Is CNN giving Ignorant Sexist Don Lemon a Free Pass — despite referring to 51 yoa Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley, ‘Past Her Prime’ — just because this BLEEPhole happens to be both Black & Homosexual?

When CNN’s Don Lemon recently referred to 51 yoa, Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley as being, ‘Past Her Prime’, why the BLEEP wasn’t he AT LEAST suspended, without Pay, for a few days and forced to immediately apologize to Ms. Haley for making such a, “Sexist” and ignorant comment? Or, is Lemon being given a “mulligan” here since he’s both Black & Gay, not to mention, Haley just happens to be a Republican — therefore, it’s no big deal? Are there any questions as to “WHY”, CNN consistently has such piss-poor TV ratings?

Podcaster Megyn Kelly puts Don Lemon in some Proper Perspective over his ‘Past Her Prime’ comments about Nikki Haley.

More from FOX News, as the ladies from ‘Outnumbered’, weigh-in with their thoughts of women, ‘Past their Prime’

FINALLY, Andrea Tantaros publicly breaks her silence against sexual predator, former FOX News CEO Roger Ailes

(What an absolutely disgusting moral pig!!! Instead of being terminated from his cushy position with a $50 million severance package, a sick bastard like former FOX News CEO Roger Ailes ought to be thrown in prison for the rest of his natural life! Excellent reporting by both New York Magazine, and The Young Turks on this story.)

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/andrea-tantaros-made-harassment-claims-against-roger-ailes.html

Fox News Host Andrea Tantaros Says She Was Taken Off the Air After Making Sexual-Harassment Claims Against Roger Ailes

By Gabriel Sherman

Fox News’ senior executives have said they were unaware of sexual-harassment allegations against Roger Ailes before former anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against him in July. But those claims are now being challenged by Fox host Andrea Tantaros, who says that she complained multiple times to senior Fox executives in 2015 about Ailes’s inappropriate sexual behavior toward her. Tantaros says that, after she came forward, she was first demoted and eventually taken off the air in April 2016. Fox continues to pay her.

Through her lawyer, Judd Burstein, Tantaros says that both she and her agent told Fox executive vice-president Bill Shine, senior vice-president Suzanne Scott, and general counsel Dianne Brandi about episodes of Ailes’s alleged harassment. “She made multiple harassment and hostile-workplace complaints,” Burstein says. As far as Tantaros knows, Fox executives never investigated her complaints, Burstein says; instead, they claim, Fox sidelined her. “I believe it’s retaliatory,” says Burstein.

Fox’s attorneys dispute this. The network says Tantaros was suspended with pay because she violated company policy by not allowing Fox to vet her 2016 book, Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What They Wanted Has Made Women Miserable. Fox attorneys told Burstein the network was embarrassed by her book’s cover, which depicts Tantaros bound by ropes.

According to Tantaros’s account, Ailes began harassing her on August 12, 2014. During a meeting in Ailes’s office, Ailes allegedly asked Tantaros to do “the twirl” so he could see her figure. She refused. Then, in mid-December of that year, Ailes made another advance, Burstein says. “Ailes asked her to turn around, and then he said, ‘Come over here so I can give you a hug.’” Tantaros rebuffed the advance, Burstein says.

In February 2015, Tantaros was pulled off the 5 p.m. program The Five and demoted to working full-time on the midday show Outnumbered. In February 2015, according to Burstein, Ailes allegedly harassed Tantaros again in his office, asking about her workout routine because her body “looked good” and mentioning that she must “really look good in a bikini.”

On April 30, 2015, Tantaros filed a formal workplace harassment complaint about Ailes to Shine, Burstein says. The following day, Burstein says, Tantaros met with Shine to further discuss her harassment claims. Shine allegedly told her, “Roger is a very powerful man,” and that she “should not fight this.”

In August, her agent spoke with Brandi about the episode; according to the agent, Brandi said she would look into the matter but did not follow up.

After making more complaints to Shine and Scott over the course of the next year, Tantaros was suspended from the network in April 2016. “All of a sudden, the book became this big issue,” Burstein says.

A few weeks before she was suspended, Tantaros hired Burstein, an aggressive litigator who has history battling Fox, to negotiate the dispute over her book. Burstein had negotiated a multi-million-dollar severance package in 2013 for Brian Lewis, Ailes’s then-communications chief, who was fired by Ailes after he accused Lewis of being a source for the Ailes biography I was writing at the time.

Burstein says Tantaros, who is still employed by Fox, knows she is taking a risk in violating her contract’s confidentiality clause. She’s telling her story now, he says, because “she doesn’t have the same fear of being attacked by the Fox PR machine, and the Murdochs have made it clear they want to clean up the place.”

Fox did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and other sources have questioned Tantaros’s account. BuzzFeed reported that Tantaros did accuse at least four people, including “two on-air contributors, a correspondent, and a host,” of inappropriate behavior, but never made a complaint against Ailes.

How close is FOX News from having one of its female personalities pose nude for Playboy magazine?

(So let me state the inevitable here: Megyn Kelly is drop dead gorgeous. No doubt about it. As a TV personality, Kelly is probably better than average but is she a more “professional” journalist than, lets say, Greta Van Susteren at FOX News? I don’t believe so, but for whatever reason, Ms. Kelly bumped Van Susteren out of her former weekday primetime slot. And oh yeah, Megyn Kelly allegedly has the #2 rated show on all of cable TV.

Personally, I think Ms. Kelly’s success has a lot to do with the way she posed here for GQ magazine, which, oh by the way, isn’t too much different than the way she usually dresses for her own show. In contrast, the TV camera would NEVER show Greta Van Susteren below the table she’s sitting at, mainly because she most always wears a pants suit. And I think Greta is a wee bit older than Megyn.

Bottom Line: Sex obviously sells at FOX News. And sexy-looking ladies usually translate into high ratings for a cable TV network.

Besides Megyn Kelly’s show, FOX News has a show with four young sexy ladies – all wearing short skirts and Stiletto high heels on a show called, ‘Outnumbered’. The guy who gets to be the guest on, ‘Outnumbered’ is given the hash tag, #OneLuckyGuy.

One of the regulars on ‘Outnumbered’ is a gorgeous lady named Andrea Tantaros and her former FOX News weekday show was ‘The Five’ – Tantaros was replaced on, ‘The Five’ by an equally sexy-looking young lady named Kimberly Guilfoyle, who sits at the end of the table where the camera focuses in on her gorgeous legs under the table before and after each commercial break.

Then Gretchen Carlson is a former Miss America contestant who has her own weekday afternoon show on FOX News, and former Miss New York USA, Joanne Nosuchinsky is a regular guest on FOX shows, ‘Red Eye’ and ‘The Greg Gutfeld Show’.

As a point of public disclosure here, I am DEFINITELY NOT a Donald Trump supporter, I DID NOT vote for him in the New Hampshire Primary, but it is really hard to view Megyn Kelly a serious, consummate professional journalist after seeing the way she was willing to pose in GQ magazine. It was sort of like how women pose in those “soft porn” magazines like: Maxim or Stuff.

Did Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein ever publicly pose wearing Spandex Speedos so they could prove to the world what great journalists they were? I don’t think so. Nor did you ever see the late great Walter Cronkite walking around his then-vacation home in Cape Cod wearing one of those Muscle Tee Shirts.

So how far are we away from seeing one – or maybe several – FOX News female personalities posing nude for either Playboy or Penthouse magazine? The old, “consummate professional journalist” line just doesn’t hold any water anymore – at least not from FOX News. Also, are there any questions on why FOX News doesn’t employ any overweight or handicap females as on-air personalities?)

Fox News has accused Donald Trump of making “sexist verbal assaults” against Megyn Kelly, issuing its most aggressive response yet to the Republican frontrunner’s repeated attacks on its star anchor.

The sharply worded response came Friday evening after Trump took his attacks against Kelly to a new level, referring to her as “sick” and “overrated.” Trump also called for his supporters to boycott her Fox News show.

“Donald Trump’s vitriolic attacks against Megyn Kelly and his extreme, sick obsession with her is beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate who wants to occupy the highest office in the land,” the network said in its statement.

“Megyn is an exemplary journalist and one of the leading anchors in America — we’re extremely proud of her phenomenal work and continue to fully support her throughout every day of Trump’s endless barrage of crude and sexist verbal assaults,” the statement continued. “As the mother of three young children, with a successful law career and the second highest rated show in cable news, it’s especially deplorable for her to be repeatedly abused just for doing her job.”

Trump, who for seven months has tried to impugn the credibility of the Fox News host, had raised the stakes in a tweet on Friday.

“Everybody should boycott the @megynkelly show. Never worth watching. Always a hit on Trump!” the GOP frontrunner tweeted. “She is sick, & the most overrated person on tv.”

Trump’s campaign kept up the barrage Friday night, putting out a statement that said in part, “Fox News has begged Mr. Trump to do a prime time special to be broadcast on the Fox Network, not cable, with Megyn Kelly. He has turned them down.”

Fox recently announced plans for Kelly to do a special on the broadcast network in May, but a Fox News spokesperson said Friday night, “No one associated with Megyn Kelly’s upcoming Fox Broadcasting special reached out to Donald Trump for an interview.”

A Fox representative made clear that neither Kelly nor Bill Geddie, the executive producer of the Fox program airing in May, ever reached out to Trump for an interview.

Kelly has kept quiet throughout the many attacks by Trump, a fact the Trump campaign noted in its Friday night statement.

“Unlike Megyn Kelly, who resorts to putting out statements via Fox News, Mr. Trump will continue to defend himself against the inordinate amount of unfair and inaccurate coverage he receives on her second-rate show each night,” the campaign said.

This was the most intense attack in a campaign against Kelly that Trump began last August, when he complained that she had treated him unfairly during the first Republican presidential debate.

Since then, Trump has frequently accused Kelly of bias and unfair coverage, often with little to no evidence of any specific offense.

In the run-up to what would have been their second meeting, at the Fox News debate on January 28, Trump said that Kelly shouldn’t be allowed to serve as moderator. Fox News shot back a tongue-in-cheek response in which it accused Trump of being afraid of Kelly, and therefore unfit to deal with foreign leaders. Trump decided to skip the debate.

Trump and Kelly were reunited at the third Fox News debate, on March 3, where Trump struck a much more convivial tone. Kelly once again proved to be Trump’s toughest adversary that night, asking tough and well-researched questions that won her the praise of journalists and observers on both sides of the aisle.

It’s not exactly clear what precipitated Trump’s latest round of name-calling, nor his call for a boycott. Throughout the week, Trump has been trying to brand Kelly as “crazy” and obsessed with criticizing him.

In the eyes of many Trump critics, it is he who appears to be obsessed with Kelly. And while it’s hard to see how such attacks could have much success with the American public, it’s also true that a plurality of the country’s Republicans have so far supported the man making them.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Everybody should boycott the @megynkelly show. Never worth watching. Always a hit on Trump! She is sick, & the most overrated person on tv.

5:55 PM – 18 Mar 2016

CNNMoney (Los Angeles) First published March 18, 2016: 8:01 PM ET