The other shoe drops: A new suit by ex-Fox News host Andrea Tantaros claims that it wasn’t just network chief Roger Ailes engaged in sexual harassment, but that other top figures at the network both participated in similar behavior and “condoned” it.
“Fox News masquerades as defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny,” the suit reads. [...]
In the suit, Tantaros also described host Bill O’Reilly ― who, in 2004, settled a high-profile sexual harassment suit leveled by a former producer ― as once asking her to stay with him a “very private” place in Long Island and expressing a desire to see her “as a wild girl.”
And former Massachusetts senator and Fox News contributor Scott Brown made “sexual inappropriate comments” about Tantaros, according to the suit, and once grabbing her waist while she was buying lunch.
Tantaros is one of nearly two dozen women to come forward with complaints about harassment at the network after Gretchen Carlson filed suit against Ailes for sexual harassment. Notably, Tantaros is not merely suing Ailes himself, but the network and several named network executives for their own roles in protecting Ailes and, when Tantaros complained, engaging in a public “media vendetta” against her.
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2004—Dole a hypocrite:
Josh Marshall applies the smackdown to Bob Dole, so I don't have to:
Today Bob Dole suggested that one or more of John Kerry's Purple Hearts may have been fraudulent in some way because they were for "superficial wounds."
Dole knows better.
In a 1988 campaign-trail autobiography, here's how Dole described the incident that earned him his first Purple Heart: "As we approached the enemy, there was a brief exchange of gunfire. I took a grenade in hand, pulled the pin, and tossed it in the direction of the farmhouse. It wasn't a very good pitch (remember, I was used to catching passes, not throwing them). In the darkness, the grenade must have struck a tree and bounced off. It exploded nearby, sending a sliver of metal into my leg--the sort of injury the Army patched up with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart."