Do you have lead for brains? If you are my boss, I can't just hang up on you. You control my job. You are one of the most important people in my business. My career is dependent upon positive recommendations in a very small environment of options. What was she supposed to do?
Again, assuming what she said is true, I don't blame her for not going to mgmt. They'd have tried to push her out and then ruin her chance for succeeding somewhere else. A lawsuit was the only avenue open to her.
Maybe she set him up when she went back to Fox from CNN? I don't have a clue. But that isn't really the issue - he either did what she has alleged or he didn't. Without tapes, she can't prove a thing and is therefore stupid to have filed the suit. Of course the wildest conspiracy theorists may have McAuliffe paying her off to do this. And from what I've seen of him, I wouldn't put it past him.
If her intent were to ruin O'Reilly, she would have filed the lawsuit in September. If her intent were extortion, her mob lawyer sits down with Roger Ailes and says "I want $60 big ones."
Then he goes to the press anyway.
I can't believe there are intelligent FReepers who don't see this for what it is. She has no case, or she would have filed it before O'Reilly called her bluff.
As it is, she went back to FOXNEWS, got the money she wanted, suffered no ill effects, sent an email to a former CNN co-worker that she couldn't be happier.
If there were any truth to this, Roger Ailes would have taken O'Reilly off the air.
This is pure political extortion. Bank on it.