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What Do You Do With A Reckless Drunken Maniac? Make Her A Regular On The Five...
18 Sep 2025 9:28 am
"I don't trust her to be responsible tomorrow"
On Nov. 6, 2020, ahead of Pirro's regularly scheduled Saturday show the next day, Fox News' senior vice president for weekend programming, David Clark, texted Meade Cooper, the executive vice president over prime time, with a grim assessment.
"Bottom line, I don't trust her to be responsible tomorrow. Her guests are all going to say the election is being stolen and if she pushes back at all it will just be a token," he wrote.
Cooper replied: "Maybe she does not have a show tomorrow night.'
"Honestly," Clark wrote back, "that would be the wisest course of action."
The network canceled Pirro's show for that Saturday; at the time, it told NPR and other outlets that her program was simply preempted for standard election coverage.
Fox had done the same at least once before: In 2019, the network took Pirro off the air after she had attacked U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar for wearing a hijab, suggesting the Minnesota Democrat, who is Muslim, was committed to sharia law.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/04/nx-s1-55 ... e%20wrote.
"What are we gonna do with this rabid, drunken, bitch?"
"We could put her on The Five"
On Nov. 6, 2020, ahead of Pirro's regularly scheduled Saturday show the next day, Fox News' senior vice president for weekend programming, David Clark, texted Meade Cooper, the executive vice president over prime time, with a grim assessment.
"Bottom line, I don't trust her to be responsible tomorrow. Her guests are all going to say the election is being stolen and if she pushes back at all it will just be a token," he wrote.
Cooper replied: "Maybe she does not have a show tomorrow night.'
"Honestly," Clark wrote back, "that would be the wisest course of action."
The network canceled Pirro's show for that Saturday; at the time, it told NPR and other outlets that her program was simply preempted for standard election coverage.
Fox had done the same at least once before: In 2019, the network took Pirro off the air after she had attacked U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar for wearing a hijab, suggesting the Minnesota Democrat, who is Muslim, was committed to sharia law.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/04/nx-s1-55 ... e%20wrote.
"What are we gonna do with this rabid, drunken, bitch?"
"We could put her on The Five"