‘It Is Over’: Bill O’Reilly Makes Bleak Prediction For ‘The View’

Former Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly predicted on Wednesday that ABC is coming to a crossroads about what to do about “The View,” and it’s not going to end well for the five mostly far-left hosts.

Appearing on NewsNation, O’Reilly chastised Chris Cuomo for buying NBC’s explanation that the network will “spin off” MSNBC into a healthy, standalone media company of its own, complete with a publicly traded share price and board of directors. The announcement on Monday by Comcast, which owns NBC, is a desperate attempt to distance its “mothership” evening news channel with the more liberal — and far less popular — MSNBC. “They’re uncoupling, their word, MSNBC from NBC News. That means MSNBC has no resources at all, none. They’re not going to be able to pay these people millions of dollars, Rachel Maddow, whatever she’s making,” O’Reilly stated.

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He then predicted it won’t be long before ABC makes a similar move to dump “The View,” which has already come under heavy fire for fixating on an anti-Trump narrative that is clearly out of touch with most American voters. By cutting the daytime show loose, ABC News will similarly try to salvage its own mainstream news division. “They hate Trump. They hate people who vote for Trump,” O’Reilly said about the five hosts. “Everybody knows that. And you know what’s next? ‘The View.’ ABC News is going to 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!”

On Tuesday Hostin appeared nonplussed as she stared vacantly into a camera and read off a “legal memo” clarifying that Matt Gaetz has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct and that the Biden Justice Department cleared him of wrongdoing. The disclaimer came after Hostin, Whoopi Goldberg, and other members of the all-female cast crossed the line in badmouthing President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney general.

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Under the terms of their divorce, the new corporation includes the USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and the Golf Channel. Comcast will retain a number of NBCUniversal assets, including the Peacock streaming service, the NBC broadcast network, NBC News and the Bravo cable channel. “The transaction will be structured as a tax-free spin to existing shareholders,” Comcast President Mike Cavanagh said in an internal memo. “While we don’t have a precise timetable for completing the transition, we are estimating that it will take approximately a year.”

The news comes just days after MSNBC’s ratings tanked by 53 percent following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election. During the same three-day period, Fox News’s viewership climbed 61 percent, a “Trump bump” that hasn’t occurred for the liberal network.

For now, ABC appears to be sticking behind “The View.” On Tuesday ABC’s public relations department issued a press release touting the show’s robust audience levels for 10 of the past 11 weeks.

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