Is This Twitter Account the Real Reason Bill O'Reilly Went on Vacation?

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Mired deep in a sexual harassment scandal and advertiser boycott, Bill O'Reilly, host of Fox News' cash cow The O'Reilly Factor, announced on Tuesday night that he is going on vacation. While a Fox News spokesperson said O'Reilly will return on April 24, the Daily Intelligencer reports that several Fox News staffers doubt that he'll be back.

O'Reilly's announcement comes only 11 days after a New York Times investigation revealed that O'Reilly and Fox News have collectively paid $13 million to settle a series of sexual harassment disputes against the host, in which women complained of "verbal abuse, lewd comments, unwanted advances and phone calls in which it sounded as if Mr. O'Reilly was masturbating, according to documents and interviews." As of this writing, 82 advertisers have publicly withdrawn from his show, representing an estimated $37-$42 million loss, says Angelo Carusone, president of the progressive nonprofit Media Matters.

Bill O'Reilly's trouble with advertisers is in part due to a campaign jointly run by Carusone, Think Progress' Editor-in-Chief Judd Legum, and the anonymous Twitter account Sleeping Giants, which gained a huge following shortly after Trump's election by launching a campaign to dissuade companies from advertising on Breitbart News.

"We had so much success at that point getting advertisers to come down from Breitbart that when the Bill O'Reilly article came out, there was definitely a huge amount of support," says a spokesperson from Sleeping Giants. "This is an anti-bigotry campaign. There are advertisers involved. So it made a lot of sense to us as far as the mission was concerned."

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http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/04/bill-oreilly-vacation-sexual-harrassment-fox-news-sleeping-giants

[Norbert9]

1. k&r

This is an incredibly good use of ones time. And definitely the reason he lost his job. Oops, I mean went on vacation.

[Warpy]

2. He got told it was time to take all his accrued PTO days

to think things over while they tried to see if any sponsors out there wanted to be advertised on a smarmy, Viagra infused, woman hating, predatory old fool's show. My guess is that they won't find enough of them.