Bill O’Reilly Back at Fox News – For One Night Only?

American Thinker ^ | 09/27/2017 | Peter Barry Chowka

[SeekAndFind]

Tuesday evening saw the return of Bill O’Reilly to Fox News – for the first time since the channel’s #1 host was ousted five months earlier. It wasn’t exactly triumphant, but it may have come close. The occasion was a prominent guest spot broadcast live from Fox News studios on Sixth Avenue in New York City on Sean Hannity’s 9 P.M. E.T. program.

O’Reilly has been laying relatively low since he was forced out of his job at Fox News last April 19, the result of a boycott of his show’s advertisers arising from rekindled published claims of sexual harassment courtesy of the New York Times. In addition to spending his summer days at the beach, O’Reilly has been doing a daily podcast of political commentary at his Website and he has recently promised an expansion of his site’s paid premium offerings. He has appeared weekly on Glenn Beck’s radio program and twice in the past week on Sean Hannity’s radio show, and given a few print interviews.

Tuesday night at Fox News HQ in midtown Manhattan was something different, however – in effect, a return without prejudice to the “scene of the crime.” The crime being, in the view of several unnamed Fox News female employees reportedly interviewed for a September 26 print story at CNN, O’Reilly’s alleged harassment of female co-workers for which he was not punished except for losing his lucrative job. For his part, O’Reilly probably holds the view that any “crime” there entailed Fox firing him without allowing him to defend himself or to say goodbye to his 3 to 4 million regular viewers. (O’Reilly has maintained his innocence of any wrongdoing

[SeekAndFind]

Hannity’s program Tuesday night itself was unusual. There were only three, instead of the usual six, commercial breaks during the hour, allowing for a more uninterrupted dialogue. O’Reilly had at least 25 minutes total to chat with Hannity, instead of the usual three to four minutes per guest. And the subjects of their discussions were mostly serious.

Before the host and his guest settled down, however, the first of the three segments with O’Reilly got off to a light start. O’Reilly congratulated Hannity, who has replaced O’Reilly as the most popular program host at FNC, for beating their mutual nemesis, leftist darling Rachel Maddow, in the ratings Monday night in the first Hannity-Maddow head-to-head matchup.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Pushing his new “Killing of....” book, would be my guess.

[SeekAndFind]

Not one mention of his books in the show.

[Reno89519]

He needs to stay retired and spend time with his family and mistresses.

[bigbob]

However he might be doing research for “Killing Fox News”...

O’Reilly and Eric Bolling have something in common - both have been accused of misconduct by this Serial Sexual Harassment Accuser, P*ssy-Hat Wearing, Trump-Hating, Left-Wing Activist Professor:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/08/farleft_serial_accuser_targets_eric_bolling.html

When I saw her on BOR’s show, I had the clear impression that she thought she was a lot hotter than she really is. Very much on display.

[Envisioning]

It was actually a great exchange between the two IMO, they covered a lot. I can stand Bill a whole lot more as a guest than a host.

[moehoward]

“Not one mention of his books in the show.”

Yes there was, but very little near the end of the show. Bill did enthusiastically tell everyone to buy Sheryl Attkinson’s new book The Smear.

It was great to see Bill on again.

[Logical me]

Watched and still O does not understand why President Trump gave hell to that small bag of shi! McCain. Trump was right.

[TTFlyer]

Hannity has been very, very good this week. And BOR and Hannity had a great segment and really let the Media and the Left(redundant)have it last night.

Still wish both men had the stones to call out McCain for the double-crossing, phony piece of crap that he is.

[Sans-Culotte]

Pushing his new “Killing of....” book, would be my guess.

When is he gonna "write" Killing the NFL?

[TexasGator]

Do you really believe what Debbie Schlussel says?

[Reno89519]

He has a history and it is not just her and I really haven’t followed the details. Overall I am just tired of people like O’Reilly.

[vladimir998]

“Not one mention of his books in the show.”

I watched it. They did talk about the book - even the illustration on the cover of the book.

[TexasGator]

Er, she is Hannity’s accuser ...

[LittleBillyInfidel]

This is a signal that he’ll be back on Fox. Just wait.

[bitt]

ping

[Windflier]

I seriously do not understand all the hoopla about this. Perhaps it’s because I don’t understand the attraction to Bill O’Reilly in the first place. I can’t stand the egotistical jerk, and haven’t watched him since about 2003.

[Stentor]

Perhaps it’s because I don’t understand the attraction to Bill O’Reilly in the first place.

In the dictionary his picture is used to illustrate the word anachronism. Sean is at the first level of anachronism. O’Reilly is at the third. He’s Huntley-Brinkley level.

[utax]

BOR’s the guy who considers Free Republic to be a “far-right” website.