Bill O’Reilly promises ‘stunning’ information about his firing by Fox News as litigation likely

American Thinker ^ | 06/12/2017 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

Speaking via Skype with Newsmax TV last week, Bill O’Reilly revealed that he has plans to fight back against those who brought him down. Clearly foreshadowing litigation but claiming that his attorneys have implored him to offer no information, the former dominant personality of the entire cable news industry is not planning to go away quietly.

Bill is not going away quietly

It is no secret that George Soros-backed Media Matters has long had a campaign against FNC and its dominant personalities. No doubt others helped with the “Get Bill” project. If O’Reilly sues on the basis of tortious interference with his contract or some other basis (libel?), the object may be less monetary damages than the opportunity to depose people and obtain subpoenas for records as part of the discovery process.

The Blaze has summarized the key portions of his comments about his departure from.  Fox News:

 

In hindsight, O’Reilly says he should have fought back against those putting pressure on his advertisers, like his friend Sean Hannity did, who recently also had liberal activists pressure his advertisers in an effort to oust him.

O’Reilly made the comments during an interview on Newsmax TV Thursday.

“In hindsight, Sean did it the right way,” O’Reilly said. “I should’ve done it that way, but I didn’t.”

“This was no accident our sponsors were attacked. This is very well organized. They tried to with Hannity. Hannity actually fought back. I didn’t. I should have. For reasons that I cannot explain now, I did not,” O’Reilly explained.

[taildragger]

I met w/ my wise circle of business guru's shortly after this happened. My original question wasn't this sophisticated, but it was along these lines: I mentioned is it true their is an industry ( I had heard stories 20 years ago...) that if a person of a certain gender is about to get fired or in an employee improvement plan because they ain't making the grade, they will hook up with an attorney that claim you did x, y, or z, and sue or threaten to go public / sue and quietly leave the organization with a bigger separation package to keep things quiet as all H.R. Departments are about fending off lawsuits?

The answer was: Yep, and Oh heck ya....

I'd love to know the ratings etc off all those grieved in this case. Nothing against them, and I am not discounting he could be "flawed" like all of us, however like he is hinting their is more to this story.....

[BlueStateRightist]

No matter whether you always or never agree with him, O’Reilly represents a very important element of American discourse. Need evidence? He WAS the prime time line-up at Fox News. His absence has left a gaping hole in their product. Most here would be lying if they stated they didn’t find his show supremely interesting, provocative and important. He often said things that needed to be said, and only he would say them.

[alternatives?]

Not a big fan of Bill but my understanding is a few individuals are able to appear as many to advertisers which lead the advertisers to drop their ads.

I am not a lawyer, but it would appear to me that this would be a fraud committed by these few individuals and they should be subject to damages. However, they probably don’t have any assets. To me, such acts need to be criminalized.

[vette6387]

“In other news, regarding George Soros:

LOCK HIM UP!”

NO, he needs to be executed for what he’s done to the entire world, going all the way back to his turning in “his people” to the Nazis! And if he were to be executed, the government should expropriate every nickel he has. We need to leave his spawn without purse or they will “continue his work!”

[mad_as_he$$]

I have friends that are employees of Fox. If the stories are true - BOR really shouldn’t go where he will be put under oath regarding this subject. And I am not saying Fox is clean in this matter.

[Leaning Right]

> I don’t care if Bill O’Reilly goes away quietly or not as long as he goes away. <

I’m with you on that.

O’Reilly brings on a noted guest, then asks him an important question. I want to hear the answer. The guest starts to answer, then O’Reilly breaks in and gives his own answer. The guest doesn’t get the chance to finish his thought.

That happened over and over again. It was too much for me.

[Jarhead9297]

Absolutely 100% spot on correct!

[GOPJ]

If a woman wants a job with FOXNews - or anywhere - she should apply through the HR Department. Not with a dinner date with her potential boss.

The real victims of predatory/pity party women in these ‘backroom deals’ ,are talented women who don't sell their sexuality to gullible men to increase their odds of getting ‘the job’.

All women should use the Human Resources Department... Men who ‘interview’ women on the side should be fined a few hundred thousand and told they're ‘on their own’ if the woman sues... No more cover ups. If these cases went to Court rather than making job seekers multimillionaires much of this crap would stop.

[Zathras]

Sounds like BOR has finally realized that playing kissy-face with liberals doesn’t work.

[raybbr]

Do we have to sign up at his web site to hear the “truth” a la Beck?

[zerosix]

I rarely watched BOR or cared for much of what he championed (mostly himself) but I stand up for him, for his right to bore me to tears!

I don't believe in driving him or anyone off the air, especially in FNC. I also wouldn't watch Maddow or Blitzer or the Shepster simply because I don't care for their slants on any subject. I also don't watch Good Morning America, CBS Morning, NBC's Today Show, but to shut them down because I either don't watch or don't care for their hosts or their liberal biases on everything doesn't give me (or anyone else, for that matter) the right or power to drive them from tv. They exist because their ratings and BOR like Jerry Rivers used to be popular on network tv and had an audience and therefore had advertisers, so they were on.

Lastly, I loathe and despise so-called "sexual harassment" lawsuits just like the so-called "civil rights" lawsuits. Just like beauty, they are in the eye of the beholder and in today's world, no one is forced to undergo such things.

Most of Bill Cosby's accusers are going to wind up looking like the greedy feminists they are, unless they were kids (most of whom had moms who were prostituting their own kids for a buck in the entertainment business and that's child abuse and should be first against their own parents or guardians before going against dirty old men like Cosby!)

Many of those kids were and are sexually violated by each and every pervert in Hollywierd, from agents, directors, producers, adult actors, etc! These were and are crimes I believe but just can't go for adult women who permitted genuine abuse because they wanted to work in a prostitution business, which is what "entertainment" is and has been since its inception. Don't believe me, check on stories going back to Chaplin, etc.

[Sans-Culotte]

No matter whether you always or never agree with him, O’Reilly represents a very important element of American discourse. Need evidence? He WAS the prime time line-up at Fox News. His absence has left a gaping hole in their product. Most here would be lying if they stated they didn’t find his show supremely interesting, provocative and important. He often said things that needed to be said, and only he would say them.

My concern over the new direction of Fox News is that the people who are not political junkies like us will miss out on an important source of information. I haven't watched O'Reilly for a number of years, but when I did, I have to say I like the way he dumbed down a (predominantly) conservative view of the news for people who need their news fast and simple. From his "talking points" to "impact segments", etc, he laid out a lot of info in an hour that people need. I know I would run across people who were conservative, but not nearly as informed as most of us here. I found these people frequently watched O'Reilly and even read his books. No, he was not always conservative, and never passed himself off as such. But he was a good source of news that at least let the conservative side be heard, and he often held up the left to ridicule.

[V K Lee]

Only now is he thinking of doing it. ________________________________

He must believe in the old adage "Good things come to those who wait".
Agree, if innocent, he should have fought tooth and nails at the time. NOT months later.

In this statement, Sean must have been beaming. Always felt an animosity between the two and find BOR referring of him as 'friend' and 'right' will need rethinking my belief.

[CommerceComet]

I really haven't followed this situation so I can't claim to be real knowledgeable about it.

I don't believe in driving him or anyone off the air, especially in FNC.

Fox News did an internal investigation, right? If so and they felt that there was evidence of unwanted sexual advances, they were perfectly within their rights to fire BOR.

Lastly, I loathe and despise so-called "sexual harassment" lawsuits just like the so-called "civil rights" lawsuits. Just like beauty, they are in the eye of the beholder and in today's world, no one is forced to undergo such things.

Just because there are abuses in these areas, doesn't mean that there are not legitimate cases. I guess we'll see but it appears that the BOR situation wasn't a one-time event but seems more a pattern of misbehavior that had been going on for awhile.

Most of Bill Cosby's accusers are going to wind up looking like the greedy feminists they are

Perhaps and perhaps not. Even if Cosby is innocent doesn't mean that BOR is too. Each case stands on its own. One case could be frivolous and the other one legitimate.

[be-baw]

” coefficient of assholeness”

Good line. That’s going on my list.

[1Old Pro]

Still BOR offers no substantive information. So, yawn, I’ll wait until something happens. As a BOR viewer, I believe he is sliding into anonymity and unless he wins some major lawsuit it’s over for him.

[1Old Pro]

Still BOR offers no substantive information. So, yawn, I’ll wait until something happens. As a BOR viewer, I believe he is sliding into anonymity and unless he wins some major lawsuit it’s over for him.

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[Yo-Yo]

Pinhead.

[roadcat]

Define sexual harassment.

That's the million-dollar question. Lots of guys make flirtatious comments to women that don't rise to forced physical acts, but are seemingly innocent. It goes both ways. Gals in the workplace also do likewise to guys. I've encountered that, and have had to push gals off. Even rose to eyebrow-raising stuff like pressing close from behind to speak to me, with their chest against my back. But gals get away with it, while guys would have a tougher time getting away with it. Times are different now, with gals eager to create lawsuits over seemingly innocent flirtations. I don't think O'Reilly's incidents rose to the level of Bill Cosby or Bill Clinton and their sexual assaults of women, but he's not going to be able to win this.