Fox News: Fierce Watchdog of the Constitution

Is Feingold's 28th Amendment Constitutional?
by ggrzw

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jaw-dropping

lol

The 21st amendment was unconstitutional because it violated the 18th amendment.

please please please let me get what I want

?

"what I want" = massive Fox damage

Gretchen Carlson of Fox News Files Suit Against Roger Ailes

Gretchen Carlson, the longtime Fox News anchor, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday saying that Roger Ailes, the powerful chairman of Fox News, fired her from the network last month after she refused his sexual advances and complained to him about discriminatory treatment in the newsroom.

The nature of Ms. Carlson’s allegations immediately transfixed the world of television news, where Mr. Ailes is a hugely influential figure known for demanding absolute loyalty from his employees.

A spokeswoman for Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The lawsuit — filed in Superior Court in New Jersey, where Mr. Ailes maintains a residence — portrays the Fox chairman as a serial sexual harasser, charging that he ogled Ms. Carlson in his office, called her “sexy” and frequently made sexually charged comments about her physical appearance.

Ms. Carlson, who joined Fox in 2005, charges that during a meeting last fall to discuss her concerns about what she considered ill treatment, Mr. Ailes told her: “I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago and then you’d be good and better and I’d be good and better.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/business/media/gretchen-carlson-fox-news-roger-ailes-sexual-harassment-lawsuit.html

Can't believe how surprised I actually am at what insane pigs Doocy and Ailes are.

Jon Stewart kind of called an aspect of this out on TDS years ago, digging up GC's credentials and asking why in the world she decided to play a ditz on television. She was better than all of them from day one, and they hated it. So gross.

They didn't care when that weird story about O'Reilly and my guess is that Fox will just give a few million to Carlson to go away and not talk about such things publically again.

Nah, this is happening precisely BECAUSE something like that didn't work out.

otm

I think this is going to get really ugly and then quite likely "end" - it'll leave a scar for sure - with possibly even a nine figure settlement or verdict. She has put her stake in the ground and Ailes is going to try and refute it until it gets very bitter. GC was a star on that network and she's after blood.

The most amazing thing about this story, for me, was learning that Carlson was a former Miss America. I didn't think she was any better looking than your average local market morning news anchor. That's enough to win the biggest pageant of them all?

It's a scholarship pageant, not a beauty pageant!

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-roger-ailes-out-at-fox-news/

holy shit :O

That report is so suspect it almost apologizes in advance for being wrong.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/murdochs-have-decided-to-remove-roger-ailes.html

hopefully this leads to an ugly and revealing court battle between ailes and the murdochs

wow!

have never read a book about fox news but given ailes' history as visionary media bulldog for nixon etc i'd always assumed the structure and tactics and telescreen vibe of the place owed more to him than to murdoch, altho the latter's brit tabloids are i guess p much the same thing in terms of the buttons they choose to push

Every time I see a picture if Ailes, it reminds me of Orson Welles in Touch of Evil.

I think it is probably an important detail that James is leading the charge to boot this dude

Like, he appears to be the family hammer who swings at the employees who bring legal distress upon the Murdoch empire.

Man, I'm more and more convinced these are the end times. I'm adjusting my doomsday clock to reflect this news. First Ailes out at Fox, THEN the Cubs win the world series, THEN Trump is elected, then we all die.

lets not forget our 2016 NBA Champions, the Cleveland Cavaliers

cubs won't win don't worry

Sure, and neither will Trump, riiiiight ...

I'm buying a boat and a bunch of canned goods.

well if it worked for the franklin expedition...

Hello.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/sources-kelly-said-ailes-sexually-harassed-her.html

As New York reported yesterday, Rupert and sons James and Lachlan, the three top executives at 21st Century Fox, have, according to multiple sources, decided that Ailes needs to be removed. Kelly, who has become something of a feminist icon thanks to her tangles with GOP nominee Donald Trump, is seen by many inside Fox as the future of the network. She’s currently in contract negotiations, and given that Bill O’Reilly has said he’s considering retirement, Fox can’t afford to lose her.

According to two sources, yesterday afternoon lawyers for 21st Century Fox gave Ailes a deadline of August 1stto resign or face being fired for cause. Ailes’s legal team, which now includes Susan Estrich, former campaign manager for Michael Dukakis, has yet to respond to the offer. Ailes has also received advice on strategy from Donald Trump and Rudy Guiliani, sources say.

I have to say -- that last sentence is firing off some conspiracy theory thoughts in my brain right about now.

And yeah, he's definitely gone at this point one way or another. Consider:

Meanwhile, the Paul, Weiss lawyers are attempting to interview former Fox employees who have stories of harassment but haven’t spoken because they signed settlements with Ailes’s Fox attorney, Dianne Brandi. 21stCentury Fox is now waiving the NDAs to allow women to speak.

Word spreading rapidly that Ailes is now out.

Seems like the formal 'seeya' date is this Friday. Allegedly a $40 million payment. The worm turns.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/07/19/report-roger-ailes-getting-golden-parachute.html

You would think that shitting in the pool of public discourse is compensation enough for Rog

this entire thing is hilarious to me, largely because I met James Murdoch in passing in college when he was still a dreadlocked trustafarian talking about becoming a sculpture artist so every time his name pops up, that's the persona I am seeing in my mind's eye

(NOTE: I do not really know the dude, I just have a friend who hung out with him for a hot second)

Of course, now it's just getting weirder:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/07/19/report-roger-ailes-getting-golden-parachute.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl

Fox initially confirmed Drudge’s report to The Daily Beast, and subsequently walked back that confirmation. Additionally, Drudge replaced a headline touting the buyout with a new one on "Fox News Drama," including a statement from the network: “Roger Ailes has never sexually harassed Megyn Kelly. In fact, he has spent much of the last decade promoting and helping her to achieve the stardom she earned, for which she has repeatedly and publicly thanked him.”

"he emotionally harassed her; get your facts straight"

Oh, wow, I didn't know James Murdoch was the rich kid behind Rawkus.

Formal statement out now, done and dusted:

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/756219570524827648

Wonder what changes we might see.

Looking forward to hearing how Fox News reports it.

So many changes. The most changes.

Chris Wallace gives nepotism a bad name

"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace praised Ailes' as a boss and said he had already shed his tears.

Wallace told the Huffington Post:

I’ve never known a boss who transmitted a sense of mission, transmitted a sense of a team and a common purpose, more than Roger did. And the thing that’s different from any place I’ve ever worked is people feel a personal connection to Roger, and I think a lot of people feel a deep sense of personal loss.”

and I think a lot of people feel a deep sense of personal loss.”

no, they just took a bit shit.

Gretchen Carlson settles for $20 million (reportedly); Greta Van Susteren leaving.

How much did she have to pay them for permission to leave? As a Scientologist, I bet that was tough for her.

you're a Scientologist?

Grammar is hard. How should I have awkwardly phrased that? I bet that was tough for her, a Scientologist?

it's all good – I wanted a quick giggle.

I bet it was tough for a Scientologist like her.
As a Scientologist, she probably thought it was tough for her.

no one is actually going to take this slime to court, are they?

"She's a scientologist, I bet that was tough for her" is fine for (internet) speech

"As a scientologist she probably found it difficult" if you want fancy

Scientology is no giggling matter. It's very serious stuff.

Stop the giggling! I said stop it!

no one is actually going to take this slime to court, are they?

I'm already guessing the rumored divorce proceedings via his wife will be potentially entertaining.

I'd guess he has a brutal nondisclosure prenuptial agreement that's practically boilerplate after his previous divorces

Am I wrong in thinking that Ailes hiring Hulk Hogan's lawyer to go after NY Mag is kind of stupid? Is that dude even anybody without Thiel bankrolling him?

Well he does have a (short) track record of inflicting maximum damage, so he's got that going for him

I should read up on the NYMag suit (threat) to see if there's anything there, but I can't imagine they would be as careless as, say, Gawker.

It's strangely unclear, though I suspect Ailes wants to blame somebody for his downfall and wants to shoot the messenger.

It wouldn't be republican malfeasance without subsequent attempts to blame anyone but oneself for the consequences.

hulk hogan's lawyer probably cannot get all his cases tried in pinellas county, fla

Lotsa good lines in this one, where Sean O'Neal covers the change in Geraldo Rivera's public stance to no longer support the guy who no longer pays him:

http://www.avclub.com/article/geraldo-rivera-now-filled-regret-he-defended-roger-242396