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    Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn

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    Image of Trixie from Toronto Trixie from Toronto
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    I hope he implicates Bill O'Reilly.
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    This fella is a real piece of shit, but I bet he has a kick-ass van.
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    Image of Silverbackne Silverbackne
    02/13/09

    @Nard: I broke my arm and am having a hard time getting this couch into my van.


    Say, what size are you?

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    Image of StonedAndDethroned StonedAndDethroned
    02/13/09

    @Silverbackne: Isn't she a great big fat person?
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    Image of scarletmenace scarletmenace
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    Perhaps the Catholic Church is hiring. He'll be fine.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    He has Perv-face.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    I'd like to grind a heel into the eye that looked at those babies being raped. Motherfucker.
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    Image of StonedAndDethroned StonedAndDethroned
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    Everyone knows about gay-face, but can kiddy-porn face become acceptable soon? It's real, people.
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    Image of TwiceShy TwiceShy
    02/13/09

    @StonedAndDethroned: Right?!
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    Image of rednrowdy rednrowdy
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    hold a second - he left a college after charges were made there, and fox hired him anyway?!?! nice work there, background checker people.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/13/09

    @rednrowdy: Evidently Fox did not start background checks until 2003, after he was hired.
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    02/13/09

    @rednrowdy: if Fox didn't hire people who had criminal backgrounds, they would be somewhat understaffed, I think.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    02/13/09

    @rednrowdy: Heh. It's like the trouble we had when I was pickpocketed in Paris (isn't that a Hammerstein tune?) was finding somebody who thought it was a crime.
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    Image of rednrowdy rednrowdy
    02/13/09

    @Dr. Nick: truer words have never been spoken...or rather, typed and posted.
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    Image of rednrowdy rednrowdy
    02/13/09

    @Tremonius: you should do the rewrite - for reals. :)
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    Image of lil red lil red
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    You know what is surprising? Fox News either hired the guy knowing he had been arrested for child pornography- or they NEVER googled him. There was no need for any serious investigation to see he had a record and dropped out. All they had to do was type his name and state in which he said he attended school to discover all the dirt.


    (BTW- for some reason Gawker is acting funny with Safari- can't read comments. It's okay with Firefox.)

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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    02/13/09

    @lil red: At Faux Noise, all they ever read is the hand-outs from the RNC with their talking points.


    Safari so good here!

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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    02/13/09

    @lil red: As someone who has never done anything remotely like this, I am not comfortable with the idea of every prospective employer Googling my name. Because frankly, what I do on my own time is my business.


    Now, yes, in this case, obviously what this guy did in his own time was not really only his business, and in fact he was doing it on company time too. But that doesn't (or shouldn't) give employers the right to judge every prospective employee by every little thing they see on the internet about them. What if there's a photo of me out there somewhere that shows me clearly inebriated? That's a perfectly legal, normal thing that people do on their downtime, yet there are employers out there who will disqualify candidates for things like that.


    In fact, there are legal issues surrounding wrongfully disqualifying candidates, so a lot of employers *don't* use Google because they don't want to be held responsible if a person sues over an overzealous HR person disqualifying a candidate because of a swear word they found on their blog. That could be Fox's position.

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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    May I ask how he was able to land a job when he was previously charged with possession of child porn?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/13/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: Maybe the HR people at Fox are good Christians who forgive the misdeeds of consumers of child porn.
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    02/13/09

    @BookishLookish: Hate the sin, not the molester.
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    Image of lil red lil red
    02/13/09

    @BookishLookish: The claim is that they didn't institute background checks until 2003- a year after he was hired. This doesn't make any sense when you consider that 9/11 happened in 2001 and I would think Fox would be ultra concerned in people's background after that.

    And- all you would have to do is google the guy. No need for an "investigation"- it would have taken about 10 mins tops to find out all the dirt.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/13/09

    @lil red: I'm sure Fox's legal department will spin this. The fuckers.
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    Image of Defeater Defeater
    02/13/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: Dude served out his punishment...I know child porn is the worst of the worst, but it's not like they hired him to work with kids or anything.
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    02/13/09

    @lil red: Wait, wait, wait...are you saying that FOX doesn't fully vet its employees?


    Excuse me, I'll need a spoon for this delicious irony.

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    Image of IamnotStarJones IamnotStarJones
    02/13/09

    @Defeater: but who wants to work with person who gets on seeing little kids having sex with adults?


    I know he has a right to make a living but what about my right to not work with a pervert who can't control his urges?

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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    02/13/09

    @lil red: Everyone gets a background check by HR. EVERYONE. If only to make sure you're not a murderer or (in Fox's case), a closet Democrat. Who did he know who did him a favor?
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    02/13/09

    @IamnotStarJones: 'but who wants to work with person who gets on seeing little kids having sex with adults?'


    Seriously. We'd be in the cafeteria line at lunch and he'd turn to me and ask what looks good and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not sure we have the same taste. I like the roast veggie sub and you like seeing 4-year-old naked girls get sodomized by grown men.' Awkwarrrd.

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    Image of uninspired uninspired
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    He needs to grow that moustache a little fuller before becoming a full-fledged child molestor.
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    Go Blue!


    Oh, wait.

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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    Ew, he looks sweaty.
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    Image of tigolbitties tigolbitties
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    is it bad that i think he looks molester-y in his picture?
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    02/13/09

    @tigolbitties: Some say we aren't supposed to admit to ourselves that one who looks as dumb as Dohbya or as crazed as Coulter probably is. It's profiling. Not nice. Saves you a whole lotta trouble, though.
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    02/13/09

    @tigolbitties: Everyone looks "molester-y" once they've been charged with "possessing and distributing child porn online" and labeled as such.
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    Image of FancyUnicornSmuggler FancyUnicornSmuggler
    02/13/09

    In reply to Fox News Fires Producer Charged with Child Porn
    Jim Cunningham?
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    02/13/09

    @FancyUnicornSmuggler: No see, this guy is different because he's going to the dungeon, not coming out of it.
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    Image of ArtfulSlinger ArtfulSlinger
    02/11/09

    In reply to How the Fox News Producer Got Busted for Child Porn
    I made the mistake of reading the affidavit and I can not for the life of me understand how these things are made, what demons are distributing it and how I have not found them all and began torturing them.


    Jail and psychology are no matches for these pigs. But painful and torturous death is. If this country goes broke, can we start bringing out the Lions Den again?

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