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Media Predators Never Die; They Just Get Recycled

Manny Otiko
4 min readJun 30, 2021

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Newsmax is turning into a retirement home for sexual harassers

Sexual predator and racist Eric Bolling was fired from FOX News. He was recently hired by Newsmax. (Gage Skidmore/Wikipedia)

What does it take to get permanently fired from network news when you’re a white, conservative male? Apparently, nothing if you get good ratings. I’ve written reams about the nauseating Tucker Carlson of Fox News Channel (FNC.) Carlson is a neo-Nazi conspiracy theory who’s currently beefing with the NSA. He’s also repeated the Great Replacement anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and recently called Gen. Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs, “stupid” and “a pig.”|

But Lachlan Murdoch, FOX News CEO, won’t fire him because of this behavior.

Sean Hannity, another top-rated FOX News propagandist, pointed a loaded gun at co-worker Juan Williams and faced no punishment. As long as the ratings are good, Carlson and Hannity can get away with anything.

An orgy of sexual misconduct

However, FOX News does discipline some staff members. Lou Dobbs, a notorious conspiracy theorist, was fired last year — but he had a low-rated show…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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