is one of the reporters whose account of 08, of the first time a woman got close to a presidential nomination, was taken as authoritative.
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) October 26, 2017
Mark Halperin, accused of sexual harassment, once said there was "nothing illegal" about Trump’s alleged groping https://t.co/g5rX0mOXQc
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 26, 2017
Mark Halperin hailed reports that Donald Trump sexually harassed women because they bolstered "Donald Trump's brand" https://t.co/VVcgwwRlJf pic.twitter.com/v3jDvjiie6
— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) October 26, 2017
You know, I always suspected Mark Halperin was every bit as great a human being as he was a journalist.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 26, 2017
TBH, I just figured Halperin was a celebritysexual — someone who’d hump whatever figure gave him “ACCESS” and helicopter rides. Male celebresexuals are known for publicly deploring that women — at least the young, cute ones — have unfair advantages when it comes to charming powerful older men…
Here’s the Halperin fallout, 24 hours after the original story by @oliverdarcy (https://t.co/JknXtd84fk) pic.twitter.com/6DDTjq26oR
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 27, 2017
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Although it’s hardly shocking it turns out he’s specifically angry about Women-as-a-class… those shrill harpies who unrelentingly force innocent men to sexually harrass them!…
Maybe it's communicable. pic.twitter.com/FtQeu5uRgJ
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 26, 2017
it’s about her 16 opponent, about her husband & about the men who were often trusted above others to tell story of her campaign & her career
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) October 26, 2017
If you wanna know how corrupting a process-obsessed, access-addicted media is…Look no further than Mark Halperin https://t.co/Vov2FYiZQV
— Zedward Tweeterhands (@ZeddRebel) June 3, 2016
(((CassandraLeo)))
I always thought he was a garbage human being and a garbage journalist, and thus it feels vindicating to have all this come out. But I’m mostly just glad he’s finally seeing actual consequences. Schadenfreude is one of the few things getting me through this administration (alongside late-night comedy).
Steeplejack
I wonder how many more dominoes will fall. This “phenomenon” (for lack of a better word) looks like it’s not going away any time soon.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@Steeplejack: I’m predicting Cillizza within a month. Between his creepy conduct towards Megyn Kelly & Ivanka Trump and his flagrantly misogynistic treatment of Clinton, that dude has blatantly obvious deep-seated issues with women & I’d place the odds that he’s had some kind of misconduct in his past at about the same as the odds that Donald Trump has paid a Russian sex worker to urinate on a bed.
Major Major Major Major
@(((CassandraLeo))): Yeah, I figure him too. None of these have exactly been revelations, I guess, to those anywhere close to the industries.
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
A wolf recognizes it’s own. Just saying……
Major Major Major Major
In lighter news, it turns out Samwise wasn’t eating his dry food because an earwig had crawled into his water fountain reservoir and died, and without fresh water he didn’t want any dry food. He was getting dehydrated too, I could tell from his fur. Didn’t know about the earwig until I opened it up—it was in one of the parts you can’t see from the outside—but now he’s fed and shiny as new.
opiejeanne
This afternoon someone pointed out that Mark Halperin and Mark Helprin are two different people.
opiejeanne
@Major Major Major Major: I’m glad you found the dead earwig. Those things probably add a nasty flavor to the water.
Major Major Major Major
@opiejeanne: yeah, he seems a lot happier.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Yay for Samwise! Earwigs, yuck. A while back, one crawled up into the steam nozzle of my espresso machine. I am not going to tell you how I found it.
On topic: I’ve been seeing these endless “oh my goodness, we totes just discovered men (not me, other men) are harrassing pigs!” stories by male writers and my eyes just roll back into my head. At 56, I’ve had about 46 years of experience of grab-assing, crude remarks, penis-rubbing, crotch-grabbing, catcalling, unwelcome advances, inability to hear “no,” bizarre come-ons, frottage, quid-pro-quo proposals, bald propositions, threats, aggrieved or hostile “it was just a compliment” reactions, and every other form of verbal, attitudinal, and physical harassment, in the workplace, on the street, and in every country and city I’ve ever visited – LIKE EVERY OTHER FEMALE I KNOW. Where the fuck have these guys been, that this is news to them? Is there some vast epidemic of blindness, deafness, and social imperviousness that has uniquely afflicted journalists, pundits, and commentators that somehow had no other symptoms when women were not involved? WTF?
So fucking done with the moralizing hypocrites. Burn in hell.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Gah, moderated for having a p*s$y. Please to release from jail. Thanks!
ETA: Or maybe for having a p3n!s. I am gender-equally stuck in mod hell.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: You near the Grapevine tonight?
Mary G
@Major Major Major Major: Yay for simple solutions to scary problems. My previous cats loved their water fountain, but the two I have now are scared of it.
Amir Khalid
@Major Major Major Major:
Glad to hear your kitteh didn’t have anything really wrong with him.
Steeplejack
@Mary G:
Reminds me (yet again) that I need to replace the pump that died in the housecat’s fountain. I have been refilling it (and another bowl of water in the bedroom) manually, but she much preferred the prancing fluids of the active fountain. And I liked the subtle background sound.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Just north of it. Staying in the Best Western on the Stockdale Highway at I-5. It’s now part of Bakersfield, according to the address.
Have I mentioned how much I hate Bakersfield?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: No, but everybody hates Bakersfield.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: Madame got one of those for the girls. They seem to like it, but they’re dogs and not that picky.
Honus
I like Bakersfield because it gave us Buck Owens.
Steeplejack (phone)
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I was a little skeptical when I bought it, because the housecat has that common feline syndrome of not liking and ignoring anything that I buy specifically for her. (“But I loved the box it came in!”)
But she took to the fountain right away and drank from it a lot. She still drinks from it and from the other bowl, but I wonder if her consumption has gone down. Anyway, I need to replace the pump as part of fixing all the things (on which I am dreadfully behind).
Steeplejack (phone)
@Honus:
Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens, “Streets of Bakersfield.”
Aleta
Current fantasy, though w/o realistic hope:
If only the women who were harassed by Clarance Thomas* had protection, support and desire to speak out, and then (fantasy into overdrive) that SC seat opened just before certain people were removed from office…
*I think I remember that two women (or one) were waiting nearby to testify immediately after Anita Hill, but were never called (decision by Biden, possibly). Probably there are many others.
Aleta
@opiejeanne: OK that explains a thing
Amir Khalid
@opiejeanne:
They are?!
/jk
Manyakitty
@Major Major Major Major: Samwise is a smart boy. Glad you figured it out!
satby
The rot runs deep in our media.
Altus
I remember reading Game Change after the 08 election and the thing that stood out, how mean they were to Elizabeth Edwards. Its been 8 years since I read it, but that is the one thing I remember about reading that book.
Subsequently, after all the stuff came out about John Edwards, I always thought about that. How they missed everything to pile onto the wife.
Another Scott
@Altus: There’s a name that I haven’t heard in a while.
You’re absolutely right.
Of all political spouses, she certainly ended up in that “select” group who was extremely unfairly treated by her spouse and by the press. She and HRC probably could have a very strong 2-person support group, but she died in 2010 (cancer).
RIP.
Cheers,
Scott.
martian
Fucking finally, is what I have to say about Halperin. Every opportunity he’s losing is good news. I hope it’s not too much to hope that he won’t be rehabilitated right back into his influencer role, but I’ll take the giant dent in his credibility.
According to a poster on Jezebel who says she worked at ABC News years ago, this is another one of those “open secrets.” Halperin’s harrassment wasn’t really news to the newspeople, in other words.
donnah
There’s a good article at Vox today: “Why Harvey Weinstein is disgraced but Donald Trump is president“.
It’s enraging, frustrating, and insane that the amount of power this shitty president has will continue to protect him, no matter how despicable he is or what he has done.
Amaranthine RBG
Another example of how Twitter is fucking up political discourse in this country
lurker dean
first, fuck halperin, i hope he loses everything.
we recently got a cat-it water fountain, the one with the cute little flower on top. we love it, it’s so much quieter than the drinkwell we bought a few years ago, that we stopped using because it was too loud. one of our cats loves the cat-it, haven’t seen the other 2 drink from it though. (there are still water bowls for them to drink from.)
interesting about the earwig making the water unappetizing, i wouldn’t have even considered that. glad you found it.
Xantar
Somewhere out there is a shapeless rich white guy with a permasmirk who doesn’t sexually harass women. I think we can all agree that he’s the real victim here.
burnspbesq
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Except people from Fresno, for whom Bakersfield would be a step up.
SuzieC
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Love your rant. Been there and have 9 more years on you. The pussy grabbing, tit-squeezing, and sneering sexism started at 16 and continued through workplace unequal treatment until my 50s. Old age releases you because you become invisible. Invisible, you are powerful.
SuzieC
http://www.cleveland.com/schultz/index.ssf/2010/01/people_bashing_elizabeth_edwar.html
Connie Schultz wrote a powerful article about Elizabeth Edwards calling out the male pundits, led by Halperin, who made her the villain of her husband’s campaign.