Shouty handsy guy in trouble
Bill O’Reilly is hemorrhaging advertisers. Something about not wanting to promote a serial sexual harasser, apparently.
At least nine more marketers said they were withdrawing ads from “The O’Reilly Factor,” making a total of at least 11 that have suspended their sponsorship in the last 24 hours. Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai announced their decisions Monday night, and on Tuesday they were joined by BMW of North America; GlaxoSmithKline; T. Rowe Price; Mitsubishi; Allstate; Bayer; Constant Contact, an online marketer; Untuckit, a men’s clothing distributor; and Sanofi Consumer HealthCare, which advertised products like ACT mouthwash on Mr. O’Reilly’s show.
Mouthwash. Too much like those Tic-Tacs that Trump popped because he wanted to grab that one woman and kiss her without asking first.
The decisions came after The New York Times published an investigation last weekend that found that five women who had accused Mr. O’Reilly of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior received settlements totaling about $13 million.
Yes but Hillary! Emails!! Susan Rice!!!
Also on Tuesday, the legal troubles for Fox News continued. Monica Douglas, a black Fox News employee, joined a lawsuit that was filed last week against Fox News by two other women, asserting that they were subjected to racial harassment at the network. The suit was filed in State Supreme Court in the Bronx. Fox News dismissed the executive named in the suit, Judith Slater, the longtime controller, on Feb. 28. It said in a statement “there is no place for conduct like this at Fox News, which is why Ms. Slater was fired.”
Racism at Fox News?! I’m flabbergasted!
Just imagine being so deranged (and so rich!) that having to pay THIRTEEN MILLION DOLLARS isn’t enough to teach you how to treat women like human fucking beings. Part of me is tempted to sympathy, because this behaviour is simply pathological, but I’d settle for never having to see his smirking face again except, perhaps, as a part-time manager of a drug store.
Meet the next president..
And be prepared to visit the drugstore frequently.
Yeah, but I smell a rat. Why would all these advertisers desert O’Reilly now, as opposed to the last dozen of times when he or that racist idiot he employs (the one who went to Chinatown to mock Chinese-Americans — Jesse Watters?) did something disgusting?
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This smells to me like a pre-emptive bit of P.R.: the advertisers make big noises about this, to fend off any incipient boycott campaign. Fox News doesn’t mind, because they’re still getting the $$ to run ads on other programs, and no doubt they can find enough Cash For Gold ads to fill Billo’s airtime until the heat blows over. At which point, the big corporations will quietly move their ads back.
It’s not as if O’Reilly was going to pay $13 million out of his own pocket.
If he’s fired, will Trump employ him as the official face of National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention month?
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