# Charlie Rose , come on down! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221 "2017-11-20T22:39:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/21 "2017-11-21T18:27:08Z")
Oooo… “The Crusty Paw.” That’s gonna leave a mark, Charlie! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/22 "2017-11-21T18:34:33Z")
[John Oliver has been talking about Charlie Rose’s creepiness for a while](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/john-oliver-calling-charlie-rose-creepy-years-article-1.3647136)…which actually surprised me as I watched the clips when they were new, but after having seen them I was then not surprised by the allegations. It WAS weird to hear his CBS co-hosts go on about it this morning (in the clips I heard on the radio), because in all of the clips Oliver had shown, the women were gleefully playing along - or rather, mostly instigating. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/23 "2017-11-21T23:35:27Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > [John Oliver has been talking about Charlie Rose’s creepiness for a while](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/john-oliver-calling-charlie-rose-creepy-years-article-1.3647136)…which actually surprised me as I watched the clips when they were new, but after having seen them I was then not surprised by the allegations. > > It WAS weird to hear his CBS co-hosts go on about it this morning (in the clips I heard on the radio), because in all of the clips Oliver had shown, the women were gleefully playing along - or rather, mostly instigating. Yeah they happily played the roles of coquettish younger women leading Rose, an incorrigible but mostly harmless dirty old man, around by the dick so he could amuse the audience with his predictable responses. It only became a problem to them now that this longstanding routine would threaten the show’s ratings and lose advertisers. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/24 "2017-11-21T23:44:15Z")
the president of Pixar is going on leave due to missteps with women ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/25 "2017-11-22T03:39:59Z")
Almost glad Mr. Rogers is dead. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/26 "2017-11-22T13:58:42Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Turns out power corrupts, and exploiting it can seem irresistible. Absolute power corrupts absolutely! All it takes is money and power, makes the money and power person feel self entitled and the other person that was “assaulted” trying to get some of that power and money. Everyone else associated jumps on the band wagon. IMO practically every woman in the “world” has had some sort of approach, good or bad, by men. Sometimes the woman feels as if its a positive thing, makes them feel desirable until they realize it was not at all a good thing or they can make something about it being brought to light I’m not saying this is the majority, I’m just putting in my two cents. I just dont believe that, that many women can be involved as they jump on the bandwagon with the others. This stuff has been against the “rules of life” for a long time and just now the world is talking about doing something about it?? All over the talk shows, all women panels, what about the man’s POV? Shouldn’t they be allowed to make their stand? What can they do to prevent assaults of any kind? Especially by talking about it? > [@JRDelirious](#): > > I’m beginning to get a bit numb about it. You said it, just like all the overplayed news/violence of the world. Will it get worse? My best friend in high school and I were confronted by a flasher, sorry it was no big thing. If someone had groped me, I slap him in the face if I didnt want it done. Its my retribution, why should I go further? Raping somewhat is different, you dont want to happen again but groping? Somewhat as important but… > [@Gatopescado](#): > > Almost glad Mr. Rogers is dead. wouldnt that one been the ultimate! It can still happen ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/27 "2017-11-22T22:19:53Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > Yeah they happily played the roles of coquettish younger women leading Rose, an incorrigible but mostly harmless dirty old man, around by the dick so he could amuse the audience with his predictable responses. It only became a problem to them now that this longstanding routine would threaten the show’s ratings and lose advertisers. I direct you to a previous post in this thread. > [@asahi](#): > > I read the WaPo article and it’s just gut-twistingly bad. **We’re not talking about a guy who made crude sexual jokes in the office** ; we’re talking about a guy who took in up-and-coming female journalists/producers and calculated how to use his power to get sexual gratification. If the accounts are to be believed - and I have no reason to doubt them - a few of them come close to being outright sexual assault. He didn’t stop there, either – **he humiliated, fired, and tried to end the careers of some of these women**. Just a disgusting son of a bitch. (bolding mine) ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/28 "2017-11-23T01:35:46Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I direct you to a previous post in this thread. > > (bolding mine) I direct you to the post I replied to and quoted. We’re talking about CBS and his co-hosts, not his real life activities. The roles they played were dirty old man and two coquettish flirts. It goes without saying his real life harassment was not harmless. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/29 "2017-11-23T17:18:14Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Turns out power corrupts, and exploiting it can seem irresistible. If only we’d known this before now! > > I am disappointed, as I like his show and him as a host. But it doesn’t make him immune to human frailties, no one is safe. > > This seems to be a time of reckoning, there must be a whole lot of very nervous men in Hollywood these days, dontcha think? When there are open secrets like Harvey Weinstein, operating for years, perhaps it encourages those shy to act, that it’s not really so bad to do a little groping. > > Sooner or later though, this shit catches up to you. I’m glad to see it, they should all, every last one, be driven out into the light of day! Holy hell, just the list of 60s/70s/80s-era rock stars who slept with underaged groupies must be a mile long. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/30 "2017-12-01T22:23:52Z")
It’s all well and good that Rose lost his job at CBS and PBS stopped distributing his programs. But what happens to his employees at his company? There is no board or co-owners to force him to step aside so they are stuck with him and his lecherous ways unless they all decide to quit. Several were profiled in that press story about him but who’s actually helping them? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/31 "2017-12-01T22:56:25Z")
The company’s profitability may not survive his fall from grace, thus mooting the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-rose-come-on-down/802221/32 "2017-12-01T23:54:23Z")
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