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O'Reilly Hit with Sexual Harassment Suit
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html ^

Posted on 10/13/2004 1:31:31 PM PDT by scottybk

O'Reilly in trouble!


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To: Halls

In NY, only one party need to consent to the recording of call, and that one party can be the recorder.

Now, the threat to release tapes of private conversations can in some instances be extortion or otherwise actionable, but I see no legal problem in keeping the tapes or magnetic media for defensive purposes.


281 posted on 10/13/2004 2:31:05 PM PDT by BCrago66
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To: myself6

O'Reilly wants to fondle her "boobs" with a "falafal".

Uhhhhh, OK.


282 posted on 10/13/2004 2:31:10 PM PDT by mlbford2 ("Never wrestle with a pig; you can't win, you just get filthy, and the pig loves it...")
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To: BearCub
O'Reilly in trouble!

Nope. If she didn't use the resources made available by Fox to deal with perceived harassment (and I heard she didn't) then she's screwed. This case won't go anywhere.


O'Reilly may in fact win in court as you point out.

But the damage done to him, by probable recordings that scream of hypocrisy, will ruin Bill and his family. So sad. "Little head" destroys "big head". And in Bill's case, REALLY big head.
283 posted on 10/13/2004 2:31:15 PM PDT by CaptSkip (Dan the NewsMan says, "Karma sucks, but Nixonian Karma?...that's a B*tch!")
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To: dirtboy
Saying that he understood the attacker could have believed she was raped is not the same as admitting to rape.

He didn't go on national tv to say that. I am referring to his first press conference with his wife where he admitted having sexual relations with that girl. Till then, he was the glowing portrait of the good family man that never went out to parties with the other guys, always staying in his hotel room alone. At least one part of the image was right ...

284 posted on 10/13/2004 2:31:39 PM PDT by WildTurkey
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To: BearCub
Nope. If she didn't use the resources made available by Fox to deal with perceived harassment (and I heard she didn't) then she's screwed. This case won't go anywhere.

She didn't use them because if she nipped it in the bud, she wouldn't have a lawsuit. I think Bill O came on to her once and she knew she had a live one.

After that she had a recorder with her whenever she could. Otherwise anyone with any sense at all would have shut this kind of crap down immediately

O'reilly has career ending problems if she has recordings

285 posted on 10/13/2004 2:31:43 PM PDT by tx_eggman ("There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." --Edmund Burke)
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To: MichelleWSC

HMMMM, ya know i think i heard something like that. Ya know, sometimes i will listen to Bill and he will be talking about women and i notice a bit that he seems to be a bit off there. Like when he was talking about Janet Jackson exposing her breast. He said she shouldn't have done it, but if she wants to come down to the radio factor and expose her breats there he would be happy for her to do it. I thought to myself that statement was a bit tacky!


286 posted on 10/13/2004 2:31:47 PM PDT by Halls
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To: Smogger

He is not a sick puppy. Every married man needs a good side load.


287 posted on 10/13/2004 2:31:52 PM PDT by mmyers
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To: BearCub
Nope. If she didn't use the resources made available by Fox to deal with perceived harassment (and I heard she didn't) then she's screwed. This case won't go anywhere.

I agree that the case won't fly. But the allegations, if true or believed, will hurt O'Reilly's ratings.

Howie Carr was all over this story in the last 10 minutes. Pretty funny treatment of the story.

288 posted on 10/13/2004 2:32:00 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: bigeasy_70118

I don't think the extortion claim is meritless on its face. The "damages" she was trying to extort bear no relationship to any alleged injury. And her sexual harassment claim should be dismissed on the pleadings. Her lawyer undoubtedly knows that he couldn't plead all the elements. See Post # 275.


289 posted on 10/13/2004 2:32:37 PM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: Jack Black
What other newsman is going to interview a porn star on a hard news program?

O has always stated that his show is NOT a news show and that he is not a newsman.

290 posted on 10/13/2004 2:33:02 PM PDT by WildTurkey
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To: WildTurkey

I don't have hatred. I have disgust. Disgust for O'Reilly, Ailes, et al., for allowing this to happen. Don't think there isn't some truth to these allegations. I could give two hoots for FOX. What concerns me is how the Dems will spin and twist this into a conservative, right wing, GOP failing. Think about it - it could mean the election.


291 posted on 10/13/2004 2:33:03 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: MichelleWSC

You know that reading that court document is probably like watching a good porn to Matt Drudge!!!!!!! Drudge hates his guts and has to be in heaven!


292 posted on 10/13/2004 2:33:25 PM PDT by Nov3 (They knifed babies, They raped girls, They forced children to drink their own urine)
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To: bigeasy_70118
You nailed it. I think the fact that O'Reilly did not sue for defamtion means there probably is some truth to the sexual harassment

At that point (when they presented the settlement offer) no defamation had taken place - they were very general about the nature of her claims. I'm not sure they even mentioned O'Reilly by name.

Of course that has changed - he now has a defamation claim if her suit is b.s. - that remains to be seen.

293 posted on 10/13/2004 2:33:56 PM PDT by BearCub
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To: scottybk

For someone who felt shocked and humiliated by O'Reilly's talking dirty, she sure did stick around for it, didn't she? Even came back to work for him, just like Anita Hill.


294 posted on 10/13/2004 2:35:18 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("Ich glaube, du hast in die hosen geschissen!")
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To: Taliesan
"Producers only make 60k a year? Good grief.

Yeah, but look at all the glory and free dinners they get.

295 posted on 10/13/2004 2:35:38 PM PDT by Max7 (.)
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To: Cboldt
I agree that the case won't fly. But the allegations, if true or believed, will hurt O'Reilly's ratings.

Could be said of other cases this "lawyer" has pursued. One I have already posted on this thread.

296 posted on 10/13/2004 2:36:01 PM PDT by WildTurkey
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To: bigeasy_70118
That is unless FNC has some "proof" as you cited would be requisite for such a preemptive move. If they can prove there was something outside of standard settlement negotiations, then it might actually be interesting.
297 posted on 10/13/2004 2:36:02 PM PDT by blogbat (Holding Out for 2008, but still voting in '04)
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To: scottybk
[sarcasm]
Since Dan Rather thinks Juanita Broaddrick's rape by Bill Clinton should be kept private, I'm sure Rather will be quiet about sexual harassment by Bill O'Reilly..
[/sarcasm]
298 posted on 10/13/2004 2:36:09 PM PDT by syriacus (How can the POLISH troops make sure they're noticed by Kerry? They can wear N.VIETNAMESE uniforms.)
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To: scottybk

I read the complaint and found it "pithy".


299 posted on 10/13/2004 2:36:29 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Only dummies play poker with George W. Bush.)
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To: myself6

I saw him in an interveiw once and he said he was independent but leaned right. I have noticed all the fnc hosts have not been as openly conservative lately, except Hannity & if you notice colmes gets more air time than hannity does.


300 posted on 10/13/2004 2:36:30 PM PDT by jincarolina
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