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Fox News Bill O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Allegations
By: guest6 Date: April 4, 2017, 7:59 am
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I see not much has changed with Fox News in regard to sexual
harassment. I've been following this for a while.
HTML https://youtu.be/4Jimr7thKEg
Behind the harassment allegations against Fox News host Bill
O'Reilly
CBS NEWS
Apr 3, 2017 12:56 PM EDT
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly faces questions after new details
emerged about harassment allegations. A New York Times
investigation found that five women received a total of $13
million in payouts made by O’Reilly and Fox News’ parent
company, 21st Century Fox. In exchange, the women agreed not to
pursue litigation or speak about their accusations of sexual
harassment and inappropriate behavior.
Two of these settlements came after former Fox News chairman and
CEO Roger Ailes resigned from the company after a former Fox
anchor, Gretchen Carlson, sued him for sexual harassment.
“That is the real significance of this story. Because last
summer they were so clear about the fact that this kind of
behavior was not going to be accepted at the company and yet
what my colleagues uncovered is that they’re still settling
these claims,” New York Times reporter and CBS News contributor
Jodi Kantor said Monday on “CBS This Morning.”
In a statement, the company told CBS News: “21st Century Fox
takes matters of workplace behavior very seriously,” and “while
he denies the merits of these claims, Mr. O’Reilly has resolved
those he regarded as his personal responsibility.”
“This is not one woman who’s come forward. This is now several.
So the idea that he’s the real victim here and that these women
are targeting him to get him to pay up, I think there are some
questions about that,” Kantor said.
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Re: Fox News Bill O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Allegations
By: Kerry Date: April 4, 2017, 2:55 pm
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^ Companies are dropping their ads from his program. That may
change how Fox looks at things.
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Ten companies are pulling advertisements from Bill O'Reilly's
primetime cable program on Fox News following a Saturday report
that the host paid $13 million to five women who accused him
over the years of sexual harassment.
Hyundai, BMW of North America, Untuckit, Constant Contact,
Ainsworth Pet Nutrition, GSK pharmaceuticals, Allstate and
Sanofi consumer healthcare have said they are pulling their
commercials from "The O'Reilly Factor," NBC News and The New
York Times reported Tuesday.
Global asset management firm T. Rowe Price also joined the list,
while Mercedes-Benz announced on Monday that it was pulling its
ads from the 8 p.m. ET program.
The latest allegation was made by Wendy Walsh. ABC reported
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Dr. Wendy Walsh, a psychologist and former Fox News guest, is
going public with sexual harassment allegations against Fox News
host Bill O’Reilly, claiming that at one point he became
"hostile" towards her for refusing his advances.
O’Reilly has been Fox News’ biggest star for nearly 20 years and
the host of "The O’Reilly Factor," the most watched news show on
cable.
In 2013, Walsh began a Thursday night segment called "Are We
Crazy?" on O’Reilly’s show. Soon, she said, she received a
dinner invite from him to a hotel restaurant.
"And I thought, ‘Wow, the big boss, wow,’" Walsh said. "He
brought it up first as soon as we sat down to dinner, saying,
‘We’d like to make you a contributor.’"
But then after dinner, she said something changed.
"As we walked past the hostess stand at the restaurant, he
turned right towards the bedrooms and I turned left towards the
bar and he caught up with me and said, ‘No, no, come back to my
suite,'" Walsh said.
"I said, ‘Sorry, I can’t do that,’ and then he became hostile,"
she continued. "All his charming-ness went away and he said the
words, ‘You can forget all the business advice I gave you,
you’re on your own.’"
Walsh appeared on his show only a few more times. Then, she
claims, the executive producer of O'Reilly's show called to tell
her the show was taking a break from the segment.
I am glad to see that the days when women thought they needed to
remain anonymous seem to be ending. If her story is right, she
did nothing wrong. There would be nothing for her to feel
ashamed of. It's pretty bad, really, when a woman doesn't
want to go public with something because she's afraid other
people will hate her or accuse her of things. It's really sad
when victims are afraid to tell the truth lest they gets
victimized even more; that is the way it used to be, but
perhaps things are changing for the better.
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Re: Fox News Bill O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Allegations
By: guest6 Date: April 8, 2017, 9:07 pm
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[Quote]I am glad to see that the days when women thought they
needed to remain anonymous seem to be ending. If her story is
right, she did nothing wrong. There would be nothing for her to
feel ashamed of. It's pretty bad, really, when a woman
doesn't want to go public with something because she's afraid
other people will hate her or accuse her of things. It's
really sad when victims are afraid to tell the truth lest they
gets victimized even more; that is the way it used to be, but
perhaps things are changing for the better. [/Quote]
That's a very hard thing for women to come forward with
especially with a major news business like Fox and someone like
Bill O'Reilly. Their reputation and career is on the line and it
often doesn't end well for them. I think it's fair to say that
only a fraction of women come forward for those reasons.
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Re: Fox News Bill O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Allegations
By: guest6 Date: April 9, 2017, 9:39 pm
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This isn't very surprising and actually quite predictable. ::)
Trump, Asked About Accusations Against Bill O’Reilly, Calls Him
a ‘Good Person’
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and JIM RUTENBERG
April 5, 2017
Bill O’Reilly, the embattled Fox News host, received a powerful
show of support on Wednesday from a longtime friend, interview
subject, ideological sympathizer and fellow scandal-survivor:
the president of the United States.
Speaking in the Oval Office, Donald J. Trump praised Mr.
O’Reilly as “a good person” and declared, “I don’t think Bill
did anything wrong,” days after The New York Times reported that
five women had received settlements after making harassment
claims against him.
News of the payouts, totaling about $13 million, generated a
storm of criticism toward Fox News, which recently renewed Mr.
O’Reilly’s contract, and prompted more than two dozen
advertisers to withdraw their support of Mr. O’Reilly’s prime
time show, the highest-rated program in cable news.
Few have spoken out publicly in support of the Fox star. The
president had no qualms.
“Personally, I think he shouldn’t have settled,” Mr. Trump told
Times reporters in a wide-ranging interview. “Because you should
have taken it all the way; I don’t think Bill did anything
wrong.”
“I think he’s a person I know well,” Mr. Trump said. “He is a
good person.”
The president is a well-documented fan of Fox News, sitting for
interviews with its prime-time hosts and conferring privately by
phone with Rupert Murdoch, the network’s executive chairman.
The two have something more ominous in common, too: Each has
been accused by women of sexual harassment and inappropriate
behavior. Like the president, Mr. O’Reilly maintains that the
accusations against him are without merit.
It is remarkable for a sitting president to weigh in on sexual
harassment allegations from the Oval Office, especially
allegations at the center of a churning controversy. But Mr.
Trump’s advice to his friend on Wednesday — that Mr. O’Reilly
“shouldn’t have settled” — was consistent with the
never-back-down ethos of a president, and former real estate
magnate, who relishes the counterattack.
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Last week, Trump declared April "National Sexual Assault
Awareness and Prevention Month," saying "we all share the
responsibility to reduce and ultimately end sexual violence," in
a White House press release.
Just days prior to that, Trump's lawyers claimed immunity from a
defamation lawsuit brought by Summer Zervos, a former contestant
on Trump's reality show, "The Apprentice," who said Trump made
unwanted sexual contact with her. Zervos was one of several
women who came forward during the 2016 presidential campaign
saying that Trump had behaved inappropriately toward them. Trump
has denied all allegations leveled against him.
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Re: Fox News Bill O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Allegations
By: Kerry Date: April 11, 2017, 12:08 am
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In Trump’s America, a little knowledge is all the fairy dust
required to transform bigots, sexists, and liars into
misunderstood nice guys. Last Wednesday, the president scolded
the mainstream media for demonizing Fox News host and accused
sexual harasser Bill O’Reilly. “I don’t think Bill would do
anything wrong,” Trump said, as allegations of the anchor’s
wrongdoing scrolled across the nation’s chyrons. “I know Bill.
Bill’s a good person.”
I guess it takes one to know one. This is far from the first
time Trump has availed himself of such a defense. My friend lies
beyond reproach because I know him to be good seems to hold, for
the president and the tribal, secretive members of his
administration, an unimpeachable logic.
“Gen. Flynn is a wonderful man. I think he has been treated
very, very unfairly by the media,” Trump said of his disgraced
ex–national security adviser, who misled the country about his
contacts with Russian diplomats. POTUS returned to the primacy
of personal connection when he suggested that Rex Tillerson, a
reclusive Exxon mogul, would make a sterling secretary of state
because “he knows many of the players and he knows them well.”
You might describe the entire Trump operation as a daisy chain
of horrible people insisting they know each other well. When
Steve Bannon became White House chief strategist, Reince Priebus
defended “the guy I know” from his reputation as a fevered
ethno-nationalist, declaring him instead a “wise and smart” man.
“Don’t make judgments based on what other people say,” Priebus
added, after recommending that we model our opinions on his.
Likewise, staring down the long list of attorney general hopeful
Jeff Sessions’ assaults on civil rights, Sen. Tim Scott staked
his support for the nominee on a hazy intuition of “what is in
his heart.” Omarosa Manigault dismissed anxieties about the
president’s bigotry by averring, “I know Trump personally, and
he is certainly not a racist.” When divining the moral character
of the people running our country, we are asked to take their
friends’ words for it.
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Re: Fox News Bill O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Allegations
By: HOLLAND Date: April 11, 2017, 8:03 am
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I suppose that for the man in 'alternative reality', he must
always feel maligned because he must always encounter the doubts
and rejection of others who do not accept his 'alternative
reality'. But the 'alternative reality' must lead, it seems to
the maligning of others. In 'alternative reality' anything is
possible, and so morality evaporates like water in the hot sun.
A permission is granted, or at best, the lack of inhibitions to
certain actions are no longer necessary or available to the
person in the 'lala' land.
I suppose Bill O'Reilly is not into the 'alternative reality' as
Donald Trump is, or the Alt Right; but, Bill O'Reilly did much
to help make Donald Trump possible with the years of propaganda
and/or outright false 'news' that he helped Fox News to
disseminate. In a sense, he, as with Roger Ailes, were caught
in a web of their own devising. Kind of poetic justice at that
. . .
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Re: Fox News Bill O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Allegations
By: Kerry Date: April 11, 2017, 3:14 pm
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Another story showed up about a week ago about Trump appointee.
The story told me the man can't be trusted as far as you can
throw a horse. Yet there he is, part of the Trump
organization.
HTML https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/04/trump-administration-hires-official-whose-name-surfaced-ashley-madison-hack/22025404/
The Trump administration has brought on a new official whose
name once appeared on the hacked list of account holders using
cheating website Ashley Madison.
Jason Doré started in his role as the assistant chief counsel
for external affairs for the Small Business Administration's
Office of Advocacy on Monday, Doré confirmed to POLITICO. Before
stepping into his new position, where his office advocates on
behalf of small business concerns relative to federal
regulation, Doré served as the executive director of the
Louisiana Republican Party.
Well, it is Louisiana, a state well known for its colorful
politicians.
The 2015 Ashley Madison hack involved the release of millions of
user email addresses. Doré told the New Orleans Times-Picayune
in 2015 that he used the Ashley Madison account generated in
2013 for professional legal work.
"As the state's leading opposition research firm, our law office
routinely searches public records, online databases and websites
of all types to provide clients with comprehensive reports,"
Doré said at the time. "Our utilization of this site was for
standard opposition research. Unfortunately, it ended up being a
waste of money and time."
Huh? Can you believe it? If we can believe it, it must mean
he didn't find any Democratic politicians he was "researching"
using the site. At least, not using their own names! Uh,
that could mean Democrats are cleverer at cheating on their
wives than Republicans! ;D
According to Doré's account, he spent $175.98 on the site.
The new Trump administration official told POLITICO the
situation "really never came up" in his recent job interviews.
Thank goodness, it wasn't thousands or tens of thousands. Maybe
Doré is a real fiscal conservative!
Can Trump trust someone like this? Yes, I know Trump himself
has a history, but what about now? Can you trust someone who
probably tried to cheat on his wife and lied about it? I kinda
doubt it. I think finding good people may be one of Trump's
big problems -- and trusting the wrong people. I know very
well that just because I like people doesn't mean they're
angels. I've liked some people you'd probably call bad -- don't
know why I liked them but I did -- could be a psychological
problem I have? But I also learned fairly early in life not to
trust people just because I liked them or they said nice things
about me.
O’Reilly has had lots of nice things to say about Trump. Does
that make O’Reilly a good person? Trump may want to think so,
but does it really?
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Re: Fox News Bill O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Allegations
By: guest6 Date: April 11, 2017, 8:39 pm
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[Quote]Huh? Can you believe it? If we can believe it, it must
mean he didn't find any Democratic politicians he was
"researching" using the site. At least, not using their own
names! Uh, that could mean Democrats are cleverer at cheating
on their wives than Republicans! ;D [/Quote]
Yep. :D
[Quote]O’Reilly has had lots of nice things to say about Trump.
Does that make O’Reilly a good person? Trump may want to think
so, but does it really? [/Quote]
It's the actions of the people who have nice things said about
them that matter not the nice words spoken by their friends.
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Re: Fox News Bill O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Allegations
By: guest6 Date: April 11, 2017, 8:54 pm
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[Quote] Can you trust someone who probably tried to cheat on his
wife and lied about it? I kinda doubt it.[/Quote]
I doubt it too.
‘Luv Guv’ abused power to cover up affair, report says
CNN Wire
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley used state law enforcement officers
to intimidate staffers and suppress news of his affair with
former political adviser Rebekah Caldwell Mason, according to an
explosive new report.
The 130-page document details a months-long impeachment
investigation into Bentley’s actions and says he was desperate
to keep news of the affair from spreading beyond the Governor’s
Mansion, where it was apparently common knowledge among
staffers.
“Governor Bentley directed law enforcement to advance his
personal interests and, in a process characterized by increasing
obsession and paranoia, subjected career law enforcement
officers to tasks intended to protect his reputation,” says the
report, released Friday.
The report by Jack Sharman, special counsel to the state’s House
Judiciary Committee, paints a portrait of a dysfunctional
executive branch plagued by the affair of a Nixonian governor
whose “loyalty shifted from the State of Alabama to himself.”
To keep his relationship with Mason under wraps, “Governor
Bentley encouraged an atmosphere of intimidation,” it says.
The report’s investigation involved interviews with more than 20
witnesses and a review of 10,000 pages of documents. Neither
Bentley nor Mason assisted “in any meaningful sense,” it says.
Time and again, the report addresses Bentley’s refusal to
cooperate with the investigation led by Sharman. It repeatedly
expresses that the embattled two-term governor’s obstruction is
itself grounds for impeachment.
But Bentley continues to deny any wrongdoing in public comments.
HTML https://www.google.com/amp/wtvr.com/2017/04/08/alabama-gov-robert-bentley-abused-power-report-finds/amp/
Alabama's Robert Bentley, aka the 'Luv Guv," gives up
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, Editor-at-large
Updated 8:31 PM EDT, Mon April 10, 2017
Bentley's scandal stood out for the salacious allegations and
because he refused to acknowledge political reality and resign
The state's House Judiciary Committee released a report Friday
filled with texts and taped phone calls between Bentley, Mason
and Bentley's now ex-wife
(CNN) Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley called it quits Monday night
even as the state legislature prepared to impeach him over
allegations that he had misused state resources to cover up an
alleged affair with a former staffer.
"I've not always made the right choices," Bentley said in
announcing his resignation. "Though I sometimes failed I've
always tried to live up to the high expectations the people
place on the person who hold this esteemed office."
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Re: Fox News Bill O'Reilly Sexual Harassment Allegations
By: Kerry Date: April 12, 2017, 9:00 am
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He said he didn't know his wife was filing for divorce until
after she did it. I think I can believe that. He probably
would have wanted to talk her ear off. I found his referring to
God a little sickening.
December 15, 2015
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Bentley, 72, said his Christmas plans include spending time with
his 90-year-old brother and attending church.
"One of the things I also believe is as the Bible says, God
takes all of our issues and all of our problems and if we have
faith, he helps work through those difficulties and he makes
good things out of bad things. I believe that. One of the things
this difficult time has meant for me is I am stronger in my
faith right now than I have ever been because I believe God is
going to take care of me," he said.
How he conducted his affair was also stupid and heartless.
April 10, 2017
HTML http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/09/will-affair-end-in-alabama-governor-s-impeachment-or-jailing.html
Starting in 2013, according to Bentley’s now ex-wife, Dianne,
Mason began staying overnight in the pool house of the
governor’s mansion, an arrangement that raised eyebrows in
Montgomery.
At first, Dianne Bentley excused the frequent sleepovers,
according to the report. Mason’s home with her husband, the head
of the governor’s Office of Faith Based and Community
Initiatives, was in Tuscaloosa, nearly a two-hour drive from the
state capital. But the first lady of Alabama, a devout Christian
who would write prayer requests for her husband on sticky notes
that she kept in her personal devotional, was eventually
informed by Heather Hannah, her chief of staff, that the
governor and Mason would “jump” when interrupted by other
members of his staff and that he had begun to return home from
work with makeup on his shirts.
And sending his wife a message meant for his mistress? How
reckless or indifferent can you be?
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Other members of the governor’s family became aware of the
affair, according to the report, after perusing a state-issued
iPad that Bentley had given to his wife. The 74-year-old
governor was apparently ignorant of the fact that the tablet was
logged into the same iCloud messaging account that he used to
text sweet nothings to Mason.
Bentley’s four adult sons were apparently so worried that they
came to suspect that the affair was the result of “dementia,”
according to the report. The Bentley children went so far as to
attempt to have the governor evaluated by medical specialists,
although no such evaluation ever took place.
Meanwhile, the governor’s wife began taking screenshots of the
governor’s texts with Mason that appeared on her
iPad—conversations that eventually became crucial and
cringeworthy evidence in the impeachment case against Bentley.
Perhaps the most egregious moment in the Bentley-Mason affair
came when the governor, as cheating husbands have done since
text messaging was invented, accidentally texted “I love you
Rebekah” to his wife.
Maybe he is senile, suffering from dementia. He continued to
lie through his teeth just a few days ago:
HTML http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/10/robert-bentley-alabama-governor-resigns-over-sex-scandal.html
In a brief statement to his staffers, who applauded as he
approached the microphones, Bentley said, "there have been times
that I have let you and our people down, and I’m sorry for
that."
"I can no longer allow my family and my dear friends … to be
subjected to the consequences that my past actions have brought
upon them," Bentley added.
Oh? He decided he had injured his family and dear friends
enough? That's the reason he was resigning? Enough already!
If he had a decent bone in his body, he would apologized for the
past hurts he'd caused and not try to paint himself as a hero
for stepping down to avoid hurting them.
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