Tulane graduate 'grossed out' by Mark Halperin's advances at James Carville dinner: report

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Source: nola.com / Times Picayune

A Tulane University graduate says television journalist Mark Halperin put his hand on her thigh and invited her back to his hotel room during a 2011 dinner for about 15 students at the New Orleans home of James Carville and Mary Matalin, the Daily Beast reports. Lawyer Katharine Glenn, who was a 20-year-old junior at the time, said she was "just sort of grossed out" by his unwanted advances.

Halperin made inappropriate overtures to at least two other women students while visiting Tulane as a guest speaker on politics and the news media, the Daily Beast says. A Tulane spokesman issued a statement: "This is the first we are hearing of this incident, but the behavior described is not something we would ever tolerate from a guest speaker. We are looking further into this matter."

The MSNBC journalist apologized Friday night (Oct. 27) for "aggressive and crude" behavior after numerous women came forward to accuse him of sexual harassment.



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[Hornedfrog1985]

1. Sounds like

These people have no sex appeal at all. Its really not hard to figure out if a woman is into you. Body language tells you more than any words can. So glad i was born in the 80s wo i still know how to interact with physical humans, and not just on my phone.

[Skittles]

7. make no mistake

people like this guy and Weinstein, it's nothing to do with appeal - they could have plenty of dates, but what gets them OFF is MAKING WOMEN UNCOMFORTABLE....these are sick, SICK perverts

[pamela]

10. Exactly

I remember reading transcripts from the Bill O'Reilly/Andrea Mackris case. It was clear that he knew when he called her and talked dirty to her that she was very uncomfortable. He wasn't doing it despite her discomfort he was doing it because of her discomfort. He got off on that.

[whathehell]

26. Excellent insight...It's a gender hostility -- Sex is just a means

of expressing it -- It's similar to rape, in that sense, just less extreme.
This hostility toward women manifests in other ways, such as in violent, degrading pornography..It's all an attempt to dehumanize women and I don't think we'll ever have parity with men until we address it head on.

[SergeStorms]

16. They all feel....

that somehow they're entitled. Just like Trump's bragging that, "you can do anything if you're a star." These guys are now paying the price for their idiocy. Trump got to be president.

[JI7]

17. Mark Halperin is 52. he has lived many years of his adult life before smartphones

[Honeycombe8]

2. Something's wrong with him. Was he married at the time of these incidents? nt

[oberliner]

3. He has never been married

Has a longtime GF - they live together.

[Honeycombe8]

4. +1. nt

[whathehell]

25. Yes, they just became parents and

I think the child is a girl.

[dhol82]

5. I understand that he went into some sort of therapy after these episodes

Not sure what, but he is really trying to cover his ass at this point.
Not sure it will save his career.

[Honeycombe8]

8. No, I think the career he had is gone, now. Whether he can resurrect it in some way, don't know.nt

[dhol82]

11. Agree.

I think he is totally fucked at this point.
As well he should be.
Hope he saved his money cause he won’t be getting more.

[Skittles]

6. he would be minus a hand if he did that to me

seriously, I would go ape shit....how do I know? Because I have gone ape shit before.....yes indeed....it is the only way to deal with these creeps

[Honeycombe8]

9. I have not. I was too young and shocked...and one was relative of a friend.

When my friend's uncle (or grandfather?) did it, it was too fast, and I was too shocked AND didn't have enough time to react. I wasn't sure what had just happened. Then...an overwhelming sadness came over me as I realized why my friend had problems. This is what she grew up dealing with.

But a few worse things did happen later. And again and again, I didn't say anything. Even to a doctor whose license was revoked years later, I read...I didn't say anything. But I guess someone (or someoneS) finally did. In a weird way, I thought people would think I was to blame.

The things were always so murky...half appropriate, half NOT appropriate. So I wasn't sure until later. Or too fast, like a hit and run. These men know what they're doing. They've had a lot of experience doing it. No one threatened my job, though, that I recall.

I would say something now. I'm older and more experienced. But I get why women don't say anything or report it.

[Loyd]

12. "The MSNBC journalist apologized Friday night"

for being found out.

[whathehell]

27. Exactly..

In fact, his first "apology" was SO lame, one could see him smirking about it were he hearing it from someone else.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Women should just accept and take it with sexual harassment?

Cal Thomas uses his granddaughter as an example that women should just take it and accept it when the aggressor is in a position of power.

https://calthomas.com/columns/its-not-only-hollywood

Women should just accept and take it with sexual harassment?

[LisaL]

21. Obviously you didn't actually read it, because it's not what it says.

[keithbvadu2]

23. That's what it says by her example and actions.

[LisaL]

24. No it doesn't.

She is trying to explain why women don't always report harassment, I don't see any suggestion that she thinks that's actually a good thing to do.

[paleotn]

22. Usual Cal Thomas BS

He's been spewing the same bullshit for decades. It's all due to the blurring of morality...blah, blah, blah....morality according to him and the rest of the patriarchy. Uh, no, you senile old dumb ass. Do no harm has never been blurred. He's still pissed that his puritanical, christo-fascist crap is being tossed in the dust bin of "mind your own fucking business!" Like many of his ilk, he longs for the days when women were chattel and minorities knew their place. He's a disgusting life form, only slightly above slime mold.

[WinkyDink]

14. He would have been 46 years old, to her 20. As in, her father's generation.

[ellie]

15. Fuck this guy

[Cartoonist]

18. Just thought I'd throw this in

Found it in an issue of Three Nurses, a comic book from 1963.




http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=69992

[coolsandy]

20. I regret every day that my uncle tossed out all my comic books. i would be a millionaire had he not

I had over 1,000 comic books. They were deemed to be a fire hazard so my uncle threw them out when I went away to school in 1960.

[coolsandy]

19. Women may yet take down this awful political party by simply exposing ALL those sexual predators.

Of course, I am sure some Dems will fall also, but hey, preserving democracy is not easy. Just waiting for more pants to fall.

[LiberalLovinLug]

28. I like the way they push him as "the MSNBC journalist"

When in fact he was a rabid Trump humper who gave him the softest of soft ball interviews during the campaign. He was part of the more "balanced" hiring at MSNBC, in their dogged eared attempt to prove they were not just a liberal only network. But you know that Fox News and others will be framing him as a liberal MSNBC pervert.