In addition to Bill O'Reilly's well deserved exit from Fox News, on Monday, the door slammed on now former co-President of Fox News, Bill Shine, amid a cluster of NEW law suits over both corporate sexism and racial discrimination. Some of those stories include reports of black female employees being coerced into arm wrestling white female employees, for the gratification of their white male bosses.
Shein took over from sex crazed exec and office pervert (alleged) Roger Ailes, effectively the founder of Fox News. It appears he did not do much if anything to change the toxic misogynistic and racist culture of the organization.
Further rumors that are credible say that Sean Hannity will be out by Friday, giving rise to rumors that Fox News may be on its way to a substantial decline or even a possible collapse.
It is ironic that so many of the women of Fox News are now found on MSNBC. Perhaps even more surprising is that there is an apparent friendship and mutual admiration society that has quietly existed for a while now between Roger Ailes and MSNBC super star Rachel Maddow. The story goes that Ailes is a huge admirer of the work done by Maddow. It is worth noting that as Maddow has gained experience she has surpassed the performance of Fox News, particularly in the more desirable demographics.
I found it ironic while posting the news of the departure of another figure from the right wing propaganda outlet, notorious for its factual inaccuracies and partisan malice, grotesque hypocrisy, racism and on-air sexism, that some of the more ignorant right wing trolls claimed that the worst thing that ever happened at Fox News was some slightly salty language. They denied the findings of the law firm that Fox hired to investigate the charges against the company which found them to be true. And credible journalism like the New York Times reported that the sexual harassment extended at times to women being intimidated into being groped, kissed against their will, and women being coerced to perform oral sex acts in the Fox News premises during working hours. The trolls were apparently a mixture of women and men on the right, among some of the most misinformed individuals I have ever encountered (based on their expressed beliefs appearing in comments), which argues well for the accuracy of Hillary Clinton that both sexism and misogyny were factors in her election defeat.
In other news supporting the contention that the radical right are members of an adult version of the Little Rascals' "He Man Women Haters Club" has been the news that Rep. Fisher in New Hampshire
was one of the originators of a particularly toxic and noxious reddit post, in which he makes the observation that "rape is not an absolute bad, because presumably the rapist enjoys it". And in other news another Right Wing Extremist, a certain Mr. Murdock, asserted that "rape (and incest) are God's will so women should not be able to have an abortion as the result of either. His assertion, lacking internal logic, that nothing happens without the will of God would then presumably extend as well to murder or crimes against humanity. Because nothing can happen without God's will making it so -- which should include abortion, giving the majority of conceptions do not implant or otherwise naturally terminate, so.......blame God. This is the same mindset that gives rapists custody of their children conceived from criminal acts, and the same mindset in other parts of the world that see no crime in rape, if the victim subsequently marries the rapist, because then "all good".
I have to wonder if Murdock were raped, but did not get pregnant, if he would still find that an Act consistent with the approval of God? I'm betting absent the accident of pregnancy he would not.