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NPR Top News Editor David Sweeney Out over Sexual Harassment Accusations
Breitbart ^ | 11/29/2017 | IAN MASON

Posted on 11/29/2017 1:19:31 PM PST by servo1969

David Sweeney, National Public Radio’s (NPR) chief news editor, left the taxpayer-funded outlet Tuesday after a third female journalist accused him of inappropriate behavior.

According to NPR’s own reporting, an anonymous former NPR employee accused Sweeney of “unexpectedly kissing” her after he asked her to pull over a car they were driving on assignment 15 years ago. A second anonymous NPR journalist alleges that five years later, in 2007, Sweeney leaned in for a kiss while the two had drinks at a Washington bar.

Lauren Hodges, a current NPR editor went on the record. Hodges makes no claim Sweeney ever touched her inappropriately but gave her “unwanted attention” and “unsolicited gifts.” These gifts were given, allegedly, “in a way that made her deeply uncomfortable.”

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To: servo1969

Perversion and mental illness are prerequisites for becoming a demoncrat.


41 posted on 11/29/2017 1:43:42 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: servo1969

You are right. The Left, in their neurotic disdain for traditional sex roles, is creating a mine field in areas that used to understand & celebrate romantic courtship. Their adherents are caught up in a frenzy of accusations by attention seekers, which will only get worse, until society reverts back to its traditional celebration of romantic pursuits.


42 posted on 11/29/2017 1:44:05 PM PST by Ohioan
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To: AppyPappy

He gave her a sleeping drone. Incredible; no evidence is left behind. Not like the sloppy tactics of Bill ‘always room for jello shots’ Cosby.


43 posted on 11/29/2017 1:44:46 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Mercat
...I was not offended by things that maybe a lot of broken damaged women would be troubled by. I’m getting pretty fed up with these whining women who wait decades and then slander someone.

Your interjection of reason and sense are appreciated. That many of these people are just now addressing these issues decades, and sometime multiple decades after the incident gives me great pause. It strikes me as women eagerly climbing on the victim and attention wagon.

Real harassment or assault is one thing, but perhaps women with stronger constitutions would better cope with an otherwise awkward human interaction, and certainly not wait decades to resurrect actions that are otherwise relatively minor except in this now hyper-charged environment.

44 posted on 11/29/2017 1:45:46 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: a fool in paradise

This is what you get when you let a bunch of ugly, effeminate, nerds around hot chicks.


45 posted on 11/29/2017 1:47:06 PM PST by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
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To: Mercat

I have heard of judges wearing nothing under their robes and even worse, so that doesn’t surprise me.

No, I haven’t heard about the one-eared elephant. .......


46 posted on 11/29/2017 1:51:40 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Mercat

He needed to be reminded what the rules were, but none of this (absent implied or verbalized threats) approaches harassment.


47 posted on 11/29/2017 1:53:17 PM PST by MortMan (I can resist anything, except temptation. /sarc)
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To: moviefan8

“All of this is going to led to segregation of men and women.”
That is the whole point. Dividing people. Just like BLM is to divide Blacks from whites.
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution”
https://genius.com/David-horowitz-a-modern-machiavelli-2-lyrics#note-1343459


48 posted on 11/29/2017 1:55:51 PM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: servo1969
This is reaching the idiocy stage!

15 year ago!!

49 posted on 11/29/2017 1:57:44 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: iowamark

Yep, just like I remember the Sweeney’s...mean and ugly.


50 posted on 11/29/2017 1:58:59 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: iowamark

I bet if the guy were handsome, there would have been no complaints.


51 posted on 11/29/2017 1:59:15 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Mercat

Agreed but I thing isuntil I actually see any conservative but definitely go down then I’ll know that it’s a real game
Otherwise it’s the Truth


52 posted on 11/29/2017 2:02:21 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Beginning to think Mr. 10 needs to stay at home for his protection. One good thing, the 16 year old he dated in 1975 is NOT going to claim sexual harassment.


53 posted on 11/29/2017 2:04:48 PM PST by madison10 (President Trump to loser: " Because you would be in jail.")
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To: Red Badger

And it’s not even over yet.


54 posted on 11/29/2017 2:09:36 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: iowamark

Why is NPR still funded?

************

That is the real scandal. How much financial support does CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) get every year from taxpayers to spout their liberal propaganda? Well, its about $450 million.

What percentage of American taxpayers actually listen to the drivel that congress funds?


55 posted on 11/29/2017 2:11:13 PM PST by Starboard
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To: servo1969

Wow, this is getting into Cultural Revolution territory. Glad I’m retired now!


56 posted on 11/29/2017 2:29:07 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: caligatrux
They are completely redefining what "sexual harassment" is.

Not only that. The perpetrators are guilty until proven innocent of having committed a future crime.

57 posted on 11/29/2017 2:48:23 PM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Don’t dip your pen in company ink.


58 posted on 11/29/2017 2:54:50 PM PST by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: GOYAKLA

You know, I just don’t know.


59 posted on 11/29/2017 3:47:13 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: laconic

“...where all the women are above average and all the men are gropers.”

I swear, FReepers are THE wittiest animals on the planet! :)

Good one!


60 posted on 11/29/2017 3:50:09 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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