The original Hamilton Fish did not strike me as a New Republic type. I used to go over his bridge in NY every so often. Memorable name.
Posted on 10/30/2017 9:35:09 AM PDT by LS
Hamilton Fish, the president and publisher of The New Republic, is taking a leave of absence pending an investigation into complaints by female employees at the magazine, according to a letter sent to its staff on Sunday night.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/business/media/new-republic-hamilton-fish.html
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Hamilton Fish II was a hero and a member of the Rough Riders who died in Cuba from a gunshot wound.
This guy (Hamilton Fish V) appears to be the great grandson of Hamilton Fish II, who was with TR and the Rough Riders. He was, in fact, one of the first two of TR’s men to be killed in action as they approached the battlefield of San Juan Hill.
I briefly met his father, Hamilton Fish IV, when I was a kid in upstate NY. (Very impressive guy.) It’s stunning to see how degenerate their descendant has become.
Plus he walked around humming the most filthy songs full of sexual innuendo!
I am a 71-year-old female who was in the Navy for 3 yrs, and who has worked and still works in office environments my whole adult life. Although I have experienced the type of sexual molestation that occurs on packed subway cars, and a few times in non-work settings, I can honestly say I have never encountered sexual harassment at work. So if it really is occurring at the rate all the current claims seem to indicate, I must have been super lucky and blissfully unobservant the last 50 years.
It really isn’t a scandal that guys hit on girls.
It would be a scandal if they stopped.
The ‘original’ Hamilton Fish was US Grant’s Secretary of State.
It certainly appears to be the case, and it makes sense as well. The lap of luxury tends to soften after many generations.
The other instance was a man who harassed the woman sitting next to him at a meeting. He said, approximately, "I'm gay so I can do THIS...", and proceeded to grope her. (yeah, none of us could believe it either. One of the darnest things I've ever seen at work...)
In the latter instance, the guy was fired on the spot. Only time I've ever seen that happen. In the former, once the top brass got wind of the zoo department - there were many other problems there beyond harassment - the entire group was canned from the top down.
So - does sexual harassment exist? Of course. But my - admittedly anecdotal - experiences over the course of a career are the complete antithesis of what's being reported on the news. No men with their pants off chasing women around the office after hours. No blind eye being turned to the entire escapade. In fact, I'd argue that higher ups are generally terrified at the thought of anything non-pc like harassment, or racism, and stomp it flat at the first hint. Too many lawyer/vultures circling to allow it to get too far.
My what would his famous ancestors think of this???
These women know exactly what they are getting into with these predators - they go along with it at the time - to get the job. It’s the price they are willing to pay.
Now, for some reason unknown to me - they are all coming out of the woodwork - I can only assume they are being told to do so by their puppet-masters. They got the jobs they wanted and now they can come out with their stories. I don’t think it has anything to do with sexual assault... I think this is a choreographed movement. Not sure what the real motivation is though - but I know these people are not honest players.
Does it exist, yes, agreed. Does it exist at the rate the current bandwagon claims would suggest? All I can say is not that I have ever seen in the many types of office and other work environments I’ve been in. My working experience goes back to 1966 and still continues. One would think I’d have seen or experienced sexual harassment at least once while at work in all that time. I have in non-work settings, but never in the workplace.
Yes.
Didn’t they just attack Judge Roy Moore?
When the headline said “women’s complaints,” at first I thought he was having his time of the month.
Hamilton Fish of the New Republic? I thought it was some boy band. lol
note “During these years, Fish also worked as a political advisor to George Soros”.
Wikipedia: Hamilton Fish V
From 1995 to 2009 Fish served as President of The Nation Institute, the foundation associated with The Nation magazine. With support from donors including the Lannan Foundation and Paul Newman, he developed a journalism fellowship program to provide support for progressive writers, a roster that would eventually include Eric Alterman, Max Blumenthal, Tom Engelhardt, Chris Hedges, Scott Horton, Naomi Klein, Katha Pollitt, Jeremy Scahill, and Jonathan Schell. He also created the Alfred Knobler Fellowships, named for a benefactor and longtime friend of The Nation, specifically to support journalists of color. Recipients have included Pamela Newkirk, New York University Journalism Professor and author; Gary Younge, the US-based columnist for The Guardian and The Nation; and Ta-Nehisi Coates, author, blogger, and senior editor for The Atlantic. With the help of the Lear Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation, Fish created an investigative journalism division, directed by Esther Kaplan and Joe Conason, to fund and oversee long-form investigative projects; with Tom Engelhardt he developed tomdispatch.com [1], an important source of progressive commentary on the web; with Randy Fertel he developed the Ridenhour Prizes, which annually recognize whistleblowers, investigative reporters, and others who persevere in courageous acts of truth-telling; and with Victor Navasky he helped found Nation Books, which under Editor Carl Bromley and in association first with Avalon and then Perseus Books, grew into a leading independent non-fiction imprint.
During these years, Fish also worked as a political advisor to George Soros...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Fish_V
He also served as a captain in the "Harlem Hellfighters" in WWI.
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There were two Hamilton Fish IIs (just to make things confusing), an uncle and a nephew.
The nephew fought with TR's Roughriders and was killed at San Juan Hill.
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After leaving The Nation magazine in 1987, [Hamilton] Fish [V] entered a three-way race for the Democratic nomination for the United States Congress in a Westchester County district held by Republican Representative Joseph DioGuardi. The national media took note of the race when his 100-year-old grandfather, Hamilton Fish III, described his grandson as a communist and contributed $100 to the Republican in the race. Wikipedia
The Fish family goes way back to the Revolutionary War in the Hudson Valley, my old stomping grounds. Good to know that a local boy makes good /s
Both Fishes stank like they were rotten.
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