Author: Murdoch 'absolutely despises' the 'bullying' Bill O'Reilly

By GottaLaff

Thanksgiving is over, and yet... there are so many dee-lish-ous tidbits to chew on:

A new book about media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns Fox News, is to be released next week. Its most sensational revelations involve what the author describes as Murdoch's loathing for leading Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly.

The book? Michael Wolff's The Man Who Owns the News. The revelations?

Murdoch is not only embarrassed at times by his ownership of Fox News, but that he "absolutely despises" O'Reilly...

Awww, poor Bill-o. Okay, hands: How many think Keith Olbermann will report on this in his Monday show?

Wolff adds that Fox CEO Roger Ailes shares Murdoch's opinion. "It is not just Murdoch (and everybody else at News Corp.’s highest levels) who absolutely despises Bill O’Reilly, the bullying, mean-spirited, and hugely successful evening commentator, but Roger Ailes himself who loathes him. Success, however, has cemented everyone to each other."

And guess who wants to improve his image? Hint: It's not Bill-o.

According to Wolff, Murdoch's desire not to be defined solely by his ownership of Fox underlay his purchase last year of the Wall Street Journal, which "was in no small way about wanting to trade the illiberal -- the belligerent, the vulgar, the loud, the menacing the unsubtle -- for the better-heeled, the more magnanimous, the further nuanced."

Not workin', Rupert. Arrrh!