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Some of the exceptions to date are: Father Jonathan Morris of Fox News, Dick Van Dyke, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Jim Nabors, Monty Hall, Bob Newhart, Billy Graham, Alex Trebek, Nehemiah Persoff, and Bob Barker.
And while these men are exceptions to what now appears to be the rule that "boys will be boys," no one can say with absolute certainty that even these men have an untainted past and have never committed sexual misconduct. What we can say for sure is that in the past ten years, they never committed an act of sexual impropriety or misconduct.
Now the latest news comes from The Washington Post.
Ancient television host Charlie Rose is being accused by no less than eight (8) women at last count, that he had made unwanted sexual advances toward them, but never simultaneously.
The advances included lewd phone calls [in which he would refer to the woman as 'mommy' while he wore a leather thong and a tutu] walking around naked in front of them (but not simultaneously), groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.
According to The Washington Post, the women were either employees or aspired to work for the leech at the "Charlie Rose" show. The time period was from the late 1990s to 2011. The women ranged in age from 21 to 37 when the alleged behavior occurred.
The stories of the women are quite corroborative in that there are commonalities in their accounts of what occurred. Each woman spoke separately to the newspaper in multiple interviews and reporters at The Post also interviewed family members, colleagues and friends who said the women had confided in them about aspects of the incidents.
Three of the eight women spoke on the record, the remaining five feared professional retribution due to Rose's stature in the industry and his volatile temper, so they remained anonymous.
"In my 45 years in journalism, I have prided myself on being an advocate for the careers of the women with whom I have worked," Rose said in a statement. "Nevertheless, in the past few days, claims have been made about my behavior toward some former female colleagues.
"It is essential that these women know I hear them and that I deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. I am greatly embarrassed [now that I've been caught]. I have behaved insensitively at times, [that is, whenever I thought I could get away with it] and I accept responsibility for that, though I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate [especially the one about the leather thong]. I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings [in spite of the women screaming and trying to escape], even though I now realize I was mistaken [naively believing they'd keep their mouths shut].
"I have learned a great deal as a result of these events [so some good came out of it for me], 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 [which I never had before, thinking I could use them like my online porn account]."
One of the women, Reah Bravo, was an intern and became associate producer for Rose's PBS show beginning in 2007. She described unwanted sexual advances while working for the scum wafer at his private waterfront estate in Bellport, New York, and while traveling with him by auto, in a hotel suite and on a private plane."It has taken ten years and a fierce moment of cultural reckoning for me to understand these moments for what they were," Bravo told The Post. "He was a sexual predator and I was his victim."
Kyle Godfrey-Ryan, a then 21-year-old assistant to Rose in the mid-2000s, spoke of at least a dozen instances where Rose walked naked in front of her while she worked in one of his New York City homes.
It's interesting that most of those being accused, are calling their behavior a mistake. Those in politics are refusing to resign and the issue has become partisan, which it isn't.
What it is, is disgusting.
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