From the Boston Channel: “Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Filed Against Bill O’Reilly; TV Talk Show Host Countersues”
A producer for Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly is accusing the commentator of forcing her to have telephone sex against her wishes.
O’Reilly says the sexual harassment complaint is a politically motivated extortion attempt to embarrass him and the Fox News Channel.
The woman, Andrea Mackris, is an associate producer on “The O’Reilly Factor.”
She contends O’Reilly made two lewd calls.
But O’Reilly said Mackris and her lawyer demanded $60 million in what he calls “hush money” not to file the lawsuit.
O’Reilly’s lawyer, Ronald Green, said he believes there are tapes of conversations between his client and the accuser. Green has asked a court to compel Mackris to produce the tapes so they could be played publicly.
Got a picture in my head of O’Reilly in a loosened silk robe sitting on a squat stool, whispering filth into one of those fancy 1920s Sultan phones. Too creeped out to comment further.
Thinking of bunnies. Bunnies.
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update: Wet, steamy Carribean bunnies… (h/t RWS)
Actually, O’Reilly sued first – the Producer only filed her suit after she couldn’t get the 60 Mil outright.
You had to say “bunnies.” Now I’m envisioning John Edwards on the other end of the phone.
Next on the Factor— why is womankind is populated by greedy, shrieking banshees? Also: is erectile dysfunction a defense to a sexual harrassment lawsuit? Some pointy-headed trial lawyers say no! I mean, what the fuck do I have to do here?!?
Hopefully early next month Edwards will be available for consultation with Attorney Green, and if they can’t win in the courts, Edwards can ask Kerry to perform a healing on the harassee. Another good reason to vote for Bush.
This is just another attempt by Fox to steal the election for Bush! By taking the focus off John Kerry’s brilliant “plans” for various issues, which he was finally going to enumerate, O’Reilly has ruined Kerry’s chances of victory. Kerry won’t have a chance to make clear how he’d solve all the ills of the world because the spotlight will be on “Spingate” for the remaining weeks of the campaign. Damn those people at Fox.
But seriously, aren’t you all just a little interested in hearing a phone-sex conversation and how that’d play out? (Minor pun intended) I think it’d be amusing, in a voyeuristic twisted sort of way.
“Too creeped out to comment further”
PuuuLeasseee!! YOU LOVE IT!
I have a link to the actual complaint which has a “transcript” of one of the phone sex calls. It really does sound like how he talks. So go to my blog. I would link it here, but I tried and can’t. How do you do that?
Good Lord! (again)
I continue to find it fascinating that in 2004, women still can’t cope with a little foolishness/flirtation or stupidity, whether it’s on the phone or face to face. “NO MORE” or F*** OFF, should make it pretty clear.
Alternatively, hang up the freaking phone.
What about going about the usual “harassment” policies & procedures of your employer?
Actually, there aren’t a lot of women who have much of a sense of humour anymore. Nor, would it seem, that this generation of women is listening to anything we tried to teach in the ‘70’s.
Gawd! Horribly – Eric has a point! As a woman, I’m disgusted!
Sitting in for Bill tonight is Dawn W
Can you be looking out for the folks with your joint in one hand and the phone in another?
And, if you insist on engaging in such activity, what are the chances of turning on your love interest by mentioning the Pope and your wife in the same breath? That is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo”…
Later in the Impact Segment..pimping door mats and coffee cups: the beginning of the end?
In the Back of the Book Segment…correctly guess how many divorce attourneys have contacted Mrs. No Spin Zone and win a free copy of “Who’s Looking Out For You”….
I actually heard a tape of their phone sex conversation. She keeps trying to tell him what she’s wearing, but O’Reilly keeps interrupting her.
well…did he let her have the last word.
For once it was Bill O’Reilly that was saying “Let me finish. Let me finish!”
Ok, I asked for that one.
Jeff, spell out my whole sparkling name please.. I didn’t even know who you were h/ting.
You know, after reading this “transcript” I’m thinking that phone sex could be the answer for tired mothers of young children. You guys get what you want and we get to talk.
After further reflection it’s clear that Andrea either has the sharpest mind on the planet or tapes of these conversations. How else to explain the paragraph-after-paragraph verbatim conversations transcribed in the papers filed in her sexual harassment suit? How many conversations do you remember word-for-word months after they occurred?
I’d say O’Reilly’s probably in some deep shit.
And RWS: guys don’t want phone sex, it’s what they’re willing to take in lieu of the real thing.
Ever since the Michael Moore interview I have decided that O’Reilly is an impotent bombastic fraud. Apart from that, unless there is taped conversations this whole thing is BS. I mean please, who really is going to bring up the wife, the pope, and hot Italian women in the same sentence. This stuff, as dirty as it is, seems so contrived. If it does turn out to be true, well, skewer the guy and recruit Scarborough.
Hmmm.
Considering that O’Reilly is pretty motivated to get the evidence into the public forum and litigate I’m wondering if there actually is any substance to her allegations. You’d think if they were true that some sort of accomodation would be made. But O’Reilly seems bent on making this as painful a process as possible.
Hmmm.
Could this be an attempt at a pre-emptive intimidation in prep for a Kerry interview? O’Reilly has been trying to get an interview with Kerry. It’s pretty unlikely that Kerry would be able to spin or squim his way out of any number of potential problem questions. The only other way of dealing with this is to ensure that the interviewer is managed in some way.
It sounds a bit ridiculous, but that pretty much describes this whole election cycle. But wouldn’t it be interesting if the entire point behind these allegations and litigation was to manipulate and control O’Reilly?
After all the producer once worked for O’Reilly, left for CNN and then just recently returned to work for him. If she were in an abusive working relationship, why did she return to work for O’Reilly?
And her lawyer does have some signficant DNC contacts.
Hmmmm. It’ll be interesting to watch.
I will never again gaze upon a loofah the same.
If even a small part of this is true, and I have neither heard, seen nor read any denials, yet, then this affair has to be the all-time stupidist stunt pulled by anyone in the history of, well, the earth. Sheesh!
Bill, ahhh…coalition of the willing…
Jeff! Exclusive picture of O’Reilly holding his doohickey! Gonna blow the whole “Masturgate” scandal wide open!
RightWingSparkle: exactly that!
I don’t believe it. I know of no men who use the word “boobs”.
Slartibartfast, I know your kidding.
But it was romantic, wasn’t it? :spongg:
Actually, that was a rare moment of seriousness. I’ll try not to let it happen again, though.
You know of no men who use the word “boobs???”
Where do you live, a monastery?
No…seriously: boobs? You know guys that call them boobs? I’ve never, ever heard a guy outside of the movies call them that, until now.
Tits, sure. Hooters, occasionally. Knockers, less frequently. Rack, sometimes. Never, ever boobs, though. But I’m one of those guys who doesn’t stare, so maybe I hang out with a different crowd.
Not to draw this out…but did you miss the “boob-a-thon” posted here and on every male blog site out there??? (benefiting breast cancer in case those too mesmerized by the ‘boobs’ noticed)
But your names for breasts were just so much better….
Not better. Different. As different as…men and women, maybe. Truly, no man I know calls them “boobs”. Not saying no men anywhere do, just that it’s not used anywhere in my earshot. Maybe it’s a regional thing; I used to call soda “pop”.
Hey, I’m not claiming superiority, here. Far from it. That would make me a…you know, a boob.