{"id":144,"date":"2004-10-14T06:07:51","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T10:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=144"},"modified":"2004-10-13T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T23:36:21","slug":"lawsuits-and-the-suing-suers-that-file-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuits.  And the Suing Suers that file them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For someone who calls himself a &#8220;journalist,&#8221; Bill O&#8217;Reilly has proven to be quite litigious lately.<\/p>\n<p>First, he evidently goaded Fox News into suing &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/LAW\/08\/22\/fox.franken\/\">and losing the case against<\/a> &#8211; Al Franken over his book which derides the right wing and entities like Fox News for being their political mouthpiece.  Now, being accused of sexual harrassment, he decides to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/1013042oreilly1.html\">hit back hard against the accuser with a suit of his own<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> In an aggressive preemptive strike filed today in New York State Supreme Court, O&#8217;Reilly names Fox associate producer Andrea Mackris and her lawyers as defendants in the action, which charges them with extortion, infliction of emotional distress, and wrongful interference with contractual relations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Infliction of emotional distress?&#8221;  Oh, boo hoo, Bill.  Now you know how I would feel if forced to watch your mouth flapping on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill O&#8217;reilly gets hit up for sexual harrassment, and he sues back for extortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}