Sexual Harassment Claim or Attempt to Silence?
I don’t know whether there’s any merit to the claim a Gitmo commander just filed against the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg or not.
In a letter to the paper’s editor, Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon accused Carol Rosenberg of "multiple incidents of abusive and degrading comments of an explicitly sexual nature." Gordon, who deals primarily with the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison, said in the letter that this was a "formal sexual harassment complaint" and asked the Herald for a "thorough investigation."
"Her behavior has been so atrocious over the years," Gordon said in an interview. "I’ve been abused worse than the detainees have been abused."
But I do know two things. Rosenberg’s reporting from Gitmo has consistently been the best reporting from the military commissions.
And this accusation from Gordon sounds suspiciously like treatment US soldiers inflicted on detainees in military custody.
While watching Sept. 11, 2001, co-defendant Mustafa al-Hawsawi seated on a pillow in court last year, Rosenberg told Gordon: "Have you ever had a red hot poker shoved up your [butt]? Have you ever had a broomstick shoved up your [butt]? . . . How would you know how it feels if it never happened to you? Admit it, you liked it."
That is, the comment could be as much a comment about American members of the military dismissing torture as it is about harassment.
I’m not advocating ignoring a claim of harassment (note, Gordon claims Rosernberg made insinuations about his sexual orientation). But I do find it suspicious that this claim is being leveled against the best journalist covering our Kangaroo Courts.
That quote sounds very much like something an outraged person would say (or rather, scream in rage and deep moral revulsion) to a perpetrator of that very act, trying to get him to feel empathy for the persons he’d violated.
I do notice that Gordon is being very, very careful to present that quote shorn of almost all context. It will be interesting to see Rosenberg’s side of the story.
Yeah. Imagine Gordon said, “What was done to Hawsawi and other detainees was not torture.” To which a sane person might bring up a case of torture and said, how would you like that?
One would think she could just explain herself and the context, Gordon and Rosenberg could do some mediation. And then Obama could invite Gordon and Rosenberg into the Whitehouse to have a beer.
President –> “have a beer” –> W.
I believe Obama is taking the having a beer with the President thing to new heights. You know not only a President you would like to have a beer with a President who you can have a beer with. Tee hee
Time to invite Rosenberg and Gordon in for a beer
http://blogs.abcnews.com/polit…..ouse-.html
Obama said at the end of his conversation with Crowley there was a discussion about Crowley and Professor Gates coming to the White House to have a beer together.
President Obama has not spoken to Gates yet and there is no time yet scheduled for their beer get together, although White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs indicated that the meeting would likely happen.
– Yunji de Nies, Sunlen Miller and Sarah Tobianski
UPDATE: At 3:15 pm the president called and connected with Professor Gates. “They had a positive discussion during which the President told Gates about his call with Sgt. Crowley and statement to the media,” The White House says in a written statement.
The President invited Gates to join him with Sgt. Crowley at the White House “in the near future.”
Why on earth would she go for mediation?
This is a political hit. She and the Herald should just bite back.
The he misunderstood what she was trying to say effort. The let’s try to understand one another’s perspectives better effort. Demonstrate that they are willing to come to an understanding. Take the fire out of it.
“bite back” is the way most folks do it. And you probably know better
Leen, look at what Rayne just wrote @ 75. This is political. Rosenberg and the Herald have to fight back; they really do.
I simply do not believe that Gordon did this all on his own.
“Forgive? Sounds good … Forget? I don’t think I could. They say time heals everything, but I’m still waiting.”
I’ll go with you on this. Just think that sticking out your hand first can take the flame (fight) out of a situation.
Ordinarily I would agree with that, however since she probably thinks (and who am I to disagree?) she’s dealing with a true hellspawned devil here, I wouldn’t expect a make-nice response under the circumstances.
If the Miami Herlad won’t fight back no one will. They are McClatchy… right?
Yes, the Miami Herald is McClatchy. It has a web section devoted to GTMO that is updated by Carol Rosenberg. No wonder Gordon wants to shut her down. He’s complaining to her bosses about her behavior, but I wonder if it is directed towards the agreement between the paper and DOJ/DOD that permits reporters access to GTMO in the first place.
http://www.miamiherald.com/137…..70-p2.html
Rosenberg should welcome an actual FILED lawsuit because she could obtain discovery including deposing Gordon and others. Lying under oath is still a crime, and any experts on the UCMJ out there, is this conduct unbecoming (for filing a false law suit)?
Yup, discovery would be a huge benefit from this situation.
I’d be sorely tempted to burn this source, too, if I were Rosenberg, although doing so in the course of a lawsuit would be tricky. There’s probably a ton of stuff in her notes which has never been published.
On the other hand, have to wonder if the suit is intended to get access to her notes…
It doesn’t sound as though he’s had the guts to do that, though. That’s another reason to be suspicious of this attack on Rosenberg. It’s crooked to go after someone’s job if you truly believe you’ve got a legit reason to sue in a real court.
Just my guess and my $0.02, but I think Gordon has just done a lot of us a big favour unless he does a fast backdown. Fight back, Miami Herald.
I recommend that all go to EW’s link and look at that picture of Gordon’s cruel face. hmmm, is he a close relative of John Yoo?
Right on, Carol Rosenberg, never give an inch!!
If he thinks a hot poker in the arse is sexual he has some deep seated problems.
Richard III didn’t think much of it.
I hate to correct you, eoh, but are you sure you don’t mean Edward II?
Richard III was killed on the field at Bosworth.
Yep. My bad.
This “official” Navy response is just a return mind game. I don’t think they’re gonna win it. But it demonstrates once again that intimidating the press is the military’s principle occupation, like that of its political superiors.
Edward II
I thought sexual harassment was a term reserved for suing employers. I didn’t think a boss could sue an employee for harassment, and I didn’t think people with no employment relationship could sue. Does sexual harassment potentially include this sort of case or is there another term for it?
This is not a lawsuit, it is a complaint against her lodged with her employer and copied to the WaPo to get it spread around. He is reporting her “bad behavior” to her boss to try to get her in trouble:
either fired or reassigned from GTMO. He “is retiring early next year, an exit date that may help explain the unusually harsh nature of his complaint against a journalist.”
He wrote the letter to end her probing and critical GTMO reporting. Since they have no employee/employer relationship, he cannot sue her for sexual harrassment on EEOC law. This is a simple smear job. She was rude and mean to poor commander Gordon, but looking at her reporting, her methods were very effective.
@Mary: Who knew that US military officers could be crippled by tough grrls? No doubt now added to al Qaeda EIT portfolio:
(Insert obligatory beverage offer here.)
and
Neil @65
Thanks for those – very good, and it was nice to smile.
go here http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..tml?nav=E8
and look at the face –
especially the eyes and mouth.
faces aren’t facts,
but they reveal a lot about the person.
that photo shows an ugly human being – ugh.
this quote from the article tells the entire story:
Los Angeles Times reporter Carol Williams, dismissed the letter, saying, “This is an attempt to discredit a journalist who has managed to transcend incredible odds to cover a story of tremendous significance to the American public.”
this is so transparently an attempt by the usa military to shut up Rosenberg it is almost laughable.
this is the link to the Miami Herald / Guantanamo Bay page – Rosenberg has done Pulitzer Prize work >>>
http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/
and if i had to wager i bet that Rosenberg has recently seen or heard something that the usa military does NOT want revealed or publicized.
aquarius74 @4
sorry, aquarius74. i didn’t mean to step on your lines.
it is quite a face, isn’t it.
i you follow aquarius’ advice, be sure to chose “enlarge photo” for your very own pin-up version of this spokesman for u.s government sponsored torture.
No problem. I couldn’t stomach the enlargement though.
My impression of the culture of the military is that there is no sexual harassment. They don’t want to hear about it from women (just deal with it, if you didn’t want it you wouldn’t have joined) and any man bringing charges would be the laughing stock of the entire force. This would seem to be even more true of the tough guys in charge of torture.
The idea that a rough and tumble Navy Cmdr would find such language so offensive as to constitute “sexual harassment” is laughable.
It’s deeply offensive that he should attempt such reverse psychology, such assymetrical warfare, on the press. He’s hiding something pretty big if he needed to take this public a route. And it seems unlikely that he would taken so public an action without approval from his superiors. This could open one hell of a can of worms.
Stupid, lazy, Nazis, Sadaam Hussein-like: he alleges that her calling him and his colleagues by those names is sexual harassment? Given the work product from the Executive branch lawyers, it’s certainly no big surprise that he consulted with Pentagon lawyers in drafting his complaint (although I think that’s probably inappropriate – for the Pentagon attys to involve themselves in a personal complaint by him against a member of the media), but really – what is the purpose of saying that she called them Nazis in a sexual harassment complaint?
And how the hell is she his boss? I’ve got to think that her stories would be even better if she could direct him to cough up the truth.
The really disturbing thing, though, is that the Pentagon allowed this complaint to be filed without classifying the operative information. After all, can you imagine what will happen throughout the battlefield if the Taliban learn the crippling effects of chanting, “Fatty fatty, two by four…” at our troops?
Good think Gordon doesn’t apparently read progressive blogs…
So do you thing there was some other reason for this suit being allowed to go forward at this point?
Thanks for the best laugh in a long time, Mary.
According to HistoryCommons timeline, our “intelligence community” does not really know the right name or country of birth for al-Hawsawi, if he is a real person or a combination of 3 unknown others–they really do not even know who they got and tortured. And, since the interrogators plant the answers and names they want in the questions, they can declare they have all kinds of witness proof for any terrorist act committed or imagined, and by whom.
I haven’t read the book, Armed Madhouse (by Palast?), but those 2 words surely seem to say it all.
He looks like just one more unhinged sadist. Go Carol! Sic ‘im! Let’s find out why the heck the gubmint helped him with this bogus complaint, plus flush out some of his co-torturers.
OT – From the LA Times
I think that’s a self-serving editorial, and just wrote to the editors to say so, pointing out that she was ignoring a lot of information that came out long before she says she learned anything. I didn’t forget to mention this place, either.
“Shouldn’t a legislator at least read the bills they’re voting on, before the vote?”
What a remarkably thin skin, this Commander.
“she’s callin me names, Mama, make her stop! make her stop!”
Sexual harassment? She is playing mind games with a person we suspect let torture happen. She is doing these mind games to piss him off and make him blurt something out she can use for her next article.
I don’t think she said this with the intent to get him in bed? I do think she was trying to hurt his feelings. I do think she was rude.
I do think she was rude.
And imagine if al-Qaeda discovers what they can accomplish by being rude. This should have all been sealed from the get go. Especially the fact that all you have to do to make a soldier like Gordon think of sex is mention Nazis. Sure – the military sent women in hold the dog leashes for naked, beaten detainees – but we all know that’s not sexual harassment, esp not when accompanied by razoring genitals. But have someoen with no authority over him whisper “Nazi” in Gordon’s ear, and there you go.
@19 I think there very well could be, esp if Pentagon lawyers helped him in drafting (which boggles my mind). Whether it’s one big thing, though, could be up in the air. And it could even be more just juvenile retaliation for what she has already done. I can’t find the link (and I had meant to save it) to the GITMO piece done pretty recently where they “take the tour” and the responses to questions are so revealing – the doctors claiming that forced nasal-gastric feeding was a great social time and that guys who had already eaten a meal would so look forward to the social gathering in the forced feeding room that they would also que up to be force fed, etc. Wasn’t that her piece?
Then if they are really going to go forward with commissions, the last thing they want is someone like her there.
IMO, they need to hit back and claim the Pentagon (which is assisting him in his drafting per the article) is trying to intimidate members of the media whose reporting they don’t care for and ask for DOJ to investigate.
How she is in a position to “harass” him with all her authority is ridiculous – and this from a military that didn’t think Tailhook was any big deal and that isn’t all that interested in the rape and abuse claims of women in the service.
I do know that when Colby Vokey’s paralegal heard the discussions – soldiers bragging about abusing detainees – and reported them, she was retailiated against and hard. Not only did they deep six her complaints asap, they went after her personally for even filing them. But Gordon gets assistance in drafting?
What a crock.
The army has had problems with sexual harassment and has been accused of ignoring these complaints the army’s standard for acceptable conduct in practice not the book should be looked at.
Given the sexually charged torture photos from abu Graid well the Gitmo commander had to expect this from the Press I mean we all seen ” Schindler’s List” right the Nazi Prison Commander who just shoots people for no reason?
Given the armies conduct the press does have a right to ask these questions they opened the door.
OT – A weekend of long overdue applause and appreciation for a principled humanitarian, anti-racist, and committed lifer Dem, who called ‘em like he saw ‘em, always:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07…..ref=sports
That man taught me so much baseball. He was colour commentator for the Blue Jays when I was at my most addicted, and he was smart and fun at the same time, a great teacher. Very nice to see that story, LD.
Thanks for the link. Kubek and Gowdy were a class act calling the game of the week, always something to look forward to.
I’m thinking this charge won’t stick in court so why do it access to her notes? Maybe but Obama has plenty of details that could be released at any time so why bother with what she knows?
I’m thinking coordinated smear campaign against as many reporters on the torture story as they can. They don’t want reporters getting promoted for covering this story. They want Judy Miller lapdogs.
More proof that the white man is the Jew of liberal fascism.
White men are under attack by the women, the blacks, the Hispanics and teh gays.
-G
“White men are under attack by the women, the blacks, the Hispanics and teh gays”
That’s cuz for centuries now too many white men have attacked women, the blacks, the Hispanics and teh gays, as well as Asians and American Indians. In other words, most everybody else on the planet.
I didn’t make that post in solidarity with the Jonah Goldberg view of the world.
-G
You might could want to try using snark tags.
Just saying.
(I figured it out, fortunately before returning flames.)
Oh, dear. GregB, I did not intend to offend, nor even be snarky. Just wanted to extend your sentence a bit to encompass more of the populations that have been mistreated by some (not all!) white guys. Nonetheless, I do apologize. Shake on it?
Shaken, not stirred.
Cheers. Thanks.
-G
This is part of a coordinated assault by the far rightists. They are using Limbaugh’s playbook in order to destroy President Obama by making it appear that he is the ringleader of a coordinated attack by the aforementioned groups intent on destroying the military, police and God, Grandma and apple pie.
I fear that putchists(we already have uniformed military making the case against a president they view as illigitimate) may be hoping to take a page from the Honduran playbook at some point in the future.
-G
It should also be noted that this matter can be simply framed as a female reporter abusing an miltary officer in defense of the worst of the worst, a terrorist.
Wouldn’t the easiest response be, “Man the fuck up, dude!” -??
Really, a guy in a uniform whining about a girl’s mouthiness, after a lifetime of serving and protecting against real threats?
Can’t even hope for a Colonel Jessup-type meltdown because there’s no way a Jessup would ever get whiny over a journo’s mean remarks. Cripes, military have the worst trash mouths among them, cannot imagine what a “girl” could say to make this guy pule.
Makes me really wonder what this is really all about, because unless he’s got info which could yield a criminal charge, he really can’t stop Rosenberg from reporting. She’d just need an assist.
“This is part of a coordinated assault by the far rightists”
Ah yes, the Farighti, near tho lesser cousins to the Ferengi.
It seems to me
Poster GregB
Is unable to see
Commander G
Objectively
And that GregB
Like Commander G
Writes cowardly
Because you see
He’s a Farightened B.
I guess I miss the point of your prose.
-G
I guess it is time for a blog vacation.
Hi. My name is bmaz. This is a fine looking blog you got here folks. Please do not talk loudly, my head still hurts.
Lots of water will help. Also some protein. Or maybe a nice cup of egg tea. (While the tea is brewing, beat an egg with a couple of tablespoons of sugar. Pour the tea onto the beaten egg, stirring. Drink. If you use chai black tea, it’s like eggnog, but with caffeine instead of alcohol.)
Ya gotta be kidding. I was thinking more along the lines of a Bloody Mary…..
Ah, ‘hair of the dog’. I’d still recommend the egg tea; your stomach will appreciate the ‘instant breakfast’ qualities. And nothing says you can’t spike it ….
I tried to find you a “cure”, bmaz, via google and youtube. Frankly, they were all almost nauseating to read/see. So, my advice is to drink lots of water and even Gatorade or something similar to it. You’re dehydrated and the climate around you is no help, I’m afeerd.
By the way, it is interesting that the commander is admitting that the detainees have been abused in a legal filing.
-G
Maybe its not sexual Harassment but the Cognitive Dissonance giving him that sexually harassed feeling.
Having followed Carols entire writings on GITMO I’m sure she has had words with more than one of those in power there. She has insinuated as much a few times. This smells almost exactly like the attacks to discredit Joe Wilson and a few others the DoD has seen as a burr under their saddle.
Hmm, do you recall that in early 2003 in the runup to the war, a sex smear was used in an attempt to discredit Scott Ritter, the outspoken critic of war in Iraq?
In this case, the sex angle gets the media coverage prior to the neocon wingnut brigades coming to the defense of the “victim”. (Support the troops!) I guess we know what’ll be on Faux next week.
And against the Iraqi IG, Bowen
http://www.harpers.org/archive…..070503lmxb
(spending his valuable time on match.com and making dates, while his assistant was hiring hunks)
And against Fiscus, the original AF JAG who fought over Rumsfeld’s ok of EITs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Fiscus
Hoping Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Olbermann someone in the MSM starts having Former weapons inspector Scott Ritter to talk about the agenda with Iran and how the stage is being set for a 2010 strike.
The MSM is helping set the stage again. So much focus on their elections and the aftermath. Far more coverage than the protest in the states have ever received. Terri Gross, This American life (did another story on Iran today) and other media outlets are focusing a great deal on Iran.
Is this away to set the stage for an attack? Great deal of unsubstantiated claims about Iran being repeated and not being challenged
bmaz @ 32,
serves you right for getting into the liquor cabinet so soon after Her Ladyship left! Have a cuppa coffee now, and you’ll be fine.
Bob in HI
Jeffrey Gordon ..flipping the script
Does it strike anyone else that this is turning into “Thou Shalt Not Resist The Mighty Majesty Of Uniformed Authority, Especially When Deployed Illegitimately” week? Skip Gates falsely arrested for resisting unlawful policing, Carol Rosenberg falsely (nay preposterously) sued for criticizing unlawful treatment of detainees.
I agree with the comments that nothing is going to come of this except that Rosenberg’s reporting will be silenced.
It seems to me the Herald Corporation has to take steps. The opportune steps, of course, are all against Rosenberg. But what might a corporation do if they were to be fair to their employee?
It seems to me that the most substantiative complaint Gordon has is in regard to accusations that he is gay. As he plans on retiring soon, suggestions about his sexual orientation and using his office for sex are explosive. In his complaint Gordon presents questions from Rosenberg regarding Gordon’s special treatment of young men under his charge.
My question is whether part of the investigation that Gordon demands would reasonably address the issue of whether such questions about Gordon’s apparent favoritism is appropriate or sexual harassment on its own? What I’m asking is Gordon’s sexuality something it’s reasonable for the Herald to investigate in the course of their investigation of Gordon’s complaint about Rosenberg? If so, how would they go about that? Would the tit for tat be a formal request by the Herald to investigate Gordon’s favoritism based on getting sex?
not going to be easy to do with Ew on this
Oh damn, was I slow to the party on this one…
He’s pissed because she could get him thrown out of the military under DADT, but he can’t make it about DADT because that would out him.
He may/may not be gay, but even the battle about proving sexuality could force him into a DADT situation.
And he’s only a year from retirement, so the loss to him could be big.
Granted, this could be an effort to shut Rosenberg up — but what about? GTMO or other things more personal?
But that doesn’t add up. Under those circumstances, why ever would he go public with this? It seems to work directly against his best interest.
It could be a two-fer. Perhaps the military had no other reason to go after Rosenberg, and no desire to enforce DADT against Gordon (who would likely have a lot of info on GTMO operations). So they turn a blind eye and let Mr. Pissy-britches go after Rosenberg. Win-win.
It will have an impact on Rosenberg whether she was “rude” or not; with a lawsuit threatening, editors will likely put her on a leash and tell her she won’t be writing about GTMO. Although it’s still likely she’d be working with another journo whom we would have to hope could pick up the pieces and fill in the blanks with Rosenberg’s help.
But what lawsuit? Not clear any law was broken here. I guess we need an expert on SH law. Is Florida law relevant since this was in GITMO? Is Federal law even relevant since this was in GITMO?
It’s the threat of a lawsuit implied in the letter. I suspect Gordon would simply claim some form of harassment.
Putting myself in the shoes of the editorial staff, I suspect there’s a protocol which requires an investigation with a temporary removal of the target in question to a different beat. This would probably happen whether there was a lawsuit or only a threat of a lawsuit.
But the first thing that happens is, the letter goes to the Herald lawyers, and they come back and say whether Gordon’s got a leg to stand on. No law –> no possible case –> empty threat.
But it’s not just a threat of a lawsuit here, that’s the other rub.
They have to investigate to see if their reporter crossed a line and was abusive with a source. It’s not just as simple as assessing the potential merits of a lawsuit. If Rosenberg is alleged to have done something which would be grounds for suspension or termination of her employment, they have to do the legwork.
Gordon has squelched her for a while, and I’ll bet it’s at least 6 weeks — by which time we will be discussing much bigger issues, I’ll bet.
Well I am certainly not an expert on sexual harassment law, but I have been involved in a couple of cases with one of my partners and the it is safe to say that the whole idea behind the charge is that it is meant to address employment situations and other master-servant type of situations where there is a disparate level of power and authority between the involved individuals and/or entities. Rosenberg doesn’t work for this asshole or the military, nor vice versa. Gordon is full of shit, and it is embarrassing and astonishing that the Pentagon actually worked with the guy to produce this bogosity. Jeebus.
(speaking very softly:) Thanks, that’s kinda what I thought. No teeth, then, except as a PR ploy, and the paper should see that immediately, undercutting any potential silencing effect. Good.
You’re back in the saddle baby!
how many bloody marys did it take?
Two, lunch and a nap.
Mr. Pissy-britches
ROFL
I match that with the picture and I have to think that he’d much rather be called whatever Former Fed was thinking than to be, “Mr. Pissy-britches” Or even “Mr. Prissy-britches” *g*
Yeah, the pic’s a top and I called him a bottom. Wouldn’t make him at all happy. Heh.
I wonder what legal definition of “sexual harassment” this, erm, effort is intended to target. If any. Because without an underlying law violation there, it’s hard to see what objective other than intimidation Gordon could have in mind. This situation sure doesn’t seem to fall within the EEOC definition. Judging from that page (not the best basis, I realize), it looks like SH in the US is mainly (maybe exclusively?) a feature of employment law, which would seem not to apply in this case. From that POV, it might make more sense for Gordon to sue the USG for failing to protect him from SH, rather than suing Miami Herald for an employee’s behavior.
drational @ 57,
The worst insult in the Middle East is to claim that your opponent is not worthy to clean the penises of Donkeys. That’s about as low as you can go, in their terms. Maybe it’s the Middle Eastern equivalent of snark.
Bob in HI
Best of Show!!! Let’s apply that to Cheney, Addington, Yoo, Rummy, Odierno, McCrystal…
Carol Rosenberg to Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon:
Son, we live in a world that has US torture chambers and that torture has to be reported by woman with pens. Who’s gonna do it? You? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for your intern, and you curse the press. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know — that my hard language, while tragic, probably saves lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
Gordon is clearly pissed and taking it personally. Rosenberg knows how to push his buttons and uses what she has to keep some measure of leverage over the gatekeeper. He seized on “sexual” harrassment as a charge that will garner attention and hopefully punitive effect. He has been unjustly manipulated in what might be reasonably construed as harrassment in the service of journalism in a battle with the gatekeepers.
Ironically, its the person in a position of superior authority who might abuse it in the service of sexual harrassment. Is Gordon implicitly admitting Rosenberg has successfully turned the tables? It must be galling.
Take a good look at Carol Rosenberg, journalist.
Well, there is that crazy theory the NeoCons had about how use of legal mechanisms by citizens to keep the USG and the military operating within the bounds of law — lawsuits, FOIA, protests, and I guess even lobbying and reporting — can constitute warfare against the US, if it’s effective in thwarting executive will. Of course when you break that down it’s just another way of claiming that the Prez can’t be bound by anything as puny as laws, i.e. criminal, psycho, anti-Constitution, treason.
Brilliant rework of the quote Neil. Really well done.
If she used that in the press, she’d win the one-upmanship rhetoric game portrayed so well by MSM that likes a good “story” whether it resembles the reality or not. Probably better of a third party said it for her.
It would effect the transformation of honorable military status from Gordon to Rosenberg.
Already Gordon doesn’t have much macho left having already called for a referee to make Rosenberg stop and punish her for using mean words.
Rosenberg: “The truth?!! You can’t handle the truth… escaping!“
Agreed. This whole thing smacks of press intimidation to me. What on earth was Gordon doing working with any lawyers? If he was unhappy with Rosenberg, then he needed to complain to her bosses at the Herald. You only put crap like this in the paper if you are trying smear someone. I suspect this is bogus from start to finish. I trust Rosenberg will get the last word, and it will be a very well written one at that : )
What a disgrace to all of us that wore the uniform of the US Navy. The WaPo article mentions he is retiring. If he is retiring at 20 years as a full commander, that probably means he got passed over for captain.
I have a term I would like to use to describe him, but will pass because I know I would be roasted by all the gals on the blog.
So I will just say “What a jerk!!”
pantywaste? as in, a useless bastard
You’re not even close – think locker room talk.
If there is no basic for a civil suit, then it all comes down to whether the Herald has her back or not. And I don’t see why they, a newspaper fer gawdsake, should cave to an attack on a reporter with no evident legal backing.
I probably shouldn’t mention this, but you know, if a donkey’s been gelded, he does have to have his penis cleaned now and then. TMI? I’m guessing a vet must not be super high on the ME social scale.
She is certainly prolific.
http://pd.miami.com/sp?skin=…..;submit=Go