O'Fox is O'Fine

                Callum Borchers of The Washington Post had an editorial piece this week on the big Fox O’Reilly scandal wondering if the network will be able to survive the turmoil with which it’s popular time slots have been beset in the last eight months.

 Indeed, Greta Van Susteren left Fox News last September because she was “disturbed by the culture.” That probably doesn’t mean what the left would like us to believe—that the big forced sex party at Fox News is too much for women to bear—since Greta was a staunch defender of Roger Ailes, the network CEO who resigned following a flurry of sexual harassment accusations which Greta felt had turned into a bit of a witch hunt.

                I am not saying there was or wasn’t sexual harassment by Ailes. I’m just repeating what Greta said. Look it up yourself.

                Then Megyn Kelly abandoned ship in January after a tenuous relationship with our new President and his millions of supporters who also happened to be Fox news viewers. She cited the desire to spend more time with her young children as the primary motivator for her move to NBC and more power to her for that. I can only begin to imagine the time demands that come with an eight-figure salary.

                Martha MacCallum replaced Greta in the 7 p.m. time slot and turned in the biggest quarter in that time slot’s history in the first quarter of 2017. Same with Tucker Carlson at 9 p.m. where he replaced Megyn.

                Borchers even cedes those facts in his editorial and follows the concessions immediately with the question, “But how many more changes can Fox News withstand?”

                Do you think he means before the network is overcome with success?

                The most recent data I can find still shows Fox News with more than double the viewership of MSNBC between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. Go ahead and pick a different time slot, libs, if you think that will cheer you up. (Spoiler alert: It will not.)

                None of this is to defend Bill O’Reilly against the mounting allegations of sexual harassment, nor am I prepared to jump on the Crucifixion Committee. What I am is stunned by the Left’s continued war on any possibility the Right could enjoy success or popularity when the Left doesn’t want it to be so.

                Fox and O’Reilly did pay $13 million to five women over several years. That’s a real fact, not an Associated Press speculation. It’s also a lot of money per incident. I’ve heard many Left Wing media heads assert that where there is smoke there must be fire.

                Bill Clinton was accused of all manner of rape and assault as well as “simple” harassment 17 times in 30 years. (How big must that bonfire be?) But the only payout on public record is $850,000 from Clinton to Paula Jones.

                Seventeen claims and you can finish your term as president of the United States. Five claims and you have to resign as a TV show host. I’m not saying either man may be a shining example of good citizenship but the irony in what we will allow in professional standards for a U.S. President v. a conservative network talk show host is a little striking isn’t it?

                O’Reilly doesn’t need me to chime in on his defense. Right or wrong, he’ll be okay. He’ll syndicate a column or start a blog or write some more books and continue to have ten times more fans than Don Lemon’s mom can muster for The Lemonhead Fan Club. (Ok, that was exactly like an Associated Press factoid.)

                And Fox News will be fine, which you would think is obvious but if Callum Borchers can actually get ten column inches in a syndicated op-ed to suggest they will not be then there are probably others salivating over the imagined demise of the one and only, single, solitary conservative news channel in existence in these United States.

                Borchers reports (wait…no, I guess that’s right, he reported something) that Fox25News in Boston is changing their name to Boston25News in the wake of the Bill O’Reilly scandal because they consider the Fox News Label—the one still twice as popular as its closest competitor—to be a liability. And because they are run by the dumbest executives in TV since the clowns at A & E were ready to can Duck Dynasty (the most watched 30-minute show IN HISTORY) because Phil Robertson answered a question he was asked in an interview honestly if not politically correctly.

                I know it drives the Left crazy that we even exist, let alone in the numbers we do—you know, the kind of numbers that can elect a President they don’t like or dominate TV news ratings with the one show they hate more than broccoli—but I would hate it if we lost the lone voice of conservatism on TV.

                You certainly can’t count on liberal media scum to report things like President Trump quietly completing negotiations last week for the release of six U.S. citizens imprisoned in Cairo for three years without any evidence against them for any crime and without ever being granted a trial or a hearing of any kind.

Two of the U.S. detainees were Aya Hijazi and her husband Muhammed Hassanein. Call me racist but I think those sound like Middle Eastern names, maybe even Muslim. And we all know Donald Trump wants to throw all Muslims out of the United States. So since it doesn’t fit the leftist narrative let’s not report it at all.

In fairness, I did a sweep of print media looking for that story and I did find three paragraphs under “News Briefs” buried on the inside pages of none other than The Denver Post—my favorite opposition newsletter.

So Obama was president for most of the three years they were imprisoned and nothing happened. In less than 90 days Our President brought them home without releasing any terrorists or delivering any pallets of cash. Huh.

Remember all the front-page press Obama got for emptying five cells at Guantanamo Bay for the return of one U.S. soldier. Until he turned out to be a deserter who had gone AWOL and endangered his entire unit in the search for his sorry hind parts. Then it became a slightly quieter story, unless of course you tuned in occasionally to the lying bastards on Fox News.

Trump negotiated the return of six Americans quietly, without a press conference, without requesting a parade or any laurels for doing what comes as second nature to him (that would be “the right thing” in case you watched the Obama presidency so closely for so long you forgot what that was). Just like he has done so often for underprivileged people for whom he has purchased houses, provided jobs and paid tuition without seeking attention for it.

And certainly without receiving any credit for it from the base creatures on the left who sell us their “news” as if they can tell fact from fiction.

Yes, I would miss the voice that told us what the Left didn’t want us to know. But I am more than certain that Fox News will continue to outshine the best the Left can put out there as cutting edge journalism, or whatever it is.

           
            I just want to put my two cents worth in right here to begin to lobby for Dennis Miller to replace Bill O’Reilly. Not only would it be wildly entertaining, it might actually cause some strokes and aneurisms among the Callum Borchers of the world when Fox, once again, shattered their own records.