‘They Hate Trump’: Bill O’Reilly Says Major Cable Company Is Throwing MSNBC ‘Overboard’ To Protect Reputation

Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said Wednesday evening that Comcast was tossing MSNBC “overboard” to save the reputation and ratings of NBC News.

Comcast announced it was spinning off multiple cable networks, including the left-wing news channel that featured hosts Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Nicolle Wallace and Lawrence O’Donnell Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. O’Reilly asserted that MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were “ordered” to visit President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago because executives planned to announce the spinoff.

“They were ordered to go to Mar-a-Lago by Comcast, the parent company out of Philadelphia. They just didn’t show up, okay, and Trump said, ‘Oh, this is great. Here they come, gonna kiss my you-know-what and we’ll get photo ops,’ which they did,” O’Reilly told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo. “What Comcast said, ‘You two, we’re going to have to try to mend some cliche fences, and you two are going to go in there and you’re going to try to tamp it down,’ because Comcast knew the next day they were going to announce that MSNBC is vapor. That is a huge media story.”

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“There’s no spinoff,” O’Reilly told Cuomo during a back and forth.

Scarborough said at the start of “Morning Joe” Monday he and Brzezinski met