WE JUST GOT WORD BEFORE STARTING TO SHOW THAT THE 14TH
HIGHEST PROFILE GUY AT FOX NEWS, ERIC BOLLING, IS GONE.
ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?
GENTLEMEN, WE GOT HIM.
DOWN GOES BOLLING!
BOLLING, OVER AND OUT.
IF YOU HAD ERIC BOLLING IN YOUR POOL AT WORK FOR FOX NEWS
HOSTS THAT WILL GO DOWN NEXT FOR SEXUALLY HARASSING FEMALE
COWORKERS, IT'S NOT SHEP SMITH, HE'S APPARENTLY STILL A GOOD
GUY, IT'S ERIC BOLLING. 14 SOURCES REVEALED TO THE
HUFFINGTON POST ABOUT A MONTH AGO THAT AT LEAST THREE CURRENT
AND FORMER FOX COLLEAGUES OF HIS SAID HE HAD SENT INAPPROPRIATE
TEXT MESSAGES INCLUDING PHOTOS OF MALE GENITALIA, ALTHOUGH
IMPORTANTLY, NO CLARIFICATION YET WHETHER IT WAS HIS
GENITALIA.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN FROM HIS COLLECTION, I DON'T KNOW.
WE DON'T KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS USING A BODY DOUBLE.
HE WILL PROBABLY SUE ME NOW, HE SAID HE WOULD SUE THEM
FOR PUBLISHING THAT STORY.
HE HAS TIME TO SUE THEM NOW.
THEY ONLY HAD 14 SOURCES.
THAT THE BEST PART, THERE ARE 14 SOURCES.
SOUND LIKE FAKE NEWS TO ME.
HE'S GONE, I DON'T KNOW IF HE USED A BODY DOUBLE LIKE SADDAM
DID, WE DON'T KNOW WHOSE PENIS IT WAS, WE KNOW HE SENT THE
PICTURES THOUGH, SO FOX NEWS KNOWS IT ENOUGH TO LET HIM GO.
THEY SAID WE ENJOYED HIS 10 YEARS OF WORK, WE DIDN'T ENJOY
HIS PENIS PICTURES.
THE SHOW HE WAS HOSTING, SUCH AS IT WAS, THE
SPECIALISTS, IS OUT.
I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THAT SHOW BEFORE.
AND YOU WON'T GOING FORWARD.
IT WAS ONE OF THE SHORTEST
SHOWS IN CABLE NEWS HISTORY, WHICH APPARENTLY WAS SOMETHING
THEY SAID ABOUT THE PICTURES AS WELL.
YOU COULDN'T RESIST.
I COULDN'T.
AND FINALLY I WANT TO HAVE SOME CONTEXT.
IF YOU
THINK FOX NEWS, SOME RIGHT-WINGERS MIGHT THINK THEY
ARE BECOMING LIBERAL AND NOW THEY ARE GETTING RID OF ALL
THEIR CONSERVATIVE HOSTS BECAUSE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, THAT'S
NOT REMOTELY TRUE.
THEY ARE DOING LENGTHY INVESTIGATIONS TO
FIND OUT WHO DID IT AND WHO DIDN'T, SO THERE HAS BEEN LOOSE
TALK OF -- JUST BECAUSE IT'S ONLINE -- ABOUT SEAN HANNITY.
NOBODY HAS EVER CHARGED HIM WITH A DAMN THING, IT'S NONSENSE.
IT'S PEOPLE THROWING STUFF AT HIM BECAUSE HE WORKS AT FOX
NEWS.
SEAN HANNITY HAS A MILLION OTHER PROBLEMS BUT THIS ISN'T
ONE OF THEM, SO IT'S NOT LIKE THEY ARE TARGETING RANDOM HOSTS.
THEY ARE TARGETING PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY DID DO IT.
AND NOT
EVERY INVESTIGATION SHOWS SEXUAL HARASSMENT HAPPENED.
THERE WERE
PAYOUTS TO A LOT OF WOMEN WHO ARE APPARENTLY BADLY SEXUALLY
HARASSED AND SOME WHO ACTUALLY HAD SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH PEOPLE
LIKE ROGER AILES, ETC., BUT THEY DIDN'T GIVE ANY MONEY, AND DID
NOT SETTLE, WITH ANDREA TANTAROS.
THEY SAID THAT ONE IS
TRUE, IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, WE WILL GO TO COURT AND FIGHT IT ALL DAY
LONG BECAUSE THAT ISN'T TRUE.
AND WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL END UP HAPPENING.
WE WILL FIND OUT, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF SOURCES THAT WE KNOW
OF, THAT OTHERS KNOW OF, AND CERTAINLY FOX NEWS APPARENTLY
THINKS, AND THEIR PARENT CORPORATION, THINKS THAT DIDN'T
HAPPEN, SHE'S JUST LOOKING TO CASH IN.
THAT'S THEIR POINT OF
VIEW.
ON THE SAME DAY, CHARLES PAYNE, WAS ALSO INVESTIGATED FOR
SEXUAL HARASSMENT ON FOX BUSINESS NETWORK, ANOTHER VERY
CONSERVATIVE HOST, HAS BEEN CLEARED.
NEWS CORP IS SAYING HE
DIDN'T DO IT, HE'S BACK ON AIR.
THIS IS NOT A WITCH HUNT, IT'S
NOT RANDOM, IT'S NOT TOWARD CONSERVATIVES, IT'S NOT
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
IT'S ACTUAL INVESTIGATIONS, DID YOU
SEXUALLY HARASS PEOPLE.
I GUESS IT INTERESTING WHETHER IT'S A WITCH HUNT OR NOT, BUT
THE ONES WHO DID IT DID IT.
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S A WITCH HUNT OR NOT, IT'S A
CULTURE OF PERVERSION, BASICALLY, INSIDE FOX NEWS.
THERE'S A GOOD OLD BOYS NETWORK.
IF YOU LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THEIR VALUES, YOU WOULD
THINK, BUT THEY ARE MARRIED, HOW ARE THEY SENDING DICK PICS?
BUT
IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT FOR THREE SECONDS, OF COURSE THERE WILL BE
PERVASIVE SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
IT'S A BUNCH OF GUYS WHO HIRE
THE EXACT SORT OF WOMEN THEY ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING SEX WITH,
THAT WAS ROGER AILES' ENTIRE STRATEGY THAT HE TALKED ABOUT
BEFORE, AND THEN THEY SIT THERE AND THINK THEY HAVE POWER OVER
THESE WOMEN'S CAREERS BECAUSE IN A LOT OF CASES THEY DO BECAUSE
OF HOW COMPETITIVE THE INDUSTRY IS, AND THEY ABUSE IT.
AND SOME
OF THEM, LIKE YOU SAY, SEAN HANNITY, APPARENTLY THERE'S NO
EVIDENCE -- BUT WOULD YOU REALLY BE THAT SURPRISED IN THE END?
THERE'S NO EVIDENCE.
I WOULD BE SURPRISED.
I ONLY PARTLY AGREE WITH YOU, JOHN.
I
THINK IF IT'S LIKE THOSE CONSERVATIVES WHO, LIKE,
LOOK AT THE GOOD OLD DAYS, ETC.,
YOU CAN SAY THERE'S SOME EVIDENCE THERE, BECAUSE IN
THE GOOD OLD DAYS THEY USED TO SEXUALLY HARASS WOMEN.
I'M TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE WE WILL REQUIRE THAT WOMEN WEAR
DRESSES.
NOT ONLY DO THEY HAVE TO WEAR DRESSES, THEY HAVE TO
HAVE THEIR LEGS VISIBLE ON CAMERA, THEY HAVE TO WEAR
SIMPLE, UNICOLOR DRESSES BECAUSE THE VISION OF THE AVERAGE FOX
AUDIENCE WOULD GET DISTRACTED OR SOMETHING -- THE PERSON WHO SETS
THAT UP AS THE CONCEPT FOR A CHANNEL IS A PERSON WHO CAN'T BE
TRUSTED AROUND THOSE FEMALE EMPLOYEES.
AND HE'S GOING TO HIRE PEOPLE OF A SIMILAR MINDSET.
I'M NOT SURE I AGREE.
I'LL BREAK IT DOWN INTO THREE
CATEGORIES, THEY WANT TO REMIND PEOPLE OF 1955 BECAUSE THAT'S
WHEN THEIR AUDIENCE GREW UP.
SO HOW THEY DRESS, ETC., I VIEW
THAT AS NO EVIDENCE.
THE FACT THAT THEY LOOK AT 1955 WITH SOME
NOSTALGIA NOT BECAUSE OF THEIR CHILDHOOD, THAT'S PERFECTLY
NORMAL, BUT BECAUSE OF LIKE, THE GOOD OLD DAYS, WHEN WE WERE IN
CHARGE AND COULD DO WHATEVER WE WANT, I VIEW THAT AS SOME
EVIDENCE, SMALL EVIDENCE, A LOT OF PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THAT WAY
BUT NOT ACT UPON IT.
ROGER AILES' ENTIRE CAREER WAS BATHED IN SEXUAL-HARASSMENT.
DOZENS OF WOMEN CAME FORWARD OVER DECADES.
PRE-FOX NEWS.
WAY BEFORE.
SO WHEN YOU SAY THAT GUY LEADING FOX NEWS SET UP
A CULTURE OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, THAT OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE, AND
THERE I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF WHOEVER ALREADY HAD THAT
PROCLIVITY, BILL O'REILLY, BOLLING, PARTAKE.
IT DOESN'T
MEAN ALL CONSERVATIVES ARE IN FAVOR OF IT, SOME MIGHT HAVE
NOSTALGIA TOWARD IT, BUT DOING SOMETHING IS COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT.
AND YOU ARE RIGHT, THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS ROGER
AILES SET THAT CULTURE UP AND BASICALLY SAID NO ONE IS GOING
TO PUNISH ME BECAUSE I'M RUNNING THANKS.
HENCE, NO ONE IS GOING
TO PUNISH YOU FOR DOING THE SAME EXACT THING.
AND IT'S NO
SURPRISE THAT IT TURNS OUT A LOT OF THEM DID THAT SAME THING,
INCLUDING ERIC BOLLING WITH THE PENIS PICTURES, NOW HE'S OUT.
I'VE TOLD THE KIDS, THE PENIS PICTURES, MEN, WE SEND THESE
PENIS PICTURES THINKING IT TURNS WOMEN ON, IT'S RIDICULOUS.
WOMEN
ARE TURNED ON BY THAT, BUT BOLLING IS HOT AND HEAVY SO HE
STARTS TO THINK THIS WILL DRIVE HER NUTS.
AND IT DROVE HIM TO
THE EXIT.
I DON'T LIKE ANY PART OF THIS.
THAT IS ABOUT THE MOST LEWD THING -- THERE'S NO
RATIONALIZING THAT.
I'M HOPING ONE SIDE EFFECT OF ERIC BOLLING LEAVING FOX NEWS IS
THAT WE NEVER AGAIN HAVE TO SAY OR HEAR THE PHRASE ERIC BOLLING
WAS HOT AND HEAVY.
IT'S AMAZING THEY THINK IT WORKS.
I WONDER IF IT HAS EVER
WORKED.
I COULD SEE IT WORKING IN THE CONTEXT -- DON'T TAKE
THIS THE WRONG WAY, YOU MIGHT, I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T SAY IT, BUT
I'M ABOUT TO --
I ALREADY DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT.
IN THE CONTEXT OF GRINDR PERHAPS IT WORKS.
BECAUSE IF YOU SENT PICTURES OF BOOBS TO GUYS IT WOULD WORK.
MEN ARE DIFFERENT.
MEN ARE WIRED DIFFERENTLY.
BUT FOR WOMEN, HAS IT EVER BEEN
LIKE, OH, THIS GUY AT WORK SENT ME HIS PENIS, AND IT LOOKS
REALLY PRETTY.
EVEN THOUGH I HAD NOT THOUGHT OF IT BEFORE, I'M
GOING TO GO FOR THIS JUST ON THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF THIS PENIS
ALONE.
I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT HAS EVER WORKED IN HUMAN HISTORY.
HE MUST MOISTURIZE.
DON'T SEND PICTURES OF YOUR ERECTION TO ANYBODY.
THAT GOES OUT TO ALL THE REMAINING MALE HOSTS AT FOX
NEWS, AS A GENERAL RULE.
I KNOW YOU THINK IT'S FUNNY, GUTFELD.
DON'T DO IT.