Cable news ratings; Walker bombshells impact Georgia election; Fox News regular gets caught torching network

The Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger unleashed a flurry of explosive reports on Herschel Walker leading up to Tuesday's Georgia election runoff.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) beat Walker on Tuesday, shining a light on the impact of Sollenberger's investigative journalism.
Sollenberger published a series of exclusives on the Georgia Republican Senate candidate, exposing alleged violent and abusive behavior, among several other scandals.
Thanks to Sollenberger, Walker's campaign was plagued by seemingly constant scandals and gaffes, from reports that the staunchly pro-life candidate had encouraged girlfriends to get abortions, multiple “secret children” whom Walker allegedly hid from his own campaign staff, vociferous denunciations on social media by his son Christian Walker, a highly-ridiculed attempt to present a prop police badge as a legitimate law enforcement credential, a bizarre monologue about vampires vs. werewolves — not to mention Walker’s habit of rambling word salad commentary and a Freudian slip on Fox News.

And on Dec. 1, with less than one week to go before the runoff, Sollenberg reported that five women who were previously romantically involved with Walker accused him of deeply troubling violent behavior, rampant infidelity, and serial dishonesty. He even got one woman to speak on the record.
Sollenberger's impressive reporting on Walker helped him make the media rounds, and earned him a glowing shout-out from his editor in chief Tracy Connor, who called his articles "transfixing" in an email to subscribers.

Barstool Sports star Francis Ellis might have to say farewell to guest appearances on Fox News after a recent bombshell hot mic moment.
He once had a solid relationship with the network, appearing as a guest several times and most recently sitting down with Jesse Watters on Monday. But that all changed Tuesday, thanks to an apparent editing error in an episode of the Barstool Rundown podcast.
Mediaite obtained unedited audio of the episode, which was published online and then quickly removed by Barstool.
After signing off at the end of the show, co-host Adam Ferrone asked Ellis about his latest appearance on Jesse Watters Primetime, promptingEllis to launch into a tirade against the network and its top hosts.
“Look, I got home. I talked to my wife about it cause I was disappointed in myself and she was like, ‘Let’s be honest, like, do you want to be working with these f*cking people?’ She was like, ‘I watched the rest of his show — he’s a fucking joke,'” Ellis said of Watters after his appearance.
Although someone from the audio engineering noted that the mics were "still rolling," Ellis continued by taking aim at Tucker Carlson.
“And then like, Tucker comes on and just screams,” he said, adding, “They’re just trafficking in hate."
Ellis later expressed fear that Fox News' audience would not understand his political jokes were indeed jokes.
Well, that might not even matter considering Ellis will most likely be banned from the network thanks to his scathing rant.