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Billy O Reilly Sexual Harassment Scandal in Fox

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  • 12-04-2017 3:47pm
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    please helpThank YOU
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    Just Heard on the News Bill O Reilly Sexual Harassment Scandal in Fox King Of Cable in the USA?


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    The_Valeyard
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    Suppose Bill Didnt 'factor' that in.


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    Winterlong
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    Donald says he is a nice guy. Must be true.


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    DrumSteve
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    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    Just Heard on the News Bill O Reilly Sexual Harassment Scandal in Fox King Of Cable in the USA?

    I cannot figure out this sentence.

    I keep reading it but I just don't understand it.


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    biko
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    http://www.amny.com/news/bill-o-reilly-sexual-harassment-scandal-explained-1.13367681
    More than a week after revelations emerged that Fox News and host Bill O’Reilly paid five women to settle sexual harassment claims, 21st Century Fox has asked a law firm to investigate at least one of the allegations.
    The news comes as a number of major companies have pulled advertising from "The O’Reilly Factor."
    Although O’Reilly, 67, insists the allegations are baseless and that he was targeted because of his fame, many have called for Fox to fire him.


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    please helpThank YOU
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    Winterlong wrote: »
    Donald says he is a nice guy. Must be true.
    Great Pst:D:)


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    py2006
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    what did he do or say?


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    Allinall
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    DrumSteve wrote: »
    I cannot figure out this sentence.

    I keep reading it but I just don't understand it.

    If you take a deep breath and read it really quickly it makes sense.

    You've got to shorten the wavelength, or something.


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    super_furry
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    You wouldn't get that from the likes of Pat Kenny! Sure he nearly melted into a puddle when he had to interview Pamela Anderson.


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    biko wrote: »
    http://www.amny.com/news/bill-o-reilly-sexual-harassment-scandal-explained-1.13367681
    Five Women had been given sums of money totaling $13million by either fox news or 0 Reilly why would you give women money?


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    Great Pst:D:)

    Nearly as articulate as the OP. ;)


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    [Deleted User]
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    He's been in the frame for this before, I saw a thing on TV about a scandal in 2002 (I think), and the things he admitted to were insane. He even admitted saying that any woman who spoke up about him would wish she was never born. That was 15 years ago, separate to the ongoing scandal.

    He's a vile man with what the Washington Post called a 'tenuous attachment to facts' even if it's all unfounded. He lied about and exaggerated his coverage of the Falklands War, turning himself into a journalistic hero, when he was pretty much the opposite.

    He also thinks God controls the tides - because there's no other explanation!


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    ScumLord
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    One of the things that get me about these kind of scandals is the sponsors pulling out. As if those multinational corporations are the bastions of honor and integrity. They start pointing fingers while doing their best to profit at any cost.

    Then he other media stations act like they're morally clean and the rest are scum when they're all the same profiteering gossip merchants. One of the worst things Trump ever did was make CNN look like a credible media company.


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    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    Five Women had been given sums of money totaling $13million by either fox news or 0 Reilly why would you give women money?

    Why do you think?


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    Alun
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    DrumSteve wrote: »
    I cannot figure out this sentence.

    I keep reading it but I just don't understand it.
    Like pretty much everything 'please helpThank YOU' writes, to be honest.


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    Arghus
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    The man is undoubtedly an ass-hat, but he doesn't deserve to be destroyed by allegations.


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    Arghus wrote: »
    The man is undoubtedly an ass-hat, but he doesn't deserve to be destroyed by allegations.

    Not even if they're true?


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    Arghus
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    Candie wrote: »
    Not even if they're true?

    That's the thing about allegations: we don't know if they are true or not.


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    super_furry
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    Arghus wrote: »
    That's the thing about allegations: we don't know if they are true or not.

    He doesn't seem to be too keen to let them go to court.


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    Arghus wrote: »
    That's the thing about allegations: we don't know if they are true or not.

    I hope it goes to court at some point.

    That way he'll either be cleared or the many women that have been paid off over the years will be cleared of the suspicion of opportunism.


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    Arghus
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    super_furry wrote: »
    He doesn't seem to be too keen to let them go to court.

    That isn't quite an admission of guilt to be fair.

    Edit: I can think of numerous reasons why someone with a high media profile may not want to go to court, especially when potentially embarassing details of their sex life may come up. Even if they feel they might win their case, the reputational damage it might cause could make it a very pyrric victory in the long run.

    That's not to say I like Bill O' Reilly, but just because he doesn't want to go to court doesn't automatically make him guilty.


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    please helpThank YOU
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    Arghus wrote: »
    That's the thing about allegations: we don't know if they are true or not.
    You are 100 per cent right what you say. and if he is Innocent the Truth will always Prevail . allegation is one thing. but this what people will say why did he give Money? its like Michael Jackson payout Money you better off going to court and proven your Innocent.


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    NeonSquares
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    I smell a cushty White House position in the works.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    NeonSquares wrote: »
    I smell a cushty White House position in the works.

    Absoultely. The last Conservative media nutjob to be "plagued" by sexual harassment accusations was rewarded with the Presidency.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Absoultely. The last Conservative media nutjob to be "plagued" by sexual harassment accusations was rewarded with the Presidency.
    True:eek:


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    pilly
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    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    You are 100 per cent right what you say. and if he is Innocent the Truth will always Prevail . allegation is one thing. but this what people will say why did he give Money? its like Michael Jackson payout Money you better off going to court and proven your Innocent.

    And there we have it!!! I was waiting. Sorry OP but you're driving me mad with constantly throwing out questions like this, waiting for someone to say innocent until proven guilty and then jumping up and own for joy.

    We get it. You were accused of something.


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    pilly wrote: »
    And there we have it!!! I was waiting. Sorry OP but you're driving me mad with constantly throwing out questions like this, waiting for someone to say innocent until proven guilty and then jumping up and own for joy.

    We get it. You were accused of something.
    I Said About paying Money Looks Bad. Not The Not the Allegation any Fruit Cake Can Make Allegation even About You our Any Member Of Your Family our any One you Love for a matter of fact .


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    pilly
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    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    I Said About paying Money Looks Bad. Not The Not the Allegation any Fruit Cake Can Make Allegation even About You our Any Member Of Your Family our any One you Love for a matter of fact .

    I KNOW BECAUSE YOU KEEP TELLING US.


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    pilly
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    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    I Said About paying Money Looks Bad. Not The Not the Allegation any Fruit Cake Can Make Allegation even About You our Any Member Of Your Family our any One you Love for a matter of fact .

    You actually didn't read or understand what I said did you?


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    You are 100 per cent right what you say. and if he is Innocent the Truth will always Prevail . allegation is one thing. but this what people will say why did he give Money? its like Michael Jackson payout Money you better off going to court and proven your Innocent.

    That's very optimistic. Very few people emerge totally "innocent" after a sexual harassment accusation - even if they clear themselves in court.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Luggnuts
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    The same people who defend O'Reilly and demand that the allegations be proven are the ones who flat-out say that Assange is a rapist even though Assange's alleged victims insist no rape ever took place.

    O 'Reilly is a complete and utter liar and hypocrite and much like many conservative characters he preaches one thing for others whilst completely going against this credo himself. He thunders on about family values while (allegedly) sexually bullying female staff and makes lewd phonecalls to them. Wasn't he exposed admitting to an intern that he was on the phone with that he was masturbating himself with a loofah while talking to her? Just like Limbaugh who insisted everyone caught with a spliff should be banged up yet when he was exposed as addicted to Oxycontin then all of a sudden he was in favour of treatment.

    Creepy.


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