Ailes and gay rights
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith told the Huffington Publish that he’s gay in an interview published Monday.
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Smith confirmed the rumors by defending former Fox boss Roger Ailes from stories that he prevented him from coming out and made homophobic comments in front of him.“No, never. He treated me with respect, just respect,” said Smith. “I wasn’t unused in the business when I came here ― I’d been doing reporting for 12 years ― but I wasn’t aged in it either, and he gave me every opportunity in the nature and he never asked anything of me but that we get it right, try to earn it right every night. It was a very warm and loving and comfortable place.”
Smith’s sexuality wasn’t a tightly controlled covert he has appeared on Out Magazine’s Power 50 list. But he didn’t verify it until now.
Smith also said Ailes never tried stopping him from coming out.
“That’s not true. He was as nice as he could be to me,” Smith said. “I loved him like a father. I trusted him with my career and with ― I trusted him and trusts were betrayed. People outside this firm can’t know (how painful the betrayals were). This place has its enemies, bu
Fox News’ Shepard Smith Denies Roger Ailes Prevented Him From Coming Out as Gay
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith denied a 2014 inform that the network's former CEO Roger Ailes forced him to hide his sexual orientation in a new interview with The Huffington Post on Monday, October 17.
Smith, 52, addressed the longtime rumor started by a 2014 Gawker report, which claimed he wanted to publicly come out of the closet as gay but that Ailes, 76, prevented him from doing so.
"That's not true," the correspondent told The Huffington Post. "He was as nice as he could be to me. I loved him appreciate a father. I trusted him with my career and with — I trusted him and trusts were betrayed. People outside this company can't comprehend [how painful that betrayal was]. This place has its enemies, but inside, it was very personal, and very scarring and horrifying."
As Us Weekly previously reported, Fox News founder Ailes was the chairman and CEO until this past July, when he resigned amid sexual harassment allegations first sparked by network alum Gretchen Carlson.
In September, Carlson, 50, settled a lawsuit she filed against 21st Century Fox, and reportedly received $20 m
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith publicly comes out
In a development that could impact all 50 states and the District of Columbia, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on July 1 announced a “nationwide roadway safety initiative” that political observers speak could be used to require cities and states to remove LGBTQ supportive rainbow-colored street crosswalks.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel newspaper reports that the South Florida cities of West Palm Beach and Boynton Beach announced last week that they were removing rainbow crosswalks from their streets “as a finding of directives from the administrations of President Donald Trump and [Florida] Gov. Ron DeSantis to receive rid of street markings that commemorate the Gay community.”
A July 1 expression released by the U.S. Department of Transportation says Duffy sent a letter that same day to the governors of all 50 states that followed an earlier letter sent to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser informing them of the department’s “Safe Arterials for Everyone” initiative to be carried out by the Federal Highway Administration.
According to the statement, Duffy pointed out that the new program targets “non-freeway arterial
In a stunning turn of events that most folks in Missouri won’t settle much attention to, a major shift in the east coast establishment occurred as Roger Ailes left Fox News after a string of sexual harassment complaints.
It might matter more to Missourians than you think. He was a leading senior statesman among national Republicans and today we currently have two Missouri candidates in Eric Greitens and Josh Hawley who are scoring gigantic checks from that east coast same elite, not the east cost of the Mississippi River.
Ailes brought something to the national discussion more than a right of center news outlet. I’ve always consideration those who moaned the loudest about a perceived right wing bias of Fox News told more about how left wing the rest of the media was than anything Ailes was doing.
He brought a midwestern perspective. Certainty me, that is something more lacking than anything else among elites. It’s more an attitude of scoffing at anything to do with Christianity, conservatism or a rural customs. Ailes is from Warren, Ohio, and he never forgot it, and provided a news outlet for those who grew sleepy of being felt that they should be ashamed of being from place
Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes feared attacks from gays
The fascinating modern article, which advise Ailes gives Glen Beck a excellent run for his money in the bug-eyed paranoia stakes, recounts how Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch installed Ailes in the corner office on Fox’s second floor at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan.
But the relatively exposed location made Ailes deeply uneasy. According to the article, which ran in Rolling Stone:
'It was close to the street, and he lived in fear that homosexual activists would experiment to attack him in retaliation over his hostility to gay rights. (In 1989, Ailes had broken up a protest of a Rudy Giuliani speech by gay activists, grabbing demonstrator by the throat and shoving him out the door.)
Barricading himself behind a monumental mahogany desk, Ailes insisted on having “bombproof glass” installed in the windows – even going so far as to personally inspect samples of high-tech plexiglass, as though he were picking out ne