The Plot Thickens: Conservative Host Eric Bolling is Suspended by Fox News

American Thinker.com ^ | August 6, 2017 | Peter Barry Chowka

[Kaslin]

One-by-one, key players at Fox News are being taken out by allegations that remain untested in any judicial proceedings. On Friday evening August 4 at 8:23 PM, an article was published at HuffPost: “Fox News Host Sent Unsolicited Lewd Text Messages To Colleagues, Sources Say.” The article had obviously been in preparation for some time, since it included a statement from Bolling’s attorney defending his client. The host is Eric Bolling, 54, a friend of President Donald Trump, and a defender of the president in his role as a prominent anchor and co-host on the Fox News channel (FNC).

Friday night, after seeing the HuffPost article, which was also mass distributed by Yahoo News, FNC executives, according to a Fox News spokesperson, decided that Bolling’s weekly half hour Saturday morning FNC show Cashin’ In, that had already been pre-recorded as usual on Friday, would not be shown. A live news broadcast was substituted instead. On Saturday, an FNC spokesperson issued a terse statement: “Eric Bolling has been suspended pending the results of an investigation, which is currently underway.” Later Saturday afternoon, an FNC spokesperson emailed me with this additional information.

Paul, Weiss is conducting the investigation.

Rotating substitute hosts will be in place on The Specialists (weekdays/5pm) and Cashin In' (Saturdays at 11:30am).

After the suspension was announced, Bolling’s attorney Michael J. Bowe defended his client in an email, according to the AP:

[Kaslin]

They just want to destroy Fox News, and many here on FR are going right along with it.

BTW it's Bret Baier, not Baer.

[Ms Mable]

BEEP...BEEP!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-host-eric-bolling-215158555.html

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