Showing posts with label Andrea Tantaros. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrea Tantaros. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

More Fox Sex Follies


Following on the heels of Gretchen Carlson's suit alleging (!) sexual harassment at the upper levels of Fox "News" =cough= Roger "Jabba the Nut"Ailes =cough=,  former Fox host Andrea Tantaros has filed a sexual harassment suit naming Trump "advisor"Ailes and several other high- profile Foxers:
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros claims in an explosive new lawsuit that disgraced ex-network chairman Roger Ailes sexually harassed her and that high-ranking executives fostered a newsroom culture in which abusive behavior flourished.  
“Fox News masquerades as defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny,” the suit reads. 
Ailes was “the primary culprit,” according to the suit, but “his actions were condoned by his most senior lieutenants who engaged in a concerted effort to silence Tantaros by threats, humiliation, and retaliation.” [snip]
In the suit, Tantaros also described host Bill O’Reilly ― who, in 2004, settled a high-profile sexual harassment suit leveled by a former producer ― as once asking her to stay with him at a “very private” place in Long Island and expressing a desire to see her “as a wild girl.” 
And former Massachusetts senator and Fox News contributor Scott Brown made “sexually inappropriate comments” about Tantaros, according to the suit, and once grabbed her waist while she was buying lunch.  (our emphasis)
The full text of the lawsuit is at the link and provides plenty of explicit details on the misogynistic, "sex- fueled" culture of the Republican Party's communication outlet.  These are damaged, rotten people, folks.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Monday, May 6, 2013

Right-Wing Media Follies

Among the primary reasons political discourse in this country has been reduced to the dissemination of lies --  very loudly -- is the ubiquitous right-wing Rethuglican media and its handmaidens in the "both sides do it" / President Grampypants McCain  Rethuglican - wired press.  We want to show you just three recent examples of the way the right-wing media works to amplify its false and destructive messaging.

If they can't hear you, they can't hear you:  Fox "News'" Roger Ailes doesn't like it when one of his hired hands gets off-message.  They love to be absolutist on the Second Amendment, but on the First?  Not so much.

Go ahead and smear, the truth will never catch up:  Obama Derangement Syndrome sufferer and frothing sociopath Charles "Kraphammer" Krauthammer would like you to know that the Kenyan Usurper has ordered his minions to deliver maximum sequester pain to John Q. Public, except, uh, not so much.

Don't worry about innocent people when you have a political ax to grind:   Fox "News" contributor and right-wing hate radio bimbo Andrea "Assy" Tantaros thinks it's appropriate to drag Malia Obama into the Plan B contraception issue - with a bonus bank shot on the Obama girls' recent Spring break vacation.  Stay classy, Assy!

And we're not even going into the miasma of lies, distortions and slander that the right is pumping out of its media orifices concerning gun control.

The inbred courtier Beltway media?  Good luck with those dumbasses.

Is it surprising, then, that so many Americans who get their hate-fix from these nasty people think it's perfectly reasonable to contemplate armed rebellion against the elected government of the United States?