beck there was a glenn beck show. he said president obama hates white people and hates the white culture, whatever that means. you ve been involved in the stop rush limbaugh campaign, bill o reil o reilly, sets. give me your thoughts on how effective david hogg has been? he s a kid, 17. he tweeted one tweet where he said who are your advertisers, laura ingraham. already something like 16 advertisers have pulled out. there they are, i mean a flight. he obviously has been effective. in terms of the overall national@advertising base, the advertisers represent 20% so far, her entire advertising base. very, very fast. by comparison it took days, weeks to reach this amount with glenn beck back then, and there were other organizations involved, color of change, that
tv show he had appeared to kind of justify what happened. what s going on at fox? is there a fear of boycotts happening? why do you think he s being so sensitive but also still defending roy moore? yeah, he s trying to split this in a weird way. being sensitive is being kind. so he i think he s afraid of what happened to bill o reilly. he s afraid of what happened to glen beck. glen beck called barack obama a racist. he lost his show. bill o reilly was the sexual predator at fox news and he lost his show. activists have gone after hannity in the past, but they haven t had a real clear attack line like glen beck and bill o reil o reilly. shawn hannity defends pedophilia is an attack line. if you go to advertisers with that, you will get a response. it s difficult for advertisers to say, we re okay with this. we like shawn. we like his environment. he can see the writing on the
investigation will take a while. much to the chagrin of the white house. thank you both. coming up on this saturday, an explosionive report about former former fox news host bill o reilly, and the $32 million sexual harassment on settlement. but first, anthony bourdain takes us to a dining scene at the crossroads in pittsburgh. since the decline of big steel in the post-war years, leading up to the 60s and beyond pittsburgh fell on some hard times. but, they say, things are turning around. high tech, medical research, a
orile cry settled a claim to $32 million, with a longtime fox news legal analyst. new york times reports that fox news went on to re-sign o reilly a month later for a $25 million a year contract before eventually firing him in april. let s bring in cnn correspondent jean casarez she joins me to discuss we just heard from bill oriley s representative. but first a statement from 20th century fox. they say when the company renewed bill o reilly s contract in february, it knew a sexual lawsuit had been threatened against him, but was informed by mr. o reilly he had settled the matter personally on financial terms that they had agreed were confidential and not disclosed to the company. his new countered made at a time
typical for renewals, added protections for the company, specifically aimed at harassment, including that mr. o reilly could be dismissed if the company was made aware of other allegations or if additional relevant information was obtained in a company investigation. the company subsequently acted, based on the terms of this contract. obviously they re talking about him leaving the company. now, we did, just minutes ago, get a statement from mark fabiani on behalf of bill o reil o reilly. one against new york times has maliciously smeared bill o reilly, this time even failing to print a sworn affidavit from his personal lawyer, repudiating all allegations against bill o reilly. the times ignored that evidence sworn under oath and chose to rely on an unsubstantiated allegations anonymous source and