[whatisthetruth]

Fox news is not allowed to be birther friendly. O’reilly probably gets a large bonus if he disparages birthers.

[Rational Thought]

It sounds like the word came down a while back to all the Fox personalities not to question this President's eligibility and lack of ANY records. Even Bernard Goldberg, who at one time also questioned (on air) why Obama has never released his records, has changed his tune.

Kind of curious why Fox has taken this direction. “Fair and Balanced” sometimes, I guess.

[justiceseeker93]

Fox News is not allowed to be birther friendly.

It's a "business decision" that Foxie honcho Rupert Murdoch has made and has made perfectly clear to his minions: don't mention the "birther" issue over the air in any way but painting the "birthers" negatively, or else you will lose your job or even worse. Murdoch is fearful that his networks will be kicked off the air by O's FCC if his personnel gave credibility to the "birther" movement.

This isn't my original theory; it's been expounded by Joe Farrah of WND for more than a year now.

O'Reilly probably gets a large bonus if he disparages birthers.

Yesterday was not not the first time he's disparaged "birthers." It's not so much he gets a large bonus as a quid pro quo, it's that more generally he's playing a game of kissing his employer's ass, which in the long run is better for his bank account - and perhaps his physical safety as well.