FOX NEWS HOST ADVISES: 'DRUDGE [THE SHOW] SHOULD BE KILLED'

O'REILLY RAGE AFTER STATION PAYOUT IS REVEALED; WESTWOOD ONE THREATENS TO PULL CASH; FOX NEWS HOST ADVISES: 'DRUDGE SHOULD BE KILLED'

Although VIACOMCBSINFINTYWESTWOODONE radio head Joel Hollander publicly denied to reporters that compensation was being paid to affiliates for carrying O'Reilly -- behind the scenes on Tuesday, Hollander threatened to pull the payout guarentee to WOR, blaming the station for the DRUDGE REPORT leak...

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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WEDNESDAY MAY 08, 2002 22:53:12 ET XXXXX

O'REILLY RAGE AFTER STATION PAYOUT IS REVEALED; WESTWOOD ONE THREATENS TO PULL CASH; FOX NEWS HOST ADVISES: 'DRUDGE SHOULD BE KILLED'

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Cable host and now talkradio broadcaster Bill O'Reilly was pushed over the edge this week after the DRUDGE REPORT revealed exclusively that $300,000 was promised to O'Reilly's New York City flagship station WOR-AM to carry the program.

Although VIACOMCBSINFINTYWESTWOODONE radio head Joel Hollander publicly denied to reporters that compensation was being paid to affiliates for carrying O'Reilly -- behind the scenes on Tuesday, Hollander threatened to pull the payout guarantee to WOR, blaming the station for the DRUDGE REPORT leak!

Meanwhile, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, Los Angeles' KABC-AM is receiving $250,000 in outdoor advertising from VIACOM in exchange for clearing The Bill O'Reilly Radio Program.

A similar comp deal has also been promised to O'Reilly's San Francisco affiliate.

Difficulty clearing O'Reilly in the Washington, DC market raised the payout price to $200,000, according to insiders -- a payout that was rejected by all major stations in the region, including ABC's WMAL-AM.

Just as O'Reilly showed signs of increasingly reckless behavior.

"There is no other cure than to kill Matt Drudge," O'Reilly charged on the IMUS in the MORNING radio show on Wednesday.

"I just want to tell everybody that Matt Drudge is smoking crack - right now, in South Miami Beach on Washington Avenue... And the authorities should know it."

This reporter is currently in London, England, not South Beach, and I have never smoked crack.

More O'Reilly lies.

[But for a couple hundred thou, heck, I'd even carry O'Reilly Radio.]

I don't care what OR or Drudge do. But on that Sunday night program, OR repeatedly denied that there was any plans for a new program by Westwood.

Drudge quoted from internal Westwood memorandums and OR emphatically denied that any negotiations or plans had taken place.

When pressed by Drudge, OR said that 'maybe' his staff was trying to put something together, but that he (OR) had no knowledge.

I don't regularly listen to either of them, but on that night I heard the discussion as I was setting the clock radio.

Why do we pay attention to drudge anyway? Most of his stories are links straight out of others publishers websites. What good is that? Good as a portal maybe, but not for anything you can't find elsewhere.

I go to his site for the news that will be on the talk shows--this way I get all the info in about 15 minutes and can avoid talk ready unless I want to hear more insight on the topic.

I'm just a little too busy to listen to Rush and the rest EVERY SINGLE DAY. Before drudge I felt the need to listen to get the latest news from around the nation. But drudge pretty much points me to that news so I can read it on my time.

OR is frequently a blowhard and hothead. He's living proof that once big bucks and big fame are attained, it's just about impossible, for just about anyone, to keep one's perspective and sense. When people are always telling you how wonderful you are and giving you millions to prove it, you can really go off the deep end when a little criticism hits home. Likely the "crack" remark was a joke, but some of the other stuff I've seen on OR's show is not...

Frankly, OR has no CLASS.

Notice that when competition shows up at Rush's door, even when he's down and deaf, he says graciously, "Come on in, the water's fine." He knows that he makes it look easy, and it's really tough. Whether this graciousness is absolutely sincere, I don't care. All effective courtesy is a form of civilized hypocrisy.

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