Meanwhile, more "family values" RRR hypocrisy from Fox News: freep.com
< And now, Bill O'Reilly, the conservative commentator, who is being sued by a Fox News producer for alleged sexual harassment.
Andrea Mackris, a 33-year-old producer, said that O'Reilly made lewd comments about vibrators, phone sex, ménages a trois and tales of his own sexual exploits, according to USA Today.
This alleged behavior goes back as far as December 2003, Mackris charges in a complaint that she sent to Fox News executives last month. In response, O'Reilly filed suit charging that not only Mackris but her attorney, Benedict Morelli, were trying to extort $60 million from him.
So Mackris filed suit.
Now she's explaining why she left Fox News to work for CNN but returned to Fox News and her $93,200 job with O'Reilly five months later - while allegedly being harassed. (Her attorney says that O'Reilly promised to stop the behavior).
What he didn't say
O'Reilly claims the whole thing is a publicity stunt, an attempt to embarrass Fox News while it's at the top of its game.
On the "Live with Regis and Kelly" show, O'Reilly said, "I'm a big mouth.... But I'm a person who will say 'Enough.' "
Had enough? Good. Now forget all charges and countercharges and consider this:
O'Reilly, who has made enough people mad in America to expect slings and arrows, admitted something in his lawsuit.
And that's where the married men and hotel rooms come into play.
He acknowledged having cocktails with Mackris and watching a presidential news conference alone with her in his hotel room.
He denied engaging in physical or sexual assaults. He denied that any "offensive touching" took place.But he didn't deny having sex.
He didn't deny talking with Mackris about vibrators and phone sex and engaging in stuff that people usually use pay-per-view to watch.
He didn't even deny exchanging tales of his sexual prowess, something that guys sometimes do with other guys or women they think they know.
He didn't deny any of the behavior that Mackris alleges in her suit.
What he didn't think
So here's the thing:
How many times does this have to happen before men stop thinking with what's below their waists instead of what's above their shoulders?
Why is it necessary for the private wives (or sometimes not so private wives) of public men to suffer because riches and power and fame will make men do stupid things?
Unless Andrea Mackris has a tape of Bill O'Reilly that would get greater ratings than his show, this is yet another case in America of a famous person denying bad behavior while having to admit to something stupid.
If she's got a tape, then she's smarter than O'Reilly might have thought...>
Apparently she has a tape.
CBS/Fox - pretty soon, people will start to realize that journalists are no better than politicians in terms of credibility and morality.
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