The reason the Fox camp knew what was comming is because they offered to settle outside of court before filing. The lawyers for the assist. producer met with Fox news execs a few times, but they were firm on the $60 mil - so Fox decided to file first.
Fox didn't want to pay out 60 mil without having all the evidence on the table, the other side didn't want to put all the evidence on the table to prevent Fox from getting a head start- so Fox decided that filing first would be in their best interest. I think if they would have known the entire case they would have settled and we never would have known the wiser.
O'Rielly probably did say those things, but if she was truelly in horror, it wouldn't have percisted to the extend it did. If you can tell someone's jacking off on the phone and you're "disgusted"- you fucking hang up- end of story. Because O'Reilly was rich, she broke out a tape recorder instead.
And one other note- O'Reilly has the highest "cable news" ratings- not the highest ratings in cable.
