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Brokaw confesses: Yes, I am a cunt craver!


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2018 Apr 27, 2:15pm   2,321 views  6 comments

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UPDATED: Legendary newsman Tom Brokaw Friday penned a blistering attack on former NBC News foreign correspondent Linda Vester who accused him of sexually harassing her in the 1990s in stories published by the Washington Post and Variety.

In an email sent to NBC colleagues and obtained by the Hollywood Reporter, Brokaw wrote that he is being falsely depicted as an “avatar of male misogyny, taken to the guillotine and stripped of any honor and achievement I had earned in more than a half century of journalism and citizenship.”

Writing that he had been a victim of a “drive-by shooting” by Vester, the Washington Post and Variety, he denied ever forcing himself on her in encounters in a hotel room or in her apartment. He recalls having a cordial working relationship with her and wrote that he helped her get a job with Roger Ailes at Fox News. He characterized her as having had a limited success at NBC News and a modest career at Fox and suggested she had a grudge against NBC because she had failed “in her pursuit of stardom.”

“I am angry, hurt and unmoored from what I thought would be the final passage of my life and career,” wrote the 78-year-old former “NBC Nightly News” anchor, adding, “I deeply resent the pain and anger she inflicted on my wife, daughters and granddaughters — all women of considerable success and passion about women’s rights which they personify in their daily lives and professions.”

Original story follows:

Both the Washington Post and Variety delivered explosive reports Thursday that described NBC News as nurturing a toxic culture of sexism and harassment that protected former “Today” star Matt Lauer for years as he pursued sexual relationships with female subordinates.

The reports also suggest that legendary newsman Tom Brokaw took advantage of this culture, revealing for the first time two women’s allegations that the longtime “NBC Nightly News” anchor sexually harassed them in the 1990s.

One of the women is former NBC News war correspondent Linda Vester, who told both the Washington Post and Variety that Brokaw physically tried to force her to kiss him on two separate occasions, groped her in a NBC conference room and twice showed up at her hotel room uninvited.

“There was a culture at NBC News, in my experience, where women who raise questions about misconduct get labeled as troublemakers,” Vester told Variety. “It can torpedo your career. I already knew that, so I didn’t want to make any trouble.

Vester said she was in her 20s at the time, while Brokaw was 30 years older and one of the most powerful men in the business. She said she did not report any of the alleged incidents to NBC News management. She told both publications she’s speaking out now because she believes her story shows that the network had a workplace culture problem long before it fired Lauer in November of last year.

“I am speaking out now because NBC has failed to hire outside counsel to investigate a genuine, long-standing problem of sexual misconduct in the news division,” Vester told the Post.

A second woman, who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity, said Brokaw approached her in a hallway in the mid-1990s when she was a 24-year-old production assistant. She alleged he put her hands on his chest and invited her to his office to talk about her career, an invitation she said implied more.

Brokaw, now 78, denied any wrongdoing in statements provided to the Post and Variety. He has been married to Meredith Auld since 1962 and has never before been publicly accused of sexual harassment. He said no incident with the production assistant ever occurred, and he denied making “romantic overtures” toward Vester.

“I met with Linda Vester on two occasions, both at her request, 23 years ago because she wanted advice with respect to her career at NBC,” he said in the statement. “The meetings were brief, cordial and appropriate, and despite Linda’s allegations, I made no romantic overtures towards her at that time or any other.”

The Washington Post said NBC is facing “a wave of internal and outside skepticism” over whether it can reform its workplace culture.

The Post interviewed 35 current and former NBC staffers who talked about how Lauer was widely known to pursue sexual relationships with more junior female colleagues. Some of those relationships were consensual, but some were not, and 12 women interviewed said they were sexually harassed by Lauer but did not report it.

One woman told the Post that Lauer exposed himself in his office and asked her to touch him, a second said he had sex with her in the middle of the day in his office, and third said Lauer gave her a sex toy.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/27/tom-brokaw-denies-sexual-harassment-claims-as-nbc-is-criticized-for-its-workplace-culture/

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1   Ceffer   2018 Apr 27, 5:45pm  

What is the Latin for cunt craver? It needs to be incorporated into the Juris Dicta for free form allegatory abuse of prominent and wealthy men to extort big legal bucks from them.
2   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Apr 27, 5:49pm  

Wow. This #MeToo shit gets more and more fucked up.
3   NDrLoR   2018 Apr 27, 9:23pm  

MisterLefty says
accused him of sexually harassing her
I don't know why they make such a big deal about it, it's been going on since there were men and women. They used to call it mashing:

"We have to go back some way to find the origin. The first form was the word mash by itself. This was a slang term in the US in the 1870s for an infatuation or crush (a magazine in 1877 defined it as “a deep but fleeting affection of the heart”). A mash could also be a dandy or the object of one’s affection (of either sex) or — as a verb — to make amorous advances to a member of the opposite sex, to flirt or seduce. A masher was a man who thought himself irresistible to the female sex but whose advances were often unwelcome."

Normal women would act annoyed but probably secretly enjoyed it and encouraged it by giving a "feminine flounce", what Frank Bunker Gilbreath, Jr. described in his and his sister's hilarious book Cheaper by the Dozen as they instructed Ernestine on how to behave around boys. She became indignant and as Frank said responded by spontaneously giving a perfect feminine flounce.
4   mell   2018 Apr 27, 9:33pm  

P N Dr Lo R says
MisterLefty says
accused him of sexually harassing her
I don't know why they make such a big deal about it, it's been going on since there were men and women. They used to call it mashing:

"We have to go back some way to find the origin. The first form was the word mash by itself. This was a slang term in the US in the 1870s for an infatuation or crush (a magazine in 1877 defined it as “a deep but fleeting affection of the heart”). A mash could also be a dandy or the object of one’s affection (of either sex) or — as a verb — to make amorous advances to a member of the opposite sex, to flirt or seduce. A masher was a man who thought himself irresistible to the female sex but whose advances were often unwelcome."

Real women would act annoyed but probably secretly enjoyed it and encouraged it by giving a "feminine flounce", what Frank Bunker Gilbreath, Jr. described in his and his sister's hilarious book Cheaper by the...


If you listen to many of the stories of really old couples that have been forever married on how they met and the man pursued the woman for a while, them telling it with romance in their eyes like it was yesterday, most of these romance stories leading to lifelong marriage would be deemed sexual harassment today. That's why women are so unhappy these days. They don't have strong suitors anymore, just call me maybe and fuck or smoke a bowl (or both) proposals. They may have men with money showering them with gifts and fancy dinners but they know it's still a weak proposal for sex in exchange for goods and all the bling won't make them happy.
5   MisterLefty   2018 Apr 28, 3:45am  

In the book M*A*S*H* by Robert Hooker, Trapper’s sobriquet was given to him when he was caught having a sexual liaison with a woman on a train. Since the woman was embarrassed at being caught, she allegedly exclaimed “ He trapped me!” meaning she was not a willing participant.
6   lostand confused   2018 Apr 28, 3:53am  

MisterLefty says
Writing that he had been a victim of a “drive-by shooting” by Vester, the Washington Post and Variety, he denied ever forcing himself on her in encounters in a hotel room or in her apartment. He recalls having a cordial working relationship with her and wrote that he helped her get a job with Roger Ailes at Fox News. He characterized her as having had a limited success at NBC News and a modest career at Fox and suggested she had a grudge against NBC because she had failed “in her pursuit of stardom.”

Ah so it is ok against Trump or Roy Moore. But when a democrat is accused, women are trailer park trash hoes-got it!

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