Hmmm....This GWB incident needs a little elaboration. No, that incident didn’t hurt her ratings, because the Ellen Show is pretty good for what it is. What the GWB Incident did was remove a certain level of media armor that all Leftists are granted, and are allowed to keep on given certain behavior is maintained.
Put it this way, if the GWB Incident never happened, the media would have covered up/ignored/deflected any news of ‘workplace misconduct’ by Ellen Degeneres. It’s not that we don’t believe the possibility that she is a nasty person off-camera. Rather, everyone understands that the only reason this news made ‘the news’ is due to the GWB Incident.
The real question is, how long did the MSM allow Ellen Degeneres to abuse her employees? Aren’t they the real culprit?
Exactly! Ellen didn’t turn into a “monster” overnight. This is a pattern of behavior that went on for a long time. The media protected her from these “rumors”, but once she was photoed with GWB, that protection was removed. This allowed the rumors to take root and grow into the controversy it is today.