{"id":20810,"date":"2017-04-06T04:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20810"},"modified":"2017-04-06T04:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:22:19","slug":"why-is-it-only-you-mr-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20810","title":{"rendered":"Why is it only you, Mr. O&#8217;Reilly?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bill-oreilly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20779\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bill-oreilly-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bill-oreilly-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bill-oreilly-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bill-oreilly-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bill-oreilly.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I keep circling back to a single question as I ponder the growing controversy surrounding Fox News talking head Bill O&#8217;Reilly.<\/p>\n<p>The commentator has been accused of sexual harassment by a number of women. O&#8217;Reilly has settled many of the complaints, shelling out several million dollars; Fox News Channel has kicked in several more millions to these women.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly says he is a target because he is rich, famous and controversial.<\/p>\n<p>Really? Why, then, haven&#8217;t other rich, famous and controversial news commentators been hit with the kinds of allegations have been leveled against O&#8217;Reilly?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly says the women are looking for money. I heard at least one of them say this week she doesn&#8217;t want a dime; she wants to hold O&#8217;Reilly accountable for the harassment he has leveled at her.<\/p>\n<p>If he&#8217;s a target, then why haven&#8217;t scores of women targeted other men who also occupy\u00a0high-profile public figure jobs in the national media?<\/p>\n<p>From my vantage point, the only thing these complaints have in common is one man: Bill O&#8217;Reilly.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep circling back to a single question as I ponder the growing controversy surrounding Fox News talking head Bill O&#8217;Reilly. The commentator has been accused of sexual harassment by a number of women. O&#8217;Reilly has settled many of the complaints, shelling out several million dollars; Fox News Channel has kicked in several more millions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is it only you, Mr. O&#8217;Reilly?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[640,1790,4237],"class_list":["post-20810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-sexual-harassment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20811,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810\/revisions\/20811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}