>>FORMER FOX NEWS HOST GRETCHEN CARLSON HAS FILED A LAWSUIT
AGAINST HER FORMER BOSS, ROGER AILES, THE HEAD OF FOX NEWS,
SAYING THAT HE IN PARTICULAR AND OTHERS HAVE CREATED AN AREA OF
PERVASIVE SEXUAL HARASSMENT, THAT HE HAD PERSONALLY SEXUALLY
HARASSED HER ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS, AND WHEN SHE
COMPLAINED ABOUT HER SHE WAS FIRED.
AND EVEN PREVIOUS TO HER
FIRING HAD SUFFERED FROM MULTIPLE WAYS THAT HER
ADVANCEMENT IN THE COMPANY HAD BEEN RETARDED BY HIS PERSONAL
HAND.
WE WILL READ YOU SOME SECTIONS FROM THE LAWSUIT THAT
WAS FILED, THEY ARE GRAPHIC IN PLACES SO I SHOULD WARN YOU.
>>CAN I JUST SAY BEFORE JOHN READS THOSE SECTIONS, UNDERSTAND
HOW MONUMENTAL THIS NEWS IS.
ROGER AILES, I BELIEVE, HAS DONE
THIS MANY TIMES TOO MANY WOMEN.
THAT WILL COME OUT LATER, WE
WILL SEE HOW IT GOES.
BUT ROGER AILES IS THE GUY WHO RUNS FOX
NEWS, FOX NEWS IS PIVOTAL IN THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT FOR THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY, THEY ARE THERE PROPAGANDA OUTLET.
ROGER AILES
HAS EAGERLY BEEN BEHIND-THE-SCENES RUNNING
OPERATIONS FOR REPUBLICANS ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE NIXON DAYS,
HE USED TO WORK FOR NIXON, HE WAS THE MESSAGING CHIEF FOR
NIXON AND THEN FOR RONALD REAGAN AND THE FIRST BUSH, THEN HE RUNS
FOX NEWS.
IF RODRIGUEZ GOES DOWN, THAT IS A GIANT VICTORY
FOR MANKIND, AND IT APPEARS BASED ON WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO
HEAR THAT HE IS IN A WORLD OF TROUBLE.
SO LET'S NOW TELL YOU WHAT THAT IS.
>>NOT ONLY THIS INFORMATION, BUT I'VE ALSO GOT SOME INFORMATION
THAT CAME OUT JUST BEFORE WE STARTED FILMING OF OTHER NOW
ANONYMOUS SOURCES TALKING ABOUT THIS.
THIS COULD BE THE DAM
BURSTING, A BECAUSE THE SITUATION.
>>I SAID IT BEFORE I EVEN KNEW THAT MORE WAS GOING TO
COME OUT, BECAUSE YOU DON'T DO THIS ONCE, YOU DO IT MANY TIMES.
>>IT'S A MESS.
>> AND WE TOLD YOU WHAT FOX'S POLICY ON SKIRTS WAS FOR YEARS,
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT, YESTERDAY I SAID IT.
IT IS LIKE BILL
COSBY, EVERYONE IGNORES IT BECAUSE HE IS TOO POWERFUL.
BUT
ONCE THE DAM BREAKS, OH BOY.
LET'S TELL YOU WHAT SHE SAID.
>> WHEN CARLSON MET WITH AILES TO DISCUSS THE DISCRIMINATORY
TREATMENT, AILES STATED I THINK YOU AND I SHOULD'VE HAD A SEXUAL
RELATIONSHIP ALONG TIME AGO AND THEN YOU'D BE GOOD AND BETTER
AND I'D BE GOOD AND BETTER, ADDING THAT SOMETIMES PROBLEMS
ARE EASY TO SOLVE THAT WAY.
CARLSON REBUFFED AILES' SEXUAL
DEMANDS AT THAT MEETING, AND NINE MONTHS LATER AILES ENDED
HER CAREER AT FOX NEWS.
PRIOR TO AND DURING THAT MEETING HE HAD
MADE IT CLEAR TO CARLSON THAT HE HAD THE POWER TO MAKE ANYTHING
HAPPEN FOR HER IF SHE LISTENED TO HIM AND UNDERSTOOD WHAT
HE WAS SAYING.
>>LET'S PAUSE.
SHE HAS TO PROVE THIS IN COURT.
IF SHE DOES, THIS
IS TEXTBOOK SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
A LITTLE BIT, NOT AROUND THE
EDGES, NOT HEY THERE WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING -- YOU SLEEP
WITH ME, YOU DO GOOD AND BETTER AT THAT JOB.
BY THE WAY, THAT
LEVEL OF DETAIL GIVES YOU A SENSE THAT SHE IS BEING HONEST
ABOUT THIS.
BECAUSE WHO WOULD MAKE UP SOMEBODY SPEAKING SO
POORLY?
>>MAYBE TRUMP.
>> AND THAT IS THE HEART OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, IF YOU
DON'T SLEEP WITH ME YOU WILL GET FIRED.
THE ONLY WAY THIS DOESN'T
DRAG HIM DOWN IS IF HE FINDS A WAY TO PAY HER AN INSANE AMOUNT
OF MONEY TO MAKE THIS LAWSUIT GO AWAY IMMEDIATELY.
BUT HE IS
PROBABLY TOO ARROGANT TO DO IT, THAT IS WHY THE DAM WILL BREAK.
>> MORE, ON OR ABOUT SEPTEMBER 3, 2009, THIS IS WHERE IT GETS
INTO THE REST OF FOX, CARLSON COMPLAINTS TO HER SUPERVISOR
THAT ONE OF HER COHOSTS HAD CREATED A HOSTILE WORK
ENVIRONMENT --
>>AFTER LEARNING OF CARLSON'S COMPLAINTS, AILES RESPONDED BY
CALLING CARLSON A MAN HATER AND KILLER AND TELLING HER SHE
NEEDED TO LEARN TO GET ALONG WITH THE BOYS.
THOSE ARE QUOTES.
>> WHAT STEVE DOOCY DID, IF IT IS RIGHT, IS CONDESCENDING
AND ANNOYING AND SEXIST, BUT YOU WOULD HAVE A DEBATE IN
COURT ABOUT IT.
>>IT IS MORE PERIPHERAL.
>>I DON'T MEAN TO DEMEAN PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED THAT, BUT YOU
WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE A CASE IN FRONT OF YOU IN COURT WHERE YOU
WOULD HAVE SOME TROUBLE PROVING IT OUT, ETC.
THE REASON I TELL
YOU THAT IS, WHAT IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT IS THAT YOU GO TO YOUR
BOSS, AND BY THE WAY YOUR BOSS SHOULD TAKE YOU MORE SERIOUSLY,
IT IS ONE THING WHETHER YOU CAN PROVE IN COURT, IT IS ANOTHER
THING FOR YOUR BOSS -- IF ANA CAME TO ME AND SAID ONE OF THE
MALE COHOSTS IS LIKE, KNOW YOUR ROLE, AND TOUCHED HER AND STUFF,
WE WOULD HAVE ISSUES.
AND THEN YOUR BOSS SAYS STOP BEING SUCH A
MAN HATER?
YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN TO GET ALONG WITH THE BOYS?
BY
THE WAY, THE BOYS ALSO INVOLVE BILL O'REILLY -- AGAIN, I'M NOT
SAYING HE HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS, BUT IT IS A CULTURE
AT FOX NEWS, HE WAS SUED FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT, IT WAS A
GIANT CASE, AND FOX NEWS MADE IT GO AWAY BY PAYING AN INSANE
AMOUNT OF MONEY.
HE SEXUALLY HARASSED THE PRODUCER WHO WORKED
UNDER HIM, SHE DIDN'T WANT HIM TO CALL, HE WOULD CALL AND DO
DIRTY TALK, ETC.
SO THE MESSAGE AT FOX NEWS IS, YOU HAVE TO
LEARN HOW TO GET ALONG WITH THE BOYS.
>> THIS IS WHAT THEY KEEP SAYING OPENLY, EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET
OFF OF GUYS' ASSES AND LET THEM DO WHAT THEY WANT.
IT SHOULD BE THE LEAST DEPRESSING THING.
>>THIS IS WHAT THEY ADVOCATE FOR, SO THIS IS WHAT THEY DO
BEHIND-THE-SCENES.
WE OFTEN SAY HI FOX NEWS SAYS THEY ARE TRYING
TO DO A TIMELINE BACK TO 1955.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN 1955,
YOU THOUGHT IT WAS HUNKY-DORY BUT A LOT OF WOMEN DIDN'T
BECAUSE THIS WAS COMMON PRACTICE.
>> OTHER FORMS OF RETALIATION PRIOR TO HER BEING FIRED --
AILES RETALIATED AGAINST CARLSON AND DEMONSTRATE CAREER BY, AMONG
OTHER THINGS, SIGNING HER FEWER OF THE HARD-HITTING CLINICAL
INTERVIEWS COVETED BY POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE, NOTWITHSTANDING
THAT SHE HAD RECEIVED A CLAIM FOR HER POLITICAL INTERVIEWS --
I CAN'T ATTEST TO THAT -- REMOVING HER FROM THE CULTURE
WARRIOR SEGMENT OF THE O'REILLY FACTOR, REDUCING APPEARANCES
DURING THE 6 AM HOUR, AND DIRECTING THAT SHE NOT BE
SHOWCASED AT ALL.
>>LOOK, THIS IS HOW THEY PUNISH YOU.
AGAIN, THIS IS HER CASE --
EVERY WORD IN THERE ISN'T NECESSARILY 100% TRUE, THAT IS
WHEN YOU GO TO COURT, YOU FIGURE OUT WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG.
BUT
I KNOW FROM MY EXPERIENCE THAT THERE ALWAYS THEY FAVOR YOU AND
DISFAVOR YOU, MANAGEMENT.
IF YOU KNOW HOW TO BE A TEAM PLAYER OR
NOT.
IN THIS CASE IF YOU TAKE HER OFF THE MOST HIGHLY RATED
SHOW, BELIEVE ME, THAT IS A SIGN, YOU ARE NOT A TEAM PLAYER.
YOU COULD ARGUE ABOUT THE 6 AM HOUR, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE HOURS
THAT ARE MORE HIGHLY RATED, IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO FIGURE
IT OUT, THE 8 PM SHOW IS THE BEST SHOW USUALLY ON A NETWORK,
THAT IS A COVETED TIMESLOT.
IF YOU GET TAKEN OFF A COVETED
TIMESLOT OR HIGHLY RATED SHOW YOU ARE BEING PUNISHED.
IT
REMINDS ME OF THE ASHLEIGH BANFIELD CASE WHERE SHE SPOKE
OUT AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR, THEY MOVED HER OFFICE INTO A CLOSET.
THAT IS A DIFFERENT CASE, BUT THESE ARE THE THINGS THEY DO IN
TV TO LET YOU KNOW YOU BETTER PLAY BALL.
OFTENTIMES IT IS TO
PLAY CORPORATE BALL, IN THIS CASE IT IS A DIFFERENT KIND
OF BALL.
>>TALKING ABOUT HER BEING TAKEN OFF SOME OF THE SHOWS -- AILES
COULD TRY TO EXPLAIN I HAD SUCH AND SUCH REASON, BUT I WANT TO
RUN THROUGH OTHER INSTANCES OF HARASSMENT, BECAUSE IT LAYS OUT
THAT THIS ISN'T LIKE HE SAID SOMETHING BAD, IT IS REPEATED,
RECURRING HARASSMENT THAT WILL BE, I BELIEVE IF SHE WAS TAKING
NOTES, RECORDING THINGS, STUFF LIKE THAT, EASIER TO PROOF,
INCLUDING ON THOSE OCCASIONS WHEN HE SPOKE DIRECTLY WITH
CARLSON, HE INJECTED SEXUAL AND/OR SEXIST COMMENTS OR
INNUENDO INTO THE CONVERSATION BY AMONG OTHER THINGS CLAIMING
THAT CARLSON SAW EVERYTHING AS IF IT ONLY RAINS ON WOMEN, AND
ADMONISHED HER TO STOP WORRYING ABOUT BEING TREATED EQUALLY AND
GETTING OFFENDED SO GOD DAMN EASILY ABOUT EVERYTHING.
HE ALSO
OLD CARLSON IN HIS OFFICE AND ASKED HER TO TURN AROUND SO HE
COULD VIEW HER POSTERIOR, COMMENTED THAT CERTAIN OUTFITS
ENHANCED HER FIGURE AND URGED HER TO WEAR THEM EVERY DAY,
COMMENTED REPEATEDLY ABOUT HER LEGS, WONDERED ALOUD HOW ANYONE
COULD BE MARRIED TO CARLSON BY MAKING SEXUAL ADVANCES BY
VARIOUS MEANS INCLUDING BY STATING THAT IF HE COULD CHOOSE
ONE PERSON TO BE STRANDED WITH ON A DESERT ISLAND SHE WOULD BE
THAT PERSON, INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC, STATING THAT I'M SURE
YOU COULD DO SWEET NOTHINGS WHEN YOU WANT TO COME ASKED HER HOW
SHE FELT ABOUT HIM, FOLLOWED BY, DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M
SAYING TO YOU?
I THINK SHE DID.
EMBARRASSING HER BY STATING TO
OTHERS IN HIS PRESENCE THAT HE HAD SLEPT WITH THREE FORMER MISS
AMERICAS BUT NOT HER, AND TELLING CARLSON THAT SHE WAS
SEXY BUT TOO MUCH HARD WORK.
I JUST CUT OUT A FEW OF THEM,
THERE'S TONS OF OTHER STUFF IN THAT REPORT.
>>LET'S LIST ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE WAY BEYOND ACCEPTABLE.
I'VE
NEVER SEEN A WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT WHERE ABBAS SAYS TO
A FEMALE EMPLOYEE, LET ME TURN AROUND SO I CAN SEE YOUR ASS.
DING DING DING -- TEXTBOOK SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
KEEPS
COMMENTING ABOUT HER LEGS.
TELLING YOU WHICH OUTFIT YOU
SHOULD WEAR, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT MAKES YOU LOOK HOTTER.
OKAY.
>>YOU CRITICIZED MY JACKET LAST WEEK --
>>THAT IS TRUE, I DID.
LET ME SEE YOUR ASS, JOHN.
>>HE IS RIGHT, IT WAS NOT A NICE JACKET.
>> YOU CAN TELL THROUGHOUT ALL OF THIS, HAVING READ ALL OF IT,
WE DID OFF AIR, THAT HE IS OBSESSED WITH HER.
HE HAS A
LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH HER, HE REALLY WANTS TO BE WITH HER,
BUT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE HE WILL STRIKE OUT AT HER, LIKE IN
FRUSTRATION.
>>I GET IT, I HAVE ANDREA TANTAROS.
BUT I'VE NEVER SEXUALLY HARASSED HER AND I'M NOT IN A
POSITION OF POWER.
>>WHEREAS HE MIGHT HAVE.
>>YES, AND WE WANT TO TURN BRIEFLY TO INFORMATION THAT CAME
OUT LATER ON TODAY.
AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE FROM
FOX NEWS
TELLS THE HUFFINGTON POST --
>>HOLD, HOLD.
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAY AFTER YOU'VE
ALREADY MADE ADVANCES ON SOMEONE, THEY HAVE REJECTED
THOSE ADVANCES, YOU ARE AFRAID THEY WILL LATER COME OUT WITH
THAT SO YOU PREEMPTIVELY SAY, WHAT A CRAZY, VINDICTIVE BITCH.
WHY?
WHAT WILL SHE BE VINDICTIVE ABOUT?
SHE HASN'T DONE IT YET,
HOW DO YOU KNOW SHE WILL BE VENDOR ACTIVE?
THAT IS A PREEMPTIVE DEFENSE.
>>ANOTHER FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR SAYS --
>>ANOTHER ONE.
>>THIS IS HIS THING.
>>IT WILL BE ALMOST ALL OF THEM, WAIT AND SEE.
>>YOU THINK HE DIDN'T SAY THAT TO KILMEADE?
THAT IS AWFUL, BUT
I BELIEVE IT WILL SPREAD AND THIS IS POTENTIALLY GOING BACK
YEARS.
THIS COULD STRETCH INTO THE DOZENS, FOR ALL WE KNOW.
MORE INFORMATION FROM THIS ANONYMOUS SOURCE --
>> SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT STANDARDS THERE, HOW YOU GET HIRED.
>>IT DOES APPEAR TO BE SLIGHTLY
DIFFERENT.
>>I'M NOT SURE I BUY THAT LAST PART BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY
THAT STEVE DOOCY PASSES THE BASEBALL TEST.
>>ANOTHER THING WE SET ON THE YOUNG TURKS, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY
ARE ALL THE SAME WOMAN.
A MEME WENT AROUND A COUPLE YEARS AGO,
BLONDES ON FOX NEWS.
THAT WAS THE IDEA THAT THEY WOULDN'T EVEN
HIRE PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T BLONDE.
THAT IS TRUE, THEY HAVE A
COUPLE, BUT THERE IS A TYPE.
NOW YOU FIND OUT IT IS ROGER AILES'
TYPE.
HE'S ONLY HIRING PEOPLE THAT IN HIS FANTASY HE WOULD
LIKE TO SLEEP WITH, THEN ASKING IF THEY WOULD FULFILL THOSE
FANTASIES.
THIS IS AS CREEPY A STORY AS YOU CAN GET.
ANOTHER
STORY I HEARD, I WON'T BRING UP THE NAMES BECAUSE IT WAS
PRIVATE, OFF THE RECORD, BUT IT WAS OF ANOTHER NETWORK EXECUTIVE
THAT HAD DONE SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
AND I WAS SHOCKED, NO, NO
WAY.
BUT THAT IS BECAUSE WE ARE NAœVE.
THESE ARE OLDER MEN WHO
GREW UP IN A DIFFERENT TIME WITH A TON OF POWER, AND IN THE CASE
OF ROGER AILES THINKS THIS SHOULD BE A MAN'S WORLD, THIS
SHOULD BE MY ROLE AND THAT SHOULD BE YOUR ROLE.
NOW THIS
GUY, YOU ARE SURPRISED IS DOING THIS?
I'M NOT REMOTELY
SURPRISED.
I WOULD BE SURPRISED IF THERE WERE NOT A DOZEN OTHER
CASES LIKE THIS.
>>UNFORTUNATELY WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO SHOW THE VIDEOS BUT
JAYAR FOUND GREAT VIDEOS, ONE OF GRETCHEN CARLSON ON I BELIEVE
KILMEADE'S PODCAST, SHE WAS THRILLED SHE WAS ABLE TO WEAR
JEANS, SHE KEPT JOKING ABOUT HOW SHE WASN'T ALLOWED TO WEAR
ANYTHING OTHER THAN DRESSES AND SKIRTS ON FOX.
SHE ONCE WALKED
OFF THE SET OF FOX AND FRIENDS AFTER KILMEADE MADE SEXIST
JOKES, SHE MIGHT BE JOKING AROUND BUT SHE MIGHT NOT BE.
AND
I BELIEVE IN 2013 SHE DID A SEGMENT OF HER SHOW THAT WEARING
MAKEUP TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT THE OVER SEXUALIZATION OF WOMEN IN
THE NEWS.
SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN ON HER MIND, PERHAPS
BECAUSE SHE WAS EXPERIENCING IT FIRSTHAND.
>>YESTERDAY ON THE SHOW, ON A STUPID BIKINI SEGMENT THEY DID
ON FOX AND FRIENDS, I SAID IT SEEMS LIKE THEY DESIGNED FOX
NEWS TO BE SOFTCORE PORN FOR OLD MEN, WHICH IS THEIR AUDIENCE.
IT
TURNS OUT, IT WAS ACTUALLY DESIGNED TO BE SOFTCORE PORN FOR
ROGER AILES.
AND THEN WE DON'T KNOW TO WHAT DEGREE PEOPLE
ACCEPTED HIS OFFER AND IT BECAME HARD-CORE.
BUCKLE UP.
AND I
CANNOT OVERESTIMATE TO YOU THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS.
YOU THINK,
WOW, THAT A TITILLATING STORY -- NO.
ROGER AILES IS ONE OF THE
LINCHPINS, HE HAS PROVIDED PROPAGANDA FOR THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY AND CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT FOR AT LEAST FOUR DECADES.
IF HE
CANNOT RUN FOX NEWS ANYMORE, AND I WOULD BE SURPRISED IF THIS
STORY DIDN'T LEAD TO A SITUATION WHERE ONE OF THE MURDOCH KIDS,
NOT RUPERT BECAUSE HE WILL BE LIKE, I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE
SAYING, IT ONLY RAINS ON WOMEN -- BUT HIS KIDS WHO GREW UP IN
OUR GENERATION, SOME OF THEM DON'T LIKE ROGER AILES ANYWAY,
THEY WILL SAY WE CAN'T HAVE IT.
THIS IS SO MORTIFYING, THIS
ENDANGERS THE ENTIRE COMPANY.
AND ROGER AILES GOES DOWN AND
DOESN'T RUN FOX NEWS ANYMORE.
AND THEN THEY MIGHT ACCIDENTALLY RUN FOX NEWS AS IF IT WAS A
CABLE NEWS STATION.
>>IT MIGHT IMPROVE.
>>THAT COULD MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE.
THIS STORY I BELIEVE
IS THE BEGINNING OF A CASCADE OF CONSEQUENCES, WHICH WILL BE
FASCINATING TO SEE AND MIGHT BE INCREDIBLY CONSEQUENTIAL.