“This is someone who is highly knowledgeable of women being cycled through for horrible and degrading behavior”
Someone has been hired so Trump can tell shit from Shinola
Red Hens look out, Zombie Roger Ailes comes to the White House and “Necessary Evil” has a new doorman.
Bill Shine will know what to do with random citizens yelling at Cabinet members and even bloody-eyed media members as state-run media looms… Imagine Molotov coming to mix cocktails or Goebbels coming to help Hess decorate his cell.
Shine’s usefulness will be measured in Scaramucci units as #TrumpRussia gets closer to Lord Dampnut. He’s already been on the job for a few days and reported to be accompanying Agent Orange to Montana today and we’ll see if the schitck changes. Imagine how he’ll take John Kelly’s place.
Propaganda needs its clerks, too. Lord Dampnut only trusts those discards from the Roger Ailes regime, and Murdoch wants his own back-channel into the Oval bedroom.
Shine’s experience suppressing sex crimes will be important as the Stormy Daniels and Summer Zervos lawsuits move forward, likely revealing more 45* character flaws.
Perhaps the MSM can start asking Bill about his past at Fox News, covering up for BillO and Hannity. Or will it go all WWE with Shine attacking Carlson for kafaybe effect.
Shine is notorious for telling female executives that sexual harassment at @FoxNews was a “necessary evil”
Maggie Haberman: “Irony of Shine’s hire to a premiere post at the White House – he was considered untouchable by many other prospective employers.”
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Since we now pay Bill Shine’s salary, feel like we’re owed a full accounting of his role in covering up nearly two decades of sexual harassment and blackmail.
Trump has officially announced former Fox executive Bill Shine as his new comms chief, but several lawsuits against the network allege Shine was Roger Ailes’ chief protector through years of sexually harassing female staff https://t.co/8JjLQMIDhX
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 5, 2018
“A growing number of women at Fox News have alleged,” @davidfolkenflik has reported (https://n.pr/2u74biv), BillShine “was aware of deeply inappropriate behavior against them and deflected, ignored or sought to suppress their concerns.”
Now that Bill Shine is running communications at the White House, reupping my piece on how Trump’s disregard for the truth goes hand in hand with with his appalling treatment of women https://t.co/WVMPiWFrfs
I was in his office for one of our chats. On the wall across from his desk was a deck of TVs showing all the news networks. The volume on each was turned off. Shine was sitting at his desk, and I was in a chair facing him. The televisions were behind me. In the middle of our conversation, Shine said, “Excuse me.” He picked up the phone and dialed an extension. I heard his end of the call: “Why did you change the shot? Why did you cut away from the fire?…OK, OK. Go back to it, and stay on it.” Polite but firm. He hung up.
What was that about? I asked. Shine explained that there was an underground electrical fire near the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, and Fox had been airing a live shot of smoke rising through a grate. When Shine noticed that the director had switched to other news, he called the control booth. Shine wanted to stick with the happening-now images of billowing gray smoke—even though this was far from a dramatic image of a major blaze. It was simply smoke coming through a hole in a sidewalk. No flames. No heroic fire-fighters battling a conflagration. No soot-covered victims. Just smoke. The network followed Shine’s command and returned to the shot.
Why do you want to broadcast that? I inquired. With a wide grin on his face, Shine explained: “People will sit on their couches and watch a live shot of a fire for hours and hours. They will not switch the channel. Flames are the best. But smoke is the next best thing. We have smoke. We stick with smoke.”
