Posted on 04/20/2017 6:55:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The original definition of tragedy, dating from the classical Greeks, depends upon a fatal flaw. That is why Bill O’Reilly’s departure from Fox News qualifies as “tragic,” even though there are many collateral victims as well, starting with conservatives who are losing a gutsy interrogator unafraid of the stature or political correctness of his interview subjects.
As I read the complaints against O’Reilly, it sounds as if he was alleged to have been behaving like a character out Mad Men, the soap opera about a Madison Avenue ad agency in the 1960s. Bill seems to have been old school in his treatment of females in the workplace, commenting on their appearance, and treating them as almost non-persons, accused of “grunting” at them in place of actual individual focus and engagement.
I have no way to know if the allegations of sexual shakedowns are true or not, and he deserves to be considered innocent until proven guilty. But I can believe that he may have occasionally grunted at female subordinates and made comments on their appearance. These were considered acceptable boss behaviors in decades past. Somehow, Bill never got the message that times have changed, that women get angry over such treatment, and that vast legal and social pressure forces can be brought to bear for fun and immense profit by aggrieved females.
It’s not too hard to imagine why he never got the message. He has been for the entire life of the Fox News Channel its biggest star. Who was going to tell him to change his ways?
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Follow the money, Fox will continue with their bevy of babes long after Bill is gone. That will be your proof of Hokum.
It is Show Business after all.
Bill is NOT “conservative”.
He is a populist seeking to gain the largest audience.
Anyone else would have been gone after the first or second woman.
You don't see other FNC male hosts Hannity, Cavuto, Carson, ... having these types of accusations or payoffs.. Not even one.
I didn't watch his show, however putting THE FIVE at 9pm seems lame.
“I have no way of knowing ... and he deserves to be considered innocent ...”
‘But I am going to trash him anyway.’
Good article. Seems right on target. Warning: if you go to the link you may find an ad that is a pain of which to get rid.
It’s OK he’s probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars
I agree. O’Reilly is for O’Reilly as far as his show is concerned. But I do believe his being run out of town by an allegation not backed by proof is a shame.
The tragedy is that we have been drawn into a potential salaciously prurient gossip fest about a multimillionaire getting caught, or not, having one weird sexual control problem.
I saw him as a fake conservative for a very long time. Good riddance, and keep your pants zipped up.
He can join his buddy Glen Beck on his internet program network.
He never claimed to be. He is conservative on many issues and that is what he primarily focused on.
Can somebody explain exactly what he is accused of? So far all I heard is he called one woman “Hot Chocolate.” She never asked BOR to stop. She never told him she didn’t like it. She said she was “afraid” to do so. But when the allegations started to come out, she came forward too. Big deal. Does Hot Chocolate know what men call each other when women aren’t around? It can be brutal sometimes.
Anyways was he accused of groping women or just using language like Hot Chocolate? I remember I heard men in the armed forces would cross the street on base if a woman was approaching. Just so he wouldn’t be too close to her. Why? Because the atmosphere of getting accused of sexual harassment was thick and the guys just wanted to segregate themselves as much as they could do.
The master triangulator loofah boy will now have a lot of time to
play with loofah’s.
In the telephone transcripts he told one of the women the women would never tell on him because he would become friends with them first. He is a fake culture warrior and a stupid sick man.
Sickening.
The only thing about O'Reilly's show are the segments with Dennis Miller.
Some years back, BOR was brought up on sexual harassment charges which I think he sort'a lost ... made a deal or something like that to stay on the air.
ANY man that has ever experienced a sex charge of any kind can relate to the turmoil within as he struggles to deal with either the truth or a lie ... (Many charges are false, but that doesn't stop the slow wheels of the court system).
I'm going to guess, based on the short piece posted here in FR, that BOR never recovered from that/those experiences and, being a Neanderthal, never developed a better "working attitude" beyond trying to appear non sexual, actually offending someone by the combination of grunts and compliments ..... All reactions so very familiar to many, if not most .. married men.
Flame away, I don't care at my age, but it synopsises in my mind that BOR was blindsided by a plant and didn't have the tools to deal with it.
I remember when I first saw BOR doing one of those “family hour” tabloid human-interest shows a Philadelphia local TV channel back in 1980 or ‘81.
Do they still have those? I think the one BOR was on was called “A Current Affair,” but there was also “Prime Time” and “Entertainment Tonight.”
I always thought he was kind of a cheesy lightweight because of that. Perhaps unfairly, although the few times I’ve watched him doing his “O’Reilly Factor” thing, I’ve thought he came off as rather a pompous blowhard, really full of himself.
Which is I guess why Rush calls him “Ted Baxter.”
“Sex Sells.” And no one knows this better than Fox News Channel.
FNC’s women show cleavage and thigh like street walkers but get “offended” when men make passes?
Give me a break.
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