Since losing his Fox News platform a year ago, Bill O’Reilly has achieved relevance primarily by attracting lawsuits for trashing women who’d reached settlements over sexual harassment or mistreatment. His work, however, lives on, kind of. At least in this fresh tweet from President Trump:
Compare that wholly unconfirmed tripe to what O’Reilly himself said on Fox News’s air just weeks before the 2016 presidential election:
It’s a complicated situation, but I think everyone can agree — except for the media organizations that now have ordered their employees to destroy Trump — there’s at least three of them. And, I can’t say who they are right now because I don’t have it nailed down, but I am 100 percent convinced, and these media organizations have actually put out, ‘If you support Trump, your career is done done here.’ … News organizations have sent, not officially, but through the corporate grapevine that we don’t want anybody supporting Trump. If you study it, you can see which ones they are.
As it turned out, O’Reilly never quite “nailed down” this wide-ranging conspiracy. We’ll see if Trump fares any better.
CNN, meanwhile, responded:
