Here's What Gretchen Carlson Wrote A Year Ago About Sexual Harassment: TPM

[Stuart G]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gretchen-carlson-essay-sexual-harassment

By Allegra Kirkland, Published : July 6, 2016, 1:54 PM EDT


Gretchen Carlson, the recently fired Fox News anchor who on Wednesday filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the network’s CEO and chairman, Roger Ailes, has written before about being subjected to unwelcome on-the-job advances, grossly sexist treatment, and unwanted touching.


In an essay published last June in the Huffington Post, Carlson recounted early experiences with sexual harassment as a Miss America winner seeking to parlay her fame into a career in news. She recalled being forcibly kissed by a top TV executive after a meeting, and having a PR executive who also claimed to want to advance her career in journalism force her head into his crotch in his car on their way to dinner. In another instance, a cameraman at the Richmond, Virginia station where she started her career made comments about her breasts.

Carlson recounted blaming herself for these incidents, saying she "stayed silent" out of the fear she “wouldn’t be believed.” The men who harassed her “were powerful” while she “had no power."

“Like so many young women who are the victims of harassment, I worried for months that I had invited his advances in some way, or worse, that people would think I had,” she wrote of the incident with the Virginia cameraman. “I hadn’t done anything wrong, but still I felt shame.”

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According to the lawsuit Carlson filed against Ailes, she had already experienced numerous instances of sexual harassment while at Fox News by the time this essay was published. She charged that her former co-host on “Fox & Friends,” Steve Doocy, behaved in a “sexist and condescending way” towards her during her seven-and-a-half years on the show, belittling her contributions and treating her as a “blond female prop.” When Ailes caught wind of these complaints, she alleged, he called her a “man hater” and responded by demoting her and substantially reducing her compensation.
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She has taken on one of the biggest people in the media..We will see what happens..It will be ugly. Very very ugly.. Perhaps a settlement but who knows? This law suit is following her beliefs the 3rd paragaph above. Time will tell.. What do you think will happen?

[PJMcK]

1. I hope she gets to depose Roger Ailes

There's so much that she could force him to testify about that his deposition would have to be sealed or Fox News would be in all kinds of jeopardy. In truth, I personally do not know anything. But the nature of their business is so sleazy that common sense indicates that there must a be a heap of damaging garbage at that place.

[Dustlawyer]

11. I bet if her attorney can make it relevant enough to go into, he could be forced to admit that what

Fox does is pure propaganda designed to move the masses in the direction the Oligarchs want.

[MariaThinks]

2. i have no sympathy for her. I do hope she destroys ailes.

[Stuart G]

3. She may have already done so..

Now Ailes is top page news.
Not what it is supposed to be..so he may be removed by his boss. (he does have a boss)
...we will see.

[MariaThinks]

5. this hobbles fox during the final months of the election year. Love it.

[Stuart G]

6. Excellent point,.I agree..head of fox news, acused of being a sexual preditor..what a story!!!!!!!

Say it ain't so, Shoeless Joe....

[MariaThinks]

14. it is so so

[TNNurse]

22. I do like the timing

[aggiesal]

13. Yes, his name is Rupert Murdoch. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

23. Regardless her politics...

she is a victim of sexual harassment, and she does have mine.

[SunSeeker]

4. Next up, Megan Kelly's lawsuit?

[MADem]

7. Hard to know what will happen. She worked for that guy for eight years.

She'd better have more than "He said/she said." Good lawyers can make mincemeat of those sorts of arguments. If she has recordings, or unimpeachable witness statements, she may get a settlement before this even goes to trial. Sort of like a bonus severance package.

I think she was terminated for the "crime" of getting older. She's fifty, and she is a former Miss America, not a former trial lawyer like Greta, the exception to the rule. Her "value added" from the Fox perspective is limited.

Also, young, fresh "talent" works for less than established news presenters.

I believe, if I am not mistaken, that this woman was brought in as a replacement for RITA COSBY, who did ten years, nearly, at Fox, with her luscious blonde locks, red lipstick and impressive assets....and then she gained weight and looked a bit less fresh, and a bit more ... mature.

And she was dumped in 2005.

S. E. Cupp, the conservative atheist, was another one of the Fox ladies--she used to put her legs up on the desk.

She jumped before she was pushed.

Looks like a pattern to me.

[zentrum]

9. Not too many tears for this one.

She worked and got rich from a lying organization that always twisted the "news" in ways to support the party that was totally into the destruction of women's equal rights.

Her work hurt women everywhere.

Her work helped bring us the disaster of Bush, did what it could to harm Obama and is one of the root causes of a candidate like Trump.

Hope she destroys Ailes, but cry me a river, Gretchen.

[MADem]

10. I cannot disagree with your feelings about this, because she is a rather

unsympathetic character in that enabled a bunch of vicious, some might say traitorous, wingnuts, while she took the money along with the abuse and regarded it as a "cost of doing business" rather than nipping it in the bud and calling it out straight away.


That said, here's hoping--unsympathetic as she is--she takes that jerk down.

I suspect, though, that they will mitigate their exposure -- they'll do what they did to O'Reilly's victim, throw a few million at her, make her sign a non-disclosure agreement, and move on.

[NewJeffCT]

20. I agree

while I hope she can prove her charges and Ailes gets hammered in court, I suspect that the worst that will happen is that they'll pay her off with an unspecified amount and she'll have to sign some sort of non-disclosure agreement.

[treestar]

27. I think you hit that one on the head

Yet men can turn fifty and their experience is appreciated. And these women still look very good!

[louis-t]

8. How any of these women could ever vote repug

is beyond me.

[davidn3600]

21. There's been some men in the Democratic party that haven't treat women all that well either....

Just saying....

[Squinch]

31. Or even watch that station, whose visuals are all about T&A.

[Dustlawyer]

12. The thought of Steve Doocy being condescending to anyone is hilarious!

The man has no brain and only knows enough to read a teleprompter and shill.

[Ilsa]

16. I always thought of him as the blond prop. nt

[NewJeffCT]

19. I had always pictured him

and a few other guys there, as probably being condescending to everybody that is not Roger Ailes - they're the "talent" and above the riff raff.

[Squinch]

32. This is true, but next to the other guy he looks like a genius. They must have searched far and

wide to find TWO coat racks that could read.

[Jopin Klobe]

15. Money ...

... obviously does not talk ...

... neither do some people when you give them enough ...

... stop paying them ... they talk ...

... I love to watch scum extort scum ... that's how civilization has survived ...

[Snarkoleptic]

17. Seeing a copy of the filed complaint make this so much more real for me.

https://www.scribd.com/document/317614835/Carlson#from_embed

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. Unfortunately nothing will happen to that inverted anus in human form. They'll throw

some money at her and she'll thank them, then fade into obscurity.

[Stuart G]

25. Maybe not...I have read 10 more women have come forward to accuse him

[redstatebluegirl]

26. Ailes isn't much different from his viewers who sit in the basement or in their recliners.

They watch Fox to hear what they want to believe is true and see women in tight clothes fawn over men in power so they can get their jollies. I have said this before, Ailes finally found a woman who wouldn't play ball with him. Say what you want about her, but she was educated at Stanford!

[Bucky]

29. Thank you

for the most appalling use of the phrase "play ball" in history

[Bucky]

28. Other women are apparently contacting Carlson's attorneys. Roger Ailes is the GOP's Bill Cosby

They have their own news network, they have their own newspapers, hell, conservatives even have their own Wikipedia. Why shouldn't they have their own Bill Cosby?

[Squinch]

30. OK, I can't stand her, but I am admiring her right now. This is a terribly hard thing to do, and she

is doing it knowing exactly what is in store for her.