Corona Victims? 'Bah, Humbug' Says Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly may be forgotten, but he's not yet gone and provided a taste this week of why he is so memorably obnoxious.
The 70-year old former talk show personality left Fox News "after it was revealed that several women received financial settlements after claiming he harassed them, said that those who have died of coronavirus were 'on their last legs anyway,'" reported the Daily Mail.
O'Reilly made the comment on Fox News commentator Sean Hannity's radio show on Wednesday when the two were discussing the coronavirus.
Acknowledging that progress is being made with "little steps," he cited the reports that the death projections were going to lower than first thought. "The [US death] projections that you just mentioned are down to 60,000, I don't think it will be that high. 13,000 dead now in the USA.
"Many people who are dying, both here and around the world, were on their last legs anyway."
He then added: "And I don't want to sound callous about that"
"You're gonna get — hold on, you're going to get hammered for that," Hannity told him.
To which O'Reilly replied: "Well, I don't care. I mean, a simple man tells the truth."
Twitter responded in kind: