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spotthebird

(171 posts)
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 07:15 PM Dec 2017

Juan Willams, sexual harassment poster child, prototype

This article is incredible, the clips below don't do it justice. It is also just the tip of the iceberg

Washington Post
November 2, 1991
Magazine reporter Juan Williams said yesterday that the newspaper has disciplined him for what he called "wrong" and "inappropriate" verbal conduct toward women staffers and he apologized to his colleagues.
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The disclosure came five days after a Williams column on The Post's op-ed page in which he said that Anita Hill had "no credible evidence" for her allegations of sexual harassment by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, but that Hill was "prompted" to make her charges by Democratic Senate staffers.

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Seven women said in on-the-record interviews yesterday that Williams had repeatedly made hostile and sexually explicit comments to them, in some cases over a period of several years.

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Jo Ellen Murphy, art director of the Weekend section, said that "he was obsessed with my sex life and that's all he wanted to talk to me about . . . . I raised my voice at him and said, 'Just don't talk to me again.' "
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Juan Willams, sexual harassment poster child, prototype (Original Post) spotthebird Dec 2017 OP
Article is from Saturday, November 2, 1991; 12:01 AM - Was t'Internet around then ? OnDoutside Dec 2017 #1
A little bit, but not for this article nt spotthebird Dec 2017 #3
That man just simply has no redeeming qualities. nt marybourg Dec 2017 #2
Surprised, but not shocked. InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2017 #4
Forced to resign yet? dchill Dec 2017 #5
This is from 1991 mcar Dec 2017 #6
Does this explain why he works for Fox? nt DURHAM D Dec 2017 #7

OnDoutside

(19,962 posts)
1. Article is from Saturday, November 2, 1991; 12:01 AM - Was t'Internet around then ?
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 07:18 PM
Dec 2017

Interesting that Howard Kurtz wrote the article.

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