Posted on 10/31/2017 8:26:23 PM PDT by Strac6
The head of National Public Radio’s news department was placed on leave Tuesday after he was accused of sexual harassment by two women who claimed he made unwanted advances toward them while he worked at the New York Times nearly 20 years ago.
Both women claimed Michael Oreskes kissed them and stuck his tongue in their mouths after they had approached him about working at the Times in the late 1990s, when Oreskes was the paper’s Washington bureau chief.
NPR reported Tuesday that Oreskes was formally rebuked following a separate incident two years ago where a female producer complained she was made to feel uncomfortable after a dinner in which Oreskes talked about sex and inquired about her personal life. The woman, Rebecca Hersher, said on the NPR report that "it undercut my confidence."
Jill Abramson, the Times’ former executive editor who was Oreskes’ deputy in the Washington bureau at the time of the alleged encounters, recalled that he also showed special interest in a woman who worked as a news aide.
"If I had to do it again, I would have told him to knock it off," she told the Post. "Maybe confronting him would have somehow stopped him from doing it to another woman."
Oreskes was a vice president and senior managing editor at The Associated Press from 2008 until he joined NPR in 2015.
Both women who accused Oreskes told the Post that they were motivated to come forward by NPR’s coverage of sexual misconduct allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, political journalist Mark Halperin and other men prominent in their industries.
"The idea that he’s in charge of that coverage is just so hypocritical to me," one of the women said. "It’s sickening. I want to say: ‘You owe me ... a public apology.'
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What goes around....
Nearly 20 years ago puts it at the time of Clinton’s sexual harassment and rape woes.
Same as with Harvry’s scandal.
Move On already.
Continuing destruction of the white male.
Back on August 8, 1947, not only was I slapped on the a$$, but I was touched inappropriately by the doctor who delivered me.
Guilty of having a Y chromosome.
Trouble in paradise.
I’m shocked.
I thought all the males who worked at NPR are gay.
“If I had to do it again, I would have told him to knock it off,” she told the Post.
She’s got a problem with guys getting in her face then sticking their tongues in her mouth? Go figger.
Oh yeah, it’s the AP and NPR.
Liberal men are libertines who abuse their power.
Depravity is what they seek.
Psst, the Weather Underground coerced men and women in the communist cell to engage in unwelcome sexual swinging.
Jim Jones did it. Told the men that they’d have to submit to anal sex from him.
Wonder just HOW close he was with Harvey Milk.
I disagree. This is the first time it’s bitten members of the protected class who pushed all the crap in the first place. Weinstein, Spacey and now this clown.
These people are pillars of Hollywood and the msm. I want them to held to the exact same standards they thought they were exempt from.
Aren’t we all getting a little sick of all these bygone year “Me Too” charges? Move on people, move on.
Agree! I don’t get why people are so adamant to “move on” at a time when we’ve got Hollywood and the MSM on the ropes.
Make them live by the rules they put in place.
Make them live by the rules they put in place.
Then use the backlash to take out feminism.
(Due process and statue of limitations are real, and for good reasons.)
“Psst, the Weather Underground coerced men and women in the communist cell to engage in unwelcome sexual swinging.”
That was over 40 years ago. Let’s just move on. Same with Clinton victims. Much of that is over 20 years ago. Let’s “move on”.
Do I really need the “/s” tag?
It would only seem right that the people who brought us sex ed on demand and pornographic magazines and abortion on demand should be somehow entrapped in a tangle of sex-fueled activity of their own making.
“Then use the backlash to take out feminism.”
Yes. And think how much easier that will be when Hollywood and media big shots are taken down in the eyes of the public.
“(Due process and statue of limitations are real, and for good reasons.)”
What’s that got to do with this thread? This is not a legal issue. It is about shaming and scorning the hypocrites who pushed all the feminism garbage in the first place.
“It would only seem right that the people who brought us sex ed on demand and pornographic magazines and abortion on demand should be somehow entrapped in a tangle of sex-fueled activity of their own making.”
Exactly! That point seems to be lost on a number of people.
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