Gawker strikes back: Bill O'Reilly got police internal affairs to investigate detective

[ck4829]

Who he thought was having an affair with his wife.


After months of digging up dirt on Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of the top-rated cable news network, Gawker sleuth John Cook has unearthed some potentially damaging dish on Fox News primetime stalwart Bill O'Reilly.

In Cook's latest investigative report, he writes: "Last summer, Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home. So O'Reilly did what any concerned husband would do: He pulled strings to get the police department's internal affairs unit to investigate one of their own for messing with the wrong man's lady."

The piece is sourced to "someone who has a longstanding personal relationship with , and who heard the account directly from (that detective) himself. The source provided contemporaneous e-mail traffic to support his account."

Last week, the Fox News show "Fox & Friends," as well as the channel's website, ran stories claiming Gawker's traffic has recently dropped 75 percent, a claim Gawker refuted while also suggesting that the negative press was a pre-emptive strike against a story Cook was working on, which turned out to be today's O'Reilly expose.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/latest-gawker-vs-fox-news-report-claims-bill-211459764.html

[virgogal]

1. Whatever.

[tallahasseedem]

2. I really didn't know about Gawker until earlier today...

but they now have a new reader and Facebook like!

[Turbineguy]

3. So, O'Reilly thinks he's a cuckold

and instead of discreetly hiring a private detective, gets the local police to do the sleuthing (at taxpayer expense). Way to save money, moron!

[Frustratedlady]

4. Surely there are charges pending? EOM

[UTUSN]

5. K&R #1, allow me to be the first. n/t