Judging from Bill O'Reilly's podcast yesterday, he will not slip quietly into oblivion. He has started a Monday-through-Thursday podcast that he plans to develop into a full-fledged news program.

In yesterday's 19-minute inaugural podcast, O'Reilly said that he hopes to start adding "guests and things like that, and this will become longer and longer and longer, into a genuine news program." He's calling it the "No Spin News."

O'Reilly discussed some of the day's news but he also addressed the elephant in the room:

I am sad that I’m not on television anymore. I was very surprised how it all turned out. I can’t say a lot, because there’s much stuff going on right now.

But I can tell you that I’m very confident the truth will come out, and when it does, I don’t know if you’re going to be surprised - but I think you’re going to be shaken, as I am. There’s a lot of stuff involved here. 

Now, I can’t say anymore because I just don’t want to influence the flow of the information. I don’t want the media to take what I say and misconstrue it. However you, as a loyal O’Reilly listener, have a right to know, I think, down the lane what exactly happened. And we are working in that direction, okay?

Okay.

This week, the podcasts are free but next week they go behind the site's paywall.

(O'Reilly caricature by Nina Brodsky)