NBC News suspends veteran journalist Mark Halperin after troubling multiple sexual harassment allegations – IOTW Report

NBC News suspends veteran journalist Mark Halperin after troubling multiple sexual harassment allegations

Jack Crowe, DCNF

NBC announced Thursday veteran journalist Mark Halperin was being suspended hours after he was accused of sexual harassment by five female former coworkers.

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“We find the story and the allegations very troubling,” the network told a CNN reporter. “Mark Halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past are fully understood.”

Halperin, who is currently contracted as a political analyst for NBC News, was accused of a range of alleged predatory behavior including propositioning coworkers for sex, groping women’s breasts and kissing them without consent, according to CNN.

“During this period, I did pursue relationships with women that I worked with, including some junior to me,” Halperin said in a statement to CNN. “I now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. For that, I am deeply sorry and I apologize. Under the circumstances, I’m going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while I properly deal with this situation.”

Halperin, 52, is a well known political commentator, he co-authored the bestselling book “Game Change” on the 2008 election, which later became an HBO film about Sarah Palin’s presidential run, he worked as political director at ABC News and frequently appears on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”  MORE

19 Comments on NBC News suspends veteran journalist Mark Halperin after troubling multiple sexual harassment allegations

  1. Is this the same guy that lectured us about Trump and the “grab them by the pussy” scandal? Is this the same self righteous hypocrite who told us that Bill Clinton shouldn’t have been impeached because it was “consensual”? That guy?

  2. No no no. This, and the ever growing list of leftist sexual predators isn’t the story. It’s the Nonagenarian in a wheelchair with wandering shaky hands. He’s a republican ya know.

  3. This will be interesting. When all the smoke has cleared how many left leaning showbiz (any type of media) types will have been gunned down (career wise) vs conservative ones? Halperin is a big one, almost as big as O’Reilly. We still haven’t seen the child molesters or women come out of the gate yet. I only hope there is a sudden stiffening of spines among some of the victims of the especially heinous crimes against children.

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