Last week in one day “The View” got 4 legal notes. Throughout the week they’d been getting them once or twice a show, but they topped their week off getting 4 in a single day.
These legal notes are essentially on-air retractions for slander by the ladies of “The View” (or is it libel since “The View” is a kind of recorded media?)
Slander is orally saying something that damages a persons reputation or casts doubt upon their character. Libel is essentially the same thing only in print. I honestly don’t know how that works for televised media. It’s an interesting question though.
“The View” is always funny because when they have to read legal notes, the ladies sound like they’re reading a political prisoner’s recitation of their crimes prior to being sent to the gulag.
The ladies called Hegseth a rapist, they called Matt Gaetz a pedophile and I believe on one occasion said he was a rapist. Then they had to apologize for it. That was fun.
Once Gaetz bowed out, the more generalized media targeted Hegseth. Wikipedia paints a terrible and slightly fictitious account of the sexual assault allegations against him from 2017.
The media minimizes that he’s a veteran, holds a BA from Princeton, and a Masters Degree from Harvard. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was awarded 2 bronze stars, is an author, and also a television personality on FOX.
They like to boil all that down to he’s a newscaster who paid off a woman that accused him of rape.
So much for “nuanced” reporting.
The October 2017 police report (just released) the accuser filed makes for very interesting reading. He was drunk, she was not. She escorted him to his room, there are video surveillance tapes to prove that. There are witnesses who say he was very intoxicated.
This was in 2017 when he’d arguably been less than honorable regarding his second wife. He & his second wife were divorced in August of 2017. He’d had an affair with another woman, a child was born of that affair in August 2017. This alleged assault happened in October of 2017.
I’m speculating, but I see it like this. He was “newly single”, had a hell of a mess in his life, was at a hotel, then did what men do sometimes. He went to the hotel bar, had a few too many drowning his sorrows.
I’ve done it. I’d bet almost every man alive has drown their sorrows at least once in their life. We know getting drunk isn’t helping while we’re doing it. We also know that alcohol is likely to set us up for more trouble. But we just want to numb whatever pain we’re feeling for a little bit, so we have the bartender pour us another one…
The police report details a woman flirting with & leaving the bar with Hegseth. The woman in question was there with her husband and children, but she’d been downstairs with her female work friends in the bar & had been texting her husband about this hot man in the bar that all the girls were drooling over.
At 1:15 they leave the bar, at 1:30 a hotel employee tells them to move along from the pool area due to disturbance calls from other guests. (Talking / laughing too loudly?) The hotel employee noted Hegseth was very intoxicated and that the female companion appeared to be unimpaired. They leave the pool area together. In the police report there is mention of her asking if Hegseth has a condom.
There are other details, The police in a separate interview with Hegseth note that he didn’t know the woman’s name, but he did accurately describe her clothing and that he remembered being confused that she’d escorted him to his room but then didn’t leave promptly.
It’s at this point that the police consider charging the accuser for sexual assault. (Personally I think they should have.)
Hegseth remembers the woman saying something about telling someone that she’d say she fell asleep on a couch in one of her friends rooms. This is exactly what the woman told her husband who was worried about her, but couldn’t leave their children alone in the hotel room.
Hegseth chose to pay the cunt off rather than adding to the difficulties he was facing at the time.
Yes I’m calling her a cunt. She cuckolded her husband, practically raped Hegseth, then decided that she’s going to cover it all up, by filing a police report accusing Hegseth of what she herself did. And to top it off, she got a momentary reward for being a lying, duplicitous, cunt.
That’s the definition of a rancid fucking cunt in my book. If society treated her like they do men, her husband would divorce her, she’d be paying alimony and child support, she’d lose her house, be living in a shitty apartment paycheck to paycheck after the alimony payments, and she’d lose her children.
But it gets better, because of this fucking police report, Hegseth will forever be subject to the assumption of guilt because he paid the cunt off. I get why he didn’t go to court but I wish he’d dragged her skanky ass through the very mud she’d stirred.
The woman, in my less than humble opinion should be tossed in jail for making a false statements to the police. She wanted Hegseth’s dick, then she took what she wanted. This situation is a prime example of the bullshit women get away with.
If a guy had escorted a drunk woman back to her room, they had consensual sex, and she felt guilty about it, she’d claim she was raped, she was in no condition to give consent, “boo hoo, I’m a victim of the bad man who only wants one thing.”
Then the dude would be serving 10 years, & be on a sexual predator list for the rest of his fucking life. You’re never going to see that happen to a woman.
This isn’t new, women have been doing this shit for centuries. History is filled with women using their bodies and beauty to get what they want and they’ve started a few wars in the process to boot.
There’s no way to win these situations if you’re an average guy. Men are always the villain especially white men.
If you’re a dude who is on TV, runs for office, or is selected for a position by the freaking President you’re screwed six ways from Sunday. The media will sweep shit under the carpet if they like you (Hunter’s laptop,) and if they don’t like you, or the person you’re working for then they’re going to keep digging up this same old shit for your entire career.
In the case of Hegseth he gets to carry additional burdens;
“Oh shit! He’s a good looking man!”, “Oh My God! He’s got a big assed Jerusalem Cross tattooed on his chest, he must be a white supremacist!”, “Arrrggghhh, In his book he doesn’t suck Islam’s cock! He says that Islam is not a religion of peace!” (That latter one is really funny because Thomas Jefferson also had a very dim view of Islam.)
All of this adds up to a bunch of smoke, mud & shit that the media is throwing at Hegseth. All of it is nothing more than a distraction from Hegseth’s actual qualifications which are what we should be looking at in the first place.
I personally like that he’s not some desk jockey general, admiral, or whatever. I like that he’s been in the shit and will have an appreciation for all the reasons to not be in a war.
I also like that he’s probably not going to have a lot of patience for fat assed desk jockeys worrying about what to call the genderfuck drag queen sailor who can’t report to battle stations in less than 20 minutes because she/he/it had to put on their makeup.
But my feelings are not reason enough to give someone like Hegseth a job as Secretary of Defense. Is he qualified? To determine that, he should be vetted based on his experience, & education. The salacious rumors spewed by the media and most certainly not the blatherings of the harpies on “The View” have no place in this process.
I do wonder in the case of “The View”, is there a point when apologies and retractions no longer have merit? Isn’t there some point where the obvious intent, regardless of what’s said in a “correction” is to cause harm to someone’s reputation and it becomes actionable in court?
How many times can I call Sunny Hostin a fat rancid cunt then say “Correction: Sunny Hostin is not fat and has no vaginal diseases” before I’m sued?