Sexual misconduct

The Department of Veterans Affairs came close to banning the iconic photo of a sailor kissing a dental nurse following America’s triumph in World War Two last month. The decision was quickly reversed after a leaked memo sparked backlash from the public. But a whistleblower in the department tells The Spectator there’s much more to the story: the VA’s rash decision to remove the photo followed years of accusations of predation and harassment against supervisors in the department’s diversity office. “The very appearance of sexual harassment or something that even looks inappropriate, now, it's like, ‘OK, let's get rid of it,’ the whistleblower told The Spectator. “And I think we're walking on eggshells here, because of what happened to all these senior level officials.

The GOP world was stunned last year when a Herschel Walker campaign staffer accused American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp of “pummeling” his crotch. On Tuesday, the Washington Examiner published an article headlined, “CPAC’s Matt Schlapp cleared in assault case, accuser apologizes.” But that's not what happened: the article neglected to mention that a $480,000 settlement was paid to Carlton Huffman through an ACU insurance policy. The last time Cockburn checked, settling out of court is different to exoneration.  The original lawsuit filed by Huffman against Schlapp last year sought more than $9 million in damages. Schlapp attempted to settle for a low-six figure sum last year, but Huffman refused.

Eva Longoria. Shonda Rhimes. Jurnee Smollett. Ashley Judd. Those names might sound like the makings of a new Netflix original drama, but they're actually just a few of the Time's Up board members who have agreed to resign in the aftermath of the Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment scandal. Time's Up, a charity organization founded on the back of the #MeToo movement ostensibly to assist women in fighting sexual harassment in the workplace, wound up in the Cuomo story for all the wrong reasons. Roberta Kaplan, the organization's board chair and co-founder of its legal defense fund, resigned last month after the New York attorney general's report on Cuomo's behavior revealed that Kaplan had reviewed a draft op-ed discrediting one of Cuomo's accusers.

Most people told me it would never happen. And so I prepared myself that after almost a year and a half of shouting for answers and accountability from New York’s 56th governor, I would probably never see the day Andrew Mark Cuomo would step down, or be forced to leave office. But, now, it is finally happening. The headlines speak of Andrew Cuomo’s career coming to an end. On Tuesday, Attorney General Letitia James’s office released the results of an extensive investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The results were devastating and disgusting.

Since the beginning of this month, the online political conversation has been abuzz over the incipient #MeTooing of yet another powerful man. It began when Lindsey Boylan, a millennial politician who recently launched a campaign for Manhattan borough president after failing to unseat Rep. Jerrold Nadler in November, began sending pointed tweets about her time as an employee in the New York governor’s office.‘Most toxic team environment?’ Boylan wrote, retweeting a prompt asking users to describe the worst job they’d ever had. ‘Working for @NYGovCuomo.

The new lawsuit filed by two women against Fox News and several of its personalities is riddled with inaccuracies. This raises questions about the veracity of its claims. Jennifer Eckhart and Cathy Areu, a former Fox Business producer and frequent network guest, respectively, claim that they suffered sexual misconduct, harassment, and even rape at the hands of Ed Henry, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Howard Kurtz. The lawsuit immediately made waves in the mainstream media, where it was picked up by the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, CBS News, and other major outlets. It has been a top trending topic on Twitter since its filing. However, a review of several claims made in the suit reveals many basic inaccuracies.