It looks like Newsmax TV is looking to become the home for wayward former Fox News figures. Bill O’Reilly and Eric Bolling – each ousted from Fox over allegations of sexual harassment – are reportedly wanted by Newsmax TV. Former host Greta Van Susteren is also being sought.
From Page Six:
An insider told Page Six, “The deals are not done yet, but talks are in the advanced stages, certainly with O’Reilly. The thinking is, following a 6 p.m. news show, Greta would anchor the 7 p.m. hour, O’Reilly would be back at 8 p.m., and Bolling could smoothly continue on at 9 p.m. [Sean] Spicer and his cohorts would go on at 10 p.m., with the later slot allowing the show to be looser. But the deals are not yet signed and sealed.”
Michael Clemente, a former Fox executive vice president who was let go one week after Roger Ailes was ousted, is now the CEO of Newsmax TV. At the time, Fox insisted that Clemente’s departure was unrelated to the sexual harassment scandal. But clearly, if Clemente wants O'Reilly and Bolling, each of whom racked up serious allegations of harassment, there's not a lot of concern about the treatment of women there.
Watch the report from Page Six below.
I think any chance for Bill to make a comeback ended with Ailes’s death who wanted to start a new cable station that he said would be right of Fox. Any network willing to take a chance on Bill would require research on who would be willing to advertise on his program before signing him.
If O’Reilly winds up doing this, he would be working for a greatly reduced salary, just so he could pretend to have a major prime-time show again. Similar to Larry King doing his new “Larry King Now” as a major step down from his glory days at CNN. Except that Larry King never abased himself to my knowledge in the manner that Bill O’Reilly regularly has.
I always felt that Bill was planning to tag along wherever Roger Ailes went to or startup after his Fox firing until his death forced him to do his weekly rant on Beck’s show.
A quick look at the “personalities” inhabiting the bizarre Newsmax channel shows it to be a far fringier Right Wing assembly – essentially the most extreme voices ever heard on Fox News or AM Radio – such as Wayne Allyn Root. The purpose of the outlet is to further the propaganda aims of the Newsmax website and support vicious behavior like that of the Pence White House.
Bolling would of course work for these guys as he has nowhere else to go. O’Reilly, on the other hand, has the option of simply retiring and living on his millions. It just seems he can’t go quietly, and he’s willing to be associated with a mess like Newsmax if it will let him feel like he has a genuine prime time show once more. As I noted, a pathetic end to O’Reilly’s career – and he thought he was going to go out as an elder statesman.
;^)
“Women of Newsmax TV: Wear a Neck-Brace……..”
And elbow pads and knee pads as well!
’Nuff said.
