There may not be anything to give him a pass for. These are allegations by women who may have been doing nothing more than seeing a meal ticket with deep pockets. Give him the benefit of the doubt until there is some actual proof. Companies pay these things off all the time just to get rid of the problem people.
Mark Steyn put it correctly...
Politico said that these women alleged harrassment because:
There were also descriptions of physical gestures that were not overtly sexual but that made women who experienced or witnessed them uncomfortable.
What does that mean? Because, if you’re going to destroy a man’s life over it, it ought to mean something. A “gesture” that is not “sexual” but that makes women “uncomfortable” enough to threaten sexual harrassment?
What ought to make America “uncomfortable” is that it’s broke and it’s heading for collapse. But, judging from the preoccupations of our media, very few Americans are discomforted by that. On the other hand, even if we were solvent, I very much doubt that a society made up of social arbiters with Brokaw and Schieffer’s tender sensitivities and with millions of its citizens ever more ready to be discomforted by an ever wider of ever more inappropriate if entirely non-sexual gestures would be likely to survive. Or even remain capable of basic social interaction.
Let’s hear what these gestures were. Then we can mandate sensitivity training to eliminate them. Which will stimulate the vital sensitivity-training sector of the economy.