Bill O'Reilly: sexual harassment claims

[Jules Galen]

I wish.

Have hope, friend!

Hey...it's not like Bill is going to go into obscurity overnight, but the stage has been set for him to pretty-quickly fade away.

See...there's hope.

 

[Stacko]

Unless their lawyers are incompetent, I'm sure there's a way out. They certainly can't go with any morals clause, though, since they signed him while knowing the score...which is great news for anyone else with a case to make as the company can't pretend they were unaware in order to get off the hook in future lawsuits.

The interesting wrinkle is that much like with Bill Cosby this isn't new information about Bill O'Reilly. This has been an ongoing problem with O'Reilly for a long time. Fox knew what they were getting when they renewed the contract.

 

[Babbylonian]

The interesting wrinkle is that much like with Bill Cosby this isn't new information about Bill O'Reilly. This has been an ongoing problem with O'Reilly for a long time. Fox knew what they were getting when they renewed the contract.

Pure greed isn't that interesting. The bottom line is the only thing that matters to some people. That applies to Cosby as well; people who knew had their own interests to look after, and decided those interests were more important than helping potential victims.

 

[ponderingturtle]

Pure greed isn't that interesting. The bottom line is the only thing that matters to some people. That applies to Cosby as well; people who knew had their own interests to look after, and decided those interests were more important than helping potential victims.

And of course for most of his career there he could trade dating tips with his boss. It sounds like he and Ailes ran with the same playbook.

 

[Stacko]

“according to four network sources, there’s talk inside Fox News that tonight’s show could be his last”

 

[Tony Stark]

“according to four network sources, there’s talk inside Fox News that tonight’s show could be his last”

lol

 

[Tony Stark]

CNN just had a story about how his top advertiser is some outfit that sells gold. Apparently they're sticking around. Makes me wonder if O'Reilly can cobble together a team of advertisers similar to a blue-chip version of what Alex Jones uses. Survivalist stuff, weirdo health supplements, water purifiers and like that.

I don't watch his show. But still, if I had to guess, I would have guessed that the top advertiser was someone selling gold. Apparently lots of old white people will buy gold if the TV tells them to.

 

[Travis]

Gold was also a huge thing for Glen Beck. It seems that the right wing have this obsession with the economy crashing and everyone needing gold to buy things in the new economy.

 

[Tony Stark]

Gold was also a huge thing for Glen Beck. It seems that the right wing have this obsession with the economy crashing and everyone needing gold to buy things in the new economy.

They are just especially susceptible to scams.

 

[applecorped]

I agree. I don't think he'll disappear....just become irelavent and eventually forgotten.

As will we all

 

[MarkCorrigan]

Allegations come in, advertisers go out. You can't explain that!

 

[Checkmite]

Gold was also a huge thing for Glen Beck. It seems that the right wing have this obsession with the economy crashing and everyone needing gold to buy things in the new economy.

Even some legitimate bullion companies have started pandering to this odd mythology. Valcambi now sells these sheets of breakaway 1-gram gold tabs, a form factor that has no practical purpose except within the prepper daydream of gold-as-liquid-asset rather than what it actually is nowadays.

 

[dudalb]

Unless their lawyers are incompetent, I'm sure there's a way out. They certainly can't go with any morals clause, though, since they signed him while knowing the score...which is great news for anyone else with a case to make as the company can't pretend they were unaware in order to get off the hook in future lawsuits.

Almost every contract in Television has a "morals" clause where if the guy doe something that hurts the companies image he can be fired.

 

[Babbylonian]

Almost every contract in Television has a "morals" clause where if the guy doe something that hurts the companies image he can be fired.

Yes, but they would have a difficult time enforcing the clause (without losing a lawsuit) for something that a) happened previous to the current contract and b) they knew about prior to signing the current contract.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

One of these women is said to have phone recordings and perhaps why O'Reilly didnt fight it out on court as Trump suggests he should have.

Has everyone forgotten the [paraphrasing] "I want to grab your tits in the shower" recorded phone call?

Bill O'Reilly Falafel Lawsuit Turns Ten

On this date in 2004, Bill O’Reilly was accused of sexual harassment by Andrea Mackris, an associate producer who worked with the TV host at Fox News Channel. Mackris’s New York State Supreme Court complaint is bursting with examples of the 65-year-old O’Reilly’s alleged sleaziness (which apparently was surreptitiously memorialized via Mackris’s tape recorder)....

A decade later, Mackris’s complaint--filed by attorney Benedict Morelli--remains a better read than any of O’Reilly’s subsequent best sellers. Mainly because the lawsuit includes topics such as:

Vibrators
Masturbation lessons
Phone sex
A “short brown” Balinese woman who allegedly was “amazed” when she saw O’Reilly’s penis
Threesomes
The loss of O’Reilly’s virginity in a car at JFK airport
Sex with two Scandinavian stewardesses
A Thai sex show
Al Franken
O’Reilly’s masturbation
O’Reilly’s climaxing
Caribbean shower fantasies
“One of those mitts, those loofa mitts”
Falafel
O’Reilly’s “big cock”
More vibrator-aided ejaculation
So, put aside a few minutes and enjoy the lawsuit again for the first time (23 pages)

Links in the link.

The reference to 'better than O'Reilly's book' is in reference to a cheesy porn novel he wrote that contained a lot of the same fantasies he discussed in the recorded phone calls.

 

[paulhutch]

Allegations come in, advertisers go out. You can't explain that!

Awesome! Best laugh for me this week, thanks.

 

[paulhutch]

Yes, but they would have a difficult time enforcing the clause (without losing a lawsuit) for something that a) happened previous to the current contract and b) they knew about prior to signing the current contract.

Upon fully reading the NYT article that kicked this all off I now realize that a new complaint has been filed against O'Reilly by a guest on his show, Wendy Walsh, so Fox may have an easy out if they want it.

 

[Spindrift]

Bill is going on 'vacation'.

 

[dudalb]

Yes, but they would have a difficult time enforcing the clause (without losing a lawsuit) for something that a) happened previous to the current contract and b) they knew about prior to signing the current contract.

I am pretty sure the morals clause was in every contract that O Reilly signed, since that clause has been SOP in every contract in television since the 1950's.
If Fox wants to get rid of O Reilly, they can find some legal way to do it. Of that I am sure. I think every TV contract gives the network an out.

 

[Beelzebuddy]

Five bucks says he attaches himself to the White House within six months.