Eric Bolling--under the terms of an agreement dating to early August--has resigned from Fox News, due to charges of sexual harassment. Bill O'Reilly, who left the network last April amid similar charges, was the first Fox News host to do so. Not much later, Sean Hannity said that he had been so targeted, but had elected to stay and fight back. Now Eric Bolling. It would appear that Fox News is simply replete with sexual harassers; but that the competing 24-hour cable-news networks--i.e. CNN and MSNBC--are altogether free of such deviants. Of course, there is another possibility. It is this: Perhaps some organization has manufactured these charges, in order to harm the one cable-news network that leans center-right, rather than center-left. It is just a thought, of course...
I just heard today that his 19-year-old son died. How sad. There is talk of it being suicide. Those poor parents. I'll bet his firing PALES in comparison to the death of his only child. http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/09/media/eric-bolling-son-dead/index.html Eric Bolling's son Eric Chase died on Friday night, just hours after his father lost a high-profile job at the Fox News Channel. The cause of death has not been announced. According to a family friend, an autopsy will not take place until Monday. Eric Chase Bolling was starting his second year at the University of Colorado in Boulder. It is unclear if he died on or off campus. Local authorities did not immediately respond to requests for comment from CNN. His parents learned of the death late Friday night and flew to Colorado on Saturday morning. Eric Bolling confirmed the heart-wrenching news in a tweet. "Adrienne and I are devastated by the loss of our beloved son Eric Chase last night. Details still unclear," Bolling wrote. "Thoughts, prayers appreciated." In a second tweet, Bolling said that an autopsy would be conducted next week. "Authorities have informed us there is no sign of self harm at this point. ... Please respect our grieving period," he wrote. The family friend said the Bollings are in a profound state of shock. Eric was their only child.
This was the initial hypothesis. It appears now, however, that this was not the case. (Eric Bolling tweeted that "authorities" have said that "there is no sign of self harm at this point.")
That doesn't mean anything. Healthy 19-year-old boys don't usually just drop dead in bed, and the toxicology results are not yet back. And it is reported that he was being tormented by people and was extremely embarrassed about the situation with his dad. He apparently was having a very difficult time dealing with the troubles with his father.
Or possibly the fact that Fox was founded and is still owned by one of the most replete and obvious sexual exploiters who ever existed, a man who made most of a fortune rivaling Hugh Hefner's on the basis of scantily clad young ladies on Page 3 of his flagship tabloid can have some effect even years later. Just maybe?
Happens more often than you think. Late teens are a dangerous transition period from adolescence to adulthood and that is not least because nobody thinks anything can go wrong. Conditions which have escaped notice up until now can suddenly flare up. Suicide or not it's very sad and hard on the family, they should be left alone about it.
