Bill Oreilly hit with sex harass suit
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:25 pm
First Rush and a prescription drug problem...now O'Reilly and a sexual harassment suit.
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Bill Oreilly hit with sex harass suit
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:47 pm
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:17 pm
Yeh i just read smthg about it and just knew someone would say smthg about it here. They actually have recordings of the lewd things O'Reilly said to Ms/Mrs Mackis.
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:50 am
they have recordings? are you sure about that?
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:18 am
Recordings? Wow!
And I had so much respect for Bill!
And I had so much respect for Bill!
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:25 am
We shall see if there REALY are recordings
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:28 am
Oh wow. I will wait and see all the facts before I make a judgment.
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:56 am
Well, great men have fallen before. I don't think we have all the facts. I read the suit. It is either true or well thought out and very convincing. But, like I said, I don't think all the facts are in yet.
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:06 am
If the tapes are real... It'll be the end for O'Reilly. Now, it could just be fake allegations as well.
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:09 am
Didn't I make a thread about this yesterday lol
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:20 pm
These sex suits are a great thing for women. O'Reilly is already guilty and hung just by having it come out in the media.
This thing smells. It sounds like he was set-up from the looks of it. For one thing that is an awfully extensive conversation for somebody claiming they were being harassed. Ask yourself if you felt you were being victimized would you allow someone to continue on for so long with the things he was saying and not react, protest, or hang-up? Something isn't right there.
A good sign of a set-up is the lack of text from her side. You don't know if she was right along with it and into it or even consenting. It's unfair to present one side and omit the other. Probably even illegal in my mind.
Smells a lot like a set-up. Another sign is a $60 million blackmail request...
This thing smells. It sounds like he was set-up from the looks of it. For one thing that is an awfully extensive conversation for somebody claiming they were being harassed. Ask yourself if you felt you were being victimized would you allow someone to continue on for so long with the things he was saying and not react, protest, or hang-up? Something isn't right there.
A good sign of a set-up is the lack of text from her side. You don't know if she was right along with it and into it or even consenting. It's unfair to present one side and omit the other. Probably even illegal in my mind.
Smells a lot like a set-up. Another sign is a $60 million blackmail request...
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:10 pm
In her complaint against O'Reilly, it states (in I think paragraph 52) that her boss at CNN was fired in April of 2004 for sexual harassment... how interesting...
Today's news story: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Business/story?id=181369
I don't care for O'Reilly at all, so I lean to neither side in this case. As a woman, I do hope that this isn't being used as a weapon of extortion or retaliation... but it is looking kinda fishy. Men are always guilty until proven innocent in these matters, and my wish is that no female will falsely drag a man through the mud for personal gain.
Today's news story: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Business/story?id=181369
NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 20004 -- Bill O'Reilly's attorney in the talk show host's sexual harassment lawsuit says he wants O'Reilly's accuser to "put up or shut up."
Ronald Green says O'Reilly's accuser, Fox News Channel producer Andrea Mackris, should reveal whatever proof she has, including any recordings, of alleged sexually charged conversations between herself and O'Reilly.
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"Let me say first that we don't know if there have been recordings. We're the ones who have gone to court to tell Andrea Mackris and her lawyers to put up or shut up, not leak selected segments of conversations which may or may not have taken place," Green said on ABC News' "Good Morning America."
Mackris, 33, and her attorney have been ordered to appear for a hearing in New York state Supreme Court on Friday to divulge whether such tapes exist and "show cause" why they should not be opened to examination by lawyers for O'Reilly and Fox News Channel.
O'Reilly, 55, announced his lawsuit against Mackris and her lawyer, Benedict Morelli, last Wednesday, just hours before Mackris' sexual harassment suit against O'Reilly was filed. O'Reilly's suit accuses Mackris and Morelli of extortion and suggests they were motivated by their own political beliefs and greed.
"They insisted on $60 million of hush money and our response was a lawsuit.This is an extortion case. She's a defendant. We sued her and her lawyers for threatening to extort money from Bill O'Reilly, Fox and News Corp. It was only after we did that that they sued Bill O'Reilly and Fox for these allegations," Green said.
Mackris' suit accuses O'Reilly, who is married with two children, of repeatedly pressuring her to engage in phone sex.
Green says he believes Mackris, who had been a producer on the O'Reilly show, is in need of money.
"What we do now is that she was a financially challenged woman, maybe financially desperate when she told co-workers she intended to bring down Bill O'Reilly and Fox, get $1 million from them and buy the apartment in New York City that she always wanted and couldn't afford," Green said.
Mackris has said that she was harassed by O'Reilly during phone calls with the popular talk show host. She says the calls grew increasingly worse in the months after she returned to Fox, after being employed by CNN.
"It crossed the line when I got back the last time, when I came back in July. It went much further than it ever had," Mackris said last week on "Good Morning America." "The language was ratcheted up. He pushed the boundaries further and further and further from what I had already established. I came back because he agreed to not ever talk to me that way again."
The TV producer filed new accusations Tuesday, alleging she has lost her job because she complained to Fox about her alleged mistreatment. Fox denies that Mackris has been fired or retaliated against in any way.
I don't care for O'Reilly at all, so I lean to neither side in this case. As a woman, I do hope that this isn't being used as a weapon of extortion or retaliation... but it is looking kinda fishy. Men are always guilty until proven innocent in these matters, and my wish is that no female will falsely drag a man through the mud for personal gain.
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:28 pm
I doubt any of this is true. We will see.
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:37 pm
Lindaloo wrote:I doubt any of this is true. We will see.
May I ask why you think none of this is true? Right, we will see.
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:41 pm
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:53 pm
I love bill o'riley
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:54 pm
Wnghs2007 wrote:
I love bill o'riley
Of course you do KC. I don't like him very much.
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:54 pm
yoda wrote:Wnghs2007 wrote:
I love bill o'riley
Of course you do KC. I don't like him very much.
The no spin zone is spinning with you.
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:58 pm
Wnghs2007 wrote:
I love bill o'riley
I like Bill, too!
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:08 pm
Just another possible example of a gold digging woman trying to get money from a successful man....does Kobey Bryant ring a bell?....MGC