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5 days ago
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'If I got onto Colbert, the ratings would double,' the former Fox News host boasted.
Former Fox News firebrand Bill O'Reilly is gloating over the cancellation of The Late Show, saying host Stephen Colbert only has himself to blame for failing to invite more conservative guests—such as himself. 'He's not going to last until May,' O'Reilly said in a segment on his No Spin News. 'I submit to you that if I got onto Colbert, the ratings would double.' 'No CBS program will put me on,' he continued. 'Not only won't you put me on, you won't put anyone on who's not a liberal, unless you want to disparage them.'
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5 days ago
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Bill O'Reilly Predicts Stephen Colbert ‘Won't Last ‘Til May,' Foresees Shakeup at ‘The View': ‘She's Gone'
The 'No Spin News' host also says the 'Late Show' host "censored" the guest list – "unless you hate Trump" Bill O'Reilly says for years Stephen Colbert 'censored' his guest list to Trump-haters only, part of a broader bias at CBS, which wouldn't book the bestselling author because of his conservative politics – not that any of it matters now. The 'No Spin News' host said in separate segments this week that Colbert won't last until May, as new, 'more conservative' ownership begins to grab hold. But O'Reilly said the pictures is much bigger than Skydance, whose impending Paramount takeover is part of a broader sweep through corporate media that he predicted would also lead to a big shakeup on ABC's 'The View.' More from TheWrap Bill O'Reilly Predicts Stephen Colbert 'Won't Last 'Til May,' Foresees Shakeup at 'The View': 'She's Gone' | Video 'Family Guy' Sets Next Halloween, Holiday Specials at Hulu 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Introduces a New Next Generation in Comic-Con Teaser | Video 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Reveals Captain Pike as a Puppet in Comic-Con Season 4 Teaser '[Colbert's] done. He's through,' the former Fox News host said. 'They say his show will be on till May. It won't. … What sunk him was not just his vitriolic approach to Trump. He censored his program. You could not get on his program unless you hated Trump.' O'Reilly said he'd logged 75 late-night appearances over the years – including with David Letterman, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel – but that Colbert wouldn't have him. 'I did actually appear with Colbert way, way back one time,' O'Reilly noted. 'But Colbert would never invite anybody who didn't hate Trump.' That went broadly for CBS, O'Reilly said – despite that he's sold millions of books with several No. 1 debuts for historical nonfiction titles like 'Killing Lincoln' and 'Killing Kennedy,' he just couldn't get booked on the network. '[Jane] Pauley wouldn't put us on, and I emailed her directly,' O'Reilly said. 'Didn't even consider it.' In a separate segment, O'Reilly said all four networks – CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox – are changing dramatically because of Trump, predicting a major shakeup at 'The View.' 'Joy Behar is a hater,' he said of the 'View' panelist. 'No doubt about it. And she's going — by the way, not going to be around much longer. And this [Anna] Navarro woman, she's going, too. Disney's going to have to revamp that whole thing.' Watch both segments in the videos above. The post Bill O'Reilly Predicts Stephen Colbert 'Won't Last 'Til May,' Foresees Shakeup at 'The View': 'She's Gone' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
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15-07-2025
- Politics
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Bill O'Reilly Corrected On-Air Over False Claim Biden Oversaw Epstein Conviction: ‘How Do You Convict a Guy That Is Dead?'
Bill O'Reilly falsely doubled down that Jeffrey Epstein was convicted under Joe Biden's administration. While appearing on NewsNation Monday night, host Leland Vittert had to correct O'Reilly multiple times after the former 'O'Reilly Factor' star asserted that the disgraced film financier was convicted under Biden's admin by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Epstein was both arrested and committed suicide in 2019 – a full year and a half before Biden took office. More from TheWrap 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Season 3 Release Schedule: What Time Are New Episodes Streaming? 'Superman' Breakout Edi Gathegi on His Comic Book-Accurate Mister Terrific – and Potential TV Spinoff Bill O'Reilly Corrected On-Air Over False Claim Biden Oversaw Epstein Conviction: 'How Do You Convict a Guy That Is Dead?' | Video Apple's Matt Cherniss Teases 'Very Bright' Future for 'Severance,' 'The Studio' and 'Shrinking' After Record Emmy Noms 'Epstein was convicted during the Biden administration,' O'Reilly said. 'Hold on, Bill,' Vittert interrupted. 'You said Epstein was convicted during the Biden administration. Epstein committed suicide during the Trump administration.' 'Yeah, so?' O'Reilly asked. 'How do you convict a guy that is dead?' Vittert responded. Bill O'Reilly doubled down: "Epstein was convicted under Merrick Garland's Justice Department."Leland Vittert: "He was arrested in 2019, and he committed suicide in 2019… So the Biden administration was not involved in a conviction or a trial of him."O'Reilly: "But he was… — Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) July 15, 2025 'I believe he was convicted under Merrick Garland's justice department,' O'Reilly said attempting to regain his footing. 'Then he was incarcerated. Then he committed suicide. The suicide thing is bull…' At that point, Vittert interrupted O'Reilly once more to clarify the timeline. 'Bill, I think this is important, he was arrested in 2019 and committed suicide in 2019, died August 10th of 2019. So the Biden administration was not involved in a conviction or a trial of him.' 'He was arrested and indicted under Merrick Garland,' O'Reilly continued to falsely claim. 'Who had all the information…' 'No! Under Trump,' Vittert corrected again. 'Epstein was arrested, indicted and committed suicide under Trump in 2019. Trump was president. Merrick Garland was not the attorney general.' A new fervor in Epstein and his purported client list arose after a new memo released by the DOJ and FBI released last week insisted the Trump-mandated investigation into Epstein's criminal past 'did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.' This came mere months after Bondi told Fox News that she was in possession of a list of that very nature. The news – or lack thereof – about the Epstein list created a schism in Donald Trump's MAGA base with some passionate for information on one end and those ready to move onto the next topic on the other. For O'Reilly, it meant falsely breaking down the timeline of Epstein's conviction. 'I stand corrected,' O'Reilly finally conceded. You can watch the full exchange in the video above. The post Bill O'Reilly Corrected On-Air Over False Claim Biden Oversaw Epstein Conviction: 'How Do You Convict a Guy That Is Dead?' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
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The Independent
15-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Bill O'Reilly forced to admit that his Biden claims about Epstein are false: ‘Yeah, so?!'
Bill O'Reilly reluctantly had to admit on Monday night that his outlandish claims about the Biden administration and former Attorney General Merrick Garland 'convicting' Jeffrey Epstein were false, muttering a truculent 'yeah, so' when NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert corrected him. Amid the ongoing MAGA meltdown over the Justice Department concluding that Epstein died by suicide and didn't keep a 'client list,' which has only escalated after Donald Trump ordered his 'boys' and 'gals' to drop the matter, O'Reilly has contended that the president had good reasons not to release additional documents in the Epstein case. 'I talked to President Trump, man-to-man, eye-to-eye, on St. Patrick's Day about this. … And he said — and I agree — 'There are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein's conduct,'' O'Reilly said last week. The disgraced former Fox News star added at the time that 'you can't destroy a human being by putting out the files, whatever they may be.' He then suggested that Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has been under fire for signing off on the DOJ memo after previously claiming she was in possession of the 'client list,' should hold a press conference with Garland and address the Epstein case head-on. During an appearance on Vittert's NewsNation program on Monday night, O'Reilly argued that the Epstein saga had become a distraction for the president but that it wasn't to the point that Trump should be worried that it would fracture his MAGA coalition. He also reiterated his suggestion for a joint Bondi-Garland presser. 'Hold a press conference and invite former General Garland,' O'Reilly stated. 'If he doesn't come there, put an empty chair with his picture on it because Garland had the information that the Trump people had for four years.' He continued: 'This is more of a mystery than it is a crisis. I disagree with the word 'crisis.' I don't think it's a crisis for the country. It may be a political detriment to the Republican Party and Donald Trump.' Vittert, meanwhile, brought up House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' recent push to force the administration's hand on releasing the Epstein files, which is part of Democrats' attempts to take advantage of the MAGA backlash over the memo. House Republicans, meanwhile, have already blocked a Democratic effort to compel Bondi to compile and release all Epstein-related documents within 30 days. An irate O'Reilly, meanwhile, raged about 'how disingenuous' Jeffries was for saying Trump is 'trying to hide something' because the Biden administration was in possession of the same documents and evidence related to Epstein as the current administration. At the same time, though, O'Reilly confidently asserted that the deceased sex offender had been prosecuted and found guilty by Biden's DOJ – despite Epstein dying a year-and-a-half before the 46th president took office. 'This is what infuriates me about these people! Jeffries knew the Biden administration had exactly the same thing the Trump administration has on Epstein. Exactly! Because Epstein was convicted during the Biden administration,' O'Reilly exclaimed. As the one-time O'Reilly Factor host continued to rail against 'phony' Jeffries for not demanding the release of additional information related to Epstein during Biden's term, Vittert eventually stopped the conservative pundit in his tracks over his obviously false assertion. 'Hold on, Bill! You said Epstein was convicted during the Biden administration. Epstein committed suicide during the Trump administration,' the NewsNation anchor noted. 'Yeah, so?!' O'Reilly indignantly retorted. 'How do you convict a guy that is dead?' Vittert wondered. O'Reilly went on to insist that Epstein was 'convicted under Merrick Garland's Justice Department' and then 'incarcerated' before killing himself in jail, prompting Vittert to explain that his guest had his facts completely wrong. 'Bill, I think this is important,' the On Balance host noted. 'He was arrested in 2019, and he committed suicide in 2019. He died August 10, 2019. So the Biden administration was not involved in a conviction or a trial of him. They were with his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.' Acknowledging that Vittert made a 'good point of clarification,' O'Reilly proceeded to double down and once again claimed that Garland was responsible for indicting Epstein in 2019, leading Vittert to point out one more time that this was incorrect. 'No! Under Trump! Epstein was arrested, indicted and committed suicide under Trump in 2019. Trump was president. Merrick Garland was not the attorney general,' Vittert said as a visibly confused O'Reilly let the information sink in. 'Ok. I stand corrected,' O'Reilly finally relented. After coming to grips that Garland wasn't involved in the arrest and indictment of Epstein in 2019, he pivoted back to grumbling that Jeffries didn't call for the public release of Epstein's case files when Biden was president.
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Business
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Bill O'Reilly: Trump Wouldn't Approve Paramount Sale ‘Unless CBS Capitulated,' Thinks Network Would Win in Court
Bill O'Reilly said what basically everyone has been thinking since CBS parent company Paramount agreed to a $16 million settlement over the Kamala Harris interview on '60 Minutes' last week: The company would have won in court – but needs Trump to approve its complex sale to Skydance. 'So the settlement, uh, from CBS is interesting,' the 'No Spin News' host said Monday. 'Trump [was] never going to approve that unless CBS capitulated — which they did. … But the bigger picture is what's important.' More from TheWrap Bill O'Reilly: Trump Wouldn't Approve Paramount Sale 'Unless CBS Capitulated,' Thinks Network Would Win in Court | Video ABC Revamps 'GMA3' Lineup as Anchors DeMarco Morgan, Eva Pilgrim Exit CBS News Legend Lowell Bergman Explains Why Paramount's Trump Settlement Is 'A Lot Worse' Than His Big Tobacco Case Trump Media Launches TV Streaming Platform Truth+ in Partnership With Newsmax The July 1 settlement includes 'plaintiffs' fees and costs' as well as a donation to a future presidential library; Trump will not personally receive any money. Paramount also said that 'in the future, 60 Minutes will release transcripts of interviews with eligible U.S. presidential candidates after such interviews have aired.' 'This is all about '60 Minutes,'' the former CBS employee and Fox News host said. '[They] wanted Kamala Harris to win the election. There's no doubt about it. You just go back and look at the transcripts as I have, and it's all about promoting Kamala and diminishing Trump.' Trump claimed CBS interfered with the election and damaged his own companies when it aired a promo that was different from an answer Harris gave to correspondent Bill Whitaker. While O'Reilly believes Trump had a point, he didn't think the president would have won. 'I don't think that CBS would have lost that case in court,' O'Reilly said. 'There is a difference, but is it egregious? So Trump sued them for billions of dollars.' O'Reilly said he knows the corporate media has gone far left – 'I know … I don't think that, it's not an opinion' – and played a clip from the October 8, 2024 interview to prove his point. 'Whitaker should have gone bang — 'Give me one solution you've offered in the first year of the Biden administration.' Give me one' … Because she always falls back on, 'Oh, Trump killed the immigration bill that Charles Schumer ginned up early this year.' … [Whitaker] booted it because he didn't anticipate the boldness of the lie — that what she just said, 'From day one, literally, we have been offering solutions,' is about the biggest falsehood I have heard from any politician in the last decade.' O'Reilly said Trump proved as much when he shut down the border and 'stopped the illegal immigration asylum madness in two months.' 'Whitaker was soft on her,' O'Reilly added. 'This is not an interview. It's not the way it's done. You've been watching me for almost 30 years. You know how an interview on television should be done. This is gibberish.' Paramount Global has agreed to merge with Skydance Media in a complex $8 billion deal. If approved, the deal is expected to close by fall 2025. The post Bill O'Reilly: Trump Wouldn't Approve Paramount Sale 'Unless CBS Capitulated,' Thinks Network Would Win in Court | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
