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Eric Bolling Is A Dick ► Fox “News” Snark

UPDATE: Eric “Bully Boy” Bolling has now been suspended from Fox “News” pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Earlier story:


Uh oh! News broke overnight that Eric “Bully Boy” Bolling — who does double-duty on Fox “News” as pugilist and racist — has been sending out dick pics.

Like, Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly before him, Bolling may not be employed by the mendacious Trump-supporting network much longer. Not to belabour the point (because I’ve got other stuff to say below) HufPo has the goods, which has now been picked up by many news orgs:

Recipients of the photo confirmed its contents to HuffPost, which is not revealing their identities. The women, who are Bolling’s current and former Fox colleagues, concluded the message was from him because they recognized his number from previous work-related and informal interactions. The messages were sent several years ago, on separate occasions.

The women did not solicit the messages, which they told colleagues were deeply upsetting and offensive. One of the recipients said that when she replied to Bolling via text, telling him never to send her such photos again, he did not respond. Four people, outside of the recipients, confirmed to HuffPost they’d seen the photo, and eight others said the recipients had spoken to them about it.

For this story, HuffPost spoke to 14 sources in and out of Fox News and Fox Business, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity either because they currently work at the networks and aren’t allowed to speak to members of the press without prior authorization or because they have confidentiality agreements with Fox News and its parent company 21st Century Fox.

You’d think if Bully Boy sent out such pictures, he’d remember. And, if he didn’t send any, he’d remember that, too. But…

When asked whether Bolling at any point had sent unsolicited lewd or inappropriate text messages or emails (including an image of a man’s genitalia) to Fox News or Fox Business colleagues, his attorney Michael J. Bowe responded, “Mr. Bolling recalls no such inappropriate communications, does not believe he sent any such communications, and will vigorously pursue his legal remedies for any false and defamatory accusations that are made.”

The weird formulation “does not believe he sent any such communication” is not exactly a full-throated denial, is it? Oh! And, he’s lawyered

No matter. It’s just more proof Bully Boy is a walking dick, welcome to sue me for all those times I’ve written about him. However, he’ll never read this because the coward blocked me long ago.

IRONY ALERT!!! As my former-employer NewsHounds points out:

Oh, and wouldn’t you just know that Bolling has been an outspoken critic of fellow dick-pic dick, Anthony Weiner? Just a few months ago, as HuffPost noted, Bolling told his Fox News Specialists cohosts that Mr. Weiner is “a sick human being” who seems “pathological.”

This reporter has been writing Fox “News” criticism for 9 years. From this vantage point I predict that Bolling’s firing, if that comes to pass — and why wouldn’t it? — will be the final calving of what was once the monolithic Fox “News” iceberg.

Two years ago I identified the first public fissures. While there had always been rumours of tension between various personalities behind the scenes, it broke out into the open soon after Emperor Trump descended the Golden Escalator — to mix among the proletariat he never took notice of before. He had yet had to mesmerize the GOP to cinch the nomination and before the Basket of Deplorables flipped the bird to Lady Liberty and put this tweeting charlatan into the Offal Orifice. With the help of the Russians, of course.

Bolling was one of Trump’s earliest brown-nosers and a self-proclaimed personal friend. All the way back in June of 2015, on The Five (which I predicted wouldn’t last), Bully Boy was (as he always does) trying to normalize Trump’s crazy speeches. That’s when “Butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth” Perino slapped him for his unbelievable Trump-kissing.

Then they moved on, like they always do on The Five, just when the infighting is getting good. Watch the whole thing [because it’s such a wonderful Trump Time Capsule™ from just 2 years ago], but the money shot starts at the 8:26 mark if you want to skip ahead:

See how quickly they moved on? Was that an edit, or just a clever call from the Control Room? QUICK!!! ROLL TAPE!!! We report, you decide.

While they may have moved on, their individual audiences never did. From the very next day — virtually immediately — I noticed snarking between Bully Boy Bros and the Perino Pixies on various comment threads. The sniping over the next several weeks became rather viscous before it settled down. Not that the feelings ever went away. However, this was the earliest Trumpian fissure I can identify.

Since then there’s been a lot of changes at Fox, many of which had Trumpian undercurrents due to “pussy grabbing” in the corporate offices of ‘Merka’s self-proclaimed cultural scold: Ailes out. Then dead. O’Reilly out. Still alive. Meggy gone (and now flaming out). Van Susteren gone (and gone again). Subsequent programming changes. The Five moves to 9PM. Bully Boy Bolling moves to The Specialists at 5pm. There he and his 2 female co-hosts invite people totally out of their depth to opine on the news of the day. Those extra fools are the titular “specialists.” Yeah, I know. But that’s the truth. The Specialists begins to sink in the ratings after Day One. But, more importantly for my thesis, Bolling’s fans (on comment threads) have been sniping at co-hosts Katherine Timpf and Eboni Williams. And, vice versa. More fissures.

Naturally, this will all be labeled FAKE NEWS by True Trump Believers, who are also Bolling Believers. That is right up until the public release of the dick pics (ala Anthony Weiner) and/or Bully Boy Bolling no longer has a Bully Pulpit for Emperor Bully Trump. Then the real Fox “News” internecine war will begin.

Pass the popcorn!!!

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, November 16, 2014

Hello again, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to W.C. Handy, Father of the Blues. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

Hoover’s letter to MLK

POST RACIAL ‘MERKA:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

TODAY IN RELIGION:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, October 12, 2014

Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to James “Sugar Boy” Crawford, whose name may not be familiar, but his song Jock-A-Mo is immediately recognizable, covered by Dr. John, Cyndi Lauper, The Grateful Dead, and The Dixie Cups, among many others. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

SCOTUS WATCH:

GOP WATCH:

CYBER-BULLYING:

WATERGATE REDUX:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

FREE THE WEED!!!

IN MUSIC NEWS:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Kelly Invents Contradiction Between Obama
Calling Attack “Act Of Terror” And Panetta
Saying Terrorists Were Involved In The Attack

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, October 5, 2014

Hello Headline hunters! Today’s birthday belongs to Elva Miller, who, as Mrs. Miller, warbled on variety shows all through the ’60s. She knew all about the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

OUR WIRED WORLD:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE TARANTULA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE FIVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BOB BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

JIM CROW AT FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Hey there, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Marc Bolan, who tragically died in a car crash much too young. Sadly, he became one of the headlines of yesteryear, on September 16, 1977:

Whew! Now here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR TODAY:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

“If Obama decides to run again (against US law)
or declares a National Emergency to suspend
elections in 2016, what will our Democrat sheriff do?”

TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

The social networks we already have are not
giving us what we want. We’re turning to the
new thing because it’s new, not because it’s good

COMEDIANS IN THE NEWS ATTACKING FOX “NEWS” AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ELISABETH SCHICKELGRUBER IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

TUCKER FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

JUDGE JEANINE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

Like finding a molecular needle in a cosmic haystack, astronomers have detected radio waves emitted by isopropyl cyanide.

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, September 28, 2014

Hello again, Headliners! Today’s birthday is celebrated by Ben R. King, singer with The Drifters. He’s seen more than his share of Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Today’s Headlines Du Jour is fortified with far more Fox “News” tomfoolery than usual because they were bigger idiots than usual:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

TODAY IN RELIGION:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

THE FAKE NEWS SHOWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:


THE FAKE FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

SEAN HANNITY AND DANA PERINO IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE TARANTULA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Andrea Tantaros: “He Was One Of The Most
Divisive, Polarizing, Controversial, Most
Dangerous Men In America … He Ran The
DOJ Much Like The Black Panthers Would”

WRETCHED GRETCHED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

OUTNUMBERED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

NEIL CAVUTO IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

New data suggest the poles could be reversing for the
first time in 780,000 years. Here’s how it affects you

IN OUTER SPACE:

A dramatic recent “discovery”
in physics is looking rather dodgy

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, September 25, 2014

Hello, Headliners! Today’s the birthday of poet, children’s author, cartoonist, and singer- songwriter Shel Silverstein. He saw his share of Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

A priest and bishop in Montana say
that’s the only way two gay men
who are lifelong Catholics can have
their church privileges restored.

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE FIVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Blackwater’s Erik Prince: Mercenaries Are
As “Part Of American History As Apple Pie”
Krauthammer: “Do You Really Want To Be Running Around
The World Responsible For A Band Of Desperados?”

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, September 21, 2014

Howdy Headliners!!! Today is the last full day of Summer and the birthday of Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, novelist and singer. Born in 1934, he’s seen his number of Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Now here is today”s Headlines Du Jour:

IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

What should happen to weed users and dealers busted before the stuff was legal?

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Varney: Generous “Welfare
Web” Keeps People In A “Gilded Cage”

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

WRETCHED GRETCHED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, September 14, 2014

Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith, better known to Jazz fans as Stuff Smith., violinist extraordinaire. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

THE SPERM WARS:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

The media monitoring service — used by MSNBC,
among others — is found to be transformative
Loofah Lad showing no self-awareness whatsoever

FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

No longer preggy leggy Meggy showing
off her journalistic credentials…again.

NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Tucker Fucker Carlson showing
off his journalistic credentials

TUCKER FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BOB BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bully Boy Bolling showing
off his journalistic credentials

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Greg Gutfeld showing off
his journalistic credentials

GREG GUTFELD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE TARANTULA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Sean Hannity showing off
his journalistic credentials

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, September 7, 2014

Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Charles Hardin Holley, better known as Buddy Holly, a Founding Father of Rock and Roll who was there when the music died. He lived thru’ quite a few Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Here are today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Because they’re too busy being racist, sexist, and homophobic.

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly: “I’m Saying There’s No White Privilege; There Must Be Asian Privilege”
Bill O’Reilly’s attempts to use the success of Asian Americans to
shame African Americans is shameful and historically illiterate.

NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE TARANTULA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:


◄◄◄ From NewsHounds ► ► ►
The Aunty Em Ericann Files

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IN OUTER SPACE:

Although gloomy for now, dense pockets of material within clouds such as Lupus 4 are where new stars form and where they will later burst into radiant life.

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