Veteran journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed women while he was in a powerful position at ABC News, according to five women who shared their previously undisclosed accounts with CNN and others who did not experience the alleged harassment personally, but were aware of it.
"During this period, I did pursue relationships with women that I worked with, including some junior to me," Halperin said in a statement to CNN Wednesday night. "I now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. For that, I am deeply sorry and I apologize. Under the circumstances, I'm going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while I properly deal with this situation."
MSNBC, where Halperin makes frequent appearances on "Morning Joe," said early Thursday that Halperin would leave his roles at that network and as an analyst at NBC News.
"We find the story and the allegations very troubling," MSNBC said in a statement. "Mark Halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past conduct are fully understood."
I have to admit that this one really surprised me.
I've watched Halperin on multiple cable news shows and he always seemed dull as dishwater.
The guy has such a flat affect, that I almost believed him to be sexually ambiguous.
Of course Halperin is most famous as the author, along with John Heilemann, of the book "Game Change," which was turned into an HBO film starring Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin,so you know what that means.
Yep, you know she could not resist."Finally. Talk about a true game change. Mark Halperin is one of the most unethical and dishonest men in America,... https://t.co/SZcG4SqInA— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) October 26, 2017
"Most unethical and dishonest men in America." Funny, that sounds like somebody else, somebody who I believe Sarah Palin continues to support.
Now I have no intention of defending Mark Halperin, what he did was wrong. But at least we can give him some credit for admitting it and taking some responsibility.
That is certainly better than other, similarly accused men have done recently.
Speaking of sexual harassers taking responsibility, check out who was also outed.
Courtesy of NPR:
Former President George H.W. Bush has acknowledged touching multiple women inappropriately in what his spokesman called "patt[ing] women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner."
Yep nothing says "good-natured manner" like patting a woman on the ass when she has not invited you to do so.
I think this is just the beginning, and in the weeks to come there are going to be hundreds of these allegations against a number of famous, and infamous, men.
Hell there was already an entire book written about Todd Palin.
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