This story has sort of been buried by zillions of other allegations, but Garrison Keillor was fired from NPR for inappropriate sexual conduct in November.
When NPR fired him, he claimed that one woman was exaggerating in order to personally victimize him. He wrote this
lie statement:
"I put my hand on a woman's bare back. I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it. We were friends. We continued to be friendly right up until her lawyer called."
Since then,
OVER 60 PEOPLE OVER SEVERAL YEARS have come forward alleging that he sexually harassed them during his time as a radio host.
-He had an affair with a female subordinate, then paid her $16,000 and had her sign an NDA to prevent her from ever revealing it
-He wrote a sexually explicit limerick about a female employee at his bookstore and publicly posted it
-A female producer who was fired from The Writer's Almanac said that he discriminated against her age, bullied her, humiliated her and replaced her with a younger woman
-He emailed his 21-year-old college student to say that he had "intense attraction" to her. He was then her writing professor.
-Over several years, he sent
several dozen sexually explicit emails to a subordinate female coworker
Can we bring back the "men are weak" tag?Source,
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