# Welll Looky here. Ex-Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sues network head Roger Ailes for sexual... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 6, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253 "2016-07-06T19:47:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/1 "2016-07-06T19:47:45Z")
And co-host, Steve “pencil neck” Doocy is named too. Swing away Dopers, swing away. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/2 "2016-07-06T19:48:32Z")
lol. ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/3 "2016-07-06T19:55:04Z")
I just googled Roger Ailes. Yeesh. If Droopy Dog had been a slave trader, he’d look like Roger Ailes. I never thought I’d feel sorry for Gretchen Carlsen, but I do now. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/4 "2016-07-06T20:05:22Z")
I don’t care for her politics, but _no_ female deserves to be treated like that in the workplace. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/5 "2016-07-06T20:21:29Z")
> [@article in the OP](#): > > The complaint says Doocy “engaged in a pattern of severe and pervasive mistreatment” of Carlson, such as belittling her during commercial breaks and “generally attempting to put her in place by refusing to accept and treat her as an intelligent and insightful female journalist rather than a blond female prop.” Who knew Doocy was smart enough to realize that? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/6 "2016-07-06T21:08:02Z")
> **["Attractive Blonde Lady" Responds to 'SNL'](https://www.gq.com/story/attractive-blonde-lady-responds-to-snl)** > > This weekend's SNL opened with a Greta Van Susteren spoof. On Greta's panel: Karl Rove, Oliver North, Robert Gibbs and a nameless Fox News correspondent Greta referred to simply as "Attractive Blonde Lady." I went... > **[Inspiring: Fox News Breaks Mold, Chooses Blonde Woman As New Fox &...](https://jezebel.com/inspiring-fox-news-breaks-mold-chooses-blonde-woman-a-1759445250)** > > In a bold choice for the network, Fox News will be replacing Fox & Friends host Elizabeth Hasselbeck, a 38-year-old blonde woman, with Ainsley Earhardt, a 39-year-old blonde woman. There they are, above: the past of the show and its... A blond female prop? Where did that idea come from? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/7 "2016-07-06T21:19:22Z")
I liked Ailes better when he played [Gizmo](http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/square_small/0/578/1147134-gizmo.png) in the Fallout game. The guy’s a pig. Pure and simple. I don’t care what side of the political fence you’re on, you don’t use your position to become a sexual predator. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/8 "2016-07-06T21:21:31Z")
The humor to me is the blatant war on women’s rights Gretchen was a willing profiteer of. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/9 "2016-07-06T21:22:25Z")
Wait … what? … isn’t Gretchen Carlson just a fictional character in the sitcom FoxNews … or am I thinking of another former Miss America? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/10 "2016-07-06T21:27:37Z")
> [@](#): > > refusing to accept and treat her as an intelligent and insightful female journalist If you wanted to be accepted and treated like a real journalist, you should have signed up with a real news organization. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/11 "2016-07-06T21:29:27Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Wait … what? … isn’t Gretchen Carlson just a fictional character in the sitcom FoxNews … or am I thinking of another former Miss America? Wasn’t she the station owner on _WKRP in Cincinnati_? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/12 "2016-07-06T21:47:57Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Wasn’t she the station owner on _WKRP in Cincinnati_? No, she was [the receptionist.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loni_Anderson) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/13 "2016-07-06T22:04:28Z")
No way! The receptionist in _WKRP_ makes the Wretched Gretchen look like Kibbles’ N Bits! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/14 "2016-07-06T23:00:55Z")
> [@](#): > > According to the complaint, he “ogled” her in his office and asked her to turn around so he could view her posterior; So wasn’t Carlson one of the Fox News ladies that claimed she _liked_ getting checked out by the boys? This was in response to the Cat Call video that went viral about a year or so ago. I’m pretty sure she was one of the lame ass women making that claim on Fox and Friends. [This is the viral video I’m talking about](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A) and here’s that stupid clip of Fox and Friends defending that video. [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRHmHH4CyCs) Is that Carlson on the far left? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/15 "2016-07-06T23:02:32Z")
No, that’s her on the extreme right. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/16 "2016-07-06T23:07:05Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > So wasn’t Carlson one of the Fox News ladies that claimed she _liked_ getting checked out by the boys? > > This was in response to the Cat Call video that went viral about a year or so ago. I’m pretty sure she was one of the lame ass women making that claim on Fox and Friends. > > [This is the viral video I’m talking about](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A) > and here’s that stupid clip of Fox and Friends defending that video. [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRHmHH4CyCs) > > Is that Carlson on the far left? ETA: Never mind. I see that clip isn’t F&F. It’s Outnumbered. Still though. What did she expect working for a company like that? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/17 "2016-07-06T23:08:12Z")
One of the news sites I get says she was “outed”! Wow! No, wait, she was “ousted”. Like she doesn’t work there any more. So, never mind. Shit. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/18 "2016-07-06T23:15:53Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > and here’s that stupid clip of Fox and Friends defending that video. [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRHmHH4CyCs) Jesus. Those four women are clearly unhappy and embarrassed to be sitting on a panel defending cat-callers. And barely attempting to conceal it. That their contract calls for them to be wearing dresses that scooch up to their vaginas when they sit down makes it worse. And putting that one man up there with them, with his Lex Luthor hairdo and dese-dem-dose accent and his ugly-ass leer makes it even WORSE. But the worst part of all is that Ailes was probably sitting up in the sound booth, watching them intently and holding his stubby little dick in one hand. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/19 "2016-07-06T23:22:44Z")
Since all links crash my shit, I’m gonna guess… Sexual _Healing_? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253/20 "2016-07-06T23:25:21Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > But the worst part of all is that Ailes was probably sitting up in the sound booth, watching them intently and holding his stubby little dick in one hand. From January, 2014, a little [back story](http://wonkette.com/538514/roger-ailes-unhappy-about-new-biography-that-says-roger-ailes-is-terrible-angry-horny-sexmonster) on Roger’s dick. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welll-looky-here-ex-fox-news-host-gretchen-carlson-sues-network-head-roger-ailes-for-sexual/759253.md?page=2)