Eric Bolling has joined a growing list of Fox News talking heads to take a fall because of sexual harassment allegations.
I believe it’s a fair point to ask here what others in other forums have asked already: Is there some kind of corporate culture at Fox that promotesĀ — or perhaps condones — this kind of thing?
I’m going to go easy on Bolling, whose son has just died suddenly. The man is hurting.
But we’ve had the late Roger Ailes resign as the head man at Fox News in the wake of sexual harassment charges brought against him by the likes of former anchor Gretchan Carlson.
Then the big fish got caught on the sexual harassment hook: Bill O’Reilly was shown the door, again after sexual harassment charges were leveled against the prime-time star. Bill O denied any wrongdoing, even though he — and Fox — shelled out tens of millions of dollars in out-of-court settlements.
I don’t watch Fox as a rule, not because of the sexual harassment allegations, but because of its right-wing political slant, which I find objectionable.
However, I am a fan of at least a couple of the network’s shining stars: Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith both manage to seek and tell the truth reasonably and without outward bias.
I also used to be a huge fan of the late Tony Snow, with whom I was acquainted. I loved a story that Snow once told me about his “mission every Sunday” while he hosted “Fox News Sunday” was to get commentators Brit Hume and Juan Williams — who Snow described as his best friend at the network — to “get into a fight” on the air.
Well, that was then.
The here and now has the network reeling from yet another high-profile talking head tumbling out the door.
Sad, man. Sad.