The 19-year-old son of former Fox News host Eric Bolling was found dead Friday.
The cause of Eric Chase Bolling’s death remained unknown as of Saturday afternoon.
The younger Bolling died hours after Fox News announced it was parting ways “amicably” with his father. The Fox personality came under fire after HuffPost published a report in August revealing that he had sent inappropriate text messages to current and former female colleagues.
The Huffington Post did not identify the cause of death, perhaps out of respect, but TMZ did:
Well placed FNC sources tell TMZ ... Eric Chase died from a drug overdose. We're told he was having a hard time dealing with the trouble his dad was having at the network. Our sources say he was extremely embarrassed by the stories and was "emotionally upset."
If this is accurate, and I am pretty sure it must be or I don't think TMZ would have written it, this is incredibly sad news.
I almost did not post this today because I worried that people who do not like Bolling would say hateful things.
I also really do not like Eric Bolling, but he is a parent who just lost his only child.
Right now there is nothing that matters at all except for that. Not the fact that he worked for a cable station that has worked to destroy journalism in this country, not the hateful things he has said about President Obama, not even the fact that he sexually harassed the women who worked with him.
The ONE thing that matters is that this man just lost his only child.
I think the majority of us here are parents so I know you can imagine what that must feel like.
There is literally NO pain I can imagine that would hurt as much as the pain he must be feeling right now.
And if TMZ is right, and the suicide was the result of Bolling's behaviors at work and the loss of that job,......well....there are simply no words to express what that must feel like.
So as one human being to another, I am deeply sorry for Mr. Bolling's loss and only want to express my most heartfelt condolences.
Entirely sad. Suicide or drugs or accidental suicide due to drugs is an all too horrific epidemic in our country.
ReplyDeleteCondolences to Eric and every parent in our country who have lost their children.
Dad isn't grieving so badly that he's unable to tweet out thanks to Trump. Fuck him. He's just another Republican who has no empathy for anyone unless and until something bad happens to him.
Delete4:15 stop making this about politics. Seriously. Enough. A kid died.
DeleteI didn't know Eric Bolling, except he worked for Fox. His story is one of the saddest I've heard of in a long time. As I understand he likes Trump. Trump likes people to like him and recently he has reached out to people outside of his fans and base. May be he will be nice to Florida residents?
Delete‘You either help or turn your head’: Florida residents facing Irma demand Trump open Mar-a-Lago as a shelter http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/you-either-help-or-turn-your-head-florida-residents-facing-irma-demand-trump-open-mar-a-lago-as-a-shelter/
Karma is a bitch.
Delete19? Damn. That is an unbearable loss to even think of. My heart goes out to his parents.
ReplyDeleteSo sad. I would not wish it on anyone.
ReplyDeleteThe loss of a 19-year-old is an unimaginable tragedy, and my sympathies go to the family and friends of this young man gone way too soon.
ReplyDeleteThe epidemic of drug use in this country, and the resulting deaths, whether by intent or accident, constitutes a crisis that we MUST find a way to end.
It is a very thoughtful and appropriate post.
ReplyDeleteThanks for thinking of and taking this intelligent positive humble approach.
Did we read the same thing??????? Humble approach?????????? He said he wouldn't mention all the things he didn't like about this guy and then he did mention them..
Delete10:46PM, he never said he wouldn't mention them. Learn to read.
DeleteDidn't realize you consider TMZ to be so accurate. Of course, the National Enquirer is trash most of the time because of its links to Trump except when it prints an article about Todd Palin and hookers. Then it's Pulitzer Prize winning journalism.
ReplyDeleteShut up 2:24
Delete2:24, someone just lost their child. Try being less of a dick.
DeleteOnce we become parents, we should make sure we mature enough to NOT EMBARRASS OUR KIDS.It must have been terrible for this young man to face friends with all this scandal about his father in the newspapers.We all want to be proud of out patents, but they need to act as patents, and not randy young people. I lost my 45 year old son, to illness. There is no pain equal to that. At least I know for a fact that he was proud of me, I never ever made an ass of myself like this ass did. Maybe adults will read this post, and decide to become REAL, respectable parents to their children. Bolling is a total ass, but I do feel sorry for this young man's mother.
Delete3:31 am: +++++!
Delete10:35 AM 3:31 am: +++++!
DeleteThis is why the fucked up media is beyond disgusting. No one thinks about what constantly hearing negative things from pieces of shit does to non public people. Or even people who the story isn't about in general.
ReplyDeleteI will never be okay with my "friends" here with their constant attacks and lies about Sarah's entire family, none of whom had any major problems before constant bullying and most of whom still have no problems. Thankfully. Because of their amazing family and strong foundation.
Prayers to Eric. That is devastating.
this isn't the time and place, to talk about poor, poor sarah.
DeleteReally? You just had to bring $arah into this? Couldn't you just sympathize?
DeleteI'm sorry for your loss, Eric Bolling.
GeorgiaPeach
Alicia you don't have any friends. Even Jim and Linda can't stand you.
DeleteThey have a major problem with stupidity, at the very least.
Delete2:27, you've been taking note of press releases from the White House, haven't you? Just say the opposite of what is true. Brilliant!
DeleteGryphen, seriously. This is wildly inappropriate.
DeleteI've lost children (work related accidents) and am grateful to read Gryphs sane and caring post. I wish only condolences to Eric Boling and can't fully imagine the pain he must bare with what TMZ is writing.
DeleteAlthough there are times things with Sarah's kids go over the top, they are adult kids and some try to kill people. I think most of discussions and questions are a good thing. If they weren't so stuck in darkness, they could wake up and grow. None of them are into learning and moving on.
As adult kids they could take control of their lives and come out with more honesty, go into a legit treatment or something to find a way to right the wrongs and answer questions of the past. They are going to be in history, and it is irresponsible and reprehensible to carry on with lies to leave behind.
Sarah Palin quit her plans to be a journalist. Her family is a political family. If in anyway that hurts a child of hers, she needed or needs to deal with that. It is not the public's responsibility. The public wants honesty in politician's and former politician's lives. Their public wants an honest history. The Heath and Palins were a political family that lied to the public. Now former political family with responsibility to the history they are part of. What they are now is dubious. Some of them work the social media deals.
Sarah herself could get into treatment or whatever would suit her to clear up her past and right wrongs. Okay, the mentally sick don't do that. That family deserves all that comes to them from those that are not corrupt liars and thives. Critiquing what they do is totally fine with me because that is the life they live. Sarah's public display on Facebook is good for critique and anyone can express opinions. The same for Bristol and her tea and selling her kids. Their history is an open book and anything they did not clear or do right deserves the most severe scrutiny and repeating. They are the only ones that can stop that. They just do not care about the public, they live in their own tiny bubble. All the more reason that those that do care, and don't like anyone who hides and lies etc, if anything more... more scrutiny for and about Sarah, adults and adult kids of her family.
Her oldest son, Track Palin, is a loose cannon and the signs are all there that he could kill people, many people. The right thing to do is if you see something, say something. He may or may not be suicidal. That needs attention. Secrets are toxic, also secrets that toxic kills people. Bristol also lies and covers up.
If Track does blow away a baby mama or two, a child, a sibling, Todd, Sarah or how many others, that would be tragic and sad. I would feel condolences for whoever survives. But after the burials, the public has every right to express themselves and their emotions.
If you see something, say something.
RIP Eric Chase Bolling
Condolences to his family and loved ones.
4:40, you are absolutely right.
DeleteThank you.
2:37: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Deletei am so sorry. no parent should have to bury their child. i'm sure the boy is at peace.
ReplyDeleteJust goes to show there are no victimless crimes and our choices don't effect just us.
ReplyDeleteI think Eric Bolling has more than paid for his poor choices.
Even before his son died, I wouldn't have anything to say about Bolling, because other than 'star' names like Hannity, O'Reily and Megyn Kelly, I wouldn't know who Fox's personnel is.
ReplyDeleteRemembering all the possibilities that lay before me at 19, I can't fathom such despair that forfeiting life seems the only way out. In addition to Eric Sr., there's a mother out there who will spend the rest of her days wondering the 'why' of this. I feel only sympathy.
Sorry, not sorry. I'm indifferent at best to the troubles of a sexually predatory creep like Eric Bolling. This is a stupid post for a supposedly progressive blog.
ReplyDeleteReally? Bless your heart. Sorry your life sucks so bad. Hate yourself, much?
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Empathy is a progressive trait, apparently
Delete3:51. I'm thankful being a progressive doesn't fit your definition, which obviously means being a heartless SOB.
DeleteVery sad. I had no use for Eric, but I can't imagine what Eric and his wife are going through. RIP.
ReplyDeleteI'm very sorry a young man died too soon, I hope he is at peace.
ReplyDeleteNice try Griff, but drug overdose does not necessarily mean suicide. Your speculation is low. Very low.
ReplyDeletewww.tmz.com/2017/09/09/eric-bolling-son-commits-suicide-fnc-fox-news-channel-fired
DeleteWhat part of the TMZ link made you think "Griff" made up the suicide part?
If it is true what "well placed FNC sources" told TMZ then I guess Eric Bolling will have to live with that the rest of his life.
ReplyDeleteWords and actions have consequences. Too bad for him.
That was so insincere. You say only one thing matters and then bring up all the other things and then spread tabloid rumor. You should be ashamed of yourself but I know you think too highly of yourself for shame to get in the way.
ReplyDeleteWho are you talking to?
Delete6:38 is talking to Donald Trump, evidently.
DeleteGuess that kills the excuse that Bolling was quitting Fox News to spend more time with his family.
ReplyDeletePerhaps he should have sooner...
As much as I dislike Eric Bolling, I agree with you and I commend you for saying so. Now is not the time to pile it on. The worst thing that could have happened to him just did.
ReplyDeleteIt does not matter the cause of death. As a parent who has lost a child, it is devastating and life changing no matter the cause of death...Please be kind
ReplyDeleteVery true that the cause does not matter.
DeleteYou are feeling loss and not why the loss.
That person is gone and there is an empty place. Everyone has their own way of feeling and experiencing the death of love ones. Over time my experience has been that it didn't matter how they died at first. You want to know what happened. If it all makes sense, things are clear and can settle. If it is a terrible accident you may put it out of your mind and go into denial. Say they were in a fire, you may find yourself waking up with dreams of fire and your love one. In those situations it can matter how they died.
I think having to remind people to be kind is what strikes me. Ever since Sarah hit the limelight, I have found myself using swear words that never crossed my typewriter before, being judgmental, angry and NOT nice at times. She, Fox hosts, our current potus and his cabal of evil-they are not nice, forgiving, or pleasant people. I do have compassion for the Bollings' loss. But I also anxious a lot, sad a lot, and confused by a group of people whose main goal is division, suspicion and hate. Look what that is doing to our young people. Stop and think.
ReplyDeleteThank you SallyinMI for your heart-felt post. I feel the same.
DeleteSarah really made me become aware of the hypocrisy of so called "Christians", especially of those in political and leadership positions.
Once Trump was elected I immediately lost any sympathy or compassion for his supporters. I am a 69 year old female progressive and have always tried to follow the teachings of the Jesus I learned about while I was growing up.
It distresses me that I have "coldly" changed, especially toward persons I once would have had genuine compassion for and helped. But I won't be a hypocrite and deny my feelings.
At first (in November 2016) I thought I had changed overnight. Now I realize it was years in the making.
I'm appalled at myself for the hateful opinion I now have for Republicans/conservatives. My dad was a Republican, and he was kind, smart, generous, funny and hard-working. None of those adjectives apply to any federal or state elected Republican official I know of. Lee Atwater started a plague, and his deathbed repentance means nothing.
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DeleteYou don't need to feel badly for lacking human compassion and empathy, it is a trait that is not present in everyone, nor need it be.
Most psychiatric professionals agree that this is not a serious psychological flaw, and in fact, those that express the most compassion and empathy are often more mentally fragile for various reasons.
The world is a tough and ugly place and lacking compassion and empathy tends to make one more able to cope with the terrible things we are confronted with daily.
Thank you for this well done post. An atheist, showing us what Christianity is supposed to look like. What a rough place this world can be.
ReplyDeleteTODAY is World Suicide Prevention Day
ReplyDeletePlease help bring attention to this. Help people to open up and confront this. Some people have suicidal tendencies and are not necessarily showing the signs outward. When young I lost a friend when he hung himself. I had talked to him the night he did that. There was no sign he was depressed or would do anything. He had been reaching out to me and telling me how much he appreciated our friendship. Later I could see that was his way to let go with an attitude of gratitude. He didn't want to leave me feeling guilty. He must have been in unspeakable pain and he was protecting me.
How to ‘Take a Minute, Change a Life’ Across the world nearly 800,000 commit suicide each year which is one person every 40 seconds, according to the World Health Organisation.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/10/world-suicide-prevention-day-how-to-take-a-minute-change-a-life-6913410/
World Suicide Prevention day aims to open up the conversations and help those in the darkness.
World Suicide Prevention Day - 10 September, 2017
https://iasp.info/wspd2017/light-a-candle/
That you for this thoughtful well crafted post, Gryphen.
Rest in peace Eric Chase.
I am sorry. He was young and his life before him.
ReplyDeleteThe media can be screwed up, but not every conservative's mistakes are caused by the media. Right, middle or left media can be bad or good. That is not the cause of Donald Trump or his children, Eric Bolling or his deceased child or Sarah Palin and family's problems. They are people with internal problems with the media because they are control freaks, they can't control all media. That is the problem.
ReplyDeleteI am disgusted with them and their apologists whining about their problems when they refuse to grow up. It is weak and stupid to blame the media. They can hate it and bitch if they want, but it does not look well for them.
They all chose a public life and they all knew about media and the way it is. Whether it is the Enquirer or the NYT and all others, they knew what it is. It is their responsibiity to deal with their family and children in regard to the media. They need to be accountable and wise up. They would end up with better press coverage if they are smart and do right.
What happened to Eric Bolling's son is not clear yet. If the Bolling's are open and honest they can find a positive way to deal with this tragedy. If it is drugs, whether accidental or suicide, they can turn their grief into helping others. Eric Bolling is not the first parent with a public name and face to lose a child. Not the first with drug or suicide issues. He could be the first I know of to blame the media.
Bolling might find solace to work and inform others about the national emergency crisis. Opioids or other problem drugs. All addictions can be deadly and hell on earth. Donald Trump is too distracted to keep his word or do much about drugs. May be one of his friends will step up and fill the void for Donald. People are dying from the national emergency of opoids, it is a crime to neglect it and watch people die due to incompetence and ignorance.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-opioid-crisis-national-emergency-2017-8