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Bill OReilly Is Going on Vacation. Will His Show Return?
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/is-bill-oreilly-going-off-the-air.html?mid=facebook_nymagWelcome to the No Job Zone.
Embattled Fox News host Bill O’Reilly announced tonight that he is taking a vacation. O’Reilly’s decision to go off the air in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal and advertiser boycott arguably has the appearance of a suspension, but O’Reilly worked to dispel that notion. He announced that he’d scheduled his trip “last fall” — well before the New York Times reported he paid $13 million to settle harassment claims. A Fox News source told me O’Reilly plans to return to his show on April 24.
But according to four network sources, there’s talk inside Fox News that tonight’s show could be his last. Lawyers for the law firm Paul, Weiss, hired last summer by 21st Century Fox to investigate Roger Ailes, are currently doing a “deep dive” investigation into O’Reilly’s behavior. They’re focused now on sexual harassment claims by O’Reilly guest Wendy Walsh after she reported her claims via the company’s anonymous hotline.
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The only tour I took was a few years ago, a 7 days’ hit-the-tips-of-icebergs jobber, bus dashing from Madrid to Toledo, Seville, (Malaga? I think), Valencia, and Barcelona, each for an overnight or so. It might be explicable to Lounge that I’m not the chummy type in groups. My even more elderly sister otoh would take a tour, only to Europe, just about every couple of summers off from schoolteaching. My dismissive comment was that she went to the officially pretty parts of the world while I went to Vietnam and such. However, I *have* been to the Philippines, Japan, Guam, Seattle, lots of Mexico, and some more. But I’m not a good traveler and am an especially bad tourist, so on this Spain tour I checked out of the group at 5 P.M. daily and walked to the nearest neighborhood bar and talked to the locals. As for the second best goal I had imagined was to bring back shopping loot.
Well, the bus dash format allowed for almost ZERO shopping venues and time. Besides some keychains, the one souvenir I managed to secure was a little cowbell type thing, totally unasthetic. Well, besides a beer glass from one of the neighborhood bars, embossed with the beer company’s promo, “Cruzcampo” – that I was told is a decidedly NON-connoisseur brew, not that I would know the difference. But the glass is an uniquely non-tourist thing to have.
I have some beautiful bells, even elegant ones. I have accumulated almost all of my collection by my own selection at flea markets and junk/second-hand outlets, but a few of them have been gifts from the tour-mad sister and a couple of and friends from their travels – Don Quixote bell from Toledo Spain, Space Needle from Seattle, Vatican, Budapest.
So my eye’s task was less on the sights than to look for bells, and the only one I found was this stupid little cowbell at a convenience store type place were the bus stopped for our Subway sandwich type lunch. I could see the look on the sister’s face saying, You are stooping to buying that over-priced (8 Euros) ugly thing when I have brought you back elegant things like the Don Quixote (20 Euros) – what POOR TASTE you have.
But the internet fixes all, and recently I played catch-up on the Spain history and souvenirs. I learned that when the Romans arrived in Spain, there were native burros on the plain of Vic (north of Barcelona), and that the Catalan province uses it as their native mascot. Among the Catalan souvenirs from the internet was a wine cork with a burro on it. It was useless to me for its cork function, but the burro and in a small/crude format with a connector at the hooves was just right for putting it onto a bell. When I ordered it, I didn’t even think of the cowbell to put it on. But when it arrived, then I did, because both items were compatible in size and utilitarian looks, and the brass wire I used for attachment is crude, yet might even suggest ropes holding the burro.
So now the Catalan burro is on the little cowbell, both started out as throwaways, but authentically from Spain. At least I don’t see “Made in China” anywhere.
I won't get my hopes up but maybe we'll be celebrating the end of O'Reilly's show in the very near future.
Let's get that gig cancelled!
in the Trump administration, advising on women's issues. 
