Murdoch, Ailes "Despise" O'Reilly

Politico:

In Michael Wolff's forthcoming biography of Rupert Murdoch, "The Man Who Owns The News," the author writes that the media mogul has seemed to turn away lately from his cable news network, and isn't fond its top-rated personality, Bill O'Reilly.

"It is not just Murdoch (and everybody else at News Corp.'s highest levels) who absolutely despises Bill O'Reilly, the bullying, mean-spirited, and hugely successful evening commentator," Wolff wrote, "but [Fox News chief executive] Roger Ailes himself who loathes him. Success, however, has cemented everyone to each other."
"The embarrassment can no longer be missed," Wolff wrote, in another section of the book. "He mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it. He barely pretends to hide the way he feels about Bill O'Reilly. And while it is not that he would give Fox up--because the money is the money; success trumps all--in the larger sense of who he is, he seems to want to hedge his bets."

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Comments

[PallinAround]

12:43 PM on 12/01/2008

Despises him yet is all too willing to milk that loathsome cash cow for all he's worth. We call that morally bankrupt, Rupert.

[harriettubman]

12:10 PM on 12/01/2008

But they love Sean Hannity? Figure that one out.

[RRoadrunner]

10:19 AM on 12/01/2008

Gee, them folks at FOX are s l o w. Three quarter of the nation came to this conclusion years ago.

[phoebie]

10:05 AM on 12/01/2008

Just when I thought that Murdoch had not one redeeming synapse in his brain, he disproved me with his dislike of Bill-O. However, he still is writing O'Reilly a check each week.

[velvetundergroundfan]

11:24 PM on 11/30/2008

Sean Hannity is worse than O'Reilly. Murdoch may be slightly embarrasse­d by Fox News but he will continue to milk it for every last cent.

[SameOldSameOld]

02:06 AM on 12/01/2008

i agree. Hannity is vile.

[Budokan]

09:53 PM on 11/30/2008

Welcome to the club.

[Paisano]

04:21 PM on 11/30/2008

OK...It's official..­. Finally it's everyone!

[jerryfromcalifornia]

12:01 AM on 12/01/2008

Hey, don't forget me.

[Cos1]

02:58 PM on 11/30/2008

Bill is the face of Fox News, so what this article says is the money is more important to them than credibilit­y, dignity, respect and honor. How much money do they really need to continue selling their soul. The formula Bill uses to keep his audience will always work because there will always be people who can't think for themselves and have to live by other's opinions. Because of this, it is noticed that other cable news outlets haven't exactly gone out looking for a knockoff version of Bill. Hopefully no other news outlet is willing to stoop so low for ratings.

[MargaretO]

01:33 PM on 11/30/2008

Pot, meet kettle.

[wordvarc]

12:36 AM on 11/30/2008

No one 'likes' BO.

[escobar]

08:11 PM on 11/29/2008

So is that why he pays him and others like him millions of dollars a year?
He isn't even a US citizen.
His wife is old enough to be his grandchild­.

[jorge4u]

01:35 PM on 11/30/2008

I believe, escobar, that Murdoch is a US citizen. I might be wrong.

[jerryfromcalifornia]

12:04 AM on 12/01/2008

He became a citizen so he could own radio and television stations.
Then paid off the republicic­ans to change the rules so he could own more.
Thats why we need the fairness doctrine.

[postman606]

03:58 PM on 11/30/2008

He renounced his Australian citizenshi­p and is now a U.S. citizen.

[E NUFF]

06:44 PM on 11/29/2008

Have you seen the "Lil Bill O'Reilly"?­?

ROTFLOL!

http://www­.hulu.com/­watch/3935­2/talkshow­-with-spik­e-feresten­-lil-bill-­oreilly

[RobtBrock]

06:07 PM on 11/29/2008

O'Reilly's views are in lock-step with those who have been raped by Catholic priests.

[Clare53]

10:03 PM on 11/29/2008

What the he ll is that supposed to mean?

[guajiro]

10:46 PM on 11/29/2008

It's funny how some people project themselves­, huh?

[Chrisa]

10:52 PM on 11/29/2008

That made no sense.

[greyseal in tampa]

05:01 PM on 11/29/2008

I have no problem believing that among sw.ine there is an individual who is such an insufferab­le pr.ick that even the other sw.ine can't stand him.

[BillyShears]

02:57 PM on 11/29/2008

Hey all you Neocons and Repugs- keep watching Fox and Bill. Keep embarking on your crazy hate filled journeys into the parallel universe otherwise known as "the No Spin Zone". The rest of us will just get more shovels, drink more coffee and dig faster. We can't wait to finish burying the repub likan party.