He's an asshole
Bill O'Reilly is a terrible, dumb, vicious, hypocrite. Now you might add wife-beater to that litany of the obscenities that come to mind when O'Reilly crosses your radar. Gawker is reporting that, according to documents from O'Reilly's recently lost custody case against his ex-wife Maureen McPhilmy, O'Reilly is not just a vulgar verbally and mentally abusive, bullying type—
he's also a physically assaulting type of bully:
According to a source familiar with the facts of the case, a court-appointed forensic examiner testified at a closed hearing that O’Reilly’s daughter claimed to have witnessed her father dragging McPhilmy down a staircase by her neck, apparently unaware that the daughter was watching. The precise date of the alleged incident is unclear, but appears to have occurred before the couple separated in 2010. The same source indicated that the daughter, who is 16 years old, told the forensic examiner about the incident within the past year.
The levels of depravity O'Reilly has reached during this case trump the recent revelations of
how much of a liar he is. Unpacking them here would take forever and I would potentially grind my teeth into nubs, but here are some highlights:
- Used his connections in police department to have ex-wife's new police detective boyfriend investigated.
- Hired the therapist who was supposed to mediate joint custody disagreements as a full-time nanny.
- Tried to have ex-wife excommunicated from Catholic Church.
You can read about those things here. They may not be true but, since you can't believe anything Bill says, they're probably true.