Limbaugh’s ‘slut’ incident suggests O’Reilly may actually be in trouble

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It’s tempting to think Bill O’Reilly will emerge from the advertiser boycott of his television show unscathed. After all, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh survived something similar a few years ago.

The problem with this idea is that the 2012 advertiser boycott actually hurt Limbaugh’s business, the Weekly Standard’s Ethan Epstein documented a little while back.

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