Troll-mageddon! Bill OReilly, Alex Jones and the big right-wing media crack-up of 2017

[DonViejo]

SATURDAY, APR 22, 2017 10:00 AM EDT

Troll-mageddon! Bill O’Reilly, Alex Jones and the big right-wing media crack-up of 2017

It was supposed to be a huge year for conservatives, but the massive fraud of right-wing media is in full collapse

CONOR LYNCH

Though their candidate is now in the White House, 2017 has not been a particularly good year for right-wing propagandists, fake news charlatans and the “conservative media industrial complex” at large.

And it is Bill O’Reilly, the most successful right-wing news personality of our time, who has had the worst year yet. As everyone who looks at any form of media has no doubt heard by now, the longtime host of Fox News’ flagship program, “The O’Reilly Factor,” was fired this week after more than two decades at the conservative network. The top-rated host’s downfall began earlier this month, when advertisers started fleeing from his show after it was reported that Fox had paid out settlements totaling $13 million for multiple sexual harassment allegations against O’Reilly.

Thereafter pressure mounted for the network to dismiss O’Reilly, and on Tuesday yet another harassment accusation was filed by an African-American employee, who claims that O’Reilly once leered at her cleavage and called her “hot chocolate,” and that he would regularly stop by her desk and grunt like a “wild boar.”

This bizarre account was apparently the final straw, and Rupert Murdoch and his sons decided to cut ties with the conservative host — who faced charges of domestic violence back in 2015, but weathered calls for his removal. O’Reilly’s departure comes less than a year after Fox News architect Roger Ailes was forced to resign after similar sexual harassment accusations.

While O’Reilly is the most prominent right-wing personality currently in hot water, he is hardly the only one having a bad year. Just one day before the new allegations against O’Reilly surfaced, for example, the troubled personal life of radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones became very public when his attorney Randall Wilhite argued at a custody battle with his ex-wife, Kelly Jones, that he is a “performance artist” who is playing a character, and that judging him by his public persona would be analogous to evaluating Jack Nicholson by watching his portrayal of the Joker in “Batman.” On the other hand, Jones’ ex-wife claims that the right-wing conspiracist is a legitimately unstable man who “wants to break Alec Baldwin’s neck [and] wants J-Lo to get raped.”

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http://www.salon.com/2017/04/22/troll-mageddon-bill-oreilly-alex-jones-and-the-big-right-wing-media-crack-up-of-2017/

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1. With Ailes gone...

I can't help but wonder if Rupert's boys aren't thinking "there may be just as much money to be made NOT being SO conservative."

Perhaps they will actually be more 'fair and balanced.' We will have to see how Hannity does in the weeks and months to follow.

[LakeArenal]

5. With NBC and MSNBC becoming the new Fox News, I guess they have to change course.

[Turbineguy]

2. This is the problem.

Hillary Clinton was supposed to be in the Whitehouse to give the ankle-biters a tasty meal. With Trump, they are starving. Remember, they have nothing to contribute, all they can do is tear down. And Trump and the GOP is doing that already, beating them to the punch.

[Lint Head]

3. You right. If Hillary had won they would still have a target.

And you know who how much gun humping right wingers love their targets.

[2naSalit]

4. Rupert still drives the bus...

and he is calculating and shrewd. I remember back in the early 90s when some investigative journalist reported that rupert & sons were looking to take over the mass media in Asia, then move one to Europe and the Us and had planned to pretty much control all media globally in order to have leverage for his ambitions. And lookit, here we are.

[BigOleDummy]

6. Ain't it sweet?

Nuff said!