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Fox News Booker Sexually Harassed, ‘Psychologically Tortured’ by Roger Ailes for More Than 20 Years
New York Magazine ^

Posted on 07/29/2016 4:51:29 PM PDT by springwater13

Luhn put on the black garter and stockings she said Ailes had instructed her to buy; he called it her uniform. Ailes sat on a couch. “Go over there. Dance for me,” she recalled him saying. She hesitated. “Laurie, if you're gonna be my girl, my eyes and ears, if you are going to be someone I can depend on in Washington, my spy, come on, dance for me,” he said, according to her account. When she started dancing, Ailes got out a video camera. Luhn didn’t want to be filmed, she said, but Ailes was insistent: “I am gonna need you to do better than that.”

When she had finished dancing, Ailes told her to get down on her knees in front of him, she said, and put his hands on her temples. As she recalled, he began speaking to her slowly and authoritatively, as if he were some kind of Svengali: “Tell me you will do what I tell you to do, when I tell you to do it. At any time, at any place when I call. No matter where I call you, no matter where you are. Do you understand? You will follow orders. If I tell you to put on your uniform, what are you gonna do, Laurie? WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO, LAURIE?” Then, she recalled, his voice dropped to a whisper: “What are you, Laurie? Are you Roger's whore? Are you Roger's spy? Come over here.” Ailes asked her to perform oral sex, she said.

Later, Ailes showed her the footage of her dancing. She asked him what he intended to do with it and, she says, he replied, “I am going to put it in a safe-deposit box just so we understand each other.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


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To: springwater13

Not good

We’re definitely into too much smoke territory

How can men be so stupid


61 posted on 07/29/2016 5:55:49 PM PDT by wardaddy (black lives kill....and kill....and kill.....like no other race today senselessly)
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To: springwater13

New York Magazine, seriously?


62 posted on 07/29/2016 5:56:40 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: nevergore
I doubt its true......

Unfortunately, when the number of complainants reaches a certain level, truth gets buried deep by the sandstorm. Maybe Bill Cosby is innocent, too, but what good would that do?

63 posted on 07/29/2016 5:58:30 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: springwater13

Someone is telling a scurrilous mega-lie, and that same someone is a sick evil person. One or the other.

Has this video she accuses him of taking been brought into evidence?


64 posted on 07/29/2016 6:02:00 PM PDT by OKSooner
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To: RoosterRedux
>> women clients coming to town regularly tried to get me into bed

Hot for Teacher CPA... ♫ ♫
65 posted on 07/29/2016 6:02:46 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Old, fat, and ugly women were they ?


66 posted on 07/29/2016 6:05:54 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: maggief

Ahhh yes, Lee Atwater, the clever manipulator of politicians, information and ....

The circles these people travel in are very small and some of the circle is really ugly, dark.

This young woman is seriously ill and has been for some time. That doesn’t mean her story about Fox and Ailes isn’t true though. Or that it is. It seems something was going on, but we don’t know just what..


67 posted on 07/29/2016 6:07:09 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Lent

I read the whole article a few hours ago.

It would appear that Ailes is a scumbag who takes advantage of his position. And this woman gives whores a bad name.

I only ever watched Fox news for a few months after 9/11/01.
I don’t understand how my smart, informed freeper friends can stand it. Den of miscreants. You don’t need them.


68 posted on 07/29/2016 6:18:29 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: Yaelle

RUSH had not lost half of his audience. We have listened
to Rush Limbaugh for many years. He used to mention
Ailes from time to time.

I suspect that there has been a propaganda project on FR
to LIE about Rush and try to get shed of him.

Liberal “personalities” just don’t have what it takes to
cut the mustard. Rush isn’t perfect; but he has been and is
a very talented and independent man.


69 posted on 07/29/2016 6:20:01 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: mrsmith

Geez...

Nothing else to say. LOL


70 posted on 07/29/2016 6:27:29 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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To: americas.best.days...
Brian Stelter ‏@brianstelter · 1h1 hour ago Email from Ailes' attorney Susan Estrich: "Roger denied these allegations in 2011 and he denies them now. He wishes Ms. Luhn well." "Based on her statements, it is disturbing that she is the subject of 1 reporter's journalistic exploitation"

No one knows what goes on behind closed doors...

71 posted on 07/29/2016 6:29:09 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: springwater13

This reads like a bad novel. I cannot believe that a man in his position and a woman in her’s would engage in this unless it was consensual - if she reported anything like this, he’d have been nailed to the wall.
And this isn’t sexist - I’m a woman and have been sexually harassed by jerks.


72 posted on 07/29/2016 6:29:37 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: springwater13

Cory Booker?


73 posted on 07/29/2016 6:31:05 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Trump, or no more republicans)
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To: SE Mom

FLASHBACK:

http://washingtonlife.com/2010/03/19/access-pollywood-foxs-bipartisan-party/

Access Pollywood: Fox’s Bipartisan Party
BY JOHN ARUNDEL · MARCH 19, 2010

Fox News Brings out the Star Power

Any ideological friction between Fox News Channel and the Obama Administration appeared to melt away like February’s snow Wednesday night at the Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner.

“The Most Powerful Name in News” became host to “The Most Powerful Party in DC” as Fox’s founding CEO Roger Ailes feted several hundred policymakers and media friends with a lavish pre-party at the Washington Convention Center.

The event was as elaborately conceived as a Hollywood soundstage, with burbling fountains, Parisian-styled lamposts, elaborate murals and a guest list heavy on the heaviest that might even impress a White House social secretary.

Several Obama Administration officials showed up in high spirits. They included Obama’s Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowksi, Domestic Policy Council Advisor Melody Barnes, National Security Adviser Jim Jones, TARP Adminisrator Kenneth Feinberg and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

(IMAGE AT LINK)

Laurie Luhn and Donald Rumsfeld.

On the Congressional side, the Republican load factor (Donald Rumsfeld, Fred Thompson, Rep. Roy Blount, Sen. Bill First, Sen. John Thune, Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Sen. Arlen Specter), appeared to be evenly counterbalanced.

Some of the other high-powered Dems working the crowd included Jesse Jackson, Sen. Evan Bayh, Gov. Ed Rendell, Rep. Elijah Cummings, former Clinton campaign spokesperson Mo Elleithee, Sen. Arlen Specter, former Sen. John Breaux, Austan Goolsbee of the Council of Economic Advisors, Sen. Kay Hagan and Democratic political strategist Joe Trippi. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Deborah Hersman, a non-partisan Obama holdover from the Bush administration, kept things even more in check.


74 posted on 07/29/2016 6:42:31 PM PDT by maggief
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To: springwater13

...she must have gotten 6 mil from the DNC to blap


75 posted on 07/29/2016 6:46:53 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: 22202NOVA

I’m sure her pinky toe is cool too,....but


76 posted on 07/29/2016 6:49:35 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: donna

Well I wouldn’t kick her out of a BLM segment for booking crackers.


77 posted on 07/29/2016 6:51:43 PM PDT by golux
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To: maggief

Wow...just a few years ago. So much has changed. The photos at the article, yikes! We’ve aged!

Luhn...something in her eyes is...off.


78 posted on 07/29/2016 6:56:30 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: utahagen

She was mentored by Anita Hill.


79 posted on 07/29/2016 7:00:36 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (It's been like a slomo French Revolution, without the tumbrils-yet!)
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To: Tau Food

In Crosby’s case he admitted to it in a civil suit....
Aile’s who really knows....either way he has been trashed


80 posted on 07/29/2016 7:09:28 PM PDT by nevergore
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