Here’s a Guardian article on the latest vacancy in showbiz:
Charlie Rose has been suspended by CBS News after becoming the latest media figure to be accused of sexual harassment when eight women came forward to describe unwanted advances, including lewd phone calls, parading naked, and groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.
Rose, 75, whose eponymous show airs on PBS, also serves as a host on CBS This Morning and as a correspondent for 60 Minutes.
“I have learned a great deal as a result of these events, and I hope others will too. All of us, including me, are coming to a newer and deeper recognition of the pain caused by conduct in the past, and have come to a profound new respect for women and their lives.”
In short, it didn’t occur to him that it might be painful for others to witness the naked parade of his nearly 75-year-old body! Maybe his next stop will be Burning Man?
[Thanks to Jonathan Graehl for brightening my day with this one.]
hard to feel sorry for women who go to an isolated location on Long Island with an older, wealthy, creepy guy who says they need to practice traveling with him. They wouldn’t be complaining if he were younger and ideally good-looking and successful. Rose will be A-OK as he appears to have accumulated a great deal of wealth, including massive real estate holdings, over a long career. Maybe he should hire escorts (someone in media circles noted that Rose usually flew solo at black tie events) so there’s no ambiguity.
There’s a bunch of footage on youtube of him being “creepy” with similarly aged women and it’s mostly hilarious/cute. The broads are totally into it.
Lewd phone calls, walking around naked? Is US now Europe? Have ye no liberal christian values?