CNN’s Chalian: O’Reilly Firing a ‘Real Shock to the System’ of Conservative Americans

‘It’s hard to describe what a massive shift in political media occurred with the advent of Fox News through Bill O’Reilly’s star turn there under the leadership of Roger Ailes’

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CHALIAN: "Brooke, it’s hard to describe what a massive shift in political media occurred with the advent of Fox News through Bill O’Reilly’s star turn there under the leadership of Roger Ailes, how something that didn’t exist before was created and became a home for so many conservatives who felt that sort of a mainstream liberal bias in the mainstream media did not speak for them. I can’t tell you, reporting across the country, talking to voters, Republican and conservative voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, all across the country, how much the conversation is sort of a recitation back to me of talking points that Bill O’Reilly would deliver every night on his program to really help frame a lot of these people’s world view. This is a real shock to the system for a huge swath of Americans who got their information and sharpened their point of view through Bill O’Reilly’s take."

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