Bill O’Reilly finally weighed in on the ongoing feud between LeBron James and Fox News host Laura Ingraham, decrying the “anti-Laura Ingraham pile on” that followed her remarks about the NBA star.
Ingraham called out LeBron on her primetime show this week — after the Cleveland Cavaliers player criticized President Donald Trump — demanding he “shut up and dribble.”
That precipitated a predictable backlash, with James dismissing Ingraham and some even casting her comments as racist.
O’Reilly defended the host at his former network, however, arguing in a tweet that criticizing LeBron’s “political punditry” is fair game:
O’Reilly also suggested that LeBron read his personal blog, BOR.com, “to see what cogent commentary on the awful Florida shooting looks like.”
O’Reilly was dumped from Fox News — where he reigned as the king of primetime cable news for years — after it was revealed that Fox News had settled a number of lawsuits by women who claimed he had sexually harassed them. Since his ousting in April 2017, O’
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