Posted on 11/23/2017 10:33:43 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
The privileged and prestigious professional life of Charlie Rose came to a shocking end this week. In the latest lurid front-page testimony on powerful men, the Washington Post reported that eight women have accused Rose of brutish and exhibitionist behavior. They said new employees were sometimes rubbed on the shoulders by his "crusty paw," and that he liked walking out naked in front of female staffers. Boom. CBS and PBS abruptly fired him.
This was shocking to people who watched Rose glide along with elites. He seemed to be a courtly Southern gentleman on air. But that turned out to be deeply false. His ego was immense, while his humble, facilitating TV persona seemed the polar opposite of an aggressive questioner like his late "60 Minutes" colleague Mike Wallace.
Did Rose see his day of reckoning drawing nearer in the wake of the Donald Trump "Access Hollywood" tape and the Harvey Weinstein wave? You couldn't tell from his interviews. He asked former magazine editor Tina Brown about Weinstein's rapacious ways and sympathized with Amy Schumer's tale of sexual assault. He let New York Times columnist David Brooks blame the hostile environment on the bubble of impunity surrounding former President Bill Clinton. He scolded Steve Bannon about President Trump's "locker-room talk" with Billy Bush.
Rose even let "Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee use him for a satirical skit for TBS last summer titled "What Are You Hiding, Charlie Rose?" The two were in his studio with the typical black backdrop, and when Bee turned on the lights, creepy clones of Rose were revealed to be hiding in the darkness. Her face was horrified as one clone pawed her shoulder. Perhaps like so many others of the ruling elite, Rose believed he was untouchable. (Apparently, lots of people thought that!) Rose must have believed that anyone he had wronged would never come forward. Even when they did, he insisted there was no "wrongdoing." Like many self-absorbed lechers caught up in this, well, "malestrom," he sounded clueless about his behavior. He put out a statement that included this sentence about his aggressive advances: "I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though now I realize I was mistaken."
The idea of a 75-year-old man strolling around naked in front of a college-age assistant like he is grade A material is the definition of delusion. He's just a dirty old man. It sounds like someone who always believed the old Henry Kissinger axiom "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," or in his case, that sitting and listening to the powerful and stroking their egos on public TV made him irresistible.
It was a slightly gentler echo of the comedian Louis C.K., who caused unintentional laughter by admitting, "At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay, because I never showed a woman my d--- without asking first." He had to be taught that disrobing and masturbating in front of women he'd just met was for them a "predicament."
Every powerful man who is getting caught up in this wave isn't living by the Ten Commandments but by the "Access Hollywood" code: When you're a star, the women will let you do it. You can do anything.
Charlie Rose exploited women for decades as he produced shows at Bloomberg's TV studio for PBS and hosted shows on CBS. None of those news agencies ever seemed to find any wrongdoing inside their own offices worth reporting. The embarrassment and shame should also be theirs.
Rose: “I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken.”
Of all the men brought down by this current Tsunami of Sex Crimes, the Charlie Rose episode has been the biggest surprise to me thus far. I thought I knew him based on his TV persona. Charlie is far more complex, and a far better actor than I’d ever expected.
The Weinstein story repulsed me, of course, but did not really surprise me. Everyone knows how Hollywood has functioned since the silent movies of Theda Bara and long before that was Broadway. Kind of a Sausage Factory, where you were better off not closely watching how the product was actually being made.
He struck me as a phony and a slimeball from the first time I ever saw him back in the 90s. I couldn’t stand him, and never watched him, although I liked his weird theme song when he was on PBS.
That was back when the David Letterman Show had the intro with the point of view that swooped around midtown Manhattan, including into, through, and then out of someone’s messy apartment with a dog.
I kinda agree...over the past twenty years...I always saw Rose as a fake journalist who simply was a good actor. We seem to have gone through an era where entertainment and news, have morphed into a somewhat fake environment. Rose would ask enough questions to make an interview seem complete, yet they were mostly all softball-type questions. Over the past five years, I’ve probably seen three of his interview situations.
How incredibly egotistical to think that these women were interested in him on a personal level.
Yes Charlie, you can find someone with shared feelings, about your bank account. That’s really all you could hope for.
[[I wonder how many of those TV studio employees had experienced Chuckie-o Rose prancing around naked in his wrinkly old skin]]
According to body guards- biden did the same thing- female secret service had to watch him swim naked- and apparently walk around house naked-
Some men seem to LOVE showing their naked bodies and all they can do with them. It seems very infantile. Toddler boys love to do stuff like that. But toddlers don’t have shame yet and they don’t have awareness of other people’s feelings.
LBJ used to force visitors to the Oval Office to carry on their business while he took a dump in a little toilet that connected right to the office. He would leave the door open while he used it, and order them to stay put while he carried on the conversation.
Of course, that was to some extent overshadowed by what Bill Clinton had done to him while he was on the phone with various dignitaries.
He knew how to act like a pseudo-intellectual, that's all I saw. No one but a complete idiot wannabe would have been fooled by him.
But I suppose the "complete idiot wannabe" class of pseudo-intellectuals forms a pretty sizable demographic, and quite a few of them have high incomes, unfortunately. Heavily concentrated in the blue precincts of our great land.
Charlie always came off to me as a steeped-in-PBS, overly earnest, milquetoast. The kind of gooey emoter behind such memes as “reach out to.”
So PBS let this all happen and now the guy was acting badly? Was he acting badly in private donation money or on taxpayer money?
I might also suggest that a lot of these “complete idiot wannabe” pseudo-intellectuals hold Columbia, Harvard, or Yale degrees, and think they got their ‘ticket’.
Bush is a good example....a complete idiot (with both a Harvard and Yale degree). Rose? He was a Duke guy. We probably have a million of these idiots walking around the US today, with fake accomplishments, minimal intelligence/common sense, and a wannabe degree.
The hardest part of a Yale or Harvard education is getting into the schools in the first place. After you’re in, it’s not difficult to graduate.
And, any particularly "nasty" conservative who was slated to do the most harm to them all >>ahem<< woulda gotten Gloria Allred out in force with false documentation.
Dang it all. Trump - you rascal.
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Interesting. I always suspected that Rose is an ego driven scumbag.
What a pompous prick.....the only good news, is being shut out of TV/MSM, will drive him insane.
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He's a stone-*ss liar.
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