{"id":76230,"date":"2017-11-29T09:36:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76230"},"modified":"2017-11-29T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:06:23","slug":"liberalism-and-binders-full-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76230","title":{"rendered":"Liberalism and binders full of women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we wake to the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2017\/11\/29\/nbc-announces-today-show-co-host-matt-lauer-fired-due-to-inappropriate-sexual-behavior-at-work.html\">Matt Lauer<\/a>, the iconic &#8216;Today Show&#8217; host has been canned over allegations that he engaged in &#8216;inappropriate sexual behavior&#8217; in his workplace, and that the incident that was his undoing probably isn&#8217;t his first. From the statement read on the show this morning;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dear colleagues, on Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer,&#8221; Lack&#8217;s statement read. &#8220;It represented, after serious review, a clear violation of our company&#8217;s standards. As a result, we&#8217;ve decided to terminate his employment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement said this is the first complaint regarding Lauer&#8217;s behavior the company has received &#8220;in the over 20 years he&#8217;s been at NBC News.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Assemblyman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-ca-sexual-harassment-policies-hearing-20171128-story.html\">Raul Bocanegra and state Sen. Tony Mendoza<\/a> of the California State Legislature are facing official inquiries in their home state in regards to sexual harassment &#8211; Bocanegra was forced to resign on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>A fourth woman has come forward accusing US Congressman John Conyors of unwanted sexual advances &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2017\/11\/29\/conyers-son-speaks\/904434001\/\">his son is worried<\/a> that the congressman is being mistreated in the media. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Conyers III spoke to reporters early Wednesday outside his family&#8217;s Detroit home, saying it&#8217;s &#8220;very unfortunate to see him fight so long for so many people and to automatically have the allegations assumed to be true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conyers&#8217; son noted, however, that &#8220;with sexual assault, women are to be believed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Congressional Office of Compliance, the folks who paid off Conyers&#8217; victim to keep her quiet, has paid off 264 complainants, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/11\/27\/conyers-sexual-harassment-case-could-shake-up-congress-commentary.html\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instead of apologizing for using his congressional office funds to secretly settle a harassment case, Conyers is angry the public has found out. Even if the public is the source of the cash used to pay off his accuser.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the real reason this could blow up: Because of this story, we now know that the same Congressional office where this complaint was filed against Conyers has settled a total of 264 complaints to the tune of $17.2 million of taxpayer money over 20 years. To be specific, that would be the U.S. Congress Office of Compliance. And so far, we don&#8217;t know the identity of any of the others named in the complaints. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Conyers, instead of being contrite, goes on the offensive;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conyers could start taking down his colleagues if he begins to feel even more threatened. That&#8217;s what it sounded like when his attorney Arnold Reed issued a statement explaining why Conyers would not resign. Included in Reed&#8217;s statement was a sentence that sounded like a threat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    &#8220;If people were required to resign over allegations, a lot of people would be out of work in this country including, many members of the House, Senate and even the president.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/11\/28\/charlie-rose-sexual-harassment-and-regrets-female-news-managers-alicia-shepard-column\/895998001\/\">Eight women have accused Charlie Rose<\/a>, liberal news reader of inappropriate behavior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2017\/11\/26\/sen-al-franken-this-has-been-a-shock-to-me\">US Senator Al Franken<\/a> took to the airways as three more women have come forward to complain about his treatment of women in his circle to apologize for the fact that he was caught;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Franken said he was taking responsibility for his behavior and that he has apologized to the women who have accused him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been reflecting on this,&#8221; the two-term senator said. &#8220;I want to be a better man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether other accusers may come forward, he replied that he couldn&#8217;t say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been a shock to me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Think about that for a minute &#8211; it&#8217;s a shock to him that women don&#8217;t enjoy the way he treated them.<\/p>\n<p>But, at least he doesn&#8217;t claim to have &#8220;binders full of women&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we wake to the news that Matt Lauer, the iconic &#8216;Today Show&#8217; host has &hellip; <a title=\"Liberalism and binders full of women\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76230\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberalism and binders full of women<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}