At one point, Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly were, unquestionably, the two biggest names in cable news. Both personalities, though, have had a stunning fall from grace. Kelly moved over to ABC via a megadeal, but left the network after she defended blackface live on air. She was last seen on Twitter trolling tennis champion…
As soon as Donald Trump filed his lawsuit against Facebook and Twitter, legal experts chimed in that he would open himself to deposition. And the thought it that Trump would not hold up well on a witness stand. But in a recent talk with Bill O‘Reilly, the former president claimed that he is looking forward…
Donald Trump is still the headliner in the Republican party. The GOP members in the House of Representatives have made sure of that. Still, there is an air of desperation is pretty much all of the former president’s moves these days. Trump is certainly tired of sitting at his golf clubs, unable to use his…
Donald Trump is not having a good day. He felt much better about things on Tuesday night before the counting of the ballots that had been received by mail. But now he’s in full feral mode and attacking everyone and everything. And as always, he’s being egged on and encouraged by his friends at Fox…
Conservative Bill O’Reilly complained on Monday that the media is treating Donald Trump differently than Barack Obama when it comes to drug use. He defended the President taking a potentially dangerous drug. The former Fox News personality tweeted about Trump’s claim that he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine. The President hyped the drug as a treatment for…
Bill O’Reilly, the former Fox News host who left the network in 2017 amid a sexual harassment scandal, said in an interview with former colleague Sean Hannity that coronavirus victims “were on their last legs anyway,” according to audio posted online by Media Matters. The transcript is below: SEAN HANNITY: I want life back to…
Disgraced ex-Fox News star Bill O’Reilly may have spent a career trying to take down people like Hillary Clinton, but this week the 2016 popular vote winner had the last laugh.
“So Dan Rather, who knows very little about history, and others go out and they hammer Trump like he’s a moron,” says the man who knows nothing of history
With Bill O’Reilly gone from Fox News, MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow show is poised to be the top-rated program on cable news, and this new reality is massively bumming out conservatives.
He released a serial rapist to rape again and on the show of a guy fired for sexual harassment said you can’t kiss a woman leaning away from you
Bill O’Reilly really believes that there was a left-wing plot to get him out of Fox News and he went to some crazy lengths to try to save his job.
Trump is about to learn two very painful lessons: he isn’t above the law, and he isn’t above the avenging voice of America’s outraged women.
If this type of behavior precludes somebody from hosting a one-hour talk show, then it certainly should disqualify a man from holding the most powerful and prestigious office in the world.
Activists are calling the firing of Bill O’Reilly what it really is, a victory over a serial sexual predator, but are warning that there is still a sexual harassment problem at Fox News that advertisers need to be wary of.
It is being reported that Fox News will announce that Bill O’Reilly is history, and the big sticking point in exit negotiations is whether or not O’Reilly will be allowed an on-air goodbye to his audience.
With a plurality of Americans against him, “Bill O’Reilly’s brand is so toxic right now the only place that might hire him is the White House.”
With advertisers gone and the protest movement against him growing more intense, Bill O’Reilly and Fox News are discussing his departure from the network, which could come as soon as the end of this week.
A massive protest led by the groups UltraViolet and Color of Change rocked the headquarters of Fox News as sexual assault, and sexual harassment survivors demanded that Bill O’Reilly be fired from Fox News.
It is being reported that at least one member of the Murdoch family wants to take Bill O’Reilly off the air permanently, and if he gets his way, O’Reilly could be dumped during his April vacation.
We must look at the systemic misogyny and sexism in every workplace, not only the horrors made public in one television company.
It’s up to Fox News to choose what’s more important to them – making money while fostering an environment of sexual assault, or doing the right thing.
Mere days after proclaiming April to be sexual assault and awareness month, and claiming he was recommitting “ourselves” to fighting it, President Trump defended Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, who reportedly settled five lawsuits over claims of sexual harassment.
Fox News is going to take a massive financial hit as many as 15 advertisers have pulled their ads from Bill O’Reilly’s show The O’Reilly Factor, in the wake of a new wave of sexual harassment revelations.
In the midst of his advertisers fleeing by the minute, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly went after CNN’s Don Lemon with a claim that Lemon didn’t cover the Susan Rice story. The CNN host shot back and took down O’Reilly for not covering his own sexual harassment scandal.
“We had upcoming advertising spots on the show, but are reallocating them,” said Hyundai in a statement
An attorney for one of the women that Bill O’Reilly sexually harassed isn’t looking for money. She wants something more dangerous to the future of Fox News, an independent investigation. As the scandals pile up, and ratings growth slows, we could be witnessing the death of Fox News.
“Don’t allow these right-wing talking heads, these dishonorable people to intimidate you or scare you. Be who you are, do what you do.”
“Too many women, especially women of color, have had a lifetime of practice taking precisely these kinds of indignities in stride.”
When Andrea Mitchell was ejected from room for daring to ask Rex Tillerson questions, Bill O’Reilly celebrated IWD by calling her ‘Unruly’
Trump gave the worst Super Bowl interview in the history of the new tradition because he used the biggest television audience of the year to lie to and mislead the American people.
Beck thinks George Soros and radical Islam organized the march. The dead giveaway for Beck must be the pink pussy hats favored by Islamic extremists
O’Reilly says, “Don’t like Christmas? Ignore it.” Right. Like Evangelicals ignore the things they don’t like.
“Summing up, the press is trumping up…a white power movement storyline that simply doesn’t exist. It’s vile to suggest that it does.”
It’s amazing how often a microphone can be the root of a presidential candidate’s troubles.
“Trump may make her cry. I mean, that could happen. Anything could happen.”
The end is near for the current era of Fox News. The network could be facing what is being reported as a bloodbath and outside competition from Donald Trump if the Republican nominee loses the election in November.
As the Murdochs try to hold together Fox News in the middle of the worst sexual harassment scandal in media history, it is being reported that Megyn Kelly may leave the network after her contract expires next year.
In a scandal that could destroy the network, Andrea Tantaros’ lawsuit against Fox News and Roger Ailes is exposing a network-wide culture of sexual harassment that included the most watched host on all of cable news, Bill O’Reilly.
Denial of reality is alive and well in Republican ranks. We have already seen how right-wing talking heads exploded at Michelle Obama’s words about the White House being built by slaves: “That is the story of this country. The story that has brought me to the stage tonight. The story of generations of people who…
“I was there, I didn’t see any discord. I just saw a bunch of white people having a good time, that’s all I saw. “
“I was disappointed with Ken Burns. He is a historian, he knows better. This is a smear tactic that we’re seeing far too much of in this campaign.”
Fox News continues to deny it, but it appears that Roger Ailes has been fired from the network. Ailes’s termination could lead to a collapse of the network as key Fox talent all have clauses in their contracts that allow them to leave if Ailes departs Fox News.
Fed by a racist, “constrictive ideology,” O’Reilly and Giuliani project an invisible “only” before “Black Lives Matter”
Bill O’Reilly likes to write fake history, much like David Barton, and he has proven himself to be just about as impervious to facts as Barton. His work is so bad it is difficult to believe he is not really “pulling a Colbert.” He is that over the top. On Wednesday’s edition of Fox News’…
Was Donald Trump’s meltdown at the press just a tactic to avoid bad Trump University news? It sure changed the topic in a hurry. Read on…
“Among the ladies, 75 percent unfavorable…but now that Trump is friends with Megyn Kelly again, this has gotta go way down, right?”
Bernie Goldberg told Bill O’Reilly, Trump “hasn’t done anything to my knowledge that would offend so many black people.”
Fox News is becoming a network at war with itself as Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly are in a personal feud, and Donald Trump’s victory is splitting the network into divided factions.
Cruz finally locked horns with Trump, answering birther claims by saying Trump has New York values. The backlash left Cruz acting the victim
Bill O’Reilly dishonestly claims that Germans looked the other way when Hitler rose to power and that Muslims are doing the same with ISIL
Trump has tapped into the resentment of angry voters who above all else, are mad that they have to apologize for the way they treat others.
Ben Carson has fallen so low that he is being lectured on the dangers of lying by one of the GOP’s foremost liars, Bill O’Reilly
Conservative columnist George Will and Fox personality Bill O’Reilly engaged in a bickering match over O’Reilly’s book “Killing Reagan.”
Glenn Beck offers to give the RNC what it wants: a debate in the form of a Republican infomercial, free of pesky, unwelcome questions
Bill O’Reilly thinks he knows how to question Hillary Clinton, as though he is any better with facts than the Benghazi Committee
The game is truly over for Republicans. Even Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly is admitting that the Benghazi investigation is nothing more than a political stunt to damage Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump’s return to Fox News was a massive disaster as the Republican frontrunner demonstrated that he knows nothing by bungling two questions on Syria and suggesting that giving Putin control of Syria is fine with him.
The news that Fox’s Greg Gutfeld To Host His Own Comedy Show has caused crisis of confidence. Heretofore Friday Fox Follies treated all of Fox “News” as a meta-comedy/reality show — a cross between The Colbert Report and the short-lived The Joe Schmo Show. Maybe only Greg Gutfeld is in on the joke.
Friday Fox Follies was sure this week’s column would be a slam dunk after Michelle Obama’s forceful speech on race at Tuskegee University, aka Speechifying While Black™. But then her husband had to open his big mouth: Obama Swipes at Fox: Pushing Narrative That Poor People Are ‘Leeches’. No biggie. Add a few words here and there and — voila! — an All Obama!!! All The Time!!! column. However, that plan was dashed as Conservatives Quickly Try to Turn Stephanopoulos into the ‘Next Brian Williams.’
Rush Limbaugh blames gay activists for Christianity’s demise even while he is one of the people driving Americans away from organized religion
Former Congressman Allen West posted an anti-sharia law rant on his web page after seeing a young Walmart cashier was not selling alcohol.
Friday Fox Follies shares something with Fox “News” this week. Many battles to fight, not enough time.
What depresses me is Fox ratings versus a Truth-O-Meter. Once again the Tampa Bay Times Pundit Fact is checking in on our TV network scorecards.
During a week when both Tea Party darling Marco Rubio and Fox “News” nemesis Hillary “Benghazi” Clinton announced they are running to be the next President of the United States, it’s instructive to contrast the stark difference in how the two candidates are covered on the Fox “News” Channel.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) rolled through all of Bill O’Reilly’s attempts to split the left while knocking down Fox News’s attempts to use him for propaganda purposes.
The surfeit of Republican hand-wringing has begun. Hillary is officially running for president with her online announcement. Yes, THAT Hillary. You know, the Hillary Clinton who has more qualifications for the office than just about all of the modestly accomplished opposition candidates put together.
As FFF is fond of pointing out, ratings is not truth. It’s ironic that Ailes compares Fox “News” to 2 fictional channels and a sports network, the models of which Fox resembles far more than a “News” channel.
According to a recent headline, Fox News is the most watched cable news channel – for the 159th month in a row, which makes 13 years, 3 months of ratings dominence. Cue the balloon drop and confetti cannons. Whoop-dee-doo!
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz will launch his first Campaign ads for the 2016 presidential campaign during Easter Weekend.
I still believe there are points to be made about the issue of California attorney, Matthew Gregory McLaughlin and his “Sodomite Suppression Act” (SSA).
Last week Tucker Carlson proved he isn’t a real journalist (which may be why he’s on Fox). This week he proved he’s running a frat house, a topic in the news lately for systemic sexism, not to mention racism.
This week’s Friday Fox Follies takes on Tucker Carlson’s refusal to allow anyone who works for him to criticize Fox News.
There’s nothing Fox “News” likes better than to Whitesplain race relations, especially when telling Black folk about the Black experience. The dog whistles go from barely discernible to loud and clear.
Friday Fox Follies highlights Bill O’Reilly’s continued issues with the truth, Andrea Tantaros accusing the White House of being anti-Semitic and Fox’s hypocritical Ferguson coverage.
There’s nothing Friday Fox Follies likes least than to repeat a topic from last week because new jokes are hard to find. No matter. When Bill O’Reilly Goes Ballistic On Eric Engberg, David Corn, Calls Bob Schieffer A ‘Plagiarist’ this reporter must follow the truth, no matter where it goes.
On Thursday evening, The Guardian published a report claiming six people who worked with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly during the 1992 Los Angeles riots have disputed his past remarks that he was attacked by protesters and concrete rained down on him.
On Tuesday, Media Matters published a piece that accused Fox News host Bill O’Reilly of making a false claim in his book Killing Kennedy. In the book, O’Reilly said that he witnessed the suicide of a Russian emigre, George de Mohrenschildt, who knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
When he isn’t name calling or threatening reporters, behind the scenes Bill O’Reilly tried desperately to find somebody who worked with him at CBS to confirm his war correspondent tales, but no one would go on his show.
In an interview with the New York Times Monday evening, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly personally threatened a reporter over the paper’s coverage of the controversy surrounding O’Reilly’s claims that he was in a war zone when he covered protests in Buenos Aires in 1982.
Fox News isn’t even pretending anymore. Their pretense of journalism has been shattered by Fox News’s decision to stand formally behind war coverage liar Bill O’Reilly.
Yet another of Bill O’Reilly’s former colleagues from CBS News disputes his active war zone claims. Even back then, his colleagues thought he was “grandstanding” and called his description of his reporting “absurd.”
CNN’s Reliable Sources has blown apart Bill O’Reilly’s claim that he was a war correspondent by interviewing six former CBS colleagues who say that O’Reilly is lying about his time as a war correspondent.
During the Friday night broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly responded to a Mother Jones story showing he embellished his war coverage as a reporter by throwing out personal insults and accusing the magazine and others of being “far left zealots.”
When Friday Fox Follies went to press last week, Brian Williams’ spectacular crash to earth still echoed in Halls of Mediazuma. Many wags (this one included) noticed the condemnation was loudest (shrillest?) at the Fox “News” Channel, which did not hold itself to the same high standards.
A leading veterans group is calling on Fox News to take Bill O’Reilly off the air after it was uncovered that Fox News host lied about his history as a war correspondent.
The media is doing their best to avoid examining Bill O’Reilly’s claims that he was on the ground in combat in a war zone when he was actually in Buenos Aires.
We’ve been victims of holy war for decades. This just turns attention from our own women, children and poor to Muslim women, children and poor
During a dinner Wednesday night, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told a group of prominent Republicans that he believes that President Obama does not love America and “he wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up.”
During Monday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly got bent out of shape over the amount of praise Jon Stewart has received from national media figures since The Daily Show host announced he is departing at the end of the year.
The big news this week was about fake newsmen Brian Williams and Jon Stewart and — wouldn’t you know it — Fox “News” had fingerprints at both scenes of the crime.
This past week on Fox, we saw fake apologies, complete flip-flops on how the network views terrorist propaganda, anger over movie heroines and quasi-racist country songs.
Now we now know for certain what station Bobby “The Party of Stupid” Jindal watches. Jindal’s repeating of Fox’s debunked “no-go zones” myth is a perfect example of how crap spewed on Fox is repeated at dinner tables across this entirely too-credulous country.
Charlie Hebdo tells Republicans that people who don’t look like Fox News hosts should be killed, or at the very least, expelled from the US
While French law enforcement was engaged in standoffs with the terrorists responsible for the Charlie Hebdo attack, ultimately killing three of them, Fox News decided to push the canard that Muslims leaders around the world have remained silent on the attacks and have not expressed any condemnation or outrage.
During Monday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly interviewed former KKK leader David Duke regarding the recent controversy surrounding House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaking at a white supremacist conference in 2002.
Friday Fox Follies examines The Colbert Report’s goodbye, Bill O’Reilly declaring victory in the War on Christmas and Megyn Kelly’s awkward encounter with President Obama.
Since hitting the cable dial in 1996, Fox “News” Channel values have been on full display: Anti-truth chief among them. Even when caught in flat-out lies, Fox “News” rarely issues apologies.
If the last 2 weeks of reporting and punditry tell us anything, Fox “News” is willing write off one side of the racial divide for generations; the same way the Republicans have written off the Latinos that Fox “News” is hypocritically trying to attract.
It’s only taken 6 years of blindly throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks, but Fox “News” has finally invented Articles of Impeachment against President Obama — or, at the very least, figured out a way to throw the word around recklessly.
Everything old is new again!!! When Bill “White Privilege” O’Reilly hosted Glenn Beck On Fox [to say] President Is Neglecting Dallas Ebola Danger Because Of City’s Unfavorable View Of Obama, it all came rushing back to me in a tsunami of nostalgia.
