Before Nancy "Don't Mess With Me" Pelosi Put Him in His Place, Right-Wing Sinclair Reporter James Rosen Had Been Terminated From Fox News After Sexual Harassment Claims Emerged
December 7, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi crushingly rebuked insolent Sinclair reporter James Rosen at the end of a news conference this week (Gage Skidmore)
Walter Einenkel
The reporter for Sinclair Broadcasting who was deservedly chastised by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Thursday after asking an inane question at the end of a press conference announcing the House would draw up articles of impeachment has a history of being an aggressive asshole to women, it turns out. James Rosen was the prick who decided to yell out, “Mrs. Speaker, do you hate the president?” That prompted Pelosi to come back to the podium to respond to this right-wing grammar school-level question.
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SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: I think our president is a coward when it comes to helping our kids who are afraid of gun violence. I think he is cruel when he doesn’t help with our DREAMers. I think he’s in denial about the climate crisis. However, that’s about the election. Take it up in the election. However, this is about the Constitution of the United States and the facts that lead to the president’s violation of his oath of office.
And as a Catholic, I resent your using the word “hate" in a sentence that addresses me. I pray for the president all the time. So don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that … I pray for the president. I still pray for the president … So don’t use that word with me.
f you don’t remember James Rosen that’s because he was out of a job for a while last year, after Fox News unceremoniously let him go in January 2018. Of course, as NPR reported at the time, the lack of ceremony probably had to do with the allegations that Rosen was something of a shitheel harasser of female coworkers at Fox News, and in 2018, Fox News needed to clean as much house as possible:
The network cited no reason for Rosen's exit and did not announce it on the air. According to Rosen's former colleagues, however, he had an established pattern of flirting aggressively with many peers and had made sexual advances toward three female Fox News journalists, including two reporters and a producer. And his departure followed increased scrutiny of his behavior at the network, according to colleagues.
According to the story, Rosen partook in the Bill O’Reilly-practice of sending gross sexually suggestive and sexually direct text messages to female Fox News employees. But he didn’t stop there. One Fox News reporter said Rosen groped her during a shared cab ride, while another foreign-born employee said she lowered her complaints of sexual harassment against Rosen in order to be allowed a position at the company that allowed her to stay in the United States for longer.
Asking Speaker Pelosi whether or not she hates the president of the United States is insipid at best. But, for a person with Rosen’s clear lack of respect for women, it shows something else: a view of women as being emotional rather than intellectual, as people that can be muted by not listening to what they are saying and diminishing the events they are a part of. Nancy Pelosi’s “feelings” about Donald Trump mean nothing, and Nancy Pelosi is not governing her actions by talking about or justifying them with her feelings. People like James Rosen only have feelings—shitty feelings of inadequacy and anger and cynicism that they cannot reconcile with their profound loneliness.
In January of 2019, Rosen landed at Fox News’ right wing competitor Sinclair Broadcasting. The fact that James Rosen ended up as a journalist at Sinclair Broadcasting is about as surprising as finding out Donald Trump is dumb as dirt. The propaganda giant has been busy coming up with horror-filled mythologies to sell right-wing anger and fear to its virtually monopolized media markets for years now.
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