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“He makes 30 million dollars a year and talks about himself as a populist,” Aaron Brown says of Bill O’Reilly. “The only one better than O’Reilly is [Stephen] Colbert. He’s a better O’Reilly than O’Reilly.” The ex-CNN anchor also tells Gail Shister: “CNN can’t succeed in a world where people want news to be entertaining. Bill O’Reilly is inherently more entertaining than anything CNN does. It’s more fun to see an action movie than read a book.”
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