RadioOnFire.com - What is the appropriate banishment for alleged sexual harassment? According to Fox News, it’s five months off air, apparently. Bill O’Reilly will return to Fox News on Tuesday as a guest on Sean Hannity’s cable news show, alongside Breitbart’s Steve Bannon and House Speaker Paul Ryan. This return comes just more than five months since O’Reilly lost his longtime hosting gig at The O’Reilly Factor.
The New York Times reported in early April that Fox News settled five sexual harassment and verbal abuse lawsuits against O’Reilly within his 21 years at the network, spending up to $13 million. Since that initial report, two more women have come forward to claim O’Reilly harassed them. One of the cases reported by the Timeswas from a producer on The O’Reilly Factor, Andrea Mackris, who said O’Reilly told her to buy a vibrator and had once called her on the phone while it sounded like he was masturbating. On April 19, it was announced that O’Reilly would be leaving Fox News.
Fifteen years ago, such a scandal involving a public figure would be considered a pretty hard fall from grace. Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic remarks in 2006 rightly earned the director a spot in “Hollywood jail” for nearly a decade—though he too was seemingly forgiven just last year, with his Oscar-nominated film Hacksaw Ridge. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that in an era of daily scandalous tweets from the president of the United States, O’Reilly is making his comeback just five months after his firing.
Last week, the former Fox News host spoke to Matt Lauer on the Today show—not to apologize but to defend himself and maintain his innocence.
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