Nevertheless, 14 million dollars to settle is alot. OR had a problem so did Bubba. No integrity or morals. No excuses or defense.
You are making an assumption without any real evidence. Plenty of payoffs occur because most of the corporate attorneys see it as an easier, and often cheaper, way around the problem and it's not their reputation at stake.
Yet I haven't heard or seen any evidence to support the charges against OR. Where's the witnesses, the emails, conversations etc? Where the hell are the facts?
When I was a kid we had a three-legged beagle dog. One day a neighbors expensive dog - a pointer of some variety - entered our property and attacked our dog.
Buddy wasn’t much to look at but he was a scrapper. Even though he was on a chain he kicked the interlopers ass.
The neighbor was aghast and filed a claim for damages. My dad dutifully contacted our insurance company who immediately paid the claim and then demanded a rider on our policy disclaiming any future responsibility for “One Three-Legged Beagle Dog”. It didn’t matter to the insurance company that we were completely in the right and the neighbor completely in the wrong.
The amount of money paid out by the network has no bearing on the culpability of Bill O’Reilly.
BUT:
Since when is it a violation of a woman's rights to tell her he is glad she is blond, or to tell her she is sweet chocolate?
When did it become a violet act to ask a woman for a “date”?
With that said, I know that it is very bad ethically to ask a woman for a sexual encounter if that woman is in your employ or in any other way under your power.
But unless that woman is in some way punishable, all it is is rude behavior.
FOX had other ways to punish him without cutting off their won nose. For instance, they just gave him a new contract. It would have been easy to make that contract so restrictive and so expensive to violate its conditions that a bushel basket of blue pills would not have turned him on.
I suspect that FOX is paying his replacement a lot less money and that FOX is also about to look more like CNN.
The ownership are one worlders. I am surprised that FOX has been what it has been for as long as it has.been.
Ha $14 mil? The Associated Press reported the other day it was $25 mil and in the end it could even be a lot more, because he had recently before he went on vacation signed a new contract.