Sean Hannity the Latest Fox News Host to be Accused of Sexual Harassment

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Tulsa, OK - Columnist, attorney, and former Fox News contributor Debbie Schlussel appeared on today’s Pat Campbell Show and accused Fox News Prime Time Host Sean Hannity of the same type of behavior that lead to Bill O’Reilly leaving the beleaguered network earlier this week.

Among the allegations, Schlussel claims that while at an appearance in Detroit which they both attended, Hannity invited her back to his hotel room.

Schlussel says that after she turned down his advances, she was not invited back on his program.

“This kind of stuff is all over the place at Fox News and anything that has to do with Sean Hannity,” Schlussel said.

interview at link

http://www.1170kfaq.com/shows/pat-campbell/sean-hannity-the-latest-fox-news-host-to-be-accused-of-sexual-harassment

[spanone]

1. next!

[eleny]

2. if this keeps up they'll be lucky to find someone to turn out the lights at that network

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[Iggo]

16. If this keeps up, it's going to be all women working there.

That should be fun.

[BigmanPigman]

51. Does that finally mean

equal pay? Is this what it takes? Our society is run by men with their brains in their zippers.

[lapucelle]

54. My aunt used to say...

"Thinking with the wrong head." The other grownups would chuckle and shush her, but I didn't understand why until I got older.

[progressoid]

83. And does that mean they can finally wear pants on air?

[PatrickforO]

25. My compliments on the big red button.

What a great, and true, message.

Words to live by.

[eleny]

49. Back in the mid 1990s I had a boss who was a pita

We always managed our working relationship but she was terrible to some others. Then one day it dawned on me that high horses etc - and she would some day pay the price for her high handed, nasty ways. I always hoped she'd be taken down a peg or three.

Btw, thx!

[cannabis_flower]

66. a pita?

What's that?

[leftynyc]

69. Pain in the ass

My boss uses that acronym also.

[rpannier]

61. A few more like that

and we can probably buy it for a song

[cstanleytech]

62. I'm sure they will just hire another Repugnant asshole as there are plenty of them

to pick and choose from.

[femmocrat]

3. Wow!

[oasis]

4. Time for Hannity to do some squirming.

[shenmue]

5. Oh shit!

[ghostsinthemachine]

6. Bye, bye Sean...

Be sure to cash that check, pronto, there may not be enough money to pay off EVERYONE.

[Orrex]

7. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

Who could have imagined that a bunch of sexist, misogynist assholes would act like a bunch of sexist, misogynist assholes?

Shocked!

[Amaryllis]

50. You beat me to it. I was thinking the same. We are all so surprised. Every day now I am shocked

and surprised at least once but more often multiple times a day. It is a bottomless pit of shock and surprise.

[TNNurse]

59. Perfect, thank you.

[riversedge]

8. yappa dappa doooooooooooo!whow. Hannity!! whow

[UTUSN]

9. Zow-ee!1 Him, the angelic Catholic schoolboy, Mad Monk of the Crusades?!1 n/t

[Sculpin Beauregard]

53. There seems to be a virulent strain of Irish-

Americans in the media biz. Hannity O'Reilly, Bannon. Full disclosure, don't flame me: I have some Irish ancestry.

[UTUSN]

60. Yea, I'm 1/16th Irish and Lapsed (Catholic), so I share your wariness about being *FLAMED*

So, I also share your insight about the bad side of Irish-Catholicism, and always with that *guilt* and *nostalgia* that Catholicism is so expert at injecting into us.

I've said here many times before, j'ever notice how many of the national pundit and judges are Irish Catholic, and how articulate they are? It's all a product of the remnant of the Middle Ages curriculum, the last dregs of the antiquities, what put "Roman" in Roman Catholicism. Rhetoric, diction, rote, dialectics, debate - all the skills needed for verbal superiority over opponents. And much of it inflicted by a lot of sadistic monks and nuns, spread out colonially across swaths of brown people in the world.

All those Irish-Catholics - Tweety, G.E.RUSSERT, O'LOOFAH, HANNITY, the BUCHANANs, and really I'd say FIFTY or hundreds more, when all the judges and other office holders are counted. The only non-Catholic outliers are LIMBOsevic and a couple of others.

Another thought that might light flames is: As a multi-generational Dem/Lib, I spent at least 50 of my past 70 years of political awareness with full empathy and support of all things Israel, yet in the past 20 or so years have wondered why all of these Jewish billionaires are so heavily Neo-con/wingnuts - ADELSON and many *MANY* others, and the media yakkers like Mark LEVIN, WIENER-"Savage" and *MANY* others.

So, pal, welcome to DU, and *brace* for flaming.

[sheshe2]

10. Pig.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. I've been waiting for this. You KNOW he was no boy scout.

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. I have a couple of relatives that worship that dick.

They will probably say this is all some massive Hillary/Obama conspiracy to destroy their innocent little hero. Idiots are still in mourning from losing O'Lielly.

[Johnny2X2X]

13. It is their culture

This is the culture they created at FOX, one where women are sex objects to be exploited. It follows Conservative values which pine for the days when women weren't allowed to work out of the home, or vote for that matter.

It was a free for all at FOX, there is no doubt that scarcely any women who worked there was spared harassment. It was sport for all of them. The culture at FOX is the example for the GOP to spread across the country. They nominated and elected a President who would have been the lead groper there. Disgusting.

And I tell you this, the American Taliban is real. These are the type of people that think the way a women dresses can invite harassment and assault. These sickos would have Burqas employed in the US eventually too.

[PatSeg]

38. And yet the upper management at Fox

encourages, probably even requires women to dress provocatively. On cable news, the men dress in business attire, while the women dress like they're going clubbing. CNN is guilty of this as well.

[forgotmylogin]

45. Birds of a feather.

Not surprised.

It's interesting to note that when you do see a woman on Fox, almost invariably they are statuesque, attractive and very "made up". I'm not at all faulting any person for looking the way they want and being attractive, but that is what that network seems to gravitate towards. I suspect this might have been dictated that women could not be seen in anything but the tightest dress they can manage.

I don't watch much, but never have I seen a woman on their airwaves in any sort of "casual" clothes like jeans, actual glasses and un-coiffed hair. While the men don't dress like schlubs either, there seems to be a different standard.

[Johnny2X2X]

48. FOX is famous for this

On non political websites there are often threads titled, "FOX News babes." and such. They've selected their on air personalities for their looks. While news people on TV have often been pleasant to look at, FOX took it to a different level and was hiring beauty queens. Other networks have followed suit now. They found out it helped drive ratings and they made sure the women were dressed as sexy as possible.

It's a tough thing to discuss, and there are talented and intelligent women on FOX news, but the fact is that many of the women are obviously there for their looks and it's no surprise that we find out the culture there was one of sexism. I'm sure story after story will continue to come out of women being objectified, and women being told to look "sexier" there. The sick thing is that for every girl coming out now, there were likely women who felt pressured into sex with trolls like Hannity, O'Reilly, or Ailes, these women are victims. It's has to be an absolutely toxic environment to work in right now.

[PsychoBabble]

14. Many of us don't handle extreme power very well ...

And that is before we even get to the "brains" piece.

[Rural_Progressive]

15. Ah the joys of the patriarchal society

These guys really don't see anything wrong with what they're doing. They really don't. They're the top dogs and women, well they have their role in society. They should be damned happy they're even allowed out the kitchen, get to drive cars, and well you can see what problems letting them do those sorts of things have caused.

Women thinking their equal to men and that sort of crazy nonsense. These guys are dinosaurs who are just now getting the message that their epoch has ended. Most of them will go to their graves trying to figure out what happened, angry, and clueless to the end.

[MarinCoUSA]

17. This is great.

Half of Hannity's pitch is this "virtue/purity thru ignorance" (the other half is pseudo-Ninja warrior 'you want me on the wall, you need me on that wall') and it is so securely and firmly crafted that it would make the fall sooooooooo much sweeter.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

18. More

Family values...

[Archae]

19. His accuser is certainly no "good girl" either.

She's known for being very hateful, especially towards Muslims. ALL Muslims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Schlussel#Muslims_and_Islam

[Kittycow]

26. I was shocked that it was her!

She's one of the most hateful political writers out there.

I wonder if her fans are torn now.

[uponit7771]

31. doesn't mean its ok to sexually harass her

[Archae]

34. Never said it was.

It's just that Schlussel is one of the most hateful political writers out there, and it's possible she was just wanting more attention.

[pennylane100]

57. Of course it is not OK,

However, knowing that she is particularly hateful towards Muslims makes me wonder why she would think that people care when she is on the receiving of unfair treatment.

[jberryhill]

76. She has expressly stated that he did not, anyway

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/despite-reports-fmr-fox-guest-now-claims-she-was-never-sexually-harassed-by-sean-hannity/

Despite Reports, Fmr Fox Guest Claims She Was Never Sexually Harassed by Sean Hannity

[svpadgham]

82. Which is odd

because everything she says before making the denial sounds like she says he did. It's like she's protecting him very poorly.

[IronLionZion]

73. A terrible racist person harassed by an asshole

Sounds like exactly what would happen at fox news. I hope she brings him down for good.

[beachbum bob]

20. need to find how how many women foxnews paid off ??? To keep hannity "safe".

Once that becomes public...bye bye Sean...a bigger asshole than Oreilly

[Paladin]

21. Way past time for that block-headed former alterboy to go down.

I hope other Hannity-wrecking testimony is forthcoming.

[gordianot]

22. After Sean is ran out of Fox he should sue Ailes and Billo.

They are both well off from their settlements poor Sean just went along with th culture at the work place.

I do hope the victims of these predators are well compensated.

[SDJay]

23. While Terrible That This Is Happening

I would at least consider it proper karma if it was women who took this toilet of a network down, since Fux has been shitting on women since it turned its lights on.

[PatrickforO]

24. Oh, say it ain't so! Not Sean...

[MasonDreams]

27. we don't NEED Hannity, We need TRUMP OUT!!'

[FarPoint]

28. They lie and spew hate everyday on Radio and TV for 15 years or more.....

The rise of arrogance within, no boundaries, no foundation ...It fuels their narcissistic personality.... BAM-BAM..It come full circle.

[Raine1967]

29. HOLY COW! Everyone should listen to the audio!

She is naming names and not holding back!

[Permanut]

30. Predicting the response from His Orangeness..

"I think he’s a person I know well — he is a good person," Trump reportedly will say.

"I think he shouldn't have been accused. Personally I think he shouldn't have been accused," he would add. "Because he should have taken it all the way. I don’t think Sean did anything wrong."

[Sunlei]

32. IMO, fox has to get rid of these guys fast now because first ones out were involved withRepublican

Party people (Republican party people like trump), 'fox-fun sexual harassment parties'

IMO, deviant Donald is mixed in with his 'fox best Friends'

[The Last Dem.]

33. This!

All started with tump and Kelly.

[Doreen]

35. Does the qualification for working at FOX if you are a man include

"must be a sexual predator?"

[BlancheSplanchnik]

36. what. a. surprise. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

37. I knew he'd be next up on the docket.

There is no way slime like that has a clean record when it comes to the treatment of women.

[NoMoreRepugs]

39. Please oh please be true.

[NastyRiffraff]

40. No surprise

Sean is an all-around asshole; no surprise he's a pussy grabber too.

[Docreed2003]

41. Well...you gonna have dat....

They created and spawned a world of hateful, racist misogynists...not surprised this is the result

[keithbvadu2]

42. Coward Hannity never did get waterboarded like he promised.

[czarjak]

43. Gee, who'd a thunk it?

[not fooled]

44. Oh gawd

I just ha a horrible thought: instead of taking action to stop sexual harassment at faux, the murdochs and dump admin collude to weaken workplace protections for women so that there is no longer legal basis for going after the sexist pigs.

After all, pukes have a long and sordid track record of decriminalizing the behavior rather than remedying the source of the problem.

[nikibatts]

46. But, but, I though JoScar said Hannity was clean from this stuff. Oh, my...!

I just wish some of these women had tapes and photos and other hard evidence so that the sexual-predator-deniers would STFU!

[OnDoutside]

68. Well at least Hannity didn't murder anyone ....

"Sean Hannity wife is named Jill Rhodes. She has been happily married to this exceptionally talented man since 1993 and the couple is doing pretty well together."

THAT should be an exceptionally interesting conversation !

[NewRedDawn]

47. Geraldo Groucho Marx Rivera

I bet too. If according when he was on Howard Stern & interviewed claimed everyone over 50 is taking Viagra And he takes it regularly.
He has a past reputation of being a p***y hound.

[JI7]

52. Schlussel doesn't have much credibility

Hannity is an asshole but i don't believe her on this.

[greytdemocrat]

55. I don't know

This story seems really weak. Even the write
up on the link is next to nothing.

Unless something more substantial comes to light
it looks like a hit piece.

And don't forget, this could be aimed at a Democrat
at another time so I wouldn't get all giddy.

[mr_lebowski]

56. Obviously no fan of harassment of any kind or Hannity, but ...

I think inviting a non-colleague women to one's hotel room & then not inviting them back to one's talk show again after being rejected is pretty low-key in the scheme of things. It's certainly not of the level of O'Reilly and Ailes' cretinousness (is that a word?)

I'm just saying ... running around w/hair afire over something like this story probably isn't going to serve us in the long run.

I feel we'd need more actual 'evidence' before we go out and accuse Hannity of O'Reilly-ism. Not saying it's not 'there', in fact, it may well be. But it may not ... To be honest, I think the approach of frequenting the Bunny Ranch (as he's been accused of) is arguably the 'honorable' thing to do if one has a sex addiction, at least compared to just about any alternative I can think of offhand.

Basically this story doesn't reach a level of what I'd call 'harassment' ...

[madaboutharry]

58. I see this more boorish behavior than harassment.

Inviting a woman to a hotel room and then not continuing to do business is not decent conduct, but I'm not sure if I would call it harassment.

And for Mr. Morality Sean Hannity, married man, it is certainly hypocrisy.

[SunSeeker]

63. It is a classic case of sexual harrassment and retaliation.

He used his position at the network to pressure her for sex. The invite to his hotel room wasn't to play checkers. Then he abruptly stopped using her on air after she turned him down. That's retaliation.

And yes, it is rank hypocrisy. I am not aware of any person who holds himself out as morally superior who is not a hypocrite.

BTW, being simply "boorish" at work can get you in trouble too. Even if you are not pressuring someone for sex, a jury could determine the boorishness (sexist jokes, mochery of women, etc.) created a "hostile work environment" entitling the victim to damages.

When you're at work, you're supposed to act professional and respect your colleagues. It's work, not a frat house.

[madaboutharry]

64. You make fair points.

If this is what happened, Hannity obviously thought this behavior was acceptable within the Fox culture.

Thinking it over, I see your argument of how the retaliation of not being invited back is sexual harassment.

[mdbl]

65. Has anyone seen an application for employment at fox news?

Is there a section under education entitled "sexual harassment management skills"?

[IronLionZion]

72. Sexual harassment management is a thing

I know it's not what you meant, but there are consulting firms that training managers to prevent and respond to it in their workplaces.

Congress mandated this for the military recently for example.

[yuiyoshida]

67. Oh please...make it so!!

I know a few people besides myself, who would love to escort him to the airport, and hope that where ever he flies to, keeps him busy enough there, so he will never come back into the spot light again!

Of course, unfortunately, FOX news will find someone just as bad and just as nasty to take his place.

[ehrnst]

70. Get. Out. (nt)

[Grins]

71. Debbie Schlussel???

He hit on Debbie Schlussel? Of all the 'talent'...Debbie Schlussel?

[jberryhill]

77. It's not even what she sai

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/despite-reports-fmr-fox-guest-now-claims-she-was-never-sexually-harassed-by-sean-hannity/

Despite Reports, Fmr Fox Guest Claims She Was Never Sexually Harassed by Sean Hannity

“I would never accuse him of that. Sexual harassment has a special meaning under the law, and I would never accuse him of that,” Schlussel, an attorney herself, said. Schlussel said the interaction happened in the early 2000’s when Hannity was in Detroit taping a show.

[Eliot Rosewater]

78. But she effectively said that because she would not sleep with him she was

fired.

Basically.

[jberryhill]

80. She's surely trynig to back away from it

[Eliot Rosewater]

81. Whether he is guilty of this or not, he will forever go down

in history as the TV pundit who nightly supported the invasion of Iraq while personally refusing to serve.

Supported, hell he demanded it.

[dlk]

74. Birds of a Feather...

Is there any man at Fox who doesn't harass or denigrate women?

[mikeysnot]

75. Obviously, his demeanor screams misogyny.

What about those two pricks in the morning "fuckheads and friends" show?

[SoCalDem]

79. eeeew.... (both of them)

she's a piece of work.. and he's just plain creepy...

Fox is just a cesspool... and finally, outsiders are looking closely..

[oberliner]

84. She has retracted her statement

"I never thought I was sexually harassed by Sean Hannity, I thought he was weird and creepy, not someone I liked."

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/24/conservative-commentator-walks-back-sexual-harassment-claim-against-sean-hannity-debbie-schlussel-now-only-says-he-was-weird-and-creepy/