Posted on 10/15/2004 2:03:24 PM PDT by familyop
A Monica Lewinsky she's not: Fox News Channel producer Andrea Mackris, 33, who filed a shocking sexual harassment lawsuit against her boss, conservative blowhard Bill O'Reilly, was once a White House intern.
*The kicker: But NOT for President Bill Clinton. Mackris worked earlier for President George H.W. Bush.
What! No picture?
No one is indespensible...and he's annoying a lot of people lately..he's NOT a conservative..he's a Populist...and he's too full of himself of late....the best INTERVIEWER on Fox, bar none, is John Gibson..they could put hij on, with Heather Naeuwert in the 2nd chiar,m have Laurie Dhue do the news, and ratings would go up..
Wrote off BOR several years ago after his interview of Lynn Cheney.
On Scarborough (or should I call it Buchanan) COuntry there was a big fight over the fact it doesn't matter tha she came back after harasment. Supposedly she was supposed to follow the harassment policies at Fox but did not. She went straight for the jugular with the 60 mill instead (according to Fox).
Sure. She shacked up for over a year with a boyfriend.
Lots of folks, in fact most folks here, despise O'Reilly. But, remember: if Mackris has tapes that say what she says they say, they would be all over the airwaves right now.
If she has tapes, they will show her to be the aggressor, the initiator of the phone sex, and not at all a victim of harrassment.
If O'Reilly talked dirty, Roger Ailes will likely have to let him go. The fact that Ailes has not, indicates to me he knows what this is all about, and that Morelli and Mackris are engaging in a shakedown.
"Bill said something last night to Ann that sounded like "you walk in there with your little skirt..." I'm not sure I heard it right and I was watching on the TV that doesn't have the TiVo, but my ears perked up when I caught that comment."
A couple of weeks ago he called Laura Ingraham "mistress."
Why oh Why must they insist on calling the O'bloviator a conservative!
I'll second that!
I'll second that!
I loved him, I bought all his books, I watched him every night. He lost me the night he bad mouthed the Swift Boat Vets. But worst of all his his constant butt licking of that low life excuse for a human being, John Kerry. O'Reilly is now radioactive and Kerry, the traitor will not touch him. I pray for O'Reilly to go down big time. Would like to see him down on the Bowery in Manhattan, NY cleaning windshields for quarters. I'm a loyalty guy, and this guy has no loyalty. He is just plain vermin!!!
I wouldn't go that far. He's not been accused of rape.
Thats what I was thinking last night when I first discovered she had quit and gone to work for CNN. Then, she's back and very happy! Very happy because she's about to do in O'Reilly? Not that I like him. I think he's as mercurial as Kerry is, and NOT a conservative, which is OK, but if you aren't conservative, why act like you are? This whole thing just stinks, even if he is a a jerk. I really don't like the CNN angle. No matter how much I don't like o'Reilly, I like CNN even less.
That would be true if her attorney were really, really stupid.
CNN wants to bury him because he's clobbering them in the ratings.
Once they're done with O'Reilly, Brit Hume will be next.
This is an assault on FNC, not BOR.
O'Reilly is an ass. An unmitigated, pompous, self-serving, two-faced, finger-in-the-air-to-see-the-way-the-wind-is-blowing, I'll-do-anything-to-get-my-ratings-up, complete and total ass. But there are things about this case (although I'll admit I obviously don't have all the facts) which don't smell right. If she has tapes, he's done for, and rightly so. Then again, if she has tapes, why'd he file suit instead of settle? Too many things don't add up. We'll wait and see, I suppose. Besides, Greta has to have SOMEthing to talk about once the Peterson and Jackson cases are done, right?
BO should get a job in the porn industry. He could be in charge of luffas, vibrators and falafals on porn sets. Hell, he probably even be in porns if they had a fetish flick about nasty old 6'6" old guys. Gross.
Some of the attributed remarks in the harrassment filing look like things O'Reilly has said in public in the past, and may seem credible. Of course it's a question of the "chicken and the egg": does the fact that some O'Reilly-esque comments appear in the filing mean that O'Reilly uses the same language in private, only more so, or does it mean that Mackris, as one of his producers is familiar with O'Reilly's public utterances (including his somewhat smutty novel). Whatever the truth about Bill O'Reilly's relationship with Citizen Mackris may be, two things are clear from my reading of her complaint: 1. her attorney's denials aside, there is a strong Left-Wing political component to the language of the complaint (e.g. Fox news preaches family values, but allows harrassment to take place...Roger Ailes is a powerful, but bad man), and 2. this is extortion, "decriminalized" extortion perhaps, but extortion nevertheless.
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