Bill O’Reilly was once the biggest name on Fox News’ primetime lineup.
He always claimed he was calling balls and strikes.
But Bill O’Reilly turned on Donald Trump for one reason that no one saw coming.
Donald Trump celebrates Jim Acosta leaving CNN
Former CNN host, Jim Acosta, was the embodiment of what journalism had become in the legacy media.
Acosta became famous during President Donald Trump’s first term because he was a Democrat operative masquerading as a journalist.
He clashed with Trump and administration officials at press conferences where he acted like a Democrat partisan.
The Trump White House pulled Acosta’s credentials after he tried to grab the microphone from a staffer at a press conference.
Acosta spent his time on CNN lying about Trump and attacking him, not reporting.
CNN moved him from his morning show to a spot at midnight.
Acosta left CNN after the network put him on in the middle of the night.
Trump blasted him on Truth Social, calling Acosta “one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history” and a “major sleazebag.”
Bill O’Reilly comes to the defense of Jim Acosta
Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly raised eyebrows when he called out Trump and conservatives for celebrating Acosta’s departure from CNN and former Fox News host Neil Cavuto on his No Spin News show.
“A lot of conservatives are happy. They’re dancing on his grave and President Trump did that today,” O’Reilly said. “Okay, the President did that with Neil Cavuto too because Cavuto had no use for Donald Trump. And then Cavuto is booted out of Fox, and Acosta is booted out of CNN.”
Former CNN media reporter, Oliver Darcy, reported that Acosta was pushed out as an attempt to curry favor with Trump.
“What does that say to you?” O’Reilly asked. “Says that Donald Trump has some juice now in the corporations that run the media. But anyway, I don’t like dancing on the graves. I know it’s human nature, but I don’t think it’s a Christian thing to do. And maybe I amend that. I don’t think it’s in accord with Judeo-Christian philosophy.”
O’Reilly admitted that Acosta was biased in his coverage of Trump at CNN.
“He’s not a reporter, he’s a commentator, Acosta,” O’Reilly stated. “And if you hate somebody, then you shouldn’t even mention them, right? Because you can’t comment in a fair way on someone you hate. Does that make sense to everybody? That’s the big problem here. If you hate them — and there are a few people that I despise, but I tell you upfront that I do.”
O’Reilly got this one dead wrong.
Acosta spent the end of his career at CNN as a commentator hosting his own show.
He was the network’s Chief White House Correspondent during the Trump administration when he was supposed to be a straight news journalist.
Instead, he acted like an unhinged partisan activist.
O’Reilly predicted that Acosta would fade away now that he’s off cable news.
“You’re probably not going to see him a lot, and that doesn’t make me happy,” O’Reilly stated. “I don’t want the guy’s life to be destroyed or harmed in any way, even though I believe that he presented himself in an unfair way.”
Bill O’Reilly became famous for no spin, but he gave a spin job for the ages to defend Jim Acosta.
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