Posted on 04/20/2017 12:16:07 PM PDT by TBP
Political pundit Kirsten Powers appeared on CNN late Wednesday to discuss Bill O’Reilly’s departure from the Fox News network amid sexual harassment claims levied against him.
Powers told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that she had her own personal experience with O’Reilly, in which O’Reilly made remarks that many would have considered to be overtly sexist.
“I was thinking about an incident that had happened early on in my career there where I was on-air there with Margaret Hoover, who’s at CNN now, on a regular segment, we were on every Monday,” Powers said. “And he got Margaret’s name wrong, and Margaret said, ‘Hey, get my name right,’ and he said, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, there’s a lot of blondes in this operation, I can’t keep you all straight. Megyn Kelly’s coming up,’ starts throwing all these blondes’ names.”
“And at the end of the segment, says, ‘Thank you for your blondeness,’ to both of us,” Powers said.
She then told Cooper that she complained to O’Reilly’s executive producer and demanded an apology, threatening to stop appearing on his show if she did not receive one. According to Powers, O’Reilly’s behavior was excused by a long list of network employees at Fox News, all the way up to former network chief Roger Ailes.
But in 2014, Powers herself was a staunch defender of O’Reilly after former State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf accused him of being sexist, even going so far as to pen a USA Today op-ed titled, “Bill O’Reilly is not sexist.”
“Sexism is a serious problem and a serious accusation. It’s true there are many people who dismiss women as unserious and out of their depth not because they are, but because they are women. Bill O’Reilly isn’t one of them,” she wrote in September 2014.
“I know. As a Fox News contributor, I’ve worked with him for eight years, including weekly segments where we often disagree heatedly. O’Reilly does not discriminate when it comes to expressing tough judgments. Anyone with a passing familiarity with his work knows this, which is what makes Harf’s accusation so irresponsible.” Powers wrote.
Powers clearly stated that O’Reilly’s character was being assassinated because of “trigger happy” Democrats who purposely look for sexism in everything.
Powers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on her change in stance.
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Wow. This is sickening to see how this whole thing is being played out.
People need to stop watching The Fox News Channel to send a message to the libs in charge.
Kirsten Powers Kirsten Powers
06.08.11 7:53 PM ET"
Well, I know why she’s complaining about the “blonde” statement. Fox paid out many millions to women who complained about O’Reilly. So other women are jumping on the bandwagon to get their slice of dough from Fox. Just like prostitutes, follow the money.
If he raped her between 2014 to 2017, I’d imagine she’d change her opinion of him. How weird you don’t think so.
This is sexist? That’s reaching.
Ridiculous...
OMG!!! This is horrible!!! I am aghast!!! Look at what happened:
“I was thinking about an incident that had happened early on in my career there where I was on-air there with Margaret Hoover, who’s at CNN now, on a regular segment, we were on every Monday,” Powers said. “And he got Margaret’s name wrong, and Margaret said, ‘Hey, get my name right,’ and he said, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, there’s a lot of blondes in this operation, I can’t keep you all straight. Megyn Kelly’s coming up,’ starts throwing all these blondes’ names.”
“And at the end of the segment, says, ‘Thank you for your blondeness,’ to both of us,” Powers said. “
And tell me this horrible behavior doesn’t require a historical monument to human suffering on the same level as an Auschwitz Memorial!!!
Lest we forget!!! Oh the humanity!!!
“So other women are jumping on the bandwagon to get their slice of dough from Fox. Just like prostitutes, follow the money.”
Yep! Here is where I get angry.
I loathe people that use people. I don’t care if it’s a man or woman doing it ... if they abuse their power to get someone into bed, they’re scum. If the victim fights back and sees their career wrecked because they didn’t succumb to the wishes of the scum, the scum needs to be brought to justice.
These newsroom women that babble on TV all day long about how they’re for “women’s rights” yet present twisted histories of the person accused of being a scumbag set their movement back decades. It seems to be that they’re “sexually accosted at first”, but don’t seem to care after they get their fame and riches (so the sexual advances didn’t *really* matter). Then, when the scumbag man is finally exposed, they then suddenly care about what happened to them again. Which is it?
There are tons of laws in place against this behavior. Why aren’t these women going directly to HR when it happens? Is it fear? Really? Fear? With all of the competition out there, don’t you think CNN would love to hear the stories about women at Fox being sexually approached by “creepy conservatives”?
I personally think it’s accepted behavior at first in that disgusting industry dominated by liberals. I’ll bet the powers that be turn a blind eye to this behavior and only shine light on it once the abuser is no longer useful. I’ll bet the women don’t care until they’re supposed to care.
I’m certainly speculating, but EVERYTHING in that industry revolves around politics and they’re just trying to paint an image that all Conservatives are like Bill O’Reilly and that we are all perverts looking to use each and every woman we work with.
I’ll bet if one were to get the facts from Kristen Powers, she’d flat out tell you that she sort-of cared at first, but didn’t want to wreck her career. So, logically, she didn’t *really* care, but now does care because the man is down and there’s political capital to be had!
These people are sick. The instant it happens, file a complaint. If your career is wrecked there, find another job and work to expose the scumbags from day one. Not doing so means you’re only passing the problem to someone else.
I agree. The remark he made sounds like an attempt at humor. And libs ain’t to big on humor.
She’s a nuttier liberal than I even thought!
“The instant it happens, file a complaint.”
You mean the instant a woman invents a falsehood about what her coworker intended?
Kirsten is just mad because 0’Reilly never hit on her. lol
BOR obviously has a issue with his perspective on woman...
I wonder what he would think if some yahoo talked to his wife like that?
He’s an ass, and his jerk behavior has caught up with him...
That being said, the hypocritical left is never held to the same standard...
I would have been embarrassed to tell that story and would never expect that to be discrimination.
“You mean the instant a woman invents a falsehood about what her coworker intended?”
No, the instant a person is sexually harassed by her colleague, file the complaint right then and there. Don’t wait years to divulge your gripes and play games.
I see your point though :-) ... it’s along the lines with mine ... these people aren’t too concerned about sexual harassment until they can score political points or advance their careers.
Right, and often it’s a false accusation.
“”demanded an apology””
For what? That is just plain stupid, Kirsten but then you aren’t known for your brain, are you?
“”I’m a guy, and I’ve had females pinch me in the butt from behind””
I think you might have a case if they pinched you from any other angle....
“And at the end of the segment, says, ‘Thank you for your blondeness”
Yep....that’s really, really, really, very, very sexist. Shame, shame, BOR.
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