Roger Ailes Offered Employee A Raise In Exchange For Sex, New Book Claims

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post



A hotly awaited new biography of Roger Ailes contains some pretty startling claims about the Fox News CEO—including an allegation that he offered an employee a raise if she would have sex with him.

The New York Times got an early look at "The Loudest Voice In The Room," the forthcoming book by media reporter Gabriel Sherman.

According to Bill Carter and Julie Bosman, "The Loudest Voice In The Room" paints Ailes as a man with a volcanic temper, and a history of ugly run-ins with his staffers. The most explosive allegation comes from the 1980s:

Former employees cited in the book talked of Mr. Ailes’s volatile temper and domineering behavior. In one anecdote, a television producer, Randi Harrison, told Mr. Sherman that while negotiating her salary with Mr. Ailes at NBC in the 1980s, he offered her an additional $100 each week “if you agree to have sex with me whenever I want.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/08/book-roger-ailes-_n_4558577.html

[dorkzilla]

1. I posted this a few moments before…more links (if you can stand more!)

I need brain bleach to get the combined words of "sex" and "Roger Ailes" out of the same sentence…

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024297271

[Zoonart]

4. You're not kidding...

There is not enough money on the planet.

[florida08]

2. lol

"the book was never fact-checked with Fox News" That's hysterical

[democratisphere]

3. Roger Ailes is another corporate psychopath in charge of the the Biggest Propaganda Machine.....

in the USA. Must be Roger's prerequisite that women reporters on fox news look like Barbie Doll Bimbos.

[Frustratedlady]

5. Whenever he wants? Sounds like a cheap prostitute.

Makes one wonder how many of the blondes took him up on it?

Gag!

[Sanity Claws]

20. I also wondered how many of the women on Fox took him up on the offer.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

37. every dumb blond you've ever seen on fox.

[marble falls]

6. I can understand why he might have to pay for sex. but that is no just justification to prey on ....

junior staff.

[spooky3]

7. Classic sexual harassment.

[NewJeffCT]

8. I think these things are more common than people think

in the corporate world - the bigwig CEO who thinks he's entitled to "use" his employees any way he sees fit.

[wilt the stilt]

9. wow the thought of this guy nude

would make almost everyone puke. That bald head and that fat body.

[Divernan]

17. HBO negotiating with Jabba the Hut to play Ailes in a TV series!

Seriously, his physique is as revolting as his character. But hey! If Rush can find someone to sell out for the money, why not Ailes?

[truthisfreedom]

18. Rush does not have sex with adult females.

[mojowork_n]

30. uhhhhhhh....

So that leaves, among many, many other conceivable options....

• Inflatable, mostly-air-inside-plastic ladies
  
• Melons with an appropriately cut-out hole at one end
  
• Warm apple pie
  

....Gee, that's about as far as I want to go with speculation. Any other
mental images would be much too disturbing, and probably impossible to
confirm anyway.

This is about as interesting a source as I could find on the web, and it
really doesn't add much:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaughs-dominican-stag-party

[Feral Child]

10. $5200. Before taxes.

Fucker's a cheapskate as well as a perv.

[Mopar151]

16. Definitely into humiliation.....

This guy could afford a Spitzer - grade courtesan, or a Park Avenue mistress, but it's that fear in the eyes that turns him on.

[QuestForSense]

19. Plus, he couldn't write-off an expensive one as a business expense.

[6000eliot]

11. Ailes turns out to be an entitled pig? Who would have guessed it?

[PearliePoo2]

12. Sex with Ailes?? I don't even want to visualize it...blechh...barf...

This sleazy slob is a fucking PREDATOR.
She should take this PIG to court and sue his flabby, flaccid ass.

[rustbeltvoice]

13. Roger we hardly knew ya...

For those who are interested in a particular art or activity, we all see the product. Some of us are interested in the creator. No person of discernment denies Michelangelo Buonarroti created marvelous wonders, and the speculation upon his private life interests many; but his art speaks whether one knows any personal details of the man. Really, i could use Charles Manson in this metaphor instead, but you see my point. With Ailes and his creation, would you be surprised that he is truly sleazy, and mean in private? or did you think he lead a double life of Walter Mitty, or some mild mannered sweet man? My private speculation would be the former, and that he would not have it known by the greater public. In this case the messenger is the message.

[Submariner]

14. Wimmen just have all the Luck

We guys have to search for jobs, but women have unsolicited opportunities like this for some quick extra cash.

For as little as a lunch hour in a Times Square hotel, Fox-employed women must just jump at the chance to roll around in the sheets with a sweaty blob of luv-muffin Roger for 100 bucks.

I wonder if there is a Fox-Porn feature in the works, like a Roger Ailes, Meg Kelly, Elizabeth Hasslebrook ménage à trois feature film?

[SoapBox]

15. I've just one thing to say...

Ewwwwwwwwhhhhh!

[Dopers_Greed]

21. I would do it for an extra $100 a week...

I'm sure that "sex" for Roger Ailes just means "feeding him a lasagna," which probably doesn't take too long.

[DeSwiss]

29. I don't think, ''feeding him a lasagna.....''

...means what you think it means.

[Moral Compass]

22. Not just a pig

Not only a pig but cheap too...

[The Wizard]

23. Goebbels didn't even stoop that low

And that was NBC's money he was willing to trade for sex.

[randr]

24. Is that how all their team keep their jobs?

[Kingofalldems]

25. Kick for the family values Fox lovers

[catbyte]

26. Ew, just ew. And what a fricking cheapskate. Only $100 extra?!?

[Eric J in MN]

38. Adjusted for inflation, it's $200.

So it would be about $800 extra per month, in current dollars.

Still not worth it.

[Hubert Flottz]

27. It would have had to be one hell of a raise!

[DeSwiss]

28. Oh, Megyn!?!?!

- Well, at least now we know who she meant by ''White Santa.....''

K&R

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''Dammit! All that therapy, shot to hell!'[/center]

[nolabear]

31. Ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick

Ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ick ....

[bucolic_frolic]

32. So is $100 cheap a display of privilege and arrogance?

"whenever"???

Hate to say it, this whole deal sounds like a straw offer

because the details aren't believable

[Agony]

33. this is how I feel about THAT...

[xxqqqzme]

34. Ewwwwww

gross. Now I'm all creeped out )but then he always has creeped my out).

[KansDem]

35. $100 a week to service him whenever he wanted?

What a f*cking cheapskate!

[mitty14u2]

36. Need to find disgruntled X-Think Tank employees for Fox & Koch Bros "That would be a Story"