In early 2018, his net worth was figured around 10-million, so this would sting a bit. He’ll survive. Maybe in three years, he’ll emerge on some radio network as a talk-show host.
I don’t know.
https://pagesix.com/2020/02/27/mark-halperin-says-metoo-outcasts-are-treated-worse-than-murderers/
Disgraced political pundit Mark Halperin says guys like him who’ve been “canceled” amid the #MeToo movement are treated worse than murderers.
The former MSNBC senior analyst — who was fired in 2017 over a slew of sexual harassment allegations — made the comment at a panel in San Francisco, according to Mother Jones.
“It’s akin to being a refugee, or being in some other situation where you’re constantly under pressure and … you can’t stop to try to rebuild that kind of confidence and self-worth that is required,” he said.
Halperin compared the effects of being “canceled” to having post-traumatic stress disorder — and moaned that there’s no way to “reintegrate.”
“Murderers in our society who get out of prison are afforded an opportunity to go on with some aspect of their life,” he said. “The challenge to a lot of people who are canceled is there’s no mechanism for that, regardless of what they’ve done, regardless of whether they’ve tried to make amends.”
He added that he’s spoken to other #Metoo outcasts who “have committed a wide range of acts — some nothing wrong at all.”
In total, 14 women have accused Halperin of groping them — and making other creepy unwanted sexual advances — while he was the political director of ABC News between 1997 and 2007.
Since his firing, he last year managed to ink a new book deal about political strategy in the Trump era.
Some of the women claimed he rubbed his erection on them, grabbed their breasts and asked them for sex while in the powerful role.
The panel last week was staged by the public relations firm Upright Position Communications to discuss “cancel culture, #MeToo, responsibility and reintegration into society and livelihoods,” according to the outlet.
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Also, Halperin’s new book bombed.........
Disgraced former NBC political analyst Mark Halperin’s new anti-Trump book sold just 502 copies in its debut week, according to NPD BookScan, which tracks about 85 percent of print sales.
“How to Beat Trump: America’s Top Political Strategists On What It Will Take,” which was released Oct. 29, compiles interviews from political strategists and journalists, including Democrats David Axelrod, Donna Brazile and James Carville.
MARK HALPERIN BOOK DEAL SPARKS OUTRAGE: ‘SLAP IN THE FACE TO ALL THE WOMEN THAT HE HAS VICTIMIZED’
Publisher Judith Regan told The New York Post she blamed a “guilty-until-proven-innocent, cancel culture” for the low sales and stressed that Halperin shouldn’t be condemned to a lifetime of unemployment “for an accusation that’s 12 years old.”
Mark Halperin was a political analyst for ABC News, NBC News and MSNBC before multiple women accused him of sexual harassment in 2017. (Getty Images)
“He’s tried to become a better person. He had a right to write it, and I have a right to publish it,” she added. “He really has changed.”
The book was widely criticized when it was announced in August and many major news organizations have refused to do interviews with the author.
Halperin was fired from his contributor jobs at Showtime, NBC and MSNBC – he was a frequent guest on “Morning Joe” – after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct, including allegedly grabbing former ABC coworkers’ breasts and pressing his clothed and erect penis against them.
He initially acknowledged he caused “pain” by pursuing “inappropriate” relationships with coworkers and in April he said he wanted to apologize again “to the women that I mistreated, who told their stories, and who were hurt by me.”