Posted on 10/18/2004 1:37:23 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 10/18/2004 2:53:02 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The woman accusing Fox News host Bill O'Reilly of sexual harassment wants her life and career back, she told the Daily News yesterday.Fox News officials ordered "The O'Reilly Factor" associate producer Andrea Mackris to stay out of the office as they moved to fire her.
Mackris said yesterday she is determined to stay in journalism even as her life has been upended.
"I love being a journalist. I never expected my life to take this acute left turn," she told The News yesterday.
Mackris, 33, has not set foot in Fox News since she sued the network's star commentator on Wednesday, alleging a string of "vile and degrading" sexual advances.
She said the scandal is an unwelcome detour that has disrupted her life and career.
"Fox told her not to come in," her lawyer David Ratner confirmed. "She hasn't been in since we started meeting with Fox."
Mackris did collect her regular paycheck on Thursday, sources said, but Fox has asked a judge to clear the way for her termination.
"We have asked the court to consider whether the allegations made public by Ms. Mackris are valid," said Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti. "We have also asked the court to advise Fox News about the possible termination of Ms. Mackris' employment. Ms. Mackris is still employed by and on the payroll of Fox News."
In an explicit lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Mackris claims that O'Reilly subjected her to phone sex against her wishes on three separate occasions in August and September.
She also contends O'Reilly previously told her to use a vibrator "to blow off steam," described his "amazing" endowment and recounted dalliances at a sex show in Thailand.
O'Reilly, 55, a married father of two, has teamed with Fox to file his own suit in Nassau County. He accuses Mackris and her lawyers of a politically motivated scheme to extort $60 million in "blood money."
He called Wednesday "the worst day of my life."
Mackris and her attorneys later updated their suit to charge that O'Reilly's Nassau complaint amounts to illegal retaliation.
"My logic in not going through the quote-unquote proper channels of Fox News' legal and Human Resources departments has been borne out in the retaliatory actions toward me since I came forward," Mackris said yesterday.
O'Reilly's wife, Maureen, meanwhile, kept mum yesterday as she pulled out of the family's Long Island driveway. "This is a private road," she said.
O'Reilly has hired private security to sit in front of his tony Plandome home. "He doesn't want anyone on his property," a silver-haired guard said.
Originally published on October 18, 2004
Okay you got me!
Right after lunch you need to call a co-worker and tell them about your fantasies while you pleasure yourself.
Anybody in this thread give a damn about innocent until . . .?
Abuse pressed.
Now I'm *really* confused....:-P
Thanks.
I simply refuted your argument by providing a parallel example and you hit abuse?
Perhaps you should sharpen your debating skills before running to a Mod.
Of course it matters. She can't sue for phone sex if she instigated it.
If that is your way of apologizing for attempting to induce me to conduct telephone harassment and intimating that I engage in phone sex, I spit on it. Posts like the one you posted that I reported to the mods do not belong on Freerepublic.
Do not post to me or Freepmail me again.
Must I?
I'm not a BOR fan and reading his alleged "dirty talk" would ruin my appetite permanently.
I agree with asgardshill. You are WAY over the line, and apparently think Mr. O'Reilly is fair game because you think he abandoned the right.
Baloney. We can all read the thread. You said he was having an affair.
I don't think much of O'Reilly, but I think even less of you.
If Mackris did indeed take the time to tape record the "phone sex" conversations with O'Reilly, how can she claim that she was subjected to it against her will? Did O'Reilly or somebody else prevent her from hanging up the phone?
Actually I think the whole thing is rather suspect.
[insert "I question the timing" here]
First of all, I don't BOR is that stupid.
Second, since he's more or less the "face" of FoxNews, I worry more about this being a backdoor attempt at bringing down the station.
I'm sure PMSNBCNN are severely stung over the fact that Fox outrates them all, combined.
Would they pull a stunt like this to regain their ratings?
Would Dems do such a thing?
I think they would.
If he's guilty of it, I'm enraged because he violated the trust of his wife and kids *and* he besmirches the reputation of Fox.
If he's not, I can only hope somebody will expose this for whatever "conspiracy" it may be.
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