In the past few days, a whole raft of Fox News anchors and hosts have come out in support of their CEO Roger Ailes, who is being sued for sexual harassment by recently departed anchor Gretchen Carlson. Still very quiet: Megyn Kelly, the network’s most prominent woman and a recent participant in a new Lean In campaign.…
Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox CEO Roger Ailes on Wednesday, effectively busting down the doors for a flood of other women armed with their own tales of the network head’s gross behavior.
Fox News host Greta Van Susteren has weighed in to inform the People-reading public that she doesn’t believe her former colleague Gretchen Carlson, who’s suing Fox News CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. Greta says she would’ve heard about any sexual harassment.
In a genuinely shocking development, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a bombshell sexual harassment lawsuit against CEO Roger Ailes Wednesday. The suit alleges that her contract wasn’t renewed in late June, after she refused years of demands from Ailes for sex. It also says she suffered severe…
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes is publicly rebuking former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson just hours after her attorneys filed an eight-page sexual harassment lawsuit against him in New Jersey. In a statement sent to multiple news outlets, Ailes called Carlson’s unsettling allegations “offensive” and “defamatory”:
Earlier today, former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against CEO Roger Ailes, accusing him of years of persistent and aggressive sexual harassment. This afternoon, the law firm representing Carlson told CNN that “at least 10" other women have called wanting to chat about Ailes. This could be very fun.
Fox News personality Gretchen Carlson has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against network CEO Roger Ailes. In the complaint, Carlson alleges that Ailes terminated her employment on June 23, 2016 after she refused to have a sexual relationship with him. According to the lawsuit, when Carlson met with Ailes to discuss…
Bill O’Reilly and Gretchen Carlson made Fox News history this week by experiencing a brief tandem bout of decency. Both hosts came very close to saying that the federal assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, should be renewed. And Fox News fans are taking it so well!
“If we’re not safe in our own churches, then where are we safe?” Pop quiz: Was the preceding sentence uttered by, a. One of the grieving congregants at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina? Or b. Elizabeth Hasselbeck of Fox and Friends, making the Charleston shooting into “an attack on faith” rather than a…
Gretchen Carlson has released a new memoir called Getting Real (note that she has chosen the type of memoir title favored by politicians and celebrities: vague and boringly cheeky, as her Fox News show is called The Real Story) and to promote it, she’s doing all the talk shows. What they end up asking her about is her…
Fox News sure is determined to fight this War on Christmas, huh? Currently on the front lines, we have Gretchen Carlson who is just furious about a Festivus pole that's on display at the Florida State Capitol (as someone whose non-religious family never really celebrated Christmas when I was growing up, I am thrilled…
Calling it a "cable news first," Gretchen Carlson hosted a segment of her Fox News show The Real Story completely "sans makeup" on Friday. Carlson used her raw face as a teachable moment for all those young girls out there who were definitely at home watching at 2 pm EST on a weekday about the importance of valuing…
Apparently, if you're a female host of Fox & Friends, you're not supposed to wear pants. That's according to Gretchen Carlson, who has been newly crowned with her own primetime show on Fox News but spent years in the trenches of the network with a regular class of brilliants who did get to wear pants. But is Fox…
Brian Kilmeade, Fox & Friends co-host, heteronormative and mysogynist cheerleader and generally crepuscular example of human bigotry, has done it again. Yesterday on Kilmeade & Friends, in response to a caller's compliment to weekend co-host Alisyn Camerota, Kilmeade joked on-air that Fox hires female co-hosts by…
A Fox & Friends "interview" that quickly turned into a reverse-engineered mutation of Between Two Ferns has highlighted a notable, if obvious, shortcoming with the Fox News network: it isn't big on what elitist intellectuals from the Northeast would call "research," but what the producers at Fox call "uggggggghhhhh."
You know what isn't hilarious? Boring-ass jokes that have been beaten to death, revived, and then beaten to death again, ad infinitum, over the course of decades. And it's extra not-hilarious when the joke teller thinks he's the funniest, most interesting, most spectacular orgasm of awesomeness to walk the face of…
As hard as they might try to bend the facts (or just plain make them up), sometimes even Fox News anchors must contend with the harsh reality that not everyone thinks Barack Obama is an evil socialist. But somebody forgot to tell Gretchen Carlson that, and she got the shock of a lifetime when she learned that a poll…
Friend of Fox Michele Bachmann appeared on Fox & Friends with two angry dudes and one shouting woman this morning to gnaw on her r sounds and promote her new book. During the interview, it was revealed that Bachmann worked as a babysitter when she was a teenager, and that one of her charges was none other than…
Does it matter why Laura Ingraham and Gretchen Carlson did this on FNC earlier this week? No; what matters is that it happened. And it was gruesome. (Bill O'Reilly prefers to think of it as "patriotic.") White woman's overbite, indeed.
