With as big of a deal as he made about fighting this blantant extortion, he must have done something to have had to settle.
I think that’s correct – check out this take on the subject by a lawyer down in Texas:
http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2004/10/mackrisoreilly_.html
Hehehe, I’ll take kudo’s on calling this one in the other thread! 
HAHAHA, thanks BB, that was a great link.
Hey Mage, don’t read BB’s link, it’s just another “hate filled website”. Probably wouldn’t be “no different then getting information from white supremacist websites.”
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Hey Mage, don’t read BB’s link, it’s just another “hate filled website”. Probably wouldn’t be “no different then getting information from white supremacist websites.”
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So you admit you like to visit white supremacist websites?
As far as websites, there is a difference between real news websites, opinion websites, and attack web sites. All you need to do is look at the web site, and see if they are reporting news, stating an opinion, or espousing hate.
Most often I refer to one little web site that used to repeatedly come up, from one very vocal person. If you visit this website, you will understand what I am talking about. Any link that is anti-American is posted. If a person only got their news from this site, they could easily become brainwashed against America.
And if you didn?t understand, there are hate filled attack websites on both sides.
Now on to O?Riely. I think it does look bad that he settled out of court. Now do we know exactly what the settlement was? Was there money actually involved? It is possible there wasn?t, though unlikely.
Too often it is easy to jump to conclusions. But I doubt either party was innocent. By going the extortion route instead of just filing a lawsuit brings her character into question.
I believe the following. If O?Riely does have a real problem, it won?t stay quiet for long. Others will come out.
Now here is what I think happened. (This is only theory.) O?Riely had an affair, and his girlfriend got the idea of taping some events, and extorting some money. O?Riely being married preferred to keep it quiet.
Regardless I don?t think it is a good idea to jump to conclusions. If we don?t have all the facts, all we are doing is gossiping. (Which is apparently what we are doing.)