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jadedog  ·  2781 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It is now official. Bill O’Reilly has been fired by Fox News.

    My bet is he goes independent and grabs some of the youtubers to start a channel. That or briebart hires him and starts a video news service.

I've heard this from several youtubers, but I'm having a hard time imagining it. I don't get the sense that O'Reilly had a passion for his message. I think he had a passion for the power it gave him to deliver that message.

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It's hard to imagine youtubers going along with this kind of hostile behavior. Without the power of a network behind him, people are more likely to laugh at these kinds of antics on a youtube crew.

As other people have noted, O'Reilly's message is less attention-grabbing when the President of the US has already co-opted it.