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By Hope Campbell/Dec. 15, 2021 11:37 am EST
According to Vox, about 80 advertisers soon boycotted “The O’Reilly Factor,” which meant that it would no longer be a moneymaker for Fox, leading the 24-hour cable news network to drop his show and O’Reilly himself.
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“Hey Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” she wrote. “This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.”
Brian Kilmeade also had a text message for Meadows. “Please get him on TV,” he wrote. “Destroying everything you have accomplished.”
After the text messages were made public, Bill O’Reilly spoke out against his former network on “NewsNation” (via the Daily Mail).
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“If I went back to any network and reimposed ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ — where we brought on people to debate from all sides and we presented evidence as best we could backed up by facts — that show would go through the roof,” he said (via the Daily Mail). “But it’s easy to play to the choir and that’s what they’re all doing now. That’s easy.”
O’Reilly went on to condemn the Jan. 6 riot, calling it “one of the most disgraceful displays in U.S. history,” adding that he would never have texted Mark Meadows while the attack was taking place. He also said that he told Donald Trump that he lost the election and that, if he ever runs again, he should run on merits and not grievance (via the Daily Mail).
