Fox News star Bill O'Reilly was released from Fox News today after allegations of sexual harassment started investigations. Sean tells his audience that he doesn't have any real information on O'Reilly's downfall, but he does know there is a target on the back of many of those on the right and Sean's prepared to defend against those attacks.
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A lot of you want to hear from me about what has been going on at the Fox News Channel. And I really, honestly and truly don't have any insight that I can offer you above and beyond that which is being reported. And you say, well, Hannity, how's that possible. You work there, You've been working there twenty one and a half years. You know, the answer is, I don't know the nature of the allegations. I'm not aware of whether they're true or not as it relates to Bill O'Reilly. Um. And here's something that probably will surprise a lot of you. I do most of my work every day across the street from the Fox News Channel. I I don't pay a lot of attention to other people's hours because I'd like to get my hour the way I want to get it every night, and that is to put the best news and information programming in the most entertaining way on the air for all of you. UM. So, if you're asking, you know, do I have any particular insight is to what it happened. No, I don't know. Um, I don't know the nature of all of this. I don't know the accuracy of the accusations. I don't know what was discovered in the investigation. Nobody ever talked to me. I maybe see Bill O'Reilly once a year, and we weren't particularly close in the time that we've been there. Our hours have always been very different, and we just, you know, I just don't see the guy. And maybe that surprises a lot of you. Two. Um, he would take a show earlier in the day, and and for most of the years I've been a Fox I do a live program. So what does it mean for the Fox News Channel? I I don't know. I know that my show is not going to change. I know that I've read a lot online and even a New York Times reporter suggesting, Wow, this could be it for Hannity. Now, there is a an environment that I think we do need to discuss, and that is the ironman of it's worth. Like in politics, I've I've often argued we're criminalizing political differences. There is an environment and I've told you about this for years that all of us in radio and television work in now and there's a reason all these years I've never supported Boycott's and I've been asked by many fellow conservatives over the years, and we want you to support our boycott, and my answer is always the same, it's no. And the answer is because boycotts, more often than not, are gonna be used against conservatives, and it's a weapon that's used that if they can attack people's advertisers and financially a show takes a hit and it's not as financially viable, then there is a a greater likelihood that that voice of that individual can be silenced. Now they're legitimate boycott's. I guess there are. Um, I don't participate in them because I believe at the end of the day, conservatives will be victimized by the use of the more often than liberals. So, but the environment is this, And just so you know and are keenly aware, I guess somebody wrote me the Glenn Beck said today, well, Hannity's next. Well, I mean, if it's true, Um whatever, I don't it's news to me. I don't know where that's coming from, or where the New York Times guy is coming from, but I do know politically, there are lots of people on the left that would love to see me gone and love to have my voice silenced. And I have known this my entire career. And I have conducted myself accordingly with that full knowledge and understanding. I have known for years and years on this program that there are people that are paid, literally paid to monitor every word I say three hours a day every day on radio, and monitor every word I say on the Fox News Channel, and monitor every comment I make on any other show that I might happen to appear on. And I know what their hope is. Their hope in their prayer is that that I might say one word, one phrase, one sentence, make one sentiment that is deemed politically incorrect by them, and then they could use that as an ability to either a attack my advertisers or to be just get me outright fired. And so that is you know, does it stifle my freedom of speech? No, it really doesn't. There's nothing that I think that I want to say that I don't convey to you. You know, sometimes am I careful in choosing the right words to say and convey exactly what I want to say and convey to you? Yeah? I understand the nature of the environment that we're living in, But this it's kind of chilling. You know, how many years have I said on this program that for as much as I despise Bill Maher. Bill Maher in many ways is good for America. And you say, Hannity, how could you say that? I hate that guy because he kind of says anything he wants and he gets away with it, and sometimes it shocks people and sometimes it annoys people. But if he can get away with saying anything he wants, that, I think conservatives Cannon should be allowed to say the things that they want. I'm just telling you all of this because A. I don't have any more details to share. I don't know. I've not talked to Bill O'Reilly. I don't know him that well. I haven't seen him very often in the last twenty one years. It's we would never really particularly close. UM. Without giving a lot of details away. I mean, there's there's nothing here. Just I do my show, He does his show. That's basically what it came down to. And I had no feelings whatsoever any way for him. UM. I think it's hard for anybody to go out like this. UM. Does he deserve And Willie at some point be given a platform to maybe give his side of the store. I guess he will be, and I think that's fair. And will he show up at another network at some point. I don't know. I actually probably tend to doubt it, But from my standpoint, I'm just I think it's important we all understand what's going on here too. There is a battle, a conflict, and those of us that give news and information, and we're so separated from the left wing, all left propaganda, destroy Trump media. There's nothing more than leftists would want to do than to silence every single, at least effective conservative voice that they can. And I do believe you need to understand the environment that we work in every day. And that would be me. That would be anybody on the Fox News Channel. Frankly, that would be Mark Levin, thank me, I'll say it. Nobody else will say it. That would be Rush Limbaugh. That would be Glenn Beck, that would be Laura Ingram, that would be any of us that do this for a living.