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10/26/2017

Talk About A Real Game Changer: Mark Halperin, Accused Of Sexual Harassment, Out At MSNBC

Filed under: General — Dana @ 9:40 am



[guest post by Dana]

Hoo boy, the flood gates have opened:

Veteran journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed women while he was in a powerful position at ABC News, according to five women who shared their previously undisclosed accounts with CNN and others who did not experience the alleged harassment personally, but were aware of it.

While no potted plants were reportedly involved, the MSNBC and NBC analyst’s disgusting actions were, nonetheless, most unwanted:

The stories of harassment shared with CNN range in nature from propositioning employees for sex to kissing and grabbing one’s breasts against her will. Three of the women who spoke to CNN described Halperin as, without consent, pressing an erection against their bodies while he was clothed. Halperin denies grabbing a woman’s breasts and pressing his genitals against the three women.

Here is a rundown of complaints against him:

The first woman told CNN she was invited to visit his office in the early 2000s, when he was political director at ABC News, to have a soda, and said that while she was there with him he forcibly kissed her and pressed his genitals against her body.

“I went up to have a soda and talk and — he just kissed me and grabbed my boobs,” the woman said. “I just froze. I didn’t know what to do.”

From the second woman:

“The first meeting I ever had with him was in his office and he just came up from behind — I was sitting in a chair from across his desk — and he came up behind me and [while he was clothed] he pressed his body on mine, his penis, on my shoulder,” this woman told CNN. “I was obviously completely shocked. I can’t even remember how I got out of there — [but] I got out of there and was freaked out by that whole experience. Given I was so young and new I wasn’t sure if that was the sort of thing that was expected of you if you wanted something from a male figure in news.”

She claims he continued to “express a sexual desire for her in subsequent visits”.

From the third woman:

“I excused myself to go to the bathroom and he was standing there when I opened the door propositioning [me] to go into the other bathroom to do something,” she said. “It freaked me out. I came out of the ladies’ room and he was just standing there. Like almost blocking the door.”

A fourth woman claims that he asked her up to his hotel room. An offer she declined.

And from the fifth woman making a complaint against Halperin:

The fifth woman who spoke to CNN was not an ABC News employee at the time of the incident she alleges. She was not comfortable sharing specifics of her story for publication, but said Halperin, while clothed, placed his erect penis against her body without consent.

Not surprisingly, the women did not report Halperin to management because they were embarrassed, as well as fearful of retaliation given his position and power.

MSNBC announced that Halperin was “leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past conduct are fully understood.”

Here is the statement Halerpin released:

“During this period, I did pursue relationships with women that I worked with, including some junior to me,” Halperin said in a statement to CNN Wednesday night. “I now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. For that, I am deeply sorry and I apologize. Under the circumstances, I’m going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while I properly deal with this situation.”

How very woke of him. (Because who knew grabbing a woman’s boobs or pressing one’s erect penis against the backside of a woman when not invited to do so is inappropriate…)

Anyway, already another woman , who was with ABC at the time, has come forward as well. It wouldn’t be surprising if there were more.

Via Beckett Adams:

Halperin

(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)

–Dana

125 Responses to “Talk About A Real Game Changer: Mark Halperin, Accused Of Sexual Harassment, Out At MSNBC”

  1. At what point do we start to guess which men in places of professional power and position *haven’t* sexually harassed their colleagues or underlings?

    Dana (023079)

  2. Also, in answer to that question that so many ask, here is a great thread on why women don’t say anything when these sorts of things happen.

    Dana (023079)

  3. “[M]en in places of professional power and position”, mostly in the entertainment industry, from what we’ve been seeing, Dana.

    nk (dbc370)

  4. I’m hoping for some idol-smashing. MLK was notorious with his womanizing. So was JFK. When do the women really start talking about Bill Clinton now that Him and HEr are out of power?

    Kevin M (752a26)

  5. Yes, nk, but I don’t believe, and actually I know that it is not limited to just the entertainment industry. However, it is certainly the entertainment industry that has the most concentrated amounts of beauty, youth and sex appeal, given that it’s a fundamental requirement for on-screen talent. Thus the pickings are good for a would-be harasser.

    Dana (023079)

  6. There is a bloodletting underway across multiple industries. This is the very slow buildup to a very big wave I believe.

    My wife works in a male dominated field, is strikingly attractive (if I do say so myself), and for 25+ years in her job she has dealt with routine episodes of being propositioned by male co-workers and superiors, and others with whom she has to work with on a daily basis. For many years in the early part of her career she would come home from conferences and keep a collection of the hotel room keys she was given by other conference attendees with an invitation to join them for a drink in their room. She lost track of the number of times she went to a male co-workers room only to be greeted by the co-worker wearing just a towel after having “just got out of the shower”.

    She has never really be subject to detrimental treatment as a result of her responses to the efforts to proposition her, because she’s never had much interest in promotion, and she’s highly productive in the area that she works.

    But by character and personality she is the antithesis of the “victim” of sexual harrassment. She simply views it as a character flaw in the people who approach her in that way, and it permanently influences her views and opinions of those persons. She NEVER forgets. But she knows that in her industry — which for the better part of a century was a classic “old boys network” — making noises about sexual harassment is a one-way ticket to being shunted off to obscure and unsatisfying work duties.

    shipwreckedcrew (56b591)

  7. Yes, predators go where the hunting’s good.

    nk (dbc370)

  8. Sadly, when talking about men being accused of sexual assault or harassment, Hollywood’s pervs and harassers still draw the most attention because of the fame/glamour of the victims, and because of the industry itself. If the CEO of a giant corporation were outed as doing the same things, it wouldn’t draw as much attention.

    Dana (023079)

  9. Loved ones who work in show biz say that it’s the men that are over 50 years old that young women need to watch out for because they look at the young women as if they are “unicorns,” so entranced by them are they.

    Dana (023079)

  10. These perverts need to be jailed. When will a lawyer show up and get the job done?

    mg (31009b)

  11. I am so glad I’m not 15 and going through adolescence right now. It was enough of a minefield as it was.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  12. Never mind… The lawyers made the laws protecting perverts and punishing the persecuted.

    mg (31009b)

  13. If the CEO of a giant corporation were outed as doing the same things, it wouldn’t draw as much attention.

    HP fired a successful CEO for a consensual relationship with a subordinate.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  14. If you were a 15 year old boy, you’d most likely be in a skirt looking for a boob job.

    mg (31009b)

  15. they look at the young women as if they are “unicorns”

    To be fair, young women in show biz pretty much ARE unicorns, so far outside the normal range of beauty as they are.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  16. If you were a 15 year old boy, you’d most likely be in a skirt looking for a boob job.

    Vagina envy?

    Kevin M (752a26)

  17. Let’s not go overboard now, mg. It doesn’t make a man a pervert to like women. It’s how he shows it. Weinstein, O’Reilly, Halperin — most men would call them jagoffs.

    nk (dbc370)

  18. Remember in the Dark Ages when Vice President candidate Pence was attacked for saying he wouldn’t be alone in a room with women he wasn’t married to? Good times …

    SPQR (240837)

  19. If you were a 15 year old boy, you’d most likely be in a skirt looking for a boob job.

    Actually, I think I’d be the guy getting sent to the principal’s office one more time for hugging my female classmates in a way that upset teacher.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  20. Although it is hard to say, as in the actual instance it was 1970 and there were no rules.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  21. Remember in the Dark Ages when Vice President candidate Pence was attacked for saying he wouldn’t be alone in a room with women he wasn’t married to?

    Or when women alone in a room with Bill Clinton were attacked?

    Kevin M (752a26)

  22. Kevin M – I did not mean that personally.
    Just saying in todays get rid of the male theme.

    mg (31009b)

  23. It doesn’t make a man a pervert to like women.

    Kinky is using a feather during foreplay.
    Perverse is using a chicken.

    Chuck Bartowski (bc1c71)

  24. Will pictures be included in the next Halperin book?

    mg (31009b)

  25. I’m a little confuzzled, what you can get away with, is the standard?

    narciso (d1f714)

  26. Dana, you don’t seem to complain as much about men who are in trouble for this same sin on the right side of the isle. Is that because you expect Republicans to behave that way, or what?

    I would think that the ex-party that was recently all “Family Values,” all the time, should be even more ashamed.

    Tillman (a95660)

  27. I would love to see old man boosh up on some pervert charge. Holy Cow what a messed up family.

    mg (31009b)

  28. Which men would those be, Tillman? Or maybe you mean O’Reilly whom Dana wrote two posts about? You wanted three?

    nk (dbc370)

  29. @7 nk

    Most predator culling in California is done by government contractors.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  30. “If the CEO of a major corporation etc. etc.”

    Probably 20 years ago the CEO of a #1 in their field company was summarily fired because he couldn’t keep his hands to home. The Board of Directors convened a special board meeting in a city a long way from the main office, flew the guy in, fired him and told security not to let him back into the HQ building.
    In the private sector, particularly in a publicly traded company there are a lot of other interests that can be damaged by terminating a CEO for cause. Keeping it quiet protects the interests of a lot of people who have no connection to the original act.

    Thud Muffle (5a4596)

  31. 29. Well, let’s see, nk…
    If Dana ever wrote a post about the ol’ p-grabber himself, I don’t remember it. That’s a big pass in and of itself.
    Then there’s good ol’ Roger Ailes – was there a post about him?
    Then we have one of our very own former President Bush’s in trouble too.

    Tillman (a95660)

  32. Jeffery Epstein does what they call high fence hunting.

    I can’t really link now but look up Pitcairn Island sexual assault 2004. A third of the male population was arrested for rape.

    *spoiler: the population was 47.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  33. Luke chapter 12


    1Meanwhile, the crowds grew until thousands were milling about and stepping on each other. Jesus turned first to his disciples and warned them, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees—their hypocrisy. 2The time is coming when everything that is covered up will be revealed, and all that is secret will be made known to all. 3Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be shouted from the housetops for all to hear!

    Ben burn (87408e)

  34. should be even more ashamed.

    Awareness must precede, Tillman.

    Ben burn (87408e)

  35. Remember in the Dark Ages when Vice President candidate Pence was attacked for saying he wouldn’t be alone in a room with women he wasn’t married to? Good times …

    We’re still talking about it. He doesn’t trust himself or the #hores?

    Ben burn (87408e)

  36. If Dana ever wrote a post about the ol’ p-grabber himself, I don’t remember it. That’s a big pass in and of itself.
    Then there’s good ol’ Roger Ailes – was there a post about him?
    Then we have one of our very own former President Bush’s in trouble too.

    Seriously?
    Tons of post about Trump’s pussy-grabbing and other groping allegations.
    Roger Ailes — just a couple of days ago, but you need to have read it. I had the best comments, too.
    George H.W. Bush? Let’s keep it real, ok?

    nk (dbc370)

  37. There is a bloodletting underway across multiple industries. This is the very slow buildup to a very big wave I believe…

    shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 10/26/2017 @ 10:12 am

    Yes. And I lived through Tailhook. And I was not convicted of sexual harrassment because two guys thought it would be a good way to advance their careers. And they accused a colleague of mine of actions unbecoming an officer. But they would drop the charge if she went along with the scheme.

    She wouldn’t do it that took real strength. My XO also a woman called
    Bu****it and put an an end to it.

    I had not done anything other than make sure she got home and had a glass of water. I had witnesses. Didn’t stop those b#st#rds.

    Anyway I’m not going to cop to any sexual harassment charge especially because
    I don’t treat women that way. But interesting thing; a reporter told me he’d make up thinggs about me and print them. Because he hated me.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  38. Maybe it’s more like fishing:

    Indiana High School Game and Fish stocks the San Fernando Valley riparian zone with fingerlings. Local officials ignore poaching.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  39. We eradicated misogyny about the same time we buried bigotry and racism.

    Now misandry needs some work..

    Ben burn (87408e)

  40. We’ve got that problem up here with the smelt. The Vietnamese use illegal small mesh nets and the population has been declining.

    nk (dbc370)

  41. nk

    How many times have you mixed up a ripcord and thong underwear?

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  42. The smelt population, not the Vietnamese population.

    nk (dbc370)

  43. Never touched either, Pinandpuller.

    nk (dbc370)

  44. “Once you lose your name and credibility, where are you?

    I hope all this worries you, no matter what political tribe you belong to, because for more than a year now, that Democratic Media Complex has been shrieking about Russia this and Trump that and collusion this and collusion that.

    The Trump-Russia collusion theme has been a chorus of barking dogs everywhere you turn, in online news hyped to feed anti-Trump appetites, on cable, where the appetites are sated, and even in happy-talk banter of radio and TV news anchors.

    The driving force has been a partisan desire to excuse Hillary Clinton for losing her 2016 election to Trump. It’s been aggressive and passive and all Russia-Trump all the time.

    Many, but not all, of the Russia stories have been debunked, and precious little, if any, evidence has come out of the congressional investigations directly linking the president to an alleged effort by the Russians to steal Clinton’s presidency.”

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-trump-dossier-clinton-kass-1026-story.html

    Colonel Haiku (d14968)

  45. You are really worried, eh haiku?

    Relax. In a year it’ll all be over but BUT you won’t get Gerald Ford I guarantee you.

    Ben burn (87408e)

  46. They should invent a game like Pokémon Go where it leads you to the woods and unlocks a porn site on your phone.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  47. How many times have you mixed up a ripcord and thong underwear?

    Pinandpuller (ef2460) — 10/26/2017 @ 11:43 am

    Can’t speak for nk but only twice once with the SEALs in Kadena and then again

    with the Seabees in Kali.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  48. All of them are someone’s daughter, sister, wife or mother… or at least that’s the way it used to be… but I digress l.

    They should be treated accordingly l… with respect and dignity.

    Colonel Haiku (d14968)

  49. Keep flailing and burning, beenburned. But be honest about it.

    Colonel Haiku (d14968)

  50. “Once you lose your name and credibility, where are you?

    I hope all this worries you, no matter what political tribe you belong to,

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-trump-dossier-clinton-kass-1026-story.html

    Colonel Haiku (d14968) — 10/26/2017 @ 11:49 am

    I was talking about the times I woke up with a phone number scrawled in lipstick on my flight helmet.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  51. Have I ever lied to you haiku?

    Ben burn (87408e)

  52. Halperin always seemed like a fairly humorless fellow. Must have been the frustration.

    Colonel Haiku (d14968)

  53. All of them are someone’s daughter, sister, wife or mother… or at least that’s the way it used to be… but I digress l.

    They should be treated accordingly l… with respect and dignity.
    Colonel Haiku (d14968) — 10/26/2017 @ 11:54 am

    Yes, they are. And I haven’t always lived like I should. I’ve fallen down on a few occasions. But there are a lot more women that I haven’t touched in Thailand or the Philippines than I have. Because they are somebody’s something.

    They deserve to be treated with respect.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  54. Miss Hollywood sucks all the coverage up, BB. She’s got a nose like a vacuum cleaner, in the words of Roger Clinton.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  55. Be honest about teh flailing beenburned. When your goose is cooked, enjoy the aroma.

    Colonel Haiku (d14968)

  56. Tillman,

    It’s disappointing, although to be expected, that you would make this be about political persuasion. When a man presses his erect penis against your mother, daughter, sister or aunt when not given consent to do so, are you really going to care about his politics? I’m not. I’m going to be fighting mad because if the allegations prove to be true, he has broken the law. He has violated a woman, he has caused fear in her, intimidated her, and made her feel shame, in spite of him being the one who has shamed himself. I don’t know about you, but I’m really thankful that the law doesn’t make an exception for one party over another when sexual harassment/assault is involved.

    P**** grabbers come in all political stripes. That’s not the problem. If you can’t see that, then I can’t help you.

    Dana (023079)

  57. Those are some nice digs orbits, has wonder how they pay the upkeep.

    narciso (d1f714)

  58. I hope you didn’t get the Looney Tunes treatment where you yank the handle and your dirty laundry flys out of your pack.

    That sounds closer to GHWB at this point.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  59. “I was talking about the times I woke up with a phone number scrawled in lipstick on my flight helmet.“

    I’m not touching that one!

    Colonel Haiku (d14968)

  60. I want a world where Dina Meyer can slap Casper van Dean on the a$$ in the co ed showers and nobody freaks out.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  61. Dana, maybe I am being too critical of you here. Anyone who does this does deserve to be called out on it.

    Tillman (a95660)

  62. Dana, I have taken advantage of women. I regret it.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  63. Steve57

    I hope the Yakuza never asked for your digits. You might look like Chuckie from Sons of Anarchy.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  64. I don’t know sons of anarchy.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  65. Greetings:

    Me, I’m thinking there might be a bit of fun in watching PBS’s Charlie Rosie dancing around this one.

    11B40 (6abb5c)

  66. I just saw a gorgeous girl in a wheelchair waiting at a bus stop. If it hadn’t of been for the tatted up “after” face of meth guy sitting with her I’d be worried.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  67. If old man boosh ever touched my wife on the backside i’d pitchfork his azz right out of the wheelchair into traffic.

    mg (31009b)

  68. Who green lit Kindergarten Cop?

    “Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.”

    That kid will never work in this town again.

    What about where Richard Gere was the sexy GYN?

    If Spielberg can turn guns into radios what are we doing here?

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  69. I got hit on by a lady at my 20th HS reunion. A classmate owned the golf course/country club where we had the big dinner and drunken revelry. My GF didn’t like to dance so this lady first pulled me out on the floor for The Cars and Motley Crue etc.

    She wanted me to go back to her hotel room, I said no. We were outside at a certain point headed to the keg and she said,” They call me The Sensei, because I teach women how to give h***.” I’m like ok, good to know. Do you have a newsletter?

    She kissed me and groped me and it was time to find my GF, which I did.

    Being too good at something raises a lot of questions. And those who can’t, teach.

    Side note: Andy Warhol and Gina Getshon are in The Cars Hello Again video.

    And either Iggy Pop or just some guy who took his shirt off.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  70. If old man boosh ever touched my wife on the backside i’d pitchfork his azz right out of the wheelchair into traffic.

    mg (31009b) — 10/26/2017 @ 12:46 pm

    I believe you.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  71. Andy Warhol directed that’s video. I guess he did one thing I can say I like.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  72. Euphemism of the Day: “pursue relationships”

    Patricia (5fc097)

  73. Flushed with pride: another odd Halperin bathroom moment– video call into MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ live on air from the toilet of a plane in flight; literally a “talking head.”

    “Pan Am makes the ‘going’ great!…” – airline ad jingle, 1960s.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  74. 70… when you have a chromed trailer hitch situation, PandP, yer GF shoulda taken one for teh team.

    Colonel Haiku (d14968)

  75. What the world needs more of, Tillie: Leftwing Scolds

    Colonel Haiku (d14968)

  76. What the world needs more of, Tillie: Leftwing Scolds
    Colonel Haiku (d14968) — 10/26/2017 @ 2:00 pm

    You’re a good man.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  77. Good grief. According to CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward, Halperin’s inappropriate behavior was an open secret:

    This was an open secret when I was at @ABC for years- brave of these women to speak up.

    Dana (023079)

  78. Gee, Clarissa, a little slow on the uptake… did you ever wear a red dress to get Bubba’s attention or is “Me Too” just another Bond girl to you.

    “You only live twice, Mr. Bond.” – Ernst Stavro Blofeld [Donald Plesance] ‘You Only Live Twice’ 1967

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  79. @75 Col Haiku

    She accosted me in my own dojo.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  80. DCSCA,

    Are you suggesting that Ward is at fault for not saying anything sooner?

    Dana (023079)

  81. You effed up, PandP… you had her bowing to yer sensei…

    Colonel Haiku (d14968)

  82. @81. Not ‘at fault,’ but clearly ‘went along to get along’ which was part of the enabling crowd before the ‘game change’ hit the fan – likely to preserve her career and not be labelled a troublemaker. Times change; everybody is coming out of the wood work now. Wonder if she mentioned something to ABC management back in the day – (did she?) But clearly Halperin, his hypocrisy exposed, has admitted his behavior was wrong, is paying the price along w/t rest of these slobs. He’s essentialy gone from MSNBC now and PBS for sure. This behavior has to cease being tolerated. But let’s not turn a blind eye to women employing their sexuality to get ahead in business, either.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  83. “Sexual harassment is not about sex. It is about power. She has it; you don’t.” – Catherine Alvarez [Roma Maffia] “Disclosure” 1994

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  84. Mark halperin, you are the weakest link, (kiss your book deal goodbye)

    narciso (d1f714)

  85. I like consequences. You know, like somebody grabs your wife/gf/daughter’s a** and the next thing they know they are on the way to the hospital. Happily for the a** grabbers all the Muffle women could handle them all by themselves. With no remainder.

    Thud Muffle (5a4596)

  86. Well I layed my head on the pillowcase

    Waitn’ on some double DD’s

    But the girls don’t run outta here no more

    Broke broke miserable me

    Broke broke miserable me

    Broke broke miserable me

    All these girls won’t let me see

    Judge have mercy on me

    Oy vey is me!

    Well I met some girls

    Down in Hollywood

    Made ’em sign NDA’s

    Well I really looked them over good

    Just like William J

    Yes I really looked them over good

    I was a discredit to The Tribe

    Put them through their paces, Lordy!

    Sorta like a Clinton hard drive

    Broke broke miserable me

    Broke broke miserable me

    All these girls won’t let me see

    Judge have mercy on me

    Oy vey is me!

    Well I met a gal

    At Chataeu Mormont

    Georgina’s in The City

    I grabbed her a$$ and

    She threw me out

    I screamed

    “Please don’t sue me, Ashley!”

    Broke broke miserable me

    Broke broke miserable me

    All these girls won’t let me see

    Judge have mercy on me

    Oy vey is me.

    Pinandpuller (ef2460)

  87. there’s never been a role Jennifer Lawrence has played what couldn’t have been done better by Anna Kendrick

    but a whole lot fewer directors would have gotten their rocks off

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  88. I don’t think Anna could have tackled jens breakout role in winters bone.

    narciso (d1f714)

  89. it would have been so much funnier

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  90. Another woman comes forward:

    Dianna Goldberg was a young researcher at ABC News in 1994 when she asked a colleague, Mark Halperin, for some information about a story. He readily agreed to help her and asked her to come to his office.

    Close the door, he said when she arrived. Come over here, he said, seated at his desk. Sit down and I’ll give you the information, he said. He motioned to his lap.

    “What?” she remembers thinking. “I don’t want to sit on your lap.” But Halperin was the political director of the network, a rising star who was highly regarded by ABC’s management, including “World News Tonight” anchor Peter Jennings. Goldberg, who now goes by her married name, May, thought that refusing him could injure her career.

    She reluctantly agreed and sat down briefly. Halperin, she recalled on Wednesday, had an erection.

    The same routine happened on three or four other occasions, she said. Each instance left her confused, shaken and ashamed.

    I didn’t know what to do,” said May, now a lawyer. “He was important. He wasn’t my superior, but he was certainly in a superior position to mine. I didn’t say anything. I didn’t know how to at the time. I knew it was wrong.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/lifestyle/style/i-dont-want-to-sit-on-your-lap-she-said-but-mark-halperin-insisted/2017/10/26/0baa883c-ba64-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html

    Dana (023079)

  91. I have taken advantage of women. I regret it.

    I have willingly obliged women taking advantage of me.

    harkin (10a18c)

  92. When it rains it pours

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

    So when called Obama an eoletive, and was briefly suspended. He was really referring to himself

    narciso (d1f714)

  93. Mark Halperin @MarkHalperin

    When people say some new Trump tape could have material that is WORSE than the @accesshollywood video, what exactly could be WORSE?

    The Schadenfreude. The Schadenfreude.

    nk (dbc370)

  94. But why did the dummy admit it? Didn’t he learn anything from the Clintons?

    nk (dbc370)

  95. Sisterhood would be an interesting concept:
    freebeacon.com/culture/report-lisa-bloom-offered-share-sexual-history-weinstein-accuser-opposition-research

    narciso (d1f714)

  96. @92. In 1994, Halperin was 29 years old. Now 52, his career has obviously flourished since the era this incident occurred. As has, apparently, Ms. Goldberg-May’s career as well. Which begs the question as to why Ms. Goldberg-May, now an attorney, stayed quiet over this for 23 years? Did she report him to ABC management in 1994? Would either of their careers been damaged? If HBO, Bloomberg, NBC etc., had known of this, would they have hired Halperin anyway? Not to excuse his behavior at all, but there comes a point where it’s fair to consider how many of these confessionals in 2017 can be pegged as genuine outrage over sexual harassment or just a shot at opportunism.

    An anecdote: 50 years ago my own mother, now 86, was at a business soiree in London when a well known British film actor, aged today but still working in top films, asked her to dance – and as she tells the story, in the middle of the dance floor he unzipped the back of her dress. He was drunk, of course, but she stopped dead, stared straight at him told him to knock it off and zip it back up- he did and they parted with two words:’Friends?’ ‘Friends.’ Every time she sees him in a movie, it inevitably comes up– but should she call him out on it today for something that occurred in 1968 or just accept that the man was a pig in the ’60s and a slab of fatty, rancid bacon in 2017.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  97. Well ’94 was right when sexual harassment was de rigour just ask Bob packwood, but they went back to the 80s with Cosby, new york magazine did, although oddly they dropped the ball last fall, with weinstein

    It’s not like max Schumacher and Christine what’s her name ( their characters were 20 years apart, ballparking.)

    narciso (d1f714)

  98. Would you say that he’s “vulgar, aggressive, selfish, promiscuous and consumerist”? Not from Lubbock by any chance?

    nk (dbc370)

  99. I never wanted a man to treat a woman any differently than I would have a man treat my mother.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  100. It’s also like this. Do I want my grandmother reading about this? Maybe, stop.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  101. And I wouldn’t, but this jackalope because he has a Harvard sheepskin and the son of the legendary (I say notorious) Morton halperin, apologist for Phillip agee, feels entitled.

    narciso (d1f714)

  102. How do men feel safe like this. Also, 2, I don’t want to be this much of a jerk. Or any kind of a jerk.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  103. Because he is an archon, be judged akin for his Christian faith and found wanting, he went after trump, despite this is quite nearly what he did himself. He it has happened recently I would have blamed Showtime.
    Remember what he but the big time for, game change which spurilously occused the huntress of having post partum depression because that was the only way to explain opposition to obama.

    narciso (d1f714)

  104. If you say so.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  105. Showtime

    Was that an accident?

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  106. How do men feel safe like this.

    Body cameras with audio?

    nk (dbc370)

  107. Have you guys seen this NRA ad about lemons and journalists? I have a feeling you’ll like it, narciso.

    nk (dbc370)

  108. Body cameras with audio?

    nk (dbc370) — 10/26/2017 @ 10:45 pm

    I think it’s going to come to that.

    http://acepilots.com/vietnam/cunningham.html

    You know even if we’re ashamed of you you’re still ours.

    Randy Cunningham
    F-4 Phantom Pilot, Navy Ace in Vietnam
    Now convicted felon, called “most corrupt Congressman ever”

    The only ace in Phantoms. How much does that s*ck?

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  109. Oh, his jet?

    Showtime 100.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  110. Heroes and criminals are only a hair apart, because they are what psycho-babblers call low in risk avoidance and high in sensation seeking.

    nk (dbc370)

  111. Colonel Toon

    The pilot was mis-identified as North Vietnam’s leading ace, “Colonel Toon,” allegedly with 13 aerial victories.

    Exactly whom “Duke” shot down on his final kill of the day, the one that made him an ace, has been the subject of conjecture. Early on, sources claimed the pilot was the top Vietnamese ace known as “Col. Tomb” in the media. Later research has shed more light on the subject; in fact, “Col. Tomb” did not exist. He was most likely a flight leader or squadron commander of the 923rd Regiment.

    Whoever the Vietnamese pilot was, the historic dogfight made “Duke” Cunningham the first US ace of the Vietnam conflict.

    Because it was…

    http://theboresight.blogspot.com/2016/02/no-place-to-be.html

    …no place to be.

    “…everything my airplane did, he reacted to instinctively. He was flying a damn good airplane! Well, we kept at it, with me outzooming him in the vertical, and him shooting at me every time I got out in front. I thought; “he’s going to get lucky one of these times!” The next time we started up in the vertical, an idea came to me…I don’t know why…your mind just works overtime in a situation like that…anyway, as we’re going up, I went to idle and speed brakes…and he shot out in front of me! I think it really surprised him…being out in front for the first time. Anyway, we’re both going straight up and losing speed fast. I was down to 150 knots, and I knew I was going to have to go to full burner to hold it. I did and we both pitched over the top. As he comes over, I use rudder to get the airplane to turn to his belly side. He lost lift coming over the top and I think he departed the airplane a little bit. I thought; “this is no place to be with a MiG-17…at 150 knots…that slow…he can take it right away from you.”

    …[Above] The final stage(s) of the engagement. Why “Tomb” stops maneuvering and heads for
    the deck – is still today – a matter of conjecture. However, Cunningham’s aircraft would not survive the events of 10-May, as it is hit by an SA-2 (SAM) moments after the demise of the MiG. Cunningham wrestles his flaming-crippled F-4J over the sea, so the navy airmen can eject to avoid becoming POWs.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  112. Sometimes you get lucky.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  113. You are so right about heroes and criminals.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  114. Diane Goldberg?

    Who’s Next?

    Pinandpuller (b6531c)

  115. It’s also like this. Do I want my grandmother reading about this? Maybe, stop.
    Steve57 (0b1dac) — 10/26/2017 @ 9:50 pm

    I went over to my great grandmother’s house with my mom and grandma quite often when I was a kid. She had fellas who rented rooms from her time to time. We went over one day and GG tried to hand me a Playboy to read. Grandma intercepted it. I distinctly remember Suzanne Somers on the cover. Looks like December 1984 if anyone is keeping score. She was an alcoholic FWIW. GG, that is, not SS.

    Pinandpuller (bb638a)

  116. Well, Shameless is starting up again any day now.

    Pinandpuller (bb638a)

  117. I think the title of most corrupt congressman is at least a five way tie.

    Pinandpuller (bb638a)

  118. 96. nk (dbc370) — 10/26/2017 @ 8:39 pm

    But why did the dummy admit it? Didn’t he learn anything from the Clintons?

    Few people have the cover-up skills of the Clintons.

    Now, Donald Trump, he does try to learn things from the Clintons (just a few things) and he does deny things, even if it patently obvious it is true..

    But he could never cover up being bribed by Russia, and he doesn’t know how to spark a criminal investigation or an IRS audit of people he chooses. (there’s a list of people you could compile who’ve been audited. Paula Jones. Sean Hannity.)

    Sammy Finkelman (20d02d)

  119. @nk. By the way, who are you talking about who admitted “it”? Mark Halperin, or George H.W. Bush? The Bush admission was more honest. Almost completely honest except for the idea that he thought he’d be putting the women at ease. Halperin pretended his problem was fraternization.

    Sammy Finkelman (20d02d)

  120. 1. Dana (023079) — 10/26/2017 @ 9:42 am

    At what point do we start to guess which men in places of professional power and position *haven’t* sexually harassed their colleagues or underlings?

    Only a minority of men – less than 50% – are guilty of sexual offenses like philandering let alone of this. But the thing to wonder s how many women have not been the victimm of sexual abuse or harassment.

    It looks like the victimization rate could be between 25% and 75% But each women had interactions with up to several hundred men who were in a position to do so, and some of them did this to many women.

    Only a minority of men – that is, less than 50% – are guilty of sexual offenses, says the Talmud somewhere; a majority of stealing; and ALL of slander.

    Whereever that is located, slander might not be best translation – could be maybe just vilification for no good purpose, although it is more proabably somethinbg like slander = lies.

    Sammy Finkelman (20d02d)

  121. Yes sammeh, based on the nearly uncontested slander by Weinstein enabler Julianne Moore, he and halperin got another book contract double down another campaign memoir that missed the irs tampering scandal and other subterfuge involving fusion. Which got thrmntheir latest gog.

    narciso (d1f714)

  122. narciso @124: I’m lost. Who did Julianne Moore slander? How did she enable Harvey Weinstein? Three days ago she attacked Harvey Weinstein.

    What is the name of that book? Is this a book that Halperin planned about the 2016 election that was going to be made into an HBO movie starring Ed Harris and Julianne Moore, with the book itself now being canceled? Does the book exist in the form of pre-publication reviewer’s copies?

    Was this going to be the third in a series by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann? They didn’t have a contract before the election – they decided to write one only after he election. The IRS scandal related to the 2012 election mainly.

    Sammy Finkelman (20d02d)


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