Megyn Kelly: Ailes tried to grab and kiss her, and when rejected, asked when her contract was up

[Miles Archer]

“There was a pattern to his behavior,” Kelly writes. “I would be called into Roger’s office, he would shut the door, and over the next hour or two, he would engage in a kind of cat-and-mouse game with me — veering between obviously inappropriate sexually charged comments (e.g. about the ‘very sexy bras’ I must have and how he’d like to see me in them) and legitimate professional advice.”

Ailes didn’t stop there, however.

Kelly writes that he eventually started offering to advance her career in exchange for sexual favors, which she claims she turned down every time. Kelly then explains that Ailes took things even further than that in early 2006, when he “crossed a new line — trying to grab me repeatedly and kiss me on the lips.”

When she pulled away from him, Ailes issued what she interpreted as a veiled threat by asking her when her contract was up.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/leaked-megyn-kelly-book-excerpts-offer-cringe-inducing-accounts-of-roger-ailess-sexual-harassment/

[lpbk2713]

1. Scumbag

He's a sexual predator of the worst kind.

[Botany]

2. It happened in 2006 and yet Kelly stayed on for the $$ and didn't say a thing until ....

.... Gretchen Carlson filed suit against Ailes?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/how-fox-news-women-took-down-roger-ailes.html

Ailes story / New York Mag.

[demmiblue]

7. So?

There are probably a lot of reasons she didn't say anything.

Such is being a woman faced with sexual harassment in the workplace.

I would say more, but...

[rumdude]

3. Seems like the Rethug party is a bunch of gropers

who never even get what they grope for.

[vdogg]

4. Wow!

That's big!

[global1]

5. Now Why Would She Stay Working For Him After Such An Incident....

She should have quit on the spot. She probably would have picked up another job immediately. I don't understand why she would put up with that. It doesn't make sense.

[Egnever]

6. People put up with all kinds of shit for $$$

Nothing new there.

[closeupready]

11. Yup. She'll peddle what she's told to peddle. For example,

so, hey, wake me up if she decides, one day, to attempt integrity. It'd be refreshing.

[closeupready]

12. Because, in my personal opinion, she's a mercenary. That simple.

[Egnever]

8. She is leaving Fox

If she doesn't it will be because they offer her a ridiculous amount of money.

There have been all kinds of stories lately on how unhappy she is there. It would be interesting to see her reporting free from the confines of FOX. I despise FOX news but she has gained some respect from me this election season. She has pushed back on nonsense many times this season.

[Orrex]

9. Boys will be boys, after all

[closeupready]

10. OMG. Her again?

[Initech]

13. These people are sick, sick, sick!!

BTW I'm talking about scumbags like Ailes. Thanks to his intervening we got 8 years of Bush.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. K&R

although it is not fun reading the victim blaming in the replies.