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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHours after Fox News suspends Eric Bolling, an accuser comes forward
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/fox-news-suspends-eric-bolling-text-message-lewd-photos-female-coworkers-20170805.htmlEric Bolling has been suspended pending the results of an investigation, which is currently underway, a
Fox News spokeswoman told Philly.com Saturday afternoon. The investigation is being conducted by the
law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, retained by parent company 21st Century Fox to
investigate claims of sexual harassment at the network.
According to the HuffPost, which spoke to 14 sources in and out of the two networks, Bolling sent the
unsolicited graphic messages several years ago, which included an image of a mans genitalia. All three
women, whose identities were not revealed, say they recognized his number from previous interactions.
Four additional people confirmed to the Huffington Post they had seen the photo.
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Hours after Fox News announced it was suspending Bolling, Caroline Heldman, a politics professor at
Occidental College and frequent guest on the network from 2008 to 2011, claimed the Fox News host
made an unspecified number of unsolicited sexual advances to her.
[Bolling] said he wanted to fly me out to New York for in-studio hits and to have fun. He asked me to
have meals with him on several occasions, but I found excuses not to go, Heldman wrote in a lengthy
Facebook post. Once, he took me up to his office in New York, showed me his baseball jerseys, and in
the brief time I was there, let me know that his office was his favorite place to have sex.
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Remember Eric Boiling spoke about President Obama, "chugging forties" rather then doing his job
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-business-eric-bolling-says-president-obama-was-chugging-forties-instead-of-going-to-joplin/
Fox Business Eric Bolling Says President Obama Was Chugging Forties Instead Of Going To Joplin
Fox Business host Eric Bolling really stepped in it Monday when, in the middle of a rant about a lack of leadership, he said that President Obama was busy chugging forties in Ireland, instead of going to tornado-ravaged Missouri. Forty is slang for a 40 oz. bottle of malt liquor (or beer), a mainstay of ghetto iconography.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Botany
(70,589 posts)http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2016/june/these-9-virtues-once-made-america-great
Bolling says these nine virtures define the nation:
Grit
Manliness
Individualism
Merit
Profit
Providence
Dominion over our environment
Thrift
Pride in our country
They are the reason that hundreds of millions of people worldwide look to America for hope, inspiration, and opportunity.
But it's precisely these virtues that now are under attack by the radical Left of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and their followers, Bolling writes.
The rewards for individual achievement and hard work, our basic constitutional rights, religious faith, national identity, and capitalism itself, are being replaced by a dangerous socialistic ideology that is the polar opposite of what our Founding Fathers intended America to be.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Botany
(70,589 posts)aka Climate change is not real, the EPA is evil, dig more coal,
shooting wolves is a good thing, and let the free market set
our environmental goals.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Last night I found an online copy of a novel my oldest brother read in an English class, "Sometimes a Great Notion" by Ken Kesey, which is 600 pages of the above, with union-busting and resistance to "conformity" comprising the main plot. Sort of Faulkner meets the great Northwest, about a logging family in Coos Bay Oregon that fights nature and local strikers to carry on and keep logging. Very libertarian when you get down to it. Sexist too. Can't believe it was assigned to high schoolers but that was then.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)For what that is worth.
Botany
(70,589 posts)Sexually harassment and intimidation must have been part and parcel
of the culture there.
The damage that Fox has done to our nation is massive. Example:
Florida 2000/bush v Gore.
From Roger Ailes on down.