Bill O’Reilly said on Thursday that he regrets not dealing with his left-wing critics in the same way Sean Hannity did because it may have saved his job at Fox News, according to a report.
“In hindsight, Sean did it the right way,” O’Reilly said in an interview on Newsmax TV. “I should’ve done it that way, but I didn’t.”
O’Reilly said that like Hannity, his sponsors were attacked by a “well organized” group.
“Hannity actually fought back. I didn’t. I should have. For reasons that I cannot explain now, I did not,” O’Reilly said.
O’Reilly was fired by Fox News in April after losing half his advertisers amid reports that five women received $13 million in payouts over allegations of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior.
Sean Hannity, a long-standing Fox News host, was recently attacked when left-wing activists attempted to get his sponsors to drop his show after he reported on a conspiracy theory surrounding a murdered DNC staffer.
“I admire Sean, and I admire how he handled situation, because he brought it directly to the folks and the sponsors stopped,” O’Reilly said.
