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Clarence Page: After the shootings, partisan media offer dubious comfort

He hosted the top-rated show on cable news until Fox News forced him out amid sexual harassment allegations— and settlements— in 2017.. I found him there while searching online for reactions to the unspeakable horrors of the shooting that killed seven and wounded dozens at a July Fourth parade in the usually peaceful Chicago suburb of Highland Park.

Remember Bill O’Reilly? He hosted the top-rated show on cable news until Fox News forced him out amid sexual harassment allegations — and settlements — in 2017.

He occasionally invited me on his show, especially when he needed a foil for his endless populist-conservative complaints, particularly about the “Democrat-run Chicago” when President Barack Obama was president.

But, as Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks used to sing, “How can I miss you if you

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