News of Mike Bloomberg's "history of egregious sexism" is fake!
This is why Americans hate the media.
Like so many things it started with a Tweet — one posted on February 13, 2020 by Laura Bassett, a political columnist for GQ Magazine.
Bassett’s Tweet to her 51,000 Followers says, “There have been 40 sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits brought against Mike Bloomberg by 64 women. Why is his egregious sexism getting a pass?”
A link to this article was in the Tweet.
As a civil rights lawyer and mother of a campaign staffer for Mike Bloomberg, Bassett’s Tweet caught my eye. I read the article and the I’ll cut right to the chaff: Mike Bloomberg is not the one getting a pass.
There have not been 40 sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits brought against Mike Bloomberg by women! Not even close.
There have been two cases alleging sex discrimination and harassment against Mike Bloomberg personally according to the Business Insider investigation cited by Bassett: one that Bloomberg vehemently denied and settled in 1997, and another brought by anonymous plaintiff “Margaret Doe” who named Bloomberg personally but he was dismissed from the case.
And Bassett’s tone is so condescending.
Bloomberg gave out his autobiography to employees, apparently, and a handful of these unidentified people were so “uncomfortable” reading excerpts from the book they cut, pasted and circulated these excerpts via email to other employees to read.
“A few people started immediately going through it and sending the cringe-iest parts around on email chains,” one former unidentified Everytown employee told Bassett. “Hardly the most controversial things he’s said, but it’s still a bad look.”
A bad look? Is this egregious sexism?
In his book evidently Bloomberg boasts of having a girlfriend in every city — as a bachelor.
“Womanizing,” Bassett calls this, without speaking to any of the women “victimized” by a night of dining and dancing with Mike Bloomberg.
Bassett writes, “it takes a telling amount of gall and cluelessness to gift a book with anecdotes about your own womanizing to employees at your gun safety non-profit in the year 2015, especially for a politician with presidential ambitions who has been vigorously denying allegations of misogyny throughout his entire career—including nearly 40 sex discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuits brought against him and his organizations by 64 women over the past several decades.”
Gall and cluelessness? Please.
How about the pot calling the kettle black.
How about you click the link above cited by Bassett to “nearly 40 sex discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuits” and see that it takes you through several New York Post articles before eventually landing at the so-called Business Insider “investigation” that shows two cases brought against Bloomberg, both long since dismissed without finding any wrongdoing.
“Bloomberg’s sexism, like that of fellow New York City billionaire Donald Trump, has been prolific and well-documented, but for some reason, the stories about him don’t seem to have taken hold,” Bassett writes.
For some reason? Maybe its because your journalism sucks! That’s what is well-documented.
And Business Insider is equally shameless, hypocritical and moralizing. Its click-bait headline shouts Michael Bloomberg built a $54 billion company. For 2 decades, women who worked there have called it a toxic, sexually charged nightmare — meanwhile the photo attached to this post shows an ad featuring an almost naked woman with gigantic breast and come-hither look that readers are subjected to when purchasing a subscription to Business Insider in order to to read its bullshit “investigation.”
The Business Insider article cherry-picks unsubstantiated and unrelated salacious allegations to create a false narrative and nowhere does it mention the vast majority of cases referred to have nothing to do with sexual harassment and the overwhelming majority had nothing whatsoever to do with Mike Bloomberg.
Not a single finding by a jury or judge is cited — just allegations in complaints that have been dismissed.
The “nearly 40” cases cited by Business Insider is 37 cases and most of them allege wrongdoing unrelated to sex and unrelated to Mike Bloomberg the candidate. Age discrimination, race discrimination, disability discrimination, FSLA violations, for example, brought by men and women — and all but 2 are claims brought against the corporation Bloomberg LP, a company that employs thousands of people all over the world. Several claims identify supervisors at Bloomberg LP as a culpable party. These claims of employment discrimination against Bloomberg LP may or may not have merit. And Mike Bloomberg has nothing to do with them.
Cases brought by male and female employees against the huge company Mike Bloomberg founded is not evidence of his sexism.
The cheap shot Bassett takes comparing Mike Bloomberg to Donald Trump in her column is discredited by her failed journalism, and she adds injury to insult piggy-backing a fake, unsubstantiated cause on a legitimate concern about Mike Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk policy and his comments about “red-lining,” topics worthy of good journalism and public discourse.
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