Reports: Megyn Kelly Accuses Roger Ailes Of Sexual Harassment In New Book

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly alleges in her forthcoming book that former network boss Roger Ailes sexually harassed her soon after she joined the network in 2004, according to media reports.

A person familiar with Kelly's upcoming memoir, “Settle for More,” verified passages on the alleged sexual harassment to The Wall Street Journal that were first reported by Radar Online.

Radar reported that in the passages, Kelly accused Ailes of making several unwanted sexual advances toward her when she was working as a Washington correspondent for the network, including trapping her in his office for a "cat and mouse game." “Roger began pushing the limits,” she wrote, as quoted by Radar. “There was a pattern to his behavior. 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.”

Kelly alleged that Ailes promised her career perks in return for "sexual favors," and that he tried "physical advances," according to the Radar report. Once, she wrote, he tried to kiss her and she pushed him away, prompting him to threaten her future at the network.

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[Mc Mike]

1. Did she ever consider that, by working for the premier propagandist for the repug party's vision,

she's helping the repugs create the reality where the bloated horror from the deep is able to physically assault and sexually assault and sexually harass and threaten her? And making it so that all the other women she's selling out for her career get victimized wherever Ailes like repugs are ensconced in positions of power.

She loves the repug philosophy. She works to promote the repug philosophy. The repug philosophy victimizes women. She gets victimized by the repug in charge of retailing their wackjob philosophy. She sets her flinty face and steely eyes and soldiers on, promoting the repug philosophy.

How bout turning over a new leaf, and backing the Dems publicly, Ms. Kelly?

And no, this is not victim shaming. She's exactly like all those repug rank and filers voting right now to slit their own throats, and ours, by putting orange hitler in charge of our nation.

[graegoyle]

2. I don't care if she is a republican.

I actually don't want her to be a Democrat--her opinions disgust me. What I want is for her to be truthful with integrity. If more Republicans were truthful with integrity, that party would be very different--better--and with that, the country would be better, too.

That is what people mean when they say, "Reality has a liberal bias." If the Republicans joined us in the truth, that liberal bias wouldn't be seen.

[Mc Mike]

3. Agreed grae. nt.

[BainsBane]

4. Sexual assault isn't about party

To pretend there is something uniquely Republican about it is absurd.

She has a right to be a conservative without being harassed.

She nor any other conservative woman is responsible for harassment and assault perpetrated against them. The idea that a woman has to belong to a particular political party to not be held responsible for the actions of men is offensive.

[Mc Mike]

5. My comments were not intended to advocate sexual assault or harassment on repug women mouthpieces.

I've tried my best on this site to back Redqueen and Seabeyond, and Niyad. There are a few of the Women's group members who might tell you that where you believe I'm coming from is not in fact where I'm coming from, BB.

I want Red and Seabeyond back. Sea's account has been reviewed long enough.

There are blue collar guys who advocate that we install the orange gropenfuhrer into power, which means they're voting to shoot a blue collar guy like me in the foot and themselves in the foot at the same time. Like them, Megan Kelly is voting to shoot Women's Human and Civil Rights advocates in the foot with her repug activism, and herself in the foot at the same time.

It's like those stupid teabaggers who advocate that we shouldn't directly elect Senators anymore. I don't mind if they don't elect Senators anymore, but they're trying to make it so you and I don't get to elect Senators too. That's what repug mouthpiece Kelly is like. I'm glad she's made some anti-dRumpf moves, and she doesn't deserve to be sexually harassed or assaulted, but I remember a wide variety of right wing repug advocacy moves she's made, and that party is doing everything it can to put a nazi rapist in charge of our country.

[BainsBane]

6. I think Kelly is among the GOP women who refuse to vote for Trump.

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Those women are making it possible to defeat him.

I don't watch Fox, but I've seen enough excerpts of her interviews to know she isn't supporting him.

Obviously I find the entire GOP position toward women unacceptable. Conservative women have gone along with them and insisted there wasn't a war on women. They are starting to realize they were wrong. But even if she were a rabid Trump supporter, she would not bear responsibility for assault or harassment against her. A man's behavior is his own responsibility.

If political ideology or party determined individual behavior toward women, there would not be liberal rapists and sexual harassers. That is quite clearly not the case.

[Mc Mike]

11. I agree with your last statement 100%, BB.

We have to make sure our own house is clean, easier than cleaning theirs.

I don't want any harm to come to Kelly, but she is backing 8 million outrageously fascist repug party positions all the time. She's right about dRumpf, but I'd never include her in a coalition government. I'd give Ana Navarro a try, but not Susan Martinez.

I agree that no woman, of any political persuasion, or man either, deserves physical harm or anything bad to happen to them for legal speech and political activity. Nobody ever deserves to be sexually harassed or assaulted.

[treestar]

12. like most Republicans they object to it

if they personally deal with it.

Otherwise they along with the men victim blame - I've heard right wing women saying all the same things about women who are assaulted say the same things about clothes, being out at night, etc.

And if the woman were accusing a Republican, I have to wonder whether Kelly would not be questioning that in the same way all the while knowing it happened to her. That's the Right wing way. Others are lying, but it did happen to me. But someone who identifies as left wing says it happened and they are lying.

Just another case of Republican hypocrisy.

[demmiblue]

13. redqueen was back, momentarily...

here is her last post:

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1531716

[Mc Mike]

14. The place is so big, so many op s and sub posts.

Makes it so I can't spot things even when I'm actively looking for them, sometimes.

I backed Bernie in the primary, in PA. He was out organized. I'm backing Sec. Clinton, now.

Too many people here and elsewhere are constantly throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We have to have no fights now, with the nazi trying to get control of our country. But I like Sarandon, she's wrong, but I'll never turn my back on her. I don't like what Deb Wasserman Schultz did, but I like her, and I'm backing her. People bad mouthing Maddow here are just plain nuts.

I don't want Red or Sea to post any negative things about the Dems while we're in the fight of our life, but their pro-Woman info and thinking is top quality. They're genius thinkers and strategizers.

I miss Octa, MadFloridian, Sabrina1, Defend and Protect, and a lot of other good Dems who I don't see here now. Sec. Clinton is lobby-able, like Prez O. You can't lobby nazis, even if they're non-standard orange colored ones.

Thanks for the link, demmi.

[Sunlei]

8. started in 2004! how many 100s of woman were behind the closed office door and abused?

She finally 'spoke out' to keep her job.

All Republicans did was move the lecher to their candidate trump another sexual predator with access to more 100s of woman.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Roger Ailes is a repulsive pig. It's no wonder he ended up hooking

up with Trump in the end. They were made for each other.