Megyn Kelly: I Complained To Fox About Bill O'Reilly's Sexual Harassment

OVER THE WEEKEND, THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED AN EXTENSIVE
REPORT DETAILING A GIGANTIC SETTLEMENT THAT BILL O'REILLY
PAID TO A FOX LEGAL ANALYST BY THE NAME OF LIS WIEHL TO
THE TUNE OF $32 MILLION THAT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF COMMENTARY
IN REGARD TO THAT PEACE AND SOME OF IT COMES FROM MEGYN
KELLY WHO OF COURSE USED TO HOST A SHOW ON FOX NEWS CHANNEL.
WHEN BILL O'REILLY GOT WORD OF THAT ARTICLE AND NEW YORK TIMES
HE SAID:
MEGYN KELLY DISAGREES WITH THIS AND ADDRESSES IT ON HER
SHOW ON NBC.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE FIRST CLIP.
BILL O'REILLY SUGGESTION THAT NO ONE EVER COMPLAINED
ABOUT HIS BEHAVIOR IS FALSE.
I KNOW BECAUSE I COMPLAINED.
IT WAS NOVEMBER 2016, THE DAY MY MEMOIR WAS RELEASED.
IN IT I INCLUDED A CHAPTER OF ROGER L'S IN THE
SEXUAL-HARASSMENT SCANDAL ON FOX NEWS AND SOMETHING THAT
MURDOCHS KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING TO THEIR CREDIT APPROVED.
O'REILLY HAPPEN TO BE ON CBS NEWS THAT MORNING.
THEY ASKED HIM ABOUT MY BOOK AND ABOUT ROGER ELSIE BY THIS
TIME HAD BEEN FORCED OUT IN DISGRACE.
O'REILLY'S RESPONSE?
I'M NOT INTERESTED IN THIS.
IN SEXUAL-HARASSMENT.
I'M NOT INTERESTED IN BASICALLY LITIGATING
SOMETHING THAT IS FINISHED THAT MAKES MY NETWORK LOOK BAD.
I'M NOT INTERESTED IN MAKING MY NETWORK LOOK BAD AT ALL.
THAT DOESN'T INTEREST ME ONE BIT.
SO SHE ACTUALLY WENT TO HUMAN RESOURCES AT FOX NEWS AND
COMPLAINED AFTER HE MADE THAT APPEARANCE ON CBS AND SO
SHE ADDRESSES THE EMAIL THAT SHE SENT TO THE EXECUTIVES, THE
HUMAN RESOURCES IN REGARD TO THAT APPEARANCE THAT HE MADE AND
WILL GET TO THAN JUST A SECOND BUT THAT YOU WANT TO JUMP IN?
I JUST WANTED TO SAY FIRST OF ALL THIS WHOLE IDEA THAT
NOBODY WENT TO HUMAN RESOURCES IS ABSURD ANYWAY.
HE HAS PAID JUST ON THE STUFF WE KNOW ABOUT $45
MILLION IN SETTLEMENTS TO SIX DIFFERENT WOMEN.
HIM AND FOX NEWS PAID TO THOSE PEOPLE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO
GO TO HUMAN RESOURCES IF YOU GET A $32 MILLION SETTLEMENT.
IT'S THE WORST EXCUSE OF EVER HEARD AND NOW MEGYN KELLY
IS NOT SAYING THAT BILL O'REILLY SEXUALLY HARASSED HER.
SHE IS SINGING WITH THE HUMAN RESOURCES TO COMPLAIN ABOUT BILL
O'REILLY SAYING THAT IT IS ALL RIGHT TO INTIMIDATE WOMEN WHO
WORK HERE WHO ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT SEXUAL-HARASSMENT
BECAUSE SHE WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT DID GET HARASSED.
NOT BY BILL O'REILLY BUT BY OTHERS.
EXACTLY.
SO SHE WAS UPSET AT THE FACT THAT HE KEPT PUSHING THE
NOTION THAT ANYONE WHO WOULD GO OUT AND SMEAR FOX NEWS
CHANNEL WAS A BAD PERSON AND THAT THEY SHOULDN'T BE
LISTEN TO AND SO SHE CAN POINT ABOUT THAT.
HERE IS MEGYN KELLY DETAILING THE EMAIL THAT SHE SENT TO HUMAN
RESOURCES AT FOX NEWS CHANNEL COMPLAINING ABOUT BILL O'REILLY.
TAKE A LOOK AT
I READ AN EMAIL TO THE COPRESIDENTS AT FOX NEWS,
BILL SCHEIN AND JACK ABERNATHY, AN EMAIL I'VE NEVER MADE
PUBLIC BUT ENSURING NOW BECAUSE I THINK IT SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT
POWERFUL MEN IN THE ROADBLOCKS ONE CAN FACE AND TAKING THEM ON.
I WROTE IN PART PERHAPS HE DIDN'T REALIZE THE TYPE OF
MESSAGES CRITICISM SINCE YOUNG WOMEN ACROSS THIS COUNTRY ABOUT
HOW MEN CONTINUE TO VIEW THE SPEAKING OUT ABOUT
SEXUAL-HARASSMENT.
PERHAPS HE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT HIS EXACT ATTITUDE OF
SHAMING WOMEN INTO SHUTTING THE HELL UP ABOUT HARASSMENT ON
GROUNDS OF DISGRACE THE COMPANY IS IN PART HOW FOX
NEWS GOT INTO THE DECADE-LONG AILES MESS TO BEGIN WITH.
PERHAPS IT IS HIS OWN HISTORY OF HARASSMENT OF WOMEN WHICH
HAS AS YOU BOTH KNOW RESULTED IN PAYOUTS TO MORE THAN ONE
WOMAN THAT BLINDED HIM TO THE FOLLY OF SAYING ANYTHING
OTHER THAN I'M JUST RIGHT FOR THE WOMEN OF THIS COMPANY
WHO SHOULD'VE NEVER HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT.
BILL SCHEIN CALLED ME IN RESPONSE TO MY EMAIL
PROMISING TO DEAL WITH BILL O'REILLY.
BY 8 PM THAT NIGHT, BILL RILEY HAD APPARENTLY BEEN DEALT
WITH AND BY THAT I MEAN HE WAS PERMITTED WITH MANAGEMENT'S
ADVANCED NOTICE AND BLESSING TO GO ON THE AIR AND ATTACK
THE COMPANIES HARASSMENT VICTIMS YET AGAIN.
THE IDEA THAT FOX NEWS WASN'T AWARE OF WHAT WAS GOING ON
ECOLOGY, THEY GOT CAUGHT OFF GUARD IS PREPOSTEROUS.
ROGER ELSE HAD DECADES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS AGAINST
HIM AND FOX NEWS HAD ALREADY SETTLED ALL OF THOSE
LAWSUITS AGAINST ROGER AILES.
THEN THEY HAD BILL O'REILLY NOT ONLY FIVE SETTLEMENTS IN HIS
CASE BUT ONE VERY PUBLIC WITH ANDREA MACROS THAT CAUSED HIM $9
MILLION AND THEN, AS ALL OF THIS IS UNFOLDING AND NOW
COMPLETELY PUBLIC TO EVERYONE THEY GO OH YEAH MEGYN GOOD
POINT ABOUT THE SEXUAL-HARASSMENT.
HANG UP ON HER YEAH RIGHT.
YOU THINK WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR SIDE?
THERE'S A CULTURE OF SEXUAL-HARASSMENT BECAUSE
ROGER AILES RENTED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
HE WAS THE BIGGEST SEXUAL-HARASSMENT AND HE
LITERALLY GAVE PERMISSION TO OTHER MEN AT THE COMPANY.
THEY DIDN'T ALL DO IT BUT SOME OF THEM, LIKE O'REILLY DID
DO IT.
SO THE NEW PEOPLE THAT ARE RUNNING IT, MADE THE NEW
BOSS JUST LIKE THE OLD BUS.
YEAH, BILL RILEY, GO GET THEM.
ATTACK THE WOMAN WHO WAS HARASSED.
MEGYN KELLY SHOWED A CLIP FROM THE NIGHT RALLY HAD GONE
AFTER THEM.
EXACTLY.
AND THAT IS A TACTIC TO BE EXPECTED FROM PEOPLE LIKE
BILL O'REILLY.
GO AHEAD AND SMEAR THE ACCUSERS.
TRY TO DISCREDIT THEM IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE AND LOOK, NONE OF
THIS SHOULD BE SURPRISING.
I THINK THERE WAS CERTAIN VISIBLE BEHAVIOR AT FOX
NEWS THAT HAD GOTTEN SO NORMALIZED THAT WE DIDN'T
REALLY, IT SHOULD HAVE RAISED MORE RED FLAGS.
FOR INSTANCE CAN YOU IMAGINE WORKING AT A PLACE FOR YOUR
MALE BOSSES TELL YOU, YOU HAVE TO WEAR A SKIRT ON CAMERA?
WE WOULD SEE THAT ALL THE TIME AND REMEMBER, WE SUSPECTED THAT
THERE WAS SOME SORT OF DRESS CODE FORCING THE WOMEN TO DRESS
THAT WAY BUT THEN THERE WAS THAT FOX MALL SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHO
SAID NO, THAT'S NOT JUST A RUMOR, THAT'S FACT THAT
WOMEN ARE FIRST TO DRESS A CERTAIN WAY WHEN THEY ARE
ON CAMERA FOX NEWS.
OTHER WOMEN DID CONFIRM THAT SAY WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO WEAR
PANTS.
THEY BASICALLY WERE FORCED TO HAVE MEN WHAT THEIR LEGS.
THAT'S RIGHT.
AND IT BECAME NORMALIZED.
SO NORMALIZED THAT I JUST BOUGHT INTO ITÖ IT WASN'T THAT BIG
OF A DEAL BUT IT IS.
I CAN'T IMAGINE ANYONE HERE TELLING ME WHAT I CAN AND
CAN'T WEAR.
IF YOU CAME TO ME AND TOLD ME YOU CAN ONLY WEAR SHORT
SKIRTS AND WERE GOING TO DO THESE WIDE SHOTS ARE WITH
YOUR WHOLE BODY I WOULD BE LIKE BY.
THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE.
IS UNACCEPTABLE IN ANY OTHER CONTEXT BUT WITH FOX NEWS
AT ONE JUST GAVE IT A PASS LIKE IT'S TOTALLY FINE.
WERE MAKING THAT POINT SHOWING YOU HOW BRAZEN AND OBVIOUS
IT WAS A LONGTIME REALITY OF COURSE SOME OF THE ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST BILL O'REILLY INVOLVE NONCONSENSUAL SEX ACTS SO
IF YOU SAY THE SKIRTS, AND ANOTHER THAT'S A BIG DEAL, I'M
JUST PRETTY SURE NONCONSENSUAL SEX ACT AS A BIG DEAL.
RIGHT AND THE ANALYST THAT HAD WRITTEN ABOUT THE NEW
YORK TIMES PIECE SAID THERE WAS NONCONSENSUAL SEXUAL
RELATIONSHIP INVOLVED AND BY THE WAY,
$32 MILLION IS A LOT OF MONEY TO SETTLE SOMETHING OUT OF COURT.
I AM JUST SAYING.
IT IS NOT WHAT YOU PAY IF YOU TOLD HER TO WEAR SOMETHING
DIFFERENT THAN SHE WANTED TO WEAR.
THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM, IT WOULDN'T BE A $32
MILLION PROBLEM.
THE $2 MILLION PROBLEM IS A MASSIVE PROBLEM.
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Megyn Kelly: I Complained To Fox About Bill O'Reilly's Sexual Harassment

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