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Billy O Reilly Sexual Harassment Scandal in Fox

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Luggnuts wrote: »
    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.

    Assange I have no opinion about as while I think the man has slightly lost his grip on reality through isolation and exile, I know very little about the allegation against him and why Sweden wants him. Bit too much smoke around O'Reilly though and that Fox actually got rid of him in an era where just brazening it out frankly -works- suggests there was something that they saw was a total liability.

    I think he probably deserves to be fired for many things, even being a weirdo in this case but I'm struggling to see anything he did that is worth $13 million.

    He asked one woman if she wanted to go to his hotel room and she declined. Then she didn't get a job at Fox. Is there more evidence to that or what?

    I think if he wasn't a well known TV personality then no allegations would be made and these women wouldn't be chasing money.

    Uhm. Are you sure you don't want to reread that line and think about it for a few moments? So this woman was going for a job at Fox, and the leading light of Fox, apparently involved in some way in her potential hiring, invited her to his room? Can you see anything appropriate in that at all? If you went to a job interview and were given the impression that sleeping with the interviewer (or a top star at the company) was the way to get the job, you'd be okay with that choice being implicitly presented to you? You refuse and don't get the job. This is all..uh..not how job interviews are supposed to work.

    Why is it that your automatic impression is that the women are lying -while- giving credence to a rather disgusting story and implying that that's in any way normal? It's possible you were just saying that you don't believe it, just the way it was written implied that the first bit you wrote was, in your opinion, true, but somehow not that bad.

    On a bit of a side-note, is it just that I keep seeing them, or does Fox only employ gorgeous blonde women? I have great difficulty telling them all apart. It's possible there's only one of them and she keeps changing her hairstyle though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Minderbinder


    I think he probably deserves to be fired for many things, even being a weirdo in this case but I'm struggling to see anything he did that is worth $13 million.

    He asked one woman if she wanted to go to his hotel room and she declined. Then she didn't get a job at Fox. Is there more evidence to that or what?

    I think if he wasn't a well known TV personality then no allegations would be made and these women wouldn't be chasing money.

    Uhm. Are you sure you don't want to reread that line and think about it for a few moments? So this woman was going for a job at Fox, and the leading light of Fox, apparently involved in some way in her potential hiring, invited her to his room? Can you see anything appropriate in that at all? If you went to a job interview and were given the impression that sleeping with the interviewer (or a top star at the company) was the way to get the job, you'd be okay with that choice being implicitly presented to you? You refuse and don't get the job. This is all..uh..not how job interviews are supposed to work.

    Why is it that your automatic impression is that the women are lying -while- giving credence to a rather disgusting story and implying that that's in any way normal? It's possible you were just saying that you don't believe it, just the way it was written implied that the first bit you wrote was, in your opinion, true, but somehow not that bad.

    On a bit of a side-note, is it just that I keep seeing them, or does Fox only employ gorgeous blonde women? I have great difficulty telling them all apart. It's possible there's only one of them and she keeps changing her hairstyle though.[/quote]

    I didn't suggest that the women were lying. I did say that what I have seen reported is not worth $13m and allegations probably wouldn't have been made if he wasn't a high profile individual.

    Those women probably knew what they alleged wouldn't be proven in court but that Fox News and O'Reilly would pay to avoid the publicity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    A good old-fashioned shake-down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Shemale wrote: »
    He is a horrible ****.

    If you have the time you should watch his interview with Bill Clinton, he tried to ambush him and Clinton was well able for him.

    That's not a surprise. Bill Clinton is a smart man. Anyone with a bit of brain power was well able for the obnoxious loudmouth. When he was losing an argument, he would tend to shout over the interviewee, or in the case of Dawkins spout some gibberish about the tide goes in, the tide goes out, Ergo God exists. Discussion over.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,758 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Gretchen Carlson got paid $20 million by Fox last year after she accused the chairman Roger Ailes of sexually harassing her and firing her from her program after she refused his sexual advances.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,972 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Great opportunity for Faux News to bring back the legend that is Glenn Beck. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Rupert , apparently was going to stand by Bill, but the sons changed his mind.
    They might have been thinking about the 14 billion deal to buy sky outright


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,758 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Great opportunity for Faux News to bring back the legend that is Glenn Beck. :pac:

    He has been interviewed a few times on CNN, and without the hysterics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭SkepticQuark


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Great opportunity for Faux News to bring back the legend that is Glenn Beck. :pac:

    Beck has the Tomi Lahren nonsense with him sadly. I would love to see him come back and do this show again:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM4xqnukQrM


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris



    I didn't suggest that the women were lying. I did say that what I have seen reported is not worth $13m and allegations probably wouldn't have been made if he wasn't a high profile individual.

    Those women probably knew what they alleged wouldn't be proven in court but that Fox News and O'Reilly would pay to avoid the publicity.


    Aighto. The next time your career opportunities are dashed or damaged because you don't want to sleep with someone to get in, I'm sure you'll remember that it's not worth suing and he's too rich and powerful to sue anyway. Sure, people'll only think you're some sort of gold-digger if you dare to object publicly or through the courts. (btw, the 13M wasn't all to one person, it was several cases of his being sued for this sort of thing).

    They should really just sit down and shut up. If they're not willing to trade sex for career, they shouldn't stand in the way of the kind offers this man may make to other women in the future.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    $13 million settlement to them and believed to be somewhere in the region of $25 million to get him, by far their most successful personality, off their payroll asap rather than even trying to weather the advertiser dropoff.
    Considering Glenn Beck makes something like 4 times what Bill O'Reilly did at Fox, odds are O'Reilly is gonna be making so much wherever he lands next (as a tradeoff for no longer being part of whatever social circles he was in, I guess, I assume he was treated as something of a mainstream celebrity) that Fox wouldn't be able to afford him even if they wanted.

    There's such a huge amount of money going out the door here and the potential ramifications to Fox of O'Reilly moving elsewhere that you'd have to imagine Fox has good cause to suspect these stories aren't going to die down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Which news network could he possibly end up at? Fox seems to be the only one with conservative programming. He might just call it a day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Which news network could he possibly end up at? Fox seems to be the only one with conservative programming. He might just call it a day.
    Infowars might hire him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Infowars might hire him.

    Or RT ! they might not have liked his murderer comments on Putin though.


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