Former Fox news booker: Harassed by Ailes for 20 years.

[Kingofalldems]

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/fmr-fox-booker-harassed-by-ailes-for-20-years.html?mid=twitter_nymag

The morning after Fox News chief Roger Ailes resigned, The cable network's former director of booking placed a call to the New York law firm hired by 21st Century Fox to investigate sexual-harassment allegations against Ailes. Laurie Luhn told lawyers at Paul, Weiss that she had been harassed by Ailes for more than 20 years, that executives at Fox had known about it and helped cover it up, and that it had ruined her life. "It was psychological torture," she later told me......

Fox is going down hard. Looks like Ailes is a complete POS. Lock Him Up!

[scscholar]

1. If Luhn had said something earlier...

she could have saved others from the same horrors. These type of stories are always depressing.

[klook]

2. Nauseating and disturbing story on multiple levels.

Not sure I can take enough showers to get rid of the feeling I have after reading this article.

I've known Ailes was a scumbag since reading the Joe McGinnis book The Selling of the President: 1968, but this is a new depth of scum.

[malaise]

11. I still have my original copy

Undiluted scum

[bullimiami]

3. Horrific. This is the first implication of FNC knowing and covering it up.

Fox News is going to have to pay up a ton and a lot of people are going to have to be fired if 21Cent Fox wants to isolate this from the parent company.

Don't ever let anyone forget that Trump is still supporting Ailes.

[4lbs]

4. I notice that all the women reporting they have been sexually harrassed by Ailes look similar.

It appears Ailes has a "type" that he lusts after.

[PSPS]

6. Yes, the Fox "type."

They all seem to be molded into a "type" that is supposed to appeal to past-middle-aged white guys in a way that makes them think the woman would be approachable and "doable" if they talked to them in a bar or something weird like that. Of course, this describes the demographics of the channel perfectly, although their fantasy would never come to pass.

[progressoid]

8. Well, that would also be 90 percent of the female talent on Fox.

[kskiska]

10. And the women who defended him

were women who wouldn't have been attractive to him - Greta Van Susteren, Susan Estrich, Jeannine Pirro...

[Hugin]

15. Serial predators often have a profile in their victim preferences.

This thought has often crossed my mind watching Fox News. Even before these revelation about Ailes.

[tenderfoot]

5. I'm sure she was in the first in line to excoriate other women the suffered the same...

... with statements like "well what was she wearing?" or "she should have made better choices" or "why did she wait so long to say anything?" etc...

[Kingofalldems]

18. Stockholm Syndrome?

[greymattermom]

9. maybe MSNBC is getting ready to be the new Fox

when Fox goes down.

[Cracklin Charlie]

12. Grody old nasty men.

How did they get away with it for so long? And how many more of those creepers are there at Fox? There will be lots of them.

Gretchen Carlson did a wonderful thing.

[Jopin Klobe]

13. "Looks like Ailes is a complete POS." ...

... "Looks like ..." ...

... "LOOKS like"??? ...

[JI7]

14. that looks like Norah odonnell

Ailes is a gross disgusting fuck.

[ZX86]

16. I think it's safe to say

The shit has hit the fan at Fox News. I can't recall a sex scandal of such large proportions from the highest levels of management. Major changes are coming to Fox News. Both Ailes and Fox will be sued up one side and down the other. There's no way Fox can address the issues without a full house cleaning of Fox News.

Ailes is a sick, predatory, degenerate, pervert. Fox News essentially handed him his own personal pleasure palace and sex farm to share with his loyal minions like Bill O'Rielly and Steve Doocy. This was not an isolated incident. This is the systemic and prolonged abuse of women in the workplace.

[ErikJ]

17. What do u expect from the guy who invented Fox News?

Seems like a case of reverse beastiality.

[BlueInPhilly]

19. I thought it read "hooker" instead of "booker"

And it wasn't so far off.
The thought of anyone giving Ailes head makes me throw up in my mouth a little.