Fox News and those Republican Values

[MsAnthropy]

What pigs...

Fox News' discrimination suit near settlement
Co. will pay nominal sum to four women involved

By MICHAEL LEARMONTH

Fox News Channel is close to settling a sex discrimination suit filed by the Feds on behalf of four former female employees.

In a deal expected to be announced as soon as Monday, sources said Fox will pay a nominal sum -- less than $250,000 -- to the four women involved, but admits no wrongdoing.

Suit, filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in November, alleged Fox marketing veep Joe Chillemi sexually harassed freelance production assistant Kim Weiler and the other unnamed women "to a hostile work environment because of their sex."

The Feds accused Chillemi of using lewd language in the workplace -- expressions like "useless as tits on a bull" -- and that he described pregnant women's breasts as "fucking huge," "cannons" and "melons

http://www.variety.com/VR1117947666.html

[WI_DEM]

1. Not to mention that Bill O' Really had his own problems with

sexual harrassment.

[AndyA]

2. Republican values? I didn't know they had any values...

Or am I confusing that with ethics? Or morals? Standards? Well, it doesn't really matter, they don't have any of them.

GOP: We don't know what ethics and values are, but if we have them, they must belong to someone else.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. What did you expect from the Dick Cheney Network?

I don't watch any of Fox's channels anymore! I've even quit watching their movies. Let Dick Cheney support them.

[madmusic]

4. I HATE FoxNews, but...

BIG DEAL!

Sheesh, you can find a whole lost worse than that in the DU Lounge. Granted, that's not a "workplace," but sometimes this law is as "useless as tits on a bull."

[blonndee]

6. I guess you just declared your gender. n/t

[madmusic]

7. This has merit. The article didn't.

Fox, including through its Vice President Joe Chillemi (“Chillemi”), sexually harassed and subjected Weiler and a class of similarly situated female employees to a hostile work environment because of their sex. Chillemi routinely used gross obscenities and vulgarities when describing women or their body parts (referring, for example, to women’s breasts as “tits” and declaring that something was “as useless as tits on a bull”). He routinely used obscenities and vulgarities with women employees that he did not use with male employees (such as telling women that they had put his “cock” or “dick” “on the chopping block”). Chillemi routinely cursed at and otherwise denigrated women employees and treated them in a demeaning way (including telling women not to be a “pussy” but to “be a man”, and referring to women as being a “bitch”). He made a number of derogatory comments about pregnant women (such as regularly stating that a pregnant woman had “tits” that were “fucking huge” and like “cannons” or “melons” and the on-air talent’s breasts needed to be “covered” or not shown when the pregnant woman was being filmed). In addition, at a department discussion about a segment on sexism in the workplace, Chillemi said that in choosing who to hire “if it came down between a man or a woman, of course I’d pick the man. The woman would most likely get pregnant and leave.” Women in the Fox Advertising and Promotions departments supervised by Chillemi were also referred to in a derogatory way by a supervisor as his “Promo Girls.” Defendant Fox has discriminated against Weiler and a class of similarly situated female employees in the terms, conditions and privileges of their employment, including assigning women primarily to freelance positions with less benefits, less advancement potential and less job security and not appropriately assigning women to full staff positions.

http://texasemploymentlaw.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_texasemploymentlaw_archive.html

The suit was about more than a few words. BTW, "as useless as tits on a bull”" is an idiom found in dictionaries that merely means "useless."


Cliché: As useful as tits on a bull
Explanation: 1. Not useful.
2. Of no use at all.

http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+3143

[MsAnthropy]

8. Another one added to my Ignore list

bye bye:grr:

[madmusic]

9. I'm crushed.

[blonndee]

5. Also:

Chillemi, who headed the company's promotions department, also allegedly referred to his female staff as his "Promo Girls."

http://www.variety.com/VR1117947666.html