Liberals thought they’d seen the last of Bill O’Reilly.
They were practically dancing in the streets of Berkeley when he was yanked unceremoniously off the air by Fox News in April over sexual harassment allegations.
But now he’s back with a vengeance – and at least two major news networks, One America News and the Sinclair Broadcasting Network, are trying to recruit him.
The grandfather of conservative media has put liberals on notice.
He’s NOT going to shut up. He’s NOT going to give in. He’s NOT going to apologize.
And he’s NOT going away!
In fact, free of the corporate media structure and fleeing a Fox News organization that seems to have lost its way in recent months, O’Reilly might be on the verge of becoming more powerful than ever.
He’s ready to take on the liberals who have been obsessed with trying to censor conservative media figures because of their views, using false allegations to shut them down and take them off the air.
They’re doing the same thing to our country, trying to paint it as an awful place full of hateful people.
O’Reilly is ready to fight that ugly new form of bullying, too.
“I think people have to realize, No. 1, how severe the problem has become, and No. 2, that it’s going to take courage to fight it,” O’Reilly told Breitbart News. “I’m the poster boy for that. I’ve been under attack for 16 years, and finally, these forces of evil and darkness got me. It was a confluence of events that someday all of it will be exposed.”
Does that sound like a man ready to back down from this battle?
He told The Hollywood Reporter he doesn’t harbor any ill will toward Fox News for caving into the left, calling himself “lucky” and saying he had a “terrific career” at the network.
But he also sounded a little hurt by what he called “purely a business decision.”
“The way it was done, I’m over in Rome [on vacation]. My [legal] team was caught by surprise because we had an amazing amount of exculpatory stuff that we had presented,” he said. “And it just — it was sad. That’s the word, sad.”
Sad indeed, especially if O’Reilly is right and he’s ultimately exonerated by the material his legal team has accumulated.
While he’s not the type to attack his former employer, the network might regret letting him go – and that decision could come back to haunt them as O’Reilly is quietly building up an online empire.
His subscription service already has hundreds of thousands of paid viewers, he told The Hollywood Reporter, which shows the demand for his voice is still there. And at least two networks have been vying for his service.
One America News Network publicly pulled an offer this summer when O’Reilly didn’t act quickly enough, but there may have been a reason for that.
The rapidly expanding Sinclair Broadcast Group is reportedly trying to bag not only O’Reilly but also his former Fox News stablemate Sean Hannity, turning it into a true alternative to Fox News for conservative viewers.
O’Reilly wouldn’t confirm those rumors, but told The Hollywood Reporter he may have some news to report in a matter of weeks.
“I haven’t decided. There are some interesting projects in development, as they say in Hollywood, but it has to be the right situation,” he was quoted as saying. I’m waiting to see very specific details of the projects that people have pitched to us. And there have been many. I think by early October, we should have a pretty good vision of what we’re going to do.”
Stay tuned!