One doesn't expect a man with gravitas to be consumed with his sexual satisfaction.

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Charlie Rose, the master of the serious interview, walking around naked in front of women he works with... REALLY?

[kimbutgar]

1. He is a frisky guy on the cbs morning show so Im not shocked.

I worked with guys like that. You slap them the first time after that they don’t bother with you but go on to others who don’t realize dogs need to be smacked on the nose to learn their lesson.

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2. I'm sorry to see his career end in disgrace.

I really enjoyed his interviews. He is intelligent and talented. Apparently lacks something, though.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. That was a kind of a shocker.

He always seemed pretty straight-laced, but I guess you never know about people.

[BannonsLiver]

5. Charles Kuralt was another one

Turns out the guy had a double life:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/06/01/a-double-life-on-the-road/8d436694-3487-4f05-8d48-0ef76ff23f83/?utm_term=.2411cd98b046

[frazzled]

4. I know ... but then again, it made sense.

I’ve been watching Charlie Rose for years (decades really). Well, mostly in the past 8 years or so I’ve used it as a sleep aid: more effective than Ambien. It came on at 11pm in my area., and the combination of the black background and the quiet, droning conversation with the likes of the Ambassador of the UAR, made it the perfect sedative. It disappeared from our PBS about 3 weeks ago.

There are several things I noticed about CR over the course of hundreds of these late night interviews. First, that he is obsessed with the powerful, most especially powerful business and financial executives, or powerful governmental personnages ( rarely were they elected politicians; rather the treasury secretaries or generals.) I always suspected I did not share his political inclinations.

Second, he always got all moon-faced when the subject was a beautiful actress.

This is the formula for abuse: power and beautiful women. It’s not about sexual satisfaction ... or rather it’s a question of finding satisfaction through a fantasy of power over beautiful women. It’s all about the power.

This all said, Charlie Rose was about the only halfway intelligent show left on television. Almost nowhere else did you see hour-long interviews with iconic architects or sculptors, playwrights and novelists ... and of course, the power people and the actresses.

I was shocked; but then again, I was not.

[FarCenter]

6. Dominance - politicians, show business types, etc. -- they are all about dominance.

[nolabear]

7. I know a writer who had a pretty famous book years back. Other women writers told her

when she went on the interview circuit to never be in a room alone with him. Apparently unknown to most of us he had a bad reputation.