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kpete

(71,978 posts)
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 12:44 PM Jul 2016

Bombshell report: Megyn Kelly has told Murdoch lawyers she was sexually harassed by Roger Ailes

It looks like the biggest shoe in the Roger Ailes sexual harassment scandal has just dropped.

According to New York Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman, Fox News star anchor Megyn Kelly has told investigators hired by the Murdoch family that she has been sexually harassed by Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.

Specifically, Sherman has two sources who claim that “Kelly has told investigators that Ailes made unwanted sexual advances towards her about ten years ago when she was a young correspondent at Fox.” The sources say that she described the alleged harassment by Ailes in great detail.

Another juicy tidbit in Sherman’s piece: His sources say Ailes has “received advice on strategy from Donald Trump and Rudy Guiliani” for beating the rap on sexual harassment, which adds a whole other layer of intrigue to this saga.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/sources-kelly-said-ailes-sexually-harassed-her.html
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/bombshell-report-megyn-kelly-has-told-murdoch-lawyers-she-was-sexually-harassed-by-roger-ailes/#.V45R1bY1RE8.twitter


Update:
AILES OUT!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roger-ailes-fox-news_us_578e5473e4b0450980241a4a?z2p807jmtusj1yvi

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Bombshell report: Megyn Kelly has told Murdoch lawyers she was sexually harassed by Roger Ailes (Original Post) kpete Jul 2016 OP
That whole organization is disgusting. writes3000 Jul 2016 #1
Lol.... Nail head meet hammer uponit7771 Jul 2016 #13
Wow, and he still isn't fired? SummerSnow Jul 2016 #2
Well, this can't be good!! 😂😂😂 Oh and a Happy Dance!! 7wo7rees Jul 2016 #3
Good for her for speaking up. Starry Messenger Jul 2016 #4
A wee bit late though, no? Convenient that they leak he's out and then she Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2016 #7
"....who has become something of a feminist icon..." Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2016 #5
Rudy? What does 9-11 Boy know about sexually harassing women? Rex Jul 2016 #6
Grrr....did a drinking game and I lost last night - saying "drink Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2016 #8
I'm in shock! Rudy not mentioning how he saved us all on 9-11? Rex Jul 2016 #9
ill in the noggin Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2016 #24
K&R... spanone Jul 2016 #10
LOL He got advice on sexual harassment from Ghouliani and tRump?! SunSeeker Jul 2016 #11
Shoulda got it from that Tennessee legislator -- 22 varified instances, still on the job. Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #21
Yes, Mr. "Pants Candy," another example of a "family values" Republican hypocrite. SunSeeker Jul 2016 #22
Don't mind a little funk in my life, but Pants Candy doesn't quite make it. Yech. Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #23
Whoa !! kentuck Jul 2016 #12
Ba-dum-dum!!!! Could this be the end of an era???? MADem Jul 2016 #14
Shocked, I tell ya, I'm just shocked! mountain grammy Jul 2016 #15
I'm surprised Bill Cosby wasn't on the list of advice givers. Nitram Jul 2016 #16
I don't find that at all surprising. Jim__ Jul 2016 #17
I have to look this up 90-percent Jul 2016 #18
Not surprised. calimary Jul 2016 #19
In every instance bucolic_frolic Jul 2016 #20
"Roger's taste" awoke_in_2003 Jul 2016 #26
The FOX Stepford wives. Hmmmmm. nt glennward Jul 2016 #25
 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
8. Grrr....did a drinking game and I lost last night - saying "drink
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 01:06 PM
Jul 2016

when he said 9-11" He never said it

MADem

(135,425 posts)
14. Ba-dum-dum!!!! Could this be the end of an era????
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 01:26 PM
Jul 2016

I wonder if Rita Cosby got "the treatment" before she got fired for the crime of aging?

Jim__

(14,072 posts)
17. I don't find that at all surprising.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 02:20 PM
Jul 2016

I would think people like Ailes, people who sexually harass the people that work for them, do it to almost everyone. In Ailes case, where he sexually harasses women, I would expect him to try it on just about every woman who works for him.

90-percent

(6,828 posts)
18. I have to look this up
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 02:48 PM
Jul 2016

To see if legalizing sexual harassment is part of the Republican Platform?

-90% Jimmy

calimary

(81,179 posts)
19. Not surprised.
Tue Jul 19, 2016, 02:55 PM
Jul 2016

But she obviously got hired, and promoted. She didn't exactly walk away - she's a big star over there now.

Which leads me to wonder...

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