Killing O'Reilly

The spin over this story has been fascinating. IMHO, this development illustrates extremely well just how low our current media's bar has been lowered in stooping to gossip and salaciousness. And with the advent of social media we everyone chiming in on judging it. It isn't the first and won't be the last.

Here's an article which is a prime example. 

But, there's also mounting evidence that there were leftist forces at work - in the form of a highly organized campaign against the show's advertisers - behind O'Reilly's demise. 

On the other hand, here's a piece from someone who worked with O'Reilly while at FOX News that has a different perspective on the situation.

Then there's "Whacky Waters" who believes O'Reilly should go to jail for this. Oh really? Then she apparently hasn't been informed about all the women who came forward in the '90s and later, who asserted that Bill Clinton raped them, and deserves the same. Then, there's Rush Limbaugh's questions about all of this.

While I don't condone outright sexist behavior by anyone, I, personally, think it's a bit unrealistic for us to think that we can instantly overcome the tendencies of former generations (after all, they grew up in circumstances which were more accepting of such behavior) to suppress their desires - even if they're just verbal - especially when those men have parlayed their "A" type personalities to climb the corporate ladder and have their egos inflated by it, while at the same time be subjected to working with a cadre of extremely attractive women as there are at FOX News. (Roger Ailes did promote this for ratings, didn't he? So, in my view he's just as much a culprit as Bill.)

Given his long run of success as a New York Times "Best Selling" author and news anchor, Bill O'Reilly may have had his venue pulled and his reputation sullied, but at this man's age, he certainly will not be suffering financially; even if he is sued by any of the females involved. His book revenues alone has, I suspect, given more to charity than any other conservative to date. And regardless of the "Golden Parachute" he's been given for leaving FOX News, it would make any "Joe Sixpack" green with envy.