TV Host Fired For Criticizing Bill O'Reilly

BOSTON -- A Boston television host who launched a public campaign against Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly was fired by the Comcast Network Wednesday.

Barry Nolan, who did a nightly program on the network’s CN8 channel, had protested the decision by the New England EMMY chapter to honor O’Reilly at its annual awards ceremony. O’Reilly was given the organization’s Governor’s Award May 10.

Nolan had e-mailed members of the chapter encouraging them to protest what he called “an appalling choice for an honor.”

“He’s delusional,” Nolan said of O’Reilly. “He’s a man that mangles the facts. He inflates and constantly mangles the truth, and his frequent target is the 'left-leaning' media — the ones who do report the news fairly,” Nolan wrote.

Comcast confirmed Nolan’s firing in a statement.

“I knew going in that there was serious risk that I’d lose my job,” Nolan told the Boston Herald, “but nobody likes it when people tell them to stifle, not even Edith Bunker.”

Nolan quietly handed out fliers at the awards ceremony, before security asked him to stop.

At the awards dinner, O’Reilly had no comment on Nolan’s protest.