Fox News has reportedly cut ties with on-air personality Bo Dietl, who
had allegedly done private investigative work for ousted chairman Roger
Ailes.
According to New York magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman, the former NYPD
detective and Arby’s pitchman is no longer a contributor for the
cable-news network. Dietl came to renewed national attention this month
when Sherman reported that Ailes had used the services of Fox News’s
resident “tough cop” to wage covert war against his political and
personal enemies. Dietl denied his investigations were ever “nefarious”
in nature, and proceeded to tell The Daily Beast how—in light of
allegations that tanked Ailes’s career—most sexual-harassment lawsuits
are just “political correctness” gone awry."My contract ran out in the
end of July, and [Fox] hasn’t renewed it yet,” Dietl told The Daily
Beast on Thursday afternoon. “I have not been definitely told either
way, though I haven’t been getting any calls [to appear on shows
lately].”Dietl again insisted he never helped Ailes wage covert war
against the former Fox News chief’s political and personal enemies, as
was reported by Sherman.“All that black-ops on the 14th floor crap… it’s
all bullshit,” Dietl said. (Sherman previously emailed The Daily Beast:
“I stand by my reporting.”) The ex-cop blames Sherman for his on-air
contributor contract not being renewed yet. Following Ailes’s ouster,
certain extreme loyalists to the ex-Fox mastermind have been paying a
price internally.
Dietl said he spoke to new Fox News Co-President Bill Shine over the
phone last week and assured him that he never served on a secret goon
squad for Ailes. “Bo, just sit tight, we’re looking into everything,”
Shine told Dietl, per the latter’s recollection.Dietl is now,
apparently, considering legal action against New York magazine and its
star reporter. “I’m talking to my attorneys about a defamation suit and a
libel suit, [especially] if I don’t go back on Fox News,” he said. “I
want a retraction… Lanny Davis, one of my attorneys, told me to ask for a
retraction, and said that if they don’t give me one, we could do a suit
against New York magazine and Sherman… I guarantee you, I got a really
good case. I mean, his source is a liar.”—Asawin Suebsaeng |
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