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http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/29/media/matt-lauer/index.html
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/29/media/matt-lauer/index.html
This is an outrage.
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/29/media/matt-lauer/index.html
what a beautiful way to start my day! (except for the link to CNN, of course)
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Donald J. Trump
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Wow, Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” But when will the top executives at NBC & Comcast be fired for putting out so much Fake News. Check out Andy Lack’s past!
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Donald J. Trump
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Wow, Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” But when will the top executives at NBC & Comcast be fired for putting out so much Fake News. Check out Andy Lack’s past!
LOL
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/business/media/nbc-matt-lauer.html
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Matt Lauer Fired by NBC Amidst Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Yahoo ^ | 29 November 2017 | Alana Horowitz Satlin
Posted on 11/29/2017, 7:23:58 AM by BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
NBC has fired longtime ‘Today’ host Matt Lauer following allegations of workplace misconduct, the network announced on Wednesday.
“We are devastated,” ‘Today’ co-host Savannah Gutherie said in a visually emotional statement. “All we can say is we are heartbroken.”
Gutherie said that NBC News chairman Andy Lack informed employees of the decision on Tuesday night after having received a complaint about Lauer's behavior the night before. She read Lack's note on-air, noting that while the network says it had never received a complaint about Lauer before, it has "reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.
"We received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Layer," she said. "It represented, after a serious review, a clear violation of our company's standards. As a result, we've decided to terminate his employment. While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years he has been at NBC News, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident. our highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected. and any action that runs counter to our core values are met with consequences. we are saddened by these events. we will face it together as a news organization and do it as transparent a manner as we can.
(Excerpt) Read more at us.yahoo.com ...
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Matt Lauer allegedly sexually assaulted staffer during Olympics
New York Post ^ | 11/29/2017 | Emily Smith
Posted on 11/29/2017, 8:24:48 AM by Dr. Scarpetta
Matt Lauer allegedly sexually assaulted a female NBC staffer during the Rio Olympics, sources told Page Six.
The staffer, who has not been named and wishes to remain anonymous, complained to NBC bosses yesterday, prompting NBC News bosses to move fast and fire him.
A source told Page Six, “An NBC staffer come forward with a claim that Matt sexually assaulted her at the Olympics.
There have been rumors about Matt having affairs with subordinates at NBC for years, but those were believed to be consensual. This incident in Rio was not.”
Another source tells us that the decision to fire Lauer was made late last night by NBC News chairman Andy Lack.
Lauer’s firing comes amid rumors that numerous news outlets were working on stories about the Today anchor alleged sexual misconduct.
(Excerpt) Read more at pagesix.com ...
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Trump’s on a roll:
Donald J. Trump
@real DonaldTrump
“So now that Matt Lauer is gone when will the Fake News practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin? And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the “unsolved mystery” that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!”
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Liberal women on my FB page in utter shock - ha!!! FNG ding bats
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Liberal women on my FB page in utter shock - ha!!! FNG ding bats
But Trump...!!!!
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/stunning-democrat-congressman-calling-trump-impeachment-sex-drug-addicted-staffer-sued/
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KTRK) --
Rep. Al Green (TX-9, D) denied any wrongdoing stemming from a 2007 incident with a staffer in a written statement Monday.
"In the present climate, we wish to jointly quiet any curious minds about our former and present relationship with one another," Green wrote. The statement was signed by Green and the former staffer.
In a lawsuit Green filed, but quickly withdrew in 2008, Green's lawyers said the staffer alleged Green and the woman "had a romantic encounter on one evening at her home in May of 2007." Green's 2008 federal lawsuit sought to stop the filing of any further court action against the congressman.
According to Green's lawsuit, the staffer claimed she had suffered workplace retaliation, a hostile work environment, and adverse workplace conditions because of the "alleged romantic moment."
The matter was settled shortly after, Green said.
"At an unfortunate time in our lives, when both of our feelings were hurt, we hastily made allegations and charges against one another that have absolutely been resolved," Green's statement said Monday. "As consenting friends, we both regret our former claims and have since then maintained our respectful friendship."
"This matter has been resolved without payment of any money or transfer of any consideration of any kind by either of us to the other," the pair said jointly in the statement.
Green's communications director told ABC13 the incident "did not involve the Congressional Office, nor the Office of Employment Counsel and did not involve the use of any taxpayer money."
Reached by phone, the former staffer declined comment. Her attorney similarly declined comment.
Green's attorneys haven't returned phone calls requesting comment.
Outrageous!!
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https://www.salon.com/2017/11/29/katie-couric-in-2012-matt-lauer-pinches-me-on-the-ass-a-lot
ha!!
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https://pagesix.com/2017/11/29/more-women-accuse-matt-lauer-of-sexual-harassment/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook
Whoa!!!
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https://pagesix.com/2017/11/29/more-women-accuse-matt-lauer-of-sexual-harassment/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook
Whoa!!!
I was expecting this. No way that was going to be an isolated incident:
Sounds like they’re getting out in front of the story before the avalanche of complaints start coming in.
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/29/media/matt-lauer/index.html
Let's agree that he is a sanctimonious piece of shit. But, if you consider him a liberal then you don't know
liberal.
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Another hypocritical liberal bites the dust.
Matt Lauer: 20 Years of Bias in the Morning
By Kyle Drennen | January 6, 2017
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2017/01/06/matt-lauer-20-years-bias-morning
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Let's agree that he is a sanctimonious piece of shit. But, if you consider him a liberal then you don't know
liberal.
If you dont think he is a liberal that says a lot about where you are on the political spectrum
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If you dont think he is a liberal that says a lot about where you are on the political spectrum
No, on the contrary. What you guys call "liberal" today would be 70's Republicans. Not much difference
between Gerald Ford and B.H. Obama. Or Reagan and Obama for that matter. You guys live in the Fox News
bubble and it is eroding our way of life and NOT making us great.
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If you dont think he is a liberal that says a lot about where you are on the political spectrum
Right?
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No, on the contrary. What you guys call "liberal" today would be 70's Republicans. Not much difference
between Gerald Ford and B.H. Obama. Or Reagan and Obama for that matter. You guys live in the Fox News
bubble and it is eroding our way of life and NOT making us great.
What specific policy positions are you talking about?
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No, on the contrary. What you guys call "liberal" today would be 70's Republicans. Not much difference
between Gerald Ford and B.H. Obama. Or Reagan and Obama for that matter. You guys live in the Fox News
bubble and it is eroding our way of life and NOT making us great.
Lol. Lib fag.
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Lol. Lib fag.
excellent comment.. added so much to the conversation,, brilliant! ::)
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What specific policy positions are you talking about?
Off the top of my head, Obamacare as you rubes call it is really Romney-care which is really Heritage Foundation Care. I know, both scorching
liberals.
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No, on the contrary. What you guys call "liberal" today would be 70's Republicans. Not much difference
between Gerald Ford and B.H. Obama. Or Reagan and Obama for that matter. You guys live in the Fox News
bubble and it is eroding our way of life and NOT making us great.
Interesting. So are Hillary, Obama, Biden, and Bernie conservatives? Did Matt Lauer vote for Trump?
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Off the top of my head, Obamacare as you rubes call it is really Romney-care which is really Heritage Foundation Care. I know, both scorching
liberals.
Nice try fool. So the Kenyan fool took a horrible republican think tank plan and made it his own and some how that is the republicans fault ? Amazing what you libs will forgive
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5130213/Matt-Lauer-flashed-penis-woman-bought-employee-sex-toy.html
sounds like rape to me.
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Then-married former NBC employee claims Lauer sexually assaulted her until she passed out in office
Fox News ^ | 30 Nov 17 | Edmund DeMarche
Posted on 11/30/2017, 8:30:42 AM by SkyPilot
Matt Lauer, the disgraced former anchor of NBC's "Today" show who was fired Wednesday for “inappropriate sexual behavior,” once summoned a married female employee to his office, locked the door and sexually assaulted her until she passed out, the New York Times reported after interviewing the accuser.
The alleged incident occurred in 2001. The woman, who was not named in the report, told the Times that she was in her 40s at the time.
According to the report, Lauer was behind his desk and she took a seat in the office. She said he locked the door from a button at his desk and he asked her to unbutton her blouse. She said she complied and claims he got up from his desk, approached her from behind, bent her over his desk and had sex.
Woke up on the floor
Matt Lauer has been terminated from NBC News. On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer. As a result, we’ve decided to terminate his employment. pic.twitter.com/1A3UAZpvPb — TODAY (@TODAYshow) November 29, 2017
She claims that she passed out during intercourse and woke up later on the floor in his office. She said Lauer had his assistant take her to a nurse. She told the Times that Lauer never mentioned the encounter with her again and she said she left the network about a year later.
The accuser asked the paper not to identify her in the report. The paper said it contacted her ex-husband who said he remembered the alleged encounter. The two were reportedly separated in 2001 and are now divorced.
The Times report said NBC received at least two more complaints about Lauer after the network announced he was fired prior to Wednesday’s "Today"...
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/writer-jenny-lumet-russell-simmons-sexually-violated-me-guest-column-1062934
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Writer Jenny Lumet: Russell Simmons Sexually Violated Me (Guest Column)
6:30 AM PST 11/30/2017 by Jenny Lumet
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The screenwriter of 'Rachel Getting Married' and 'The Mummy' (and the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet) details a terrifying encounter with the legendary music producer, who says he is stepping down from his businesses in the wake of the new claims.
Russell Simmons, a prolific music and TV producer and co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, was accused of sexual assault and harassment by model Keri Claussen Khalighi in a Nov. 19 article in the Los Angeles Times. Simmons then denied the incident in a letter published Nov. 22 by The Hollywood Reporter. The letter prompted Jenny Lumet, an award-winning screenwriter (Rachel Getting Married, The Mummy), the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet, and granddaughter of singer/activist Lena Horne, to pen a response detailing her own experience with Simmons.
On Nov. 22, 2017, Russell Simmons wrote:
“I have never committed any acts of aggression or violence in my life. I would never knowingly cause fear or harm to anyone.”
Dear Russell:
I met you around 1987, through Rick Rubin, who has always been kind to me. Rick knew my sister through N.Y.U. and asked me, at the upstairs bar in a nightclub called the Palladium, to be in a movie you were producing that Rick was directing, starring RUN DMC. It was, frankly, a lousy movie and I was terrible in it.
Over the next three or four years, I would see you out and about, at a nightclub called Nell’s, mostly. I don’t recall you and I ever just going out to dinner, or having a one-to-one experience; we were always in groups, and we had many, many mutual friends. You were charming and funny and charismatic and self-deprecating. Not being in the music business made it possible for me to relax around you. And you were a fan of my grandmother, respected her, and told me so. You seemed sincere.
You pursued me, lightly, on and off, over a course of years, saying you had a thing for a “little yellow girl” (me). I rebuffed. It wasn’t deep, as far as I knew. It was never a big deal. You had, I assumed, many women in your orbit.
Once you sent me 250 balloons with the note “Please baby, please baby, baby, baby, baby” after a character in a Spike Lee movie. It was light, fun, and flattering. We continued to socialize in the same places. We continued to have a large group of mutual friends.
One night circa 1991, when I was around 24, I was at a restaurant called Indochine. I had worked there when I was 17, as the coat check girl, and I enjoyed returning. I still knew some of the staff at this point, and felt quite comfortable there. I remember I was wearing one of the Azzedine Alaia tops that were everywhere that year. And hoop earrings. I think it was cool enough for a jacket. Because I remember being glad I had a jacket by the end of that night.
You had a car and a driver that evening. Sometime later, you offered me a ride to my home. I said, sure. During the making of the RUN DMC movie, I had been in vans with you and other crew members. I don’t recall having accepted a ride home alone with you before that night.
At no time that night did I say: “Russell, I will go home with you”. Or, “Come home with me.” Or “I will have sex with you.” Or “I have the desire to have sex with you.”
I believe it was an SUV, because I recall having to step up into the car. I don’t know about makes or models. I think the driver was already in the car.
I got into the car with you. The driver began to drive. I assumed you knew where I lived, because you had sent me 250 balloons, but I gave the driver my address on 19th Street and 2nd Avenue.
You said to the driver: “No.”
I didn’t understand, so I said: “Russell?”
I said, again, to the driver: “19th Street.”
Again you said to the driver: “No. ”
Then, the car doors locked. It was loud. The noise made me jump.
Russell Simmons
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I didn’t recognize you at that moment. It was disorienting. It was disorienting. I say it twice, now, because you said “No” twice, then.
I couldn’t open the doors. I couldn’t open the windows. The car was moving. The driver did not stop. He did not take me to 19th Street. He took me to your apartment.
I didn’t try to kick the windows out. I didn’t punch or kick. I didn’t say “What are you doing?” My voice left me after the second “No”.
I felt dread and disorientation. I wanted to go home. I said I wanted to go home. I didn’t recognize the man next to me. I didn’t know if the situation would turn violent. I remember thinking that I must be crazy; I remember hoping that the Russell I knew would return any moment.
The car stopped at the curb. I don’t recall the street. I recall the driver opening the door from the outside, and you behind me. I was between the two of you. Not wedged, just in the space between you. I remember exchanging a look with the driver. He was unreadable. It was chilly out. It was me and these two men.
I felt dread. I was tremulous. Off my feet. I felt an intense need to keep both of you calm. Was there a time or a space to run? I have no idea. Would somebody else have run? I have no idea. There were two men. One of whom obeyed the other. It was an overwhelming feeling.
There was no well-lit lobby or doorman at the entrance we used. I would guess it was not the main entrance to the building. I believe there was a door from street level that opened into a space beneath the residential area of the building, in which there was a small, back elevator. If I am wrong about the layout, then I am wrong. There were two men, and I was afraid.
You didn’t punch me, drag me or verbally threaten me. You used your size to maneuver me, quickly, into the elevator. I said “Wait. Wait.” I felt dread. I was very, very sad. I didn’t know if the driver was a further threat, or an ally. I was both relieved and terrified when he did not get into the elevator. Alone in the elevator, you pressed me into the corner with your body, your hands and your mouth.
The elevator did not stop on the way up to your apartment. I was moved very quickly inside. I recall hearing the apartment door closing behind us.
I saw no one else. I recall you were behind me. I was still hoping the Russell I knew would reappear, as I could not recognize the man moving me deeper into the apartment -- the man who had said “No” to his driver. Twice.
You moved me into a bedroom. I said “Wait.” You said nothing.
I made the trade in my mind. I thought “just keep him calm and you’ll get home.” Maybe another person would have thought differently, or not made the trade.
It was dark, but not pitch dark. You closed the door.
At that point, I simply did what I was told.
There was penetration. At one point you were only semi-erect and appeared frustrated. Angry? I remember being afraid that you would deem that my fault and become violent. I did not know if you were angry, but I was afraid that you were.
I desperately wanted to keep the situation from escalating. I wanted you to feel that I was not going to be difficult. I wanted to stay as contained as I could.
You told me to turn over on my stomach. You said something about a part of my body. You did not ejaculate inside me.
When it was over, I got my clothes and quickly went down in the elevator by myself. You didn’t try to stop me. I went home in a taxi. I was grateful to be secure in my home. I never told anyone this story until October 27th of this year (after the Harvey Weinstein story was in the news, but weeks before the first public claims were made against you), when I told a girlfriend from childhood.
“Abusing women in any way shape or form violates the very core of my being.”— Russell Simmons
We encountered each other socially many times after that night. We had a score of mutual friends. We may have been photographed proximately, or together. The dynamic between us was different, muted. I never sought you out, nor did I run from a place or event upon seeing you. I feel confident in saying we nodded at each other, said hello. I strove for an affect of normalcy. And I never said anything to you about that night. You have never said anything to me.
Specifically, we saw each other at the Vanity Fair Party after the Academy Awards in 2005, the year my father won the Lifetime Achievement Award. I saw you again at the NAACP Image Awards, briefly, in 2009. I believe you were there with your daughters. We both accepted awards that night. I encountered you at a party in Los Angeles before the 2011 Academy Awards, during which there was a planned tribute to my grandmother, who had just passed away. These were events that were supposed to be happy, and they were tainted.
I don’t recall ever meeting any of the women who have spoken out against you, Russell. But I can’t leave those women twisting in the wind. Maybe the recalling of this incident can be helpful. I don’t know if it can.
I have built a life in the past 25 years, and a reputation in my industry. I need no one to have this visualization of me. I will, like the others, lose work because of this. I realize how privileged I am to be able to risk that. I have children. I’m aware that every mistake, act of thoughtlessness, hypocrisy or cruelty I’ve committed in my 50 years will be excavated, and they’ll see all of it.
There is so much guilt, and so much shame. There is an excruciating internal reckoning. As a woman of color, I cannot express how wrenching it is to write this about a successful man of color. Again, shame about who I was years ago, choices made years ago. In this very moment, I feel a pang to protect your daughters. I don’t think you are inclined to protect mine.
In response to this article, Simmons responds that he is stepping down from his various businesses to "commit myself to continuing my personal growth, spiritual learning and above all to listening." His full statement is below.
I have been informed with great anguish of Jenny Lumet’s recollection about our night together in 1991. I know Jenny and her family and have seen her several times over the years since the evening she described. While her memory of that evening is very different from mine, it is now clear to me that her feelings of fear and intimidation are real. While I have never been violent, I have been thoughtless and insensitive in some of my relationships over many decades and I sincerely apologize.
This is a time of great transition. The voices of the voiceless, those who have been hurt or shamed, deserve and need to be heard. As the corridors of power inevitably make way for a new generation, I don’t want to be a distraction so I am removing myself from the businesses that I founded. The companies will now be run by a new and diverse generation of extraordinary executives who are moving the culture and consciousness forward. I will convert the studio for yogic science into a not-for-profit center of learning and healing. As for me, I will step aside and commit myself to continuing my personal growth, spiritual learning and above all to listening.
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But Trump...!!!!!!
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https://pagesix.com/2017/11/29/matt-lauer-accused-of-sexting-nbc-intern-and-staffers
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But Trump...!!!!!!
Before the end of all this - there won't be a single liberal left not accused of sexual misconduct. Bunch of degenerates and reprobates.
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Matt Lauer Breaks Silence on Sexual Misconduct Claims
hollywoodreporter.com ^ | 11/30/17 | Hilary Lewis
Posted on 11/30/2017, 12:40:02 PM by ColdOne
NBC News' 'Today' show released the statement from the former co-host at the top of Thursday's show.
Matt Lauer has broken his silence on the sexual harassment and assault claims made against him yesterday.
The former Today co-host released the following statement that was read by Savannah Guthrie at the top of Thursday's show: "There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry. As I am writing this I realize the depth of the damage and disappointment I have left behind at home and at NBC. Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly. Repairing the damage will take a lot of time and soul searching and I'm committed to beginning that effort. It is now my full time job. The last two days have forced me to take a very hard look at my own troubling flaws. It's been humbling. I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace."
A statement from Matt Lauer: “There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions...” pic.twitter.com/f93rHXqKQD — TODAY (@TODAYshow) November 30, 2017
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/04/politics/russell-simmons-hillary-clinton-endorsement/index.html
;D :D :D :D
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Before the end of all this - there won't be a single liberal left not accused of sexual misconduct. Bunch of degenerates and reprobates.
You got that right my man.
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Russell Simmons Steps Away From Companies In Wake Of Sexual Harassment Revelations Involving Jenny Lumet
by Mike Fleming Jr
November 30, 2017 6:39am
Another alleged sexual predator bites the dust. Russell Simmons has just announced he is stepping away from his empire, and he just released a statement addressing charges leveled against him by Jenny Lumet, the daughter of director Sidney Lumet and the screenwriter of Rachel Getting Married and other films. She wrote a guest column in THR this morning charging that Simmons sexually assaulted her. Responding to a claim by Simmons that he never harmed a woman, she wrote in graphic terms of a night in which, after claiming he would give a ride home, instead instructed the driver to lock the doors, and take her to his home. There, he sexually assaulted her, Lumet wrote. This behavior came after years of Simmons trying unsuccessfully to get Lumet to date him, she wrote.
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Simmons had been named previously in an alleged assault that was intertwined with his longtime friend Brett Ratner, who has also been disgraced in the ongoing scandals that saw him removed from RatPac Entertainment. Simmons just issued this statement:
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“I have been informed with great anguish of Jenny Lumet’s recollection about our night together in 1991. I know Jenny and her family and have seen her several times over the years since the evening she described. While her memory of that evening is very different from mine, it is now clear to me that her feelings of fear and intimidation are real. While I have never been violent, I have been thoughtless and insensitive in some of my relationships over many decades and I sincerely and humbly apologize.
This is a time of great transition. The voices of the voiceless, those who have been hurt or shamed, deserve and need to be heard. As the corridors of power inevitably make way for a new generation, I don’t want to be a distraction so I am removing myself from the businesses that I founded. The companies will now be run by a new and diverse generation of extraordinary executives who are moving the culture and consciousness forward. I will convert the studio for yogic science into a not-for-profit center of learning and healing. As for me, I will step aside and commit myself to continuing my personal growth, spiritual learning and above all to listening.”
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Russell Simmons steps down after sexual assault allegation (another lefty bites the dust)
CNN ^ | 11/30/2017 | Chloe Melas
Posted on 11/30/2017, 10:52:35 AM
Russell Simmons is stepping down from his companies in the wake of an accusation of harassment and sexual assault. Simmons, the founder of hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings and CEO of Rush Communications, released a statement on Thursday after screenwriter Jenny Lumet accused him of forcing her to have sex with him in 1991. She detailed the encounter in a guest column published by The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday. "I have been informed with great anguish of Jenny Lumet's recollection about our night together in 1991," Simmons said in a statement. "I know Jenny and her family and have seen her several times over the years since the evening she described. While her memory of that evening is very different from mine, it is now clear to me that her feelings of fear and intimidation are real. While I have never been violent, I have been thoughtless and insensitive in some of my relationships over many decades and I sincerely and humbly apologize."
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In other words - there were others and soon to come out.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/theater/israel-horovitz-sexual-misconduct.html
Dropping like flies.
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Obviously, these guys are creeps but some of these women are as well. He cupped her breasts and she says,"Thank you."? C'mon. Latest accuser of Franken is as well. Before a picture he held her breast for 5 to 10 seconds and she was so mortified she continued on with the picture and turned towards him and pressed her cheek against his with a big old smile. Pic is online. Some of these people are jumping on the bandwagon, etc.
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Obviously, these guys are creeps but some of these women are as well. He cupped her breasts and she says,"Thank you."? C'mon. Latest accuser of Franken is as well. Before a picture he held her breast for 5 to 10 seconds and she was so mortified she continued on with the picture and turned towards him and pressed her cheek against his with a big old smile. Pic is online. Some of these people are jumping on the bandwagon, etc.
This story is pretty detailed on this guy. Even his son says he believes all these women.
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https://pagesix.com/2017/11/30/beastie-boys-adam-horovitz-believes-sexual-misconduct-allegations-about-his-father
Yikes - all these liberal creeps are being exposed for such slime.
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This story is pretty detailed on this guy. Even his son says he believes all these women.
Oh, yes, I don't doubt it. May have been unclear. These guys have done awful things to many women but some of the women are jumping on the backs of those women.
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http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/30/meredith-vieira-matt-lauer-bag-sex-toys-sexual-misconduct-fired-today
:D
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NPR Chief News Editor Departs After Harassment Allegations
NPR's newsroom during election coverage on Nov. 8, 2016. The network has been rocked in recent weeks by allegations of sexual harassment.
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NPR Chief News Editor David Sweeney has left the company following allegations of sexual harassment filed against him by at least three female journalists.
"David Sweeney is no longer on staff," Chris Turpin, acting senior vice president of news, said in an email to staff.
"This is a difficult time for our newsroom and I'm committed to supporting all of you as we move forward. I know you appreciate that there are some questions I cannot answer in keeping with our practice to not comment on personnel issues, but I will do my best to address those I can," Turpin added.
In the email to staff, Turpin says that senior manager Edith Chapin will resume her role as executive editor, assuming duties that Sweeney held most recently.
The email did not directly state the cause for Sweeney's departure. But this follows a formal internal review into his conduct, after three current and former NPR journalists made formal complaints against him.
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The complaints against Sweeney were filed after Michael Oreskes, NPR's senior vice president of news and editorial director, was forced to resign on Nov. 1 over sexual misconduct allegations.
And it also followed greater scrutiny of the issue after revelations about Bill O'Reilly and the late Roger Ailes, both of Fox News, and prominent Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
In the aftermath of the Oreskes revelations, NPR leadership has encouraged people who were subject to inappropriate behavior to come forward and is working to make the process of reporting harassment more transparent. It has also sought to strengthen protections for accusers.
As NPR has previously reported, one former NPR producer said that Sweeney unexpectedly kissed her in an encounter in 2002 while they were in a car on loan for a story. In 2007, an NPR journalist said that Sweeney attempted to kiss her when they went out for drinks to discuss her career. The two journalists spoke on condition they not be named.
A third journalist, NPR editor Lauren Hodges, said that Sweeney repeatedly made her the recipient of unwanted attention and unsolicited gifts while he was her supervisor in a way that made her deeply uncomfortable.
In an emailed statement on Tuesday after NPR's announcement, Hodges said she was pleased with the outcome. "I hope it provides a loud, clear message to anyone struggling with harassment...and more importantly, to those who think they can get away with it," she wrote.
Sweeney could not immediately be reached to respond to Turpin's announcement. This story will be updated with his comment.
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https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/hollywood-sexual-misconduct-scandals/ed-westwick
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I have a feeling this is going to be a really long thread. :o
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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/variety-reporter-to-cnn-today-co-hosts-knew-about-matt-lauer-allegations
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https://decider.com/2017/11/30/meredith-vieira-found-a-huge-bag-of-sex-toys-in-matt-lauers-office/?_ga=2.186145004.451257145.1511992083-1176358695.1475252340
GMAFB like they didnt know. Please they are all laughing about his bag of sex toys in the office.
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/30/four-men-allege-sexual-misconduct-senate-president-husband/40ABgRdciNITE1kAYrWsUN/story.html
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WTF!!!
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http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/29/jane-doe-lawsuit-unknown-celebrity-rape-hiv
WTF is going on today!!!
Holy hell these libs are sick and demnted. But oh pizzagate was fake - whatever. ::)
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With Conyers almost gone, pressure mounts on Franken
Fox News ^ | 11/30/2017 | Chris Stirewalt
Posted on 11/30/2017, 4:00:46 PM by leaymane
It is remarkable to note that as Congress wrestles with enormously significant legislative proposals that the biggest story in Washington (or any place else) remains the “reckoning” over workplace sexual harassment.
Now, we know that part of this is prurient. Talking about sexual conduct, even in a negative context, is always going to be more interesting than corporate tax rates.
But the other, more significant part of all this is that the direction and work of the government very much depends on how these matters play out and who is the next to fall.
Democrats are currently bowing to reality about Rep. John Conyers D-Mich. Conyers, 88, has been checked into a Detroit hospital, having succumbed to “stress.” Whether the longest-serving House member leaves claiming physical incapacity or ends up acknowledging the severity of the allegations of misconduct against him doesn’t matter.
With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi going from defending Conyers the “icon” on Sunday to calling for his resignation on today, it’s clear he won’t be able to stick it out for another year. Perhaps the staff that has held power and profited by Conyers position, even well into his dotage, can only convince him to explain his departure by infirmity. But go, he will.
This, of course, makes matter much worse for Minnesota Sen. Al Franken. Almost daily, new accusers continue to step forward claiming that Franken engaged in nearly identical behavior to that which forced his lame apology last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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New Conyers accuser: He stripped in D.C. hotel room
MSN ^ | 11/29/2017 | Ryan W. Miller
Posted on 11/29/2017, 9:48:47 AM
Another former staff member for Rep. John Conyers alleged Tuesday the Michigan Democrat made unwanted sexual advances toward her multiple times. Serving as a deputy chief of staff at the time, Deanna Maher, 77, said Conyers stripped in front of her in a Washington hotel room in 1997.
"I was absolutely shaking, and he took off his clothes," Maher told CNN. "Then I figured out, 'Oh my god, what did I do? How stupid at my age that I walked in and got myself into a situation like that.'"
Maher, who was in her 50s at the time, told the Associated Press she "felt honored" to attend a three-day Congressional Black Caucus event with Conyers, but later discovered they would be sharing a two bedroom hotel suite.
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With Conyers almost gone, pressure mounts on Franken
Fox News ^ | 11/30/2017 | Chris Stirewalt
Posted on 11/30/2017, 4:00:46 PM by leaymane
It is remarkable to note that as Congress wrestles with enormously significant legislative proposals that the biggest story in Washington (or any place else) remains the “reckoning” over workplace sexual harassment.
Now, we know that part of this is prurient. Talking about sexual conduct, even in a negative context, is always going to be more interesting than corporate tax rates.
But the other, more significant part of all this is that the direction and work of the government very much depends on how these matters play out and who is the next to fall.
Democrats are currently bowing to reality about Rep. John Conyers D-Mich. Conyers, 88, has been checked into a Detroit hospital, having succumbed to “stress.” Whether the longest-serving House member leaves claiming physical incapacity or ends up acknowledging the severity of the allegations of misconduct against him doesn’t matter.
With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi going from defending Conyers the “icon” on Sunday to calling for his resignation on today, it’s clear he won’t be able to stick it out for another year. Perhaps the staff that has held power and profited by Conyers position, even well into his dotage, can only convince him to explain his departure by infirmity. But go, he will.
This, of course, makes matter much worse for Minnesota Sen. Al Franken. Almost daily, new accusers continue to step forward claiming that Franken engaged in nearly identical behavior to that which forced his lame apology last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Franken's recent interview was terrible. Feigned ignorance about any specifics regarding groping women. How the heck can you not know if you're grabbing a woman's butt??
I really hope they send that dummy home.
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I’d like to send this one out to all the pompous sanctimonious liberals who are now getting exactly what they deserve:
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Senate Ethics Committee opens 'preliminary inquiry' into Al Franken allegations
By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News
Morgan Chalfant, reporter for The Hill, weighs in on allegations against the embattled Democratic senator from Minnesota.
The Senate Ethics Committee said Thursday that it had opened a 'preliminary inquiry' into groping allegations against Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn.
"While the Committee does not generally comment on pending matters or matters that may come before it," it said in a statement, "in this instance, the Committee is publicly confirming that it has opened a preliminary inquiry into Senator Franken's alleged misconduct."
Six women have accused Franken of touching them inappropriately during various photo opportunities and campaign events. The accusations date from between 2003 and 2010.
Democratic senator from Minnesota addresses allegations of sexual misconduct, apologizes and says he will cooperate completely with ethics investigation.Video
Franken: I let a lot of people down, I'm tremendously sorry
Earlier Thursday, Army veteran Stephanie Kemplin, 41, told CNN that Franken had cupped her right breast when she stood next to him for a December 2003 photo during a USO Christmas tour in the Middle East. The blog Jezebel also reported Thursday that Fraken tried to give "a wet, open-mouthed kiss" to a woman described as a "former elected official in New England" at a 2006 political event.
Franken's office released a statement similar to those Franken has made in response to other allegations: "As Sen. Franken made clear this week, he takes thousands of photos and has met tens of thousands of people and he has never intentionally engaged in this kind of conduct. He remains fully committed to cooperating with the ethics investigation."
Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" performer who was first elected to the Senate in 2008, apologized earlier this month to Leeann Tweeden, now a Los Angeles radio host, who said he forcibly kissed and groped her during a 2006 tour. Tweeden released a photo showing Franken posing with his hands on her chest as she naps wearing a flak vest aboard a military plane.
Three other women allege Franken grabbed their buttocks while posing with them for photos during separate campaign events in 2007, 2008 and 2010.
Franken has joined leaders of both parties in the Senate in asking for an ethics investigation against him.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/30/senate-ethics-committee-opens-preliminary-inquiry-into-al-franken-allegations.html
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Off the top of my head, Obamacare as you rubes call it is really Romney-care which is really Heritage Foundation Care. I know, both scorching
liberals.
You the mean legislation that Romney said would not work at the federal level, and which every Republican in Congress voted against? Doesn't make sense.
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ABC News ^
Posted on 11/30/2017, 6:57:03 PM by TigerClaws
The Congressional Office of Compliance secretly paid close to $100,000 in taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment claims from at least two young male staffers who worked for disgraced former Congressman Eric Massa, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the matter told ABC News.
The claims were settled after Massa, a Democrat from upstate New York, resigned in 2010 amid a pending ethics investigation into allegations he groped and sexually harassed members of his staff.
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Fifth Accuser: Army Vet Claims Al Franken Groped Her in 2003
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Al Franken USO (Sgt. Thomas Day / US Army / Getty)Sgt. Thomas Day / US Army / Getty
by JOHN NOLTE 30 Nov 2017
Army veteran Stephanie Kemplin told left-wing CNN Thursday that Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) groped her breast in 2003 while the two of them took a photo together. At the time, Kemplin was stationed in Kuwait during the Iraq War. The married Franken was on a USO tour.
“When he put his arm around me, he groped my right breast. He kept his hand all the way over on my breast,” Kemplin told CNN. “I’ve never had a man put their arm around me and then cup my breast. So he was holding my breast on the side.” She said Franken held his hand there for at least 5 to 10 seconds.
Kemplin is now the fifth woman to accuse the Democrat of touching her inappropriately. All four of Franken’s previous accusers also claim that the groping occurred while taking a photograph with the disgraced senator. One of the women, though, Leeann Tweeden was asleep when the groping occurred, also during a USO tour:
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Two of Franken’s accusers claim he groped them at campaign events while Franken was either a sitting senator or running for that office.
Kemplin appears to be a whole new low for Franken. Allegedly groping an active duty woman in the military while she is deployed overseas is undoubtedly beyond any decent person’s comprehension. CNN reports:
In one of multiple lengthy phone calls with a CNN reporter this week, Kemplin repeatedly broke into sobs.
“I was in a war zone… You were on a USO tour — are you trying to boost the morale of the troops or are you trying to boost your own?” she said. “I just feel so sorry for that young girl in that picture.”
She added that she felt “ashamed” and “embarrassed.”
Franken has so far refused to even consider resigning the U.S. Senate seat he has held since 2008.
As Breitbart News noted earlier this week, Franken has hid behind the idea that he accidentally groped these women during photo-ops:
With four separate women accusing Al Franken (D-MN) of groping them, the defiant U.S. senator went underground for the long weekend only to sit down for two disastrous interviews Monday morning.
In an interview with Minnesota Public Radio, when asked if additional women will come forward with accusations of groping, Franken admits, “I don’t know. I can’t say.”
In a second interview with WCCO, when asked if he ever groped a woman’s butt, Franken admitted, “I can’t say I haven’t done that.”
“With all due respect, people are going to find it hard to believe that someone such as yourself wouldn’t know that they were grabbing someone’s butt,” WOCO’s Esme Murphy asked.
“I can understand how some people would see it that way,” Franken replied.
“But have you ever placed a hand on some woman’s butt?”
“I can’t say that it hasn’t happened. In crowded chaotic situations, I can’t say I haven’t done that. I am very sorry if these women experienced that,” Franken admitted.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/30/fifth-accuser-army-vet-claims-al-franken-groped-2003/
Wait. So he inadvertently grabbed women's butts when he took pictures in crowds? How stupid is this guy?
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Another Beta Lib - typical
Fifth Accuser: Army Vet Claims Al Franken Groped Her in 2003
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Al Franken USO (Sgt. Thomas Day / US Army / Getty)Sgt. Thomas Day / US Army / Getty
by JOHN NOLTE 30 Nov 2017
Army veteran Stephanie Kemplin told left-wing CNN Thursday that Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) groped her breast in 2003 while the two of them took a photo together. At the time, Kemplin was stationed in Kuwait during the Iraq War. The married Franken was on a USO tour.
“When he put his arm around me, he groped my right breast. He kept his hand all the way over on my breast,” Kemplin told CNN. “I’ve never had a man put their arm around me and then cup my breast. So he was holding my breast on the side.” She said Franken held his hand there for at least 5 to 10 seconds.
Kemplin is now the fifth woman to accuse the Democrat of touching her inappropriately. All four of Franken’s previous accusers also claim that the groping occurred while taking a photograph with the disgraced senator. One of the women, though, Leeann Tweeden was asleep when the groping occurred, also during a USO tour:
(http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/11/Franken-Groping-Leean-Tweeden.jpg)
Two of Franken’s accusers claim he groped them at campaign events while Franken was either a sitting senator or running for that office.
Kemplin appears to be a whole new low for Franken. Allegedly groping an active duty woman in the military while she is deployed overseas is undoubtedly beyond any decent person’s comprehension. CNN reports:
In one of multiple lengthy phone calls with a CNN reporter this week, Kemplin repeatedly broke into sobs.
“I was in a war zone… You were on a USO tour — are you trying to boost the morale of the troops or are you trying to boost your own?” she said. “I just feel so sorry for that young girl in that picture.”
She added that she felt “ashamed” and “embarrassed.”
Franken has so far refused to even consider resigning the U.S. Senate seat he has held since 2008.
As Breitbart News noted earlier this week, Franken has hid behind the idea that he accidentally groped these women during photo-ops:
With four separate women accusing Al Franken (D-MN) of groping them, the defiant U.S. senator went underground for the long weekend only to sit down for two disastrous interviews Monday morning.
In an interview with Minnesota Public Radio, when asked if additional women will come forward with accusations of groping, Franken admits, “I don’t know. I can’t say.”
In a second interview with WCCO, when asked if he ever groped a woman’s butt, Franken admitted, “I can’t say I haven’t done that.”
“With all due respect, people are going to find it hard to believe that someone such as yourself wouldn’t know that they were grabbing someone’s butt,” WOCO’s Esme Murphy asked.
“I can understand how some people would see it that way,” Franken replied.
“But have you ever placed a hand on some woman’s butt?”
“I can’t say that it hasn’t happened. In crowded chaotic situations, I can’t say I haven’t done that. I am very sorry if these women experienced that,” Franken admitted.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/30/fifth-accuser-army-vet-claims-al-franken-groped-2003/
Wait. So he inadvertently grabbed women's butts when he took pictures in crowds? How stupid is this guy?
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He’s done. Sooner or later he’ll have to step down. I remember Weiner trying to hang on but eventually gave in. And he didn’t even do anything physical, just Sexting.
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You the mean legislation that Romney said would not work at the federal level, and which every Republican in Congress voted against? Doesn't make sense.
You asked me to name something. I did. You are butt hurt. This is all you have got? Go back to the circle jerk with sc and fake coach. I am sure they are lonely.
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You asked me to name something. I did. You are butt hurt. This is all you have got? Go back to the circle jerk with sc and fake coach. I am sure they are lonely.
Look I wasn't expecting much from you. You hardly ever contribute anything of substance. But just so the peanut gallery is clear about how dumb you sound, here is what you said:
No, on the contrary. What you guys call "liberal" today would be 70's Republicans. Not much difference
between Gerald Ford and B.H. Obama. Or Reagan and Obama for that matter. You guys live in the Fox News
bubble and it is eroding our way of life and NOT making us great.
You said today's Republicans are actually 1970s liberals and claimed no difference between Reagan and Obama (I am laughing out loud as I type this. ;D)
When I asked you for an example, you referenced Obamacare. Anyone who is reasonably intelligent (and not a hack) can see that Obamacare doesn't have squat to do with your contention that Reagan and Obama are the same, or that today's Republicans are liberals, particularly when every Republican in Congress voted against Obamacare.
Now, if you have something substantive that actually supports your contention, I'll consider it. Go ahead, give a try. You can do it. :)
Ok wait. Never mind. No you can't.
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Disney Knew: John Lasseter Issued ‘Handler’ to Protect Female Staffers from Harassment
Big Hollywood (Breitbart) ^ | November 30, 2017 | John Nolte
Posted on 11/30/2017, 11:07:10 PM by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
To protect staffers from John Lasseter’s alleged predations, the Pixar chief was assigned a “handler to ensure he would not engage in inappropriate conduct with women, two people with direct knowledge of the situation,” told Deadline.
Deadline believes this is “evidence Disney may well have been aware of troubling behavior on the part of the digital animation pioneer.”
Lasseter is now on a six-month leave of absence following reports of inappropriate touching. The Deadline report, however, opens up a whole new series of allegations and, if true, undoubtedly proves the enabling of Lasseter was institutionalized within the Walt Disney Company:
At the animator’s insistence, Disney flew the women to a New York event. One Pixar employee became the designated escort as Lasseter took the young women out drinking one night, and to a party the following evening.
“He was inappropriate with the fairies,” said the former Pixar executive, referring to physical contact that included long hugs. “We had to have someone make sure he wasn’t alone with them.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycotthollywood; chaperone; disney; johnlasseter; perv
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/30/media/vice-media-firings-workplace-conduct/index.html
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NPR And PBS, The Biggest Harassment Hypocrites
Townhall.com ^ | Dec 01, 2017 | Brent Bozell
Posted on 12/1/2017, 12:28:06 AM by Oshkalaboomboom
The swift revolution against sexual harassment is ending the careers of a series of media "icons," left and right. But perhaps nowhere is this hypocrisy more notable (and deeper) than at PBS and NPR. These were the entities that made sexual harassment the boiling feminist issue when Anita Hill testified during Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearing in 1991.
Here's an easy question: Why didn't this sudden spirit of self-discovery and investigation happen back then? Or in any year since? It could have happened when then-President Bill Clinton settled with Paula Jones in 1998, or even last year as these networks enjoyed reporting on sexual harassment scandals inside Fox News. All along the way, it appears that very same sexual harassment was alive at both PBS and NPR.
And mum was the word.
In case you missed the trend -- and with all the other scandals breaking, who could blame you? -- on Nov. 1, NPR first forced out its vice president of news, Michael Oreskes, following accusations of sexual harassment during his tenure at NPR and The New York Times. Soon after he stepped down, five complaints were filed by women of NPR. On Nov. 3, The Washington Post said that "NPR's employees unleashed their fury" at CEO Jarl Mohn "over his handling of a sexual harassment scandal that appears to have spread." A few days later, Mohn took a medical leave.
The TV folks at PBS followed on Nov. 21, when they abruptly ended its broadcasts of longtime talk-show host Charlie Rose.
On Nov. 29, NPR followed that by firing Chief News Editor David Sweeney, who'd been at the taxpayer-subsidized radio network since 1993, for allegedly harassing subordinates.
That same day, Minnesota Public Radio cut all business ties with star Garrison Keillor of "A Prairie Home Companion" for alleged sexual misconduct. Keillor was especially dismissive of the charges, which came right after he wrote a Washington Post commentary in which he ridiculed the demands for Sen. Al Franken to resign over allegedly groping women as "absurd." Confident of his sex appeal at age 75, Keillor boasted, "If I had a dollar for every woman who asked to take a selfie with me and who slipped an arm around me and let it drift down below the beltline, I'd have at least a hundred dollars."
Indeed, there seems to have been something smarmy about Keillor all along. Meet Garrison Keillor: sexual harassment victim. Howard Mortman of C-SPAN tweeted out an old National Press Club address by Keillor from April 7, 1994, in which Keillor proclaimed, "A world in which there is no sexual harassment at all is a world in which there will not be any flirtation."
This line did not make the press accounts at the time. Instead, the Associated Press reported the part of the speech where Keillor "chided the press" for trying to keep from the American people the "terrible truth" that "America gets along pretty well," and the fact that Clinton "is a soulful man" who "enjoys his work."
Bill Clinton, soulful harasser ... meet Garrison Keillor, soulful harasser.
The bifurcated public funding/private business nature of public broadcasting made men like Rose and Keillor less accountable, as there was not always a human resources department to handle complaints. They are profit-making multimillionaire contractors who acted as their own bosses. Their female employees were sitting ducks.
In what way, then, is "public" broadcasting morally superior to corporate broadcasting? And how deep is the hypocrisy on the left considering it waited decades to hold sexual harassers in its own taxpayer-funded ideological sandboxes accountable? They don't deserve one more red cent from taxpaying Americans.
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Clinton on Matt Lauer: 'Every day I believe more in karma'
thehill.com ^ | 12/1/17 | John Bowden
Posted on 12/1/2017, 4:07:54 PM by ColdOne
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commented Thursday night on longtime NBC host Matt Lauer's firing, remarking that she believes in the concept of karma a little more "every day," Philly Voice reports.
Clinton was speaking in Philadelphia as part of her national book tour promoting her memoir, "What Happened," which looks at her unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign.
“Every day I believe more in karma,” Clinton said when asked about Lauer's firing, before lumping him in with several other “men who shaped the narrative” who have been fired over similar allegations of sexual misconduct.
“The only way we will get sexism out of politics is to get more women in politics,” she added.
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Clinton on Matt Lauer: 'Every day I believe more in karma'
thehill.com ^ | 12/1/17 | John Bowden
Posted on 12/1/2017, 4:07:54 PM by ColdOne
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commented Thursday night on longtime NBC host Matt Lauer's firing, remarking that she believes in the concept of karma a little more "every day," Philly Voice reports.
Clinton was speaking in Philadelphia as part of her national book tour promoting her memoir, "What Happened," which looks at her unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign.
“Every day I believe more in karma,” Clinton said when asked about Lauer's firing, before lumping him in with several other “men who shaped the narrative” who have been fired over similar allegations of sexual misconduct.
“The only way we will get sexism out of politics is to get more women in politics,” she added.
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That is rich. If there is anybody who needs to keep their mouth shut, it's her.
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That is rich. If there is anybody who needs to keep their mouth shut, it's her.
That’s one of the primary characteristics of the liberalism mental disorder: a lack of self-awareness.
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That’s one of the primary characteristics of the liberalism mental disorder: a lack of self-awareness.
Truth.
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Look I wasn't expecting much from you. You hardly ever contribute anything of substance. But just so the peanut gallery is clear about how dumb you sound, here is what you said:
You said today's Republicans are actually 1970s liberals and claimed no difference between Reagan and Obama (I am laughing out loud as I type this. ;D)
When I asked you for an example, you referenced Obamacare. Anyone who is reasonably intelligent (and not a hack) can see that Obamacare doesn't have squat to do with your contention that Reagan and Obama are the same, or that today's Republicans are liberals, particularly when every Republican in Congress voted against Obamacare.
Now, if you have something substantive that actually supports your contention, I'll consider it. Go ahead, give a try. You can do it. :)
Ok wait. Never mind. No you can't.
Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Cancer Institute, proposed universal health care and desegregated the Southern schools. Stephen Colbert, who has a Nixon poster in his office, once noted, "His issues were education, drugs, women, minorities, youth involvement, ending the draft, and improving the environment.
Republicans also have a long history of supporting Planned Parenthood and many were pro-choice in the 1970's
I'm sure there are more examples
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Look I wasn't expecting much from you. You hardly ever contribute anything of substance. But just so the peanut gallery is clear about how dumb you sound, here is what you said:
You said today's Republicans are actually 1970s liberals and claimed no difference between Reagan and Obama (I am laughing out loud as I type this. ;D)
When I asked you for an example, you referenced Obamacare. Anyone who is reasonably intelligent (and not a hack) can see that Obamacare doesn't have squat to do with your contention that Reagan and Obama are the same, or that today's Republicans are liberals, particularly when every Republican in Congress voted against Obamacare.
Now, if you have something substantive that actually supports your contention, I'll consider it. Go ahead, give a try. You can do it. :)
Ok wait. Never mind. No you can't.
No moron, I said by your standards 70's republicans would be considered liberals. We all know comprehension isn't your strong suit but damn dude. This was pretty brutal.
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No moron, I said by your standards 70's republicans would be considered liberals. We all know comprehension isn't your strong suit but damn dude. This was pretty brutal.
Don't try and get on an intellectual high horse. You're not smart enough.
So now it's my standards? You don't even know what those are. And you still don't understand how stupid your Obamacare reference was. If Republicans had actually voted in favor of Obamacare, then that would provide some evidence in support of your dumb theory.
But you gotta have a tad bit more analytical ability to figure that out.
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Don't try and get on an intellectual high horse. You're not smart enough.
So now it's my standards? You don't even know what those are. And you still don't understand how stupid your Obamacare reference was. If Republicans had actually voted in favor of Obamacare, then that would provide some evidence in support of your dumb theory.
But you gotta have a tad bit more analytical ability to figure that out.
Feels like I'm talking to a child with ADD. You must be having a bad day.
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https://www.npr.org/2017/12/02/567997439/another-democrat-faces-calls-to-resign-because-of-sexual-harassment-allegations
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Pelosi's daughter shakes up California harassment debate (Nancy knew)
SacBee ^ | 11/30/17 | KATHLEEN RONAYNE
Posted on 12/2/2017, 7:13:35 PM by Libloather
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's daughter Christine has taken the spotlight in the sexual harassment scandal enveloping California's Legislature with her claim there are rapists in the state Capitol and lawmakers are protecting them.
The younger Pelosi, chair of the California Democratic Party's women's caucus, produced gasps Tuesday when she made the statement at a legislative committee hearing on state sexual harassment policies.
While many testified, sometimes angrily, about a dysfunctional system they say protects the powerful and encourages silence from victims, Christine Pelosi's comments stood apart for their bare-knuckle boldness. They struck a nerve, with some taking to social media to express incredulity or to call on Pelosi to provide more information.
"As someone who works in the Capitol, I had NEVER heard that there are rapists in the building," Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher wrote on Twitter.
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Pelosi's daughter shakes up California harassment debate (Nancy knew)
SacBee ^ | 11/30/17 | KATHLEEN RONAYNE
Posted on 12/2/2017, 7:13:35 PM by Libloather
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's daughter Christine has taken the spotlight in the sexual harassment scandal enveloping California's Legislature with her claim there are rapists in the state Capitol and lawmakers are protecting them.
The younger Pelosi, chair of the California Democratic Party's women's caucus, produced gasps Tuesday when she made the statement at a legislative committee hearing on state sexual harassment policies.
While many testified, sometimes angrily, about a dysfunctional system they say protects the powerful and encourages silence from victims, Christine Pelosi's comments stood apart for their bare-knuckle boldness. They struck a nerve, with some taking to social media to express incredulity or to call on Pelosi to provide more information.
"As someone who works in the Capitol, I had NEVER heard that there are rapists in the building," Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher wrote on Twitter.
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Another spoiled little brat who never worked a day in her life. Just like her mother.
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Pelosi's daughter shakes up California harassment debate (Nancy knew)
SacBee ^ | 11/30/17 | KATHLEEN RONAYNE
Posted on 12/2/2017, 7:13:35 PM by Libloather
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's daughter Christine has taken the spotlight in the sexual harassment scandal enveloping California's Legislature with her claim there are rapists in the state Capitol and lawmakers are protecting them.
The younger Pelosi, chair of the California Democratic Party's women's caucus, produced gasps Tuesday when she made the statement at a legislative committee hearing on state sexual harassment policies.
While many testified, sometimes angrily, about a dysfunctional system they say protects the powerful and encourages silence from victims, Christine Pelosi's comments stood apart for their bare-knuckle boldness. They struck a nerve, with some taking to social media to express incredulity or to call on Pelosi to provide more information.
"As someone who works in the Capitol, I had NEVER heard that there are rapists in the building," Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher wrote on Twitter.
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Not very bold if you still don't name anyone. Same old, same old.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/arts/music/james-levine-met-opera.html
Another Lib bites the dust.
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Feels like I'm talking to a child with ADD. You must be having a bad day.
Yes I am just like an overgrown kid: easily amused, easily pleased, and always happy. :)
But you? You're a simpleton. And you still don't understand how dumb your Obamacare example is.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/actresses-detail-groping-simulated-rape-audition-ashley-judd-sex-trafficking-film-1063731
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/04/house-settled-lawsuit-after-meeks-fired-staffer-who-reported-sexual-assault-related-to-donor
Wow - these libs are on fire - WTF!!!
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Democrat Matt Dababneh Accused of Masturbating in Front of Lobbyist
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Sacramento lobbyist Pamela Lopez has claimed that, in 2016, Democratic Assemblyman Matt Dababneh followed her into a bathroom, masturbated in front of her and urged her to touch him. Dababneh has strongly denied the allegation.
"It was Matt Dababneh," Lopez told The Times in a November interview.
Lopez jolted the California political world seven weeks ago when she first shared her account of an encounter in Las Vegas, joining more than 140 women as they denounced in an open letter a "pervasive" culture of sexual harassment and misconduct in the state Capitol.
Lopez had not publicly accused Dababneh until Monday, when she formally filed a complaint with the Assembly and named him at a news conference. The Times had been preparing a report on her accusations against Dababneh, and sought the assemblyman’s comment late last week.
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Dababneh told the Times on Monday afternoon that he “100%” denies Lopez’s allegation.
“I am utterly shocked and blown away,” Dababneh said in an interview. “This is a career-ending charge based on no facts.”
The accusation against the assemblyman comes as a public reckoning over sexual harassment has upended the worlds of politics, entertainment, media and tech. In Sacramento, Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra (D-Pacoima) resigned last week after allegations from multiple women that he made unwanted sexual advances throughout his career in state government. State Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Los Angeles) lost his leadership positions and faces a legislative investigation after multiple allegations of misconduct toward female staffers.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-matt-dababneh-harassment-20171204-story.html
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/msnbc-cuts-ties-sam-seder-roman-polanski-rape-tweet-article-1.3677394
Holy shit are these people sick
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LOL at the updated thread title..."too many going on now - BB can you merge?" ;D :D :)
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/rev-jesse-jackson-john-singleton-accused-sexual-harassment-article-1.3617222
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New York City Ballet Investigates Sexual Harassment Claim Against Peter Martins
By ROBIN POGREBINDEC. 4, 2017
Peter Martins of New York City Ballet. Credit Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images
Peter Martins, the longtime leader of New York City Ballet, has been removed from teaching his weekly class at the School of American Ballet while the two organizations jointly investigate an accusation of sexual harassment against him.
The accusation against Mr. Martins, 71, was made in an anonymous letter, both organizations confirmed on Monday. Mr. Martins is the artistic director and chairman of the faculty of the ballet school. He has led City Ballet, the company founded by the famed choreographer George Balanchine, since the 1980s.
“The safety and well-being of our students is our absolute priority,” the school said in a statement, adding that it “recently received an anonymous letter making general, nonspecific allegations of sexual harassment in the past by Peter Martins at both New York City Ballet and the school.”
“We, together with New York City Ballet, promptly engaged an independent law firm that specializes in such matters to conduct a thorough investigation, despite the anonymous nature of the letter and the lack of specifics,” the statement continued. “Thus far, the investigation has not substantiated the allegations in the letter or discovered any reason to be concerned about student safety.”
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City Ballet issued a similar statement, which said, in part, “the ongoing inquiry has not substantiated the allegations.” Rob Daniels, a spokesman for the ballet, said on Monday night Mr. Martins remained in his position as head of the ballet.
Reached by telephone on Monday, Mr. Martins said in response to the accusations, “The company has already addressed it.” Asked if he had anything to add, he said, “At this point, no.”
The two organizations have retained a lawyer, Barbara Hoey, to conduct the investigation. Ms. Hoey, the chairwoman of Kelley Drye’s labor and employment practice group, declined to comment.
As part of the investigation, Mr. Martins is believed to have discussed romantic relationships he has had with female dancers, according to a former official at City Ballet with knowledge of the investigation who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Mr. Daniels, the ballet spokesman, said that since 2010 the company “has had a policy precluding a reporting relationship between a supervisor and subordinate where a romantic relationship exists.”
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Along those lines, Jed Bernstein was forced out last year as president of Lincoln Center — which has such a policy — after an anonymous complaint revealed that he had been involved in a consensual relationship with a woman who worked for him, and whom he had twice promoted.
In recent interviews, two former City Ballet dancers and three former students at the school described a culture in which Mr. Martins was known for sleeping with dancers, some of whom received better roles because of their personal relationships with him.
The world of ballet is a fuzzy area, those involved say, in which people are regularly touching one another through choreography and instruction. An artistic leader like Mr. Martins looms large — particularly among up-and-coming, young dancers — as a producer who decides which ballets are performed; as a casting director who determines which dancers land the best parts; and as a father figure who designates dancers for promotion.
Balanchine, who was known as Mr. B, wielded tremendous power over the lives of the dancers in his company. He famously discouraged female dancers from marriage and from having children; he insisted that their boyfriends leave them at the stage door — not enter the theater — and that dancers wear different perfumes so that he could easily identify them.
In a 2012 article on Balanchine in Psychology Tomorrow, Wilhelmina Frankfurt, a former City Ballet dancer, said: “The only way that Peter rivaled Mr. B. was as a Casanova. However, where Mr. B. was charm incarnate, Peter was a basher.”
In 1992, Mr. Martins was charged with third-degree assault against his wife, Darci Kistler, then a principal dancer in the company. Ms. Kistler told the police that her arms and legs had been cut and bruised. The misdemeanor charge was later dropped.
In 2011, Mr. Martins was arrested on New Year’s Day and charged with driving while intoxicated.
Mr. Martins was a star of the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen when he joined City Ballet in 1970. In 1983, he became co-ballet master in chief with Jerome Robbins, taking over that role entirely in 1990.
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he Sexual-Abuse and Harassment Scandals Blowing Up on Broadway
At a powerful event at New York City’s Public Theater, actors and theater makers from Broadway and beyond told stories of sexual abuse and harassment, and how best to fight back.
Tim Teeman
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12.05.17 5:00 AM ET
The young woman said she did not have stage fright. She was looking around the room to see if the alleged perpetrator of the sexual assault she had endured was there.
“I don’t say that just as a victim, but also a witness of an assault,” she said.
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The alleged perpetrator made “a ton of money” for a theatrical organization. The young woman did not. She had felt guilty about not coming forward as both a victim and a witness of abuse, she said, but “the biggest impact” of an assault was felt by victims rather than by perpetrators.
“Sometimes the only sense of power in these situations was in choosing when to come forward,” she added, speaking of those she knew who had yet to speak about what had happened to them. “I am outing myself as a witness to a crime,” the woman said. “I want to say to the other witnesses, ‘I am one of you.’” When they were ready to come forward, she would be there to support them.
In the space of two intense hours, the stories flooded forth.
In the audience of the Anspacher Theater of New York City’s Public Theater, people—the majority of them women—who work within the city’s theatrical industries gathered Monday afternoon to discuss sexual abuse, harassment, and assault on and off Broadway, and sometimes far from Broadway, at a “town hall” event.
Two microphones had been set up. There was no panel of experts but rather a sharing of experiences, memories, stories, advice, pain, courage, bravery, and strength. Only one man stood up to share his experience of assault and harassment.
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The event was organized in the wake of the sexual-abuse and harassment scandals assailing so many industries and as rumors swept New York’s theater community that an exposé or exposés on Broadway abusers and harassers was about to be published. After the recently revealed scandals involving James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera and Peter Martins at New York City Ballet, theaterland appears to be the natural next focus.
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Broadway, one woman said at the Public's town hall, was “the Wild West. You just take your chances.” She had been sexually harassed, she said, by a famous person. Her mother had told her not to make a fuss. Well, she said drily, if that was her mother’s advice she would obviously not follow it. So she began to make a fuss and reported the incident. Her colleagues, she said, had pleaded with her, “Please don’t. It will be bad for us.”
The woman paused in her recollection and said, disbelievingly, “Bad for you?”
As a preschool teacher, she had tried to “raise kids not to be assholes.” Working on Broadway, it had been “terrifying” to see people “not being decent to each other.” Just as in preschool, punishments had to be enforced to show accountability, she said.
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She had been fortunate: The two men who oversaw her sexual-harassment complaint had listened to her and acted quickly and positively. “Now I’m going to take my HR [human resources] experience, and where there isn’t HR, I will be the HR people,” she said.
The “town hall” structure of Monday’s “(Mis)Conduct” event, inspired by the Quaker tradition of “deep listening and sharing,” forbade the mentioning of specific names or organizations, said Stephanie Ybarra, director of special artistic projects at the Public. (The Public has also published a list of resources relating to sexual abuse and harassment for those working in theater.)
Ybarra said the Public had held a similar event after the election of President Trump, with the question—shared with this event—of “What next?” as the theatrical community confronted “decades and decades of insidious behavior, sexual abuse, and misuse of power.” People would be limited to speak for two minutes.
Mary, a stagehand, said she was one of four women working with 200 men.
“They talk about what they want to do to their girlfriends. There are microaggressions, like them telling me I’m not strong enough to move a box, then they tell me they like watching me push a box so they can watch my ass.”
Mary had complained. Her boss’ solution was to say she wouldn’t have to work with that person, or “I could walk away and find a job at Starbucks.”
Mary was incredulous that this “solution” would see her leaving a job she loved and was qualified for to work in a job she worked at when she was much younger and unqualified. This was the “solution” to somebody’s harassment of her.
“So I can’t pay my rent and student loans because some guy can’t keep his pants zipped,” Mary said angrily.
Why were there so few women working in technical areas, why were there so few female stage designers? Mary asked. “I’m so tired of comments about my boobs, about the way I walk, about not being strong enough, but then that it’s ‘nice to see something while they’re working.’”
A staff member from Signature Theatre noted that when scandals break and organizations choose to fire people, those decisions are financial ones: The organizations worry that the scandal will adversely affect ticket sales. Those decisions are also far too late. “As theater artists, I don’t think it’s too much to ask that we don’t hire people who hurt other people,” the woman stated, to applause.
“His tactic was to prey on directly-out-of-college actors, not in the industry, not in the union, with no resources or institutional help”
The stories kept coming.
Kristin, an actor of 11 years’ standing, had been sexually assaulted while preparing a scene. She asked if some of the silence around sexual abuse and harassment in the industry was down to the dreams held by aspiring actors, “and the fragility of those dreams and how vulnerable that makes you. You put up with the behavior in pursuit of them.” You may lose your dream if you speak out, she said.
A playwright said that one thinks one might feel unsafe on the subway or the street, but you can feel unsafe in a rehearsal room. How can one make performing love scenes safer? she asked. “Not everyone wants a hug all the time,” she said. “Not everyone wants a massage. This is not to say to walk on eggshells, but an unwanted physical thing can make people feel unsafe.”
Leah stood up to say she had been assaulted by her acting coach two years ago. He did the same to two of her peers. “I am finally at a place where I want to tell people.” The coach had worked with the Public, she added. “His tactic was to prey on directly out of college actors, not in the industry, not in the union, with no resources or institutional help.”
Another woman said she had had an awful experience reporting the alleged perpetrator of her sexual assault to theater bosses.
She was not given the opportunity to be anonymous but was told her name was not shared with the perpetrator.
“It felt like everyone in the office was looking at me. It felt like the whole meeting the HR woman was covering their [the company’s] ass, as if she did not understand something bad had happened to me. A couple of weeks later I was told ‘appropriate action’ had been taken ‘to ensure this conduct does not repeat itself.’”
The woman laughed drily: “There was no person connected to that action.” She was told the alleged perpetrator had been granted anonymity, even though his name had been discussed in meetings and written in emails. “I don’t know if he’s been fired. I don’t know anything. She [the HR representative] has closed my case, but I don’t have closure. I won’t go back there to see shows in case he is there.”
Every news alert about sexual abuse and harassment is like a “gut punch,” the woman said. Initially she had a tendency “to process alone” what had happened to her but had found the benefits, and recommended to others the same, of speaking to loved ones and friends, “instead of just living with it—that sucks even more.”
One young woman, a carpenter at the Public, said how valuable the event was, but not to forget that so many people who would benefit from it, and from the advice and strength to be gained from it, couldn’t be there. They had to work.
“How can we show love and compassion to people who have made mistakes?”
Younger women had spoken first at the meeting, one asking “as a cis woman” how would she not be silenced by non-binary and trans activists urging her not to “gender sexual assault.”
A survivor of sexual assault herself, she had been told by a female DA that there was no way to prove her assault had been different from the sex she had been having.
She said lawmakers, even liberal ones, “could not be trusted” to enforce positive change. That change came from “culture” and from everyone making themselves “a little less comfortable” in speaking up and challenging wrongdoing. “We are in this room, and the people who have the means will change it,” she said.
Another woman said she had been one of those whose story had led to The New York Times highlighting the alleged sexual misconduct of Israel Horovitz. He had “stolen” a year and a half of her life, she said.
She asked why the Actors Studio or Columbia University had not taken action against Horovitz sooner.
“I don’t have a good sum-up, but fuck him,” she concluded. (Beau Gravitte, artistic director of the Actors Studio, stood up to say he had just taken over running the institution, having inherited an organization of “non-action. It can happen. It can change,” he said.)
A 19-year-old stood up to say she felt a lot of guilt over how and if she could cut an alleged abuser (of two friends) out of her life.
Another young woman, Sierra, cautioned against responding too “violently” to rumors and accusations, which could prove “toxic and dangerous.” If the pendulum was swinging extremely in favor of those now speaking out about abuse and harassment, she could imagine a time when it would swing back, just as violently, against them.
Sierra asked what was gained if people simply lost their jobs and livelihoods as a result of being accused or prosecuted. “How can we show love and compassion to people who have made mistakes?” she asked.
It was important, she said, to “have both sides”: to punish those who have committed wrongdoing, and for there to be the just repercussions flowing from that, but also “remembering our love and compassion” for people who are still human beings. “I want people to do better,” she said.
Another speaker earned a cheer, and a round of clicked-finger applause, by stating simply, “We can’t afford to be assholes to each other anymore. If someone has told you you’re an asshole, check it out, because maybe you are.”
A male survivor of rape said compassion was wasted on abusers. “We want to think sexual assaulters and rapists are like us, and that education works, but my experience is what they did is a final degree in a number of steps they have taken to treat someone inhumanely.”
The young man recommended "zero tolerance and mandatory firings" for all abusers.
One woman wondered if a “truth and reconciliation commission,” akin to what had been used in South Africa and Bosnia, would be a useful model to emulate in addressing sexual abuse and harassment.
“We can’t be surprised. If I opened the Times and read that the pope was a sexual predator, I would not be surprised.”
T. Oliver had worked on Broadway for 18 years and now taught young people. He wanted to know how the theater world could start afresh. If it was impossible to change “the last 100 years of theater,” how could the industry construct a new code or way of working?
A second man, a playwright, stood up to say the “tissue” around sexual abuse and harassment” could not be separated from other oppressive social systems upheld by “reticence and an inability to say and speak the things we see. People we all know stay quiet.” The issue was not just about sex but also race and class. The challenge was to oversee change “without burning down everything.”
An older woman stood up to ask why “we are acting as if we are surprised. We can’t be surprised. If I opened the Times and read that the pope was a sexual predator, I would not be surprised.”
Another theater practitioner said she had worked in the theater communities of Chicago and Austin, “so tiny” that everybody is friends or linked and there is “no one to hear you.” There should be a coalition of theaters within which it was possible to submit anonymous complaints, too, she added, deriding, to cheers, the effectiveness of “a fucking Human Resources department.” Whisper networks were powerful, she said. “But now it’s time for a speaking network.”
The dancer, producer, and activist Robin Sokoloff—who works as a volunteer for the Crime Victims Treatment Center–said most of the sexual harassment and assault she had experienced had been on stage.
It was vital that people in theater spoke about what had happened to them, Sokoloff said. It might be uncomfortable, she said, “but you have to be right and wrong about it, and everything in between. The only thing that works is a constant conversation involving everybody. The more talk there is about it, the more we create a culture where it is unacceptable everywhere.”
One actor noted the power imbalances on sets, of what a woman risks if she challenges a male playwright or director. Playing by the rules of the male-dominated game, Katie, a freelance director, noted that she had “craved” attention from older men she worked with, and got it. (She had used both her relative youth and her whiteness, she said.)
Was what she experienced harassment, she wondered aloud. “Probably,” but she was getting a validation from it at the time. She wanted to ensure she was “in” rather than “out” when it came to getting work, and so—as many others may do—had to work within a warped set of power dynamics to advance.
Another woman also spoke of the “blurred boundaries” in theater—the relations and friends who end up employed on productions, and the boundaries between “making personal connections and what happens when that becomes unwanted attention.” The woman asked how one could have a close relationship with a supervisor that was intimate without being abusive.
Another actor, Diane, told a story of blatant gender discrimination, about a theater company firing her in 2011 when she became pregnant and then finding a sneaky way to deny her severance pay. Sexual harassment, Diane said, did not exist in isolation but rather alongside more general inequality and the wage gap.
An actor of six years’ standing said that as well as being sexually harassed, she noticed “the chronic dismissal of females in the rehearsal room,” contrasting the “privilege of being a man to collaborate freely” with how a woman is “perceived of being a diva. Sexism can be boiled down to the silencing of women. My industry is one of emotions, but if a woman emotes in the rehearsal room, she is seen as crazy.”
“When we give up hope that change is not possible, change is never possible”
The event ended with some stirring words of hope. A 21-year-old accepted, to laughter, that while it was normal for people her age not to believe they are wrong, that they also believe that change is possible. Whisper culture—“avoid this dude on the first day of a job”—was positive, she said.
“When we give up hope that change is not possible, change is never possible,” she said to applause from young and not-so young alike.
Raquel, an African-American woman, had felt empowered to be around other women of color in a rehearsal room, only to have a male actor attempt to undermine that power by hitting on her and being crudely suggestive.
The other women in the room let Raquel know they could see what was going on and that it was not OK, she recalled.
Every time the actor offered her a croissant she made a strange, inhuman sound, she said.
This, as desired, put him off.
“Be angry, stay angry, keep doing it,” Raquel said. “Yes, it hurts, but let’s keep moving together. Any time someone makes you feel uncomfortable, make a sound.” The audience applauded and laughed.
As theater professionals, Raquel said, “we love people, but we’ve got to make sounds, to say, ‘No, this is not cool.’ We are powerful.”
—With additional reporting by Robert Silverman
If you work on Broadway, or in theater more generally, and want to talk about your experiences of sexual abuse, assault, and/or harassment, please email tim.teeman@thedailybeast.com
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Conyers Retires, Family Feud Ensues
www.thedailybeast.com ^ | 12.05.17 10:36 AM ET | Gideon Resnick Gideon Resnick
Posted on 12/5/2017, 12:26:54 PM by Red Badger
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the longest serving member of the House of Representatives and the subject of a flurry of sexual-misconduct allegations in the last few weeks, said he was "retiring today" during a radio interview Tuesday.
"I'm in the process of putting my retirement plans together and I'll have more of that very soon," Conyers said in an interview with the station, Praise 102.7.
No sooner had he announced plans to vacate his seat, however, than an intra-family feud erupted into public view over who would take it over.
The embattled Michigan Democrat said on Tuesday that he wanted his son, John Conyers III, to replace him when he departs. But earlier in the morning, Conyers' nephew, Ian Conyers, said that he would be seeking the seat.
“I’m absolutely going to file for his seat, Ian Conyers, a state senator, told the New York Times. "The work of our congressional district, where I come out of, has to continue."
The confusion over Conyer's replacement reflected the frantic final chapter of the congressman's storied-turned-controversial career.
The House Ethics Committee announced last week that it had opened an investigation into allegations against Conyers following a BuzzFeed News story revealing that the Democrat from Michigan had settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 after a staffer allegedly that he had sexually harassed her.
Another woman, Melanie Sloan, who served as the former executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told The Washington Post that she experienced inappropriate behavior from the congressman that stopped short of sexual harassment. In one instance, Sloan said, Conyers summoned her to his office, where he was in his underwear.
And on Tuesday, yet another woman came forward with a story of his inappropriate behavior to The Detroit News — the third allegation against Conyers to be made public in the last two weeks. The woman, Deanna Maher, worked for Conyers from 1997 to 2005 and detailed three instances of his advances and misconduct in the late 1990s.
While Democrats struggled with how to handle the damage control, pressure mounted behind the scenes. Eventually, Democratic House leadership all called for Conyers to leave office immediately.
“The allegations against Conyers, we have learned more since Sunday, are serious, disappointing and very credible,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said last week. “Congressman Conyers should resign.”
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), who had been dismissive of questions about Conyers’ conduct, echoed the sentiment. The third-ranking Democrat in the House also told reporters that it would be in the “best interest” of Conyers and his colleagues for him to step down.
Through it all, Conyers’ attorney remained defiant that the elder statesman would not resign, compelling House Democratic aides to float the idea of removing Conyers entirely from the House Judiciary Committee if he remained in office.
Conyers is heralded as a civil rights hero, having introduced the first bill in Congress that honored Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday after his assassination in 1968. He has long been a proponent of a single-payer health care system, reintroducing the United States National Health Care Act each session since 2003. He has served in Congress since 1964 and co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus in 1969.
On Tuesday, he defended his legacy , saying it "can't be compromised or diminished in any way by what we're going through now."
He added, "This too shall pass."
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/dustin-hoffman-john-oliver-argument-sexual-harassment-claims-allegations-live-debate-wag-the-dog-a8092346.html
LOL - its so funny seeing all these libtwinks backed into a corner on their own behavior
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Vanity Fair cancels Bruce Weber’s Art Basel bash
By Mara Siegler December 4, 2017 | 9:37pm
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Even Art Basel Miami Beach is feeling the fallout from the recent whirlwind of sexual-harassment allegations.
An event for fashion photographer Bruce Weber — who’s been accused of forcing himself on male model Jason Boyce in a lawsuit — has been canceled.
Vanity Fair and car brand Genesis were set to hold the intimate dinner on Tuesday in Miami Friday to celebrate Weber’s book “All-American Volume XVII.”
But a rep for the magazine tells us: “Vanity Fair and Genesis, the dinner’s sponsor, have agreed to cancel.” A rep for Weber did not get back to us. The suit alleges that, three years ago, Weber forced Boyce to rub his own genitals and that he sucked on the man’s fingers.
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Down goes Frazier!!!
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NEW YORK (AP) — The top editor for the National Enquirer, Us Weekly and other major gossip publications openly described his sexual partners in the newsroom, discussed female employees’ sex lives and forced women to watch or listen to pornographic material, former employees told The Associated Press.
The behavior by Dylan Howard, currently the chief content officer of American Media Inc., occurred while he was running the company’s Los Angeles office, according to men and women who worked there. Howard’s self-proclaimed nickname was “Dildo,” a phallus-shaped sex toy, the former employees said. His conduct led to an internal inquiry in 2012 by an outside consultant, and former employees said he stopped working out of the L.A. office after the inquiry.
Howard quit soon after the report was completed, but the company rehired him one year later with a promotion that landed him in the company’s main office in New York. It was not clear whether Howard faced any discipline over the accusations. AP is not aware of any sexual harassment allegations involving Howard since he was rehired.
The AP spoke with 12 former employees who knew about the investigation into Howard’s behavior, though not all were aware of every detail. The outside investigator hired to examine complaints about Howard’s behavior also confirmed to AP that he completed a report.
In a brief phone interview with the AP, Howard characterized the ex-employees’ claims as “baseless.”
A lawyer for American Media confirmed Tuesday that an outside investigator was hired to look into two employees’ claims about Howard’s behavior.
The lawyer, Cam Stracher, said the investigation did not show serious wrongdoing. Stracher confirmed that one employee had complained that Howard said he wanted to create a Facebook account for her vagina, but Stracher said Howard said that never happened.
“It was determined that there was some what you would call as horsing around outside the office, going to bars and things that are not uncommon in the media business,” Stracher said, “but none of it rose to the level of harassment that would require termination.”
American Media publishes the National Enquirer, RadarOnline, Star and other gossip publications and websites. In March the company purchased the glossy Us Weekly magazine for a reported $100 million, significantly boosting its readership among women.
In his job, Howard oversees those newsrooms.
AMI spokesman Jon Hammond described the two employees who had formally complained about Howard’s alleged behavior as “disgruntled.”
“The investigation described an environment where employees mixed socially outside the office — sometimes at bars — but found no direct support for the allegations of harassment made by the two complainants,” Hammond said in an email.
Most of the former employees spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they had signed nondisclosure agreements, sometimes as part of severance packages.
Two former employees, one a senior manager and another a reporter in the L.A. office, agreed to be publicly identified to discuss Howard’s behavior.
“The behavior that Dylan displayed and the way he was and the way the company dealt with it — I just think that it has to be made public because it’s completely unacceptable,” said Maxine “Max” Page, a former senior editor at RadarOnline. She complained to the human resources department about Howard’s behavior on behalf of two female reporters.
Howard made inappropriate comments to and about one of those women, Page and six other ex-employees said. Howard told employees in the newsroom he wanted to create a Facebook account on behalf of the woman’s vagina, commented on her sex life and forced her and other female employees to either watch or listen to graphic recordings of sex involving celebrities despite there being no professional rationale for doing so, they said.
A former senior editor recalled Howard wrongly claimed during a newsroom meeting that the woman had had sex with a journalism source and praised her for it, saying she needed to “do what you need” to get a story.
The editor said: “He encouraged her to have sex with people for information.”
The woman Howard was discussing confirmed these and other incidents to the AP but declined to be identified.
Page and four other employees recounted instances in which Howard talked about his own sexual exploits, including descriptions of his partners’ physical attributes.
Stracher, the company lawyer, said no one interviewed by the outside investigator complained about Howard’s handling of pornographic material. Stracher said there was nothing inherently inappropriate about that in the celebrity news business.
Stracher also said no one complained to the investigator about Howard’s alleged encouragement of a reporter to sleep with news sources.
Another former reporter, Liz Crokin, said she was also harassed by Howard, including once when he asked whether she was “going to be walking the streets tonight” on a day she wore heels to work.
Page and Crokin, like many of the other former employees who spoke to AP, were laid off by the company during waves of downsizing at AMI. The others who left the company said they did so by choice.
American Media regularly asked exiting employees to sign nondisclosure agreements that prohibit them from disclosing confidential information or disparaging company executives.
Many of the former employees who described Howard’s behavior said they decided to do so after the New Yorker and other news organizations published emails in recent weeks showing that Howard had worked with movie producer Harvey Weinstein to undermine allegations of sexual misconduct by Weinstein.
The emails showed that Howard had dispatched a reporter to uncover derogatory information about an actress who had accused Weinstein of rape, and then shared that information with Weinstein. Howard has said he pursued the information as part of due diligence before entering into a business relationship with Weinstein. Weinstein, who has denied allegations of non-consensual sex, has maintained he was passing along a news tip to Howard that was never published.
After the 2012 investigation into Howard’s conduct in Los Angeles, two of the ex-employees said they were told by a manager that Howard was barred from the Los Angeles office. The employees said he worked from home after that. Stracher, the company lawyer, said Howard was given no such order to stay away from the office.
Shortly after the report was issued, Howard took a new job with another company.
It’s unclear what the report concluded or whether Howard faced any disciplinary action.
The AP was unable to obtain a copy of the report. Its author, Philip Deming, confirmed he wrote a report but said he could not talk about what he found or the recommendations he made.
Page, the manager whose complaint prompted the company to hire Deming, said she was skeptical the company properly investigated Howard’s behavior.
Deming said he produced a 25- to 35-page report with 18 exhibits, and interviewed between 15 and 20 employees. He declined to describe his findings without AMI’s authorization. Stracher, the company lawyer, declined to release the report.
Deming said he was not aware that American Media re-hired Howard a year after his report.
“I did have recommendations and I don’t know what happened after those recommendations were made,” he said.
Stracher said Howard was “cautioned when he returned that what I would characterize as horsing around was not appropriate.”
Howard openly discussed the investigation with some reporters and editors, one former employee said. A January 2012, email provided to the AP by another former employee said, “There is an investigation going on of my boss right now and it’s made everyone awkward and uncomfortable. You could cut the tension with a knife.”
Crokin, the former reporter, said she believed Howard retaliated against her after Deming interviewed her, taking away serious work and assigning her menial tasks. She was laid off a short time later.
The company lawyer, Stracher, said any employees who witnessed or had concerns about Howard’s behavior should have raised them at that time.
Another ex-employee who was interviewed by Deming recalled being anxious about speaking with the HR consultant.
“I told the investigator I didn’t know anything,” said the former employee, acknowledging that answer was not true. “It’s almost like I had Stockholm syndrome.”
Yet another former employee, who said she was present when Howard showed a handful of reporters pornography that was not newsworthy, said Deming never interviewed her.
Howard, 35, came to the U.S. in 2009, months after being fired from a sports reporting job in Australian television news, following a police investigation about how he had obtained athletes’ medical records. Police did not bring charges against him. He was then hired by Australian broadcaster Craig Hutchison’s CrocMedia to report in the United States.
In a recent podcast, Hutchison praised Howard’s talent but said he quickly parted with Howard under rocky circumstances.
“His methods make me uncomfortable, that’s probably the best way to put it,” Hutchison said.
Howard then began working for American Media Inc. in Los Angeles.
During his time there, Howard blurred the lines between his role as a manager and his personal life, throwing parties in Las Vegas and in Malibu, inviting female reporters to accompany him in the evenings and regularly discussing his late-night partying in the newsroom, six former employees said.
For his 30th birthday party, Howard invited a dozen employees to Las Vegas in January 2012 for an all-expenses-paid, three-day party he dubbed “Dildo’s Dirty 30,” according to a copy of the professionally designed invitation obtained by the AP.
A week later, ex-employees said, Deming, the HR consultant, began conducting interviews.
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Horwitz reported from Washington.
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Conyers Retires, Family Feud Ensues
www.thedailybeast.com ^ | 12.05.17 10:36 AM ET | Gideon Resnick Gideon Resnick
Posted on 12/5/2017, 12:26:54 PM by Red Badger
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the longest serving member of the House of Representatives and the subject of a flurry of sexual-misconduct allegations in the last few weeks, said he was "retiring today" during a radio interview Tuesday.
"I'm in the process of putting my retirement plans together and I'll have more of that very soon," Conyers said in an interview with the station, Praise 102.7.
No sooner had he announced plans to vacate his seat, however, than an intra-family feud erupted into public view over who would take it over.
The embattled Michigan Democrat said on Tuesday that he wanted his son, John Conyers III, to replace him when he departs. But earlier in the morning, Conyers' nephew, Ian Conyers, said that he would be seeking the seat.
“I’m absolutely going to file for his seat, Ian Conyers, a state senator, told the New York Times. "The work of our congressional district, where I come out of, has to continue."
The confusion over Conyer's replacement reflected the frantic final chapter of the congressman's storied-turned-controversial career.
The House Ethics Committee announced last week that it had opened an investigation into allegations against Conyers following a BuzzFeed News story revealing that the Democrat from Michigan had settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 after a staffer allegedly that he had sexually harassed her.
Another woman, Melanie Sloan, who served as the former executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told The Washington Post that she experienced inappropriate behavior from the congressman that stopped short of sexual harassment. In one instance, Sloan said, Conyers summoned her to his office, where he was in his underwear.
And on Tuesday, yet another woman came forward with a story of his inappropriate behavior to The Detroit News — the third allegation against Conyers to be made public in the last two weeks. The woman, Deanna Maher, worked for Conyers from 1997 to 2005 and detailed three instances of his advances and misconduct in the late 1990s.
While Democrats struggled with how to handle the damage control, pressure mounted behind the scenes. Eventually, Democratic House leadership all called for Conyers to leave office immediately.
“The allegations against Conyers, we have learned more since Sunday, are serious, disappointing and very credible,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said last week. “Congressman Conyers should resign.”
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), who had been dismissive of questions about Conyers’ conduct, echoed the sentiment. The third-ranking Democrat in the House also told reporters that it would be in the “best interest” of Conyers and his colleagues for him to step down.
Through it all, Conyers’ attorney remained defiant that the elder statesman would not resign, compelling House Democratic aides to float the idea of removing Conyers entirely from the House Judiciary Committee if he remained in office.
Conyers is heralded as a civil rights hero, having introduced the first bill in Congress that honored Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday after his assassination in 1968. He has long been a proponent of a single-payer health care system, reintroducing the United States National Health Care Act each session since 2003. He has served in Congress since 1964 and co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus in 1969.
On Tuesday, he defended his legacy , saying it "can't be compromised or diminished in any way by what we're going through now."
He added, "This too shall pass."
Good riddance "icon." And no we don't want anyone from your family to take your place.
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Good riddance "icon." And no we don't want anyone from your family to take your place.
A few decades too late. We need term limits.
Conyers and others like him have benefited from practices like straight ticket voting.
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A few decades too late. We need term limits.
Conyers and others like him have benefited from practices like straight ticket voting.
Yep. Sad truth.
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Woman accuses Franken of trying to forcibly kiss her in 2006 - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/al-franken-accusation-sexual-harassment-2006-281049
The former staffer ducked to avoid Franken’s lips. As she hastily left the room, she said, Franken told her: “It’s my right as an entertainer
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Harvey Weinstein Former Assistant Prepping Sexual Harassment Suit – Variety
http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/harvey-weinstein-assistant-erectile-dysfunction-drugs-1202631811/
A former assistant to Harvey Weinstein who says she was compelled to provide him with erectile dysfunction drugs is preparing to sue him for sexual harassment, Variety has learned
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Woman accuses Franken of trying to forcibly kiss her in 2006 - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/al-franken-accusation-sexual-harassment-2006-281049
The former staffer ducked to avoid Franken’s lips. As she hastily left the room, she said, Franken told her: “It’s my right as an entertainer
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Weinstein is a typical liberal male - a beta - just like obama - a feminine twink and scumbag
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Franken is toast. The Democratic female senators are all calling for him to resign. Obviously the decision has been made that he’s got to go.
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http://www.funnyordie.com/embed/6f9f628aed
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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/06/another-woman-accuses-al-franken-of-sex-misconduct-senator-denies-it.html
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/terrifying-humiliating-male-models-accuse-fashion-photographer
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"It's my right as an entertainer" (Al Franken quote)
KMSP Fox 9 ^ | December 6, 2017 | Al Franken
Posted on 12/6/2017, 12:37:02 PM by research99
At least seven Democratic women in the U.S. Senate are calling on Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota to resign after the latest allegation of sexual misconduct was published Wednesday morning. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, Sen. Kamala Harris of California and Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin each released statements or social media messages calling on Franken to resign.
In the latest allegation, a woman told POLITICO that Franken tried to forcibly kiss her following a taping of his radio show in 2006. A former Democratic congressional aide, who was not identified by POLITICO, said Franken pursued her after her boss left the studio. When she tried to avoid him, she claims he told her: "It's my right as an entertainer."
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Sen Al Franken to make an announcement tomorrow
ABC News ^ | 12/06/17
Posted on 12/6/2017, 12:40:39 PM
JUST IN: Sen Al Franken to make an announcement tomorrow, his office says. He has faced calls to resign from more than ten Democratic Senate colleagues in the past hour. http://abcn.ws/2BEWmCX
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Sen Al Franken to make an announcement tomorrow
ABC News ^ | 12/06/17
Posted on 12/6/2017, 12:40:39 PM
JUST IN: Sen Al Franken to make an announcement tomorrow, his office says. He has faced calls to resign from more than ten Democratic Senate colleagues in the past hour. http://abcn.ws/2BEWmCX
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He should resign. There should be no tolerance from either side if there is reasonable evidence the allegations are true. Let's see how that plays out in Alabama
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He should resign. There should be no tolerance from either side if there is reasonable evidence the allegations are true. Let's see how that plays out in Alabama
Pretty sure you know the difference between alleged and admitted.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/us/harvey-weinstein-complicity.html
Unbelievable.
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BREAKING: Pervert Democrat Senator Al Franken Expected to Resign Thursday
GP ^ | December 6,2017 | Cristina Laila
Posted on 12/6/2017, 2:34:16 PM by Hojczyk
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, posted to Facebook her call on Franken to resign
Click here to see the list of Senators calling on Franken to resign.
A top Senate Dem says he expects Franken to resign Thursday shortly after Franken’s office said he would be making an announcement Thursday.
Democrat Senator Ron Wyden tweeted,”I expect that Senator Franken will announce his resignation tomorrow. It is the right thing to do given this series of serious allegations.”
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Conyers Endorses Son, Who Called Dad a 'F***king Player' for Hitting on Married Women
PJ Media ^ | December 6, 2017 | Nicholas Ballasy
Posted on 12/6/2017, 3:09:45 PM by Loyalist
WASHINGTON – John Conyers III, whom outgoing Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) endorsed to replace him in Congress, once tweeted that his father was a “f——g player and reckless as hell” for hitting on a married woman.
“My dad is a f——g player and reckless as hell! He just got at this doods wife super low-key,” Conyers wrote on his Twitter account in June 2010, according to a report from MLive.com, a Michigan-based news website.
Conyers announced today that he plans to retire from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations from multiple women and he wants his oldest son, John Conyers III, to take his seat.
John Conyers III, now 27, made headlines in 2010 when he claimed two Apple laptops and $27,000 in concert tickets had been stolen from his father’s government vehicle, which was a Cadillac Escalade SUV. He also reportedly posted a photo of a bottle of Moet champagne next to the steering wheel of the vehicle, which caused some of Conyers’ constituents to question why his son was driving a taxpayer-funded vehicle. This prompted his father to apologize for the incident.
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Democrat Accused Of Sexual Harassment (says) Pelosi Knew And Did Nothing About It
Daily Caller ^
Posted on 12/6/2017, 3:05:34 PM by
A first-term Democratic congressman accused of sexual harassment said that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi knew about the allegations while he was running for office and supported him anyway, putting millions of dollars behind his 2016 congressional campaign.
During his campaign, Nevada Rep. Ruben Kihuen allegedly propositioned a female staffer for sex on multiple occasions and touched her thighs. The staffer resigned during Kuhen’s primary campaign as a result of his harassment, she told BuzzFeed.
Pelosi was quick to demand Kihuen’s resignation after the allegations became public, but she actually has known about the harassment allegations for a while, Kihuen told ABC News.
“I do find it interesting that the DCCC, Leader Pelosi and Chairman Ben Ray Lujan — they knew about these allegations last year,” he said. “They looked into them. They didn’t find anything, and they continued investing millions of dollars in my campaign. They went out there and campaigned for me.”
If true, Kihuen’s account would reflect poorly on Pelosi, who said over the weekend that she believed Kihuen’s accuser.
“The young woman’s documented account is convincing, and I commend her for the courage it took to come forward. In light of these upsetting allegations, Congressman Kihuen should resign,” Pelosi said on Saturday.
Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Pelosi, insisted to ABC News that Pelosi “first learned of these allegations from BuzzFeed last week.” A spokeswoman for the DCCC similarly denied Kihuen’s account
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AVALANCHE: Democratic Senators Turn on Al Franken After Latest Allegations
Mediaite ^ | 6 Dec 2017 | Josh Feldman
Posted on 12/6/2017, 12:08:23 PM by mandaladon
Six senators on Wednesday called on fellow Democrat Al Franken to resign, in a jaw-dropping avalanche of statements addressing the latest allegations against the Minnesota senator.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, kicked things off, publishing a post on Facebook aptly titled “Senator Franken Should Step Aside” (read here). Democratic Sens. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Patty Murray of Washington and Kamala Harris of California all followed suit.
This comes on the heels of yet another woman coming forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Franken, which he has denied as “categorically not true.”
Gillibrand’s Facebook statement says that while she has considered Franken a friend, “this moment of reckoning about our friends and colleagues who have been accused of sexual misconduct is necessary, and it is painful.”
Hirono immediately followed suit, publishing a thread on Twitter explaining her decision:
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What this tells you is that Moore is death and taxes to win in Alabama. That’s why they’re all coming out now. A Moore loss and they could’ve circled the wagons around Franken. However, now that Moore is going to be in the Senate there’s no way they could go after him with Franken still sitting there.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/i-believe-frankens-accusers-because-he-groped-me-too/547691
Ha!!!
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He hasn’t denied any of the allegations accusations. Why wouldn’t we will leave them?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/i-believe-frankens-accusers-because-he-groped-me-too/547691
Ha!!!
At the end of the day, this is what did him in. Accusations often boil down to a he said she said kind of thing, but you just don’t recover from something like this:
(https://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2017_46/2228926/171116-al-franken-leeann-tweeden-airplane-se-1105a_cdbd11d4ba4f856a53dca9fe3803882f.nbcnews-fp-360-360.jpg)
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Conyers Mentioned Chandra Levy Case When Intern Rebuffed Sexual Advance: Report
Fox News ^ | 12-6-2017 | Matt Finn
Posted on 12/6/2017, 11:49:59 AM
A former congressional intern reportedly says she too was a victim of inappropriate sexual contact by now-retired Rep. John Conyers, saying Conyers even claimed during that encounter to have “inside information” on then-missing federal intern Chandra Levy.
Courtney Morse, 36, described the incident from 16 years ago to The Washington Post. She said Conyers, D-Mich., mentioned the Levy case when Morse was a college intern for him and the congressman drove her home one night.
Morse said Conyers wrapped his hand around hers while it was in her lap and said he was interested in a sexual relationship, the newspaper reported.
Levy went missing in 2001. A police investigation revealed she was having an affair with married California Democratic Rep. Gary Condit.
“[Conyers] said he had insider information on the case. I don’t know if he meant it to be threatening, but I took it that way,” Morse told The Post. “I got out of the car and ran.”
Morse said nothing inappropriate happened during the first months of her internship and that she accepted Conyers’ offer for a paid summer internship. Then he started giving her gifts and asked her to dine with him -- and later offered her the ride home, which she accepted. Morse quit her internship shortly after the incident and returned to Ohio.
Levy’s remains were found about a year later in a park. MS-13 member Ingmar Guandique was found guilty of murder, but the case was effectively dropped over problematic witness testimony and Guandique was deported. Condit lost reelection in 2002 amid speculation about his role, but his lawyer later described the Guandique verdict as vindication for his client.
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Conyers Mentioned Chandra Levy Case When Intern Rebuffed Sexual Advance: Report
Fox News ^ | 12-6-2017 | Matt Finn
Posted on 12/6/2017, 11:49:59 AM
A former congressional intern reportedly says she too was a victim of inappropriate sexual contact by now-retired Rep. John Conyers, saying Conyers even claimed during that encounter to have “inside information” on then-missing federal intern Chandra Levy.
Courtney Morse, 36, described the incident from 16 years ago to The Washington Post. She said Conyers, D-Mich., mentioned the Levy case when Morse was a college intern for him and the congressman drove her home one night.
Morse said Conyers wrapped his hand around hers while it was in her lap and said he was interested in a sexual relationship, the newspaper reported.
Levy went missing in 2001. A police investigation revealed she was having an affair with married California Democratic Rep. Gary Condit.
“[Conyers] said he had insider information on the case. I don’t know if he meant it to be threatening, but I took it that way,” Morse told The Post. “I got out of the car and ran.”
Morse said nothing inappropriate happened during the first months of her internship and that she accepted Conyers’ offer for a paid summer internship. Then he started giving her gifts and asked her to dine with him -- and later offered her the ride home, which she accepted. Morse quit her internship shortly after the incident and returned to Ohio.
Levy’s remains were found about a year later in a park. MS-13 member Ingmar Guandique was found guilty of murder, but the case was effectively dropped over problematic witness testimony and Guandique was deported. Condit lost reelection in 2002 amid speculation about his role, but his lawyer later described the Guandique verdict as vindication for his client.
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Washington Post ^ | December 6, 2017 | Craig Whitlock
Posted on 12/6/2017, 7:05:12 PM by EdnaMode
A California woman who worked for a sports marketing firm led by Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit alleging that the retired football star required her to wear thong underwear and share his bed during business trips.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Orange County, Calif., also alleges that Moon, 61, committed sexual battery by grabbing the woman’s crotch during a trip to Seattle this year. The suit further accuses Moon of pulling off the woman’s bathing suit after slipping a drug into her drink during a separate trip to Mexico in October.
A publicist for Moon’s company, Sports 1 Marketing of Irvine, Calif., did not return phone calls or an email seeking comment.
The plaintiff, Wendy Haskell, 32, was hired as Moon’s executive assistant in July and traveled with him on a weekly basis for speaking engagements, charity events and personal appearances, according to the lawsuit. She alleges that she was demoted by the firm in October after she complained about Moon’s sexual advances.
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John Conyers Son and Heir Apparent Arrested for Felony Domestic Violence
TMZ ^ | 12/6/17 | Staff
Posted on 12/6/2017, 7:25:26 PM by x1stcav
John Conyers' son -- the one he wants to replace him in Congress -- was arrested this year for felony domestic violence ... TMZ has learned.
John Conyers III got in a fight with his girlfriend on February 15, 2017. Law enforcement sources tell us he accused her of cheating after going through her computer at around 2 AM. The argument allegedly escalated into physical violence ... she told cops John body slammed her on her bed and on the floor, pinned her down and spit on her. She says she tried calling the cops, but he took her phone.
The woman claims he then chased her into her kitchen where she grabbed a 10-inch knife to protect herself, ordering him to leave the house.
She says he grabbed the knife and then swung at her twice, stabbing her, cutting her right bicep which required 3 stitches. She says he then chased her back into the bedroom, pinned her against the bed and slapped her.
They both called 911 and when cops came John claimed she pulled a knife on him and, when he grabbed it to protect himself, he accidentally stabbed her.
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Why Liberal Democrats Ignored Sexual Harassment for So Many Years
Townhall.com ^ | December 7, 2017 | John C. Goodman
Posted on 12/7/2017, 10:06:54 AM by Kaslin
The quick answer is that liberalism is no longer an ideology, focused on ideas. It is a sociology, bent on acquiring political power and social dominance.
George McGovern was the last Democratic presidential nominee who ran an issues campaign. That was 45 years ago. Since then Democratic politicians and their liberal supporters in the mainstream media have moved steadily away from issues and toward the politics of identity. Can you think of a single issue highlighted in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign? I bet you can’t.
For the most part, all the issues we have been discussing since the days of Ronald Reagan have come from the right – flat tax, school choice, privatization, private Social Security accounts, etc. Liberal Democrats have done little more than oppose.
The only political message Democrats have had for blacks is: vote for us because you’re black. The only message for women is: vote for us because you’re a woman. Similarly, for Hispanics, immigrants, gays, etc.
Identity politics is based on three Vs: victims, votes and vengeance.
Victimization means telling people their problems, their setbacks, their disappointments are caused by someone else. They’ve been oppressed. Unfairly. They should be angry about it. Very angry. And … do what? … Go vote.
Identity politics is not about changing laws. It’s about getting people to the polls. It’s not about changing institutions. It’s about acquiring political power.
If you aren’t listening very carefully, you might mistakenly think that Democrats have agendas. For example, you would expect a party that is pro-women to have a women’s agenda. A party that is pro-black to have an agenda for blacks. A party that is for the little guy to have a little guy’s agenda. In fact, the Democrats don’t have any of these.
Some time ago, Wall Street Journal editorialist Kimberly Strassel and I wrote a book entitled, Leaving Women Behind. The entire book was about ways women get shafted by federal policies. For example, tax law, labor law, employee benefits law, the Social Security system, the disability system, etc., are all based on an outmoded view of how women live. It’s as though the entire federal bureaucracy decided years ago that the typical woman would be a stay-at-home mom, married to a full-time worker husband. If your household fits that image, federal policies probably work pretty well for you. But if you are a modern family living under outdated laws, you’re probably losing out.
Our book was chock full of ways to bring federal policies into the 21st century and make them consistent with the changing role of women in the modern age. Question: how many of these policy changes were endorsed by the Hillary Clinton campaign? Answer: not a one. (For what it’s worth, our suggestions to Mitt Romney were ignored as well.)
You might think that sexual harassment would be a rather straightforward issue for the party that claims to be the party of women. In the 1990s, liberal activist groups used the issue to almost derail the appointment of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and to force the resignation of Senator Bob Packwood. But the allegations against Thomas and Packwood seem almost trivial by today’s standards.
Later when Bill Clinton was accused of these far more serious transgressions, women’s groups associated with the Democratic Party defended him. Republicans called them “hypocrites.” But that misses the point.
We now know that sexual harassment has been rampant for years in all the places where liberals congregated – on Capitol Hill, in the state legislatures, in Hollywood, in the mainstream media, at liberal opinion magazines, etc. If they cared about this behavior they could have said something. But they didn’t. I hope it is now clear to all that sexual harassment to the Democratic establishment was always about elections and achieving political goals. It was never about anything else.
There is also no Democratic black agenda. And there never has been. At least for the last 50 years.
San Francisco is probably the most liberal city in California. And it’s the richest. If they care about minority children there, they certainly have the means to do something about it. Yet, black and Hispanic children do worse in San Francisco schools than anywhere else in the entire state.
It’s almost a rule of modern political science: wherever you find minority children attending bad schools, Democrats are probably in charge. Ditto for the worst housing. And the worst environmental dangers.
For many years, the only people who seemed to care about helping black children escape bad schools were conservative Republicans. Wealthy Republican donors set up private school choice programs all over the country. In recent years, many wealthy Democrats have joined to help them. But there are almost no establishment Democrats who are willing to stand up to the teachers’ unions.
The final V is vengeance. If people have been oppressed, don’t you think they should have the opportunity to complain? And given their oppression, don’t you think they should be allowed to step over boundaries the rest of us must respect? Liberals certainly think that way.
Jesse Jackson called Jews “Hymies” and called New York City “Hymietown.” Al Sharpton created a lucrative business out of Mau-Mauing unsuspecting whites – for $10,000 he could arrange a civil rights protest almost anywhere. Black Lives Matter marchers chanted “Pigs in a blanket…” Rich black football players took a knee, to protest living in a racist country. Protestors can tear down statues for almost any reason. Members of the media and even Hillary Clinton herself can make up fake news stories about Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
And they all get away with it. In fact, to object to any of this is in the liberal mind “political incorrectness.”
Well … at least it was until someone was willing to call them out. And because he did it, Donald Trump became president.
More on that in another column.
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As FBI Directors, Mueller and Comey Ignored Dozens of Female Agents Who Were Sexually Abused
True Pundit ^ | 12/6/2017 | by Investigative Bureau
Posted on 12/7/2017, 9:17:37 AM by b4its2late
Spanning more than a decade, former FBI directors Robert Mueller and his successor and protégé James Comey relied on their inner circles to help cover up a surging and troubling amount of sexual misconduct complaints filed by physically violated and emotionally battered female FBI agents.
There is a culture of corruption in the FBI. Or the FBI is a culture of corruption.
“They (Mueller and Comey) didn’t care as long as they were insulated politically,” one female FBI insider said. “It’s rampant. People wouldn’t believe it. Agents are being sexually assaulted and they are terrified to speak out.”
While similar sexual abuse in Hollywood has garnered the public’s outrage and attention, the systemic abuse fostered by Mueller and Comey is far worse, according to numerous FBI personnel. By ignoring the abuse instead of confronting it, Mueller and Comey ultimately created a culture of enablers and silencers who often worked together to openly sexually abuse and exploit women in the Bureau, then punish the agents who have the guts to balk or walk.
“I lost everything because I stood up to the sexual abuse,” one female FBI agent said. “I stupidly told (female) agents that if we told the truth we could stop it from happening. It was the biggest mistake of my career. There is no place for honesty in the FBI anymore.”
A veteran male agent reluctantly agreed.
“This is the FBI’s playbook from the seventh floor” one male FBI agent said, alluding to the bosses on the seventh floor of the FBI’s D.C. HQ. “Female agents aren’t here to get promoted; they’re here for one thing. And if they complain about it that’s a big mistake.”
While the fickle Beltway politicians and Americans become equally enraged by a handful of sexual assaults by politicians like Sen. Al Franken and John Conyers, those abuses — although important — pale in comparison to the frequency of what happens daily in the FBI, according to interviews with sources.
During Mueller’s and Comey’s tenure as the head of the FBI — from 2001 to 2017 — countless female FBI agents were sexually harassed, sexually assaulted, and almost always marginalized by retaliation when they complained. True Pundit interviewed numerous FBI agents and insiders while researching this troubling story – including direct victims of sexual misconduct – and examined internal complaints obtained through sources as well as public law suits.
A culture of corruption. Sixteen years in the making. A conspicuous conspiracy to sexually harass and cavort.
One high-ranking FBI official estimates there are “several hundred and maybe far more” active sexual harassment and misconduct cases filed by female FBI agents. And those are only the current cases.That doesn’t include the female agents who have remained silent, toiling in their day-to-day FBI responsibilities, fearful of professional retaliation if they speak up, several FBI insiders confirmed.
There are in fact approximately 293 pending cases, based on the statistics maintained by the FBI’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Affairs. While not all are related to female discrimination and sexual harassment, many are. It is impossible to determine exactly how many because the DOJ categorizes complaints such in an archaic manner. So far in 2017, there have been approximately 50 new harassment cases filed, which include general harassment and sexual harassment and sexual misconduct.
There are not statistics compiled, however, for sexual harassment cases filed by female agents at the federal EEOC level, in civil court, or through the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility. And then there are the dozens of FBI women who remain silent about the abuse. The want to hold onto their jobs and have witnessed the brutal gauntlet others have had to endure in a lost quest for legal relief.
The FBI’s sexual harassment also costs untold millions in taxpayer dollars to defend and settle complaints, grievances and law suits. One Bureau insider and former accountant for a Fortune 100 financial company said the FBI’s unofficial tally during the last decade for the FBI to fight and settle sexual misconduct and harassment cases could eclipse $150 million.
And that is a conservative figure, the FBI official said.
That’s $150 million. Or more. Or perhaps less. Only the FBI knows and that is the point. This is a serious scandal which requires Congressional intervention to ascertain just how many women who dreamed about becoming a FBI Special Agent or FBI analyst — and worked to make that dream their life – ended up battered, bruised and abandoned by bosses like Comey & Mueller who largely through either malfeasance or nefarious intent helped nurture a system of rampant sexual harassment and sexual abuse. Include McCabe here too. And any attempts to change that culture by the victims – sworn FBI agents, analysts and female support personnel — were met with harsh and often vicious repercussions, unexpected in an agency sworn to protect and defend law and order in America.
The result of such sanctioned abuse has given women FBI agents little recourse: female personnel either put up and shut up or spoke up and risked their careers. In fact, many times speaking up to try and squelch sexual harassment cost many female agents their careers because the male hierarchy at the Bureau have been rewarded for retaliating against sexual abuse whistle blowers, according to FBI sources.
Some women lost their marriages, relationships, homes too as well as their careers, by over-leveraging their debt to pay legal fees to fight the FBI’s corrupt infrastructure. One agent, Suzane J. Doucette who was victim of sexual assault by a superior in the Phoenix field office, pursued the FBI and settled her case. But her husband Bradley, also a decorated FBI agent, turned his FBI-issued glock on himself in their bedroom one morning before work and committed suicide while his wife was in the next room. On-the-job and off-the-job stress. All FBI related, including his wife’s case.
Mueller and Comey enabled this culture and did nothing to alter the corrupted and petty Sanhedrin of enablers and abusers who often operated like a cabal of drunken frat boys instead on Special Agents sworn to protect Americans and the Constitution, according to several insiders who spoke to True Pundit.
The rampant sexual abuse can hardly be a surprise at FBI when factoring in that such abuse ifs almost always prevalent in a workplace culture where there are usually other problems: internal and external investigations of upper management, allegations of widespread graft and corruption, bullying, and clandestine political skullduggery.
Meanwhile, the mainstream media sits silent too, ever the Deep State’s sentinels protecting the FBI’s crooked brass, just like the entertainment media squelched the rampant sexual abuse in Hollywood until it spread beyond its control.
The culture of corruption in the FBI has reached an apex. Something needs to change and in a very big way.
Then there’s the pending concern for blackmail. Yes, blackmail. Inside the FBI. Employed as a political or nefarious tool by FBI brass. What better leverage would a superior use to get an unwilling agent to do dirty work – even break the law — than to threaten that agent to expose his infidelity with a FBI colleague – or multiple colleagues — to his wife?
“This is happening more than anyone would ever know,” said one FBI agent who has served under multiple directors. “You realize the people you’re working for are worse than the criminals. This is old-fashioned extortion and it’s out of control.”
According to long-time FBI veterans who began their careers in the 1990s, then-FBI Director Louis Freeh instituted a sweeping disciplinary policy for FBI supervisors soliciting sex with subordinates or any FBI agents engaging in extramarital sexual affairs.
“Freeh would just pull your security clearance because he feared you might be blackmailed,” one FBI veteran said. “And they would make you tell your spouse so there wasn’t any leverage. They don’t do that anymore. Now it’s chaos.”
One such case surfaced this week, when FBI Section Chief Peter Strzok was exposed for engaging in a relationship with FBI lawyer Lisa Page who is married and works for McCabe. Strzok worked for Mueller’s special counsel team investigating President Donald Trump at the time of the intra-office affair but has since been removed from the Trump Russia probe. In a potential sign that FBI culture could be changing for the better, newly-minted FBI Director Christopher Wray was reportedly angered by the infidelity and has re-assigned Strzok to the human relations department of the Bureau.
But the sexual abuse in the FBI cuts both ways, according to federal sources. Female managers have on occasion sexually harassed male agents or pressured subordinates for sex. This is yet another example of out of control and unchecked workplace harassment at the FBI.
Is the rampant sex among supervisors and their subordinates being green lighted so that the romps can be used as a form or blackmail? That would be a very dastardly and a very clandestine way of controlling would-be whistle blowers that may infringe and threaten other illegal schemes FBI brass is involved in. That is, after all, how blackmail and extortion work. The FBI use such sleight of hand with criminal targets and dupes because it is effective and thorough. Why not use it too on colleagues?
But FBI and its brass is supposed to protect folks – especially their fellow agents of all genders — not condone superiors having sex with subordinates or married agents.
Or having sex while in a government office. In corners of the FBI’s headquarters building. Or its sprawling underground parking garage where CCTV surveillance cameras don’t cover the entire square footage. Or the front steps of the FBI’s D.C. field office. Or a rendezvous with a subordinate support staffer or Agent in a hotel near the field office.
That’s the FBI’s ugly secret. And there is a well-oiled machine in place to keep such cases under wraps. At all the costs are underwritten by the taxpayer. There are many twists and turns to this scandal with many seemingly exceeding the raunchiness of the abuse inflicted by Harvey Weinstein’s and his Hollywood cohorts.
Such cases and suits have been quietly piling up for more than a decade at the FBI. Meanwhile, Mueller and Comey both feigned ignorance, according to several FBI sources. Despite pleas by agents to fire repeated intra-office sexual offenders, many times the male perpetrators were promoted instead to positions with even more clout and power.
Meanwhile, female agents were ostracized and administratively tortured. Some driven to nervous breakdowns, stomach ulcers, a life after exiting the FBI spent in and out of psychotherapy trying to pinpoint what THEY did wrong. This doesn’t include others who turned to alcohol or prescription pills to numb help a spiraling, unexpected life.
“I had supervisors ask me who I was sleeping with and if I was available for sex,” one female agent said. “With guys it is cool to act that way in the office. It’s just the way it is. You get used to it.”
It’s little wonder the amount of female FBI agents has been plummeting as many simply quit and walk away from what was once their dream job, even after the file sexual abuse complaints. Women in the FBI today hold about 12 percent of 220 senior agent positions. But that number has tumbled from 2013 when FBI women held about 20 percent of senior positions.
Of the FBI’s 13,000+ agents roughly 20 percent are women. That sets up a four-to-one male to female ratio in the Bureau which in itself can be a root cause for many of these harassment problems. The challenge is that so many women are walking away from FBI careers because of the harassment it is almost impossible to beef up the number of female agents to alter the lopsided ratio.
At a conference of police chiefs in 2016 Comey acknowledged the FBI was having serious problems retaining female agents. He deemed the situation “a crisis.”
“The big challenge we’ve been confronting over the last two years is, how do we get women and people of color,” Comey said. “That’s been our big trouble and I’ve described it as a crisis.” (NY Times)
Yet Comey never did anything extraordinary to curb the rampant sexual misconduct, several FBI sources said, even though he was asked to help stop abuse.
But no matter how many women the FBI hires and trains it can’t seriously expect to retain stand-up women of character and integrity in such a runaway chauvinistic culture of mental and physical abuse.
“How can you be concerned about recruiting women when you’ve created a sexual-charged minefield at work?” one agent said. “You don’t have a recruiting problem, the FBI has a retention problem because of the sexual harassment culture that has been allowed to fester for years.”
While Mueller certainly did little to curb the growing problems during his tenure, several agents said the sexually-charged environment really blossomed during Comey’s leadership, along with his deputy director Andrew McCabe’s brand of brash leadership.
Under Comey’s refusal to curb rampant abuse, FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. has become a breeding ground for sexual harassment. Similar oppressive environments also thrive in FBI field offices in Miami, Los Angeles, Denver, Phoenix, New York and the list goes on. Unfortunately, the list only gets longer here.
How many sexual harassment cases have agents filed against Bureau colleagues? The number is impossible to ascertain. Some data is shared with the DOJ and reported quarterly but it is easily manipulated, insiders said. A sexual harassment complaint can be tagged as a general harassment complaint or under two dozen other categories. Other data is confidential through the federal EEOC. Not much of the data or cases are ever shared with lawmakers or Congress. And this doesn’t even account for the women who remain silent, afraid to sandbag their careers by trying to do the right thing.
Imagine that. FBI agents who fear doing what is right.
True Pundit contacted Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has oversight of the FBI. Grassley has been proactive with several unfolding FBI scandals including many linked to Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe.
Grassley’s office did not respond to a specific True Pundit inquiry seeking statistical information on the number of sexual harassment and misconduct cases pending against FBI brass filed by subordinates.
One well-placed FBI source, however, said Grassley’s office is aware of the growing number of harassment cases involving women employed by the FBI. And his committee could be investigating that as part of its sweeping ethics examination of Comey and McCabe.
Grassley likely understands the cost to taxpayers here is beyond staggering. The fallout from sexual misconduct and harassment complaints in the bureau likely exceed $120 to $150 million. And, again, that is a conservative estimate. Of course the true amount will likely never be uncovered. The majority of the cases are settled, dropped, or quietly forgotten by the time they are settled. FBI rules keep such complaints private as well.
But law suits are public and tougher to mask. In 2016, Former FBI agent Danielle Marks filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against the FBI and also named Comey as a defendant in U.S. District Court in Denver, CO.
Per the Denver Post:
The agents would make lewd jokes about how one of the male agents was having an affair with a female prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Meantime, a supervisory agent was having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a female FBI agent, including openly sharing a hotel room during a work conference, the lawsuit says. The suit says the supervisor helped the woman get a position as secretary to Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravanelle, who oversaw the Denver office and recently was transferred to the inspection division at the agency’s headquarters.
Agents would make sexually inappropriate remarks, look at Marks and the other female agent in the unit and say, “I wonder how many zeroes will be at the end of that lawsuit check,” the lawsuit says. It became so common that they would make a sexual comment and say, “Uh oh, add another zero.”
From interviews conducted by True Pundit, one female supervisory agent, just moments before briefing Mueller during a conference-room sit-down, was told by a high-ranking FBI official to sit quietly, like a piece of furniture.
“I was told you just sit there pretty like a piece of furniture,” the agent said. “He said ‘You just sit there and look pretty, that’s what you’re here for.’”
That same agent recalls another story where an Associate Director was having sex in the FBI HQ parking garage with an underling when the interlude was broken up by the FBI Police who maintains security of the headquarters building.
“He got caught running down Pennsylvania Avenue with his pants around his ankles after he ran out of the parking garage with his pants down but he was picked up by FBI Police,” the agent said.
It was the second time the senior agent was caught having sex with a female subordinate in the parking garage, the source said. Instead of being reprimanded, Mueller promoted the senior agent a week after the partial streaking episode.
Filing a complaint against a male agent for sexual misconduct is no simple task for female agents either. While other government employees can use the impartial U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to file a complaint, FBI agents are forbidden.
Instead, female agents must file the complaint with FBI’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Affairs which is an agency under the directorate of the FBI itself.
“Guess who investigates your case?” one FBI agent lamented. “The FBI. Isn’t that wonderful? Not outside agency. It’s all kept quiet.”
FBI’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Affairs conducts preliminary interviews and tries to get all parties to work out a quiet deal to remedy the complaint.
If that phase doesn’t garner a resolution, agents may file a formal complaint with federal EEOC. But again, those complaints are not public. And many cases can stretch for five years or more before they are resolved. At this level female agents are responsible for underwriting their own legal fees. And may agents – with rock-solid cases – simply drop these cases when they can no longer afford to pay their lawyers.
FBI brass use this flawed system to slow walk cases filed by female agents to try and rack up their personal legal fees so they will be motivated to drop the case.
“One case I know of the agent and their lawyers were up against six government lawyers,” one FBI agent said. “That’s just corrupt. And it gets too expensive to keep the suit active so many women walk away without anything, including their job.”
Perhaps equally alarming, a number of agents who have filed sexual harassment complaints allege the FBI’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Affairs never interviewed the witnesses they submitted who could corroborate their allegations of harassment and sexual abuse. FBI sources had similar stories about their cases getting sandbagged by personnel at the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, the internal Bureau arm that tackles ethics and disciplinary action.
“The entire process is a cruel joke,” one FBI agent said. “If Comey or McCabe or anyone with juice wants the case to vanish, they run it from upstairs and you never have a chance.”
EEOC complaints are not public information until a final case decision is made. If the female agent drops the case before resolution, the complaint remains confidential.
One FBI agent recounted finally receiving her notice of her sexual harassment case hearing date from EEOC, which she believes further boosts her claims of harassment.
“The hearing was about 1,500 miles from my office,” she said. “I’m supposed to pay for my witnesses to travel 1,500 miles to testify?”
Other female agents detailed instances where, after they filed complaints, their supervisors had responded by shadowing them in the field and micromanaging their work or downgraded otherwise glowing personnel evaluations to harm their chances of getting promoted or a pay raise.
The entire process is not cheap for the agent but especially for the taxpayer. When you compile the cost of an agent’s training, expertise, Bureau hierarchy and combine those intangibles with the bloated cost of paying government lawyers, EEOC lawyers, judges, and personnel and resources to defend these suits, the process easily spills over into the millions of dollars.
And that doesn’t include settlements paid to agents who win their cases.
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NBC says Olympic host Mike Tirico’s sexual harassment at ESPN is old news | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/07/nbcs-mike-tirico-to-anchor-olympics-despite-multiple-allegations-sexual-harassment-while-at-espn.html
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/06/mike-tirico-nbc-matt-lauer-mark-halperin/
“No fewer than 50 cases of sexual harassment” were reported by female staff to ESPN management through the first half of the ’90s, and Tirico became “one of the most notorious cases to arise.” Women said he never took “no” or “leave me alone” for an answer, and his behavior “got way out of line.”
ESPN ordered Tirico to “seek counseling” in addition to the three-month suspension, during which he didn’t receive pay or appear on air.
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Senator Al Franken Resigns
https://kfiam640.iheart.com/ ^ | 12/7/2017 | KFI AM radio Los Angeles
Posted on 12/7/2017, 11:53:31 AM
Just reported via KFI radio, Los Angeles AM 640 --
Senator Al Franken Resigns
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Senator Al Franken Resigns
https://kfiam640.iheart.com/ ^ | 12/7/2017 | KFI AM radio Los Angeles
Posted on 12/7/2017, 11:53:31 AM
Just reported via KFI radio, Los Angeles AM 640 --
Senator Al Franken Resigns
Lots of false headlines with this. He did not resign. He said he will in the upcoming weeks. Leaving it open not to.
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POLITICS 12/07/2017 12:33 pm ET Updated 11 minutes ago
Exclusive: Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. Fired For Misconduct By Morgan Stanley
A woman who was interviewed as part of the company’s HR probe separately told HuffPost that Ford harassed her one evening in Manhattan several years ago.
By Yashar Ali
Former Democratic Congressman Harold Ford Jr. has been fired for misconduct by Morgan Stanley after facing a human resources investigation into allegations of misconduct, a company spokeswoman confirmed.
“He has been terminated for conduct inconsistent with our values and in violation of our policies,” a spokeswoman for Morgan Stanley told HuffPost in an email.
At least one woman, who is not a Morgan Stanley employee but interacted with Ford in a professional capacity, was interviewed by Morgan Stanley’s HR department as part of the investigation.
In two interviews with HuffPost, the woman alleged that Ford engaged in harassment, intimidation, and forcibly grabbed her one evening in Manhattan, leading her to seek aid from a building security guard. The incident took place several years ago when Ford and the woman were supposed to be meeting for professional reasons. Ford continued to contact her after the encounter until she wrote an email asking him to cease contact.
The email, which was reviewed by HuffPost, shows that the woman emailed Ford after he repeatedly asked her to drinks. She asked him not to contact her anymore, citing his inappropriate conduct the evening where he forcibly grabbed and harassed her. Ford replied to the email by apologizing and agreeing not to contact her.
HuffPost is not identifying the woman at her request but has reviewed emails that confirm her interactions with Ford and spoke to two people whom the woman confided in about the incident. One woman heard from Ford’s accuser the night of the incident and described her as “distraught, shocked, and frightened,” and said that she was concerned about any career ramifications should she report the incident.
Ford comes from a prominent political family in Tennessee. His father, Harold Ford Sr., held a congressional seat for 12 terms before retiring, leaving his son to run for the seat, a race which he won handily. Ford served in the House for nearly 10 years before deciding to run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Republican Bill Frist. Ford lost that hotly contested 2006 race by fewer than three points to current Republican Sen. Bob Corker.
Since leaving Congress in 2007, Ford has worked for two financial services companies, first for Merrill Lynch and then Morgan Stanley, which he joined in 2011 as a managing director.
At the time Morgan Stanley announced the hire, The New York Times described Ford’s role as a rainmaker of sorts: “Mr. Ford will be responsible for ‘building business opportunities’ for clients, Morgan Stanley said. He will manage relationships with corporate directors, senior executives and institutional investors, as well as private clients.”
Ford also serves as a paid on-air political analyst for NBC/MSNBC and regularly appears on the MSNBC program “Morning Joe.”
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ANOTHER LIBERAL BITES THE DUST!
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Holy smokes. Tidal wave.
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Holy smokes. Tidal wave.
Donnie Douchebag is next if I had to bet.
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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/07/corey-feldmans-1993-audio-files-naming-alleged-sexual-predators-found-by-santa-barbara-county-sheriffs-office.html
Awesome - now they can go after these hollywood pedos and liberal perverts
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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/07/corey-feldmans-1993-audio-files-naming-alleged-sexual-predators-found-by-santa-barbara-county-sheriffs-office.html
Awesome - now they can go after these hollywood pedos and liberal perverts
Can you just imagine the smugness and pomposity of these motherfuckers that on all of their fucking award shows it was essentially a three hour Trump bashing.
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John Hockenberry Is 6th NPR Employee Accused of Sexual Misconduct
Presenter John Hockenberry attends the 2008 National Design Awards gala at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum on October 23, 2008 in New York City.
(Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)Neilson Barnard/Getty
by JOHN NOLTE
7 Dec 201711
Our tax dollars are being well spent at National Public Radio, a left-wing news outlet that has obviously tolerated and enabled a toxic culture of sexual misconduct against women for quite some time. You can now add NPR icon John Hockenberry to a list that also includes David Sweeney, NPR’s chief news editor; Garrison Keillor, NPR icon; WNYC hosts Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz; and Michael Orsekes, NPR’s senior vice president and editorial director.
The last three were fired over allegations of misconduct. Lopate and Schwarts are on an “indefinite leave.”
Hockenberry, however, was allowed to “honorably” retire in August of this year after nearly three decades of co-hosting the morning news program “The Takeaway” for WNYC, which was heard on 270 stations. This early retirement at age 61, occurred six months after a sexual harassment complaint had been filed against him.
The woman who filed the complaint, Suki Kim, a journalist with a focus on North Korea, claims that the married-with-five-kids Hockenberry repeatedly asked her out. “Any interest in a museum and coffee?”; “Next time maybe we could try for something outside in the park maybe the Met or something”; “Let’s do a date”; and “Need more Kim.”
A July 2016 email with the subject line “Need another dose of you,” was the final straw. Kim broke off contact. She claims Hockenberry would not go away and received emails that read, “Let me know if I am bugging you or creeping you out?”; and “Miss you.”
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Although she was not responding, she received eight emails in as many months.
Kim admits this is “mild stuff in a world of dropped pants, rape, and secret buttons to lock women in rooms,” but other female co-workers allege much worse.
Kristen Meinzer claims that when she told Hockenberry about landing an important guest, the wheel-chair bound NPR icon “rolled right up to me at my desk, grabbed my face, and started kissing me. I moved my head away and pushed him away, and I said, ‘No, no, please don’t.’”
His reply was, “I just want to kiss you because I’m so thankful.”
Meizner claims the harassment continued on social media.
About a photo of Meizner and her husband, Hockenberry asked, “Doesn’t one of you have herpes at least?” Using Gchat, he said to her, “Everyone thinks you have a secret life as a dominatrix” and “Do you think about anything other than sex?” and “you and your sex obsession.”
An anonymous accuser claims that while staying at a hotel due to a snowstorm, Hockenberry asked her to come to his room to discuss the show. Once alone with him, “He came up and put his arms on mine, and kissed me. Then he said, ‘I love you. We’ve always had this special thing.’ I pushed him away, and said ‘This cannot happen.’ I ran out of the room.”
A forth accuser, also anonymous, claims that after she submitted her resignation in 2013, his Gchatting at all hours “unnerved” her. Want to get a hotel room?” he asked. She later reported the incident to two of her bosses. Hockenberry apologized.
An college-aged intern hoping to interview Hockenberry got these responses: “Let’s get some Spanish wine in you.” And “Let’s get you drunk.”
Writing for the Guardian, Adaora Udoji, a co-host with Hockenberry, does not allege any sexual misconduct but rather years of bullying that she describes as “excruciating.” Like some of the others, she says she complained to the chain of command, but nothing was done.
“How in the world could this abuse go on for nearly 10 years across three different co-hosts and among other staff and nothing be done? How is that he was rewarded for that behavior with a show by himself in light of a reported trail of complaints?,” she asks.
To tell her story and demand accountability, Udoji is violating the non-disclosure agreement she signed in 2009 when her contract was bought out.
In less than two months, five powerful men, paid in part with taxpayer dollars, have been fired or put on leave due to sexual misconduct. Another was apparently forced to retire early.
These are our elites. These are our left-wing arbiters of taste and truth. And we the taxpayers are subsidizing all of it.
Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC. Follow his Facebook Page here.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5154937/Kevin-Spacey-groped-Norwegian-royal-Nobel-party.html
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https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/sites/newyorklawjournal/2017/12/05/public-defender-organization-accused-of-retaliation-over-staff-attorneys-sexual-harassment-allegations/?slreturn=20171107150513
WTF!!! This is getting crazy - another lib organization rocked.
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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/12/07/franken-accuser-resignation-speech
Ha ha ha!!!!
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Franken shows how politicians really believe the rules don't apply to them. What a maroon.
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but but but..
Pizzagate was all made up right........
amazing... how the real criminals still go unpunished
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Buzzfeed ^ | December 7, 2017 | Claudia Rosenbaum
Posted on 12/8/2017, 7:51:47 AM by C19fan
Bryan Singer, the big-budget filmmaker behind multiple X-Men movies, has been sued for allegedly raping a 17-year-old boy on a yacht, and then using his position in Hollywood to threaten him into silence.
In the lawsuit, Cesar Sanchez-Guzman alleges that Singer offered to give him a tour of the yacht during a boat party near Seattle in 2003. Once cornered in a room, Singer allegedly forced the teen to perform oral sex before raping him, according to the lawsuit filed in Washington state court.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/new-dustin-hoffman-accuser-claims-harassment-physical-violation-broadway-guest-column-1062349
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SICKO: Multiple Women Accuse Anti-Trump Ninth Circuit Court Judge of Sexual Harassment
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/sicko-multiple-women-accuse-anti-trump-ninth-circuit-court-judge-sexual-harassment/
A former clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski said the powerful and well-known jurist, who for many years served as chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, called her into his office several times and pulled up pornography on his computer, asking if she thought it was photoshopped or if it aroused her sexually.
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A former clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski said the powerful and well-known jurist, who for many years served as chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, called her into his office several times and pulled up pornography on his computer, asking if she thought it was photoshopped or if it aroused her sexually.
What a pick-up line! I bet that works well.
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What a pick-up line! I bet that works well.
Clinton appointee
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Tom Hanks?!
https://mobile.twitter.com/SaRaAshcraft/status/937724562866888704 (https://mobile.twitter.com/SaRaAshcraft/status/937724562866888704)
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/new-dustin-hoffman-accuser-claims-harassment-physical-violation-broadway-guest-column-1062349
I think this one is bullshit. There's no one to corroborate this one.
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I think this one is bullshit. There's no one to corroborate this one.
The woman making the claim seems like a whack job too. Need to see more.
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"Mario Batali has stepped down as co-host of ABC’s The Chew after four women accused the celebrity chef of sexual misconduct."
(http://cdn-image.foodandwine.com/sites/default/files/images-sys-200805-a-mario-batali.jpg)
http://tvline.com/2017/12/11/mario-batali-leaving-the-chew-sexual-misconduct/
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"Mario Batali has stepped down as co-host of ABC’s The Chew after four women accused the celebrity chef of sexual misconduct."
(http://cdn-image.foodandwine.com/sites/default/files/images-sys-200805-a-mario-batali.jpg)
http://tvline.com/2017/12/11/mario-batali-leaving-the-chew-sexual-misconduct/
And yet another one busted so badly that he has no choice but to admit it:
“I apologize to the people I have mistreated and hurt. Although the identities of most of the individuals mentioned in these stories have not been revealed to me, much of the behavior described does, in fact, match up with ways I have acted. That behavior was wrong and there are no excuses. I take full responsibility and am deeply sorry for any pain, humiliation or discomfort I have caused to my peers, employees, customers, friends and family.”
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And yet another one busted so badly that he has no choice but to admit it:
“I apologize to the people I have mistreated and hurt. Although the identities of most of the individuals mentioned in these stories have not been revealed to me, much of the behavior described does, in fact, match up with ways I have acted. That behavior was wrong and there are no excuses. I take full responsibility and am deeply sorry for any pain, humiliation or discomfort I have caused to my peers, employees, customers, friends and family.”
Hide the sausage :D
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Hide the sausage :D
Ryan Lizza - another lib. YIKES
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-new-yorker-severs-ties-with-star-reporter-ryan-lizza
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-11/longtime-npr-host-ashbrook-facing-misconduct-allegations
Longtime NPR Host - yikes. Another one.
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Right Wing News ^ | 12/11/17 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Posted on 12/11/2017, 7:28:33 PM by x1stcav
One of the ex-wives of late singer Eddie Fisher, Terry Richard, has come forward to accuse Larry King of groping her. Larry King was a long-time host on CNN. She claims he groped her at separate events. One occurred in 2005 and one occurred in 2006. Both happened at baseball awards dinners at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. Terry is 63 years-old. Larry King is now 84 years-old. The first incident happened during a photo where she claims that King slid his hand down her backless dress and rested his fingers in between her butt cheeks. The second time (and if it happened once, why the hell did you let him touch you again?), happened again as they were taking another photo together. She says he squeezed her butt so hard it left a massive bruise.
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Disney executive, 58, charged with three felony counts of child sexual abuse
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/disney-executive-58-charged-three-154619595.html
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Disney executive, 58, charged with three felony counts of child sexual abuse
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/disney-executive-58-charged-three-154619595.html
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Everyone associated with disney has quite a body count of children in their past including walt disney himself.
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Everyone associated with disney has quite a body count of children in their past including walt disney himself.
From my understanding, one of the primary characteristics of a Pedo is that they’re the Pied Piper type always having kids around. Michael Jackson is a good example. So, if you’re in the entertainment industry and you’re into young boys what better place to go than Disney?
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From my understanding, one of the primary characteristics of a Pedo is that they’re the Pied Piper type always having kids around. Michael Jackson is a good example. So, if you’re in the entertainment industry and you’re into young boys what better place to go than Disney?
I've heard the same about boy band managers and promoters. The 80's Menudo boy band is a good example, where many of the band members, including Ricky Martin, were sexually abused when they were underage by their managers and promoters.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/05/22/Report-Menudo-members-sexually-abused/5282674884800/
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I've heard the same about boy band managers and promoters. The 80's Menudo boy band is a good example, where many of the band members, including Ricky Martin, were sexually abused when they were underage by their managers and promoters.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/05/22/Report-Menudo-members-sexually-abused/5282674884800/
If I were a Disney stock holder, I would be looking to bail the fuck out. There’s a good chance that this is just the tip of the iceberg and if shit really starts hitting the fan that company will never be the same.
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If I were a Disney stock holder, I would be looking to bail the fuck out. There’s a good chance that this is just the tip of the iceberg and if shit really starts hitting the fan that company will never be the same.
Good. Maybe then their park tickets and cruise tickets will finally come down in price. Darn things are overpriced, unaffordable to the average folk, if you even wanna set foot on a Disney property to begin with.
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"Mario Batali has stepped down as co-host of ABC’s The Chew after four women accused the celebrity chef of sexual misconduct."
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http://tvline.com/2017/12/11/mario-batali-leaving-the-chew-sexual-misconduct/
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This might end up as the longest thread ever on the political board:
Tavis Smiley Suspended by PBS Amid Sex Misconduct Claims (EXCLUSIVE – Variety
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/tavis-smiley-pbs-1202639424/
“The investigation found credible allegations that Smiley had engaged in sexual relationships with multiple subordinates, sources said. Some witnesses interviewed expressed concern that their employment status was linked to the status of a sexual relationship with Smiley.”
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It’s gotten to the point where I can’t check my Twitter feed without seeing one of these:
Five more women accuse Russell Simmons of sexual misconduct across three decades - LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-russell-simmons-yoga-20171213-htmlstory.html
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Crazy. :o
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Lol.
This might end up as the longest thread ever on the political board:
Tavis Smiley Suspended by PBS Amid Sex Misconduct Claims (EXCLUSIVE – Variety
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/tavis-smiley-pbs-1202639424/
“The investigation found credible allegations that Smiley had engaged in sexual relationships with multiple subordinates, sources said. Some witnesses interviewed expressed concern that their employment status was linked to the status of a sexual relationship with Smiley.”
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Another one getting out in front of the story:
Morgan Spurlock: ‘I Am Part of the Problem’ - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/arts/morgan-spurlock-sexual-misconduct.html
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Another one getting out in front of the story:
Morgan Spurlock: ‘I Am Part of the Problem’ - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/arts/morgan-spurlock-sexual-misconduct.html
Never liked that guy, dishonest SOB.
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Is this one new or just more added to an old story? I’m losing track of all of these:
Dustin Hoffman Allegedly Exposed Himself To A Minor, Assaulted 2 Women
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dustin-hoffman-exposed-minor_us_5a32fcd3e4b01d429cc74c5f
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Is this one new or just more added to an old story? I’m losing track of all of these:
Dustin Hoffman Allegedly Exposed Himself To A Minor, Assaulted 2 Women
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dustin-hoffman-exposed-minor_us_5a32fcd3e4b01d429cc74c5f
New ones.
Dustin Hoffman accused of sexually harassing 5 more women, some underage
By Elizabeth Zwirz Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/14/dustin-hoffman-accused-sexually-harassing-5-more-women-some-underage.html
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No idea if Oosterhouse is a liberal but woman is blatantly lying/jumping on the bandwagon with this one
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailywire.com/news/24707/hgtv-star-accused-forcing-makeup-artist-repeatedly-amanda-prestigiacomo%3famp
Even told others it was consensual but now years later (after being let go, lol) realizes it was Stockholm syndrome
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I believe it was Michael Schenker who said:
And it’s on and on and on and on and on:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/15/politics/ethics-committee-kihuen/index.html
(CNN)Democratic Rep. Ruben Kihuen is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee following allegations of sexual misconduct from two women
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Kansas Democrat Andrea Ramsey drops out of House race over 2005 harassment suit
By Kathleen Joyce | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/15/kansas-democrat-andrea-ramsey-drops-out-house-race-over-2005-harassment-suit.html
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Kansas Democrat Andrea Ramsey drops out of House race over 2005 harassment suit
By Kathleen Joyce | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/15/kansas-democrat-andrea-ramsey-drops-out-house-race-over-2005-harassment-suit.html
Wow. Even the ladies are getting caught up in all this now.
Shit is getting deep!
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ESPN same thing with the owner of the panthers accused now
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ESPN same thing with the owner of the panthers accused now
The greatest thing for me is that those people live in a completely different world than myself.
I cut the cable a few years ago, don’t watch television, rarely watch newer movies.
Most of the political commentary I follow is that of small potato guys on YouTube and Twitter. Occasionally a local radio guy I respect like Mark Davis.
For entertainment I either lift, cardio or read.
Their whole system could collapse(and is) and it wouldn’t affect me in the slightest.
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they are doing this to get attention away from the REAL problem -- pizzagate
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FoxNews.com ^ | 12/15/17 | By Samuel Chamberlain
Posted on 12/15/2017, 4:30:12 PM by blueyon
A former congressional aide Friday accused Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., of sexually harassing her and claimed she was fired and blackballed from further work on Capitol Hill when she refused his advances.
Reese Everson, a former Congressional Black Caucus Fellow, alleged that Scott touched her leg and body without permission and promised to advance her career if she let him flirt with her. Everson
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:)
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/nbc-made-payment-to-staffer-after-sexual-harassment-claim-against-chris-matthews/
An NBC spokesman confirmed Saturday the company made a separation-related payment to one of Chris Matthews employees after the woman complained about sexual harassment
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:)
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/nbc-made-payment-to-staffer-after-sexual-harassment-claim-against-chris-matthews/
An NBC spokesman confirmed Saturday the company made a separation-related payment to one of Chris Matthews employees after the woman complained about sexual harassment
:o
Would love to see Matthews taken down.
Can’t stand that guy.
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I worked a few corporate jobs and in high level sales and management they drill you about putting yourself in these situations because of past opportunists cashing in...and that was many years ago. It was the only thing they feared, most of the rest of business and after hours activities were wild west.
Just because NBC paid a Chris Matthews staffer some money on the way out doesn't necessarily mean he was a monster. I think he's been a loon politically but I'm not going to put him in the category of some of these people with so little fact known.
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I worked a few corporate jobs and in high level sales and management they drill you about putting yourself in these situations because of past opportunists cashing in...and that was many years ago. It was the only thing they feared, most of the rest of business and after hours activities were wild west.
Just because NBC paid a Chris Matthews staffer some money on the way out doesn't necessarily mean he was a monster. I think he's been a loon politically but I'm not going to put him in the category of some of these people with so little fact known.
Oh I don’t disagree with you. The whole sexual-harassment thing is way overblown. However, in these cases it seems to be a case of where there’s smoke there’s fire. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot more of these allegations surface shortly now the ice has been broken.
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Wow. Even the ladies are getting caught up in all this now.
Shit is getting deep!
March 2012
"Britney Spears recently settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with her ex-bodyguard - reportedly to prevent humiliating information about her coming to light."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2111028/Britney-Spears-sexual-harassment-case-Former-bodyguard-Fernando-Flores-testimony-revealed.html
September 2014
Lawsuit: Cher fired dancers for reporting alleged sex assault on tour
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/18/showbiz/cher-dancers-lawsuit/index.html
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:o
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3589628/Report-Bill-Clinton-jumped-aboard-disgraced-sex-offender-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-Lolita-Express-plane-junkets-26-TIMES-just-three-years.html
Flight logs reviewed by Fox News show Clinton took 26 trips aboard Epstein's Boeing 727 jet, more than double the 11 flights previously known.
Epstein's jet was reportedly set up with a bed where guests had group sex with young girls.
One of them, Virginia Giuffre, has claimed she was lured into joining Epstein's harem when she was just 15 years old and was then known as Virginia Roberts.
The former teen prostitute has said she was used as a 'sex slave.'
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Hillary knew all about it too
:o
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3589628/Report-Bill-Clinton-jumped-aboard-disgraced-sex-offender-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-Lolita-Express-plane-junkets-26-TIMES-just-three-years.html
Flight logs reviewed by Fox News show Clinton took 26 trips aboard Epstein's Boeing 727 jet, more than double the 11 flights previously known.
Epstein's jet was reportedly set up with a bed where guests had group sex with young girls.
One of them, Virginia Giuffre, has claimed she was lured into joining Epstein's harem when she was just 15 years old and was then known as Virginia Roberts.
The former teen prostitute has said she was used as a 'sex slave.'
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This looks like he’s bailing out before the shit really hits the fan at ESPN:
John Skipper Resigns as ESPN President, Citing Substance Addiction - NYTimes.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/sports/espn-john-skipper-resigns.html
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Hillary knew all about it too
Wont here anything about this on the MSM....... only 2nd and 3rd rate online "news"
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Wont here anything about this on the MSM....... only 2nd and 3rd rate online "news"
I saw the story in a right-leaning British newspaper.
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https://www.facebook.com/NYPost/posts/10161194921915206
Linda Sansour. Good - evil nasty liberal communist pos
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9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski steps down after accusations of sexual misconduct
Maura Dolan
Alex Kozinski, a prominent voice on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, said Monday he was retiring immediately in the face of more than a dozen reports of sexual misconduct.
Kozinski, who served more than three decades on the appeals court, faced allegations that he showed clerks pornography, improperly touched women and kept a chart of his college sexual conquests.
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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-judge-alex-kozinski-20171218-story.html
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'Glee' actor Mark Salling pleads guilty in child porn case
https://www.yahoo.com/news/glee-actor-mark-salling-pleads-guilty-child-porn-002321955.html
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https://pagesix.com/2017/12/19/russell-simmons-accusers-detail-alleged-assaults/?_ga=2.260577482.657483660.1513700238-1421897886.1513700238
What a sicko.
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'Glee' actor Mark Salling pleads guilty in child porn case
https://www.yahoo.com/news/glee-actor-mark-salling-pleads-guilty-child-porn-002321955.html
What can u even say? Just terrrible.
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The Metoo movement has officially jumped the shark:
Target Liberty: Black Woman Accuses Charlie Rose of Racism for Not Sexually Harassing Her
http://www.targetliberty.com/2017/12/black-woman-accuses-charlie-rose-of.html
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http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/12/20/harvey-weinstein-assistant-rape-allegation
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Don’t remember this guy in the thread:
Fifth Woman Accuses Danny Masterson Of Rape
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fifth-woman-accuses-danny-masterson-of-rape_us_5a3ba6d8e4b0b0e5a79fea05
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-exclusive-famed-conductor-accused-sexual-misconduct-153133784.html
And down goes Frazier
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Matt Lauer's former-model wife meets with lawyers to get bigger settlement if they split, report says
By Sasha Savitsky | Fox News
Two weeks after Matt Lauer and his estranged wife Annette Roque were spotted without their wedding rings, the former Dutch model was seen meeting with high-priced lawyers in New York City.
According to the New York Post, a stern looking Roque stepped out of the Manhattan-based law firm Latham & Watkins on Wednesday.
A source told the Post that Roque is meeting with lawyers to try to get a bigger settlement out of Lauer should the pair divorce.
Lauer, 59, and Roque, 52, married in 1998 and she filed for divorce in 2006, accusing the disgraced journalist of "cruel and inhumane" behavior before withdrawing her petition one month later after reaching a private agreement which reportedly including a post-nuptial agreement. They have three children together, Jack, 16, Romy, 13, and Thijs, 11.
Matt Lauer seen out for the first time since his firing from the Today show from multiple sexual harassment allegations.
The source told the Post "The post-nup will likely specify how much Annette would get if they divorce, but she is expected to challenge it given Matt’s earnings since 2006, and given how he has humiliated her. There are also issues over all the property and land they own, both in the Hamptons and abroad."
The post-nup will likely specify how much Annette would get if they divorce, but she is expected to challenge it given Matt’s earnings since 2006
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Lauer's salary at NBC was $25 million a year.
The disgraced "Today" host was fired by NBC in November for "inappropriate sexual behavior."
Matt Lauer, co-host of the NBC television network morning program "Today" arrives with his wife, Dutch model Annette Roque, at the DreamWorks studio party following the 72nd annual Academy Awards March 26 at Spago in Beverly Hills. The DreamWorks film "American Beauty" won five Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Lauer and Roque married in 1998 and she filed for divorce in 2006, accusing the disgraced journalist of "cruel and inhumane" behavior before withdrawing her petition one month later.
Earlier this week, a former "Today" production assistant detailed her torrid affair with Lauer that took place in 2000. While the former staffer said the affair was consensual, she felt it was an "abuse of power" because she was 24 and Lauer was in his 40s at the time of their relationship.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/21/matt-lauers-former-model-wife-meets-with-lawyers-to-get-bigger-divorce-settlement-report-says.html
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It’s to the point where I can’t remember the last day when I checked my Twitter feed and didn’t see one of these:
Five Women Are Accusing A Top Left-Leaning Media Executive Of Sexually Harassing Them
https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/don-hazen
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Mark Schwahn, creator of ‘The Royals,’ fired after more than 40 women accuse him of sexual harassment
By Elizabeth Zwirz | Fox News
Mark Schwahn, creator and showrunner for the TV show, “The Royals,” was fired Thursday after more than 40 women accused him of sexual harassment, Variety reported.
“We have concluded our investigation and Mark will not be returning to ‘The Royals,’” Lionsgate TV, which co-produces the show along with Universal Cable Productions, said in a statement. “The fourth season of the show has already completed production and will air as scheduled on E! in the spring.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/21/mark-schwahn-creator-royals-fired-after-more-than-40-women-accuse-him-sexual-harassment.html
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4 Hawaii lawmakers have received sexual misconduct complaints
Associated Press
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Four Hawaii lawmakers have been the subject of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct complaints since 2008. Three of the complaints were filed against House members, one against a senator. None resulted in a lawmaker’s suspension or expulsion. The senator was counseled and attended one-on-one harassment training.
Four Hawaii lawmakers have been the subject of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct complaints since 2008, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Three of the complaints were filed against House members, one against a senator. None resulted in a lawmaker’s suspension or expulsion. The senator was counseled and attended one-on-one harassment training.
Both chambers said state law required them to withhold the identities of the lawmakers because none was suspended or expelled.
The Senate and House provided the information in response to a request by The Associated Press for records related to sexual harassment or misconduct complaints made against lawmakers since 2008. The AP filed the request under the state’s open records law.
No complaint resulted in settlement payments to accusers.
Sen. Laura Thielen, a leader of the Women’s Legislative Caucus, said sexual harassment or assault shouldn’t be tolerated at any workplace.
“It’s important for the employers to set the culture about that fact, that it’s not acceptable,” said the Democrat who represents Kailua and Waimanalo.
Thielen said an employee of hers came to her with a complaint about being harassed, not sexually but more generally. Thielen said she took the complaint to the Senate clerk and was pleased with how the issue was handled.
“She was very professional and very responsive,” Thielen said of the Senate clerk.
All senators and representatives are required to attend training regarding sexual harassment. In the Senate, the training is held every two years. Twenty of the 25 senators attended in the 2016 training cycle. The remaining five will attend in the 2017 training cycle.
The House has required training in even-numbered years in the past. But it held mandatory training this year and will continue to do so annually, said spokeswoman Carolyn Tanaka. Anyone who misses training is required to attend a makeup session.
The AP inquired about the complaints amid a wave of reports about sexual harassment and misconduct in the fields of entertainment, media and politics.
The reports have largely come in the wake of a New York Times article published in October about misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who has denied all nonconsensual sex. The complaints raised awareness and encouraged more victims to come forward.
Thielen said the national discussion was leading to many “water cooler or hydroflask conversations” on the topic.
“Which I think is good because we do need to reevaluate and update acceptable and unacceptable behavior,” she said. “I think these conversations are taking place in offices all over the state and the nation right now.”
In the U.S. Congress, Rep. John Conyers retired weeks after former aides shared stories of habitual sexual harassment. The 88-year-old Democrat and civil rights leader has vehemently denied he groped or harassed women who worked for him.
Another Democrat, Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, announced he would resign after at least eight women alleged he groped or tried to kiss them.
Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold said last week he would not seek re-election after a former aide said he subjected her to sexually suggestive comments and behavior and then fired her after she complained. The Republican denied her accusations but apologized for an office atmosphere he said included “destructive gossip, offhand comments, off-color jokes and behavior that in general was less than professional.”
There have also been cases of misconduct at other state legislatures.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/12/21/breaking-news/4-hawaii-lawmakers-receive-sexual-misconduct-complaints/
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I love it when liberal dumbasses turn on their own:
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/oceans-eight/news/a846035/oceans-8-petition-remove-matt-damon-cameo-after-sexual-harassment-comments/
Petition to remove Matt Damon from Ocean's 8 after sexual harassment comments gains 18,000 signatures
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I love it when liberal dumbasses turn on their own:
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/oceans-eight/news/a846035/oceans-8-petition-remove-matt-damon-cameo-after-sexual-harassment-comments/
Petition to remove Matt Damon from Ocean's 8 after sexual harassment comments gains 18,000 signatures
Never liked Matt Damon, but judging by the comments he has made recently and in the past, then seeing his fellow liberals turn on him because of his comments tells me that Matt Damon is a closet conservative. He may or may not know that yet.
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Never liked Matt Damon, but judging by the comments he has made recently and in the past, then seeing his fellow liberals turn on him because of his comments tells me that Matt Damon is a closet conservative. He may or may not know that yet.
I suspect there are a lot of those in Hollywood. They just can’t come out of the closet for fear of repercussions.
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Never liked Matt Damon, but judging by the comments he has made recently and in the past, then seeing his fellow liberals turn on him because of his comments tells me that Matt Damon is a closet conservative. He may or may not know that yet.
Doubt it. More like he said something that doesn't perfectly fit their agenda. They're like hyenas and wolves. You can follow everything to a T but if you even slip and say something out of the ordinary even if it's small in the media, they'll take that and bash you for it to appear like heros in the public eye.
That's why it's best in this age to be self sufficient and not rely on anything public or media based for your income and living. That way these lib pussies have nothing they can carry against you. Always stay armed so you can shoot them if need be too :)
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Doubt it. More like he said something that doesn't perfectly fit their agenda. They're like hyenas and wolves. You can follow everything to a T but if you even slip and say something out of the ordinary even if it's small in the media, they'll take that and bash you for it to appear like heros in the public eye.
That's why it's best in this age to be self sufficient and not rely on anything public or media based for your income and living. That way these lib pussies have nothing they can carry against you. Always stay armed so you can shoot them if need be too :)
I had gh15 slated for Politics Board New Comer of the Year 2017 but looks like we have an early front runner for 2018 ^^
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I had gh15 slated for Politics Board New Comer of the Year 2017 but looks like we have an early front runner for 2018 ^^
Yeah, that post was spot on. With the left, if you go one Swedish pubic hair to the right you’re labeled as a fake and your bona fides are questioned.
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Young Turks' Cenk Uygur Apologizes for 'Ugly,' 'Insensitive' Old Blog Posts
https://www.thewrap.com/young-turks-cenk-uygur-blog-breasts-women-flawed/
In an entry from 2000, Uygur complained about not having enough sex while living in Miami: “It seems like there is a sea of tits here, and I am drinking in tiny droplets. I want to dive into the whole god damn ocean,” he wrote. “Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.”
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The fucking tool is using the pathetic excuse that he was a conservative back then. Pretty fucking ridiculous when you consider most of those accused in high profile sexual harassment claims have been liberal Democrats.
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Harvey Weinstein's ex-wife demands $5 million he allegedly owes to kids before he goes broke
Fox News
The ex-wife of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has asked a New York judge Thursday to demand her ex-husband pay the remaining millions he allegedly owes to their daughters before he goes broke from legal fees.
The lawyer for Weinstein's ex-wife, Eve Chilton, 56, asked a Manhattan Supreme Court judge for Weinstein to pay the $5 million he allegedly still owed their three daughters in child support, Page Six reported. The lawyer, Bonnie Rabin, said the money should be paid before Weinstein goes broke from legal fees.
"We have an almost weekly, if not daily, avalanche of accusations and allegations that make it clear [Weinstein] is going to have little [money] left," Rabin said.
MERYL STREEP POSTERS CLAIMING ‘SHE KNEW’ ABOUT HARVEY WEINSTEIN POP UP IN LOS ANGELES
“He’s pre-paying many, many lawyers many, many millions of dollars to defend himself against these lawsuits all over the world,” she said.
The lawyer cited seven lawsuits the media mogul faced by women who claimed he sexually assaulted or harassed him.
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano on whether the government will try to prosecute Harvey Weinstein.Video
Harvey Weinstein could be in legal jeopardy
The judge excused Weinstein because his main lawyer could not make it to court that day. The judge said he may order Weinstein to show up and testify regarding his total net worth.
Weinstein’s lawyer, Steven Silpe, argued the producer has never missed a child support payment.
“He’s never not made a payment. He has made every single payment for nearly 14 years,” Silpe said.
Justice Michael Katz was concerned about the finances but said there was “little precedent for such a drastic remedy.”
“If we wait another couple of months, it’s not clear to me if he will be in the same financial situation,” Katz said.
Chilton, Weinstein’s former assistant, married the producer in 1987 before they divorced in 2004, People reported.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN DOWNFALL DOCUMENTARY ALREADY BEING PRODUCED BY BBC
The disgraced movie mogul was reportedly worth an estimated $240 million. Chilton reportedly received $60 million from the divorce, including $50,000 a year to spend on vacations.
Georgina Chapman, Weinstein’s current wife, and the producer separated in October following numerous sexual misconduct allegations against him. Chapman could make off with nearly $12 million due to the prenuptial agreement, People reported.
Weinstein has denied the sexual assault allegations.
“Mr. Weinstein has never at any time committed an act of sexual assault, and it is wrong and irresponsible to conflate claims of impolitic behavior or consensual sexual contact later regretted, with an untrue claim of criminal conduct,” Weinstein’s lawyers said. “There is a wide canyon between mere allegation and truth, and we are confident that any sober calculation of the facts will prove no legal wrongdoing occurred.
“Nonetheless, to those offended by Mr. Weinstein’s behavior, he remains deeply apologetic."
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/22/harvey-weinsteins-ex-wife-demands-5-million-allegedly-owes-to-kids-before-goes-broke.html
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Maybe I should just start a Twitter page for sexual harassment claims, it would probably get a lot of likes:
Former Miss Americas shamed by pageant CEO call for him to quit - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gretchen-carlson-other-former-miss-americas-call-for-ceo-sam-haskell-to-resign/
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Turmoil: CA Democrats' Sexual Harassment Problem Cost Them
Townhall.com ^ | December 26, 2017 | Matt Vespa
Posted on 12/26/2017, 1:26:47 PM by Kaslin
The sexual harassment reckoning has exposed many men in positions of power for their bad behavior. Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin and others have either been fired or suspended for sexual misconduct. In the political realm, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is resigning in early January after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) made his way to the exit after his sexual harassment allegations made it into the limelight; he paid $27,000 to settle a claim in 2015. And yes, that’s our money he used for that expenditure. This reached a boiling point during the Roy Moore fiasco in Alabama, where the Republican senate candidate was accused of sexually molesting and assaulting multiple women when they were teenagers. Yet, Conyers and Franken blunted the attacks on Moore and the GOP. The left flank on the Democratic attack line was vulnerable with Conyers and Franken still in the mix. Once Conyers decided to exit, the dam broke for Franken, who grudgingly decided to leave the Senate, though he did so while refusing to apologize for his actions and called his accusers liars.
Yet, in deep blue California, the progressive mecca of the country, Democrats behaving badly has thrown the state party into turmoil . It’s already cost them their supermajority in the state legislature and it could impact the 2018 plans as well.
On top of those worries, we now have Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) reportedly showing "zero interest" by reports that his congressional offices had become hostile environments. In the state Assembly proper, Matt Dababneh has decided to exit by January 1 after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment, one of which included a 2016 incident at a wedding, where the assemblyman began masturbating in front of one of his accusers. He isn’t the first to leave over allegations of sexual misconduct; Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra has already resigned. State Sen. Tony Mendoza remains in office, but he also faces accusations from multiple women. He has since been stripped of his leadership posts. In light of this behavior, Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, chairwoman of the California Democratic Party Women’s Caucus, took a notably different approach than her mother, who called Conyers an "icon, saying that that California Capitol has rapists and molesters walking among them. Ms. Pelosi has called for more action to address this problem (via Politico):
Scandal-induced resignations will cost California’s Democratic Party its supermajority in the state Legislature at least temporarily next year, and the fallout is spilling into the 2018 elections. It’s scrambling calculations for some of the state’s most powerful politicians in Sacramento, and even House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was caught in the fray when she defended now former-Rep. John Conyers last month as an “icon.”
“We’re in unchartered territory here,” said Garry South, a veteran Democratic strategist who advised former California Gov. Gray Davis. “This whole issue has hit a critical mass in a very short time. I’ve never seen anything like it before — and I don’t know where it ends.”
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Among those who have been outspoken in their demands for more action is Christine Pelosi, chairwoman of the California Democratic Party Women’s Caucus and Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, who told lawmakers at the start of an Assembly hearing last month, “We have rapists in this building. We have molesters among us.”
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… Los Angeles-area Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman has been caught in the glare of the Dababneh headlines. A report from McClatchy published last week featured eight former aides saying that the environment in Sherman's D.C. and California offices was “toxic” – and that the congressman was oblivious to the problem. “’Congressman Sherman showed zero interest in the personal well-being of his staffers and there's no reason to believe he would have cared or taken any action if a complaint was made,' said one former staffer,’’ McClatchy reported. Sherman insisted his staff never complained about his former aide’s sexual behavior.
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And outside of the California Legislature, radio executive and University of California trustee Norman Pattiz, who was first appointed by Davis and reappointed by Brown, has come under pressure to resign after tape surfaced of him asking comedian Heather McDonald if he could hold her breasts. In a separate incident last week, Craig Cheslog, a California Democratic Party regional director from the Bay Area, resigned amid accusations of sexual misconduct.
Cheslog said in his resignation letter that he was confident of the outcome of a “fair, fact-based exploration of this matter” but that he wanted to “prevent any allegations of personal misconduct against me from creating a distraction within the party at a critical moment in national and state politics.”
Of course, this problem crosses party lines. That is not in dispute. The Left can’t argue War on Women anymore—they have some of the biggest creeps in the country voting and supporting Democrats. What is telling is the reaction. It took nearly a month before Democrats decided to put significant pressure on Franken and Conyers to leave in order to have a clean slate to launch attacks on Republicans. For other Democrats, it’s become clear that the ‘I’m a liberal who votes the right way’ is no longer a lifeboat, as it was for Bill Clinton who has been credibly accused of rape. It was that 90s moment when we saw explicitly that feminism was for and only accepted liberals into their ranks, and that they would anything to ensure those faithful officeholders remained in power, even if they did allegedly committed rape. Gloria Steinem can hold her head up high. Democrats enabled this behavior. So, this come to Jesus moment were seeing from the Left regarding sexual harassment should be taken with a grain of salt. The GOP should clean house of its creepers as well, but the media will always find a way to make this a Republican, or a conservative problem (it’s not), as they always have. The hypocrisy is going to become unbearable when the Left comes after President Trump over his sexual misconduct allegations and act holier than thou, as if to disregard the fact that Democrats voted for a credibly accused rapist for president—twice. Yet, that's a battle for another time. For now, the sexual harassment problem ensnaring the California Democratic Party continues to ripple throughout the state.
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NBC banned hugging in the workplace as well as sharing cab rides in order to curb sexual harassment.
I don't get it though.
The left goes out of their way to share bathrooms, yet they won't share a cab. Now where’s the sense in that?
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Love how Chuckie Schumer made all the claims against him jut magically vanish...
apparently he must be in the protected clinton mob
LOL @"fake"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chuck-schmer-forged-sexual-harassment-document_us_5a309bc5e4b01bdd76584e13
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum
Exactly what Victoria Secret "parties" are... and why they pay the "angels" so well.. look into it...
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I guess a lot of the lawyers are coming back from vacation so this is going to start back up again:
Filmmaker Paul Haggis accused by four women of rape, sexual misconduct | TheHill
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/367655-oscar-winning-filmmaker-accused-by-four-women-of-rape-and
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I guess a lot of the lawyers are coming back from vacation so this is going to start back up again:
Filmmaker Paul Haggis accused by four women of rape, sexual misconduct | TheHill
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/367655-oscar-winning-filmmaker-accused-by-four-women-of-rape-and
Since Haggis came publicly against Scientology, I wonder if his accusers happen to have any connections to $cientology.
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https://apnews.com/cdc34616a11a48bb8258a1ff645a3f9e/Ben-Vereen-apologizes-for-%27inappropriate-conduct%27-in-2015
LOL
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Since Haggis came publicly against Scientology, I wonder if his accusers happen to have any connections to $cientology.
This seems to be the prevailing opinion on the liberal sites.
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“Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.”
So... how is he in the wrong with this comment? I don't like the guy or his ideals but... how is what he said wrong? It can actually be proven.
It is estimated that in the year 2050, almost 50% of American males will have erectile problems. We eat pretty much the same, work A LOT LESS, and have sex about ½ much as back in the 1940s.
What has changed? American women are turning into men. The next evolutionary step for American women will be to develop a 2' pecker, which will evolve into a larger phallus depending on how soon the American male responds to the current generation of pussified men.
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:D
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Maybe it was indeed good ol' Harvey who gave J Law the facial in the fappening?
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Maybe it was indeed good ol' Harvey who gave J Law the facial in the fappening?
I honestly believe he was one of the recipients of those pictures before the fappening.
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So... how is he in the wrong with this comment? I don't like the guy or his ideals but... how is what he said wrong? It can actually be proven.
It is estimated that in the year 2050, almost 50% of American males will have erectile problems. We eat pretty much the same, work A LOT LESS, and have sex about ½ much as back in the 1940s.
What has changed? American women are turning into men. The next evolutionary step for American women will be to develop a 2' pecker, which will evolve into a larger phallus depending on how soon the American male responds to the current generation of pussified men.
Who saying it’s wrong? It’s just politically incorrect. When you’re a liberal, you can’t make a statement like that.
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Golden globes are on. I think. Bitches look like they are still begging to be raped.
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Golden globes are on. I think. Bitches look like they are still begging to be raped.
I believe she won the award for best virtue signaling. 8)I believe she won the award for best virtue signaling.
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The Liberal Journos Accused Of Sexual Misconduct In 2017
JUSTIN CARUSO
Media Reporter
12/30/2017
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/30/the-liberal-journos-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-in-2017/
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:D
Nobody is going to their shit movies.
Nobody is watching their shit award shows.
Nobody cares about their boring, played out, cookie cutter, left wing political diatribes.
And the fact that all of this is going down at such a rapid pace. Literally MONTHS instead of years, makes it all the more satisfying.
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What's that Matt? Doing what Papa Weinstein asks?
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Nobody is going to their shit movies.
Nobody is watching their shit award shows.
Nobody cares about their boring, played out, cookie cutter, left wing political diatribes.
And the fact that all of this is going down at such a rapid pace. Literally MONTHS instead of years, makes it all the more satisfying.
It’s because the industry was already in decline and the morons didn’t know it because they live in a bubble. They’re just greasing they’re own skids. The NFL is pretty much the same. It’s not a good idea to be cocky when business is good. Doing it when business is bad is suicidal.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-globes-ratings-20180108-story.html
But this year’s show saw an 11% year-to-year decline in the 18-to-49 age group that advertisers covet most.
The ceremony was filled with speeches addressing the sexual harassment scandals that have plagued Hollywood over the last year. That may have turned off some male viewers. The rating among men age 18 to 49 was down 13% compared with 2017, versus a 9% drop among women in the demographic.
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It’s because the industry was already in decline and the morons didn’t know it because they live in a bubble. They’re just greasing they’re own skids. The NFL is pretty much the same. It’s not a good idea to be cocky when business is good. Doing it when business is bad is suicidal.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-globes-ratings-20180108-story.html
But this year’s show saw an 11% year-to-year decline in the 18-to-49 age group that advertisers covet most.
The ceremony was filled with speeches addressing the sexual harassment scandals that have plagued Hollywood over the last year. That may have turned off some male viewers. The rating among men age 18 to 49 was down 13% compared with 2017, versus a 9% drop among women in the demographic.
It is a fascinating time.
From a pure market, money making standpoint, I could envision a situation where Hollywood focuses mostly upon the Chinese and Indian population within the next handful of years.
Where they eventually throw the proverbial middle finger up to the United States population.
Fuck em. Let them have it. I am more than entertained with my youtube subscriptions and following such legends as Dos Equis, Yamcha, chris, coach, Thin Lizzy, George Whorewell, chaos and others on the politics board and if they truly want to live in that massive bubble of dishonesty weirdness, then by all means please feel free to do so.
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:D :D :D :D
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/james-franco-accused-sexual-misconduct-women-article-1.3750877
5 women
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http://deadline.com/2018/01/michael-douglas-sexual-harassment-allegation-defends-himself-1202239676
:o
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/mario-testino-bruce-weber-harassment.html
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Now Starring: Aziz Ansari & the magnificent "claw"
She says Ansari began making a move on her that he repeated during their encounter. “The move he kept doing was taking his two fingers in a V-shape and putting them in my mouth, in my throat to wet his fingers, because the moment he’d stick his fingers in my throat he’d go straight for my vagina and try to finger me.” Grace called the move “the claw.”
https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355 (https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355)
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Props to Soul Crusher for the mega thread idea. This would be a real pain in the ass having to start an individual thread for each one of these:
Seal under investigation after neighbor claims he groped her - NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/seal-accused-sexual-battery-calling-oprah-article-1.3759316
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Props to Soul Crusher for the mega thread idea. This would be a real pain in the ass having to start an individual thread for each one of these:
Seal under investigation after neighbor claims he groped her - NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/seal-accused-sexual-battery-calling-oprah-article-1.3759316
;D
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Props to Soul Crusher for the mega thread idea. This would be a real pain in the ass having to start an individual thread for each one of these:
Seal under investigation after neighbor claims he groped her - NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/seal-accused-sexual-battery-calling-oprah-article-1.3759316
WTF, this sounds crazy.
Recording artist Seal is accused of sexual battery against actress and former neighbor, Tracey Birdsall.
Birdsall told TMZ she was neighbors with the singer in Los Angeles and they became friends, but one day in the fall of 2016 when she went to retrieve her salad spinner, Seal, 54, forced himself on her.
"What are you doing!?" Birdsall recalled shouting, to which the "Fly Like an Eagle" singer responded: "I'm kissing you!"
Birdsall, 54, alleged Seal then belittled her about her outfit and said she was asking for it because she was wearing a tank top and shorts.
She then claimed he began groping her breasts until she demanded he stop. Birdsall told the gossip site she agreed to sit on the couch with Seal after that because she was in shock, but then he continued to grope her breasts and poke fun at her outfit
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WTF, this sounds crazy.
Many liberal males are perverts and have no self control - this is not a surprise to anyone who lives in the real world. Once many of these left wing pajama twinks come into some $$$ they go buck wild.
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Michael Douglas’ sexual misconduct accuser speaks out | Page Six
https://pagesix.com/2018/01/19/michael-douglas-sexual-misconduct-accuser-speaks-out/
A journalist has come forward to allege Michael Douglas of sexual misconduct, recalling, "[He] unzipped his chinos and I registered something amiss"
LMAO
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According to Milo, the hetero stuff coming out is the first stage. The next stage is the gay stuff and the final one is the Pedo stuff which will sink Hollywood.
I hope he’s right.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/james-franco-accused-sexual-misconduct-women-article-1.3750877
5 women
Pedo too? WTF?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/James_Franco_4%2C_2013.jpg/220px-James_Franco_4%2C_2013.jpg)
"Franco has also attracted attention for controversial behavior on social media. In 2014, he used Instagram to ask a 17-year-old British girl he’d met outside a New York theater if she had a boyfriend and whether she was 18. Even after learning her age, he asked for the name of her hotel and if he should rent a room."
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I wonder if this will affect his “G” certification?
Enzo Amore suspended by the WWE following sexual assault allegations – POST Wrestling | Podcasts, News & Reviews
https://www.postwrestling.com/2018/01/22/enzo-suspended-by-the-wwe-following-sexual-assault-allegations/
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The mighty Casey has bowed out:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oscars-caseyaffleck/actor-casey-affleck-withdraws-as-2018-oscar-presenter-academy-idUSKBN1FE2Z7
(Reuters) - Casey Affleck, an actor who has been accused of sexual harassment by female crew members on earlier films, has withdrawn as a presenter at the 2018 Academy Awards, a spokeswoman for the organization said on Thursday.
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I know it appears as though I’m actually looking to find these, but I’m not. They just come across my feed almost every day.
Back in the day, I worked at a large health club in NYC. Steve Wynn came in a few times. Once he was with an extremely young chick. He was in his 40s at the time. The guy can also barely see. I believe he has some sort of eye disease.
Wynn stock drops 7 percent after alleged sexual misconduct by Steve Wynn: Report
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/wynn-stock-drops-7-percent-after-alleged-sexual-misconduct-by-steve-wynn-report.html
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I know it appears as though I’m actually looking to find these, but I’m not. They just come across my feed almost every day.
Back in the day, I worked at a large health club in NYC. Steve Wynn came in a few times. Once he was with an extremely young chick. He was in his 40s at the time. The guy can also barely see. I believe he has some sort of eye disease.
Wynn stock drops 7 percent after alleged sexual misconduct by Steve Wynn: Report
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/wynn-stock-drops-7-percent-after-alleged-sexual-misconduct-by-steve-wynn-report.html
Helluva roller coaster ride for the company.
Their stock price really began to take off then this comes out.
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Jeremy Piven Hit With Sexual Misconduct Allegations By 3 More Women
One woman, who was not identified in the BuzzFeed story, accused Piven of grabbing her by the arms and trying to kiss her in his hotel room around 1994. Another woman, an extra on the 1990s sitcom “Ellen,” in which Piven co-starred, said the actor exposed himself, pinned her on his bed and forcefully kissed her while giving her a tour of his home in 1996.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeremy-piven-sexual-misconduct-allegations_us_5a6e33f6e4b0ddb658c76db3
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Top Democratic Consultant Resigns Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations
A Democratic campaign committee has launched an investigation into the charges.
By Amanda Terkel
02/13/2018
WASHINGTON ― Democratic consultant Jim Walsh resigned from both of his digital strategy firms on Tuesday, facing allegations of sexual misconduct.
Walsh was the co-founder of the two firms, DSPolitical and Rising Tide Interactive.
“After an incredible 7 years helping to build DSPolitical and Rising Tide Interactive, I’m leaving the team I love,” he wrote Tuesday afternoon on Facebook. “It has been an incredible experience and we’ve achieved so much with our amazing clients. Some of you have already heard from me, but for the rest of you, I’m looking forward to catching up soon. Thanks to you all!”
HuffPost spoke with a woman who said Walsh sexually assaulted her over a decade ago, when she was 21 years old and was looking for advice about how to get into politics. She is involved in politics in Washington state, so she brought her concerns to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the national organization that the party works with.
This woman said she spoke with the DLCC on Friday, and the official there expressed concern over the allegations and said they would be investigated.
Mara Sloan, the communications director of the DLCC, confirmed that the group had received a complaint against Walsh, and that their legal team had launched an investigation.
The woman also said she recently told her colleagues about her experience with Walsh, and explained that she did not want the party working with his firm. One of her co-workers confirmed that she heard from the woman about a week ago on this topic.
The woman said she first brought her story to her supervisors about a year ago, when they were looking for a digital firm to work with. She wanted to make sure that they did not choose DSPolitical, so she told them what had happened with Walsh.
More recently, she told the DLCC what happened because the organization was going to be hosting an event that she would be involved with, and she wanted to ensure that Walsh would not be participating.
DSPolitical did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Walsh’s resignation. His biography and information is already off the websites of both of his firms.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-walsh-resigns_us_5a835d71e4b0cf06751f7985
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lurking here is like being outside the window of a KKK meeting
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lurking here is like being outside the window of a KKK meeting
you'd know.
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lurking here is like being outside the window of a KKK meeting
Fake Ass Cop.
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lurking here is like being outside the window of a KKK meeting
::)
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any way to disconnect from a thread you responded in so it doesn't come up in your replies notification?
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any way to disconnect from a thread you responded in so it doesn't come up in your replies notification?
yes, deactivate your account.
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any way to disconnect from a thread you responded in so it doesn't come up in your replies notification?
So you got called out for your idiocy in your KKK remark and you want to go hide now?
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So you got called out for your idiocy in your KKK remark and you want to go hide now?
Just like his "Trump = Hitler" remark.
He's either a troll or retarded.
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Just like his "Trump = Hitler" remark.
He's either a troll or retarded.
or a fake ass cop.
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any way to disconnect from a thread you responded in so it doesn't come up in your replies notification?
I don't know, but if a thread doesn't interest you, don't open it. It's not hard.
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California #MeToo advocate hit with new claims of misconduct
KATHLEEN RONAYNE
Associated Press•February 15, 2018
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, a vocal leader of the #MeToo movement, faces fresh allegations of misconduct, including frequent discussions about sex and alcohol consumption at her Capitol office.
San Diego lawyer Dan Gilleon filed a formal complaint Wednesday with the Legislature detailing the allegations on behalf of four anonymous former Garcia employees.
The complainants allege Garcia, a Los Angeles-area Democrat, regularly talked in front of the staff about her sexual activity, including with other members of the Legislature. They also allege Garcia drank alcohol while doing official Assembly business and pressured staff to drink with her at the office or at bars.
Garcia, in a Facebook post, said she will address each of the issues individually once an investigation has been completed. But she said the claims don't square with the atmosphere she worked to create.
"I am confident I have consistently treated my staff fairly and respectfully," she wrote.
Ashley Labar, Garcia's chief of staff, said she has "never seen the member engage in the behavior listed in the letter by Mr. Gilleon."
Garcia took a leave of absence last week when it was revealed she is being investigated for allegedly groping Daniel Fierro in 2014, when he worked for a different legislator. News of the investigation marked a stunning twist in the California Legislature's widening sexual harassment scandal that first broke open last fall and prompted two assemblymen to resign.
A joint legislative committee convened in January in response to allegations of rampant and pervasive harassment at the Legislature will have its second meeting Thursday and hear from legal experts to discuss how to create effective policies. The nine-member panel has avoided commenting on specific allegations against lawmakers but its members have offered blistering criticism of a system they say is broken.
Garcia has been a leader of the #MeToo movement and a fierce advocate for women's issues. She chaired the Legislative Women's Caucus before taking her leave of absence. Caucus members voted Wednesday to install Democratic Assemblywoman Susan Eggman as the interim chair.
Garcia has authored numerous bills about sexual assault, activity and consent, issues current staff members said are discussed in the office when relevant.
Gilleon, who has represented clients in past high-profile sexual harassment cases such as the case against former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, said his clients will cooperate with an investigation but do not want their names to be public for fear of retribution.
"My clients will vigorously defend what they have said, but I will insist that the Assembly takes serious steps to ensure their protection against reprisal," Gilleon said in a letter he delivered to the Assembly Rules Committee after a press conference on the Capitol steps.
None of the new complaints involve physical contact, but Gilleon said the former employees considered Garcia's frequent talk about sex a form sexual harassment.
The letter also alleges Garcia created a hostile work environment by being "vindictive" toward staff and abused her authority by asking her staff to perform personal duties, such as taking care of her dogs. The letter also alleges Garcia asked staff members to help with campaign activities for her and other lawmakers on state time.
Tim Reardon, Garcia's former chief of staff, said he never heard or was told that Garcia was discussing her sexual activities in the office. He acknowledged alcohol occasionally is present at the Capitol.
"There are times in a lot of offices where someone will have wine or that nature," he said. "But there has never been excessive drinking like it's some kind of drinking party."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-metoo-advocate-hit-claims-misconduct-071822943.html
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California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia denies groping accusations
CBS NEWS February 20, 2018
A California state lawmaker at the forefront of the #MeToo movement faces a growing number of sexual misconduct allegations herself. Four former employees filed a formal complaint against Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia. Another says he was fired after protesting when she suggested playing "spin the bottle."
Garcia has authored numerous bills about sexual assault and consent. She was even recently featured in Time magazine's "Persons of the Year" issue recognizing the #MeToo movement's "silence breakers." But now she is on voluntary leave, as investigators look into claims she groped two men.
Daniel Fierro was working in the California State Capitol when he said Garcia cornered him at a staff softball game.
"I remember feeling a little confused about what happened," Fierro said.
"She touched you sexually?" Villarreal asked.
"Yea, she -- her hand dropped down. She touched – she grabbed my butt. And I spun to turn around … and as I turned, she tried to reach for my crotch and she did," Fierro said.
When Villarreal asked Garcia whether Fierro's claims happened, Garcia said, "No."
"What do you remember happening that day?" Villarreal asked.
"I was at the game at the end of the game… And I left with some staff and with some members, and so I have faith that the investigation will make sure and have the facts around it and clear my name," Garcia said.
A second unnamed accuser also claims Garcia made a graphic sexual proposal before groping him, something she denies.
The four former state employees that have filed the formal complaint allege Garcia talked openly about "sexual activities with other elected officials," claimed to have sex in "assembly offices" and said "having sex… was a good way of getting information."
"That's definitely not anything that happened. Not only did I not have those conversations, but I'm also not engaging in sex for information or for votes," Garcia said.
As a #MeToo activist, she's called on those accused of harassment to resign immediately – but she does not plan to do so herself.
"I don't know if I would go so far as to say that it's hypocritical. What I do know is that it's incredibly questionable," Fierro said.
"I'm going to be respectful of the process. I've been trying really hard to be respectful of people coming forward," Garcia said. "I've never had allegations like this against me."
Garcia has yet to be interviewed by investigators. She's on unpaid leave until the investigation is complete. There's no clear timeline on when that will be.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cristina-garcia-california-assemblywoman-denies-sexual-misconduct-accusations/
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5423811/Brendan-Fraser-opens-sexual-harassment.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5423811/Brendan-Fraser-opens-sexual-harassment.html)
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;D ;D ;D ;D
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=640018.0;attach=756952;image)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5423811/Brendan-Fraser-opens-sexual-harassment.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5423811/Brendan-Fraser-opens-sexual-harassment.html)
Ah, so that's what happened to him. I always wondered what happened to his career. He was doing so well, moving up in his career, up until about The Mummy franchise, then he kinda disappeared. I really liked his performance in "Blast from the Past" and "Bedazzled." What a shame that Hollywood molester had to ruin everything.
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Ah, so that's what happened to him. I always wondered what happened to his career. He was doing so well, moving up in his career, up until about The Mummy franchise, then he kinda disappeared. I really liked his performance in "Blast from the Past" and "Bedazzled." What a shame that Hollywood molester had to ruin everything.
look into what his wife did to him during their divorce. She got ALL of his money. $900k/year in child support.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/brendan-fraser-broke-child-support_n_2696756.html (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/brendan-fraser-broke-child-support_n_2696756.html)
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look into what his wife did to him during their divorce. She got ALL of his money. $900k/year in child support.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/brendan-fraser-broke-child-support_n_2696756.html (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/brendan-fraser-broke-child-support_n_2696756.html)
The poor bastard. He seems like a really nice guy. I hope things get a lot better for him.
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Ah, so that's what happened to him. I always wondered what happened to his career. He was doing so well, moving up in his career, up until about The Mummy franchise, then he kinda disappeared. I really liked his performance in "Blast from the Past" and "Bedazzled." What a shame that Hollywood molester had to ruin everything.
Bedazzled is one of the funniest movies ever. ;D
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ABC star Ryan Seacrest's alleged sexual misconduct details revealed by his accuser
By Tyler McCarthy | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/02/26/abc-star-ryan-seacrests-alleged-sexual-misconduct-details-revealed-by-his-accuser.html
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Ryan Secrest gotta be fake news. Was a woman....
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this is a bold strategy
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this is a bold strategy
Filthy liberal disgusting pervs
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Grab them by the p@$$33
Report: Mark Cuban investigated for alleged sexual assault in 2011, charges never filed
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“It was apparent he was very drunk,” the woman’s friend later told police. “His eyes were half closed, he was unstable on his feet, and he was slurring his words.”
The alleged victim asked Cuban to pose for a picture.
She told police that Cuban initially placed his right hand on her lower back.
“He then moved his hand down until it was on her buttocks,” according to [Portland Police Detective Brendan] McGuire’s summary of the alleged victim’s statement. “Cuban then pushed his hand down the back of her jeans and inside her underwear where he cupped his hand over her groin area and inserted the tip of his finger into her vagina.”
The woman discussed the matter with family and friends before reporting it to police more than a week after the alleged incident. She submitted cellphone photos as evidence, including two that the detective on the case described as “significant”:
“In both images, Cuban’s right shoulder is lowered and he appears to be stretching to reach his arm down,” McGuire’s report says. “In one of the pictures, his arm can be seen behind [the alleged victim] and it appears Cuban is reaching down toward her buttocks.”
McGuire also noted the alleged victim’s expression: “Her teeth are clenched, eyes wider than the other pictures and brow raised showing a look of surprise and strain.”
Cuban: I mean, wouldn’t she have said something to somebody?
McGuire: Well, according to her, she did. According to her, she immediately told her friends she was with, her boyfriend, and then basically that started a whole several-day argument as to what they should do about it. Before they actually decided to talk to us.
Cuban: There’s just no way. There’s just no way. Just no way. If she told five friends right there and then, then that’s what they’re gonna tell the judge and I’m gonna be f****d. Oh my God. [sighs] I don’t know what to do.
McGuire: Well, unfortunately, I can’t help you with that.
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Cuban: F*** me! I’m so f****d
He wasn’t. McGuire’s investigation concluded with a recommendation that “the case be suspended,” due to the exhaustion of all leads and a lack of evidence to corroborate the woman’s claims. No charges were ever brought.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report-mark-cuban-investigated-alleged-sexual-assault-2011-charges-never-filed-054514266.html
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# = pound
Me too
#metoo = ?
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# = pound
Me too
#metoo = ?
;D ;D ;D
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Grab them by the p@$$33
Report: Mark Cuban investigated for alleged sexual assault in 2011, charges never filed
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“It was apparent he was very drunk,” the woman’s friend later told police. “His eyes were half closed, he was unstable on his feet, and he was slurring his words.”
The alleged victim asked Cuban to pose for a picture.
She told police that Cuban initially placed his right hand on her lower back.
“He then moved his hand down until it was on her buttocks,” according to [Portland Police Detective Brendan] McGuire’s summary of the alleged victim’s statement. “Cuban then pushed his hand down the back of her jeans and inside her underwear where he cupped his hand over her groin area and inserted the tip of his finger into her vagina.”
The woman discussed the matter with family and friends before reporting it to police more than a week after the alleged incident. She submitted cellphone photos as evidence, including two that the detective on the case described as “significant”:
“In both images, Cuban’s right shoulder is lowered and he appears to be stretching to reach his arm down,” McGuire’s report says. “In one of the pictures, his arm can be seen behind [the alleged victim] and it appears Cuban is reaching down toward her buttocks.”
McGuire also noted the alleged victim’s expression: “Her teeth are clenched, eyes wider than the other pictures and brow raised showing a look of surprise and strain.”
Cuban: I mean, wouldn’t she have said something to somebody?
McGuire: Well, according to her, she did. According to her, she immediately told her friends she was with, her boyfriend, and then basically that started a whole several-day argument as to what they should do about it. Before they actually decided to talk to us.
Cuban: There’s just no way. There’s just no way. Just no way. If she told five friends right there and then, then that’s what they’re gonna tell the judge and I’m gonna be f****d. Oh my God. [sighs] I don’t know what to do.
McGuire: Well, unfortunately, I can’t help you with that.
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Cuban: F*** me! I’m so f****d
He wasn’t. McGuire’s investigation concluded with a recommendation that “the case be suspended,” due to the exhaustion of all leads and a lack of evidence to corroborate the woman’s claims. No charges were ever brought.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report-mark-cuban-investigated-alleged-sexual-assault-2011-charges-never-filed-054514266.html
So no 2020 for Cubes now?
Would have been interesting but my dream matchup is still Trump v. Warren
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So no 2020 for Cubes now?
Would have been interesting but my dream matchup is still Trump v. Warren
I can’t stand mark Cuban. Pompous ass
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;D ;D ;D
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=640018.0;attach=757630;image)
It happened two years ago. In California, the statue of limitation on sexual assault is five minutes.
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So no 2020 for Cubes now?
Would have been interesting but my dream matchup is still Trump v. Warren
Warren? No Pocahontas for me. I'd like to see Democrats nominate someone good for a change. Better for the country, particularly if that nominee wins.
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'American Idol' hopeful calls kiss with Katy Perry 'uncomfortable'
After "American Idol" hopeful Benjamin Glaze told judge Katy Perry that he had never been kissed in the show's premiere episode, she surprised him by planting one on his lips before his audition.
In a new interview with The New York Times, Glaze acknowledged that while some men would have been thrilled to share that moment with the pop star, he isn't one of them.
Explaining that the kiss made him "a tad bit uncomfortable," the 20-year-old cashier from Enid, Oklahoma, added that he'd "wanted to save it for my first relationship."
“Would I have done it if she said, ‘Would you kiss me?’ No, I would have said no,” he said. “I was raised in a conservative family and I was uncomfortable immediately. I wanted my first kiss to be special.”
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/american-idol-hopeful-calls-kiss-katy-perry-uncomfortable-192603365--abc-news-tv.html
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What a Beta fag
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What a Beta fag
Maybe so, but imagine if he were a teenage girl and the judge was a 33 year old male. So much for so called gender equality.
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Maybe so, but imagine if he were a teenage girl and the judge was a 33 year old male. So much for so called gender equality.
Good point.
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Capitol Police Arrested Male Dem Operative For Assaulting Female Trump Admin Official
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MICHAEL BASTASCH
1:36 PM 03/16/2018
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U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a male Democratic operative for assaulting a female Interior Department communications official following a House budget hearing Thursday.
The assault happened after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke finished testifying on the department’s 2019 budget proposal before the House Committee on Natural Resources. The suspect identified himself as a reporter with American Bridge and pushed a female Interior Department communications official to the floor, chasing after Zinke, The Daily Caller News Foundation learned.
Interior communications director Laura Rigas was “greatly alarmed and extremely irate that a female senior member of my DOI Communications team was physically assaulted today by a Democrat staffer from the PAC American Bridge,” she told Politico.
Interior officials filed a police report, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned, but it has not yet been processed, police said. It will be made public in seven to 10 days once processed. American Bridge did not respond to TheDCNF’s request for comment.
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“We are appalled to hear of the events following yesterday’s hearing where a member of Secretary Zinke’s staff was victim to an assault,” committee spokeswoman Katie Schoettler told TheDCNF.
“These actions are reprehensible and have no place in this body. We thank the U.S. Capitol Police for their quick response and professionalism,” Schoettler said. “The USCP is now handling the matter.”
Police took the American Bridge operative into custody on Thursday. Police “arrested an adult male for simple assault against another individual outside room 1324 in the Longworth House Office Building,” an officer told Politico on Thursday.
“The suspect was transported to USCP Headquarters for processing,” the Capitol Police officer told Politico.
American Bridge is a political action committee dedicated to “holding Republicans accountable for their words and actions,” according to their website. American Bridge is known for having operatives follow Republican candidates on the campaign trail.
Democratic operative David Brock founded American Bridge in 2010 and raised tens of millions of dollars to support liberal candidates. The group has been described as an “opposition research hub of the Democratic fundraising apparatus.”
Liberal billionaire George Soros donated $2 million to American Bridge in 2016, and the Tom Steyer-founded NextGen Climate Action regularly donates money to the group, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
The group told Politico they were not aware of the incident, but would be looking into it.
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How is she involved with Weinstein?
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Maybe so, but imagine if he were a teenage girl and the judge was a 33 year old male. So much for so called gender equality.
Didn't even think of that until I read your post.. yeah.. creepy and especially if the teen age girl just got through saying she was saving her 1st kiss for a special someone...
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Democratic Rep. Esty says she won't seek re-election after abuse claims against ex-staffer
By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News
Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn., announced Monday that she would not seek re-election this November amid accusations that she failed to protect her female staffers from a former chief of staff accused of harassment and abuse.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/02/democratic-rep-esty-says-wont-seek-re-election-after-abuse-claims-against-ex-staffer.html
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Jimmy Kimmel asking 18 year old girls to grab his crotch and to put their mouth on it
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Linda Vester had a reputation for covering tough stories. As a war correspondent for NBC News in the ’90s, she spent three tours of duty in the Middle East and took two assignments in Africa.
But as it turned out, her biggest battle at work wasn’t in the field. She says it was as a victim of sexual harassment by Tom Brokaw, the legendary newsman who manned the anchor desk for “NBC Nightly News” for 22 years and hosted “Today” and “Meet the Press.”
In a series of interviews with Variety conducted over several months, Vester alleged that Brokaw physically tried to force her to kiss him on two separate occasions, groped her in a NBC conference room and showed up at her hotel room uninvited. Two friends who Vester told at the time corroborated her story with Variety, and she shared her journal entries from the time period. Brokaw, who has been married to Meredith Auld since 1962, has never before been publicly accused of sexual harassment.
In a statement from him supplied by a NBC News spokesman, Brokaw said of the allegations, “I met with Linda Vester on two occasions, both at her request, 23 years ago because she wanted advice with respect to her career at NBC. The meetings were brief, cordial and appropriate, and despite Linda’s allegations, I made no romantic overtures towards her at that time or any other.”
Vester, who was 28 at the time of the alleged incident, says she didn’t report Brokaw’s conduct to the police or NBC human resources because she was scared it would end her career. She left NBC in 1999 and went on to anchor her own show on Fox News through 2006.
She’s speaking out now, because she believes her story sheds light on the culture at NBC News, where she believes male bosses treated their female colleagues as objects. After “Today” co-host Matt Lauer was fired for inappropriate conduct involving an NBC employee last November, NBC launched an internal review of its practices but didn’t bring in an outside firm to investigate — a step Vester believes is necessary to fix NBC’s culture.
“What Linda is doing, like others before her have done, is to give her truthful account in the hope that other women will not have to endure what she did,” says Ari Wilkenfeld, her attorney, who also represented one of the victims of Lauer’s sexual harassment. “Linda is literally seeking nothing for herself. She comes forward at her own expense and at her own peril. By her being willing to go on the record, perhaps this will embolden other brave women to tell their stories.”
https://pagesix.com/2018/04/26/tom-brokaw-accused-of-sexual-harassment-by-former-nbc-anchor/
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http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/tom-brokaw-sexual-harassment-nbc-news-correspondent-1202789627/
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A Third Woman Has Accused Tom Brokaw of Sexual Misconduct
Hannah Gold
Last Thursday, two former NBC News employees claimed in separate reports that they’d been sexually harassed by former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw. In Variety, Linda Vester, a former NBC anchor herself, told Variety that Brokaw forcibly tried to kiss her twice, groped her, and showed up at her hotel room uninvited. A few hours later, the Washington Post published the account of an anonymous woman, a former NBC production assistant, who said Brokaw touched her without her consent. Both of the women alleged the unwanted advances occurred in the ’90s. Brokaw denied these allegations.
On Tuesday, a third woman accused Brokaw of unwanted advances. Freelance journalist Mary Reinholz claimed in a first-person essay for New York City weekly newspaper The Villager, that Brokaw kissed her without her consent 50 years ago; at the time, he was helping her with an investigative story. Reinholz writes in her account:
“For the record, Brokaw made a pass at me 50 years ago in my rented hillside house not long after he had obtained, on my request, the arrest record of a fraudulent advertiser for the now-defunct Los Angeles Free Press, granddaddy of the Southern California alternative press….We talked and then, abruptly, he was embracing me and giving me a French kiss. I pulled away, reminding him that he was married and a tryst was out of the question. He said, ‘Yes, it would be unfair to Meredith,’ meaning his wife.”
Reinholz goes on to writes of the incident that she “shrugged it off as progressive women of my generation were wont to do,” but that the situation made her “uncomfortable.” It was the #MeToo movement and the stories of the two women who already made accusations against Brokaw that incited her to come forward. Reinholz writes, “Why would the two women lie?”
Over the weekend, more than 60 women who are current and former NBC employees wrote a letter vouching for Brokaw. Maria Shriver, Rachel Maddow, and Andrea Mitchell all notably signed it. Page Six reported on Monday that several NBC staffers felt coerced into signing the letter. An NBC News staffer told Page Six, “We felt forced to sign the letter supporting Brokaw. We had no choice, particularly the lower level staffers.”
https://jezebel.com/a-third-woman-has-accused-tom-brokaw-of-sexual-miscondu-1825702917
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Report: Charlie Rose's alleged harassment included dozens of women, goes back decades
by Chris Isidore @CNNMoney
May 3, 2018
Allegations of sexual harassment against Charlie Rose were far more numerous than previously reported, according to an in-depth investigation by the Washington Post.
Despite previous denials by CBS, at least some of the allegations had been reported to management at CBS News during his decades of work there, the Post reports, citing multiple people with firsthand knowledge of the conversations.
Rose was fired from CBS and PBS in November after the Washington Post identified eight women who claimed Rose engaged in "unwanted sexual advances."
The newspaper reported Thursday that it had found an additional 27 women - 14 CBS News employees and 13 who worked with him elsewhere, who say that Rose harassed them, including sexual touching, comments and unwanted advances.
Rose worked on several shows at the network, most recently as an anchor on "CBS This Morning" and as a correspondent on "60 Minutes."
CBS News management was notified of a complaint about Rose as far back as 1986 according to the Post's investigation. The most recent incident of alleged misconduct reported to CBS management came in early 2017, according to the Post's investigation.
Rose denied the allegations. He gave the Post a single sentence comment: "Your story is unfair and inaccurate." Charlie Rose did not respond to request for comment from CNN.
Related: What happens when you witness sexual harassment in the workplace
In November, when the allegations became public, Rose issued this statement:
"It is essential that these women know I hear them and that I deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. I am greatly embarrassed. I have behaved insensitively at times, and I accept responsibility for that, though I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate. I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken."
Rumors about the Post's investigation have been roiling CBS News for months.
The newspaper interviewed 107 current and former CBS News employees as well as 24 others who worked with Rose at other television programs as part of a five-month investigation. A lawyer for three of the women named in the story told the paper they will be filing a lawsuit in the coming days.
CBS News did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment about the report.
CBS News President David Rhodes sent an email to staffers following the report. The text of the email was obtained by CNN. In it he said how the network responds to complaints about sexual harassment has been a "significant focus" for the network this year.
"Getting this right is critical. So is our responsibility to afford due process to all concerned," he wrote. "We will continue our accounting for what has happened here before, and we will be the best place to do what we do in the future."
The email from Rhodes on Thursday marks the first time that CBS Corporation has said it retained an outside law firm, Proskauer, to provide "independent advice" on how it handles complaints of sexual harassment.
Rhodes' email said "we have continued to investigate a number of issues consistent with our long-standing policies."
According to the Post, Rhodes issued a memo in March that said he was not aware of harassment by Charlie Rose at CBS. Rhodes said again in March at an event at George Washington University that he didn't know about the anchor's behavior, according to the Post.
"Just to be really clear, there was not knowledge," he said, according to the Post's story.
CBS News told the Post it had no human resources complaints about Rose. It told the paper it has changed its policies since the allegations against Rose became public.
"We offer employees discretion and fairness, and we take swift action when we learn of unacceptable behavior," said the network's statement. "That said, we cannot corroborate or confirm many of the situations described. We continue to look for ways to improve our workplace and this period of reflection and action has been important to all of us. We are not done with this process."
The Post reports that prior to 2016 if an employee reported an incident to a member of management and the employee asked that it not be reported to the Human Resources department, it was not.
The paper said it confirmed that happened in at least one incident when a woman told her manager about being forcibly kissed by Rose at a 2011 holiday party, but asked that the complaint not go to Human Resources.
The manager, Chris Licht, who now heads the "Late Show With Stephen Colbert," confirmed the exchange in an email to the Post and said he talked to Rose about the incident.
Licht's actions were "within the scope of CBS policy at the time" and that the "employee in question was satisfied with the result," CBS News spokesperson Christa Robinson told the paper, adding that CBS revised its policy in 2016 to require supervisors to "promptly report" harassment complaints to the human resources department or a compliance officer.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/03/media/charlie-rose-sexual-harassment-allegations/index.html
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Creepy perverted libs
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Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse
Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.
By Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow
Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, has long been a liberal Democratic champion of women’s rights, and recently he has become an outspoken figure in the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. As New York State’s highest-ranking law-enforcement officer, Schneiderman, who is sixty-three, has used his authority to take legal action against the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, and to demand greater compensation for the victims of Weinstein’s alleged sexual crimes. Last month, when the Times and this magazine were awarded a joint Pulitzer Prize for coverage of sexual harassment, Schneiderman issued a congratulatory tweet, praising “the brave women and men who spoke up about the sexual harassment they had endured at the hands of powerful men.” Without these women, he noted, “there would not be the critical national reckoning under way.”
Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of his own. As his prominence as a voice against sexual misconduct has risen, so, too, has the distress of four women with whom he has had romantic relationships or encounters. They accuse Schneiderman of having subjected them to nonconsensual physical violence. All have been reluctant to speak out, fearing reprisal. But two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, have talked to The New Yorker on the record, because they feel that doing so could protect other women. They allege that he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent. Manning Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the abuse he inflicted on them as “assault.” They did not report their allegations to the police at the time, but both say that they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam says that Schneiderman warned her he could have her followed and her phones tapped, and both say that he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him. (Schneiderman’s spokesperson said that he “never made any of these threats.”)
A third former romantic partner of Schneiderman’s told Manning Barish and Selvaratnam that he also repeatedly subjected her to nonconsensual physical violence, but she told them that she is too frightened of him to come forward. (The New Yorker has independently vetted the accounts that they gave of her allegations.) A fourth woman, an attorney who has held prominent positions in the New York legal community, says that Schneiderman made an advance toward her; when she rebuffed him, he slapped her across the face with such force that it left a mark that lingered the next day. She recalls screaming in surprise and pain, and beginning to cry, and says that she felt frightened. She has asked to remain unidentified, but shared a photograph of the injury with The New Yorker.
In a statement, Schneiderman said, “In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse
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Ex: Schneiderman called me ‘brown slave,’ slapped me until I called him ‘Master’
By Kate Sheehy May 7, 2018 | 8:48pm
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Ex: Schneiderman called me ‘brown slave,’ slapped me until I called him ‘Master’
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State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called his Sri Lankan girlfriend his “brown slave” and wanted her to refer to him as “Master,” the woman says.
Harvard-educated activist writer Tanya Selvaratnam told the New Yorker magazine that her yearlong affair with Schneiderman “was a fairytale that became a nightmare” — and quickly escalated into violence in the bedroom, even as he begged for threesomes.
“Sometimes, he’d tell me to call him Master, and he’d slap me until I did,” Selvaratnam said.
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Ex-girlfriend says Schneiderman beat, choked her after night of drinking
Ex-girlfriend says Schneiderman beat, choked her after night of drinking
“He started calling me his ‘brown slave’ and demanding that I repeat that I was ‘his property.’”
Selvaratnam said, “The slaps started after we’d gotten to know each other.
“It was at first as if he were testing me. Then it got stronger and harder. It wasn’t consensual. This wasn’t sexual playacting. This was abusive, demeaning, threatening behavior.”
She said that as the violence grew, so did his sexual demands.
“He was obsessed with having a threesome and said it was my job to find a woman,” Selvaratnam said. “He said he’d have nothing to look forward to if I didn’t and would hit me until I agreed.”
She said she had no intention of adding a second woman to their bed.
The abuse increased until Schneiderman was not only slapping her but spitting on her and choking her, she said.
“He was cutting off my ability to breathe,” she said.
Soon, “we could rarely have sex without him beating me.”
The attorney general was often fueled by booze, Selvaratnam said.
And he would push her to drink, too, she said.
“Drink your bourbon, Turnip,’’ she said he ordered her, using his nickname for her.
A friend finally helped her leave him, Selvaratnam said.
Schneiderman told the mag in a statement, “In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”
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Holy F - a racist too - go figure - typical liberal beta freak
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Ex-girlfriend says Schneiderman beat, choked her after night of drinking
By Kate Sheehy May 7, 2018 | 8:13pm | Updated
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Ex-girlfriend says Schneiderman beat, choked her after night of drinking
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She says she started seeing the signs of his dark side almost immediately.
First, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ordered his then-new girlfriend, feminist Michelle Manning Barish, to get her wrist tattoo removed — because he said it wasn’t fitting for the potential wife of a politician, she told the New Yorker magazine in an explosive report published Monday.
Then came the brutal beating, she said.
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Four women accuse Schneiderman of sexual harassment, abuse
Four women accuse Schneiderman of sexual harassment, abuse
About a month into their relationship, after a boozy night, the pair fell into bed, still fully clothed, in his Upper West Side apartment — and he called her a “whore,’’ Barish said.
Then “all of a sudden, he just slapped me, open-handed and with great force, across the face, landing the blow directly onto my ear,” she said.
“It was horrendous. It just came out of nowhere. My ear was ringing. I lost my balance and fell backward onto the bed. I sprang up, but at this point there was very little room between the bed and him.
“I got up to try to shove him back, or take a swing, and he pushed me back down. He then used his body weight to hold me down, and he began to choke me. The choking was very hard. It was really bad. I kicked. In every fiber, I felt I was being beaten by a man.
“I was crying and in shock,” she told the mag.
She said she shouted at him, “Are you crazy?”
The top lawman responded by accusing her of scratching him — and said at some point, “You know, hitting an officer of the law is a felony,” Barish said.
The political activist said she left his apartment, telling him they were through.
“I want to make it absolutely clear,” Barish told the New Yorker. “This was under no circumstances a sex game gone wrong. This did not happen while we were having sex.
“I was fully dressed and remained that way. It was completely unexpected and shocking. I did not consent to physical assault.”
But the relationship wasn’t over.
Barish went back to him, and the pair stayed together, off and on, for nearly the next two years.
She said their sex sessions often included him slapping her across the face without her consent.
Meanwhile, verbal abuse from him about her appearance was constant, she said.
She said he drank huge amounts of booze during their time together.
“I would come over for dinner. An already half-empty bottle of red wine would be on the counter. He had had a head start,’’ she said.
“‘Very stressful day,’ he would say.”
Schneiderman “would almost always drink two bottles of wine in a night, then bring a bottle of Scotch into the bedroom. He would get absolutely plastered five nights out of seven,’’ Barish said.
Once, “he literally fell on his face in my kitchen, straight down, like a tree falling.”
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Eric Schneiderman and Michelle Manning Barish call it quits
Eric Schneiderman and Michelle Manning Barish call it quits
She said they broke up and got back together two more times over the ensuing months, then finally split for good in 2015.
Barish posted on Facebook later Monday that she was stepping forward now “for my daughter and for all women.
“I could not remain silent and encourage other women to be brave for me,’’ she wrote. “I could not leave my sisters who had been harmed hanging-discredited-when I knew the truth. It is all true.”
Schneiderman said in a statement to the New Yorker, “In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse?irgwc=1&source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Skimbit%20Ltd.&mbid=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Skimbit%20Ltd.&irgwc=1&source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Skimbit%20Ltd.&mbid=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Skimbit%20Ltd.
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NY AG Schneiderman Releases Statement- Says it Was Just ‘Role-Playing’ When he Slapped, Beat, Choked, Threatened 4 Women
Cristina Laila by Cristina Laila May 7, 2018 73 Comments
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Yashar Ali, a reporter for the Huffington Post warned his Twitter followers that a huge story about one of Trump’s “foes” was about to drop.
And he delivered.
Media exploded after it was revealed New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is working with Mueller on Paul Manafort’s case has been accused of physical abuse by four women.
Schneiderman even threatened to stalk, wiretap phones and KILL the women if they broke up with him!
Schneiderman immediately released a statement on Monday evening accusing the women of lying.
The New York Attorney General is denying the allegations.
“In the privacy of intimate relationships I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in non-consensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.,” Schneiderman said in a statement.
Via Fox News:
Schneiderman is a longtime Trump foe.
Mueller began working with the anti-Trump New York Attorney General in August to take down the president.
The women who came forward and accused Schneiderman of abuse offer up very detailed accounts. Many friends of the women have confirmed they confided in them after the abuse occurred.
One of the women who accused Schneiderman of abuse says he hit her so hard on the ear that she fell back on the bed. She heard a gurgling sound and had blood dripping out of her ear prompting her to go to an ear nose and throat specialist.
One of the women who was abused by Schneiderman says he got “absolutely plastered” almost every night.
The woman said of Schneiderman, “[He} would almost always drink two bottles of wine in a night, then bring a bottle of Scotch into the bedroom. He would get absolutely plastered five nights out of seven.”
The female victims specifically said they DID NOT consent to this physical violence.
One of the authors of the New Yorker article, Ronan Farrow said in a now deleted tweet: One of the women, a prominent attorney, wasn’t in a relationship with Schneiderman at all. She says he propositioned her, began calling her a “slut” and a “whore,” and, when she withdrew, struck her without warning.
The female attorney said Schneiderman slapped her so hard that it left a “bright red hand print”.
One of the women, a prominent attorney, wasn’t in a relationship with Schneiderman at all. She says he propositioned her, began calling her a “slut” and a “whore,” and, when she withdrew, struck her without warning. pic.twitter.com/XgpVZVFG5s
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) May 7, 2018
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He resigned. This shit doesn’t surprise me. He always had the look of a slimy fucker.
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Spitzer, Weiner, Schneiderman: a bunch of power-hungry perverts
By Bob McManus May 8, 2018 | 6:56pm | Updated
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Spitzer, Weiner, Schneiderman: a bunch of power-hungry perverts
(L-R) Eliot Spitzer, Anthony Weiner and Eric Schneiderman. Getty Images; Paul Martinka
In the beginning there was Eliot, who was followed by Anthony, and now there is Eric — each in his day a superstar rising, and each now irrevocably framed in the rearview mirror of New York politics.
Blame hubris. Blame hormones. Blame the New York way — which attracts and rewards uncommonly arrogant, power-mongering overachievers who lack both boundaries and simple common sense.
Eliot Spitzer, as attorney general, stretched law and custom to terrorize Wall Street; he rode that overreach into Albany’s executive chamber — then hid bank transactions to pay a hooker, got caught and left public life in disgrace.
Anthony Weiner was a congressman, a job he meant only to pave the way to an inevitable arrival at Gracie Mansion. But he began exposing himself on the internet, sometimes to children, and today he’s in prison.
Eric Schneiderman, the now-former attorney general, transformed that office into a hyperactive, extra-official ideological enforcement agency, earning unbounded progressive applause along the way — even as he was beating women in private. Schneiderman denies the charges — leveled in The New Yorker — but they are credible, and he is now a private citizen for the first time since 2003.
The end came swiftly for the Upper West Side liberal luminary — he quit scarcely three hours after the magazine detailed the particulars — and who’s to doubt that this all came as a profound shock to him. Perhaps not the substance of the charges, of course — but certainly the accountability.
New York pols aren’t used to answering for their excesses. Yes, the occasional Preet Bharara lumbers along with halting attempts to enforce the criminal codes — with decidedly mixed results. (Still, thank goodness for the effort.)
But apart from the outrageous and egregious — stand up, Anthony Weiner! — high-ranking New York pols generally offend against the spirit of the law, not the letter.
Eliot Spitzer’s Sheriff of Wall Street schtick — he bludgeoned targets into submission, rarely gaining actual convictions — was a highly personal abuse of power. It was outside of all previous understanding of the limits if his office, it was solely intended to make him governor — and it worked.
Eric Schneiderman used Spitzer’s template as a starting point — suing corporate America for personal political gain and in the end all but declaring legal war on the Trump administration. He too was a serial abuser of power, as well as of women, but who is to doubt that he would have become governor as well? Save for #MeToo?
Such things happen in one-party, low-voter-turnout political environments. While violations of the penal code can attract attention — witness the stream of thieving state legislators entering prison over the past decade — there is no natural check on those who do violence to the spirit of democratic self-government. To the rule of law.
Worse than that, New York voters love it. Both Spitzer and Schneiderman were wildly popular incumbents. And Weiner was well on his way to becoming mayor in 2013 until he flashed his iPhone one more time and started calling himself Carlos Danger.
So no surprise, then, that sociopaths are drawn to high office in the Empire State. It’s fertile ground for those inclined to stretch the law to suit their personal interests, and who then are hailed as heroes for doing so.
Thank goodness they usually blow the whistle on themselves. For the system doesn’t much care.
Bob McManus is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal.
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'Unbelievably Harrowing': Guilfoyle Says Schneiderman Allegedly Abused Another Woman (#5)
Fox News ^ | May 08, 2018 | n/a
Posted on 5/9/2018, 3:00:03 AM by Ken H
Full => 'Unbelievably Harrowing': Kimberly Guilfoyle Says NY Dem Schneiderman Allegedly Abused Another Woman
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She told Martha MacCallum she is working with another alleged victim of Schneiderman who is not named in the Farrow report.
Guilfoyle said that woman told her she went through a "horrific ordeal" and is "very afraid to come forward" against the man who, prior to Monday evening, was the top law enforcement officer in the Empire State.
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...
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That he threw in the towel so quickly tells you that it’s some really bad shit.
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That he threw in the towel so quickly tells you that it’s some really bad shit.
Probably many many many more to come and just like Harvey Weinstein - all the libgagballs and perverts covered for each other.
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A.G. Schneiderman Announces Agreement with the Boy Scouts Of America to Allow Openly Gay Leaders
NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ^ | July 27th 2015 | Barbara Underwood
Posted on 5/9/2018, 1:47:36 AM by Brown Deer
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Agreement with the Boy Scouts Of America to Allow Openly Gay Leaders
Agreement Ensures That The Boy Scouts Provide Equal Opportunity For Gay Employees Nationwide
Schneiderman: Today’s Announcement Is A Watershed Moment For The Boy Scouts Of America
NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to end its policy of excluding openly gay adults from serving as leaders in the organization. As part of the settlement, the BSA has agreed to eliminate the standard nationally, develop guidelines for implementing its new leadership standard, and ensure compliance with anti-discrimination laws going forward.
“Today’s announcement is a watershed moment for the Boy Scouts of America. The mission of the Boy Scouts is to prepare our nation’s young people to become responsible citizens and leaders, and I can think of no better way of doing that than by enabling young people to learn from a diverse group of role models,” said Attorney General Schneiderman. “I am pleased to see the Boy Scouts of America renew its commitment to equal protection under the law, and I look forward to the organization welcoming a new generation of LGBT scout leaders in the months and years ahead.”
"Our family is grateful for the support of the New York Attorney General in holding the Boy Scouts of America accountable for its anti-gay employment and membership policies,” said Tracie Felker, the mother of Pascal Tessier, the gay youth member who applied to work for the Greater New York Councils. “The policy change enacted today will lay the framework for a new era of acceptance and equal opportunity for gay scouts and leaders in the Boy Scout program."
The BSA was founded in 1910 and chartered by Congress with the mission of preparing young people to become responsible citizens and leaders. Historically, the BSA excluded openly gay individuals from membership and leadership, but this policy changed in May 2013, when the BSA announced that youth, up to age 17, could no longer be denied membership on the basis of sexual orientation alone. At that time, however, the BSA did not change its adult leadership standard and continued to maintain a nationwide policy that excluded openly gay individuals aged eighteen or older.
In December 2014, an openly gay BSA youth member, who had recently turned eighteen, submitted an application to work as a camp staffer with the Greater New York Councils. The Greater New York Councils hired the openly gay individual in February 2015. Aware that the staffer was required, as part of his employment, to register as an adult leader of the BSA, the Greater New York Councils submitted the staffer’s adult leader application to the BSA for such registration. The BSA registered the individual and took no action to interfere with his employment by the Greater New York Councils.
In response to concerns about the BSA’s adult leadership standard, the Attorney General’s Civil Rights Bureau opened an investigation into the BSA in April 2015. As a result of the Attorney General’s investigation, the BSA took immediate steps to suspend the enforcement of its adult leadership standard in New York State. In May 2015, at its national annual meeting, BSA President Dr. Robert Gates encouraged the BSA to consider changing its leadership standard that excluded openly gay adults, and further stated that the BSA would not take any action against local councils that did not follow the BSA’s leadership standard in order to comply with state anti-discrimination laws. First by vote of its Executive Committee on July 10, and then by ratification by its National Executive Board on July 27, 2015, the BSA rescinded its leadership standard.
Under the terms of the agreement with Attorney General Schneiderman, the BSA agreed to:
Permanently eliminate the leadership standard excluding openly gay adults, on a nationwide basis;
Develop guidelines for the implementation of its new leadership standard;
Designation of an Equal Employment Opportunity Officer;
Develop a training program for all managerial employees concerning the new leadership standard and its effect upon the recruitment, hiring, and retention of employees in New York; and
Monitor for complaints concerning violations of its new leadership standard.
This matter is being handled by Assistant Attorney General Justin Deabler, and Civil Rights Bureau Chief Kristen Clarke. The Bureau is part of the Division of Social Justice, which is led by Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice Alvin Bragg.
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A.G. Schneiderman Announces Agreement with the Boy Scouts Of America to Allow Openly Gay Leaders
NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ^ | July 27th 2015 | Barbara Underwood
Posted on 5/9/2018, 1:47:36 AM by Brown Deer
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Agreement with the Boy Scouts Of America to Allow Openly Gay Leaders
Agreement Ensures That The Boy Scouts Provide Equal Opportunity For Gay Employees Nationwide
Schneiderman: Today’s Announcement Is A Watershed Moment For The Boy Scouts Of America
NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to end its policy of excluding openly gay adults from serving as leaders in the organization. As part of the settlement, the BSA has agreed to eliminate the standard nationally, develop guidelines for implementing its new leadership standard, and ensure compliance with anti-discrimination laws going forward.
“Today’s announcement is a watershed moment for the Boy Scouts of America. The mission of the Boy Scouts is to prepare our nation’s young people to become responsible citizens and leaders, and I can think of no better way of doing that than by enabling young people to learn from a diverse group of role models,” said Attorney General Schneiderman. “I am pleased to see the Boy Scouts of America renew its commitment to equal protection under the law, and I look forward to the organization welcoming a new generation of LGBT scout leaders in the months and years ahead.”
"Our family is grateful for the support of the New York Attorney General in holding the Boy Scouts of America accountable for its anti-gay employment and membership policies,” said Tracie Felker, the mother of Pascal Tessier, the gay youth member who applied to work for the Greater New York Councils. “The policy change enacted today will lay the framework for a new era of acceptance and equal opportunity for gay scouts and leaders in the Boy Scout program."
The BSA was founded in 1910 and chartered by Congress with the mission of preparing young people to become responsible citizens and leaders. Historically, the BSA excluded openly gay individuals from membership and leadership, but this policy changed in May 2013, when the BSA announced that youth, up to age 17, could no longer be denied membership on the basis of sexual orientation alone. At that time, however, the BSA did not change its adult leadership standard and continued to maintain a nationwide policy that excluded openly gay individuals aged eighteen or older.
In December 2014, an openly gay BSA youth member, who had recently turned eighteen, submitted an application to work as a camp staffer with the Greater New York Councils. The Greater New York Councils hired the openly gay individual in February 2015. Aware that the staffer was required, as part of his employment, to register as an adult leader of the BSA, the Greater New York Councils submitted the staffer’s adult leader application to the BSA for such registration. The BSA registered the individual and took no action to interfere with his employment by the Greater New York Councils.
In response to concerns about the BSA’s adult leadership standard, the Attorney General’s Civil Rights Bureau opened an investigation into the BSA in April 2015. As a result of the Attorney General’s investigation, the BSA took immediate steps to suspend the enforcement of its adult leadership standard in New York State. In May 2015, at its national annual meeting, BSA President Dr. Robert Gates encouraged the BSA to consider changing its leadership standard that excluded openly gay adults, and further stated that the BSA would not take any action against local councils that did not follow the BSA’s leadership standard in order to comply with state anti-discrimination laws. First by vote of its Executive Committee on July 10, and then by ratification by its National Executive Board on July 27, 2015, the BSA rescinded its leadership standard.
Under the terms of the agreement with Attorney General Schneiderman, the BSA agreed to:
Permanently eliminate the leadership standard excluding openly gay adults, on a nationwide basis;
Develop guidelines for the implementation of its new leadership standard;
Designation of an Equal Employment Opportunity Officer;
Develop a training program for all managerial employees concerning the new leadership standard and its effect upon the recruitment, hiring, and retention of employees in New York; and
Monitor for complaints concerning violations of its new leadership standard.
This matter is being handled by Assistant Attorney General Justin Deabler, and Civil Rights Bureau Chief Kristen Clarke. The Bureau is part of the Division of Social Justice, which is led by Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice Alvin Bragg.
Geezuz, this is such a bad idea it's beyond comprehension. Fuck
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NBC Instantly Mocked After It Releases Internal Investigation Report on Lauer
freebeacon ^ | May 9, 2018 | Jack Heretik
Posted on 5/10/2018, 12:34:49 PM by MarvinStinson
NBC was slammed on Twitter Wednesday after it conducted an internal investigation into how the network handled allegations of sexual harassment against Matt Lauer and found there is "no evidence" any NBC senior executives knew about Lauer's behavior.
Lauer was fired from NBC in November after allegations of sexual harassment became public and scandal permeated the widely watched "Today" morning show, the Washington Post reports.
"We found no evidence indicating that any NBC News or Today Show leadership, HR or others in positions of authority in the News Division received any complaints about Lauer’s workplace behavior prior to Nov. 27, 2017," NBC's report summarizing the investigation said. "All four women who came forward confirmed that they did not tell their direct manager or anyone else in a position of authority about their sexual encounters with Lauer. Current and former members of NBC News and Today Show leadership, as well as News HR, stated that they had never received a complaint about inappropriate workplace behavior by Lauer, and we did not find any contrary evidence."
"We cannot change the past. What we can do is learn from it, and try to make it right," NBC News chairman Andrew Lack said.
The report drew instant criticism from twitter users and those on the political right for presenting the investigation as credible when it was conducted by NBC.
Stephen Miller
NBC higher ups investigated NBC higher ups & found that NBC higher ups had no knowledge of misconduct of one if its highest paid stars. https://twitter.com/grynbaum/status/994212694839488512 …
Comfortably Smug
NBC determined NBC did nothing wrong https://twitter.com/AP/status/994215581279838208 …
Nate Madden
I'm sure the network that approved the installation of Lauer's desk-mounted, secret door lock were all over this. https://twitter.com/AP/status/994215581279838208 …
CindyForTrump @immigrant_legal NBC's Matt Lauer report finds "no evidence" that leadership knew of workplace behavior complaints.
And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.😁😁😁😁
J.R. Salzman
NBC investigation into NBC wrongdoing finds no wrongdoing on part of NBC. https://twitter.com/ap/status/994215581279838208 …
James Hasson
Spiked the Weinstein story ✅ Overlooked Matt Lauer giving sex toys and using a button to lock his office when women came in ✅ Allegations about Tom Brokaw as far back as the 90s ✅ Culture of sexual harassment ❌
Yeah, okay. https://twitter.com/AP/status/994215581279838208 …
The Kurgan
Why would NBC say anything different about Matt Lauer? If they admitted compliancy they would open themselves up to massive litigation.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/entertainment/morgan-freeman-accusations/index.html
Morgan Freeman
Another liberal tool
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Harvey Weinstein expected to surrender on sexual assault charges
Published 15 Mins Ago Updated 5 Mins Ago
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Harvey Weinstein
Former Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to New York City police on charges of sexual misconduct on Friday, the New York Times reported, citing two unidentified law enforcement officials.
Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Weinstein, declined to comment on the report. The New York Daily News and NBC News also reported Weinstein was expected to be arrested following a months-long investigation, including by the Manhattan district attorney's office.
More than 70 women have accused the co-founder of the Miramax studio and The Weinstein Co with sexual misconduct including rape, allegations that gave rise to the #MeToo movement in which hundreds of women have publicly accused powerful men in business, government and entertainment.
Weinstein has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone.
Weinstein will be charged over an allegation by at least one accuser, Lucia Evans, a former aspiring actress who told the New Yorker that Weinstein forced her to give him oral sex in 2004, the New York Daily News reported.
The New York Police Department and the Manhattan district attorney's office declined to confirm the news reports.
Entertainment industry heavyweights have distanced themselves from Weinstein, once one of Hollywood's most powerful men, since the accusations became public. The board of the Weinstein Co fired him, the company itself filed for bankruptcy in March and he was expelled in 2017 from the Academy of Motion Pictures.
Actor Ashley Judd last month sued Weinstein, saying that he cost her a part in 1998 for the film "The Lord of the Rings" after she rejected his sexual advances, charges that Weinstein has denied.
Other prominent actors who have publicly accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct include Uma Thurman and Salma Hayek.
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Harvey Weinstein surrenders to New York police 'to face sex misconduct chrges'
BBC News ^ | 5/25/2018 | BBC
Posted on 5/25/2018, 8:19:22 AM by Spiridon
Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has turned himself in to police in New York, where he is expected to face sexual misconduct charges.....
Dozens of journalists were at the 1st Precinct police station in Manhattan when Mr. Weinstein appeared at about 07:25 local time (1125 GMT), dressed casually and carrying a book about director Elia Kazan.....
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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:o :o :o
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:o :o :o
Not Tom Cruise's wife then?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5890179/Anti-child-abuse-advocate-arrested-trying-sex-kids.html
Crazy - should be executed
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FBI: Clinton Campaign Official Arrested On Child Rape Charges; ...Weiner Laptop Intel?
truepundit.com ^ | 06/28/2018 | Staff
Posted on 6/28/2018, 9:43:29 AM by Red Badger
The head of a charity that campaigns against sexual violence has been arrested in New York for child pornography and allegedly trying to meet with children as young as two for sex.
Joel Davis, 22, is accused of trying to set up sexual encounters between himself and young children, as well as soliciting an undercover FBI agent to send sexually explicit videos of minors.
The New Yorker was arrested on Tuesday on child sex abuse and child pornography charges.
Davis is the chairman of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict – an organization devoted to ending sexual violence.
Davis also reportedly worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Davis allegedly told the agents that he was sexually interested in children of all ages. He is accused of sending the agents sexually explicit photographs of infants and toddlers, including some of the children engaged in sex acts with adults.
The 22-year-old allegedly arranged to meet the nine-year-old daughter of one of the undercover agents and with the purported two-year-old daughter of the officer’s girlfriend.
He allegedly went into detail in the text messages about what sexual activities he intended to engage in with the children.
Prosecutors say Davis repeatedly asked the undercover agent to take naked and sexually explicit pictures and videos of the children and to send them to him.
Following his arrest, Davis allegedly admitted to officers that he had abused a 13-year-old boy in the past and that he kept child porn images on his phone.
‘Having started an organization that pushed for the end of sexual violence, Davis displayed the highest degree of hypocrisy by his alleged attempts to sexually exploit multiple minors,’ FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. said.
‘As if this wasn’t repulsive enough, Davis allegedly possessed and distributed utterly explicit images of innocent infants and toddlers being sexually abused by adults.’
Davis faced Manhattan federal court on Tuesday charged with enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, possession of child pornography and receipt and distribution of child pornography.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5909941/Harvey-Weinstein-charged-raping-woman-2006-two-counts-predatory-sexual-assault.html
Wow - this guy was a real monster.
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http://www.tmz.com/2018/07/02/andy-dick-charges-filed-criminal-case-sexual-simple-battery/
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Justin Trudeau Addresses Groping Allegations From 18 Years Ago
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Trudeau, then a 28-year-old teacher, groped a female reporter at the Kokanee Summit music festival in 2000.
“I’m sorry. If I had known you were reporting for a national paper, I never would have been so forward,” the editorial quoted Trudeau as telling the reporter after the alleged incident.
According to the editorial, Trudeau apologized for “inappropriately handling” the reporter a day after the alleged incident occurred.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/justin-trudeau-addresses-groping-allegations-200450804.html
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/05/groping-accusations-puncture-the-trudeau-brand/?utm_term=.f83a3ea15b55&wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1
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L.A. County Children and Family Services Employee Charged With Distributing Child Porn
KTLA ^ | 7-10-18
Posted on 7/11/2018, 11:30:52 AM by markomalley
An employee of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has been charged with distributing child pornography online, the district attorney’s office announced Tuesday.
Carlos Enrique Castillo, 54, faces five felony counts of distributing child pornography and one felony count of possession of over 600 images of child or youth pornography, according to the criminal complaint. Castillo pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
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Disney fires Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn after old pedophilia jokes found on Twitter
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Among the tweets that forced Disney and Marvel’s hand were: “I like when little boys touch me in my silly place.”
Another: “The best thing about being raped is when you’re done being raped and it’s like ‘whew this feels great, not being raped!’” There were others that made satirical comments about the 9/11 attack, AIDS and the Holocaust. Yet another described a monkey masturbating on a young child, and his commentary that it made him “extremely happy.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/disney-fires-guardians-galaxy-director-214022709.html
https://deadline.com/2018/07/james-gunn-fired-guardians-of-the-galaxy-disney-offensive-tweets-1202430392/
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Disney fires Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn after old pedophilia jokes found on Twitter
(http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/persons/224931/224931_v9_ba.jpg)
Among the tweets that forced Disney and Marvel’s hand were: “I like when little boys touch me in my silly place.”
Another: “The best thing about being raped is when you’re done being raped and it’s like ‘whew this feels great, not being raped!’” There were others that made satirical comments about the 9/11 attack, AIDS and the Holocaust. Yet another described a monkey masturbating on a young child, and his commentary that it made him “extremely happy.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/disney-fires-guardians-galaxy-director-214022709.html
https://deadline.com/2018/07/james-gunn-fired-guardians-of-the-galaxy-disney-offensive-tweets-1202430392/
He looks perfectly sane....
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Check out Mike Cernovich on Twitter. Dude is exposing all of Hollywood on their Pedo ring. Hollywood = Liberal cesspool of pedos
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What kinda man rubs his genitals all over a plastic baby doll? One that has a show on "Cartoon Network", that's who!
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Check out Mike Cernovich on Twitter. Dude is exposing all of Hollywood on their Pedo ring. Hollywood = Liberal cesspool of pedos
Yeah Cernovich is a pit bull for sure.
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What kinda man rubs his genitals all over a plastic baby doll? One that has a show on "Cartoon Network", that's who!
Another one is about to bite the dust!
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https://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/10/carrie-fisher-ted-kennedy-once-asked-me-if-id-have-sex-with-chris-dodd
Lets not forget Ted Kennedy - that disgusting fat communist whale of a slob - rot in hell fat f!
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PICTURED: Hillary and Bill's intimate dinner with Harvey Weinstein weeks after her election loss - showing just how close the Clintons were to the 'serial rapist' movie mogul
The Clintons were reported to have dined with Harvey Weinstein, wife Georgina Chapman and his lawyer David Boies in December 2016
Photos obtained by DailyMail.com capture the group sitting at a table at Rao's in Harlem chatting over some wine and grub
The dinner outing came just five weeks after Trump had been elected president
The film mogul had been a longtime major donor to the Clintons - having given $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation and $10,000 to Bill's legal fund
Hillary and Harvey were in talks to create a documentary on her failed campaign
By KAREN RUIZ FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23 July 2018
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5976133/PICTURED-Hillary-Clinton-having-dinner-Harvey-Weinstein-election-loss.html
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The ocascio fruitloop said she admired ted kennedy growing up - figures.
PICTURED: Hillary and Bill's intimate dinner with Harvey Weinstein weeks after her election loss - showing just how close the Clintons were to the 'serial rapist' movie mogul
The Clintons were reported to have dined with Harvey Weinstein, wife Georgina Chapman and his lawyer David Boies in December 2016
Photos obtained by DailyMail.com capture the group sitting at a table at Rao's in Harlem chatting over some wine and grub
The dinner outing came just five weeks after Trump had been elected president
The film mogul had been a longtime major donor to the Clintons - having given $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation and $10,000 to Bill's legal fund
Hillary and Harvey were in talks to create a documentary on her failed campaign
By KAREN RUIZ FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23 July 2018
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5976133/PICTURED-Hillary-Clinton-having-dinner-Harvey-Weinstein-election-loss.html
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Russell Simmons Unloading Real Estate as Abuse Claims Mount
6:00 AM PDT 7/25/2018 by Peter Kiefer
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Russell Simmons' 8,000-square-foot, two-story Tantris Yoga Studio on Sunset Blvd
The embattled hip-hop mogul has listed his L.A. home for $8.25 million and is said to be spending a lot of time in Bali as his West Hollywood yoga studio closes.
Is Russell Simmons leaving the jurisdiction?
Amid more than a dozen accusations of sexual misconduct and assault, Simmons is selling off his real estate holdings in both Los Angeles and New York and is shuttering the West Hollywood yoga studio that he opened in 2016.
In May, the embattled co-founder of Def Jam Recordings put his New York Financial District penthouse at 114 Liberty St. on the market for $9.92 million. Now, Simmons has listed his five-bedroom, eight-bathroom 6,000-square-foot Spanish-style home in L.A.'s Hollywood Hills for $8.25 million.
Simmons' 8,000-square-foot, two-story Tantris Yoga Studio on Sunset Blvd. offered a juice bar, blow-dry services and a retail area carrying the Tantris apparel line. When contacted by The Hollywood Reporter, an employee confirmed that the studio would be shutting down at the end of the month.
Sources say Simmons has been spending a lot of time in Bali, a favorite destination (the island is a province of Indonesia, which has no extradition treaty with the U.S.). A spokesperson for Simmons says the mogul is still America-based but simply is traveling more. "Russell divested himself of his active U.S. business interests last year to focus on his spiritual practice and serving his community," says the rep. "As part of that journey, Russell has traveled to many spiritual destinations around the world but continues to retain active family presence and residence in the U.S."
More than a dozen women have come forward in recent months with allegations against the 60-year old Simmons of sexual misconduct dating back to 1983, with several women accusing him of rape. (Simmons has denied the claims.) Last year, Simmons announced that he would be stepping down from his companies — All Def Digital, his film company Def Pictures and the yoga lifestyle brand Tantris — in the wake of the allegations.
In a statement announcing his resignation, Simmons said the companies will “now be run by a new and diverse generation of extraordinary executives who are moving the culture and consciousness forward,” while he would commit himself to “personal growth, spiritual learning and above all to listening.” Since then, several more women have come forward with accusations.
Simmons’ Hollywood Hills gated home above the Sunset Strip is described as offering “true resort-style living with thoughtful Balinese influences throughout.” The main level includes a living room, family room, dining room and an open kitchen with pitched beamed ceilings. There are three en-suite bedrooms on the second floor and a master suite with a fireplace, terrace and walk-in closet. The home also has a pool and a lower level “rock cave” wine cellar. Simmons purchased the home in 2013 for $5.87 million.
The Agency’s David Parnes and James Harris have the listing.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-slept-with-cary-grant-and-spencer-tracyand-changed-hollywood-history
yIKES
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Director Rian Johnson Deletes 20,000 Tweets After James Gunn Firing
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ZPnUHOhpsZdo2IYtKZ2ZSQ--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NjE4O2g9NDEy/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/TheWrap/8216Star_Wars8217_Director_Rian_Johnson-c810d9199cc634c98837a8074002302c)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/star-wars-director-rian-johnson-deletes-20-000-162226276.html
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Director Rian Johnson Deletes 20,000 Tweets After James Gunn Firing
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/star-wars-director-rian-johnson-deletes-20-000-162226276.html
Bunch of demented perverts
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Director Rian Johnson Deletes 20,000 Tweets After James Gunn Firing
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ZPnUHOhpsZdo2IYtKZ2ZSQ--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NjE4O2g9NDEy/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/TheWrap/8216Star_Wars8217_Director_Rian_Johnson-c810d9199cc634c98837a8074002302c)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/star-wars-director-rian-johnson-deletes-20-000-162226276.html
20,000 tweets!?!?!? :o
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20,000 tweets!?!?!? :o
That’s nothing compared to my GB posts. Dude is a piker
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Director Rian Johnson Deletes 20,000 Tweets After James Gunn Firing
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ZPnUHOhpsZdo2IYtKZ2ZSQ--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NjE4O2g9NDEy/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/TheWrap/8216Star_Wars8217_Director_Rian_Johnson-c810d9199cc634c98837a8074002302c)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/star-wars-director-rian-johnson-deletes-20-000-162226276.html
So many of the SJW and liberal variety are now realizing that the whole childish shtick of being offended by anything and everything has started to bite them too. It'd be interesting to see how many others suddenly go through their social media accounts to delete old content.
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That’s nothing compared to my GB posts. Dude is a piker
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Oh dear...
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If true, this one will probably need its own thread as it’s going to be a big story:
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/08/12/ex-girlfriends-son-says-dem-keith-ellison-violently-assaulted-his-mom-says-he-has-video-evidence-and-abusive-threatening-texts-663090/amp?utm_source=Push%20Notifications&utm_medium=BPR&__twitter_impression=true
Ex-girlfriend’s son says Dem Keith Ellison violently assaulted his mom. Says he has video evidence and abusive, threatening texts.
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If true, this one will probably need its own thread as it’s going to be a big story:
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/08/12/ex-girlfriends-son-says-dem-keith-ellison-violently-assaulted-his-mom-says-he-has-video-evidence-and-abusive-threatening-texts-663090/amp?utm_source=Push%20Notifications&utm_medium=BPR&__twitter_impression=true
Ex-girlfriend’s son says Dem Keith Ellison violently assaulted his mom. Says he has video evidence and abusive, threatening texts.
This thread should be renamed "Democrats, the ISIS of America"
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This thread should be renamed "Democrats, the ISIS of America"
Or.... tin foil hat right wingers... same thing
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Or.... tin foil hat right wingers... same thing
Haha, 14 pages of proof but it's "tinfoil hat" stuff. How much Russia collusion proof is there again? I'm buying some stock in Reynolds Wrap...
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SECOND WOMAN Accuses Democrat Keith Ellison of Abuse — Police 911 Report Confirms Incident
The gateway pundit ^ | 8/14/18 | Jim Hoft
Posted on 8/14/2018, 3:58:41 PM
Now this… A second Minnesota woman accused Rep. Keith Ellison of domestic violence. And a police 911 report confirms the incident thanks to work of Laura Loomer!
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
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SECOND WOMAN Accuses Democrat Keith Ellison of Abuse — Police 911 Report Confirms Incident
The gateway pundit ^ | 8/14/18 | Jim Hoft
Posted on 8/14/2018, 3:58:41 PM
Now this… A second Minnesota woman accused Rep. Keith Ellison of domestic violence. And a police 911 report confirms the incident thanks to work of Laura Loomer!
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
:o
Must be the tin foil hats.
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my god... :o
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/asia-argento-paid-sexual-assault-accuser-report-1135872 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/asia-argento-paid-sexual-assault-accuser-report-1135872)
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my god... :o
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/asia-argento-paid-sexual-assault-accuser-report-1135872 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/asia-argento-paid-sexual-assault-accuser-report-1135872)
LOL
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my god... :o
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/asia-argento-paid-sexual-assault-accuser-report-1135872 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/asia-argento-paid-sexual-assault-accuser-report-1135872)
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Hilarious!
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my god... :o
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/asia-argento-paid-sexual-assault-accuser-report-1135872 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/asia-argento-paid-sexual-assault-accuser-report-1135872)
Leaked photo proofs - there are texts too.
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Leaked photo proofs - there are texts too.
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Leaked photo proofs - there are texts too.
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=640018.0;attach=764793;image)
"Help! I've scaped from Asia Argento's basement."
(https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/family-guy-spacey-2.jpg?w=605)
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Busted
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Leaked photo proofs - there are texts too.
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=640018.0;attach=764793;image)
Is that how to treat Anthony Bourdain???
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I guess there hasn’t been any of these in a while. I had to go to page 2 to find the thread:
60 Minutes' honcho Jeff Fager out at CBS, network claims exit 'not directly related' to sex misconduct allegations | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/09/12/60-minutes-honcho-jeff-fager-out-at-cbs-network-claims-exit-not-directly-related-to-sex-misconduct-allegations.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true
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Another Man Who Worked At NPR Had Been Accused of Serial Sexual Harassment (Juan Williams)
newsweek.com ^ | 11/2/18 | Melina Delkic
Posted on 10/11/2018, 5:14:37 AM by a little elbow grease
(snip)-- The same radio network that suspended its news director this week for sexual harassment allegations once hired a controversial Washington Post writer whose history of sexual harassment allegations was well known.
Juan Williams, 63, joined National Public Radio in 2000 despite being at the center of a widely reported sexual harassment scandal at The Washington Post a decade earlier.
Williams now works for Fox News as an analyst.
Post newsroom employees said that Williams had, for years, commented on their bodies, asked them about their sex lives, and said things that were "lewd" and "shocking." Nancy McKeon, then the features editor of the Post Magazine, told Newsweek she remembers Williams asking women, “Did your heels hit the ceiling last night?” and saying, “Now there’s a chair I’d like to sniff” when one employee stood up from her seat.
The comments were known and were even covered by the Washington Post at the time. But NPR hired Williams anyway.
“This is ancient,” Williams said when Newsweek reached out to him. When asked if the allegations were true, he declined to answer.
(snip) --- Williams was not fired by The Post when the allegations were revealed in 1991. Fifty female employees met with then-Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. to object to the newspaper’s lack of transparency surrounding what disciplinary measures it had taken. Yet Williams was eventually hired by NPR.
*** 'He was like a serial shocker' ***
McKeon, who worked with Williams in the late 1980s, warned him several times during her tenure to “stop talking to these young girls like that" and that he'd "have a problem" if he continued. After one art director stood up from her chair, McKeon said she remembers Williams saying, “Now there’s a chair I’d like to sniff.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
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Another Man Who Worked At NPR Had Been Accused of Serial Sexual Harassment (Juan Williams)
newsweek.com ^ | 11/2/18 | Melina Delkic
Posted on 10/11/2018, 5:14:37 AM by a little elbow grease
(snip)-- The same radio network that suspended its news director this week for sexual harassment allegations once hired a controversial Washington Post writer whose history of sexual harassment allegations was well known.
Juan Williams, 63, joined National Public Radio in 2000 despite being at the center of a widely reported sexual harassment scandal at The Washington Post a decade earlier.
Williams now works for Fox News as an analyst.
Post newsroom employees said that Williams had, for years, commented on their bodies, asked them about their sex lives, and said things that were "lewd" and "shocking." Nancy McKeon, then the features editor of the Post Magazine, told Newsweek she remembers Williams asking women, “Did your heels hit the ceiling last night?” and saying, “Now there’s a chair I’d like to sniff” when one employee stood up from her seat.
The comments were known and were even covered by the Washington Post at the time. But NPR hired Williams anyway.
“This is ancient,” Williams said when Newsweek reached out to him. When asked if the allegations were true, he declined to answer.
(snip) --- Williams was not fired by The Post when the allegations were revealed in 1991. Fifty female employees met with then-Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. to object to the newspaper’s lack of transparency surrounding what disciplinary measures it had taken. Yet Williams was eventually hired by NPR.
*** 'He was like a serial shocker' ***
McKeon, who worked with Williams in the late 1980s, warned him several times during her tenure to “stop talking to these young girls like that" and that he'd "have a problem" if he continued. After one art director stood up from her chair, McKeon said she remembers Williams saying, “Now there’s a chair I’d like to sniff.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Guess who's not shocked that Fox News's most liberal commentator and biggest champion of Me Too, who was quick to throw Kavanaugh under the bus, is now being accused himself. I've been saying it all along: Liberal men who try to get in front of their shady past by sucking up to women end up being sucked into the maelstrom of accusations before anyone else. Same thing with Les Moonves of CBS, Charlie Rose of the same channel (and PBS), and countless others. The list grows daily. I hope this gets him fired - I don't see why not, if they got rid of not only top-rated Bill O'Reilly but the fucking founder of the channel, Roger Ailes.
LMFAO. Liberals end up eating their own 100% of the time. Only men who stand their ground and push back like Trump and Kavanaugh can defeat the accusations and come out on top. Women can smell weakness from a mile away like a hammerhead shark picking up eel vibrations a mile below them in the ocean. Plus I hate this dickless idiot anyway, he's always contradicting the conservatives on every show he's on. Good riddance.
I hope Agnostic 007 is next.
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https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/10/21/serious-sexual-assault-charges-senator-cory-booker-demand-immediate-thorough-investigation
ha ha ha ha - another libfag going down.
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Jimmy Kimmel asking 18 year old girls to grab his crotch and to put their mouth on it
Gotta love this guy!
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Jimmy Kimmel asking 18 year old girls to grab his crotch and to put their mouth on it
Funny as Fcuk.
Mind he’s lining himself up for a long list of “MeToo’s” in approximately 38yrs time.
;D
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Former Ark. Political Party Spokesman Arrested for Child Porn
KARK.com ^ | 11/6/18
Posted on 11/6/2018, 3:30:12 PM by gasport
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A former spokesperson for the Arkansas Democratic Party is behind bars this morning on a charge of child pornography possession and distribution.
(Excerpt) Read more at kark.com ...
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Funny as Fcuk.
Mind he’s lining himself up for a long list of “MeToo’s” in approximately 38yrs time.
;D
Ironic considering how much crying he does about Trump
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California Democratic party chair resigns amid sexual misconduct claims
By Matt Richardson, Kaitlyn Schallhorn | Fox News
Eric Bauman is resigning following sexual misconduct allegations, just hours after Governor-elect Gavin Newsom called for him to step aside.
California Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman resigned on Thursday amid multiple claims of sexual misconduct.
Bauman, who allegedly made sexually explicit comments while at work and sometimes touched staffers without permission, said it was “in everyone’s best interest” for him to step down from his post.
“I have made the realization that in order for those to whom I may have caused pain and who need to heal, for my own health, and in the best interest of the party that I love and to which I have dedicated myself for more than 25 years, it is in everyone’s best interest for me to resign my position as chair of the California Democratic Party,” Bauman said in a statement provided to The Los Angeles Times.
He had been in the role for 18 months.
Bauman, 59, is the subject of an internal investigation after multiple people accused him of sexual misconduct. Earlier this week, he said he would take a leave of absence during the probe. He has also said he’s going to seek treatment for alcohol abuse and health issues, the outlet reported.
“I deeply regret if my behavior has caused pain to any of the outstanding individuals with whom I’ve had the privilege to work. I appreciate the courage it took for these individuals to come forward to tell their stories,” Bauman said.
“Leading the California Democratic Party to historic victories has been the honor of a lifetime, and I look forward to continuing this important work upon the conclusion of the investigation and when my health allows,” he added.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR TAKES LEAVE OF ABSENCE AMID SEXUAL MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATION
Multiple staffers told The Times that Bauman, the party’s first openly gay chairman, would often make sexual comments to men and women at work.
One woman told the newspaper Bauman said he wanted to have sex with her and suggested she would have been a gay man in a previous life.
Grace Leekley, a 21-year-old temporary worker in the party’s communications department, said she arranged for her own transportation when the party traveled around the state with candidates earlier this month because she did not want to be on a bus with Bauman.
At a lunch on the trip, she claimed Bauman asked her and another woman if they were having an affair in front of other colleagues. Although they said no, Bauman allegedly continued to press the pair.
Bauman was also facing confrontation from members of his own party. California Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom on Thursday called for him to step down from his leadership role.
“Sexual harassment shouldn’t be tolerated — no person or party, no matter how powerful, is above accountability,” spokesman Nathan Click said in a statement, according to The Sacramento Bee.
“The governor-elect believes the investigation should move forward and the victims should be heard,” Click said. “But given the numerous detailed, severe and corroborated allegations reported by The Times, he believes the best course of action for the party is for the chair to resign.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-democratic-party-chair-resigns-amid-sexual-misconduct-claims
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California Democratic party chair resigns amid sexual misconduct claims
By Matt Richardson, Kaitlyn Schallhorn | Fox News
Eric Bauman is resigning following sexual misconduct allegations, just hours after Governor-elect Gavin Newsom called for him to step aside.
California Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman resigned on Thursday amid multiple claims of sexual misconduct.
Bauman, who allegedly made sexually explicit comments while at work and sometimes touched staffers without permission, said it was “in everyone’s best interest” for him to step down from his post.
“I have made the realization that in order for those to whom I may have caused pain and who need to heal, for my own health, and in the best interest of the party that I love and to which I have dedicated myself for more than 25 years, it is in everyone’s best interest for me to resign my position as chair of the California Democratic Party,” Bauman said in a statement provided to The Los Angeles Times.
He had been in the role for 18 months.
Bauman, 59, is the subject of an internal investigation after multiple people accused him of sexual misconduct. Earlier this week, he said he would take a leave of absence during the probe. He has also said he’s going to seek treatment for alcohol abuse and health issues, the outlet reported.
“I deeply regret if my behavior has caused pain to any of the outstanding individuals with whom I’ve had the privilege to work. I appreciate the courage it took for these individuals to come forward to tell their stories,” Bauman said.
“Leading the California Democratic Party to historic victories has been the honor of a lifetime, and I look forward to continuing this important work upon the conclusion of the investigation and when my health allows,” he added.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR TAKES LEAVE OF ABSENCE AMID SEXUAL MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATION
Multiple staffers told The Times that Bauman, the party’s first openly gay chairman, would often make sexual comments to men and women at work.
One woman told the newspaper Bauman said he wanted to have sex with her and suggested she would have been a gay man in a previous life.
Grace Leekley, a 21-year-old temporary worker in the party’s communications department, said she arranged for her own transportation when the party traveled around the state with candidates earlier this month because she did not want to be on a bus with Bauman.
At a lunch on the trip, she claimed Bauman asked her and another woman if they were having an affair in front of other colleagues. Although they said no, Bauman allegedly continued to press the pair.
Bauman was also facing confrontation from members of his own party. California Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom on Thursday called for him to step down from his leadership role.
“Sexual harassment shouldn’t be tolerated — no person or party, no matter how powerful, is above accountability,” spokesman Nathan Click said in a statement, according to The Sacramento Bee.
“The governor-elect believes the investigation should move forward and the victims should be heard,” Click said. “But given the numerous detailed, severe and corroborated allegations reported by The Times, he believes the best course of action for the party is for the chair to resign.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-democratic-party-chair-resigns-amid-sexual-misconduct-claims
A libtard & a Queer = Severe Mental Dysfunction
It’s behaviour was Only to be expected.
No doubt it’ll get a crowd fund going
A quiet room
And a Counsellor
;D
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Sexual Misconduct Claims Being Investigated
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In the Patheos article, Dr. Katelyn N. Allers of Bucknell University claimed deGrasse Tyson groped her at an event in 2009. Another woman, Ashley Watson, claimed in the article that she quit her former job as Tyson’s assistant in response to repeated inappropriate sexual advances he made toward her.
Both allegations came to light roughly a year after musician Tchiya Amet claimed that Tyson raped her when they were both graduate students.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-misconduct-024520353.html
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8057132/actor-kevin-spacey-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-a-teenage-boy/
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Sexual Misconduct Claims Being Investigated
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In the Patheos article, Dr. Katelyn N. Allers of Bucknell University claimed deGrasse Tyson groped her at an event in 2009. Another woman, Ashley Watson, claimed in the article that she quit her former job as Tyson’s assistant in response to repeated inappropriate sexual advances he made toward her.
Both allegations came to light roughly a year after musician Tchiya Amet claimed that Tyson raped her when they were both graduate students.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-misconduct-024520353.html
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Close BREAKING NEWS President Trump and the first lady make surprise visit to US troops in Iraq
Eliot Spitzer snuck me into his apartment in a suitcase: ex-mistress
By Larry Celona December 20, 2018
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer used to smuggle his Russian-escort mistress into the luxury Upper East Side home he shared with his wife — by stuffing her inside a piece of luggage, she told The Post.
“He used to sneak me into his Fifth Avenue apartment in a black suitcase . . . when his wife was away,’’ Svetlana Travis Zakharova told The Post in an exclusive interview.
“My knees would be up by my face. When the doorman would ask if he could help, Eliot would say, ‘No, thanks.’ ”
Zakharova revealed the sleazeball sneak tactic — which she said the pair pulled off about 15 times at Eliot and Silda Spitzer’s home — as her lawyer prepared a new push to put the disgraced former pol behind bars.
The Russian sexpot first hit the headlines in early 2016 when she accused Spitzer of choking her during a sex-session-gone-awry at The Plaza hotel in Midtown.
Now, Zakharova’s Queens lawyer, Joseph Murray, is asking Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman to investigate Spitzer for alleged “improprieties” in his efforts to evade prosecution.
Zakharova recently told The Post that when she met the then-married multimillionaire in 2010, he was as cocky as ever — but still a bum underneath it all.
“When I first met him, he bragged how rich he was. But I didn’t believe him because he had holes in his underwear,’’ she said.
Zakharova, now 28, said Spitzer would whine about another girlfriend and his wife when they met up for their anything-goes romps.
“He told me about problems with his wife. She complained about his drinking. She bought a dog without telling him,” Zakharova said.
But Spitzer, 59, got back at his spouse by not only going outside their marriage for sex, but by breaking Silda’s cardinal rule for their upstate estate: No one but family allowed, the ex-lover said.
“He used to take me upstate to the farm,’’ Zakharova said. “He cooked for me, omelets, and he would put a potato in the microwave.
“He was not a good cook.’’
She said their relationship lasted so long because the pinstripe-loving former politician was a “sexual deviant’’ — and “his wife and other girlfriends wouldn’t do things.
“He complained about [another girlfriend] — he said she was annoying,’’ Zakharova said.
At one point, the gal pal “wanted him to reverse his vasectomy. He told her he would, but he didn’t.”
Zakharova said the hot-to-trot ex-gov loved sex toys, “but he wouldn’t go to the store because he was afraid of being recognized.
“He used to make me buy sex toys, dildos . . . and long-term [erection] gel . . . a leash with a choker . . . I would throw them out after we used them and then buy new ones the next time we were together,’’ she said.
“We were seeing each other four times a week’’ for sex, said Zakharova, who has previously described leading Spitzer around on a black leash during their bedroom games.
“He would tie me up and call me names — ‘a b—h.’ He would say, ‘I’m going to kill you.’
“He said, ‘Whatever happens in bed stays in bed.’ ”
Zakharova revealed that their relationship got off to a rocky start at first — when he came into the massage parlor she was working at on East 52nd Street and soon asked for oral sex.
It was 2010 — two years after the former state attorney general resigned as governor when he was unmasked as the black-sock-wearing “Client No. 9’’ in a prostitution ring.
“He was a regular customer, a typical guy. He started to come in more and more asking for me, maybe a couple of times a week,’’ Zakharova said.
“I think he asked for me because my English wasn’t that good and he thought I didn’t know who he was. Meanwhile, I saw his face on a store window.
“I was shy and just gave him a straight massage. He started to ask me about my family, my dreams, my goals. He said he was a lawyer and he would help me with anything I wanted.
“After a while, he asked for [oral sex], but I told him no. He pulled out money, it was a lot, maybe an inch-thick [wad of] 20s. He said, ‘I have money, how about sex?’ ” Zakharova recalled.
Zakharova said she eventually started “to date’’ Spitzer, even though “I knew he was married and a father.”
But the shine wore off.
She described Spitzer as “a control freak” — always wanting to know what she was doing and calling her up to 20 times a day.
And while Spitzer was still married or dating other women during their time together, he grew furious over her being with anyone else, Zakharova said.
The former escort, who got paid up to $5,000 a night, also griped that Spitzer could be a slacker about payments — sometimes writing a check for $10,000, other times paying her in $300 installments.
Then there were the broken promises.
“It was not a luxurious life. I was living in cheap hotels and hostels. He talked about getting me an apartment but never did,’’ Zakharova said.
“He said he was going to help me get a green card but never did.”
Eventually, “All he did was complain. … It was not fun anymore,’’ she said.
Zakharova finally broke her silence about her relationship with Spitzer in February 2016. She called 911 claiming her infamous lover had beaten and choked her in their $1,000-a-night room at The Plaza, screaming at her, “What am I paying you for?” when Zakharova refused sex.
She later claimed that Spitzer — the son of a real estate tycoon and a Harvard Law School grad — threatened to kill her in a taped phone call after the hotel incident.
“You f–king bitch! You piece of s–t! And then you f–king destroyed my life!’’ she claims Spitzer yelled. “You know what’s going to happen to you? You’re going to be f–king dead.”
Prosecutors never brought charges against Spitzer, although they targeted Zakharova, who was accused of trying to shake him down for $400,000.
The extortion rap was dropped as part of a plea deal involving an attempted petit-larceny charge against Zakharova, who was separately accused of trying to swipe rent money from an ex-lover.
Zakharova said she is now working on book and movie deals about her time with Spitzer.
Spitzer, meanwhile, is dating Roxana Girand, the founder of the property-management company Sebastian Capital.
When asked about the alleged suitcase capers Thursday, he shook his head and muttered something incoherent before jumping in a car and driving off.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/20/eliot-spitzer-snuck-me-into-his-apartment-in-a-suitcase-ex-mistress/
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Crazy chick..
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8066178/kevin-spacey-lawyer-claims-sex-attacker-accuser-allowed-grope/
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https://nypost.com/2018/12/28/climate-change-expert-aaron-doering-charged-with-choking-his-fiance/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons&fbclid=IwAR10T-Rl8BTGwlWgbUaCQJXbw9Fw9Y-o9UJ8rtzlAQl1nvMdWAJCO8Hnjsg
Geez!!!
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8066178/kevin-spacey-lawyer-claims-sex-attacker-accuser-allowed-grope/
New term, "allowgrope". What kind of newspeak is this?
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New term, "allowgrope". What kind of newspeak is this?
Just like Kavanaugh, Spacy is innocent until proven guilty. IMO, he will be found guilty. He is a disgrace to gay folks and the entertainment industry.
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Political party isn't immune to this issue.
To me, the real problem with "me too" is like crying wolf.
Putting ass grabbing and dirty jokes in with violent rape is crazy .
Sexual harassment defined not by the law, but by the harassed. Ass grabbing a stranger is pretty creepy. Telling a dirty joke in mixed company is crass. Neither constitute rape.
In the Oregonian today there's a news story about a young man (29 years old) driving around naked and masturbating in front of young girls. He's being charged with public indecency. If he'd stuck to just driving around naked, there would be no charges.
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Just like Kavanaugh, Spacy is innocent until proven guilty.
100% true.
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Mizzou Official: Tall Man Asking Short Woman Out Could Be Considered 'Sexual Harassment'
COLUMBIA, Mo. — If a man asks a woman out on a date, and he is taller than her, can that be considered "sexual harassment"?
According to a former University of Missouri vice chancellor, the answer is yes.
Court documents filed by a black male student (John Doe) at Mizzou quote testimony by the former official,
but the university calls Doe's claims "inaccurate" and "out of context".
Doe was suspended from the University of Missouri for four years due to findings from a Title IX case is suing the school for
racial and sexual discrimination. School officials ruled that Doe was guilty of sexual harassment because his size and gender
gave him "power" over a female he pursued romantically.
https://abcstlouis.com/news/local/mizzou-official-tall-man-asking-short-woman-out-could-be-considered-sexual-misconduct
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/actor-kevin-spacey-face-sex-assault-case-nantucket-110337743.html
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/us/edward-buck-home-death/index.html
"A man was found dead at Democratic donor Edward Buck's home. It's not the first time."
First one was a male prostitute. Both ODs...
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/us/edward-buck-home-death/index.html
"A man was found dead at Democratic donor Edward Buck's home. It's not the first time."
First one was a male prostitute. Both ODs...
Was wondering if this would be brought up. No idea who Ed Buck really is involved with but it looks like he skated out of the first murder OD, this one looks to have caught a bit of attention, not so sure his demoncrat friends are going to be able to save his ass on this one.
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LOL, showing your dick to a prime Cameron Diaz.
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Bernie Sanders apologizes to women who were sexually harassed while working for his 2016 presidential campaign
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., apologized on Thursday to women who were "harassed or mistreated" while working on his 2016 presidential campaign.
The apology comes after a series of sexual harassment allegations against top male campaign staffers.
In the statement, Sanders acknowledged that the campaign's "standards and safeguards were inadequate" in 2016 but have since improved.
Carmin Chappell
Published 18 Hours Ago Updated 17 Hours Ago
CNBC.com
Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Senator Bernie Sanders.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., apologized on Thursday to women who were "harassed or mistreated" while working on his 2016 presidential campaign, after a series of sexual harassment allegations against top male campaign staffers.
"What they experienced was absolutely unacceptable and certainly not what a progressive campaign, or any campaign, should be about," he said in a statement posted to Twitter.
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Bernie Sanders apologizes to women who were sexually harassed while working for his 2016 presidential campaign
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., apologized on Thursday to women who were "harassed or mistreated" while working on his 2016 presidential campaign.
The apology comes after a series of sexual harassment allegations against top male campaign staffers.
In the statement, Sanders acknowledged that the campaign's "standards and safeguards were inadequate" in 2016 but have since improved.
Carmin Chappell
Published 18 Hours Ago Updated 17 Hours Ago
CNBC.com
Senator Bernie Sanders.
Scott Olson | Getty Images
Senator Bernie Sanders.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., apologized on Thursday to women who were "harassed or mistreated" while working on his 2016 presidential campaign, after a series of sexual harassment allegations against top male campaign staffers.
"What they experienced was absolutely unacceptable and certainly not what a progressive campaign, or any campaign, should be about," he said in a statement posted to Twitter.
imagine if this happened in the Trump campaign... the faux outrage would be deafening
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Former MSNBC Host Touré Apologizes After Being Accused of Sexual Harassment
by Justin Caruso
11 Jan 201998
Former MSNBC host and left-wing podcast host Touré Neblett apologized for his “language” in the workplace Thursday after being accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a woman he worked with throughout 2017.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/11/former-msnbc-host-toure-accused-of-sexual-harassment/
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Former MSNBC Host Touré Apologizes After Being Accused of Sexual Harassment
by Justin Caruso
11 Jan 201998
Former MSNBC host and left-wing podcast host Touré Neblett apologized for his “language” in the workplace Thursday after being accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a woman he worked with throughout 2017.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/11/former-msnbc-host-toure-accused-of-sexual-harassment/
Lol
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That douche is one serious asshole.
What is hilarious is how his whole movement is blowing up in liberal faces.
For example, does anyone believe that Lady Gaga didn't know the R. Kelly stories before working with him?
Bullshit.
She's just worried now that she may lose out on an Oscar for her sucky song from that shit movie.
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That douche is one serious asshole.
What is hilarious is how his whole movement is blowing up in liberal faces.
For example, does anyone believe that Lady Gaga didn't know the R. Kelly stories before working with him?
Bullshit.
She's just worried now that she may lose out on an Oscar for her sucky song from that shit movie.
R. Kelly
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"I Believe in Obama"
https://hollowverse.com/r-kelly/
Child pornography allegations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly#Child_pornography_allegations
Sex cult and STD allegations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly#Sex_cult_and_STD_allegations
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Fired 'Bohemian Rhapsody' director Bryan Singer faces new accusations of sexual misconduct with underage boys
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bohemian-rhapsody-director-bryan-singer-faces-new-accusations-sexual-misconduct-underage-boys-151649105.html
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Fired 'Bohemian Rhapsody' director Bryan Singer faces new accusations of sexual misconduct with underage boys
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bohemian-rhapsody-director-bryan-singer-faces-new-accusations-sexual-misconduct-underage-boys-151649105.html
Meanwhile all these motherfuckers get up at award shows and give holier than thou speeches. It’s the old expression that strength means weakness. They act all pious when they know their industry is full of sickos and junkies.
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Sheila Jackson Lee Leaves 2 Posts After Aide Says She Was Fired for Reporting Sexual Assault
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, facing fallout from a lawsuit claiming she fired an aide who said she was sexually assaulted by a supervisor at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, said on Wednesday she had decided to resign as the foundation’s chairwoman.
Ms. Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat in her 13th term, also stepped aside temporarily from an important House Judiciary subcommittee chairmanship, the committee said.
Ms. Jackson Lee made the decision to step aside from both roles as pressure was growing within her own party to account for the claims in a Jan. 11 lawsuit brought by a woman who worked in her congressional office and who said she was sexually assaulted by a Black Caucus Foundation supervisor. Ms. Jackson Lee has adamantly denied that she fired the woman for retribution after the woman indicated she wanted to pursue legal action, but she planned to say Wednesday that she would step aside nonetheless.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s board had given Ms. Jackson Lee an ultimatum late last week after the claims became public:
step down as chairwoman or face a vote of removal as soon as this week, according to an official familiar with the conversations who was not authorized to discuss them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/us/politics/sheila-jackson-lee-cbc-chairwoman.html
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Fired 'Bohemian Rhapsody' director Bryan Singer faces new accusations of sexual misconduct with underage boys
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bohemian-rhapsody-director-bryan-singer-faces-new-accusations-sexual-misconduct-underage-boys-151649105.html
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Loses GLAAD Award Nomination Over Bryan Singer Accusations
“Bohemian Rhapsody” has been removed as a best original film nominee at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards, following new accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against director Bryan Singer.
The media watchdog told Variety exclusively it has pulled the film from contention for the prize, in a weighted decision that takes a stand for sexual assault victims.
“Other films that involve Singer now or in the future should take note of the backlash to The Atlantic story and other previous allegations. The industry cannot let those who perpetuate harms against anyone – especially vulnerable young people – go unnoticed or unchecked any longer,” GLAAD concluded.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bohemian-rhapsody-loses-glaad-award-222005635.html
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https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/virginia-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-denies-2004-sexual-assault-allegation/65-7f330c64-e735-4c0f-bb01-6a4bc3dfc90e?fbclid=IwAR3hmh7rhX9jVc-0X5tj3O9bVqFyXAd4X2aYBR13LOBL41Z3GpOEPqLgrx8
One is a racist that other a pervert. Good job virginians.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/washington-post-justin-fairfax-assault-accusation-1145317?fbclid=IwAR0u90hvd3qKMPq0jfhXApQZFfNoV9CP0Cw6wge7lF7PrSzz44Z53RZKrY0
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Democrat Virginia LG: Fairfax said of Tyson: “____ that b____.”
Kasie Hunt (NBC) ^ | 2-7-19 | Kasie Hunt
Posted on 2/6/2019, 11:56:21 AM
NBC News has learned that Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax used profane language in a private meeting Monday night, while referring to his accuser, Dr. Vanessa Tyson.
Two sources tells us Fairfax said of Tyson: “F--- that b----.”
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Lawmakers wonder: Cover-up or incompetence in Murphy administration?( Another Dem Sex Scandal)
New Jersey 105 ^ | 02/06/2019 | Eric Scott
Gov. Phil Murphy continues to maintain he did not know about sexual assault allegations made against Al Alvarez when Alvarez was working in a senior role for Murphy's campaign. Members of the Democrat-led committee openly question the truth of the governor's assertion, and have become increasingly frustrated by a lack of answers and accountability for how the situation was handled. They can't even get a straight answer about the most basic question: Who hired Alvarez? ---SNIP-- After Tuesday's hearing wrapped up, committee members could not contain both their frustration and the feeling that people are just not telling the truth. "Each time someone comes up, the inconsistencies
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https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/woman-accusing-virginias-democratic-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-of-sexual-assault-details-allegations-read-it/?fbclid=IwAR0KwQ-aBgUdf2I2uSELXX4uMJmAwmRvxRzeB7pyndlII210EstQFxc8wB4
Another liberal abuser
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Second woman accuses Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault, calls on him to resign
A woman said Friday that Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax raped her nearly two decades ago.
Watson's statement claims she was attacked by Fairfax in 2000 in a "premeditated and aggressive" manner while the two were students at Duke University.
Another woman, California university professor Vanessa Tyson, had recently accused Fairfax of sexual assault in an incident nearly 15 years earlier. He has unequivocally denied Tyson's accusation.
Kevin Breuninger | @KevinWilliamB
www.cnbc.com
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I hold true to my opinion just like with Trump and Kavanaugh, these bitches waiting decades to come forward and ruin a guys life with these bullshit sexual assault claims should be chastised and ridiculed.
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Even when the person or action is detestable the thing I never hear anybody saying is how far down the line after feelings we have let due process slip.
All this is devolving into a technological version of the screaming hordes at the Coliseum as Rome fell. Public opinion is not the law regardless what you think of these people's politics or supposed behavior. This country is being fundamentally changed just as much as it was under Obama.
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Even when the person or action is detestable the thing I never hear anybody saying is how far down the line after feelings we have let due process slip.
All this is devolving into a technological version of the screaming hordes at the Coliseum as Rome fell. Public opinion is not the law regardless what you think of these people's politics or supposed behavior. This country is being fundamentally changed just as much as it was under Obama.
The funny thing in VA is seems like the liberal black guy refuses to resign unless the liberal white guy resigns first.
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I hold true to my opinion just like with Trump and Kavanaugh, these bitches waiting decades to come forward and ruin a guys life with these bullshit sexual assault claims should be chastised and ridiculed.
Probably accurate assessment
Only I don't see the MSM & Liberal leftist out protesting "I believe Them"
"They are women & must be believed "
Fucking bunch of Hypocrites
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https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/02/17/metoo-west-hollywood-mayor-who-honored-stormy-daniels-faces-calls-to-resign-over-sexual-harassment-claims/
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Joe Biden accused of inappropriate conduct by former Nevada Dem candidate
By Elizabeth Zwirz | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-accused-of-inappropriate-conduct-by-former-dem-candidate-in-nevada
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Joe Biden accused of inappropriate conduct by former Nevada Dem candidate
By Elizabeth Zwirz | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-accused-of-inappropriate-conduct-by-former-dem-candidate-in-nevada
LMAO, this guy would be easy pickings for any repub.
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Wish the MSM would show all the YT videos of creepy joe fondling the ladiez....
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Wish the MSM would show all the YT videos of creepy pedo joe fondling the ladiez children....
Fixed
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Connecticut woman says VP Biden touched her inappropriately at fundraiser in 2009 (trunc, new claim)
Hartford Courant ^ | April 1, 2019 | Neil Vigdor
Posted on 4/1/2019, 3:01:35 PM by abb
A Connecticut woman says Joe Biden touched her inappropriately and rubbed noses with her during a 2009 political fundraiser in Greenwich when he was vice president, drawing further scrutiny to the Democrat and his history of unwanted contact with women as he ponders a presidential run
“It wasn’t sexual, but he did grab me by the head," Amy Lappos told The Courant Monday. “He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth.”
Lappos posted about the alleged incident on the Facebook page of Connecticut Women in Politics Sunday in response to a similar account by former Nevada legislator Lucy Flores, which comes as Biden is considering a 2020 run for president. Flores accused Biden of kissing her on the back of her head in 2014, when she was a candidate for lieutenant governor.
Lappos, 43, who is now a freelance worker with nonprofit agencies, said she felt extremely uncomfortable when Biden approached her at the 2009 fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-4th, where she was volunteering. At the time, Lappos was a congressional aide to Himes, who she said was not in the room when the incident took place.
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http://bronx.news12.com/story/40231727/police-magician-blaine-subject-of-sexual-assault-probe
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comments.
Two more women accuse Biden of inappropriate touching
The Hill ^ | - 04/02/19 08:24 PM EDT | MICHAEL BURKE
Posted on 4/2/2019, 6:46:46 PM by conservative98
Two additional women came forward Tuesday to say former Vice President Joe Biden touched them in ways that made them uncomfortable.
The women, Caitlyn Caruso and D. J. Hill, each recounted their experiences to The New York Times.
Caruso, 22, told the Times that Biden rested his hand on her thigh even as she attempted to show her discomfort by squirming in her seat during a sexual assault event at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Caruso, who was 19 at the time, added that Biden hugged her "just a little bit too long."
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comments.
Two more women accuse Biden of inappropriate touching
The Hill ^ | - 04/02/19 08:24 PM EDT | MICHAEL BURKE
Posted on 4/2/2019, 6:46:46 PM by conservative98
Two additional women came forward Tuesday to say former Vice President Joe Biden touched them in ways that made them uncomfortable.
The women, Caitlyn Caruso and D. J. Hill, each recounted their experiences to The New York Times.
Caruso, 22, told the Times that Biden finger banged her even as she attempted to show her discomfort by squirming in her seat during a sexual assault event at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Caruso, who was 19 at the time, added that Biden forcefully cupped her ass just a little bit too long.
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What a pig
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This thread will never die:
Amber Heard Claims Johnny Depp Threatened to Kill Her During Abuse – Variety
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/amber-heard-johnny-depp-abuse-threatened-kill-1203187472/
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https://www.tmz.com/2019/10/03/robert-de-niro-sued-by-former-assistant-harassment-sex-discrimination/
"Former Asst. Claims Harassment, Discrimination ... Suit Includes Angry Voicemail from Actor"
Bombshell expletive filled audio: https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/de-niro-lawsuit-the-irishman-actor-claiming-harassment-gender-discrimination
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:o
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ROBERT DE NIRO SUED FOR $12 MILLION OVER SEXUAL HARASSMENT
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-de-niro-sued-lawsuit-former-assistant-claims-discrimination-verbal-harassment-2019-10-03/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3b
https://www.newsweek.com/robert-de-niro-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-1462998
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-robert-de-niro-gender-discrimination-20191003-q5x3tetfwzhe3lzpnmknu2grbu-story.html
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ROBERT DE NIRO SUED FOR $12 MILLION OVER SEXUAL HARASSMENT
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-de-niro-sued-lawsuit-former-assistant-claims-discrimination-verbal-harassment-2019-10-03/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3b
https://www.newsweek.com/robert-de-niro-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-1462998
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-robert-de-niro-gender-discrimination-20191003-q5x3tetfwzhe3lzpnmknu2grbu-story.html
😂😂😂
When I saw this story this morning, I knew it would find its way onto this thread.👍
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😂😂😂
When I saw this story this morning, I knew it would find its way onto this thread.👍
You're welcome. :)
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/cuba-gooding-jr-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-7-more-women-094451205.html
Up to 22 old bags going after this poor dude.
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MSNBC Host Chris Matthews Resigns After Accusations of Sexism and Harassment
OUT THE DOOR
Matthews’ exit comes on the heels of a reporter’s allegation that he sexually harassed her before an on-air segment in 2016.
Maxwell Tani
Media Reporter
Justin Baragona
Contributing Editor
Published Mar. 02, 2020
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-matthews-resigns-from-msnbc-after-accusations-of-sexism-and-harassment
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8428211/Nebraska-Democrats-renounce-Senate-pick-comments.html
Awesome. Good job idiot. Fng pig.
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Cuomo violated federal, state laws as he sexually harassed multiple women, NY attorney general says
PUBLISHED TUE, AUG 3 2021
Kevin Breuninger
@KEVINWILLIAMB
Dan Mangan
@_DANMANGAN
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/03/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-sexual-harassment-report.html
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Liberal corrupt mentally ill nutbags like Straw and andreisafatbastid still love him.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Announces Resignation After Damning Harassment Report
The Democrat won praise for COVID-19 news conferences, but the uproar over the results of a sexual harassment investigation proved overwhelming.
By Daniel Marans and Sebastian Murdock
POLITICS 08/10/2021
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-resigns_n_60466e3bc5b69197db28d9fa
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who did Cuomo piss off to get dumped on?
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who did Cuomo piss off to get dumped on?
He's no longer useful.
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who did Cuomo piss off to get dumped on?
Maybe he pissed on Big Mike or O-Twink at the 60ths B-Day party? :D ;D
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Biden accuser Tara Reade reacts to Cuomo's resignation, calls for 'real investigation' into president
Reade blasted Time's Up for colluding with the NY governor to discredit one of his accusers: 'Hideous betrayal'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/tara-reade-cuomo-resignation-biden
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Biden accuser Tara Reade reacts to Cuomo's resignation, calls for 'real investigation' into president
Reade blasted Time's Up for colluding with the NY governor to discredit one of his accusers: 'Hideous betrayal'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/tara-reade-cuomo-resignation-biden
What a terrible day for Democrats ;D :D
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Ex-'SNL' star Horatio Sanz groomed, sexually assaulted underage fan at cast party: lawsuit
Fox News ^ | 08/13/2021 | Priscilla DeGregory , Natalie O'Neill |
Posted on 8/13/2021, 12:24:31 PM by ChicagoConservative27
Comedian Horatio Sanz allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted an underage superfan at a "Saturday Night Live" party — as cast members looked the other way, the woman claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
The unnamed Pennsylvania teen, who was 17 at the time, was running an "SNL" fan site in May 2002 when Sanz allegedly took her on a limo ride then "digitally penetrated her genitals" at a post-show bash, according to the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The girl first met Sanz at age 15 — when he was 31 years old — in 2000 after he invited her to a taping of the sketch comedy show, according to the lawsuit, which names the actor and SNL Studios as defendants.
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http://www.mediaite.com/news/chris-cuomos-former-boss-accuses-him-of-grabbing-her-butt-offering-bizarre-email-apology-afterwards
and another!
Fredo!!!
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Chris Cuomo’s female exec producer begged to leave, felt ‘threatened’ by him
New York Post ^ | September 27, 2021 | Emily Smith
Posted on 9/28/2021, 1:59:31 AM by nickcarraway
The female producer of Chris Cuomo’s show “Cuomo Prime Time” begged to leave his show after the pair clashed over “significant differences” — with multiple TV sources saying she found the hot-headed host’s behavior threatening.
Melanie Buck was executive producer of “Cuomo Prime Time” from April 2018 but was suddenly replaced by Izzy Povich in March 2020 — shortly before Cuomo melodramatically returned to the world from his basement in the Hamptons following weeks of COVID-19 quarantine.
A CNN insider confirmed Buck went to CNN boss Jeff Zucker and asked to be taken off Cuomo’s show and moved to another department, which he agreed to. The insider denied rumors that Buck was given a significant pay-off to stay silent over her spat with the agitable anchor. ,ore than one source told us of Buck, “She felt threatened”
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Sexual Assault Case Against CNN's Don Lemon Finally Moving Forward
Nicholas Fondacaro
September 29th, 2021
According to a Fox News Digital report Tuesday, the sexual assault accusations against CNN’s Don Lemon is expected to land in court sometime in January 2022. This development came just as allegations of sexual harassment were raised against Lemon’s close friend and fellow CNN prime time host Chris Cuomo last week.
“The attorney for the man who accused fellow CNN host Don Lemon of a sexually charged assault expects the case to finally end up in court early next year after a prolonged legal process,” said senior media reporter Brian Flood.
The report noted that it’s been two years since the lawsuit was filed in August of 2019 “accusing the ‘CNN Tonight’ host of assault and battery at a bar,” and three years since the alleged incident took place. A combination of a “lengthy discovery process and the coronavirus pandemic” was what had kept them from getting to court.
The details in the lawsuit were graphic and showed a side of Lemon not seen during his normal show, but perhaps his annual drunken benders as part of CNN’s New Year’s Eve debauchery:
"[Lemon] put his hand down the front of his own shorts, and vigorously rubbed his genitalia, removed his hand and shoved his index and middle fingers into Plaintiff's mustache and under Plaintiff's nose," according to the lawsuit, filed Aug. 11, 2019 in Suffolk County Court.
"Lemon intensely pushed his fingers against Plaintiff’s face under Plaintiff’s nose, forcing Plaintiff’s head thrust backward as Defendant repeatedly asked Plaintiff ‘Do you like p---y or d--k?’ While saying this, Mr. Lemon continued to shove his fingers into Plaintiff’s face with aggression and hostility," the suit alleged.
“The alleged incident occurred at Murf’s Backstreet Tavern, in the prestigious Sag Harbor town of the Hamptons area east of New York City in July 2018,” Flood noted. And we know that Lemon lives in that area because his swanky home appeared in Hamptons magazine. “Inside CNN News Host Don Lemon's Sag Harbor Home,” the headline read.
And in a statement to Fox News, accuser Dustin Hice called out the sexist double standard being applied to his allegations because he’s a man and not a woman:
Last year, Hice told Fox News the alleged "vile, disgusting, lewd and inhumane" attack by Lemon would be treated much differently if Hice were a woman.
"I’m not doing this for notoriety or fame, I’m doing this because I’m standing up for myself and what I believe in," Hice told Fox News. "I’ve grown a new respect for people dealing with mental health issues because stress, depression, anxiety, those are all very serious things. It consumed my life."
In addition to Cuomo’s own sexually inappropriate actions coming under the microscope, attention was being drawn to comments he made about such accusations in an audio recording secretly captured by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. That’s not to mention his role in trying to aid his corrupt brother, disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) through his own sexual misconduct allegations.
Finally, Flood also recalled that “CNN also allowed legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin to return to the network after he was caught masturbating on a Zoom call with coworkers from his other gig at the New Yorker.”
This is CNN. Gross.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2021/09/29/sexual-assault-case-against-cnns-don-lemon-finally-moving
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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/former-ny-gov-cuomo-charged-with-sex-crime-months-after-resigning-amid-harassment-probe-nbc-news.html
booommm!!!
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Andrew Cuomo to be charged over alleged groping of former aide: source
NY Post ^ | October 28, 2021 3:49pm | By Julia Marsh, Bernadette Hogan and Bruce Golding
Posted on 10/28/2021, 4:16:36 PM
Disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to be arrested next week and charged with a misdemeanor in the alleged groping of a former aide, The Post has learned.
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This on the same day they found another 12,000 dead due to his covid rules. I'd say he's getting protected.
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$1M is not enough. >:( And notice how MSM has been quiet about this.
Don Lemon Accuser Rejected Settlement Attempts, 'Money Is Not What I'm After'
Nicholas Fondacaro
November 8th, 2021
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2021/11/08/don-lemon-accuser-rejected-settlement-attempts-money-not
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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-cuomo-impeachment-report-sexual-hrassment-20211120-qqsai2tgavblhdsxnuixoso5yq-story.html
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4014562/posts?page=41
Creepy and disgusting.
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Child Defends Herself From Biden’s Creepy Advances
Victory Girls blog via Instapundit ^ | 11/21/2021 | Lisa Carr
Posted on 11/22/2021, 7:26:06
Our senile Commander-In-Chief just cannot keep his hands to himself when it comes to a child. This latest video from the Post Millennial says it all. Take a look: (video)
If you watch the video, you’ll see that this little girl is having none of what Joe Biden attempting to do. When he tries to walk up and touch her initially, she recoils and turns away. After the president doubles down, attempting to touch her face, simultaneously moving his nose close to her hair, the girl then throws her fist up, forcing him to back off.”-Bonchie, Red State
You think? Not according to some delusional Democrats:
I’m gonna take it you guys never had any grandparents?
— Vegas Fallen Gaming (@vegasfallen) November 21, 2021
Take it any way you want. I know, the fake outrage of the Biden haters is palpable, Vegas. But the truth is, this child is not the President’s granddaughter. No, if she were his granddaughter, he would go right in for the full smooch on the lips. And then, AP News will defend this behavior with an article reporting the teenager he kissed on the lips is his granddaughter. And, she was not 15 but 19 years-old (so the smooch was consensual, I guess). Back to the little girl in this video. To this child, he is a stranger. Whatever happened to stranger-danger or does that just go out the window when THE PRESIDENT goes in to poke those dimpled cheeks?
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‘House of Cards’ Producer Wins $31 Million in Arbitration Against Kevin Spacey
An arbitrator has ordered Kevin Spacey and his companies to pay nearly $31 million to MRC, the production company behind “House of Cards,” after finding that Spacey breached his contract by violating the company’s sexual harassment policy.
MRC severed its relationship with Spacey and scrapped a season of the show in 2017, after multiple people came forward to allege a pattern of sexually predatory conduct.
MRC filed a petition on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court to confirm the arbitration award, after the award was upheld in a confidential appeal.
Spacey and his companies, M. Profitt Productions and Trigger Street Productions, were ordered to pay $29.5 million in damages plus $1.2 million in attorneys’ fees and $235,000 in costs.
Spacey was among the first major Hollywood figures to be accused in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal in October 2017. On Nov. 2, 2017, CNN reported that Spacey — the star and an executive producer of “House of Cards” — had created a “toxic” environment by making crude comments and engaging in non-consensual touching of young male staffers, citing eight production sources. MRC said it had “no knowledge whatsoever” of Spacey’s alleged on-set misconduct prior to the CNN report.
Spacey was immediately suspended pending an internal investigation. The producers ultimately terminated Spacey’s contract, and his character, Frank Underwood, was written out of the show.
At the time of Spacey’s suspension, two episodes of the sixth season were in production, and most of the season had been written. The two episodes were shelved and the production started over, ultimately delivering an eight-episode season rather than the 13 episodes that had been planned.
MRC filed the confidential arbitration demand in January 2019, seeking to recover from Spacey the costs of scrapping the season and starting over. Spacey filed a counterclaim, accusing the production company of wrongfully terminating his contract and breaching its obligations to “pay or play” under the agreement.
Attorneys on both sides took depositions from more 20 people, leading up to an eight-day confidential arbitration hearing in February 2020. The arbitrator issued a 46-page ruling in July 2020, which remains confidential, finding in MRC’s favor.
“With one exception, the Arbitrator found the third party witnesses to be credible, and found the allegations against Spacey to be true,” the petition states. “The Arbitrator found that Spacey’s conduct constituted a material breach of his acting and executive producing agreements with MRC, and that his breaches excused MRC’s obligations to pay him any further compensation in connection with the show.”
According to the petition, the Arbitrator also found that “Spacey’s egregious breaches of contract” made him and his companies liable for MRC’s tens of millions of extra costs.
MRC issued a statement thanking its attorneys — Michael Kump and Gregory Korn of Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley LLP — for their work on the case.
“The safety of our employees, sets and work environments is of paramount importance to MRC and why we set out to push for accountability,” the company said.
Spacey’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Spacey’s original accuser, Anthony Rapp, sued him in federal court last year. That case is still pending, but several other cases against the actor have been dropped, including a criminal case in Massachusetts and a civil case in Los Angeles. In the Los Angeles case, a criminal investigation was also dropped after the accuser died.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/house-cards-producer-awarded-31-175918234.html
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https://nypost.com/2021/12/11/chris-cuomo-cnn-producer-john-griffin-charged-with-luring-girls/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=com.duckduckgo.mobile.ios.OpenAction2
And another.
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What about the new one, Jake Tappers producer Rick Saleedy, who tried to get nude pics of his fiancé’s 15 year old daughter. Any word on that one?
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What about the new one, Jake Tappers producer Rick Saleedy, who tried to get nude pics of his fiancé’s 15 year old daughter. Any word on that one?
First page of google doesn't have anything from msm on it, seems they are avoiding the story so far.
https://mycampusgist.com/2021/12/18/who-is-rick-saleeby-cnn-producer-arrested-in-pedophile-scandal-explained/
https://deathmilitia.com/rick-saleeby-cnn-arrested/
https://celebsaga.com/rick-saleeby-cnn-producer-arrested-in-pedophile-scandal/
https://radiopatriot.net/2021/12/17/cnn-exposed-rick-saleeby-senior-producer-cnn/
https://heightzone.com/who-is-rick-saleeby-project-veritas-outed-the-cnn-staffer-accused-for-the-pedophilia-scandal/
Nothing on the major news stations ???
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Update: Alleged CNN Pervert Is Jake Tapper's Producer Rick Saleeby
PJ Media ^ | 12/19/2021 | MEGAN FOX
Posted on 12/19/2021, 8:12:50 PM by Kid Shelleen
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for CNN senior producers, beginning with the arrest of Chris Cuomo’s producer, John Griffin, for sex trafficking of minors by flying a mother and her 9-year-old daughter to see him for “sex training.” Then the news broke on Project Veritas that another CNN producer was into “mother-daughter” fantasies.
Yesterday, James O’Keefe decided to name the second CNN staffer as Jake Tapper’s producer, Rick Saleeby, after making sure that the child the man was fantasizing about was out of harm’s way.
Janine Bonanni, a former sex worker and victim of human trafficking, says she has had a ten-year relationship with Saleeby. Bonanni came forward and gave Project Veritas text messages and recorded conversations with Saleeby that showed him sending photos of his fiancee’s 14-year-old daughter and describing the sexual things he wanted to do to her, including raping her
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Second CNN producer under 'criminal investigation' involving 'potential juvenile victims'
Rick Saleeby resigned earlier this month as a senior producer of 'The Lead with Jake Tapper'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-producer-under-criminal-investigation
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Second CNN producer under 'criminal investigation' involving 'potential juvenile victims'
Rick Saleeby resigned earlier this month as a senior producer of 'The Lead with Jake Tapper'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-producer-under-criminal-investigation
Funnily enough, searching for "Saleeby" on CNN's website yields no results.
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Funnily enough, searching for "Saleeby" on CNN's website yields no results.
Shocker.
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After Conviction For Sex Crimes, Ghislaine Maxwell Announces New Job At CNN
December 29th, 2021 - BabylonBee.com
https://babylonbee.com/news/after-conviction-for-sex-crimes-ghislaine-maxwell-announces-new-job-at-cnn
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Longtime CNN producer John Griffin slapped with $15M civil suit amid federal child trafficking case
The suit was filed on behalf of a 9-year-old 'Jane Doe'
By Michael Ruiz , Stephanie Pagones | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/john-griffin-15m-civil-suit-child-trafficking
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Longtime CNN producer John Griffin slapped with $15M civil suit amid federal child trafficking case
The suit was filed on behalf of a 9-year-old 'Jane Doe'
By Michael Ruiz , Stephanie Pagones | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/john-griffin-15m-civil-suit-child-trafficking
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Report: Former CNN Producer’s Wife Files for Divorce amid Sex-Trafficking Allegations
AMY FURR
29 Jan 2022
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/01/29/report-former-cnn-producers-wife-files-for-divorce-amid-sex-trafficking-allegations/
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The Latest Details on Chris Cuomo's Sexual Misconduct Allegation Are Pretty Dark
Townhall. ^ | Feb 16, 2022 | Matt Vespa
Posted on 2/16/2022, 6:10:08 PM by george76
What is going on at CNN? They’ve had creepy producers trying to procure underage girls. Sexual harassment was rampant, and Jeff Zucker, the network’s longtime president, was forced out after he was discovered having an inappropriate relationship with his right-hand woman.
There’s more there, but he decided to bolt before things got worse. The network is a total and complete train wreck. It all stems from Chris Cuomo. I don’t know if he’s behind the leaking or not, but what is an absolute fact is that the dominos began to fall as soon as he was fired for helping his brother, then-NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with messaging when the latter was facing a slew of sexual harassment allegations. Andrew was forced to resign. Chris was fired for these breaches in ethics last December. Yet, he also faced past incidents of sexual harassment.
When he was at ABC News, Cuomo groped a colleague, Shelley Ross, in 2005. Then, it was discovered that he was facing a new allegation prior to his termination from CNN, though nothing came of it until now. Over at RedState, they have more on this claim where the now ex-host allegedly wanted to have sex with a colleague and used a lunch meeting to make his proposition. This occurred when Chris Cuomo was still at ABC News. RedState was reporting on this new development from The New York Times:
While a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo denied the allegations in the letter, it set in motion a chain of events that would quickly upend one of the world’s most powerful news networks.
By week’s end, Mr. Zucker had fired Mr. Cuomo, telling him that a drumbeat of scandals had become “too much for us.”
Two months later, Mr. Zucker was forced to resign. On Tuesday, CNN announced that Ms. Gollust, too, was leaving the network.
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The letter was on behalf of the woman who had worked with Mr. Cuomo at ABC News.
It relayed a story that had begun in 2011 when the woman, who was referred to as Jane Doe, was a young temporary ABC employee hoping for a full-time job. One day, after Mr. Cuomo, an anchor, had offered her career advice, he invited her to lunch in his office, according to the letter, interviews with the woman and emails between her and Mr. Cuomo.
When she arrived, there was no food. Instead, Mr. Cuomo badgered her for sex, and after she declined, he assaulted her, she said. She ran out of the room.
Later that day, the woman, who was still seeking a job, tried to smooth things over by writing Mr. Cuomo friendly emails.
The Times interviewed five friends and former colleagues who said the woman told them Mr. Cuomo had made unwelcome sexual requests. She said that only in the past year did she begin to tell people that Mr. Cuomo had also assaulted her, which she hadn’t previously divulged because it was private and painful.
The encounter in Mr. Cuomo’s office at ABC was not the end of her story.
Yeah, that’s a tad more than just a little groping regarding the Ross incident. Yet, it appears Chris was an all-around creeper with his CNN staff as well:
Not long after Ross went public, it was reported that Cuomo’s “Prime Time” executive producer Melanie Buck had “begged” the higher-ups at the failing network to move her elsewhere within the company because she (and some of her colleagues) claimed to have felt “threatened” by Cuomo’s aggressive and combative behavior at times.
As far as the sexual assault allegation goes, only Cuomo and his accuser know as to whether or not it’s true. But considering the other claims against him, one which he acknowledged, it would appear that both Chris Cuomo and his brother Andrew are like peas in a pod when it comes to their lack of respect for women and apparent belief that they’re good to have around whenever the two brothers get that “touchy-feely” urge.
What absolutely loathsome creeps.
Loathsome creeps indeed.
Horrible.