O'Leilly is out... Damn should have happened 17 years ago!

[boston bean]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/04/19/bill-o-reilly-reportedly-let-go.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl

[UTUSN]

1. R#1 & K for, words not needed!1 n/t

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. These 17 years, he's only been sexually abusing women.

If only he'd said the N word....he'd have been out with a quickness.

[dsc]

8. actually he has been caught up in several racial issues

https://mediamatters.org/research/2007/09/21/oreilly-surprised-there-was-no-difference-betwe/139893

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/07/09/bill-oreilly-calls-black-lives-matter-a-hate-america-group/

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. Oh!! Thanks! I'm only surprised that it didn't end him.

Not that they happened.

Having a look now.

[dsc]

12. It was the fact he was harming their ad sales at a very important time is what did him in

Had that not happened he would likely still be on air.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. That, I totally believe.

[calimary]

18. Yep.

Money talks. LOSING money talks even louder.

[blueseas]

33. Yes, I believe you are correct!

Money is the only thing that matters to those on that team.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. Bone headed. But not at the level of calling someone the N word

And phone stalking them with it behind closed doors, and cornering them at work when no one else is around. That would be more equivalent to what he's done to women.

[BainsBane]

3. Yes!!!!

[chillfactor]

4. good

hope the asshat burns in hell.

[underpants]

5. Surprising, I almost falafel my chair

NEVER. GETS. OLD.

[boston bean]

13. LOL. True never gets old!!

[klook]

51. I laughed so hard I had to loofah my glasses! (nt)

[ismnotwasm]

6. Goodbye Falafel boy!

[niyad]

7. long overdue.

wonder what KO will have to say about this? how often was billo "worst person in the world"?
https://twitter.com/keitholbermann

[NCjack]

9. He will have to pay for his own sexual harassment insurance. nt

[elmac]

11. another evil little prick bites the dust

to bad he's rich, too many dummies out there support him.

[mainstreetonce]

14. I hope all these troubles bring down FOX

Bigly

[Lebam in LA]

17. Trump will be calling on him to replace Spicer

anytime now

[MrPurple]

46. Sad thing is, O'Reilly would be an upgrade for 90% of Trump's cabinet members

[Lebam in LA]

69. Painfully true

[Lanius]

19. Screw Fox Noise! They're being forced to fire O'Reilly because of loss of ad revenue and bad PR.

[Le Gaucher]

20. His new job - White House Press Secretary.

He will be right at home in the Trump White House

[not fooled]

66. And, ya know what?

Screw the advertisers, too. They were OK with tacitly supporting a misogynist, racist, hate-talking scumbag bloviator all these years. His narrow-minded, anti-American message got propped up by big $$$ while he helped turn a significant sector of the population into haters.

So, it was OK to support O'Lielly all this time, and now that there's incontrovertible evidence that he's a douche, they get commended for bailing? I don't think so.

[jeanmarc]

21. Won't believe it until it is true

All these stories may have some truth, but he's not fired yet.

[William769]

35. Well now it's true.

Time to move on and find something else to be "suspicious" about.

[MrPurple]

44. Once WSJ reported it last night, it was definitely over

Murdoch's newspaper wasn't going to print a story about Fox cutting ties with O'Reilly unless that's what they were doing.

[Rorey]

22. Well, he probably doesn't even know yet.....

Because he's on "vacation".

[William769]

23. Best news today!

[boston bean]

27. Can you imagine a life without oharasser on tv. I'm feeling young again!!!

[William769]

34. That dirtbag should never have been hired.

[llmart]

63. I've never once watched him...

or THAT station. I'm extremely proud of that!

Life is too short to waste it watching fake news.

[briv1016]

24. I guess the tide stayed out this time.

[randr]

25. I hope there are more women out there who will come forward

and take him for what ever he has left.

[superpatriotman]

26. Rejoice for today

But he is still an asshole. He may run for president someday.

[LisaM]

28. Too little, too late, as usual.

What does it matter in the long run? He's still rich, he's near retirement age so it barely affects his working years, and it doesn't undo the election, which to me is about the only outcome that would matter at this point.

[sheshe2]

29. Bye bye Billy boy.

[yellowcanine]

30. Now he has more time for his crappy "Killing" books.

[MrPurple]

40. Next up......"Killing my career"

[Buckeye_Democrat]

31. Maybe MSNBC will come calling like they did for Greta?

[lunatica]

32. The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.

[retread]

36. Oh no!! Who is going to stop the war on Christmas this year?

[JDC]

37. Still not enough disgrace and shame for my liking

But soooo glad to see him gone.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. Here's WaPo's interesting possible reason why

<...>

The intense media coverage surrounding O’Reilly led to a stampede of advertisers away from O’Reilly’s program, leaving it almost without sponsorship over the past two weeks. Various organizations, including the National Organization for Women, called for O’Reilly’s firing, and intermittent protests began outside Fox News’ headquarters in New York. Morale among employees at the network reportedly was suffering, too.

The external and internal pressure left the Murdochs with a dilemma: Keep the networks’ most valuable asset and hope to ride out the storm around him, or cut him loose and end the drama.

In the end, even an endorsement from President Trump couldn’t save O’Reilly. In an interview with Times reporters on April 5, Trump called O’Reilly “a good person” and said he shouldn’t have settled the complaints made against him. “I don’t think Bill did anything wrong,” Trump said.

The Murdochs, however, had more than just O’Reilly’s TV career to consider.

In addition to the potential longterm financial damage to Fox News, the O’Reilly controversy was casting a shadow over 21st Century’s $14 billion bid to win the British government’s approval to buy Sky TV, the British satellite service.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bill-oreilly-is-officially-out-at-fox-news/2017/04/19/74ebdc94-2476-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html

Murdoch doesn't care about the harassment cases but he still wants to buy Sky. Gotta follow the money!

[MrPurple]

39. He incited murder continuously repeating 'Dr. Tiller the baby killer'

[NurseJackie]

41. Keith Olbermann's reaction ...

[NurseJackie]

42. Rachel Maddow's reaction ...

[Maynar]

65. LOL!

[Va Lefty]

43. Hope they get rid of that swarmy p.o.s Jesse Watters too.

[bullwinkle428]

48. I'd bet serious $$ they're grooming that little fucker to be their

next "star"!

[smirkymonkey]

47. Thank God!

Next up, Sean Hannity. Let's drain the swamp!

[Takket]

49. Typical rethug policy.

They care about morality as soon as it hits their pocketbook. They can tolerate two decades of lies, hatred and evil, but not two weeks of operating at a loss.

[billpolonsky]

50. Stick a fork in him...

No really. Just stick a fork in him.

[connecticut yankee]

52. Here's how I found out

https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2017/04/19/bill-oreilly-out-fox-news/22046562/

Whoopee!

Now we have to get rid of Hannity.

[thesquanderer]

53. Article says After a thorough and careful review of the allegations..."

That's actually pretty impressive, under the circumstances. They are actually saying that that's the reason he's out. I would have expected more cover. You know, the usual... the allegations had become a "distraction," he was coming close to retiring anyway, etc.

[mountain grammy]

54. Good riddance, you sexist, racist gasbag.

top of the heap of trash that is fox news.

[colorado_ufo]

55. I feel like the sun just came out today!

[boston bean]

56. Feels like one huge gigantic dank dark cloud has been lifted.

Hope there is more to come.

[apnu]

57. Its amazing how much cover these creeps got under Roger Ailes.

How long until Hannity gets the boot?

[maddiemom]

58. Poor Bill-O!

Past retirement age and uber-rich, for certain. Plus he got away with his crap toward women for many years (and Fox, which mostly seems to have hired only "foxy," usually blond, women must have been paradise for him). Too bad, so sad.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

59. I'm betting next we'll hear that Bannon is leaving to join FAUX

Which will solve that problem for the administration.

[Ligyron]

60. This is great

But I wonder where he'll pop up next.

[Peaceful Protester]

61. Congratulations to all those who put him out of business!

[Honeycombe8]

62. He should've been fired years ago. Remember the loofah or whatever harassment claims? nt

[mdbl]

64. he'll be back on some shitty radio station

you can count on it.

[AllaN01Bear]

67. so long. farewell, alvertsain, goodby. good riddance.

[NewJeffCT]

68. Unless he goes to jail

O'Reilly will be laughing all the way to the bank - he's worth almost $100 million from his pay for Fox News, radio and his books. If I had made that much money, I wouldn't mind being fired...

[kimbutgar]

70. I just saw the daily show treatment of him showing past clips

I knew he was a major creep but he is downright evil on top of it.