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Fox News drops Bill O'Reilly in wake of harassment allegations
Fox News ^ | Apr. 19 , 2017 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 04/19/2017 12:36:58 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse

" ... the company and Bill O’Reilly have agreed that Bill O’Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; billoreilly; foxnews; oreilly; oreillyout; thespinstopped
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To: GreatRoad

lol. you could have streamed that one show. I’m just mystified at the household budgets of people that cut the cable because the price is just so outrageous.


241 posted on 04/19/2017 8:13:17 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: morphing libertarian

Believe what you want to believe, this was a play by the hard left to damaged conservative news outlets.

The current court invented ‘law’ on work place sexual harassment basically puts everything in favor of the accuser. Even innocent by-standards with no idea whats going on can be charged and prosecuted under the current court invented law for simply having failed to recognized and intervene.

I have zero tollerance for those with the presumption of guilt. This kind of legal terror in the work place is unaccpetbale. People who go to work should be expected to have a thick enough skin as to either iqnore or deal with what ever ‘WORDS’ anyone throws at them be it a client or a coworkers.

It is NOT acceptable in a free society or functional work place to sue and ultimately fire people for harmless words.

Sticks and Stones break bones, Words DO NOT HARM responsible adults.


242 posted on 04/19/2017 8:18:31 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Monorprise

My original point was facts unknown to us. Everyone comes on a thread sure they know what happened without evidence.


243 posted on 04/19/2017 8:20:00 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Monorprise

O’Reilly is gone because the advertisers were pulling their money from Fox.

It’s not personal, just business.


244 posted on 04/19/2017 8:24:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: LeoWindhorse

Bye Bill O’bamapologist.


245 posted on 04/19/2017 8:27:23 PM PDT by Stopthethreat
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To: dfwgator

“O’Reilly is gone because the advertisers were pulling their money from Fox.

It’s not personal, just business.”

That is nonsence.
There were maybe 50 advertisers who claimed to pull advertisers from his show, all together their total contribution to his show was a tiny drop in the bunker of the money Bill was making in Advertising revenue and all of them were easily replaced with thousands of other company’s that do not play politics with their advertising budget. Which is by far almost all companies, as any company that does invariably hurts their own business, by not only giving up a great spot, but alienating half the population.

To be honest thou I’ve never even seen one Ad by most of these boycotting companies on the factor, which means that if they did have AD’s they were at low cost odd hours of the day.

It is very bad business to play politics period no matter what your politics are.

Its even worse for freedom to buy from companies that play polices The left constantly complain about the supposed influence of big business, well this is where business really effects the public. Not in political elections but in what they buy and sell with their money.


246 posted on 04/19/2017 8:51:00 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: x

Yeah, I could see that.


247 posted on 04/19/2017 8:59:35 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Monorprise

“To be honest thou I’ve never even seen one Ad by most of these boycotting companies on the factor, which means that if they did have AD’s they were at low cost odd hours of the day.”

Fox sells advertising both regionally and nationally. A person in the Carolinas isn’t going to see the same ads as a person in NYC unless it was a national buy.


248 posted on 04/19/2017 9:01:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: morphing libertarian

“My original point was facts unknown to us. Everyone comes on a thread sure they know what happened without evidence.”

If Fox news had proof that bill had done some horrible thing that would inevitably sink their company were he to stay, They would have sued and prosecuted him not merely fired him.

As it is Bill is still professing his innocence claiming to have evidence to support that fact. (We don’t know bills side of the story)

Fox chose to deny him even the opportunity to have a farewell show presumably in hopes that most of his viewers would never know his side. So much for ‘Fair and balanced’

But i suppose given the fact that the men making these choices are now the chosen employees of a liberal, its not too much out of step with their stereo-typical presumption of guilt against anyone who doesn’t tow their line.


249 posted on 04/19/2017 9:06:04 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Monorprise

We still disagree. Good night.


250 posted on 04/19/2017 9:31:05 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Rebelbase

“Fox sells advertising both regionally and nationally. A person in the Carolinas isn’t going to see the same ads as a person in NYC unless it was a national buy.”

I know exactly how advertisement i have immediate family working in the industry, which at the lower levels is actually quite Conservative.

This is perhaps one of the reasons it is really very unusual for a company to play politics with its advertisement, it generaly has to be decided at the liberal high end of a corporation, and it is always more harmful to the company than it is ever helpful.

Business and politics do not mix, except when someone is breaking the law.

The companies that withdrew from Bill O’rilly were giving up the top spot to the next lowest bidder who didn’t play politics with their advertising budget while at the same time alienating half the population that knew about it.

While the factor lost little to no money selling to the next guy, both of theses acts are very bad for the business playing politics costing them far more customers than they ever stood to lose were they simply to stay out of it.


251 posted on 04/19/2017 9:38:28 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: LeoWindhorse
Wish there was a National Boycott Shep Day....sorry that's what Shep does Boy & C___. Isn't Shep breaking some company rule by dating a subservient? Back to my original thought Shep should be boycotted because of his blatant progressive views.
252 posted on 04/19/2017 9:53:46 PM PDT by Squat (Deport the illegals now! Turn Home Depot's into the prisons to hold the illegals!.)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Wish there was a National Boycott Shep Day....sorry that's what Shep does Boy & C___. Isn't Shep breaking some company rule by dating a subservient? Back to my original thought Shep should be boycotted because of his blatant progressive views.
253 posted on 04/19/2017 9:54:05 PM PDT by Squat (Deport the illegals now! Turn Home Depot's into the prisons to hold the illegals!.)
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To: sickoflibs; Twink; Chgogal; newnhdad
You don't know me any better than you know who took down OButthead

You can learn about me on my homepage

Unlike most here I don't hide

Read up be informed on these events tugging your emo strings

Fox agreed to pay these offended bimbos long ago

It's just easier

And that Hot Chocolate uglyassed black woman

She shoulda been flattered

Did he extort sex from these gals?

No he just commented they were hot or talked crap in front of them

I thought they wanted to be equal...no they want to be cryababies

My wife on my homepage....no slouch on the hot factor....worked corporate for years and got hit on and hotel room keys etc for a decade and more

You just put your big girl pants on and tell horndog story bugger off

She's livid and like me OButthead gets in her nerves too

She sat on the phone an hour today to bitch out FNC

Unless you're pressured for sex which has never been proven to my knowledge then what the hell......it's ridiculous

The libtard Murdoch bastards allied with screech birth. Allred junior and took the giant leprechaun out

As usual folded and the weak on our side celebrate

You do notice the left never ever folds

254 posted on 04/19/2017 10:19:14 PM PDT by wardaddy (Multiculturalism: Everyone wants to inhabit the world of white men with no white men in it)
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To: LeoWindhorse

It must be nice to be a woman and get hundreds of thousands or millions for getting your butt slapped or hearing a crude joke.


255 posted on 04/19/2017 10:47:51 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: LeoWindhorse

There is an opportunity with this. One good online 24 X 7 live streaming news network that does what Fox used to do and try and be fair and balanced could change how people view news.


256 posted on 04/19/2017 11:10:35 PM PDT by MagillaX
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To: wardaddy
You do notice the left never ever folds

Yup! Instead they tell us, “It's only sex!”

257 posted on 04/19/2017 11:14:57 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: VanDeKoik

At the beginning of this month he was on top of the world...


258 posted on 04/19/2017 11:16:02 PM PDT by Joann37
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To: Rightwingacademic

Agreed. He put out an excellent show each night, and provided spot-on analysis most of the time.


259 posted on 04/19/2017 11:19:39 PM PDT by Joann37
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To: Gaffer

$13 million of real issues, and bound to go up. The old letch!

I didn’t like him and really don’t see how he “got” so many women! Ugh!


260 posted on 04/19/2017 11:19:53 PM PDT by luvie (Be still and know that I Am GOD.....Psalm 46:10)
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