I’m a fan of Fox & Friends, but Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit put the show into a different light, and not in a good way. And I’m having a very hard time watching it now.
Fox recently settled the lawsuit that Carlson filed with a $20 million payout plus a public apology to her. This is in addition to the $40 million severance paycheck that Fox gave to outgoing chair Roger Ailes, who was the target of the lawsuit. He did a tremendous amount of damage to the company.
Ailes wasn’t alone in his sexual harassment of Gretchen Carlson. Fox & Friends co-stars Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade contributed to the hostile work environment that Carlson and other female employees experienced and were stupid enough to express their sexist comments on-the-air.
I can’t see how they’re going to be able to hold onto their jobs. They contributed to this public relations disaster, and if they keep degrading their female co-workers on the air as they already have, they run the risk of another high-profile lawsuit.
Sexual harassment is ILLEGAL.
Doocy and Kilmeade need to be publicly taken out to the woodshed, or fired. It’s very unfortunate, but they brought this down on themselves. Doocy was named in the lawsuit.
I’m very sad that it’s come down to this. Fox needs to fix this problem.
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