[finnigan2]

It's hard to believe that someone as smart as O'Reilly could be stupid enough to keep after a female after one or two rebuffs. It's also strange that she just didn't tell him after one or two advances that she would press legal action if he didn't desist. There's something odd here. I'm only speculating, but it could be that she intended to go for a big lawsuit settlement from the get go by encouraging his fetish for telephone sex, getting the juicy parts on tape and editing out the parts that could have implicated her.
If that's not the case, he's in deep doo doo.

[MichelleWSC]

"It's hard to believe that someone as smart as O'Reilly could be stupid enough to keep after a female after one or two rebuffs"


---Didn't you read her statement? Obviously O'Falafel likes to be rebuffed over and over with loofah's LOL

[Cboldt]

It's hard to believe that someone as smart as O'Reilly could be stupid enough to keep after a female after one or two rebuffs. It's also strange that she just didn't tell him after one or two advances that she would press legal action if he didn't desist.

I speculate that she didn't rebuff him. She may have even "smiled" or "unh-huh'd" from time to time, to make him think she was at least listening. My guess was that her motivation was to either get money, or bring him down a peg or two. Dislike and hate are powerful motivators for some people.

IOW, I don't think this is about the money. This is about power, and she is trying to assert something over him.

[arasina]

There's something odd here. I'm only speculating, but it could be that she intended to go for a big lawsuit settlement from the get go by encouraging his fetish for telephone sex, getting the juicy parts on tape and editing out the parts that could have implicated her.

They certainly went to dinner together often enough. The "reminded him that he is her boss" thing isn't a very strong response if she truly was, as described in the complaint, "embarrassed".

I don't care for Bill O'Reilly anymore, but something about this doesn't smell right. Reminds me of Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas. It makes me sick that women can use the "sexual harrassment" thing against men so easily. She worked with him all those months without complaint, left for CNN and then wanted to return to work for a supposed sexual oppressor? She had the same complaint about another man at CNN? IMO she seems to have serious problems and has now become a willing pawn in a gotcha game against FNC.