{"id":71595,"date":"2017-04-20T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T21:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71595"},"modified":"2017-04-20T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:31:51","slug":"mr-oreilly-brought-it-on-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71595","title":{"rendered":"Mr. O\u2019Reilly Brought It On HIMSELF"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is, as I suspected and Jonn Lilyea has always told us, more than meets the eye to something, so when I read Poetrooper\u2019s article about Bill O\u2019Reilly being fired and a payout of $13 million by Fox, I wondered what that was really all about. And who is being silenced, anyway?<\/p>\n

There is no doubt in my mind that O\u2019Reilly is an arrogant ass, an abrasive butthead with the personality of a female alligator guarding her nest. But since I have worked with and for people who were obnoxious as hell in many respects but still decent in many others, it seemed to me that we weren\u2019t getting the full story or what brought all of this to a head.<\/p>\n

So I dug. Got out the internet power shovel and began shoveling.<\/p>\n

And I did strike a find.\u00a0 It seems that in 2015,\u00a0Emily Steel, a reporter for the New York Times, was doing a story on O\u2019Reilly\u2019s claims about where he was\u00a0during the Falklands War. He found out what she was up to and threatened her in writing on Twitter<\/u> with reprisal, as indicated in the following CNBC article.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/04\/20\/bill-oreilly-was-taken-down-by-new-york-times-reporter-he-threatened-in-2015.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The following is a link to the 2015 NYT story in which he defends his reporting on the Falklands War, including a video of his argument about his reports.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/24\/business\/media\/bill-oreilly-and-fox-news-redouble-defense-of-his-falklands-reporting.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n

You can see from the early video of him throwing a screaming fit on a video session of Inside Edition, in the comments on Poetrooper’s article, that he has an unbridled and volatile temper, which impels him to become aggressively abusive over something that is easily resolved, and his behavior includes throwing things – also unnecessary. \u00a0You have to start asking if he throws things and has screaming fits, does he also threaten to hit people who piss him off? What else does he do to intimidate people around him?<\/p>\n

There is no excuse for this kind of behavior. It\u2019s not at all the same thing as breaking up a dogfight where you have to kick both dogs in the head to get them off each other, or turn the hose on them.<\/p>\n

As far as I\u2019m concerned, O\u2019Reilly got what was coming to him and it was long overdue.<\/p>\n

How many times has Jonn told us that something like stolen valor claims are only the tip of the iceberg? \u00a0Well, it does\u00a0not apply only to stolen valor.\u00a0Before you go any further with comments about the \u2018whiners\u2019 and how much of it is simply\u00a0annoyance from women over\u00a0being the object of bad behavior and crass comments\u00a0by a rude, crude, obnoxious jackass, take into consideration that when someone in O’Reilly’s position threatens a colleague \u2013 someone \u00a0who, like Emily Steel, works in the same field \u2013 in any way at all over anything<\/em>\u00a0and puts it in writing, it means that this is not just some smoke that will blow away.<\/p>\n

There is also fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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