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Of course, those who support Republican causes aren't going to be about such behaviors, much less having a history of sexual harassment, which he was quickly 'forgiven' for....
 
 
 
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Watch Bill O’Reilly Threaten and Curse at JetBlue Worker Over Delayed Flight (Video)

 
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Bill O’Reilly was caught on video cursing at and threatening a JetBlue worker — then denying he did that and attempting to blame the worker — at JFK Airport in New York after his flight was delayed by several hours.

In the video, filmed earlier this month by another passenger, the former Fox News host can be seen going back and forth with an airport employee about a Turks and Caicos-bound flight. Their voices became audible as the exchange escalated into an argument, with O’Reilly demanding that the employee contact a manager.

“We need to know what you’re going to do,” he can be heard saying. “It’s three hours late now.”

When the employee started to respond, O’Reilly held up a hand to silence him. “No no no,” he said, pointing a finger at his chest. “You’re gonna find out.”

 

Things got even more heated when he leaned over to read the employee’s name tag and said, “you’re lucky I don’t put my fist through it.” In response to the worker’s inaudible reply, he then began cussing him out: “You f–ing scumbag, don’t talk to me like that.”

“You’re threatening me with violence, man,” said the worker, which O’Reilly denied, stating: “You’re the one – I dare you? I dare you? Is that what you said to me?”

Onlookers watched O’Reilly leave the counter as he got the worker’s information and told him, “You’re gonna lose your job.”

Speaking to Mediaite about the incident, O’Reilly said that he handled the situation “poorly” but notably did not apologize for the outburst or the threat against someone for doing their job.

“The story is JetBlue can’t get their flights off the ground. It was crazy in the terminal,” he told Mediaite.

Shortly after DailyMail.com released video of O’Reilly’s tantrum, he wrote on Twitter: “The character assassins on social media completely lying about my interaction with a JetBlue guy who misled passengers during a five-hour delay. We’ve covered on http://BillOReilly.com. I expected this.”

On social media, users reacted to the video by recalling an infamous video of O’Reilly from the early ’90s, in which the “Inside Edition” anchor loses his temper after a teleprompter malfunction. His phrase “F– it! We’ll do it live” went viral in 2008 when a user uploaded a video of the meltdown titled “Bill O’Reilly Goes Nuts.”

O’Reilly was of course fired in 2017 after decades at Fox News after it came out that the network had paid millions of dollars to settle multiple sexual harassment accusations brought against him by former employees.

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1 hour ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

At least he doesn't support and defend pedophiles and other perverts........

By all accounts, he was a serial sexual harasser, and FOX had to pay MILLIONS to pay off women and try and keep it quiet. Who knows how much he did, really? THAT would qualify him as a pervert in my book. But, you keep your meaningless mantra going. 

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17 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

By all accounts, he was a serial sexual harasser, and FOX had to pay MILLIONS to pay off women and try and keep it quiet. Who knows how much he did, really? THAT would qualify him as a pervert in my book. But, you keep your meaningless mantra going. 

If that qualifies him as a perv, you must be hell on those teachers grooming kids right?

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32 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

By all accounts, he was a serial sexual harasser, and FOX had to pay MILLIONS to pay off women and try and keep it quiet. Who knows how much he did, really? THAT would qualify him as a pervert in my book. But, you keep your meaningless mantra going. 

Not a pedophile.......

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23 minutes ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

Not a pedophile.......

Let's look a little closer at the quality of this person...you saying that only pedophilia makes someone a sexual deviant or a pervert? 

 

https://www.thewrap.com/bill-oreilly-fox-news-lis-wiehl-sexual-harassment-nonconsensual-sex/

Why Did Bill O’Reilly Pay $32 Million? One Accusation May Be Key

O’Reilly says he settled to spare his children from bad publicity

e85c436133425d25fe5ae097083ed571?s=96&d=Susan Seager | October 23, 2017 @ 6:55 PM
Bill O'Reilly sexual harassment scandal sponsors timeline recap angie's list

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It’s a puzzling contradiction: Fox News host Bill O’Reilly paid an eye-popping $32 million to a woman who accused him of sexual harassment and something mysteriously described as a “nonconsensual sexual relationship.” Yet he says he did nothing wrong, and settled only to shield his children from his bad publicity.

Why would the fallen king of the “No Spin Zone” pay so much for something he didn’t do? The phrase “nonconsensual sexual relationship” may be key, said attorneys who spoke with TheWrap.

 

 

Lis Wiehl, the woman who received the settlement, was a Harvard law school graduate and attorney who worked as a legal analyst on O’Reilly’s show from 2001 to 2016. The New York Times said her accusations against him included “repeated harassment, a nonconsensual sexual relationship and the sending of gay pornography and other sexually explicit material to her.”

O’Reilly paid the $32 million out of his own pocket to settle the claim in January, said the Times, which broke the news of the payment over the weekend.

“One possible reason [for O’Reilly to settle] is there was either an assault or rape,” said New Jersey employment lawyer Nancy Ericka Smith, who represented Gretchen Carlson in the sexual harassment lawsuit that toppled O’Reilly’s former boss, Roger Ailes, and won her client a $20 million settlement.

“‘Nonconsensual’ sounds more like the language that is used in the criminal statutes. …  If you don’t consent, it’s a forced sex act,” Smith said. “That is extreme and can cause unbelievable harm and certainly would cause him embarrassment. That’s one possible reason.”

Debra Katz, a long-time employment lawyer in Washington, D.C., said there’s another possible explanation. She interpreted Wiehl’s allegation of “nonconsensual sex” to refer to a type of sexual harassment known as an “unwelcome” sexual relationship, not rape. “The woman may go along with it, because they are coerced to do it, so it’s not consensual. It’s not rape, it’s a coerced sexual relationship.”

She called the $32 million payment “jaw-dropping.” Smith said it might be the highest out-of-court sexual harassment settlement for an individual accuser ever.

 

 

Supervisors who have sex with employees often say it was consensual, if the employees agreed to the sex. But sex harassment law allows victims to argue they were coerced and the sex is “unwanted,” because they feared repercussions for refusing, said CUNY Law School professor and employment law expert Rick Rossein.

“The law recognizes that, sooner or later, a person may acquiesce in demands or requests for sex, consenting due to fear of economic or career reprisal, despite the fact that the sexual advances were unwelcome,” Yale Law School employment law professor Viki Schultz told TheWrap. Unwelcome sex is still sexual harassment in the workplace, she said.

We may never know what happened between O’Reilly and Wiehl, and that is by design.

The ousted “O’Reilly Factor” host said he did nothing wrong to her, and his spokesman said that Wiehl had signed a sworn affidavit “renouncing all allegations against” O’Reilly. The settlement required Wiehl to agree not to sue Mr. O’Reilly, Fox News or 21st Century Fox, and to agree to the destruction of all text messages, photos, and other communications between the pair.

Smith and Katz said O’Reilly may have paid such a high amount to make sure the evidence would be destroyed.

“I don’t blame Ms. Wiehl at all,” Smith said, but she added that destroying the evidence hurts “other women [who] could have subpoenaed that evidence in other cases. Because evidence of the same person harassing other victims is evidence of sexual harassment.”

Katz called the destruction-of-evidence requirement “just another technique to conceal recidivist, unlawful, predatory behavior.”

 

Six women are known to have settled sex harassment claims against O’Reilly from 2002 to 2017: Fox News junior producer Rachel Witlieb Bernstein, “The O’Reilly Factor” producer Andrea Mackris, Fox Business Network host Rebecca Gomez Diamond, Fox News anchor Laurie Dhue, Fox News on-air personality Juliet Huddy, and Wiehl. Mackris was paid $9 million, but the other amounts are unknown, according to the New York Times.

Professor Schultz called Wiehl’s $32 million settlement “extremely high” compared to the average employment discrimination settlement of $54,000 found in a 2007 study of federal magistrate courts in Chicago. Mitsubishi Corp.’s payment of $34 million to settle the federal government’s 1996 sexual harassment lawsuit against the company might be the largest sexual harassment settlement, but that case was brought on behalf of more than 350 women, not just one woman, Schultz said.

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Just now, BarryLaverty said:

Let's look a little closer at the quality of this person...you saying that only pedophilia makes someone a sexual deviant or a pervert? 

 

https://www.thewrap.com/bill-oreilly-fox-news-lis-wiehl-sexual-harassment-nonconsensual-sex/

Why Did Bill O’Reilly Pay $32 Million? One Accusation May Be Key

O’Reilly says he settled to spare his children from bad publicity

e85c436133425d25fe5ae097083ed571?s=96&d=Susan Seager | October 23, 2017 @ 6:55 PM
Bill O'Reilly sexual harassment scandal sponsors timeline recap angie's list

Fox News

It’s a puzzling contradiction: Fox News host Bill O’Reilly paid an eye-popping $32 million to a woman who accused him of sexual harassment and something mysteriously described as a “nonconsensual sexual relationship.” Yet he says he did nothing wrong, and settled only to shield his children from his bad publicity.

Why would the fallen king of the “No Spin Zone” pay so much for something he didn’t do? The phrase “nonconsensual sexual relationship” may be key, said attorneys who spoke with TheWrap.

 

 

Lis Wiehl, the woman who received the settlement, was a Harvard law school graduate and attorney who worked as a legal analyst on O’Reilly’s show from 2001 to 2016. The New York Times said her accusations against him included “repeated harassment, a nonconsensual sexual relationship and the sending of gay pornography and other sexually explicit material to her.”

O’Reilly paid the $32 million out of his own pocket to settle the claim in January, said the Times, which broke the news of the payment over the weekend.

“One possible reason [for O’Reilly to settle] is there was either an assault or rape,” said New Jersey employment lawyer Nancy Ericka Smith, who represented Gretchen Carlson in the sexual harassment lawsuit that toppled O’Reilly’s former boss, Roger Ailes, and won her client a $20 million settlement.

“‘Nonconsensual’ sounds more like the language that is used in the criminal statutes. …  If you don’t consent, it’s a forced sex act,” Smith said. “That is extreme and can cause unbelievable harm and certainly would cause him embarrassment. That’s one possible reason.”

Debra Katz, a long-time employment lawyer in Washington, D.C., said there’s another possible explanation. She interpreted Wiehl’s allegation of “nonconsensual sex” to refer to a type of sexual harassment known as an “unwelcome” sexual relationship, not rape. “The woman may go along with it, because they are coerced to do it, so it’s not consensual. It’s not rape, it’s a coerced sexual relationship.”

She called the $32 million payment “jaw-dropping.” Smith said it might be the highest out-of-court sexual harassment settlement for an individual accuser ever.

 

 

Supervisors who have sex with employees often say it was consensual, if the employees agreed to the sex. But sex harassment law allows victims to argue they were coerced and the sex is “unwanted,” because they feared repercussions for refusing, said CUNY Law School professor and employment law expert Rick Rossein.

“The law recognizes that, sooner or later, a person may acquiesce in demands or requests for sex, consenting due to fear of economic or career reprisal, despite the fact that the sexual advances were unwelcome,” Yale Law School employment law professor Viki Schultz told TheWrap. Unwelcome sex is still sexual harassment in the workplace, she said.

We may never know what happened between O’Reilly and Wiehl, and that is by design.

The ousted “O’Reilly Factor” host said he did nothing wrong to her, and his spokesman said that Wiehl had signed a sworn affidavit “renouncing all allegations against” O’Reilly. The settlement required Wiehl to agree not to sue Mr. O’Reilly, Fox News or 21st Century Fox, and to agree to the destruction of all text messages, photos, and other communications between the pair.

Smith and Katz said O’Reilly may have paid such a high amount to make sure the evidence would be destroyed.

“I don’t blame Ms. Wiehl at all,” Smith said, but she added that destroying the evidence hurts “other women [who] could have subpoenaed that evidence in other cases. Because evidence of the same person harassing other victims is evidence of sexual harassment.”

Katz called the destruction-of-evidence requirement “just another technique to conceal recidivist, unlawful, predatory behavior.”

 

Six women are known to have settled sex harassment claims against O’Reilly from 2002 to 2017: Fox News junior producer Rachel Witlieb Bernstein, “The O’Reilly Factor” producer Andrea Mackris, Fox Business Network host Rebecca Gomez Diamond, Fox News anchor Laurie Dhue, Fox News on-air personality Juliet Huddy, and Wiehl. Mackris was paid $9 million, but the other amounts are unknown, according to the New York Times.

Professor Schultz called Wiehl’s $32 million settlement “extremely high” compared to the average employment discrimination settlement of $54,000 found in a 2007 study of federal magistrate courts in Chicago. Mitsubishi Corp.’s payment of $34 million to settle the federal government’s 1996 sexual harassment lawsuit against the company might be the largest sexual harassment settlement, but that case was brought on behalf of more than 350 women, not just one woman, Schultz said.

Not a pedophile.......

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2 hours ago, BarryLaverty said:

So, because he's just a sexual harasser and all around nasty old pervert, but because he didn't molest children, just women, that makes him okay with you? 

Thats funny, I looked over all my comments and cant find where I said that. I thought you were a teacher! Please copy and paste for my enjoyment. Also, he is a has been and was fired from Fox news. You have anybody current you want to rant about

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3 minutes ago, BlahBlah said:

Bill O'Reilly is so irrelevant now.  He is on YouTube, and barely gets to 10,000 views on each video.  A guy who spouts about the airplane's contour trails are part of a govt. plan to control people gets more views than Bill.  

I never liked him because he was a moderate.....not much better than a libnut in my book......

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