O’Reilly Jabs at ‘Another Network’ Who Does ‘Nothing’ but Speculate About Missing Airliner

Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor opened up Friday night with the eponymous host taking a veiled jab at another cable network that allegedly devoted a full hour of programming on Thursday night to “nothing” but speculative analysis of the missing Malaysian airliner.

Shepard Smith updated O’Reilly viewers with the latest information available, including reports that the plane flew erratically, at times a mile above where it should normally be, and that the plane’s satellite link was active for at least 4-5 hours. “Still lost to learn,” Smith cautioned, setting up O’Reilly for a poke at Fox’s rivals:

As you guys may know, we don’t do much speculation here on The Factor. But other news agencies do; guessing about — guessing about — what may have happened. Wasting your time. Last night, an hour — one hour — on another network of nothing. It was amazing. So tonight, we’re going to stick with the facts.

He then interviewed former Federal Aviation Administration official Scott Brenner, asking him, “What do we know for sure?” O’Reilly and his guest spent another five minutes emphasizing “we don’t really know what happened,” carefully dancing around any speculation as to what happened aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Watch below, via Fox:

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