People in the news (Bill O'Reilly)

Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | 10/14/04

[TexKat]

[fight_truth_decay]

"O'Reilly's lawyer, Ronald Green, said he believes there are tapes of conversations between the two and asked a court to compel Mackris to produce them so they could be played publicly.

Green said Mackris never complained to anyone at Fox about untoward behavior by O'Reilly, ...."

http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?
articleid=48964

"Fox produced an e-mail Mackris sent to a friend last month, saying things are ‘‘wonderful, amazing, fun, creative, invigorating, secure, well-managed, challenging, interesting fun and surrounded by really good, fun people. I'm home and I'll never leave again.''
(Her complaint said that the first time she noticed odd behavior by O'Reilly came in 2002)

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/10/14/national/a05101404_03.txt

[TexKat]

Ping.

The suit also quotes O'Reilly as threatening "any woman" who would complain about his sexual advances, and as suggesting Fox News chief Roger Ailes would "go after" enemies of the channel.

"Look at Al Franken - one day he's going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever," the suit quotes O'Reilly as saying. Franken, a liberal commentator, has been engaged for months in a public feud with O'Reilly. Franken did not respond to calls seeking comment.

[sinkspur]

:"O'Reilly's lawyer, Ronald Green, said he believes there are tapes of conversations between the two and asked a court to compel Mackris to produce them so they could be played publicly.

The tapes, if they exist, will show Mackris to be the aggressor. In addition, Mackris suffered not at all, job wise; in fact, she returned to FOXNEWS at her very high CNN salary.

If this happened away from work (which it apparently did), Mackris will have a very hard time proving sexual harrassment.

[mingwah]

I have read some of the alleged conversations and my first thought was why would this woman listen to such a conversation but if MacKris has tapes then how could O'Reilly sue her? I am surprised Dan Rather didn't break this one!!!

[TexKat]

I'm not taking Mackris or anyone's side.

The following is what I am appalled at if true.

The suit also quotes O'Reilly as threatening "any woman" who would complain about his sexual advances, and as suggesting Fox News chief Roger Ailes would "go after" enemies of the channel.

[fight_truth_decay]

Mackris left Fox for CNN in January and O'Reilly allegedly told staffers that she had committed "career suicide." But three months later, Mackris said O'Reilly promised, "If anything bad happens to you at CNN, I'll get you a job."....

O'Reilly called again in April after Mackris' boss at CNN was terminated - for sexual harassment - and suggested they have dinner.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/242016p-207535c.html

[Palladin]

I don't think Roger will take too kindly to O'Reilly's description of him as a hitman.

O'Reilly will be O'Gone by the end of the year.

[Palladin]

O'Reilly got her back to "keep an eye on her", so to speak, and he should have seen the handwriting on the wall. Instead, he persisted in his boorish and indecent behavior with her.

Are these the actions of a man in full control of his senses? I believe there may be alcohol or drugs involved in O'Reilly's going off the rails.

I had to laugh at the part of Andrea's complaint about one restaurant meeting where O'Reilly's eyes went completely out of focus..."in two different directions"...as he continued his Dirty Old Man line to her.

[sinkspur]

I don't think Roger will take too kindly to O'Reilly's description of him as a hitman.

O'Reilly will be O'Gone by the end of the year.

If Ailes believed the wench, O'Reilly would be gone NOW.

[TexKat]

Thats what I'm talking about Palladin.

[UCANSEE2]

Who cares. This has about as much interest, to me, as Rush's drug addiction. When did the journalist's become our celebrities, our leaders, our hero's? When the journalists are the focus of the news, something is rotten in Denmark.

I expect about 10 ...Duh's... to that one.

[DoctorMichael]

Bill...........

...........Bill...

..............Bill.

[Palladin]

I agree, TexKat. It is O'Reilly's thuggish and frightening behavior at issue here.

He threatened Andrea several times with "showing up" at her apartment. As a single woman who lives alone, she took this as a stalking threat.

Some people here have not read the entire complaint on smokinggun.com, and fail to comprehend the severity of the charges.

[UCANSEE2]

P.S. sinator sKerry did have a memorable qoute.

"It's not about faith, but works."

A similar verse, "you shall be known by your works."

same thing. "You can talk about how religious you are, but beware thy tongue doth desire to expose itself."

[fight_truth_decay]

All hearsay..she said..he said....I put no stock in any of this til I see the facts..She seems to be in the sexual harassment scene with her CNN boss under the same scrutiny.

Why did she go back to the scene of this "crime on women". Are there not other news channels she could go to? She doesn't seem to stay any one place to long..

Why does she even have multiple phone conversations with O'Reilly (3 times she alleges he hit on her over the phone alone).

Why is money the answer to make her problem go away?

Wouldn't she be welcomed with open arms on any liberal leaning news outlet for taking on The Factor?

I dunno on this one..will wait and see.

I have no love-hate relationship towards The Factor.

[Enlightiator]

The scandal comes at a particularly awkward time for O'Reilly and Fox News. The channel has logged record ratings for its coverage of the White House race, routinely beating rival CNN by margins of more than 2-1. ,

Silly stuff - why is this such an "awkward" time? lol, typical left wing drivel, they WISH this would have some effect and people would defect to the Left Wing Bledia like CNN and Knight Ridder newspapers.

[ladyinred]

Okay, he may have done all these things, who knows? BUT, she set him up obviously. She took his calls, she went to dinner, she returned to work. I say this is a scorched earth set up by the DNC against all things conservative (or perceived to be) and especially Foxnews. They got Rush, and now they got O'Reilly.

[zeppenwolf]

"All hearsay..she said..he said....I put no stock in any of this til I see the facts.."

I'm with you: facts, (especially tapes), might be interesting, but accusations by themselves are not enough.

"I have no love-hate relationship towards The Factor."

I have a yawn-pshaw relationship.

[ladyinred]

I read all of it, including his suit. I am wondering, perhaps you can answer this, why she would continue to go to dinner with him, take his phone calls etc if she was so threatened and upset by this? Could it be that she was taping him so that she could then set him up? That is the question I have. I do not like O'Reilly, and if he did this it is disgusting, but why did she keep hanging around him?