Posted on 12/08/2017 6:59:01 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Former lawmaker and frequent MSNBC pundit Harold Ford Jr. won't appear on "Morning Joe" while he pursues legal action against a woman who accused him of sexual assault.
Ford, who represented Tennessee as a Democrat for a decade, worked at Morgan Stanley when a female reporter accused him of groping and stalking her. As a result, Ford's employer, Morgan Stanley, fired him.
Ford responded by saying the accusations against him were not true, and that he would sue both her for making false claims, and Morgan Stanley for wrongful termination. But while those actions are ongoing, Ford will not appear on "Morning Joe" or any other MSNBC program.
"MSNBC and Ford agreed he would not be a guest on the network until the defamation lawsuit he says he will file against his accuser and a planned wrongful termination action against Morgan Stanley are settled," said "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski on Friday morning.
Ford is the second person dropped from "Morning Joe" in the wake of sexual assault charges. Bloomberg's Mark Halperin was another frequent panelist on the show, but left after being accused of sexual harassment by several women.
Ford said Thursday that none of the charges against him are true, and said the claims undermine real claims that women are bringing forward against men.
"This simply did not happen," Ford said. "I have never forcibly grabbed any woman or man in my life. Having drinks and dinner for work is part of my job, and all of my outreach to the news reporter making these false allegations was professional and at the direction of my firm for business purposes."
"I will now be bringing legal action against the reporter who has made these false claims about me as well as Morgan Stanley for improper termination," said Ford.
He was actually a likeable guy....................
#MorningGrope
He was clean and articulate.
He didn’t seem to be a far left type. He was raised in The South so he knew what was the score...................
..but you get to stay on the air if you hire someone to kick your intern lover’s head in and cover it up before the body is cold with lies about her having health issues and a dirty examiner to play along.
Isn’t it about the time Mika is found in Joe’s office, mysteriously dead?
The former managing director of Morgan tweeted this morning that Ford knows as much about capital markets as “a glass of water” and was a crony hire of the worst kind. I found that pretty funny.
Yeah....how about morning Joe being suspended until we have a satisfactory answer to the dead girl in his office, eh?
Joe Scarborough has always been a low-life, POS!
Well, he’s fighting back and no photos or overwhelming evidence. Innocent until proven guilty.
Somewhere along the line, sexual chemistry developed between Mika and Joe. At some point, one of both of them had to make sexual advancements. Therefore, one or both should be removed for making sexual advancements. I am just trying to be PC.
About half the experts that I see on MSNBC are marginally qualified to talk on the business market. From what I’ve seen of Harold...he at least can take a difficult topic and explain it in simple details. I probably wouldn’t hire him to manage a mutual fund....but he does Ok as a talk-show guy.
I always felt that he’d be better suited for an hour-long host job.
Yeah, he struck me as that rare entity, the sensible Democrat. I think he was even briefly in the running for a Trump Cabinet post. Oh, well.
Maybe Harold will be the one to disprove these allegations, and then he can join Fox as a host.
WTF, likeable? HELL NO.
And to think the Democrats wanted Harold Ford Jr. to challenge Danny Hastert.
Ford was the Democrat Senate nominee against Bob Corker in Tennessee, I believe back in 2006??? He had been a member of the House of Reps. I think after his loss to Corker, he left politics.
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