Media Maintains ‘Wall of Silence’ on First Gentleman #MeToo Scandal “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.” by Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/media-maintains-wall-of-silence-on-first-gentleman-metoo-scandal/
Here’s the scorecard so far.
Doug Emhoff, Kamala’s powerful lawyer hubby, admitted to impregnating his nanny during his first marriage. The status of the child is unknown, but there are allegations that she suffered a miscarriage.
A recent report described Emhoff hitting an ex-girlfriend in public. The media refused to report on the allegation and only reported on Emhoff’s denial of the allegation.
Half of the political world focused Wednesday on a Daily Mail report that second gentleman Doug Emhoff “forcefully slapped ex-girlfriend for flirting with another man” at Cannes in 2012. Others (including Semafor) haven’t matched the reporting, and as of Wednesday evening the incident didn’t appear in The New York Times or top outlets. But the allegations are a dominant narrative in conservative media: Megyn Kelly’s coverage had more than 150,000 views on YouTube, while Trump aide Stephen Miller demanded answers. In a statement to Semafor, a spokesperson for Emhoff said “this report is untrue,” and that “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.”
It’s striking that “half of the political world” is focused on an allegation the media won’t report on.
Instead, the media is reporting on such urgent stories as “Doug Emhoff On Andy Samberg’s ‘SNL’ Impression: “I Approve”, “Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to visit Arizona” and “Michael Stipe, Jason Isbell Tell Doug Emhoff Why They Endorse Kamala Harris”.
Isn’t journalism awesome?
That allegation has been denied, now there’s a new one at the Daily Mail.
Attorneys who worked with Doug Emhoff at his former firm Venable say he yelled expletives, held a men-only cocktail hour in the office, revoked work perks from women who didn’t flirt with him, and took only young, attractive associates in a limousine to a ball.
One senior former staffer claimed Emhoff ‘bragged’ about yelling ‘get the f*** out of my office’ to a female partner at the firm, later telling his top male colleagues that he had ‘put her in her place’.
A female ex-staffer said it was well-known at the firm that Emhoff was ‘very flirty’ and that ‘if you weren’t flirty back or didn’t respond positively then you were on his s**t list.’
This former Venable lawyer accused him of ‘favoritism’, saying the consequences of not flirting with him were that ‘you wouldn’t get to work on the cases you wanted to work on.’
‘There were deadlines that, if you were one of his favorite people, wouldn’t apply. But if you weren’t, they would,’ she told DailyMail.com.
Another woman who worked at the firm for several years said that Emhoff ran men-only drinks nights in the office.
‘He had, for many years cocktail parties where only men were invited. In the office, on Friday evening,’ she said.
‘When my colleague brought that to the attention of Venable [around 2010], that stopped.’
‘If there was an event, like the Justice Ball, he would favor certain people. Usually it was young, pretty girls. And he would prefer for them to ride with him. He would get a limo,’ she said.
A former legal secretary at Venable, Marjan Rabbi, sued the firm and two of its LA partners in 2019 alleging sex discrimination.
She claimed Venable senior attorneys yelled at her, humiliated and demeaned her.
Emhoff was not a defendant in the lawsuit, but he was called out by name in Rabbi’s legal complaint.
The LA court filing claimed Emhoff was known for having a glamorous secretary in her 20s who was ‘unqualified’ but ‘hired because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office.’
Is this #MeToo stuff that may well be a matter of personal perception the end of the world? Depends.
People have been canceled for a lot less. Go ask Garrison Keillor or Joss Whedon, if you can find them, who lost lucrative careers over a fraction of this kind of thing, and if Emhoff had been just another white guy, instead of a ball and chain tethered to the hopes of getting the first half-black president, he’d be canceled over it. As it is though, the media will instead eagerly report on which state Emhoff will be campaigning in next.
And as more stuff comes out, we’ll be told it’s “disinformation” and that the Russians hacked Emhoff’s genitals. Don’t expect serious reporting or investigating from the same media that demanded Justice Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook.
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