Bolling, a longtime O’Reilly fill-in and former “The Five” co-host. Bolling’s show will debut May 1, with “Special Report with Bret Baier” stretching to two hours to fill the time until then.

A lawyer for O’Reilly said Monday that the host had been subject to a “smear campaign” by far-left groups.

“Bill O’Reilly has been subjected to a brutal campaign of character assassination that is unprecedented in post-McCarthyist America,” Marc E. Kasowitz said in a statement Tuesday, according to CNN.

The script that led to the official announcement of O’Reilly’s departure mirrored that of former Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes’s ouster.

In July 2016, Ailes was accused of sexual harassment by former host Gretchen Carlson, who filed suit in a New Jersey court. An internal investigation led by the law firm of Paul, Weiss resulted in Ailes’s abrupt departure two weeks later as more claims, including one by star Megyn Kelly, were revealed to investigators. Ailes had been with Fox News since its inception 20 years prior.

Similarly, on April 1, the New York Times report rocked the media world after revealing O’Reilly or 21st Century Fox had paid $13 million to settle harassment claims from five women.

An investigation at Fox by Paul, Weiss followed. Not long after, the company announced the most-watched cable news host of the past 15 years was not returning to the network he has called home since 1996.

All told, Fox News has lost three of its biggest names from its roster in the last year: Ailes, the brains behind the operation that propelled the network to dominance since 2001; Megyn Kelly, who was so coveted by the network she was reportedly offered $100 million to stay; and O’Reilly, who was essentially the face of the network and host of the most popular program at 8 p.m. weeknights.

Despite these losses, Fox News has continued to beat all comers in cable ratings, including non-news networks.

During the week of April 10-16, Fox finished ahead of all other basic cable channels in total viewers for the 15th consecutive week, according to Nielsen Media Research.

– Updated at 3:18 p.m.

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‘It’s Unbelievable’: O’Reilly Grills Dems For Blocking ‘Kate’s Law’ In Senate [VIDEO]


waving flagPosted by Photo of Christian Datoc Christian Datoc, Reporter, 10/21/2015

URL of the original posting site: http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/21/its-unbelievable-oreilly-grills-dems-for-blocking-kates-law-in-senate-video/#ixzz3pEipgARl

Bill O’Reilly tore into Democrats for blocking Kate’s Law from advancing in the Senate on Tuesday.

“The O’Reilly Factor” host called the decision “unbelievable” before adding “unbelievable is too gentle a word.”

O’REILLY: There comes a point where the American people are going to have to take back their government. When a 32-year-old woman can be gunned down by and illegal felon who had been deported five times, and you can’t get a strict law punishing illegal alien felons passed. When that happens, you don’t have a functioning government. It is hard to believe, but far left in America is actively opposing Kate’s Law. It’s unbelievable — unbelievable is too gentle a word.

(RELATED: Cruz: If Dems Block Sanctuary Cities Bill, They’ll Have Blood Of Innocent Children On Their Hands)

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Bill O’Reilly calls allegations he abused ex-wife ‘100 percent false’


waving flagBy Dylan Stableford  5 hours ago Yahoo News

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://news.yahoo.com/bill-oreilly-denies-abuse-ex-wife-divorce-custody-report-135437299.html

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Bill O’Reilly is denying a report that he physically abused his former wife. “All allegations against me in these circumstances are 100 percent false,” the Fox News host said in a statement issued through his attorney to the Hollywood Reporter.

Those allegations surfaced Monday when Gawker reported details leaked from a recently-ended three-year custody battle between O’Reilly and his ex-wife, Maureen McPhilmy. According to Gawker, “a court-appointed forensic examiner testified at a closed hearing that O’Reilly’s daughter claimed to have witnessed her father dragging McPhilmy down a staircase by her neck, apparently unaware that the daughter was watching.”Picture3

The incident allegedly occurred in the couple’s Manhasset, Long Island, home prior to their 2010 separation. They divorced in 2011. Last month, a Nassau County court granted McPhilmy custody of the couple’s two minor children. Documents from the custody dispute are sealed. The website said it learned details from “a source familiar with the facts of the case.”Picture4

“I am going to respect the court-mandated confidentiality put in place to protect my children and will not comment any further,” O’Reilly said.

He did not address the allegation on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor”. In the past, O’Reilly has frequently used his top-rated cable news show to tackle controversies head-on. In February, he dismissed allegations by former CBS News colleagues who disputed his description of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a “combat situation” during the 1982 Falklands War.

“I was there on the street with my camera crews,” O’Reilly said on “Factor.” “The violence was horrific, as Argentine soldiers fired into the crowd, who were responding with violent acts of their own.”Picture5

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Bill O’Reilly: American Mercenary Army Needed to Defeat ISIS


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Joe For America — September 23, 2014

Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2014/09/bill-oreilly-american-mercenary-army-needed-defeat-isis/

Whether you love or hate Bill O’Reilly, you have to admit he’s always got his cogs turning. Last night he discussed a concept for defeating terrorist BO1groups by forming an American-controlled elite army of mercenary soldiers, handpicked by U.S. special tactics experts.

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Professor Tom Nichols of the U.S. Naval War College.

O’Reilly was challenged on the feasibility of his “Anti-Terror Army” by one such expert–professor Tom Nichols of the U.S. Naval War College.

Despite the logistical obstacles Nichols points out, O’Reilly remains convinced a mercenary army would free the world of terrorists. Worth a try? What do you think of O’Reilly’s plan? Tell Joe For America your opinion, after reading the following coverage by Newsmax.

Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly is calling for a mercenary force to take out the Islamic State (ISIS). 

President Barack Obama has vowed to put no American “boots on the ground” in Iraq or Imperial Islamic President ObamaSyria, fighting ISIS only through airstrikes and ground forces from the Free Syrian Army, Iraq and the Kurdish Peshmerga. 

O’Reilly, on his show Monday night, noted that military experts say the United States has no hope of defeating the terror group without more significant ground forces. But with the American public unwilling to get involved in another Middle East ground war the troops will have to come from somewhere else. 

O’Reilly wants hired mercenaries. 

He suggested a 25,000-member force he would call The Anti-Terror Army, “elite fighters who would be well-paid, well-trained to defeat terrorists all over the world.” 

The fighters would be recruited by the United States and trained on U.S. soil by American special operations forces. U.S. Army rules of engagement and the Geneva Conventions would be followed. 

America would be in charge of who makes the cut and where they are deployed, O’Reilly said. American and NATO officers would lead the mercenary army, and America would provide logistical support. 

The army would be able to take on terrorists worldwide, but the first forces would be places in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. 

The coalition that Obama currently is trying to build would pay for them, O’Reilly said, and anyone who wants protection would have to chip in. 

“If they don’t pay, they get no help,” he said. 

Current soldiers in any army would be excluded with the exception of U.S. and NATO commanders. 

Tom Nichols, professor at U.S. Naval War College, told O’Reilly he understands his frustration, but added, “this is a terrible idea” from both moral and practical perspectives. 

America can’t outsource its national security, Nichols said. 

“We’re not talking about ‘Expendibles 8′ here,” O’Reilly protested, adding that Americans have hired mercenaries in every war it has ever fought. 

“Not for the bulk of it,” Nichols replied. 

Gillian Turner, a former National Security Council official under the past two presidents, said O’Reilly’s plan would fail if for no other reason than it would be hard to get a diverse group of nations to agree to finance an army completely controlled by the United States. 

“I think it can be done,” O’Reilly insisted.my two cents

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