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OCTOBER 13--Today marks the tenth anniversary of the filing of the greatest lawsuit ever.
On this date in 2004, Bill O’Reilly was accused of sexual harassment by Andrea Mackris, an associate producer who worked with the TV host at Fox News Channel. Mackris’s New York State Supreme Court complaint is bursting with examples of the 65-year-old O’Reilly’s alleged sleaziness (which apparently was surreptitiously memorialized via Mackris’s tape recorder).
The lawsuit was settled within two weeks and the parties agreed to confidentiality provisions intended to shroud O’Reilly’s purportedly pervy ways. The legal settlement reportedly included a fat check for the 43-year-old Mackris, who said that O’Reilly could be “paternal and engaging” and then “tyrannical and menacing.”
A decade later, Mackris’s complaint--filed by attorney Benedict Morelli--remains a better read than any of O’Reilly’s subsequent best sellers. Mainly because the lawsuit includes topics such as:
Vibrators
Masturbation lessons
Phone sex
A “short brown” Balinese woman who allegedly was “amazed” when she saw O’Reilly’s penis
Threesomes
The loss of O’Reilly’s virginity in a car at JFK airport
Sex with two Scandinavian stewardesses
A Thai sex show
Al Franken
O’Reilly’s masturbation
O’Reilly’s climaxing
Caribbean shower fantasies
“One of those mitts, those loofa mitts”
Falafel
O’Reilly’s “big cock”
More vibrator-aided ejaculation
So, put aside a few minutes and enjoy the lawsuit again for the first time (23 pages)

Tribble wrote:I guess the first question is: why is the right wing prone to hiring sexual predators? Is it more of an "old-white male" masculine thing?

Ralin wrote:Okay, this is hearsay (and get used to that if you want to talk about a subject that by its nature involves a whole lot of allegations that are never definitively proven), but I know people who know people and from what I've heard quite a few of what you would call social justice communities have serious problems with abusers in their ranks. There is apparently, for example, a recurrent thing of recently transitioned older white lesbian trans women creeping on younger members of the community. It doesn't get talked about for all the reasons why sexual abuse by authority figures gets brushed under the rug in general, with an added element of victims being afraid to come forward for fear of shunning because of how damned cliquish and prone to demanding right-think such groups tend to be.

So no, if right-wing groups are more likely to attract personalities prone to being sexual predators (very possible, I don't deny) I doubt it's by that wide of a margin. Positions of power and influence are what attract predators. Everything else comes second.

Flagg wrote:
The problem with the RW perpetrators of sexual harassment and sexual predatory behavior is that they are portrayed by themselves and many in the media as the "pillars of all that is good, right, and family". So it's this extra layer of hypocrisy.

General Zod wrote:I think people are over thinking things. It's not that the RNC empowers sex offenders. It gives them a place to hide and blend in with its Family Values message. They can tell people that they couldn't possibly be a bad guy because they believe in xyz.

Ralin wrote:

Flagg wrote:
The problem with the RW perpetrators of sexual harassment and sexual predatory behavior is that they are portrayed by themselves and many in the media as the "pillars of all that is good, right, and family". So it's this extra layer of hypocrisy.

I would not consider a serial sexual predator who has cultivated a reputation as a staunch feminist or advocate for the rights of transgender women or anti-racist while abusing members of those same demographics more or less hypocritical than an outspoken born-again Christian or family values advocate, personally.