A Legal Analyst Lost Her Job After She Called Roy Moore's Accusers Liars on Fox News

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

http://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-segment-sexual-assault-cost-legal-analyst-her-job-712042

A legal analyst appeared on Fox News last week to weigh in on the accusations against Roy Moore—and it backfired.

Mercedes Colwin, a managing partner at the law firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, told host Sean Hannity she believes Moore's accusers, along with most other women who go public with sexual assault allegations, are liars.

Then she lost her job.

"A lot of these women, it’s all about money," Colwin said on the segment, according to Mediate. Genuine allegations of sexual assault, Colwin added, are "very few and far between."

[ProfessorGAC]

1. When I Read Her Comments Here Last Week. . .

. . .or late last week, i found them cringe worthy. Apparently so did her bosses.

[underpants]

13. Last week I read her last name as "Clown"

I wasn't that far off

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Someone Else Said That Too

Or maybe that was you!

[Corvo Bianco]

2. Good!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Who fires a managing partner? NT

[Blue_true]

6. Full Partners.

In some big law firms and Investment Banks, a managing partner is essentially an administrative person who make less money and has far less power than partners. Her statements likely caused blowback for the firm.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. I though partners had tenure (more or less). Thanks for the clarification. NT

[Blue_true]

9. Someone in one of the fields can answer better.

But my understanding is that a managing partner does not have the power that some partners have and is basically an employee on a contract.

[lame54]

11. Or the phone was ringing off the hook...

And they don't want all their clients to be child molesters

[gratuitous]

4. So Roy Moore tries to rape some high school girls

And a woman defending him loses her job? Nice. I wonder if Mercedes Colwin just learned a little lesson here, or if she'll go on the martyr circuit and whine about how all the politically correct snowflakes cost her her job?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. I'm gonna go with the second possibility on this one. nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Lawyers take on unpopular clients. It's part of the job.

Charles Manson legal representation. I assume. I can't check now, but I doubt he was pro se for a homicide trial.

[Skittles]

17. hilarious she says the victims do it for the money

she was really projecting

[Grammy23]

10. If anything, sexual assaults are UNDER reported!

The very idea she would say that is insulting to women everywhere who have endured a sexual assault without telling anyone. I am finding that I encounter women who were sexually assaulted with experiences ranging from extensive groping and pawing to full on rape. Most were attacked by someone they knew. Some reported it to their mothers or other trusted person, others never told a soul until decades later. None filed a police report.

It just appalls me that a woman would say this. I wish someone would do a survey to ask how many women have experienced sexual assault and what (if anything) did they do about it? Was their assailant ever charged or did that person get away with their crime?

It is time to stop telling people that rape and other forms of sexual assault are RARE. If you have women in a safe environment where they can talk, the number who have had this experience is staggering.

[Angry Dragon]

12. I would guess it is between 90-100%

[dlwickham]

14. she's still employed there but "stepped down" from her management position in the NYC office

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/360386-fox-analyst-steps-down-from-management-role-at-law-firm-after

[Gothmog]

16. Appearing on Fox News should be grounds for dismissal

[Dorian Gray]

18. Womp Womp Womp Womp nt

[Orrex]

19. Fox News will hire her by the end of the day