It is interesting to note that in the email Kelly reveals knowledge of O’Reilly’s own history of harassment and disparages him as a person, this subject is not what prompted the email. It was O’Reilly going after her book which prompted her to write to her bosses.

Another element which bothers me about what Kelly did, or more accurately, didn’t do, is that she then remained almost entirely quiet about O’Reilly and his role in creating the now obviously toxic environment of female harassment at Fox News.

It is not as if she didn’t have the platform or the clout to make the subject of this email a major news story. She clearly chose not to do so because she didn’t want to incur the wrath of the then still very powerful O’Reilly, and possibly derail her own book tour and the NBC deal, which clearly was already being thought about. While that choice might be understandable, it is obviously not the stuff of which heroes are made.