Eric Bolling

Eric Bolling speaks at CPAC in National Harbor , Maryland in 2018 .

Eric Bolling (born March 2, 1963 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American television presenter and commentator.

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After attending Rollins College in Winter Park , Bolling studied at Duke University . He then began to work as a securities dealer on the New York waiting futures exchange . He specialized in trading natural gas, crude oil and gold.

In the late 1990s, Bolling was hired as a strategist by the stock exchange's board of directors. In the early 2000s he was involved in developing Fast Money for business news network CNBC . In 2007, Bolling moved to the CNBC rival Fox Business Network , a business news broadcaster belonging to the Murdoch empire, for which he has since appeared on various programs as a financial and stock market analyst. For almost two years he also hosted the Fox Business Happy Hour show for Fox Business .

Since 2011, Bolling has been one of the regular orderers of The Five , a political discussion program in which a five-person panel discusses daily political events, which is broadcast Monday through Friday at 5:00 p.m. East Coast Time on Fox News , the parent station of the Fox Business Network becomes. He has also moderated the program Follow the Money since 2011 . In the past, Bolling has also repeatedly presented programs such as Fox and Friends , The Glen Beck Program or The O'Reilly Factor as a substitute for the regular presenters as a guest presenter.

Politically, Bolling, like most of the presenters of Fox News, represents decidedly “conservative” positions within the US political spectrum and accordingly leans strongly towards the Republican Party . In particular on economic issues, he defends views that are considered to be extremely liberal in European usage: He opposes the regulations of large corporations and the stock exchange, as well as government social programs, and advocates tax cuts and freedom of the markets. The Obama administration has repeatedly reviled Bolling - who describes himself as a staunch capitalist - as “socialist” and anti-business and accused it of striving to redistribute social wealth to the detriment of high achievers. In the areas of security and social policy, Bolling is also firmly in the Republican camp: A recurring theme in his public statements is the "liberal" conditioning of the US population and especially the youth by the largely "liberal" dominated media . More attention was paid to his allegation that the 2011 film The Muppets carried anti-capitalist propaganda into children's rooms ("Do the Liberals brainwash our kids to turn them against capitalism?"). In June 2011, Bolling referred to the White House as a hizzhouse, a term used in American slang to refer to the domicile of a black gangster. US media such as B. Media Matters , called this comment offensive and openly racist. Bolling apologized for that.

In 2014, he asked in The Five whether the combat mission of Maj. Mariam al-Mansouri , a United Arab Emirates pilot who is flying attacks against ISIS in Syria, can be called 'boobs on the ground.' (Boobs on the floor) could denote. He later apologized for this statement.

In August 2017, the Huffington Post reported lewd text messages allegedly sent by Bolling. Bolling initially responded with a libel suit; Fox broke up with him in September and stopped broadcasting. A few hours after his release from Fox News, his son Eric Chase Bolling (1998-2017) was found dead in Colorado. Some US magazines attributed the death to suicide. Bolling himself published a statement that the body showed no signs of self-harm.

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1. ↑ Der Spiegel: "Kermit and Miss Piggy attack Fox News"
2. ↑ Hizzhouse on Urban Dictionary ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/06/11/foxs-eric-bolling-obama-is-hosting-hoodlums-in/180497
4. ↑ Bolling and the Hizzhouse
5. ↑ Fox News host Eric Bolling apologizes for sexist 'boobs on the ground' joke about female fighter pilot . In: The Daily Mail , September 26, 2014. 
6. ↑ 'Boobs on the ground': Fox News presenter Eric Bolling responds to UAE's first female pilot in Isis air strikes . In: The Independent , September 26, 2014. 
7. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/eric-bolling-fox-news_us_59b2fb2de4b0354e4411f212
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