Posted on 04/23/2017 7:41:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Fox News continues to reel from the summary dismissal of its top star Bill O'Reilly this week and its creator, Roger Ailes earlier this year, a lot of attention has been given to women who worked there and whether they experienced any sort of harassment.
There was a very interesting exchange between Jake Tapper and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin during his interview with her on The Lead Thursday. Tapper asked, directly, what she experienced during her time working there as a commentator.
Palin, who left the network in June of 2015, didn't elaborate about her personal experiences, but she did say the Fox News culture needed to change.
She said she'd never put up with any sort of harassment. When Tapper asked if that's why she left, she said, "You can ask them why I'm no longer with Fox. You know, I'm not - I'm not going to speak for them. My contract wasn't renewed, that's the line." It doesn't take much online research to find evidence of questionable comments by Fox News executives and personalities aimed at Palin.
There was the time in 2010 when Don Imus of Fox Business asked Fox News Chris Wallace about an upcoming interview.
"When you interview her, will she be sitting on your lap?" asked a laughing Imus.
"One can only hope," said a laughing Chris Wallace.
Or, there are the comments of Roger Ailes, the Fox News godfather, who used this language in 2011 to describe why he brought her to the network: "I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings."
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Wallace should be fired ,too. : )
But men in power in the workplace shouldn’t be harassing women. Is that so hard to understand?
Yes, you would think they could come up with something better. There are thousands of other reasons that he sucks.
Remember when Huckabee tattled on the foul mouthed women of FOX?
Thank you, (((KC Lion)))!
Grasping.
This was a woman who won beauty pageants and wore shirts that read ‘I may be broke, but I’m not flat busted’.
Not sure a woman like that would allow true harassment.
Palin overplayed her hand in many, many ways.
It made me nervous listening to her give a campaign speech. You were waiting for her to step in it somehow.
And she is drop dead hot. She knows that. She uses that, as all women do. Sometimes she dresses in a way that invite attention. She isn’t doing it on accident.
She’s married to a guy she shouldn’t be cheating on, but then what do I know. Show me a supermodel, I’ll show you a guy tired of listening to her shtick.
Like 50cent said, if your woman ain’t making herself better, you’re being played, fool.
We’re not talking about a simple compliment in these situations, and there is a clear line that should not be crossed for men in power in the workplace.
Is FOX the only network with things they would not like to have made public? What kind of talents does Megan Kelly have?. These women are adults and are recieving good salaries. Rachael Maddow probably does not get sexually harrassed. What is the story with Morning Joe?
The problem is that professional women can’t have it both ways.
If the way a woman markets her talents is through her “hotness”, she can’t really complain when she isn’t taken as seriously as her male colleagues
In truth, there is a fine line that women have to negotiate. You can’t look frumpy, but you also don’t want to look like you are a sexpot, or a slave to fashion.
And sexing up female broadcasters is something that Fox has been doing since its inception.
Sarah Palin may be the victim of her own efforts to popularize herself. Can anyone here really make a serious argument that she was qualified to be vice-president? Compare her to Pence, and she seems almost laughable.
She didn't even complete one full term as governor of Alaska.
I agree. But women complaining about men saying things, just talking, shouldn’t be grounds for firing them, in most cases. These sexual harassment claims can be very oppressive.
Why not treat men fairly too?
The headline’s a little deceptive. Don Imus asked about Palin sitting on Wallace’s lap and Wallace played along. I guess Wallace is responsible for what he said, but you could sort of figure that he wasn’t likely to have taken the conversation in that direction on his own.
You are right that it is abused, and that ends up hurting both men and women—since men start to be afraid of dealing with women in the workplace.
I think it should be pretty clear that there should be lines that should not be crossed—but also darned good evidence that such lines have been crossed. And in a lot of cases, even attempted misbehavior on the part of men can be stopped and/or ignored on the part of women. We don’t need a lawsuit every time that somebody is a jerk. But if an employer condones and thus perpetuates such behavior, a lawsuit is entirely in order.
I wouldn't dare attempt to compliment any woman in even the mildest most gentlemanly form in today's world. That's the truth.
You mean, MRS. Palin? She IS married, you know.
No, I missed this. Still have that filed somewhere?
It would be most interesting if somebody asked Chris Wallace “The next time you interview Rachel Maddow, would you want her to be sitting on your lap?”
Chris’ answer would be worthy of any politician.
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