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The Real Story Behind The FCC Sex Scandal
Forbes ^ | October 20, 2016 | Fred Campbell

Posted on 10/22/2016 10:17:41 AM PDT by Carl Vehse

Though a lawsuit’s revelation that Thomas Reed, the director of the FCC’s Office for Communications Business Opportunities, had sex with a Washington Post reporter in his office is salacious, that’s not what should get Congress’s attention. The far more serious revelation involves the FCC’s official legal response to a female employee’s allegation that she was subjected to a hostile work environment due to management inaction when a male coworker repeatedly invited other male coworkers to watch porn with him in the cubicle adjacent to hers....

In today’s environment of heightened concern regarding gender issues, these allegations should have raised red flags about the prevailing institutional culture at the FCC and prompted swift remedial action. Instead, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler’s legal team attempted to dismiss the case in federal court by arguing that these allegations amounted to nothing more than the “mere existence of pornography in the workplace” that was not sufficiently “severe or pervasive” to create a hostile work environment.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fcc; scandal
In Stewart v. Federal Communications Commission (2016), Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly indicated otherwise.

Like James Comey, FCC Chairman Wheeler is yet another Traitorobama appointee.

1 posted on 10/22/2016 10:17:41 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse

FCC Commissioner having sex in his office, FCC workers watching porn, these guys don’t even respect their job opportunities. They should be banned from federal employment for life.


2 posted on 10/22/2016 10:37:08 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Stay ignorant, my friends! (if you watch mainstream media, you will!))
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Do we need the FCC?


3 posted on 10/22/2016 10:38:01 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Carl Vehse
According to The Daily Caller, Reed had sex with then-Washington Post reporter Lonae O'Neal Parker.

Here's an interesting article she wrote:

Finding Yourself After a 20-Year Marriage Ends

I have not been able to find whether her adultery with the Obama Administration official was a contributing factor to her divorce.

But it goes to show, the Administration is literally in bed with the press...

Well, not *literally*. They had sex in his office.

4 posted on 10/22/2016 10:39:08 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Carl Vehse

btt


5 posted on 10/22/2016 10:39:13 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: A politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Congressman Clyburn needs the fcc to keep his daughter employed at a high salary.


6 posted on 10/22/2016 10:40:05 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Stay ignorant, my friends! (if you watch mainstream media, you will!))
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To: Carl Vehse

btt

Trumps latest accuser is Huff Post writer
http://bb4sp.com/trumps-latest-fake-accuser/


7 posted on 10/22/2016 10:40:16 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: A politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: Carl Vehse

Didn’t the FCC Chairman get listed for some huge amount in a Pay for Play job give-away?


8 posted on 10/22/2016 10:45:05 AM PDT by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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To: Carl Vehse

So federal government workers watching porn on government computers and on government time apparently isn’t a problem?


9 posted on 10/22/2016 10:57:24 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: Carl Vehse

Yet another ‘Sex Scandal”? I don’t know if I can spare the outrage. “Old MacDonald had a Sex Scandal-ee-eye-ee-eye ohh!


10 posted on 10/22/2016 10:58:08 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: grey_whiskers

They couldn’t wait to find a bed.


11 posted on 10/22/2016 11:10:06 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: grey_whiskers
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12 posted on 10/22/2016 11:20:14 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Do we need the FCC?

In concept, yes. It's a necessary evil.

In practice, it's a bureaucracy and needs fixing or replacement.

13 posted on 10/22/2016 12:39:26 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

No.

National bureaucracies like this are forbidden to the Federal government; they are powers reserved for the States.

But, hey, it’s just the Constitution. Who cares?

(Lincoln didn’t. Roosevelt I didn’t. Wilson didn’t. Roosevelt II didn’t. Johnson didn’t. Clinton didn’t. Bush didn’t. Soetoro really, really doesn’t.)


14 posted on 10/22/2016 2:26:40 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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I wonder how sex in a govt. office with a govt. employee fits into the WaPo ethics requirements for journalists?

Maybe this bit?

B. The Reporter’s Role

Although it has become increasingly difficult for this newspaper and for the press generally to do so since Watergate, reporters should make every effort to remain in the audience, to stay off the stage, to report the news, not to make the news.

http://asne.org/content.asp?contentid=335

15 posted on 10/22/2016 3:23:30 PM PDT by az_gila
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To: The_Media_never_lie
FCC Commissioner having sex in his office, FCC workers watching porn, these guys don’t even respect their job opportunities.

Ewww! I work in the building right next to the FCC Headquarters. I bet I've seen some of these perverts in the buffet restaurant in their building.

16 posted on 10/22/2016 4:54:52 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (Things will continue getting worse until at least January 2017.)
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To: Carl Vehse
Thomas Reed is an Obama appointee.

Nothing at all will happen to him. Even though he confessed to having sex in his office with a WaPo reporter who has an interesting way of cultivating sources.


17 posted on 10/23/2016 4:33:08 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625

The Demonicrat Race Card - don’t leave home without it.


18 posted on 10/23/2016 6:04:09 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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