Conservative pundit and author Bill O’Reilly has long been the target of liberal media attackers and now believes that all popular right-leaning talkers are in the line of fire.
Citing a coordinated campaign to rob conservatives on TV of advertising support, including Fox’s Tucker Carlson, he told us, “Anyone or any business or any enterprise can be destroyed by a moron.”
In an interview, he pointed to reports about him in major publications, including Politico and the Hill, that he called untrue. “That’s where we are in this world. I mean, it’s pretty damn frightening,” he said.
Carlson has been under the gun recently for his sometimes inflammatory opening comments on his nightly Fox News TV show. “I’ve seen it for 25 years. So now, they’re after Tucker Carlson. They’re going to do whatever they can to try to destroy him,” O’Reilly told us.
“You are the worst human being known to mankind.”
That’s what one man told Fox News host Tucker Carlson during a confrontation at a fly fishing shop in Montana. https://t.co/jJgUYEHIHD
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) July 26, 2021
O’Reilly, forced out of Fox after harassment allegations, charged that media critics will make up false stories about their targets or cite anonymous sources in “hit” pieces.
And he added that outlets aren’t doing the necessary checking of stories before posting them. “It is ridiculous because lives are being ruined, businesses are being ruined, people are being tortured, and there is absolutely no regulation at all. I don’t believe in censorship, but you got to have an editor, you know?” he said.
