After news broke today revealing ex-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly settled a $32 million sexual harassment claim, a CNN legal correspondent made an honest — yet very-telling — cable news gaffe. While discussing the O’Reilly scandal on CNN’s Newsroom, Jean Casarez accidentally referred to the dethroned king of cable news as “Bill Cosby” — the disgraced comedian facing legal trouble after dozens of sexual misconduct allegations. “Bill O’Reilly had said he had handled [the sexual harassment claims], both personally and confidentially. Given that the reputations of the two once-powerful Bills are both devastated over sexual misconduct allegations — albeit, Cosby’s are worse — Casarez’s name swap is probably a common error. Hell, if Casarez had accidentally mentioned Bill Clinton‘s name during the segment then the pyramid of Bills with disturbing sexual misconduct allegations going against them would’ve been complete.

Source: CNN October 21, 2017 23:03 UTC