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Bill O’Reilly Bombshell: NY Times Reports $13 Million Paid To Five Women Accusers

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on April 01, 2017 · Flag

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Bill O’Reilly picked a bad week to make a racist, sexist attack on Rep. Maxine Waters. Because just as a(nother) very bright spotlight was thrown on his racist, sexist behavior, The New York Times has come up with a firebomb of a report that reveals O’Reilly’s abuse of women is worse than we knew. And it looks like there's more to come.

From the Times:

An investigation by The New York Times has found a total of five women who have received payouts from either Mr. O’Reilly or the company in exchange for agreeing to not pursue litigation or speak about their accusations against him. The agreements totaled about $13 million.

Two settlements came after the network’s former chairman, Roger Ailes, was dismissed last summer in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, when the company said it did not tolerate behavior that “disrespects women or contributes to an uncomfortable work environment.”

The women who made allegations against Mr. O’Reilly either worked for him or appeared on his show. They have complained about a wide range of behavior, including verbal abuse, lewd comments, unwanted advances and phone calls in which it sounded as if Mr. O’Reilly was masturbating, according to documents and interviews.

The reporting suggests a pattern: As an influential figure in the newsroom, Mr. O’Reilly would create a bond with some women by offering advice and promising to help them professionally. He then would pursue sexual relationships with them, causing some to fear that if they rebuffed him, their careers would stall.

Of the five settlements, two were previously known — one for about $9 million in 2004 with a producer, and another struck last year with a former on-air personality, which The Times reported on in January. The Times has learned new details related to those cases.

The two we already knew about were Andrea Mackris and Juliet Huddy. The three additional women were a junior producer named Rachel Witlieb Bernstein (O’Reilly verbally abused her), former Fox Business host Rebecca Gomez Diamond and former anchor Laurie Dhue. The Times also spoke with Wendy Walsh, formerly a regular O'Reilly Factor guest. She claimed O’Reilly dangled a contributor contract that never materialized after she rebuffed his advances. And, of course, there’s Andrea Tantaros.

The details are disturbing and fascinating and I recommend the entire article.

If you’re wondering why the network hasn’t ditched O’Reilly already, the answer is almost certainly his monetary value to the network. As the Times lays out, he’s not only the biggest ratings getter, the income he generates for the corporation is growing.

As Media Matters notes, in a post published before the Times report, “There is no heir apparent.”

Also, let's not forget that O'Reilly is BFF with Donald Trump.

However, in the wake of the Roger Ailes ouster last year, you have to wonder how much longer (and how many more incidents and lawsuits) Fox will put up with.

The Times report appears to be unrelated to the Rep. Waters incident, though O’Reilly knew he was about to come under increased scrutiny. The paper reported, “Just over a week ago, Mr. O’Reilly hired the crisis communications expert Mark Fabiani.”

So O’Reilly’s attack on Waters is especially remarkable.

And in another case of unfortunate-for-Fox timing, two African American women filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the company this week, too.

Meanwhile, get ready for more. Check out New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman’s tweet below.

(O’Reilly image by Nina Brodsky)

Sources say to expect more harassment/discrimination lawsuits will be filed against Fox News next week

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) April 1, 2017

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Joel Simmons commented 2017-04-02 02:29:51 -0400 · Flag
Mr. fair and Balanced family values.What a 3 dollar phoney.
Ellen commented 2017-04-02 01:55:38 -0400 · Flag
David Lindsay,

I didn’t do the math but I think some of the settlements were rather low.

Also, according to the article, O’Reilly paid some of the settlements out of his own pocket. I believe he paid the Andrea Mackris settlement himself.
John Richter commented 2017-04-01 21:31:42 -0400 · Flag
If it were an illegal, Fox would be all over it.
Antoinette commented 2017-04-01 21:27:53 -0400 · Flag
Send the New York Times article to all Fox “News” advertisers, via Facebook and Twitter.

Add this to the link: Do you support this?"

NOTE TO FOX “NEWS” SUITS

Employees at this satanic network will expose all of management, and the Murdoch boys will be held 100% responsible for the outcome.

Your advertisers will be notified.
David Lindsay commented 2017-04-01 19:23:36 -0400 · Flag
And I thought O’Reilly’s religion teaches that masturbation is sinful. But I’m sure it also preaches judge not lest ye be judged. O’Reilly blew through that stop sign a long time ago.
truman commented 2017-04-01 19:08:19 -0400 · Flag
$13M? Fux needs to look into getting Bildo a paid subscription to a few porn cable channels and a large jar of Vaseline to keep his right hand callous free.
doors17 commented 2017-04-01 18:51:56 -0400 · Flag
Here’s what the Fox News PR Department says about today’s New York Times report…https://www.yahoo.com/tv/fox-news-bill-oreilly-says-vulnerable-lawsuits-172242542.html
mlp ! commented 2017-04-01 18:46:35 -0400 · Flag
Can’t wait until the stuff about BOR and the altar boy comes out!
John McKee commented 2017-04-01 18:29:24 -0400 · Flag
Mmm, that was yummy. While we wait for the next course, how about a few little Hannity appetisers? (Looking to you to dish them up, dear Antoinette)
Eyes On Fox commented 2017-04-01 17:42:41 -0400 · Flag
Hey, Bill-O, much cheaper to hire hookers. 🤔
David Lindsay commented 2017-04-01 15:48:56 -0400 · Flag
I think the $13,000,000 figure might be too low. Wasn’t one of the individual payouts for $10M?
David Lindsay commented 2017-04-01 15:24:45 -0400 · Flag
I’m sure the women sued Faux and not O’Reilly. Although O’Reilly has money, Faux has more. Besides, they are the assholes responsible for him being a Faux employee.

It would be fun to be in a phone conversation with O’Reilly and suddenly interject, “Where are your hands??!! What are you doing with your hands?!!”
Jan Hall commented 2017-04-01 15:18:16 -0400 · Flag
$13,000,000? My my, Junior O’Reilly is running up quite a tab. Even Roger Ailes must be impressed. Hats off to Rep Maxine Waters for not responding to this creep. She avoided a huge dry cleaning bill by not getting down into the muck with the likes of Junior O’Reilly.








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