Another Man Who Worked At NPR Had Been Accused of Serial Sexual Harassment (Juan Williams)

newsweek.com ^ | 10/2/18 | Melina Delkic

[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.”

[EEGator]

Mrs. Garrett just died this year. She made it to 92.

[silent_jonny]

Wrong one.

Are ... are you denying the victim!?

This story is continuing to grow!

Michael Avenatti is now representing Natalie, accusing Juan of having wild drunken chair sniffing parties!

Although there's no evidence that Natalie's chair was ever sniffed.

"We were at a house ... I don't remember which house ... or how I got there ... or who took me home. But Juan was there! And he insisted all the girls play musical chairs. Then a few weeks later I saw George Clooney at the Safe Way and said hi. It was weird."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Time to apologize, Juan ?

[proud American in Canada]

Wow. I would not have thought this, if it is true.

I suppose men in positions of power...

I hope it’s not true, though. I disagree with him about many things but I like him. He talks about his grandchild; it’s nice.

What is going on with these women coming out of the woodwork to tarnish mens’ reputations? Maybe they had some beef with him and came up with this story—the cause du jour, so to speak.

[a little elbow grease]

I know .... it was my error.

Anyone with a brain who actually went to the source (newsweek) and read the article would see 11/2/17.

We all know we haven't come to 11/2/18 yet?

Get a life. You're wasting your time.

[a little elbow grease]

Wow. I would not have thought this, if it is true.

I suppose men in positions of power...

I hope it’s not true, though. I disagree with him about many things but I like him. He talks about his grandchild; it’s nice.

What is going on with these women coming out of the woodwork to tarnish mens’ reputations? Maybe they had some beef with him and came up with this story—the cause du jour, so to speak.

__________

His "indiscretions" were from back around 1991. They are not current, as far as we know.

[ought-six]

“Watch out for a hit job. The left hates Juan.”

Because he married a white woman.

He is a typical useful idiot for the left, so they tolerate him. He is a vile leftist in his own right, a monumental hypocrite and an unctuous gasbag.

[proud American in Canada]

I love Gutfeld! So funny and smart.

[a little elbow grease]

"He is a vile leftist in his own right, a monumental hypocrite and an unctuous gasbag."

______________

"an unctuous gasbag" ..... I like it. Very appropriate.

[proud American in Canada]

LOL! Yes, because the behavior of adolescent boys must be held against them for the rest of their lives. ;)

[Lazamataz]

LOL! Yes, because the behavior of adolescent boys must be held against them for the rest of their lives. ;)

#DemocratsSetTheStandard

[silent_jonny]

She has aged very well. More attractive now, imo.

But my 80s sitcom crush was Justine Bateman on Family Ties :)

"Now there's a chair--"

Shut up, Juan.

[Political Junkie Too]

If you knew it, then why didn't you post it so Freepers who don't want to give Newsweek a hit would know it, too?

You posted the thread. Don't you feel any sense of responsibility for the accuracy of your post, or to acknowledge the error before it's pointed out to you?

-PJ

[neverevergiveup]

“NPR has a serious problem. They all talk the same way.”

Yeah, I hate it. I’ve wondered if they are coached to speak that way. I’m sure the NPR hierarchy think it sounds sophisticated and erudite, but it just sounds contrived and smarmy.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Same here. The 30 seconds forward button, or MUTE, or OFF automatically set in when McJuan opens his racist, hypocritical trap

Fox, get rid if him. He’s also too vile, argumentative and ugly for TV

[bert]

——Who knew Juan had a tallywhacker?——

Well, any one paying attention. He shows his sons repeatedly. He also notes his sons are Republicans.

So, somehow he managed to do somthing that caan be considered glld. He raised sons that are Republicans

[Tenacious 1]

He is also a democrat. Black, Democrat.... I’m sure he is “reformed” and “remorseful”. He has made amends and changed his ways. It was a hard learning time for him. But he has persevered, fought the battle, been through the suffering and now is righteously victorious in his battle with this affliction. He should be a role model for all feminist, philanderers, perverts, pedophiles and rapists. You too can win against this ruthless disease of predatory behavior towards women. You too, can be a hero. Live Strong! Be a democrat!!!!!!

- Sarc -

[2harddrive]

I am surprised Juan is into women!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Why haven’t you apologized, Juan?

(sorry, couldn’t resist)

[Titus-Maximus]

What is unreal about the new Sexual McCarthyism is that you can keep being punished for the same crime decades later, long after you had been fired for it. This is the age of Stalin, the land of Franz Kafka. It is everything that America shouldn’t be. Now he is given the Mark of Cain, and as an enemy of the state can no longer work in any profession.