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Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said Wednesday evening that Comcast was tossing MSNBC "overboard" to save the reputation and ratings of NBC News.
Comcast announced it was spinning off multiple cable networks, including the left-wing news channel that featured hosts Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Nicolle Wallace and Lawrence O'Donnell Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. O'Reilly asserted that MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were "ordered" to visit President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago because executives planned to announce the spinoff.
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"There's no spinoff," O'Reilly told Cuomo during a back and forth.
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"So, they are uncoupling their word, Comcast MSNBC from NBC News. That means MSNBC has no resources at all. None. They're not gonna be able to pay these people millions of dollars, Rachel Maddow, whatever she's making. NBC News is saying, 'We don't want you around.' Why? Because NBC News' numbers, Lester Holt and 'The TODAY Show' are catastrophe because half the country acquaints NBC News with MSNBC and they won't watch," O'Reilly told Cuomo. "So NBC is desperately trying to save the mother ship of information and they have to throw MSNBC overboard. They're not putting anything into MSNBC. They want to sell it. So where's Georgie Soros now? Georgie is buying radio stations. You can get MSNBC for nothing. They'll give it to you. They don't want any more of this."
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"And you know what's next? 'The View.' ABC News is gonna have to cut ties with 'The View.' And you saw that today or yesterday when Sunny Hostin had to read a legal statement in the middle of a segment. The lawyers got in her in Whoopi Goldberg's ear and said, 'We're bringing a statement in on a teleprompter,' she reads it," O'Reilly said. "So it is over for these far-left networks, done, never coming back, Dracula's stake in the heart. Who benefits? NewsNation may. But CNN, which is on the ropes too, will probably get some MSNBC viewers. There you go."