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2017/04/19 22:52:48
Subject: Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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Huh, I am surprised thsi was enough to bring him down. it wasn't enough to stop the Trumpster.
Bill should run for President next!
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2017/04/19 23:15:33
Subject: Re:Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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Congrats to Bill O'Reilly for harassing women for decades, and then getting a hefty paycheck as a reward on the way out.
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 lord_blackfang wrote:Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
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2017/04/19 23:49:50
Subject: Re:Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
Curb stomping in the Eye of Terror!
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 Ouze wrote:Congrats to Bill O'Reilly for harassing women for decades, and then getting a hefty paycheck as a reward on the way out.
I hope he gets a fat zero... or, at the very least, those harrassers sues for it.
EDIT: sorry moyak! 
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Live Ork, Be Ork. or D'Ork!
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2017/04/20 00:08:18
Subject: Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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Bringing politics into a thread will get it locked. If we're done talking about the actual topic, I'll lock it now
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2017/04/20 00:33:38
Subject: Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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I hear Tomi Lahren is looking for work...
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2017/04/20 00:48:59
Subject: Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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 kronk wrote:I watched a few of the heated discussions he had with folks where he'd just shut off their mics and then yell at them for being an idiot while they could not respond.
What a great guy.
That is why I quit watching. Honestly back in the day he would try to have good conversations, then it turned into him just bullying the people that came on his show. It was the worst kind of opinion related news shows.
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2017/04/20 01:30:48
Subject: Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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The sad truth is of course that Bill was not fired for sexual harassment. FoxNews has no problem with sexual harassment, not only will they keep on paying you while you are harassing women, they will also pick up the tap and pay to make the women go away after they complain about you harassing them. FoxNews is okay with you being a scumbag as long as you are a scumbag that brings in money.
Bill was fired because he became a negative entry on the balance sheet. After this last news the advertisers left, and with them the money. And a guy who harasses women AND who doesn't make you any money doesn't have a place at FoxNews.
Of course this is just a wider symptom of the 24 hour news channels in particular: there is no integrity and no values, political or otherwise, there is only the money.
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2017/04/20 01:49:57
Subject: Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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Fixture of Dakka
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That man makes me want to claw my eyeballs out.
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"The Omnissiah is my Moderati" |
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2017/04/20 02:08:09
Subject: Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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 Galef wrote:The real shame is that this boiled down to losing money for Fox, instead of, ya know, integrity or values or anything like that.
FOX paid out $13 million and was happy to keep O'Reilly on the air. At the same time former CEO Roger Ailes was in the midst of his 40 year history of sexual harassment.
The morality at FOX News appears to be that anything is okay, unless they get caught.
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 infinite_array wrote: feeder wrote:I wonder what his next move will be. Is he able to survive online among even louder, brasher a-holes peddling his brand of "news" like Breitbart, Infowars, and Rebel Media?
Actually, i could see him ending up at Breitbart.
White House Press Sec?
Former FOX News CEO Roger Ailes was revealed as a sexual predator. He took his $40m payout for leaving, and started a couple of weeks later as part of Trump's campaign staff.
Trump has already come out and defended O'Reilly. He was pretty much the only person to defend O'Reilly.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see O'Reilly take up some kind of position in Trump's team. Wouldn't be Press Secretary though, the money wouldn't be enough for O'Reilly 
EDIT - Is this politics?
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 Vaktathi wrote:That said, I really can't think of a cable TV talking head I can stand listening to at all. Not Carlson, not Maddow, not O'Reilly, or any others that I cann recall. I think the fundamental nature of that show just instantly enrages me on general principle.
There's been some studies that show that listening to talking head shows, especially ones where panels of guests argue back and forth make you dumber. Not misinformed but literally dumber, as in temporarily lowering your IQ.
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He's different because his show runs only once a week. That gives a lot more time to do the work needed to colllect the important parts of an issue and present them in a meaningful context.
Jon Stewart on The Daily Show was okay for a lot of his run despite having to do one show a day, but there was still a lot of filler and nonsense, and the effort of putting up some kind of decent analysis every single day ground the man down pretty badly.
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 Spacemanvic wrote:Good riddance to that progressive RINO gakker. Maybe NPR has a space for him?
Is that the line you're going to take in your FOX News audition tape? Might work.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2017/04/20 05:34:49
Subject: Re:Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
On a surly Warboar, leading the Waaagh!
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Just another case of power bringing out the absolute worst aspect in some people. I'm not going to shed a tear for the departure of this arrogant, obnoxious gakbag.
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2017/04/21 21:56:17
Subject: Re:Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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 BigWaaagh wrote:Just another case of power bringing out the absolute worst aspect in some people. I'm not going to shed a tear for the departure of this arrogant, obnoxious gakbag.
Hey now, we have no evidence that O'Reilly wasn't an arrogant, obnoxious gakbag before he got power, so can we really blame it on the amplifying effect of power?
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The Laws of Thermodynamics:
1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.
Colonel Flagg wrote:You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me.
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2017/04/21 23:07:30
Subject: Re:Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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 A Town Called Malus wrote: BigWaaagh wrote:Just another case of power bringing out the absolute worst aspect in some people. I'm not going to shed a tear for the departure of this arrogant, obnoxious gakbag.
Hey now, we have no evidence that O'Reilly an arrogant, obnoxious gakbag before he got power, so can we really blame it on the amplifying effect of power?
Honestly from what I've seen he gradually got worse over the years, though if this was specifically him being corrupted by power or a matching an overall trend of Fox News getting worse can be debated. Personally I think that yeah, the popularity corrupted him. Especially after he started writing the 'Killing' series he seemed to get very full of himself.
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2017/04/22 00:00:08
Subject: Re:Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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Well, he was a war correspondent* whose work has won a peabody award*.
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lord_blackfang wrote:Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote:The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
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2017/04/23 01:43:21
Subject: Re:Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News.
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Ouze wrote:Well, he was a war correspondent* whose work has won a peabody award*.
O'Reilly telling those blatant lies and only being called on it by fringe media figures like Al Franken strikes me as a big part of the issue. Does anyone believe if a liberal pundit like Maddow had claimed her show won awards, claiming a more famous award than what was won, and implying it was won while he was at the show, that it wouldn't lead to broad criticism? The conservative media would make it a national issue for months, and the rest of the media would follow along. But this happens on FOX News and no-one cares because the mainstream just accepts that FOX is crap told by liars.
The result is that FOX gets away with it. Even now they've somehow managed to have their CEO and most famous media figure both revealed as committing decades of sexual harrasment, with hardly anyone suggesting maybe there might be a cultural problem at FOX.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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