For reasons I need not go into here, Iāve followed this manās career and actions for decades. In his own insidious way, he bears a great deal of responsibility for hollowing out of CBS News and the general dumbing down of CBSās programming. I was utterly unshocked by the allegations and I say GFR and about time. Though if the Fox News model is any guide, heāll likely be replaced by someone who will make everything even worse.
Wasnāt Moonves responsible for caving to the Bush White House over the āRathergateā business and setting up the phony Thornburgh Commission?
Tee-hee!
Looks like emulating Trumpsky and grabbing women against their will by their hoo-hahs can end up being quite expensive.
And this is a guy who was morally outraged by Janet Jacksonās Super Bowl āNipplegate!ā non-controversy and tried to ruin her career.
āThe appalling accusations in this article are untrue, which is why I am trying to negotiate this massive payout before any DVDs or audio tapes emerge. And be sure to watch the latest season of āThe Big Bang Theoryā ".
Trump did not start that behavior. He is just a current representative of note.
exposing himself without their consent,
I realize this is serious perversion, but this is odd. It implies that some guy might go up to a woman and say:
"Excuse me madame, you donāt know me, but may I expose myself to you so that you might appreciate my naughty bits? And when she invariably (very probably?) says, āNo,ā Heāll reply, āWell thanks very much. No worries, Iāll be shoving off then.ā
It reminds me of the story of an elderly English woman who encountered a nude man on her country club golf course. And when she saw him, she hailed him and asked, āAre you a member of this club?ā He replied, āWell no, actually, Iām not.ā And thus anwered, she began hitting him with a golf club.
Go figure.
Wouldnāt his penis be considered a āmemberā - so to speak?
Indeed. He acted as an usher.
In Hollywood?
Well, I hadnāt thought of it in those terms, but, yes, I suppose. This is a true story that happened several decades ago in the UK. My mother brought it to my attention. She was tickled by the impression she got that if the nudist were a member of the club, the behavior would have been perfectly acceptable.
ā¦ by Kilgore Trout.
A famous vignette had Zog, an alien who communicated through an elaborate language comprised of farting and tap dancing, landed near a house soon to be engulfed in flames.
In a valiant effort to save the occupants, he rang the doorbell and furiously communicated his warning.
He was beat to death with a golf club.
Saying trumpp was good for the country was awful, and just as bad the pervert Charlie Rose flourished at CBS with 27 women reporting harrassment, only proving the fish rots from the head down
Well, with that heavy oak table, it was clear that he was seriously into wood.
But it was apparently not of a size to invoke the word āclubā?
I wonder how his spouse and host of a couple of CBS programs, Survivor no less, is dealing with this. Do the hire ups who are forcing Moonves out also force her out as collateral damage? Or are sins of the husband at the same organization exempted?
As someone whoās been in āDuh Bizā longer than I sometimes care to admit, this sort of shit is all too common, and the fuckers did it just because they could. (I had the displeasure of involvement with a Jon Peters project, that motherfucking scumbag was not only as bad as his reputation but far worse, he liked fucking with people just to do it) Itās been The Way Things Are here since the beginning, if you read the histories.
I am really really happy to see the Weinsteins (I had a small run-in with him) and the Moonves āget theirs,ā but there are far more out there in the shadows to come. Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy and the Vampire Slayer among others, turns out to have been a āfeminist manā who used his reputation to mess over young actresses on that show, yet heās still around. And heās just one.Thereās a long way to go in draining Okeefenokee West, as I have long termed the town in which I reside and do business.
Was it a clothing-optional country club?
Itās kind of like a third corollary to Greshams Law: bad leadership drives out good like bad information drives out good and bad money drives out good. You donāt need a conspiracy, just a culture with the right positive feedback loops. Iām sure Moonves felt he was just following an optimal career path, one that happily happened to coincide with his lusts. That this created even more opportunities for animals like him was not objectionable; damage to the ecosystem aside.