Bill O’Reilly will walk away from Fox up to $25 million richer

Hopefully we’ve all enjoyed our moment of shadenfreude over Bill O’Reilly getting the boot at Fox News yesterday afternoon, because—as often happens when wealthy, powerful white men get in trouble for something—O’Reilly’s going to be just fine. Better than fine, even: Not only does he still have a highly profitable book contract, as we reported yesterday, but he’ll also be walking away from Fox News tens of millions of dollars richer. That comes from CNN Money, whose anonymous, ”well-placed” sources say that Fox is on the hook for one year’s salary as part of O’Reilly’s exit agreement, which in this case means up to $25 million.