Bill O’Reilly Hits Former Network Over Election Coverage: ‘This Is a Message to Fox News…’

Bill O’Reilly dinged his former network, Fox News, on Tuesday night while doing election coverage on NewsNation.

While speaking with host Chris Cuomo, O’Reilly was about to make a point about Fox News contributor Karl Rove when he decided to take a detour about a cliche he heard on the network.

“Karl Rove on Fox News – and by the way – this is a message to Fox News,” O’Reilly said. “Please stop your commentators and anchors from saying the words ‘canary in a coal mine.’ There are no canaries on the ballot. You can’t vote in a coal mine. I don’t know why they’re saying that over and over, but they are at Fox News. Please stop.”

A search of a TV transcript database shows three mentions of “canary” or “canaries” on Fox News on Tuesday. However, the cliche is hardly unique to Fox, as the phrase has been said multiple times on both CNN and MSNBC in recent days. In fact, a NewsNation host said “canary in the coal mine” less than 30 minutes before O’Reilly griped about it being said on Fox News.

O’Reilly finished his point above Rove’s analysis about New Hampshire, at which point Cuomo defended Fox News.

“But listen, you know what they’re doing,” Cuomo said. “You can argue with their style, but this race is close and people are looking for indications of outcome, and they’re looking at New Hampshire as some kind of laboratory that if Trump can make it close there, then who knows where else it is close?”

Watch above via NewsNation.