Sunday, July 29, 2018

Kimberly Guilfoyle: Fall of a LEGend

In last Sunday's post (which continues to trend in my blog stats as a highly viewed post for some reason), I addressed the departure of Kimberly Guilfoyle from Fox News and took a brief look at her LEGal career as an attorney and as a LEGal analyst on television. There were some hints that Guilfoyle's exit from Fox was not entirely voluntary. Were those rumors for real or are they not LEGit?  




Since then, Huffington Post dropped some knowledge about some drama in the background at Fox News. So today's post takes a look at some of the details from the Huff Post story as we ponder Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fall of a LEGend.  






It seems that Fox News was ready to show Guilfoyle the door following a human resources investigation into alLEGations of inappropriate behavior including sexual misconduct. 





As you know, Fox News has quite the checkered past when it comes to inappropriate behavior and sexual misconduct. It was such scandals that brought down such Fox News power players like Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes. I believe this might be the first time such alLEGations have been targetted at a woman. Guilfoyle’s attorney John Singer denies this story has a LEG to stand on: “Any accusations of Kimberly engaging in inappropriate work-place conduct are unequivocally baseless and have been viciously made by disgruntled and self-interested employees. During her lengthy and decorated tenure with the company, Kimberly was beloved, well-respected, and supportive of anyone she ever met."  







AlLEGations about Guilfoyle’s behavior includes showing personal photographs of male genitalia to colleagues (and identifying whose genitals they were), regularly discussing sexual matters at work and engaging in emotionally abusive behavior toward hair and makeup artists and support staff.




HR reportedly warned Guilfoyle about her behavior several times. But apparently, Fox News had enough and gave Guilfoyle the option to find a new job first before leaving, something in TV or going back to doing LEGal work, you know, whatever.  






In response to questions last Friday about Guilfoyle’s exit, the network issued a terse statement: “FOX News has parted ways with Kimberly Guilfoyle.” It declined to comment any further on her departure. Hours after HuffPost published its report that Guilfoyle’s departure was not voluntary, her attorneys from the law firm Clare Locke LLP sent a threatening legal notice to HuffPost and this reporter, claiming the story was false and defamatory and that failure to retract it would constitute evidence of “actual malice.”




Well, I hope her attorneys from the law firm Clare Locke LLP don't look my way to threaten or take any LEGal action. I'm just a poor blogger looking to share some insight into the LEGacy of Kimberly Guilfoyle at Fox News. 





Dear reader, just a moment, please.


Pssst! Guys, what's up with the last photo. 
That's too close up. And where's her head? 
Are we even sure that's even Kimberly Guilfoyle? 
Look, I'm trying to do a serious post here. 
Don't make a mockery of it, OK?  

There was a time not long ago that Kimberly Guilfoyle's LEGacy at Fox News was assured.  She was a protégé of Roger Ailes; she was untouchable.




But since the ouster of Roger Ailes as chairman of Fox News, the LEGend of Kimberly Guilfoyle has lost it's luster.  


When Ailes was in charge, Guilfoyle had ready and immediate access to the highest levels of power at the network. When Ailes was under fire for his own sexual misconduct, Guilfoyle urged female on-air talent at Fox News to make supportive statements about Ailes publicly.  After Ailes was forced out from the network, Guilfoyle was cut off from her mentor and has alienated herself with the women at the networkd for her unflinching loyalty to Ailes and  Guilfoyle's pressure to make other woman support him. Without her biggest supporter at the network, Guilfoyle's prospects with the network seemed less LEGit.  




For the full Huff Post write up, click here.  


I liked watching Kimberly Guilfoyle on Fox, especially if the sound was off. Maybe the complaints against her at Fox were LEGit or maybe the people making accusations really don't have a LEG to stand on. But as a leading LEGal analyst for Fox, she will be for a long time to come a part of the Fox News LEGacy. 


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