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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: LeoWindhorse
help me kill foxnews- here is how. I could give 3 sh*ts about orielly he has been a bolivating bastard for about 10 years now however all of my brothers kids love him - he appeals to the folks and the young wonks. I have no idea what has happened and he seems rather porno as I have said before perhaps not here - for the record i think bill is a ASS!

Anyhow screw him now is a chance to correctly poison the minds of all his young fans. And rightly so.

Foxnews has never cared about America as families do they cared about as a corporation does - loveless, continual and monotonous - this is the falacy of good and bad comanies but I digress.

This is an opportunity - to not view it as propaganda that can be used and argue about the validity of the decision is to relegate oneself to being a spectator when a cultural civil war is occuring.

As to Bill himself, he will be just fine and is a self serving arrgogant jealous POS just read his book The Oreilly Factor

I find it funny that the part that he talks about president Trump - long before any attempts at a nomination, reform or otherswise, an episode of he and then Mr. Trump walking togther avec entourage and being called out. It was Bill's misinterpretation of the events and how he cataloged them in the book that was one of the key reasons on why Trump won - Bill didn't see it the book because of one egomanic being jealous of what turns out to be the Alpha Male.

The secret is simple - Americans like Trump because Trump love America - not on its good days but everyday.

Oh by the way FUBO - I mean what an outrage, can you imagine. So glad they balance him out with Sheppard Smith (okay that was the tequilla talking - lighten up )

221 posted on 04/19/2017 7:10:02 PM PDT by datricker (Democratic Party - aborting their voter base since 1973)
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To: LeoWindhorse
help me kill foxnews- here is how. I could give 3 sh*ts about orielly he has been a bolivating bastard for about 10 years now however all of my brothers kids love him - he appeals to the folks and the young wonks. I have no idea what has happened and he seems rather porno as I have said before perhaps not here - for the record i think bill is a ASS!

Anyhow screw him now is a chance to correctly poison the minds of all his young fans. And rightly so.

Foxnews has never cared about America as families do they cared about as a corporation does - loveless, continual and monotonous - this is the falacy of good and bad comanies but I digress.

This is an opportunity - to not view it as propaganda that can be used and argue about the validity of the decision is to relegate oneself to being a spectator when a cultural civil war is occuring.

As to Bill himself, he will be just fine and is a self serving arrgogant jealous POS just read his book The Oreilly Factor

I find it funny that the part that he talks about president Trump - long before any attempts at a nomination, reform or otherswise, an episode of he and then Mr. Trump walking togther avec entourage and being called out. It was Bill's misinterpretation of the events and how he cataloged them in the book that was one of the key reasons on why Trump won - Bill didn't see it the book because of one egomanic being jealous of what turns out to be the Alpha Male.

The secret is simple - Americans like Trump because Trump love America - not on its good days but everyday.

Oh by the way FUBO - I mean what an outrage, can you imagine. So glad they balance him out with Sheppard Smith (okay that was the tequilla talking - lighten up )

222 posted on 04/19/2017 7:10:02 PM PDT by datricker (Democratic Party - aborting their voter base since 1973)
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To: Pravious
RE:”We know (well, at least we’re TOLD) that he paid off women so that they wouldn’t come out with a bunch of garbage and ruin his career. “

Well it didnt work forever, maybe in his next venture the women will be ugly and he won't be so tempted.

He should try MSNBC.

I guess Bill Clinton can use your argument too. Or is only bad when he does it?

223 posted on 04/19/2017 7:11:14 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Trump "I will put America First!")
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To: LeoWindhorse

Really sad, that Fox dumps their best man on the presumption of guilt.
The man brought the network hundreds of millions of dollars Had the best raitings anywhere, and was still gaining more viewers even as he was accused of sexual harassment.

Fox’s new owners just shot himself in the foot. How are we the viewers suppose to trust a network that presumes its own lead men guilty.

They should have fought it out in court, to prove bills innocence or guilt, and even then I don’t see how that has anything to do with his job.

You can do a great job leading a highly successful industry and still be unpleasant for some people to work with. People can’t naturally have a ‘right’ to a pleasant work place. If they did nobody would do any dirty or unpleasant jobs.

It is also evident by the way Bill O’Rielly had top Ratings that were only going higher still even as he was being charged with this that the vast majority of his viewers either don’t believe the charges or simply don’t care.

Thus Fox just shot itself in the foot, because its new management cares more about a bunch of disputed claims and people’s supposed feelings than actually doing a good job with the news.

Personalty I couldn’t care less if he did the things theses people said he did. Bill is still very good and successful at his job, and the work place is not a place for feeling at home. Its a place where you need a thick skin, if you don’t have that you got no business in the news business.

If this is the new attitude at fox im done with them.


224 posted on 04/19/2017 7:15:03 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Godebert

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225 posted on 04/19/2017 7:15:26 PM PDT by datricker (Democratic Party - aborting their voter base since 1973)
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To: Monorprise

Are you sure they don’t have facts or even an admission from him?


226 posted on 04/19/2017 7:16:09 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: wardaddy; sickoflibs
This was an organized take down by the left. The left won big and many of us are blind to this. It started April 1 with the NYT article, followed by 50 companies withdrawing their ads and left wing demonstrators in front of the FNC HQ. Look at the protesters and their signs. Sexual Predator? Really?


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-bill-o-reilly-accuser-street-protests-hit-fox-news-n747966

And here are the new BS allegations:

Attorney Lisa Bloom announced Tuesday that she is representing a new client who is accusing O’Reilly of “sexual and racial harassment.”

Bloom did not reveal the identity of the new client but said that she called the hotline Fox News set up last week to investigate claims against O’Reilly.

The attorney told The Hollywood Reporter that her client was called “hot chocolate” by O’Reilly and “was afraid if she told him to knock it off she'd get fired.”

227 posted on 04/19/2017 7:19:57 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Pravious

See post 13


228 posted on 04/19/2017 7:23:08 PM PDT by DandG13
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To: wardaddy

Media Matter was a organization funded by Soros to take down BOR. They’ve been trying for almost 15 years but the same people were working at it for a while before then.
Too many people here gleefully clink champagne glasses with clinton and soros paid hitmen to celebrate the scalp because Bill didn’t like something that a poster wrote on FR back ten years ago.
He was one of the most visible TV figures that was pro life, pro military, pro traditional, pro christian, pro free speech and against illegal immigration. Same stances with little deviation for 21 years. One of the first serious TV people to urge politicians to enforce immigration laws and challenged the people in power. He even tackled local issues.

He was a breath of fresh air in a media environment that was downright hostile towards traditional America and traditional values. The political national discourse will be weakened because of this.

This type of intimidation will continue. Fox news has committed suicide. Have fun watching Tucker mumble over incoherent leftists and Kennedy talk about legalizing dope on you tube.


229 posted on 04/19/2017 7:26:56 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: wardaddy

True. I don’t particularly like him either but he was taken down and it was orchestrated by the left.


230 posted on 04/19/2017 7:30:57 PM PDT by Twink
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To: morphing libertarian

If they did, Bill wouldn’t be professing to have evidence of his innocence.

I think 21st Century Fox Inc’s new chairman Lachlan Murdoch Son of Rupert, and a liberal, railroaded Bill in an effort to change the culture of fox to something more compatible with his own ideology.

You don’t shoot yourself in the foot by throwing away your single best asset worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year on disputed claims, without a strong ideological agenda, and more than a little financial insanity.

They don’t have anything more than suspicion, and to be honest even if it were all 100% true it still would not justify throwing away Bill O’Reily who was still gaining popularity and rating’s dispute the thus far unproven charges.
A rational executive would have waited it out giving Bill the benefit of the presumption of innocence. This executive just cut the ties without that proof throwing away his single most valuable asset. How are we suppose to trust a network that does that?


231 posted on 04/19/2017 7:39:11 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Jim 0216
On the other hand, he seemed clueless when it came to the unconstitutional portion of the federal government and was tone deaf when it came to understanding the benefits of the free market.

Bill is shallow and believes only in whatever benefits his personal investment portfolio. I do not remember what year it was, but Bill was one of the unlucky ones who lost a significant amount of money playing the market. His response was to call for the nationlization of the oil industry.

232 posted on 04/19/2017 7:44:34 PM PDT by sockhead
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To: Chgogal

I’m completely ok with an organized takedown of such a person. I hate that a Dem wouldn’t necessarily face the music for their despicable acts, though. Don’t get me wrong. I have heard that both David letterman AND LESBIAN PROTECTED SPECIES ELLEN hit on or harassed the staff too.

But I think it was correct to knock BOR off his perch. Would that every organization would do the same when the person will not stop harassing the employees, and abusing his position.


233 posted on 04/19/2017 7:44:45 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Chgogal
THIS WILL NOT STAND


234 posted on 04/19/2017 7:53:34 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Yaelle
OK. I am glad you have no problem that Soros, et. al taking down a big scalp. And I am glad you convicted O’Reilly on heresy. Did you see the professional demonstrators? O’Reilly was not a sexual predator. But you agree with Soros, the NYT, etc. Consider your allies.

As for him being (in)decent:
https://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/billsfavorites/billscharities.jsp

235 posted on 04/19/2017 7:57:51 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Monorprise

disagree with your analysis


236 posted on 04/19/2017 7:59:16 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Yaelle

Oh yeah?

Would you give the Nazi Party a scalp?

F#%K the communists and F#%K Fox News.

This is character assassination and a knife in the back to all of the MALE viewers of this soon to be extinct channel.

BOYCOTT!!!!


237 posted on 04/19/2017 8:01:35 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Rome2000

I’m a Gal and I double down on your post! The boycott is on.


238 posted on 04/19/2017 8:04:21 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: sockhead

When it came to “energy”, O’Reilly had no clue. Many of his monologues were pretty good though. And compared to other opinion anchors is was infinitely better (Madow, Lemon, etc.)


239 posted on 04/19/2017 8:08:15 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: patriotsoul

Fox is loaded up with pro abortion, pro queer “marriage” liberals and RINOs it’s barely watchable. From fat as Beckel, to Juan Williams, to Krauthammer, to Goldberg, to a Dennis Miller, to the ditz known as Kennedy, they should go ahead and replace O’Reilly with Sharpton. The Sharpton Factor. They need to quit pretending to be a conservative network, They’re not, It’s a liberal network that tolerates a few conservative voices, most notably Hannity and Bolling. The rest could be working for CNN, I almost forgot Trump hater Miss Sheppie Smith, the resident sodomite.


240 posted on 04/19/2017 8:10:45 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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