Fox News CEO in deep trouble? Lawyer claims he demanded oral sex from girl as young as 16-years-old

[KamaAina]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/7/1546094/-Fox-News-CEO-in-deep-trouble-lawyer-claims-he-demanded-oral-sex-from-girls-as-young-as-16-years-ol

In a gag-inducing follow-up to the news that now former Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson has filed a bombshell lawsuit against Roger Ailes for sexual harassment and retaliation, her lawyer says they can barely keep up with the barrage of calls and emails from other women. From NYMag:

Based on what Carlson’s camp is saying, it appears her lawsuit could unleash a torrent of new allegations from other women. “He’s the Bill Cosby of media,” Carlson’s lawyer, Nancy Erika Smith, told me today. “My office is being deluged with calls and website contacts from women. I don’t even have a count anymore … Women as young as 16 who said he demanded oral sex. Another said during an interview that he said, ‘Take off your bra.’ She was devastated.” Smith told me she’s forwarding the names of women who agreed to be interviewed to journalists. The New York Times currently has multiple reporters working on the story.

So far, no women have gone on the record. But Carlson isn’t the first to publicly challenge the Fox chief. In my 2014 biography of Ailes, I reported three incidents where Ailes made inappropriate sexual comments at women in professional settings. One of the women, Randi Harrison, said that when she interviewed for a producing job at NBC in the early '80s, Ailes said he’d increase her salary by $100 a week in exchange for sex. After the incident, Ailes’s friend John Huddy tracked Harrison down and asked her at a bar if she was wearing a wire.

According to CNN, Carlson and her attorney want to get Ailes under oath and plan to call at least one other Fox News employee to testify:

[lpbk2713]

1. Ailes is a sleaze. Always has been.

So for that reason alone I am inclined to believe any negatives I hear about him.

[PearliePoo2]

2. I can't even express my revulsion of this pig.

The thought of this disgusting p.o.s. humping away on ANY person brings vomit up in my throat.

[Squinch]

3. Who is surprised? Raise those hands high!

Results

All those who are named below are surprised:

[villager]

27. Oddly enough, my hand is staying right here, down by the keyboard. nt

[lindysalsagal]

4. Sadly, most faux viewers would probably think, "What-a-guy!".

It will be good for ratings.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

49. Or they'll call ALL those women LIARS.

Because that has always worked in the past. Protect the man. Hang the wom(e)n.

[sarae]

5. GROSS

sadly, it's probably not an uncommon thing at Faux News.

[niyad]

16. well, there was loofah boy.

[sarae]

31. loofah boy...is that Bill O'Reilly?

[niyad]

40. yes. have you ever read the transcripts of his interactions with andrea makris?

[sarae]

57. No, but now I'm afraid to...

[niyad]

58. I definitely would not recommend reading it with anything to eat or drink or throw nearby

(but I would have a bucket handy!!)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. So, bottom line - every blonde still on there puts up with this creep? nt

[gratuitous]

7. A bidding war that could pay off the national debt

Start lining up the attorneys who would love a chance to take Ailes' deposition in a civil case. Bidding begins at $100,000.

[Moostache]

11. He will plead the 5th if he ever testifies...

They will throw a pile of money at this, put a gag order on the settlement and it all goes away. Scumbags like that ALWAYS buy "justice" in our fucked up system.

Sad but true.

[gratuitous]

13. He might plead the Fifth

But since this is a civil case, that's a tougher sell. There are all kinds of questions that can be posed to Mr. Ailes that don't have a criminal component to them that he would rather not answer. Also, it's hard to negotiate a fair settlement without some discovery, including exchange of documents and the taking of the parties' depositions.

I suppose Ailes' attorneys will move that the records be exchanged under seal or subject to a protective order, but the judge may not be inclined to grant that motion. Which would be just too, too sad for Mr. Ailes.

[Moostache]

25. I do not disagree...

But I bet it will be stunning just how much his memory of specific details will fade in the depositions, criminal or not.
That scumbag will pull out the Reagan style "Well, I don't recall".

Either way, he is human filth incarnate for certain, so perjury is probably no more serious to him than a hang nail...

Hope the judge in the case allows for a fair discovery and pretrial process though.

[Kingofalldems]

8. Isn't he also palsy walsy with DONALD TRUMP?

Him and Limbaugh are also pals.

[monmouth4]

9. And then there's the Steve Doocey (ugh) thing. Haven't heard much about him yet..n/t

[lunatica]

10. OK. One shoe has dropped

Anyone up for popcorn?

[calimary]

24. Take a number!

[ErikJ]

12. Mr. GOP "Family Values" TV producer.

Getting all too common.

[meow2u3]

17. I'll have to get out my popper

Let me have a ringside seat.

[Mendocino]

14. Serial misogynists Trump and Ailes

have actually made the left feel empathetic to fauxnoise enablers Carlson and Kelly this year. Quite a feat.

[allan01]

15. i am so sick of this felgercarbe where they preach "family values .

and the stuff that they hide behind closed doors and deflect from themselves .
and another one bites the dust.

[Rex]

18. Like an ex-smoker's lungs...the country would start to instantly heal if Foxnews went off the air.

They have been a primary cancer on our society for decades.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

50. ^^^^^

Truth.

[calimary]

19. Oh PLEEEEEEEEEZE!!!! Make it so!!!!!

I am SO loving this!!!!

SOOOOO loving this!!! I hope he's SOOOOOO screwed!

What that bastard has done to information brokering and curating - the shit that he has mainstreamed, the partisan "news" bullshit he's peddled and organized and produced and massaged and twisted and tarted up and shoved down gullible viewers' throats from coast to coast, how he's perverted the national discourse, poisoned the American mindset, dumbed us all down, and played to our lowest, cheesiest, basest, stupidest, pie-in-the-sky-loving reality-defying and negating instincts. He's done nothing but foster and encourage STUPIDITY from sea to shining sea.

The low-information voter, the paranoiac, the lowlife, the predator, the conspiracy theorist, the hater, the racist, the sexist, the liar, the cheat, the folks and the trends that developed to make someone like Donald Trump possible - it ALL traces back to him. He is the seed - AND the soil - from which the poison plant sprouted. He is the stork that delivered the New Century Ugly American, and his results are in FULL FLOWER now. He's given aid and comfort - TONS of earthly comfort - and fame and fortune and glory and a safe haven and an echo chamber to the stupidest, nastiest shit-stirrers like bill o'reilly and that guy whose name rhymes with Vanity, and sarah palin, and oliver north, AND a parade of decorative bimbos to force-feed to us. He is a curse upon us all. He has slanted the news so far that it's fallen over on its collective face and become a complete and totally biased sham. He has RUINED broadcast journalism. Turned it into a shrieking whore house with bright colored lights and bursts, and bells dong'ing, and sexy graphics and rousing music to get the hormones cranking, and wall-to-wall empty-headed long-legged blondes for side dishes, shilling half-truths and rumor-mongering and character assassination and outright LIES that are peddled for truth. All those raving lunatics like the crazy uncle who you usually kept sequestered in your attic and only allowed out for Thanksgiving dinner with the extended family have been installed in the spotlights on center stage, given phony respectability, showered with money and fame, and made into stars. And flushed the American intellect, objectivity, and discernment straight down the crapper.

I hope he eats shit. Scheming manipulative partisan son-of-Beelzebub. All those nasty Scottish slurs and putdowns that showered down upon the head of The Donald? Times A MILLION for roger ailes. He IS the original sin. He IS the toxic primordial sludge that gave us such monsters as bush/cheney, and more.

To borrow a line from that obnoxious Joanie Ernst campaign commercial - I'd LOVE-LOVE-LOVE to see this "make him squeal!"

[ZX86]

30. First network to call election for Bush over Gore

The source being Fox News employee and cousin of Bush. This is a fitting end to his long and sordid career. From Nixon to Trump he's pimped the most disgusting right wing candidates tropes imaginable. I hope every lurid detail of his pervy and repulsive behavior is put on public record for the world to see.

[Different Drummer]

32. Excellently said. n/t

[PearliePoo2]

38. OMG...stand up and take a bow!

Your post is so good, it goes beyond a hat-tip. It is SO good, that after reading it, I want a cigarette!

[niyad]

41. would you consider posting this as its own op so that we can rec it??

[calimary]

60. Yeah, niyad. Thank you. I would.

This is personal for me. The profession I was SO incredibly proud to be part of has been destroyed. Bastardized. Bimbo-ized. It's damn near criminal.

NO WONDER people don't trust the media anymore. The media now serves us lies for the appetizer, bullshit for the entree, and a peep show for dessert.

[calimary]

61. Done.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027995889

Thank you, niyad!

[niyad]

64. sadly, you are absolutely correct.

[Meldread]

20. I am so glad to see this.

First, I am glad because these women will hopefully finally be able to get justice.

Second, I am glad because I am hoping this will rip Fox News apart. Ailes is allegedly the mastermind behind Fox. My hope is that if he goes down, he'll take a big chunk of Fox with him. Even if he doesn't, it remains my hope that without him at the helm Fox suffers and begins to lose some of its influence and power.

[colsohlibgal]

21. Figure It Out Wing Nuts

Faux should be renamed Hypocrite Central. One day may the brain dead who lap it up figure it out.

[bullwinkle428]

22. A huge RW power broker turns out to be a pedophile?

Where is my fainting couch?

[Different Drummer]

33. Where is my fainting couch?

[cosmicone]

23. I hope the statute of limitations hasn't run on a few of the cases n/t

[passiveporcupine]

26. If Gretchen's complaint was true,

this is exactly what I expected. It just takes one brave person to break the sound barrier and then they all start revealing the truth.

I hope he ends up in jail for life. But, knowing his wealth, I doubt that will happen. Unfortunate as that may be.

[Fritz Walter]

28. Here's the image that flashed in my mind while I read this

And I'm not a major Star Wars fan.

Nevertheless, Ailes deserves the same fate as this cartoonish character: choked to death by someone he abused before being consumed by an even greater vermicular life form.

[BobTheSubgenius]

29. I tried to get a handle on how I feel about these allegations.

Truthfully, this hasn't changed my opinion of him as much as one might think. I have long thought he was a vile, grasping, horrid human being that was bringing nothing but misery to almost everyone and everything sentient and willing to go to any lengths to achieve that. Anyone that would buy into the world of Ailes and Murdoch? I try not to think about them.

Believe me, I WELL know just how awful this is, but consider the source, so to speak. Were you as surprised by this as your were by the Bill Cosby mess? What else was a person such as Ailes to do to try to set the bar any lower? My Awfulness Quotient has been pretty much exhausted by Faux Noise for a long time now.

[enid602]

34. roger

Only $100 a week more. Big spender.

[Lint Head]

35. This bastard is going down!

[KamaAina]

36. On whom?

[Eleanors38]

59. That really Ailes.

[Lint Head]

62. Ha!

[oberliner]

37. "no women have gone on the record"

That's kind of important.

[niyad]

42. wrong

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/six-more-women-allege-ailes-sexual-harassment.html

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/7/12120908/fox-roger-ailes-gretchen-carlson-sexual-harassment-other-women


Roger Ailes Accused Of Sexism In The Workplace? The Record Is Long.
Gretchen Carlson is not the first to speak out against the Fox News chief.
07/06/2016 07:48 pm ET

Lydia O’Connor Reporter, The Huffington Post
Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images
Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes has a well-recorded history of facing sexual assault allegations.

Long before Gretchen Carlson filed her incendiary lawsuit against Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, plenty of women had come forward with their own memories of his sexism and sexual harassment.

The former “Fox & Friends” co-host alleges that Ailes fired her for rejecting a sexual relationship with him. Similar stories echo through Gabriel Sherman’s 2014 biography of the media magnate, titled The Loudest Voice in the Room.

When television producer Randi Harrison interviewed with Ailes for a job at NBC in the 1980s, she said he offered her an extra hundred dollars a week if she agreed to have sex with him whenever he wanted, according to Sherman.
Gabriel Sherman

Ailes, then president of CNBC, also reportedly made a pass at producer Shelley Ross while interviewing her for a job. She accepted the position after he apologized. Ailes later called her a “militant feminist” when asked about the interview.

. . . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roger-ailes-sexism-sexual-harassment_us_577d3290e4b04164641164c2

. . . .

[oberliner]

45. Huh?

Did you not read the OP?

So far, no women have gone on the record. But Carlson isn’t the first to publicly challenge the Fox chief.

[niyad]

46. you said, "no women have gone on record, and that is kind of important"

clearly, other women have.

[brett_jv]

48. I think that the poster means 'the legal record', as does the article ...

And refers to the current, shall we say 'crop' of victims being discussed.

[davidn3600]

39. But so far, Gretchen Carlson is the only woman to come forward and make the accusation

There is a lot of rumors of other women. But so far, she's the only one. Gretchen's lawyer claims there is a flood of women, yet none are actually coming forward. None have been added to the suit.

Instead, you got some women on FOX (such as Greta) defending Ailes.

[niyad]

43. wrong

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/six-more-women-allege-ailes-sexual-harassment.html

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/7/12120908/fox-roger-ailes-gretchen-carlson-sexual-harassment-other-women



Roger Ailes Accused Of Sexism In The Workplace? The Record Is Long.
Gretchen Carlson is not the first to speak out against the Fox News chief.
07/06/2016 07:48 pm ET

Lydia O’Connor Reporter, The Huffington Post
Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images
Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes has a well-recorded history of facing sexual assault allegations.

Long before Gretchen Carlson filed her incendiary lawsuit against Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, plenty of women had come forward with their own memories of his sexism and sexual harassment.

The former “Fox & Friends” co-host alleges that Ailes fired her for rejecting a sexual relationship with him. Similar stories echo through Gabriel Sherman’s 2014 biography of the media magnate, titled The Loudest Voice in the Room.

When television producer Randi Harrison interviewed with Ailes for a job at NBC in the 1980s, she said he offered her an extra hundred dollars a week if she agreed to have sex with him whenever he wanted, according to Sherman.
Gabriel Sherman

Ailes, then president of CNBC, also reportedly made a pass at producer Shelley Ross while interviewing her for a job. She accepted the position after he apologized. Ailes later called her a “militant feminist” when asked about the interview.

. . . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roger-ailes-sexism-sexual-harassment_us_577d3290e4b04164641164c2

[davidn3600]

56. But how many of them went to court?

Ailes may be a sexist pig. But nothing is going to happen to him (legally) unless legal action is taken by someone recently. One woman finally did, but a judge isn't going to pay much attention to these other cases, many which are beyond the statue of limitations anyway.

It was the same problem with Bill Cosby.

It's looking likely that Ailes may be out of a job. The Murdoch boys have been wanting him out for awhile. But will he care? He's old and rich.

[MineralMan]

44. No different than some predatory McDonalds asst. manager.

Truly. This kind of thing is everywhere. Many women can tell the story of it happening in their lives.

Sexual harassment by employers and managers is so common that people have become used to it and don't go public with it when it happens. I've heard such stories from many of the women in my own life.

[smirkymonkey]

47. What a disgusting pig.

Can we expect anything less from Fox?

[brett_jv]

51. I can never understand this kind of thing from filthy rich dudes ...

FFS the guy can fly first class to Nevada every weekend if he wants, stay in the Presidential Suite, and have himself a wild sex party delivered quick as you can say 'Boo', without it making a dent in his damn bank account.

WHY does someone this rich and powerful gotta go about trying to get sex in this disgusting and apparently in some cases illegal manner, abusing their authority and demeaning employees and others?

What am I saying ... it's their f***ing massive ego's, that's why.

[Beaverhausen]

52. It's about power, not about sex

[Botany]

53. Now maybe Ohio U. can drop the Ailes' name from its Roger Ailes' Newsroom

n/t

[AllyCat]

54. Wonder if Ailes will get the same coverage and treatment as

Bill Cosby.

[KamaAina]

55. Larry Wilmore made the connection the other night.

[oberliner]

63. The claim is that the demand was made 50 years ago

The woman making that claim is 66 years old today. Is that still actionable?