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- Sil369, on 10/12/2007, -10/+55If Bush could sue all the bloggers/news media ppl who bad mouth him....
- kosmoX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45The O'Reilly Factor is an opinion show. Good luck suing someone for stating their opinion, no matter how 'defamatory' it is. John Edwards didn't try to sue Ann Coulter for referring to him as a *****. Bush never tries to sue anyone for calling him a criminal or a terrorist or a liar.
- neom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Did anyone read the story?
"Von Anhalt came forward with his belief that he may have been responsible for impregnating Smith the day after her death on Feb. 8"
wtf? - jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -10/+43O'RLY?
- ConservoHippie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29It's quite the talking point. Probably the most ridiculous item of the day.
- neom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21But necrophilia?? I presume they meant that he came forward, the day after her death, with the belief that he may have impregnated her.
- dojonz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25Come on guys, Bill O'Reily's commentary has always been 'fair and balanced'.
- aramova, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18@robdazomba
No broadcasting career eh? Don't be such a left-wing talking head zombie.
Broadcasting career
Bill O'Reilly in 1975 as the "Action Consumer troubleshooter" for ABC affiliate WNEP in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.
Bill O'Reilly in 1975 as the "Action Consumer troubleshooter" for ABC affiliate WNEP in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.[7]
After graduating from Marist College, O'Reilly moved to Miami, Florida at age 21, where he taught English and history at Monsignor Pace High School for two years. After leaving Miami, O'Reilly returned to school, earning a M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University in 1976. While attending Boston University, he was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies, including The Boston Phoenix. O'Reilly did his broadcast journalism internship in Miami during this time, and was also an entertainment writer and movie critic for The Miami Herald.
O'Reilly's early television news career included reporting and anchoring positions at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also reported the weather. At WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, O'Reilly was awarded the Dallas Press Club Award for excellence in investigative reporting. He then moved to KMGH-TV in Denver, Colorado where he won a Local Emmy Award for his coverage of a skyjacking.[8][9] In 1978 while in Denver, Bill was offered a job as the Marlboro Man. He turned it down because he didn’t smoke nor wanted to promote it. (radio factor/ Feb. 21, 2007). O'Reilly also worked for KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, as well as TV stations in Hartford, Connecticut (WFSB-TV), and in Boston, Massachusetts.[9]
WJLA, Washington, D.C. Inside Edition promo featuring Bill O'Reilly, 1993.
WJLA, Washington, D.C. Inside Edition promo featuring Bill O'Reilly, 1993.
In 1980, he anchored his own program on WCBS-TV in New York where he won his second Local Emmy for an investigation of corrupt city marshals. He was promoted to the network as a CBS News correspondent and covered the wars in El Salvador and the Falkland Islands from his base in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1982). He later left CBS over, among other tensions, a dispute concerning the uncredited use in a report by Bob Schieffer of riot footage shot by O'Reilly's crew in Buenos Aires during the Falklands conflict. (A 1998 novel by O'Reilly, Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Television and Murder, depicts a television reporter who has a similar dispute over a Falklands War report. The character proceeds to exact his revenge on network staff in a series of graphically-described murders.)[10]
In 1986, O'Reilly joined ABC News as a correspondent for ABC World News Tonight.
In 1989, O'Reilly joined the nationally syndicated King World (now CBS) program Inside Edition, a tabloid/gossip television program in competition with A Current Affair. He started as senior correspondent and backup anchor for British TV host David Frost, and subsequently became the program's anchor after Frost's termination. In addition to being one of the first American broadcasters to cover the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, O'Reilly also obtained the first exclusive interview with murderer Joel Steinberg and was the first television host from a national current affairs program on the scene of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
In 1995, O'Reilly was replaced by former NBC News and CBS News anchor Deborah Norville on Inside Edition. He then enrolled at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he received a Master's Degree in Public Administration. Upon leaving Harvard, O'Reilly was hired by Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of the then startup FOX News Channel, to anchor The O'Reilly Report. The show soon moved to a new time slot, and was renamed The O'Reilly Factor. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22Completely ridiculous case as it'll go no where, but we wouldn't know because when we hear Bill O'Reilly we automatically call him names, right?
- 1911wolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Well, he may as well sue me too. If you have the word Prince anywhere in your name I'd call you a fraud too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15First this guy sues Viagra for making him impotent, then he somehow knocks up Anna Nicole. After that he says he'll take a lie detector test and then bails on that at the last minute. Think what you want about O'Reilly, von Anhalt is a complete idiot.
- kosmoX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16As bad as it sounds, as soon as Anna Nicole died, the baby got a huge price tag.
- brianbennett, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Anhalt is probably a "public figure," which means he's not doing himself any favors with a suit that will just get thrown out.
- kosmoX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Let's not bring John Edwards and his "The children...they're speaking through me" into this.
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12In other news, people are abusing the legal system in an attempt to extort money from innocent people...
(not saying OReilly is innocent... **looks at RIAA**) - Archimboldo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14What a nation of cry babies. I hope he'll get a nice $10,000,000 piece of kleenex to dry his tears in.
"Waaaaah! Fred down the hall bumped into me. Waaaaah! Sue him for $10,000,000 emotional damages. Waaaah!" - thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Wow, aren't y'all the bastion of tolerance and logical thought....
- TheCash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I never knew telling the truth was something that could land you in court. Hmmm... live and learn.
As if the major news outlets needed another reason to keep this whole 'Anna Nicole' crap story going. Yeesh.
I wonder how long it will take for one of the other 'fathers' to sue Zsa Zsa's husband for actually being a fraud, and making fraudulent statements? - DolphinGL, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Why can't most people on the internet spell "lying"?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12YA RLY.
- robdazomba, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10As if you had any chance.
- minox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Oh, what a big man you are!
- floorman56, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9It all came from this.
Frederic Von Anhalt was on the O,Reilly show when Bill asked her would he take a lie detector test if they paid for it to prove he was the father and Frederic said yea of course. so when Von Anhalt didn't come across he called him a "a fraud" Bill just called him out and this guy turned yellow. BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE WAS LIEING TO BILL O'REILLY - kosmoX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Ahhh...I missed that. Indeed, a poorly written sentence.
- David513, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I can't stand O'Reilly, but this suit isn't going anywhere. The alleged prince (who is suspected of having purchased his title, BTW) is a public figure, according to standards set by the Supreme Court. In order for a public figure to win a slander suit, he has to prove that the person who slanders him (or libels him, in the case of print) did so KNOWING that the accusation was false or else that the slanderer acted with reckless disregard of the truth. It is almost impossible to meet this standard, which is why public figures tend not to sue for libel or slander. O'Reilly will win this one, without question.
David - superpixel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow, some people will do anything to get on TV.
- KyjL, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10As much as I find O'Reilly insanely annoying, this is very true. Dugged up.
- David513, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7When you are putting yourself out into the public for publicity purposes as he CONSTANTLY does, yes, he's a public figure by Supreme Court definitions. I used to be a newspaper editor, so I had to deal with this. Obviously, I can be wrong, just like anybody, but I'm quite certain he counts as a public figure, mostly because he has consistently placed himself in the public eye (or at least tried to).
David - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Because they haven't read a book in their lives.
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why don't you go do that and let us know when it will happen.
I'll fly around the world to get the footage of that... especially the results of said teeth kicking. - floorman56, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why can't most people on the internet spell "lying"?
We do it to piss off spelling Nazis - nmeagent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Judging (no pun intended) from a number of comments here, it seems like quite a few of you see no need for a trial at all. In your minds, O'Reilly is already guilty as charged and we should just move right along to awarding the damages. Why is that? Well, I think it's because:
a) he might be a conservative (a crime, for sure)
b) he definitely is an ass (the reason why I don't watch him)
c) he works for Fox News (the existence of which some of you cannot seem to handle)
If someone you had never heard of before made these same comments, I think (opinion!) that you would have a completely different verdict. - kablammo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Mo money, mo problems.
- Jeeum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The headline piqued my curiousity...then I see that the title of the page starts with "E! News". No need to look any further than that.
- ShuttleDisaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2haha..a very poorly worded sentence.
- aramova, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@vertinox
Indeed I am. However your statement shows that you ignore the work he did at WNEP-TV, WFAA-TV, KMGH-TV, KATU-TV, WJLA, WCBS, ABC, The Miami Herald, and The Boston Phoenix, just because he worked for Inside Edition.
So, because you worked at Taco Bell at some point in your life, does that mean you can never be taken seriously in the world from that point on?
@robdazomba
Yes you did... And I quote...
"He wouldn't know that since he has no real news reporting background."
See the list of "Real news reporting background" listed above. - ThisBlows, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Vicky Lynn Hogan..Mexia, Tx. Town pump...dropped out of high school ...moved to Houston so she could make enough for her own dope. Only thing she ever earned of her own volition was in small denominations stuffed into a g-string.
Before she got her lips stuffed as full as her *****...she pursed them out so far she reminded me of the character on "In Living Color...She FINALLY has something in common with Marilyn Monroe...their both dead... - zombo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bill obviously touched a raw nerve there. "Prinz" von Anhalt the mans whole life is fake.
- robdazomba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm familiar with what you're talking about, but I'm not sure he'd be seen as a public figure.
- nmeagent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2a) If having an opinion means that I'm a troll, then it's certainly possible.
b) Ah, that response brings me back to the halcyon days of the 4th grade...
c) I work?
IV) Your diligence in formatting is sorely lacking! You clearly left out one bit of whitespace after "a)". Pshaw! - betona, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Not exactly news. Every major company there is deals with a surprising number of lawsuits at all times--even the most boring public companies get a stream of lawsuits. I'd expect the media companies may even get more than their fair share, from Harpo (Oprah) to Turner (CNN) to whatever.
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Being a public figure isn't necessarily a defense for O'Reilly, but it does mean that Mr. Zsa Zsa must show malice on the part of O'Reilly...which may not be that hard to prove, given that it's O'Reilly.
- chopenik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4SHUT UP ! SHUT UP ! SHUT UP !
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7All the crap he's spewed and THIS is what gets him a lawsuit?
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2troll?
- kcahon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If O'Reilly was hit with a $10 million dollar suit, he'd go to Burlington Coat Factory!
- ThisBlows, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6I wouldn't admit to ***** that pig for half a billion.
- geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Bill O'Reilly's people very often send cease and desist letters to anyone with a negative opinion about him. They always, ALWAYS cite "defamation of character" as the reason for sending these letters. One such case has lead to FOX News now owning the rights to http://www.billoreillysucks.com and which now redirects to O'Reilly's official website. Before that it lead to a personal website that was critical of O'Reilly.
If you have bad things to say about papa bear, and you're getting enough attention for it, there is no question that he WILL come after you. - nmeagent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"FOXIFIED CHRISTIAN ZOMBIE NUTJOB ALERT!
the same idiots who still think Saddam had WMDs, attacked us on 911 and have picture of Bush on their nightstand are comin' out of the woodwork!!"
Troll much? - vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@"aramova"
Are you old enough to remember what Inside Edition was about?
News my butt... It was a gossip tabloid much like "A Current Affair".
I still can't believe Geraldo does serious news these days either... It used to be a gag amoung kids about his satan worship specials and the guy breaking his face with a chair.
I'm not a left winger myself, but its almost as if Donahue came out of the wood work and was given a serious job after all those Marylin Manson interviews in the mid 90's. GAH! -
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