:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::

"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.

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:: 10.14.2004 ::

:: "Every which way but loofah" ::

Inside the Bill O'Reilly sexual harassment lawsuit
From Salon.com

Popular right-wing talk show host Bill O'Reilly, star of "The O'Reilly Factor," and the company he works for, Fox News, were slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit today by Andrea Mackris, an associate producer on his show. (The lawsuit is posted in its entirety on The Smoking Gun website.) Mackris, who worked for Fox News for more than four years, alleged that O'Reilly repeatedly harassed her verbally, repeatedly making lewd suggestions to her in person and over the telephone while masturbating with a vibrator.

Just before Mackris filed her civil complaint, O'Reilly and Fox's lawyers filed a counter lawsuit (also posted on The Smoking Gun Web site) charging that Mackris and her lawyers were attempting to extort $60 million in "hush money." Although the complaint did not directly deny that O'Reilly had engaged in the conduct Mackris alleged, it called the allegations "baseless, scandalous and scurrilous." O'Reilly's attorneys alleged that the lawsuit was motivated not only by greed but politics, alleging that Mackris' lawyer, Benedict Morelli, his firm and his wife are "known supporters of and contributors to the Democratic Party" who wanted to "embarrass and tarnish the reputations of Fox and O'Reilly" during the election season.

Read more here.
(Subscription required - 1-day passes are available, giving access to the entire site as I recall)

ALSO

FOX IN THE XXX FACTOR
From The NY Post Online

Producer alleges Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly forced her into phone sex
From SFGate.com

The 'X' Factor: Papers Get Raunchy with O'Reilly Case
From Editor & Publisher
Newsday's Pradnya Joshi wrote that the suit detailed O'Reilly's conversations with Mackris (possibly caught on tape or in detailed notes): "In other discussions, which the suit called 'perverted ravings,' he allegedly approached Mackris and a college friend, saying, 'Boy, I would've had fun with you two,' and told Mackris of his trysts with a pair of 'really wild' Scandinavian airline stewardesses and a 'girl' at a Thai sex show."

Many papers provided plenty of R-rated material. New York's Daily News carried raunchy excerpts, including one where O’Reilly allegedly told Mackris that every woman owns a vibrator. Mackris insisted she did not, and shot back, "Does your wife?"

"Yes, in fact she does," O'Reilly replied, according to court papers. "She'd kill me if she knew I was telling you."

Read more here.

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