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Another Man Who Worked At NPR Had Been Accused of Serial Sexual Harassment (Juan Williams)
newsweek.com ^ | 10/2/18 | Melina Delkic

Posted on 10/11/2018 2:14:37 AM PDT by a little elbow grease

(snip)-- The same radio network that suspended its news director this week for sexual harassment allegations once hired a controversial Washington Post writer whose history of sexual harassment allegations was well known.

Juan Williams, 63, joined National Public Radio in 2000 despite being at the center of a widely reported sexual harassment scandal at The Washington Post a decade earlier.

Williams now works for Fox News as an analyst.

Post newsroom employees said that Williams had, for years, commented on their bodies, asked them about their sex lives, and said things that were "lewd" and "shocking." Nancy McKeon, then the features editor of the Post Magazine, told Newsweek she remembers Williams asking women, “Did your heels hit the ceiling last night?” and saying, “Now there’s a chair I’d like to sniff” when one employee stood up from her seat.

The comments were known and were even covered by the Washington Post at the time. But NPR hired Williams anyway.

“This is ancient,” Williams said when Newsweek reached out to him. When asked if the allegations were true, he declined to answer.

(snip) --- Williams was not fired by The Post when the allegations were revealed in 1991. Fifty female employees met with then-Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. to object to the newspaper’s lack of transparency surrounding what disciplinary measures it had taken. Yet Williams was eventually hired by NPR.

*** 'He was like a serial shocker' ***

McKeon, who worked with Williams in the late 1980s, warned him several times during her tenure to “stop talking to these young girls like that" and that he'd "have a problem" if he continued. After one art director stood up from her chair, McKeon said she remembers Williams saying, “Now there’s a chair I’d like to sniff.”

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To: a little elbow grease
Poor juan. He didn't really escape the democrat plantation but he works for FOX, which to the left is like when we on the right realize the left worships Satan.

Think Cover gal shep will stand by him?

41 posted on 10/11/2018 4:06:12 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: poinq

Concur. Juan is an idiot who parrots (badly) the liberal talking points of the day, but the Left hates him for the simple fact he is not deranged and hateful and works at Fox.

So I don’t believe any of this.


42 posted on 10/11/2018 4:07:53 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Lazamataz

As far as I can see, they fired O’Reilly for less.

Maybe they can fire Juan and hire some other token black.


43 posted on 10/11/2018 4:08:47 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Caipirabob

Think Cover gal shep will stand by him?

I guess that depends if he ever asked Shep if HIS heels hit the ceiling last night...


44 posted on 10/11/2018 4:09:41 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Caipirabob
"Think Cover gal shep will stand by him?"

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Nah, Shep will cover only for himself.

45 posted on 10/11/2018 4:09:46 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold mworth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: a little elbow grease

I wonder what his tone was the past few weeks? Was he kissing up hard to the Femi-dems or trying to sound reasonable?


46 posted on 10/11/2018 4:09:51 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: a little elbow grease
Nancy McKeon

Because of her bravery, more of Juan's victims now have the courage to step forward.

#metoo #believethevictims #mrsgarrettwarnedus

47 posted on 10/11/2018 4:12:49 AM PDT by silent_jonny ("forward to what lies ahead" -- Phil. 3:13)
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To: a little elbow grease

OK. Implement the Kavanaugh standard set by the Dems during the Judiciary hearings and fire him, ruin his reputation, name and family.


48 posted on 10/11/2018 4:13:04 AM PDT by jimbug
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To: Drango
"old news from 11/2/17"

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I'm well aware of that. So what's your point?

The story actually begins in 1991, moron.

It's been posted this morning because it is relevant to the Ford/Kavanaugh situation. Juan's been tearing down Justice Kavanaugh for weeks when he himself is dirty as can be.

Get real.

49 posted on 10/11/2018 4:14:21 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold mworth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: a little elbow grease

Hope he comes out and says he believes every one of these 3 decade-old claims....


50 posted on 10/11/2018 4:15:02 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: Ann Archy
"I would LOVE if he was Fired from FOX!! The FIVE is Unwatchable when he is on!!"

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I totally agree.

51 posted on 10/11/2018 4:15:51 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold mworth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: silent_jonny

I was just going to ask if it’s that Nancy(Jo)!


52 posted on 10/11/2018 4:18:30 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: a little elbow grease
RE:“This is ancient,” Williams said when Newsweek reached out to him. When asked if the allegations were true, he declined to answer.”

Really Juan?

Juan Williams: Why Doesn’t Trump ‘Apologize to Ms. Ford?’(Oct 9, 2018, Breitbart )

53 posted on 10/11/2018 4:21:31 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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To: nikos1121; All
"I find him irritating simply because he’s not well prepared on the issues. Fox fired the black commentator Jackson? Can’t recall his first name Randy or Richard? the guy was great. Very street smart."

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You are right about him being smart and good.

Kevin Jackson ..... is his name.

“What you learn about America is people are a lot less interested in race than they are in character.” – Kevin Jackson, author, political commentator, and talk radio host.

54 posted on 10/11/2018 4:22:10 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold mworth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: a little elbow grease

“Maybe he can get a spot over at MSNBC or CNN.”

cn is where he came from before he went to fox a few years ago. The exact scenario escapes me but IIRC his departure from cnnn was a bit messy.


55 posted on 10/11/2018 4:23:43 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Lazamataz
"No longer a defense, Juan.

What was your behavior like in High School?"

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Maybe he sniffed a lot of chairs.

56 posted on 10/11/2018 4:23:54 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold mworth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: a little elbow grease

Couldn’t happen to a better guy....dump him!!


57 posted on 10/11/2018 4:25:13 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: Jewbacca; poinq
"So I don’t believe any of this."

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You don't believe any of WHAT?

58 posted on 10/11/2018 4:25:32 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold mworth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: nikos1121
"If they’re going to keep Williams on the five counter him with Candice Owens..." -------

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That would be great. Juan would shrivel up and hide.

59 posted on 10/11/2018 4:27:06 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold mworth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: silent_jonny

I had a bit of a crush on her in that show - (sort of a tom-boy iirc)/

My wife said “Hey - your girl friend is on Dancing with the Stars - you wanna see?”

Younger than me - but even at that age I couldn’t dance like that - so good for her. And she still looks okay. But I would have preferred to remember her how she looked from 30 years ago. Of course - if my wife hadn’t brought her up, I never would have remembered her!


60 posted on 10/11/2018 4:28:07 AM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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