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In reply to the discussion: O'Leilly is out... Damn should have happened 17 years ago! [View all]not fooled
(5,801 posts)66. And, ya know what?
Screw the advertisers, too. They were OK with tacitly supporting a misogynist, racist, hate-talking scumbag bloviator all these years. His narrow-minded, anti-American message got propped up by big $$$ while he helped turn a significant sector of the population into haters.
So, it was OK to support O'Lielly all this time, and now that there's incontrovertible evidence that he's a douche, they get commended for bailing? I don't think so.
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It was the fact he was harming their ad sales at a very important time is what did him in
dsc
Apr 2017
#12
Screw Fox Noise! They're being forced to fire O'Reilly because of loss of ad revenue and bad PR.
Lanius
Apr 2017
#19
He should've been fired years ago. Remember the loofah or whatever harassment claims? nt
Honeycombe8
Apr 2017
#62