Former Fox News star and current prime-time host on The First streaming network Bill O’Reilly made a bold prediction about what is going to happen to MSNBC in the very near future while also claiming that two of the network’s hosts, “Morning Joe” Scarborough and wife Mike Brzezinski, were “ordered” by their bosses to go try to “mend fences” with President-elect Donald Trump last week.
O’Reilly made his remarks during an appearance with former CNN host Chris Cuomo on NewsNation, where he now has a program. “Joe and Mika were ordered to go to Mar-a-Lago by Comcast, the parent company out of Philadelphia. They didn’t just show up. And Trump says, “This is great, here they come to kiss my you-know-what, we’ll get photo-ops,” which they did. But Comcast said you two were going to have to try to mend some fences, you’re going to go in there and try to tamp it down. because Comcast knew the next day they were going to announce that MSNBC is vapor. That is a huge media story,” he said.
Cuomo countered that it only appears as though Comcast is “spinning off” MSNBC, as they are several other brands, but O’Reilly isn’t buying it. “There’s no spin-off… See, you buy the propaganda, Cuomo. See what I mean? Why would you believe what’s being reported? If you want the real story, here it comes. They’re ‘uncoupling,’ their word — Comcast — MSNBC from NBC News. That means MSNBC has no resources at all. None. They’re not going to be able to pay these people millions of dollars, Rachel Maddow, whatever she’s making.”
Continuing, O’Reilly said, “NBC News is saying we don’t want you around. Why? Because NBC News’ numbers, Lester Holt and the Today Show, are catastrophic because half the country equates NBC News with MSNBC and they won’t watch. So NBC is desperately trying to save the mothership of information, and they have to throw MSNBC overboard.
“They’re not putting anything into MSNBC. They want to sell it. So where is George Soros? He’s buying radio stations, you can get MSNBC for nothing. They’ll give it to you. They don’t want any more of this. Why? Because it is hateful. Not because it is so far left — the whole NBC/Comcast hierarchy is far left. But it is hateful. They hate Trump, they hate people who voted for Trump. Everybody knows that,” he added, before making another prediction about ABC’s “The View,” which features some of the most far-left personalities on broadcast television.
“And you know what’s next? The View. ABC is going to have to cut ties with The View. And you saw that today or yesterday when Sonny Hostin had to read a legal statement in the middle of a segment. The lawyers got in Whoopi Goldberg’s ear and said, ‘We’re bringing a statement in on a teleprompter.’ She reads it.
So it is over for these far-left networks. Done, never coming back. Dracula’s stake in the heart. Who benefits? NewsNation may, but CNN, which is on the ropes too, will probably get some MSNBC viewers,” O’Reilly said.
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