ANOTHER QUESTION HERE IS,
WHERE WILL HE GO?
OPTION ONE, CAVE.
[LAUGHTER] OPTION TWO, ANOTHER TV STATION.
>>HAS CNN ALREADY TRIED TO HIRE HIM?
>>I WOULD SAY THAT THE CHANCE OF HIM GETTING HIRED BY ANOTHER
NETWORK IS REALLY LOW, GIVEN THE SIGNIFICANT ALLEGATIONS AGAINST
HIM, GIVEN THE FACT THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU WILL LOSE
ADVERTISERS IMMEDIATELY.
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THEY CARE MOST
ABOUT, NEXT TO CORPORATE PARENTS ADVERTISERS ARE THE SECOND
BIGGEST PRIORITY FOR THESE TV STATIONS.
ON THE OTHER HAND, CNN
WILL HIRE A MOST ANYBODY.
THEY HIRED THE MOST GROTESQUE PEOPLE
FROM THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN -- THE NEW YORK TIMES, EVEN, GUYS WHO
TOTALLY MAKE UP STUFF ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, I NEED
CONSERVATIVES SO EVEN THOUGH I'M THE NEW YORK TIMES I WILL LET
PEOPLE LIE ON MY PAGES TO PROVE HOW NEUTRAL I AM.
WILL SOMEONE
WANT TO PROVE HOW NEUTRAL THEY ARE BY HIRING THIS MONSTER?
MAYBE.
UNLIKELY, BUT MAYBE.
>>YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT WHAT SEEMS RIDICULOUS RIGHT NOW, THE
IDEA OF CNN HIRING HIM -- WE HAVE SEEN EXAMPLES WHERE
SOMEBODY GOES AWAY FOR LIKE SIX MONTHS, THEN IT'S LIKE, I KIND
OF ONLY VAGUELY FUZZILY REMEMBER THEY DID SOMETHING BAD.
I'M NOT
COMPARING WHAT HE DID TO BRIAN WILLIAMS, BUT BRIAN WILLIAMS
WENT AWAY FOR LIKE A YEAR, MAYBE LESS, IT'S TERRIBLE, BRIAN
WILLIAMS IS THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD, THEN EIGHT MONTHS
LATER, HE DID SOMETHING BAD, BUT NOW WE WILL GIVE HIM THE 11
O'CLOCK SPOT -- THE QUESTION IS LIKE SIX MONTHS FROM NOW WHEN
YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING FROM O'REILLY, WILL CNN PUT HIM ON AS
A CONTRIBUTOR?
WITH THE YOUNG TURKS PUT HIM ON?
I'M KIDDING.
>>OPTION NUMBER THREE.
>>IF I WERE HIM, I THINK THE BEST OPTION FOR HIM IS TO TAKE
THE GLENN BECK ROUTE AND ESTABLISH SOMETHING
INDEPENDENT, HE CAN IN SOME ADVERTISERS WHO STILL LIKE
HIM, HE CAN SELL GOLD OR DISASTER SEEDS OR SOMETHING
LIKE THAT, MAKE A BUNCH OF MONEY.
>>I THINK THAT'S WHAT GOT HIM IN TROUBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE,
DISASTER SEEDS.
>>HE DOESN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT HE SAYS, THERE IS STILL
STUPID CONSERVATIVE MONEY TO BE THROWN AT THAT VENTURE.
IT'S NOT
NECESSARILY PERMANENT, HE COULD TURN THAT BACK INTO THE
MAINSTREAM MEDIA, AND THAT'S EASY TO SET UP.
I THINK THAT IS MOST LIKELY.
>>OPTION FOUR, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
>>THERE IS AN OPTION FOUR THAT YOU ALLUDED TO.
OPTION TWO WAS
CABLE NETWORK, I AGREE THAT OFTENTIMES WITH WELL-KNOWN
PEOPLE THERE IS A MOMENT OF PROBATION, A TIMEOUT, BUT THEY
ARE LIKE, LET'S KEEP IT REAL, AFTER YOU SERVE YOUR TIMEOUT YOU
CAN COME BACK IN DOING SOMETHING OUT.
WITH O'REILLY THAT MIGHT BE TOXIC.
>>SOME GUYS LIKE ANTHONY WEINER CAN'T COME BACK.
>>BILL O'REILLY IS NOT IN THEIR COCKTAIL CIRCUIT, WITH
O'REILLY I THINK IT IS TOUGHER, FOR HIM TO BE A CONTRIBUTOR IS A
STEP DOWN.
OPTION C, STARTING YOUR OWN ONLINE STUFF, A NUMBER
OF PROBLEMS.
NUMBER ONE, THE AVERAGE AGE OF HIS AUDIENCE, I'M
NOT KIDDING ABOUT THIS, 72 YEARS OLD.
>>THAT WAS A FEW YEARS AGO.
>>NOW IT MIGHT BE 74.
FOR YOU TO FIND THAT 72-YEAR-OLD AUDIENCE
ONLINE, WHERE?
ON YOUTUBE?
GOOD LUCK, BROTHER.
PLEASE COME
COMPETE WITH US ONLINE, BILL.
IT WOULD BE A WONDERFUL DEMOLITION
OF BILL O'REILLY.
I WOULD LOVE TO EMBARRASS HIM ONLINE.
>>WHAT ABOUT SIRIUS?
SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
>>WHAT ABOUT A RUN FOR THE SENATE IN NEW YORK?
>>THAT'S OPTION FOUR AGAIN.
>>MINE IS OPTION D, WE ARE SWITCHING BACK AND FORTH.
>>IN TERMS OF ONLINE RADIO, HE HAD A BIG RADIO SHOW AND IT
SUCKED, IT FARED VERY POORLY AND HE GOT KILLED BY RUSH LIMBAUGH.
IT EVENTUALLY GOT CANCELED FOR POOR RATINGS.
EVEN ON DEEPLY
CONSERVATIVE STATIONS, HE STILL GOT MAULED.
ONLINE IS COMICAL.
I
HOPE HE MAKES THAT MISTAKE.
THESE GUYS DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY
ARE DOING.
GLENN BECK CAME IN, I WILL CONQUER ONLINE, AND MOST OF
WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK STILL BELIEVED GLENN BECK WHEN HE MADE
UP THESE FANTASTICAL NUMBERS ABOUT HOW MANY SUBSCRIBERS HE
HAD, NOBODY HAS VERIFIED IT, HE MAKES IT UP AFTER BEING ON HIS
GYROSCOPE, NOW THERE ARE FINALLY REPORTS OUT, IT TURNS OUT HE'S
AN IDIOT AND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING, O'REILLY I DOUBT
WE'LL DO THAT.
DAVID IS ONTO SOMETHING.
COULD HE RUN FOR
OFFICE?
TRUMP IS A SERIAL SEXUAL-HARASSER AND IS
PRESIDENT.
BRAND NAME IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN
POLITICS.
NEW YORK WOULD BE TOUGH, BUT IF YOU MOVE DOWN WHEREVER --
>>IN NEW YORK THAT REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DESPERATE FOR ANYBODY,
THEY WERE THE ONES WHO BACKED CARL PALADINO, WHO WAS WAY OUT
THERE.
IF YOU ARE THE NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY, HEY, WE GOT AN
OPEN SHOT FOR GOVERNOR AND FOR THE SENATE, BILL O'REILLY, YOU
ARE FAMOUS, YOU HAVE SOME MONEY AND YOU COULD GET ATTENTION.
I
DON'T KNOW, CRAZIER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED.
FOR INSTANCE, DONALD TRUMP BECOMING PRESIDENT.
WHO KNOWS?
>>NEW YORK REPUBLICAN PARTY'S SLOGAN IS, AS WE KNOW, WE WILL
DO ANYTHING.
PLUS THEN ANDREW CUOMO WILL MAKE A DEAL WITH US.
YOU MENTIONED IT EARLIER, DAVID, REPLACED SEAN SPICER?
HE DOES
HAVE ONE FRIEND IN A HIGH PLACE, THAT IS DONALD TRUMP.
DONALD
TRUMP WON'T BE DISSUADED BY ANY OF THIS, HE IS SQUARELY IN BILL
O'REILLY'S CORNER.
>>THE PROBLEM WITH THIS IS YOU RISK BECOMING A BIGGER SHOW
THAN DONALD TRUMP.
IF YOU ARE TRUMP, I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT THE SHOW TO BE
BIGGER THAN ME.
>>PLUS HE IS LOOKING AT THE PATH SEAN SPICER HAS HAD, HE'S BEEN A
LAUGHINGSTOCK.
I DON'T KNOW WHY IF YOU ARE BILL O'REILLY YOU
WOULD WANT TO STEP INTO THAT.
A POSITION WHERE YOU FACE HUGE
PUSHBACK FROM THE MEDIA, MOCKED ROUNDLY IN THE PRESS, WHAT IS
THE UPSIDE?
THERE'S NO POWER.
>>THAT WILLIE BE BACK TO OPTION ONE IN A SECOND, BUT I'M AMUSED
BY THE IDEA OF HIM GOING TO WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFINGS,
TALKING POINTS SAYS --
>>WHAT ABOUT WHEN HE TRIES TO CUT PEOPLE'S MICS?
>>TRUMP WOULD LIKE THAT.
BACK TO OPTION ONE, I THINK IF YOU ARE
BILL O'REILLY, CAVE IS A GOOD OPTION.
DUDE, YOU HAVE AN
UNGODLY SUM OF MONEY, BY NOW HE HAS ACCUMULATED WELL OVER 100
MILLION.
TAKE A LOAD OFF.
SPEAKING OF CAVES, YOU WILL
STILL HAVE YOUR CAVEMAN AUDIENCE, EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE
YOU CAN DO A SPEECH AND THEY WILL GO OOK, OOK, WE STILL LIKE
BILL.
>>WRITE MORE BOOKS ABOUT PEOPLE DYING.
>>KILLING MYSELF.
DON'T DO THAT, BILL.
>>IS HE MARRIED?
HE GOT DIVORCED.
>>VERY PUBLICLY DISGRACED.
>>WAS THAT THE LOOFAH THING?
>>THAT WAS AMONG THE ISSUES.
HE STILL KEPT HARASSING PEOPLE
AFTER THE DIVORCE.
BOTTOM LINE, BILL, YOU HAVE UNJUSTLY MADE
OVER $100 MILLION.
CALL IT A DAY.
WE ARE DONE WITH YOU, AND
JUST DRIFT OFF INTO THE SUNSET BECAUSE ANY ATTEMPT AT A
COMEBACK WILL BE DEEPLY EMBARRASSING, I GUARANTEE IT FOR
YOU. AND IN FACT I WILL HELP TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
OR MAKE OUR
DAY, TRY TO COME BACK.