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10/19 Nice job censoring the O'Reilly charges, Bushbots!
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris17.html
NWS
\_ Why do you think you were censored by a Bush supporter? I'm a Bush
supporter but not an O'Reilly supporter. That being said, the
charges against him are a setup and probably some are lies. If the
phone conversations really happened, he's done. But the woman's
lawsuit is a joke (see Paragraph 11). And I wouldn't be surprised
if Fox/O'Reilly win the extortion suit.
\_ I really doubt that she would file this lawsuit without tapes
of the phone conversation, but we shall see.
\_ They better have it on clear tape or they're dead. The
quotes in her lawsuit papers make him sound like a stoned
uneducated bus driver in Arkansas. Whatever you think of
him or his show, he is well spoken. The words don't like
like him. However, if it's on tape, then so be it. There
are no O'Reilly supporters. He's simply an opinion guy.
If the charges are true and he goes down, tough shit and
good riddance.
\_ Actually the lawsuit makes O'Reilly sound like a powerful
Republican icon oozing sexual energy, that unfortunately
oozed out in the workplace.
Hey, it happened with Clinton - who's to say Republicans
aren't immune? (Granted O'Reilly never touched her.)
\_ The lawsuit does but go read where she claims to be
directly quoting him. It's just silly. If she has
it on tape, fine, burn him, if not, she burns. Easy.
\_ Clinton's woman was willing.
\_ Jessica Flowers?
\_ Oh, I was thinking of Monica
\_ I think that was Gennifer Flowers. And it was a
decade-long affair.
\_ Paula Jones?
\_ We trashed her enough that it was ok he raped her.
\_ The Miss America chick who did some TV for a while?
\_ What's wrong with paragraph 11? I believe this is not uncommon
in divorce lawsuits, so why not one for sexual harrassment?
\_ The paragraph in question:
"At all times mentioned herein, Defendant BILL O'REILLY was
and is the host and 'star' of 'The O'Reilly Factor.' 'The
O'Reilly Factor' is broadcast on cable television throughout
the United States by Defendants FOX. 'The O'Reilly Factor' is
broadcast on radio throughout the United States by Defendant
WESTWOOD ONE. Defendants FOX, WESTWOOD ONE and BILL O'REILLY
utilize this forum to preach the principles of the so-called
'compassionate conservatism' espoused by George W. Bush and
the Republican Party. The Defendants also use this forum to
preach their belief in family values and to bemoan the moral
decline of politicians and others in positions of power."
WTF does the Bush adminstration have to do with this lawsuit?
\_ "I believe this is not uncommon in divorce lawsuits, so why
not one for sexual harrassment?"
\_ The first half is just declarative. The second half tries
to make him sound like a hypocrite. Maybe it was put in by
an overeager paralegal.
\_ I agree. Lawsuit says: O'Reilly loves conservative
values espoused by Dubya and GOP, but he's a sexual
harrasser!!!
\_ Which makes sense if you're trying to
character-assasinate, but not to prove anything about
sexual harassment.
\_ Yes, it's dumb to put it in the complaint, but
I don't think it tarnishes the claim much.
\_ What about this:
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32244.htm
Does that tarnish it?
\_ heh. Mackris, according to this bartender,
is a drunken slut with the liberal agenda
of taking O'Reilly down.
And O'Reilly, who is married, talks phone
sex with employees.
I'm not putting my blinders on (O'Reilly
isn't the innocent conservative, and Mackris
isn't the powerless angel) - I think it'll
be very interesting anyway. |
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| www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris17.html Hidden links: 29. |
| www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32244.htm down" months before she went back to work for him, a witness swore yesterday. Andrea Mackris also bragged that she was good buddies with O'Reilly's arc h nemesis Air America talk show host Al Franken, the witness said. "What we thought we had here was somebody trying to hit us up for a lot o f money, but now we know it's much more than that," said O'Reilly's lawy er, Ronald Green. Green said the bombshell revelation came from Upper West Side restaurateu r Matthew Paratore, who owns a bar that Fox associate producer Andrea Ma ckris used to frequent before she was barred for loud, lewd and indecent behavior at the beginning of the summer. Green said Paratore shared what he knew about Mackris for a sworn affidav it in a 90-minute proceeding that was witnessed by eight people and take n down by a court reporter. has no interest in this case, no stake in this case," Gree n said. "But he said what was happening here is just dead wrong." Asked to comment on Paratore, Mackris' lawyer, Benedict Morelli, said, "I t's ridiculous. We can't talk right now," and hung up on a Post reporter . Mackris, 33, filed suit against her boss, O'Reilly and his bosses at Fox News Channel last week, charging that the popular loudmouth had subjecte d her to a slew of inappropriate comments and engaged in unwanted and ex tremely graphic phone-sex conversations with her. She said the inappropriate comments began shortly after she first went to work for O'Reilly in May 2002 and continued until January 2004, when sh e quit Fox to work for CNN. That was when Mackris crowed to Paratore, who said they'd known each othe r "for years," that "she had decided to take down Bill O'Reilly and Fox. She said she'd written a book" at the end of 2003 or early 2004, Green said. She apparently shopped the book to a publisher during her short stint at CNN and told Paratore that "the publisher told her it needed something m ore. Mackris, who continued socializing with O'Reilly while she was working at CNN, went back to work for him in June 2004. Soon after, her suit says, O'Reilly started engaging in the unwanted phone sex with her. Paratore said Mackris was no stranger to unwanted sexual advances she'd f requently made them on him at his restaurant, North West, Green said. said he was the object of her sexual propositions, sexual rants and drunken propositions," Green said, including once when she all egedly started taking off her clothes. "If you think I'm going to f - - - Bill O'Reilly, I'm going to f - - - yo u even more," Paratore quoted her as saying, according to Green. Paratore also said that earlier this year, Mackris had dinner at his rest aurant with Franken, who featured O'Reilly in his book, "Lies and the Ly ing Liars Who Tell Them." O'Reilly sued Franken over the book, but the suit was tossed. To further stick it to "The O'Reilly Factor," the liberal Franken named his Air Ame rica radio show, "The O'Franken Factor." According to the affidavit, during their dinner, Mackris boasted to resta urant staffers that she and Franken "share a common political belief" wh ich was contrary to O'Reilly's, who's been labeled a conservative althou gh he says he's an independent. Paratore said that over time, Mackris' drunken antics got to be too much, and he banned her from the bar, Green said. |