DC: A lawyer representing Morgan Freeman told CNN that the story about how the actor allegedly sexually harassed women is false and demanded a retraction.
In a 10-page letter to network president Jeff Zucker, his lawyer said the reporting was “the product of malicious intent, falsehoods, slight-of-hand, an absence of editorial control, and journalistic malpractice.”
“At a minimum, CNN immediately needs to issue a retraction and apologize to Mr. Freeman through the same channels, and with the same level of attention, that it used to unjustly attack him on May 24,” wrote attorney Robert M. Schwartz.
Freeman’s attorney also said that they have opened their own investigation and found a number of problems with CNN’s story.
On May 24, CNN reported on eight women who accused Freeman of sexual misconduct. Eight other individuals said they were witnesses to his improper behavior.
“Of the three people CNN identified as being a ‘victim,’ the first, CNN’s own Chloe Melas, had no reasonable basis to have interpreted what Mr. Freeman said or did at the Going In Style interview last year as having been directed at her or as any form of harassment. The videotape confirms that his statement had nothing to do with her and was not harassing. And an independent third party, the Warner Bros. Human Resources Department, investigated her claim and concluded that it was not supported by the facts.”
“The second person CNN identified, Tyra Martin, has gone on record twice since CNN published the article to state that CNN misrepresented what she said to CNN and that Mr. Freeman did not harass her,” the letter reads. MORE HERE
I haven’t stopped laughing since I read this article.
as John McClaine so eloquently stated: “Welcome to the party, pal!”
conservative: a liberal who’s been mugged
A 10 page letter? Thou doth protest too much.
I actually want him to take CNN to court. And I want Freeman’s lawyer to go to every single cable network news show and every online publication and talk about this. He should follow that idiot Avenatti’s tactics.
Freeman is an arrogant, egomaniac.
But pretty much all of the accusations against him sound either like flirtation or like they never happened.
I know he’s old. And like I said before, arrogant, but that doesn’t make what he said harassment. And I don’t see him flipping skirts, I just don’t.
The only way CNN will learn (if possible) is to be sued by one of their own. A lefty.
MJA
He’s Pro Gun and off the plantation. I really don’t know his politics. Certainly not a conservative. But I think he went against the grain enough the lefties decided to screw him. The Obamanation was joking today that Freeman would never be God again. Kind of makes you wonder.
Bad_Brad
He’ll eventually return to South Africa….And take up as Nelson
Mandela again….Trust Me…No one will notice.
In a way, I agree with Freeman’s lawyers’ charge of “journalistic malpractice” by CNN. The difference between the lawyers and me is that the lawyers probably think that the rest of what CNN does ISN’T journalistic malpractice.
Uncle Al – Exaclty! How can it be that they’re not lying about anything else except Morgan Freeman? Pfft. It’s fair reporting against his enemies until they come messing with him, right? lol
When media and society stroke your PeePee, MORGAN, what should WE or the Metoos expect!
This is the “they could do nothing wrong right?” sick culture.
Why do some of you think CNN is lying about Freeman? I honestly don’t know, that’s why I’m asking.
I’m not a fan of CNN obviously and I’m not following this story closely but if you google “morgan freeman inappropriate with interviewer” you can see clips of him leering and speaking in sexually suggestive ways with the women who are interviewing him. It’s creepy and inappropriate. I know he’s been accused of repeatedly trying to lift the skirt of at least one woman interviewing him, the woman says she had to get Alan Arkin to tell Freeman to stop and it sounds credible.
I’m all for men flirting but what he’s doing on camera isn’t what I’d call flirting. I don’t know what he may be accused of doing off camera other than the incident above, I’m not actively following the story and details.
Attorneys, if you can’t refute and defend your client from the the allegations with facts, baffle CNN with legal Bullshit.
Let CNN and Freeman eat each other. They deserve each other.
The attorneys win again.
@GG ~ most of us don’t care about CNN lying, or telling the truth, about Freeman .. they are both sides of the same coin & are attacking each other
… it’s like the days of the Soviet Union where the most corrupt accuse each other of sins against the collective to move up the hierarchy … nevermind how many of the collective are sacrificed
molon labe
I’m as happy as the next person to see the left attack each other but the comments from chuffed and uncle al and mja sounded to me like they think Freeman is being falsely accused. Perhaps I’m reading the comments wrong.
This might not change your answer (or anyone else’s) but my question should have been – when there are clips of Freeman acting boorishly on camera, why does anyone think accusations of serial harassment aren’t true?
GG- I wasn’t defending Freeman. Don’t care if he did what they said or not. But since Freeman’s lawyer claims 2 of the women said (one in a written article) Freeman didn’t do anything crazy, I want the lawyer to slap CNN around with that. I just think it’s hilarious that Freeman was OK with CNN’s slander of everyone else, until it got to be his turn. And for that, I say let them fight it out in public or in court for slander. Because that will solve 2 problems. CNN has to admit they’re lying and/or Freeman was doing more than being a creep.
If it was about CNN lying, then they can expect a lot more (falsely) accused men to step forward and get a piece of that action. (pardon the pun. lol)
“chuffed and uncle al and mja sounded to me like they think Freeman is being falsely accused. Perhaps I’m reading the comments wrong.”
In my humble opinion, you’re missing the point, big. If he would have stayed on the plantation and been a good little Negro none of this would have seen the light of day.
MJA
Got it. Thank you.
Bad_Brad. But it’s pay day! Everybody’s in line for something in LeftWorld. The LSM and Hollywood are connected at the hip. Hollywood gives them bodies, the LSM gives them press.
@ Bad Brad – I saw your comment somewhere else about Freeman being pro gun. I didn’t know he was pro gun. But during the 8 years of George W and then 8 years of Obama, what did we hear more of from Freeman, slightly conservative messages or a boatload of lefty BS? I heard a boatload of lefty BS from him and have long since not been able to stand him. If he wandered off the plantation I don’t know where he went but he didn’t seem to come near our side. We can agree to disagree. I’m not invested in this, was just curious and asking for clarification, which I got.
@GG ~ just my guess, but I don’t think anyone here is denying the accusations against Freeman … I see a bit of Schadenfreude from like-minded people
we tend to lean towards the belief that people that believe they fart honey water shouldn’t be surprised when everyone else thinks it’s just a stinkin’ fart .. just like everyone else’s .. just sayin’ … it’s all good
Morgan Freeman: ‘We are at war with Russia.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=199&v=1cjrZZyxowo
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And after Trump got elected, he doubled down.
My favorite comment from youtube;
“Alexander Kolesnikov
8 months ago
Morgan, if they holding your family as a hostages for making you do this, blink two times in next video. ”
LMAO!
All CNN has to is go to court, show the judge the abundant & clear evidence that no journalist work there, and case will be thrown out before breakfast coffee has cooled enough to drink.
Too late. You have been accused. No go prove you are innocent.
Freeman schoooled Lemon on racism in 2014 and CNN never got over it. Payback.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZU8E4M4Z0
Haha, Freeman watched his fellow old pervs, Cosby and Weinstein, get dragged through the mud and procecuted and Freeman decided he ain’t going out like that. Not if the #MarxistToo, Hollyweird and the leftist media has anything to do with it and obviously, they do.
“If the law is on your side; pound on the law.
If the facts are on your side; pound on the facts.
If neither are on your side; pound on the table.”
(attributed to “Racehorse” Haynes)
izlamo delenda est …