Bill O'Reilly, formerly the big star on Fox News, never sexually harassed or behaved inappropriately with any woman and certainly not the six women with whom he settled lawsuits that claimed he groped them, badgered them for sex, subjected them to phone calls where he talked about sex to them and appeared to be masturbating and/or threatened to ruin them if they ever went public. He never did any of those things but still, he paid them a total of approximately $45 million over sixteen years, including $32 million to one woman alone.
He paid that money to protect his children from the embarrassment that would result if any of these cases went to trial, even though he had solid proof of his innocence (which he will never show anyone) and would easily win all these trials. His children, of course, could not be the least embarrassed about their father paying out all that money to women who said he was a horrible, lecherous person.
The New York Times, Media Matters and other organizations are reporting on these payouts as part of a conspiracy to bring down O'Reilly, who was fired from the best job he'll ever have because of the charges against him. Why else would these media outlets be writing about the charges? I mean, it's not like O'Reilly ever reported on shameful things about public figures. It's all so unfair. Do I have this right?