$64,000 Question: WHY isn’t there any candidate currently running for either, U.S. Senate, or U.S. Rep,, who would immediately vow to dissolve THIS particular Congressional Slush Fund?

Currently, there are a handful of Congressional candidates who publicly vow — IF ELECTED — not to serve any more than 2-3 terms, or self-imposing a Term Limits pledge on themselves. Using that exact same Logic, why aren’t there any current candidates running for either U.S. Senate, or U.S. Rep, willing to fight and hopefully dissolve this “secret” Slush Fund to immediately terminate Taxpayer-funded pay-offs for Sexual Assaults and Affairs? These folks usually proclaim themselves to be totally above reproach, why not actually PROVE IT by completely doing away with this rather immoral and unethical Perk?

Was CNN host Chris Cuomo really sorry he Sexually Groped a former colleague of his, OR, that the woman’s husband actually witnessed it??

CNN host (formerly of ABC) Chris Cuomo appears to feel empowered wearing a tee shirt that states ‘TRUTH’ on the front of it

Shelley Ross was Chris Cuomo’s former boss when both worked for ABC

https://nypost.com/2021/09/24/the-scathing-excerptsshelley-ross-chris-cuomo-op-ed/

Scathing excerpts from Chris Cuomo accuser Shelley Ross’ NYT op-ed

By Emily Crane — September 24, 2021

Chris Cuomo’s former ABC boss Shelley Ross on Friday publicly accused him of sexually harassing her 16 years ago by grabbing her buttocks at a work party in front of her husband and co-workers.

In a scathing New York Times op-ed, the veteran TV journalist ripped the CNN star over accountability in the wake of the 2005 incident and his actions amid his brother Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment scandal this year.

Here are the most damning excerpts from Ross’ op-ed:

Butt-grabbing incident

Ross says the incident occurred in June 2005 at a work party on the Upper West Side.

“I was at the party with my husband, who sat behind me on an ottoman sipping his Diet Coke as I spoke with work friends. When Mr. Cuomo entered the Upper West Side bar, he walked toward me and greeted me with a strong bear hug while lowering one hand to firmly grab and squeeze the cheek of my buttock.

“’I can do this now that you’re no longer my boss,’ he said to me with a kind of cocky arrogance. ‘No you can’t,’ I said, pushing him off me at the chest while stepping back, revealing my husband, who had seen the entire episode at close range. We quickly left.”

Cuomo’s ‘ashamed’ apology email

Ross says she received an email from Cuomo after she left the party.

“The email read: ‘Though my hearty greeting was a function of being glad to see you … Christian Slater got arrested for a (kind of) similar act (though borne of an alleged negative intent, unlike my own) … and as a husband I can empathize with not liking to see my wife patted as such.

“’So pass along my apology to your very good and noble husband … and I apologize to you as well, for ever putting you in such a position.

“’Next time, I will remember the lesson, no matter how happy I am to see you.’”

Apology was Cuomo’s way of ‘evading accountability’

“Soon after, I received the email from Mr. Cuomo about being ‘ashamed.’ He should have been. But my question today is the same as it was then: Was he ashamed of what he did, or was he embarrassed because my husband saw it? (He apologized first in his email to my ‘very good and noble husband’ and then to me for ‘even putting you in such a position.’)

“Mr. Cuomo may say this is a sincere apology. I’ve always seen it as an attempt to provide himself with legal and moral coverage to evade accountability.”

Cuomo’s ‘truth’ T-shirt amid his brother’s scandal

“This year, as he escaped accountability for advising former Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his sexual harassment scandal, two moments crystallized for me how Mr. Cuomo performs.

“The first was on March 1, two days before Governor Cuomo publicly addressed the sexual harassment allegations made against him by three women and apologized for acting ‘in a way that made people feel uncomfortable’ but denied touching anyone inappropriately. On ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Mr. Cuomo explained to his CNN viewers that because of the sexual harassment scandal, he would no longer be covering or interviewing his brother, as he frequently did during the first Covid-19 surge. With an expression of great sincerity, he said, ‘I have always cared very deeply about these issues and profoundly so. I just wanted to tell you that.’

“The second moment came this Labor Day weekend, after Governor Cuomo had resigned and as his loyal confidants and outside advisers were losing their own influential jobs in the fallout. There was Mr. Cuomo in the Hamptons, appearing in a photo wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word ‘Truth.’

“For me, his statement of profound concern about sexual harassment and his ‘Truth’ T-shirt were provocations in this era of personal accountability.”

‘No grudge’ against Cuomo

“I have no grudge against Mr. Cuomo; I’m not looking for him to lose his job. Rather, this is an opportunity for him and his employer to show what accountability can look like in the #MeToo era.”

Cuomo’s response to op-ed

“As Shelley acknowledges, our interaction was not sexual in nature. It happened 16 years ago in a public setting when she was a top executive at ABC. I apologized to her then, and I meant it.”

N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo refuses to Resign despite 3 complaints of Sexual Harassment and about 15K Nursing Home COVID deaths

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo tells sleazeball lawyer buddy, Michael Cohen of women who have made sexual harassment complaints against him at ABC

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was caught on tape telling epic sleazeball lawyer Michael Cohen of women who complained to his former employer, ABC network, of sexual harassment and further compared himself to the now-disgraced Charlie Rose for hanging around hotel rooms wearing nothing but an open bathrobe.

FOX News Tucker Carlson aired this on his show and sent a copy of the audio clip to CNN for comment, but neither CNN nor Cuomo responded with any reply — gee, I wonder why? Cuomo also tends to use gutter language when talking off camera, such as, “what the f—!” Cuomo also made another weird comment to Cohen that he feels very uncomfortable when guys put their hands on his shoulder while in elevators.

Should the Media devote as much passion investigating someone who might become President as it would with a person vying to be a Supreme Court justice?

Blogger Christo Aivalis refuses to allow the Media to neatly sweep Tara Reade’s sexual harassment accusations against Joe Biden neatly under the carpet. Doesn’t someone who could become our next President (Biden) deserve AT LEAST as much scrutiny from the Media as someone who could get appointed Supreme Court justice (Brett Kavanaugh)?

Can you say, ‘Double Standard’?

Excellent point, especially when Ms. Reade’s testimony of her former boss hasn’t even gotten a fraction of the media attention Christine Blasey Ford got when she claimed before the U.S. Senate a couple years ago, that she was Raped as a teenager about 36 years earlier by Kavanaugh.

Besides that, Ms. Reade’s testimony sure sounds a zillion times more credible than that of Ms. Ford’s was in a vain attempt to squelch Kavanaugh’s bid to the Supreme Court.

#MeToo

#IBelieveTara

Yet another Liberal blogger, Jimmy Dore, calls out Biden’s sexual harassment claims by former Intern & Dem bigwig Howard Dean shows blatant double-standard via a Tweet

When it rains it pours, as the old cliche goes when Liberal YouTube blogger, Jimmy Dore exposes the sexual harassment allegations of former Intern Tara Reade against her then-boss Senator Joe Biden. Specifically, Dore cited a Twitter Tweet by former Democrat Party chairman Howard Dean who called into credibility the Blog and the Reporter who first broke the story of Reade’s testimony against her former boss, who is now the Democrat Presidential front runner.

Ironically, the Blog and the Reporter who first broke the story about Reade, also broke the story about Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault accusation against Brett Kavanaugh just prior to him being appointed as a Supreme Court justice. Yet on the story about Ms. Ford coming forward after about 36 years, Dean praised and touted the same Reporter and Blog for doing an outstanding investigative story. Go figure on that one.

Dore is also a Blogger on YouTube and as with other Liberal pundits like, The Hill, and, The Young Turks, who feel there’s a blatant double-standard on how the main stream media covered Ms. Ford versus how they’re now responding to Ms. Reade, they were all predominately Bernie Sanders supporters in this year’s Presidential election, which Biden appears to be the undisputed Democrat choice to challenge Trump in November.

WARNING: Jimmy Dore is a foul-mouthed Blogger and spews out a lot of vulgarity. The guy does manage to get his points across.

#BelieveTheWoman

#MeTooMovement

Former Hollywood agent Harvey Weinstein prepares to lure his next female victim on the, ‘Casting Couch’

So here we’ve got a statue of former Hollywood agent Harvey Weinstein wearing a robe, sitting on the, ‘Casting Couch‘, apparently trying to lure his next female victim (or wannabe actress). This statue, incidentally, is located right next to building which will house the Academy Awards (Oscars) in Los Angeles this Sunday night. How much do you want to bet that host Jimmy Kimmell — or anybody else for that matter — will NOT mention anything about Weinstein or the MeToo movement during the entire presentation? Hypocrites! Personally, I would just assume take a bath with a plugged-in Toaster than watch even a second of the Oscars this Sunday night.

Is there really any difference between Sexual Assault (or Sexual Harassment) & a Bad Date?

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.

Is FOX News “soft-core porn” for old guys, OR, for FOX CEO Roger Ailes?

I’ve blogged about this a number of times before as to FOX News having the vast majority of its female on-air personalities appear as if they were either former cheerleaders, models, or beauty pageant contestants (like the Plaintiff in this Sexual Harassment lawsuit, former Miss America Gretchen Carlson) rather than mediocre-looking women who possess intelligent journalistic savvy.

If it’s true that Ratings are everything in the TV network business — and we all know that Sex promotes viewers to watch a certain TV program/network — then, I guess, there’s no place for mediocre-looking people on television despite how much “journalistic integrity” they may possess.

Granted, Mr. Ailes is certainly entitled to his ‘Day in Court’ on this lawsuit, but, perception-wise, Ms. Carlson’s charges in her lawsuit sound extremely “Believable” right about now, in light of FOX’s history with on-air female personalities. If Ms. Carlson’s allegations are true, then this is a Text Book case of Sexual Harassment — and Pattern of Behavior — in its purest form. And now, the Huffington Post has reported that about 10 former female employees from FOX News have already come forward to support Ms. Carlson’s allegations in this case.

Prediction: I think Roger Ailes and FOX News will pay Gretchen Carlson a “ton of money” to settle this lawsuit, out of court, in much the same fashion as it did with its top-rated star, Bill O’Reilly when he got whacked with a Sexual Harassment lawsuit several years ago from — you guessed it — a then-FOX News employee.

P.S. This now begs the question, Why was Andrea Tantaros terminated from FOX News a couple months ago? Did Tantaros ever engage in a sexual relationship with either Mr. Ailes or one of the other ‘big wigs’ at FOX News? It’s sort of amazing how none of the specifics of Ms. Tantaros’ firing (just before her Book was about to be publicly released) ever came into fruition.