In case you missed it earlier this week, video footage captured by a fellow passenger caught disgraced, ousted former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly pitching an absolute fit, screaming down, threatening, and cursing at an airline employee, all because his flight was delayed New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Ultimately, the staunch Trump supporter, who actually did a full-on rally tour with the ex-president late last year, called the JetBlue airline employee a “f*cking scumbag” and threatened to have them fired from the job because his flight to Turks and Caicos was delayed by a few hours.
But wouldn’t you know, Bill is already speaking out to lay the blame for his nasty outburst on anyone but himself.
On the heels of his hissy fit, O’Reilly put out a tweet reading, “The character assassins on social media completely lying about my interaction with a JetBlue guy who misled passengers during a five-hour delay. We’ve covered on BillOReilly.com. I expected this.”
The character assassins on social media completely lying about my interaction with a JetBlue guy who misled passengers during a five-hour delay. We’ve covered on https://t.co/rryWmyXe7C. I expected this.
— Bill O’Reilly (@BillOReilly) April 19, 2022
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Mediaite’s Bess Levin reported, “Speaking to Mediaite, O’Reilly acknowledged that he handled the situation ‘poorly’ and could have used different words but refused to apologize to the man he verbally abused.”
Bill went on to further claim that other passengers around him actually agreed with his argument and went on to say that the viral video of his outburst is just serving as a distraction from the airline’s incompetence: “The story is JetBlue can’t get their flights off the ground. It was crazy in the terminal.”
Numerous airlines have suffered through problems keeping their flights on schedule as they deal with poor weather conditions and an overall shortage of pilots.
But Bill O’Reilly says it’s all Joe Biden’s fault.
“For some reason, the Biden administration is not big on solving problems. This is a huge problem,” the ousted ex-Fox host told Mediate, claiming that he actually invited a JetBlue spokesperson to make an appearance on his podcast but he has yet to hear back.
O’Reilly formerly served as one of Fox Network’s most high-profile anchors but was ultimately forced out of the network after Fox was forced to pay up for multiple high-dollar settlements in connection to numerous sexual harassment lawsuits filed against him.
Vanity Fair notes in their report on the incident that O’Reilly’s nasty outburst comes right on the heels of a similar hissy fit we recently saw from TX GOP Senator Ted Cruz with airport and law enforcement officials in Bozeman, Montana after he missed his flight’s check-in window.
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