He's Funny That Way

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Love is burstin' out all over ...

Author: Murdoch 'absolutely despises' the 'bullying' 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.”

Wolff adds that Fox CEO Roger Ailes shares Murdoch's opinion. "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, but Roger Ailes himself who loathes him. Success, however, has cemented everyone to each other."

According to Wolff, Murdoch's desire not to be defined solely by his ownership of Fox underlay his purchase last year of the Wall Street Journal, which "was in no small way about wanting to trade the illiberal -- the belligerent, the vulgar, the loud, the menacing the unsubtle -- for the better-heeled, the more magnanimous, the further nuanced."

Steve Benen: NOBODY LIKES O'REILLY...

Editor and Publisher: 'Politico' Carries Excerpts from New Murdoch Book

Quick, somebody call in Sarah Palin.

Maybe she can teach the Grand Ayatollah of Ignorant Dolts how to do that "starburst" thing, that so enthralled the frequent guest host for the Warrior on Christmas, that young pup, Rich Lowery.

No doubt, O'Reilly will likely ignore the jilt, and, perhaps, go around singing this tune;

Billie Holiday - He's Funny That Way




Loofahs, anyone?