Oh boy. Here we go again. The knives are once again out for a male Fox News host. This time it’s Eric Bolling, currently host of “The Specialists.” And of course, just as his star at Fox is rising, someone comes forward with allegations that YEARS AGO he sent an unsolicited photo of male genitalia via text message to at least two colleagues at Fox Business and one colleague at Fox News.

Before reading further, have your grain of salt handy, as “sources” confirmed all this to the Huffington Post – all anonymously of course.

Recipients of the photo confirmed its contents to HuffPost, which is not revealing their identities. The women, who are Bolling’s current and former Fox colleagues, concluded the message was from him because they recognized his number from previous work-related and informal interactions. The messages were sent several years ago, on separate occasions.

The women did not solicit the messages, which they told colleagues were deeply upsetting and offensive. One of the recipients said that when she replied to Bolling via text, telling him never to send her such photos again, he did not respond. Four people, outside of the recipients, confirmed to HuffPost they’d seen the photo, and eight others said the recipients had spoken to them about it.

For this story, HuffPost spoke to 14 sources in and out of Fox News and Fox Business, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity either because they currently work at the networks and aren’t allowed to speak to members of the press without prior authorization or because they have confidentiality agreements with Fox News and its parent company 21st Century Fox.

The messages were sent SEVERAL YEARS AGO. Why is this only now an issue? Can you remember text messages someone sent you several weeks ago, let alone several years? If it was THAT upsetting at the time, why was this never reported?

It simply has to make you wonder why and how these things seem to magically become a problem after several years.

When asked whether Bolling at any point had sent unsolicited lewd or inappropriate text messages or emails (including an image of a man’s genitalia) to Fox News or Fox Business colleagues, his attorney Michael J. Bowe responded, “Mr. Bolling recalls no such inappropriate communications, does not believe he sent any such communications, and will vigorously pursue his legal remedies for any false and defamatory accusations that are made.”

Did anyone actually save these messages and can show them, date stamped? Oh whatever. It seems if you’re a male host on Fox News these days, eventually “they” are going to come for you too.

Look how quickly the supposed story against Sean Hannity fell apart.

For Bolling’s sake, we hope this allegation fades just as fast.

[This article was written by Michele Hickford, author of the brutally honest and bitingly funny Do I Need To Slap You?]