Bill O'Reilley is toast. LINK HERE TO SMOKING GUN FOR COPY OF FILING. Just stick a fork in him and toss the dead bird into the gabage. Not only is O'Reilley toast, but he may take the entire FOX News network down with him. There is no way this suit could have been brought unless she woman taped everything. He was so stupid he left messages on her answering machine. The damages will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. This may be very bad news for conservatives unless Murdoch and Ailes just dump him, and if they have any sense at all that is exactly what they have to do.

His behavior is very similar to the charges leveled against a record company a few years back. It's too bad but "absolute power corrupts absolutely." He's the Kobe Bryant of TV News. BUT the entire thing could have been made up. It's possible the woman is a psychotic and views O'Reilley in some fantasy. It is peculiar that she left CNN to rejoin O'Reilley after at least half the "advances" allegedly took place. I just find it difficult to believe that a large law firm would undertake this dangerous suit unless there were tapes of her claims.

We'll see. Below is a copy of the O'Reilley-FOX response:

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2004--Bill O'Reilly, host of the FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, filed suit today in Nassau County Supreme Court against a Manhattan attorney, his law firm, Morelli & Associates, and a FOX News employee for attempting to extort $60 million dollars from Mr. O'Reilly.
Benedict P. Morelli, a Manhattan attorney, and the FOX News employee, threatened to sue Mr. O'Reilly and FOX News claiming Mr. O'Reilly allegedly engaged in offensive conversations with the employee. The employee worked for Mr. O'Reilly for four years before moving to Cable News Network (CNN) earlier this year. After just five
months at CNN, the employee asked Mr. O'Reilly to return to Fox News, and did so in July of this year.

The complaint filed by Mr. O'Reilly alleges that Mr. Morelli and the employee engaged in an extortion attempt by threatening to file a well-publicized lawsuit and demanding an exorbitant financial settlement for hush money. The complaint describes Mr. Morelli's demand that Mr. O'Reilly pay the pair "nothing less than $60 million." In addition, Mr. Morelli claimed he "wanted to punish not only O'Reilly, but FOX News."
Mr.
O'Reilly said, "As a public figure, I have received many threats. But enough is enough...the threats stop now. I will not give in to extortion." While Mr. O'Reilly is seeking unspecified damages, he stated that he would donate "one hundred percent" of the monetary damages to charity.

In addition to the extortion lawsuit, Mr. O'Reilly has also sued Mr. Morelli, his law firm, and the employee for intentional infliction of emotional distress and wrongful interference with contractual relations, alleging that their accusations threatened to impair his reputation and standing with his employers and the public.