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THE O'SMILEY FACTOR
New York Post ^ | 10/30/04 | DAREH GREGORIAN

Posted on 10/30/2004 12:59:00 AM PDT by kattracks

Fresh off settling her loofah-licious sex-harassment lawsuit with TV talker Bill O'Reilly, New York's newest multimillionaire really splurged yesterday — buying a large coffee at Starbucks.

A happy-looking Andrea Mackris, 33, treated herself to the $3 cup of joe yesterday even though she's just joined the ranks of the unemployed.

A Fox News Channel spokesman said yesterday Mackris "is no longer employed by Fox News."

The very early retirement announcement came one day after Mackris and O'Reilly worked out a multimillion big-bucks deal to end their dueling harassment and extortion suits.

Mackris made $73,000 a year from FNC for her work on O'Reilly's hit TV news-talk show, as well as $20,000 a year from Westwood One for her work on his radio show.

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Instead of filing a harassment complaint with her bosses, Mackris and her lawyer threatened to sue the network for $600 million unless they ponied up $60 million, leading to the suits — and then Thursday's peace deal. The details are secret.

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Mackris — who said she's considering a vacation but doesn't know where to go — was giggling at the attention, and said she's "not used to" it.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 10/30/2004 12:59:00 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks

Despicable. O'Reilly is a moral corpse


2 posted on 10/30/2004 1:03:14 AM PDT by eclectic (Falluja delenda est)
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To: kattracks

The Blovator turned into the Ovator...

What a wimp.


3 posted on 10/30/2004 1:06:55 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: eclectic

Lots of idea's on replacing him


4 posted on 10/30/2004 1:08:30 AM PDT by GeronL (FREE KERRY'S SCARY bumper sticker .......... http://www.kerrysscary.com/bumper_sticker.php)
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To: eclectic

I agree, and if Ailes decide to play him like a "Weekend at Bernie's" kind of thing just for ratings, O'Reilly will drag the rest of the FOX empire down with him.


5 posted on 10/30/2004 1:09:55 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: kattracks

Well, at least the fine name of the falafel won't be run through the mud.


6 posted on 10/30/2004 1:09:58 AM PDT by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: DB
Yeah, "The NO SPINE ZONE".
7 posted on 10/30/2004 1:10:29 AM PDT by Master of Orion
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To: HitmanNY
Well, at least the fine name of the falafel won't be run through the mud.

Would you mind explaining the falafel reference to me? I've heard it several times, but I don't know what it's about. Thanks.

8 posted on 10/30/2004 1:12:47 AM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: NYCVirago

Sure.

In Makris's pleading, she notes that Bill on one occasion shared his 'Carribean Shower Fantasy' with her. Basically, he describes how the hot carribean air gets people to lose their inhibition, he tells her how he would like to get in a shower with her, and lather her up from behind, and feel up her 'big boobs' as he called them.

He then says he will take the loofa to scrub up her back in a sexy way. After some more descriptions of this 'sexy' scene, Bill inexplicably refers to the loofa as a 'falafel,' so the fantasy (for some reason) then includes Bill & Makris in a shower on a humid day in the Carribean, only now Bill is using a falafel as possibly a big sponge, a loofa, some sort of sexual toy, or at the very least to snack on, I suppose, of they get hungry during their sexy, steamy shower.

I don't really see the eroticism, but I just report the facts. :)


9 posted on 10/30/2004 1:18:15 AM PDT by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: kattracks
"Fresh off settling her loofah-licious sex-harassment lawsuit with TV talker Bill O'Reilly, New York's newest multimillionaire....

"....Mackris and O'Reilly worked out a multimillion big-bucks deal to end their dueling harassment and extortion suits."


I don't like O'Reilly or his show. However, I don't see how this "reporter" can write about a "multimillion big-bucks deal" when the details to the deal are secret.
10 posted on 10/30/2004 1:20:11 AM PDT by Jaysun (HAVE YOU GIVEN ALL YOU CAN TO RALPH NADER??????)
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To: HitmanNY
After some more descriptions of this 'sexy' scene, Bill inexplicably refers to the loofa as a 'falafel,' so the fantasy (for some reason) then includes Bill & Makris in a shower on a humid day in the Carribean, only now Bill is using a falafel as possibly a big sponge, a loofa, some sort of sexual toy, or at the very least to snack on, I suppose, of they get hungry during their sexy, steamy shower. I don't really see the eroticism, but I just report the facts. :)

Man, that report is funny. I mean spitting up my soda funny. Either it's your stellar writing skills, or the story, or both, but that is hilarious!

11 posted on 10/30/2004 1:23:52 AM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: kattracks

These two deserved each other. So, Mr. O'Blowhard, who's looking out...to sue you next?


12 posted on 10/30/2004 1:28:43 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Vote for Kerry for your own security. I'm Osama Bin Laden and I approved this message.)
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To: HitmanNY

LOL Uncontrollably for 3 minutes.


13 posted on 10/30/2004 1:31:55 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er ({about the news media} "We'll tell you any sh** you want hear" : Howard Beale --> NETWORK)
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To: eclectic

They both are. They deserve each other.


14 posted on 10/30/2004 1:33:23 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: kattracks

I wonder how many of you have seen the video clip of this woman and O'Riley when she worked with him? She is sitting near him at a large table and one immediately knows she is well endowed because her blouse barely covers her chest. Any woman who dresses that way at work is looking for trouble from any man who does not have good control over his sexual impulses. I'll bet she knew O'Riley would not be able to stand it and then made a plan to set him up. Sometimes I wonder why God made sex the destructive issue it often becomes. Sex and power has taken down nations.


15 posted on 10/30/2004 1:34:55 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: HitmanNY
I don't really see the eroticism

You haven't lived until you've had a falafel scrubbed on your bum!

16 posted on 10/30/2004 1:35:16 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: kattracks

He's just "looking out for the folks"...Right?
Remember that series about teen sex he did a year or so ago? He seemed so pompous and moralizing about it all. He's a total hypocrite, apparently.


17 posted on 10/30/2004 1:39:50 AM PDT by BonnieJ
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To: DB

O'Reilly pulled a Michael Jackson.


18 posted on 10/30/2004 1:41:29 AM PDT by beyond the sea (ab9usa4uandme)
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To: beyond the sea

I hold her accountable, too.


19 posted on 10/30/2004 1:48:36 AM PDT by C65hristine
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To: C65hristine

You're right, but Bill should stay away from the phone. ;-)


20 posted on 10/30/2004 1:52:23 AM PDT by beyond the sea (ab9usa4uandme)
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To: beyond the sea

Bill was set up. That excuse is as false as accusing the actions of a bank robber because he knew there was money in the bank because of their actions. Bill is supposed to be no spin and then gets spun like a top. He is supposed to be intelligent and forthright but flunked the test. She had the tapes to prove her accusations or Bill would not have folded. Shame on Bill!


21 posted on 10/30/2004 2:54:42 AM PDT by meenie
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To: monkeyshine

I'm more of a hummus man myself.........


22 posted on 10/30/2004 3:06:52 AM PDT by ninonitti
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To: ninonitti

Dang that was the most expensive phone bill ever! BO should contest that bill. If she gets the big $$$'s, maybe a date with the faux President-JfK is in her future.


23 posted on 10/30/2004 3:26:31 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero)
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To: HitmanNY
"Well, at least the fine name of the falafel won't be run through the mud."

And the ghost of the funny man, slightly bent over and holding a cigar close to his mouth, eyebrows bouncing up and down, quipped, "...or run through anything else, for that matter!"
24 posted on 10/30/2004 3:36:22 AM PDT by familyop (Receive, adhere, listen, dissolve, entice and launch.)
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To: ninonitti

Throw in a little spread of tabouli and it works for me!


25 posted on 10/30/2004 3:38:47 AM PDT by STEAMER (My dog ate my tagline.)
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To: jazzlite
"Any woman who dresses that way at work is looking for trouble from any man who does not have good control over his sexual impulses.

Perhaps that is her way of saying, "Talk dirty to me, Bill!"

26 posted on 10/30/2004 4:07:35 AM PDT by albee (Those who desire peace should prepare for war.)
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To: eclectic

The truth is that no one knows what the terms of the settlement, the amount of the settlement, or the reasons for the settlement were.

My guess, given O'Reilly's penchant for porn on his show, is that he did make inappropriate comments, but they weren't actionable because of weak evidence and no supporting victims stepping forward.

There was probably an embarrassing tape and O'Reilly paid to keep it out of the public.

The one who should be really po'd is Mrs. O'Reilly. This hints at a tendency to step out.


27 posted on 10/30/2004 4:17:35 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Proudly Supporting BUSH/CHENEY 2004!)
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To: GeronL

Probably not, since his ratings have been up since this "scandal".


28 posted on 10/30/2004 4:38:58 AM PDT by bella1 (bella1)
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To: kattracks

A male has already been hired to replace her I bet. It always works like that in situations like this.


29 posted on 10/30/2004 4:52:15 AM PDT by paltz
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To: albee

He should have sent the bitch home to change clothes the way the White House sent Lewinsky home - but then again, look what happened!

Kind of sets women's rights back 50 years with all that crap, and also had it been me, to have an all-male staff, or my wife as office manager to keep the bimbos in check!

30 posted on 10/30/2004 5:31:26 AM PDT by MrBallroom (Help, I'm talking and I can't shut up!)
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To: monkeyshine
You haven't lived until you've had a falafel scrubbed on your bum!

Damn, you could substitute TACO for falafel and have a steamy Mayan adventure.

Or you could change falafel to CHICKEN & WAFFLES and have a Pennsylvania trist.

The possibilities are endless........

31 posted on 10/30/2004 5:39:14 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (9-11 is your Peace Dividend)
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To: jazzlite

What video? Got a link?


32 posted on 10/30/2004 5:51:06 AM PDT by time4good
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To: kattracks

I used to watch O'Billy until the night that Michael Moore handed him his own ass on a platter. That "debate" did more to expose him as a phony than any and all his other baloney.

Fox needs to show him the door, and soon. I doubt his numbers will justify his staying long-term. He'll keep a good audience for a while for the same reason that motorists slow down to view an auto accident. The fascination will soon wear off, and he is done.


33 posted on 10/30/2004 6:00:52 AM PDT by thelastvirgil (Idiot-proof ANYTHING, and someone will build a better idiot.)
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To: kattracks

O'Reilly rolled over? WOW.


34 posted on 10/30/2004 6:03:01 AM PDT by lawgirl (If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. Vote for W!)
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To: NYCVirago
Man, that report is funny. I mean spitting up my soda funny. Either it's your stellar writing skills, or the story, or both, but that is hilarious!

Thanks for the compliment and I am glad you enjoyed it! But to be fair, Makris's original complaint had the story and I really didn't embellish it much!

That Bill O'R is crazy like a fox, I tell you! He sure knows how to sweet talk the ladies! ;-)

35 posted on 10/31/2004 6:31:03 AM PST by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: NYCVirago
Man, that report is funny. I mean spitting up my soda funny. Either it's your stellar writing skills, or the story, or both, but that is hilarious!

Thanks for the compliment and I am glad you enjoyed it! But to be fair, Makris's original complaint had the story and I really didn't embellish it much!

That Bill O'R is crazy like a fox, I tell you! He sure knows how to sweet talk the ladies! ;-)

36 posted on 10/31/2004 6:31:24 AM PST by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: Finalapproach29er

Glad you liked it! I guess that Bill O'R has one heck of a sexual imagination!


37 posted on 10/31/2004 6:33:12 AM PST by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: monkeyshine
You haven't lived until you've had a falafel scrubbed on your bum!

Well, you got me there! By that standard, I hope to not live, I suppose, for a very long time! Hahaha! Kudos! ;-)

38 posted on 10/31/2004 6:35:21 AM PST by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: monkeyshine

You haven't lived until you have a pancake on your bun?

39 posted on 10/31/2004 6:38:05 AM PST by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: HitmanNY

40 posted on 10/31/2004 6:39:27 AM PST by ErnBatavia (Democrats: appear in September, leavin' November 3 - worse than a 1-night stand...)
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To: ErnBatavia

Hahah! Thanks for a great laugh to start the day! :-)


41 posted on 10/31/2004 6:42:33 AM PST by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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