Andrea Tantaros has a list of questions she wants Roger Ailes and others named in her suit against Fox News to answer in a lie detector test. In return, she has offered to do the same.
Tantaros recently filed a jaw-dropping lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and describing Fox as a “a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency, and misogyny.” Predictably, Fox is trying to move the case to (secret) arbitration instead of having it air in open court.
Meanwhile, Tantaros’ attorney, Judd Burstein, has issued a challenge to Fox. From The Huffington Post:
[Burstein] suggested that everyone named in the suit take a lie detector test. It would be administered by an agreed-upon polygrapher formerly employed by the FBI or the CIA, he said, and the responses would be made public.
Tantaros has said she is willing to take a lie detector test and answer questions from Fox News.
Huffington Post has the questions and they’re pretty damning. Some examples:
- Did anyone employed by Fox News ever request another Fox employee or independent contractor to surreptitiously access Ms. Tantaros’s personal computer?
- Did anyone employed by Fox News ever request another Fox employee or independent contractor to surreptitiously obtain the password to Ms. Tantaros’s Gmail account?
- Has Fox News paid money to more than six women to settle claims of sexual harassment by Ailes?
Perhaps even more damning are questions for host Bill O’Reilly. He seems to be the only non-defendant whom Tantaros suggests should answer lie detector questions:
- Did you ever invite Ms. Tantaros to spend time alone with you at your beach house?
- Did you ever tell Ms. Tantaros that you believed that she has a “wild side?”
In her suit, Tantaros named four Fox News men who sexually harassed her: Ailes, O’Reilly, contributor Scott Brown and correspondent John Roberts. But O’Reilly is the only one she apparently thinks should take a lie detector test.
Graphic of Tantaros via screen grab.
Sociopaths don’t have to worry about the physical responses which the polygraph records. They’re completely beyond worrying about lying.
As was noted on an episode of “CSI: Miami,” most lies are caught when the subject has to think about an answer (asking a relatively tough math question, for instance, sets a base response of “calculation” which, in turn, establishes a parameter for when a subject has to “think” about an answer). And, as Jackie noted on an episode of "Roseanne, " only complete sociopaths can fool the polygraph (to which Roseanne basically says, “good”).
Certain so-called “faith-based” groups and organizations on Long Island have invited these Fox “News” frauds to speak at their fundraising events. The organizations’ leaders look the other way while collecting money from their nonprofit organization. These same so-called “Christians” would collect money from satan himself.
The Fox “News” frauds are in bed with numerous faith-based organizations, business, NYC officials and politicians. They have low friends in high places.
The culture of corruption does not stop at the Foxies. It spreads its wings beyond the walls of this hideous house of demons skyscraper in midtown Manhattan. These clowns are pure evil, but that’s fine with the “Christian” organizations. It’s all about the money.
