When CNN isn’t peddling Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 conspiracy theories or yelling for Trump’s tax returns, or going back to the Russian “hacking” conspiracy theory, it seems CNN is busy trying to take down Bill O’Reilly and get his divorce documents. I don’t like O’Reilly. Never really did. But what the hell is it CNN’s business about O’Reilly’s divorce records? Are they running out of Democrat propaganda on the big Russian conspiracy for tax returns? They must be.
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Just how negative was CNN prepared to go to get Bill O’Reilly fired from Fox News and make it a little easier for Anderson Cooper to score some ratings? The Hollywood Reporter revealed CNN was “extremely close” to going to court to pry into O’Reilly’s divorce records:
It’s also worth considering that if a liberal were the center of attention here, claims about personal behavior in a hostile divorce case might not pass the standards of evidence that “fake news” scolds would demand.
This decision may have less to do with conscience and more to do with the level of difficulty: “If it did, the Time Warner-owned news outlet would have an uphill road ahead, as an appellate court in February affirmed a judge’s decision to keep O’Reilly divorce records secret. In January, moreover, one media lawyer was kicked out of the courtroom for an attempt to pry information loose.”
We can all guess how the liberal media elite would evaluate the situation if Fox News ever tried to dig around into Anderson Cooper’s private life. But somehow, O’Reilly is fair game.
This is a fascinating piece of CNN history, given how much they hated anyone daring to muck around in Bill Clinton’s private life, even when he was using the White House as a haven for sexual harassment. On January 28, 1998, two days after Clinton lied and said “I did not have a sexual relationship with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” CNN aired a special titled Investigating the President: Media Madness? Jeff Greenfield began: