It’s funny, as much as people bitched about O’Reilly, called him Tex Baxter, bloviator, etc - how many now say they’re done with Fox because they canned him. I’d have thought people would be happy.
It’s about gratitude. It’s about honor. Something nobody seems to have anymore.
It’s about how he was forced out...that is the problem. One guy at media matters deploys a string of false websites that threaten advertisers, making it seem like there is this popular groundswell of anti O’Reilly sentiment amongst folks who might boycott the advertisers’ products. In truth there never really was such a groundswell but Fox News had to take it seriously when a bunch of advertisers pulled their products from his show. By the way both sides can play this game and when we can get the list of advertisers who pulled their products...we can “Carbonite” them the same as we did when Rush was similarly threatened!
That is what needs to be stopped, this ability of single sociopaths to manufacture enough smoke and thunder that huge economic tsunami’s that sway politicians and gaslight businesses, are generated by means of false narratives. This one guy at media matters is even bragging about how he took O’Reilly down with nothing but a bunch of false websites and fake petitions aimed at advertisers. There’s a Rico violation to be found in all that!
So O’Reilly was probably a horndog and didn’t help himself much by his own private behavior. I don’t see prosecutors lining up to put him jail on some legal charge and civil lawsuits always come down to how much one can tug the heartstrings of the jurors!
The only way to stop the “false dummy” internet attacks is to punish advertisers back when they choose political sides without some strong evidence that the one they wish to not associate with may truly impact their bottom lines!