If you reported on liberal Hollywood for a living—indeed often more about the liberals’ very liberal lifestyles than their comparatively more staid professional liberal movies or TV shows—you’d probably become morally jaded and lose objectivity and become a liberal too. Of course, some of us would quickly become pretty appalled by liberal Hollywood and ditch the place, or choose not to tacitly endorse the Hollywood set in the first place unless of course we were a liberal.
Have I said the word “liberal” enough yet?
TV show host Pat O’Brien seems to fit right in. Formerly host of “Access Hollywood” with Nancy O’Dell but more recently host of a similar new show called “The Insider”, he has, according to a story in the New York Daily News, been revealed as a true liberal’s liberal, evoking all the qualities and possessions that liberals throughout North America and Europe strive to attain. Wine, women, song, sex, drugs, racism, sexism, groping, and generally lewd behavior.
It keeps getting messier for “The Insider” host Pat O’Brien.
The celeb chronicler checked into rehab Sunday, just as an embarrassing string of dirty voice-mail messages, which expressed a taste for hookers, cocaine and adventurous (if possibly unhygienic) sex, became public. His reps do not deny that O’Brien made the calls.
Now sources say O’Brien was reprimanded several times for sexual harassment during his time as co-host of rival show “Access Hollywood.”
A witness says O’Brien actually licked co-host Nancy O’Dell’s face at an “Access Hollywood” Christmas party. At the same event, he was seen groping reporter Shaun Robinson’s behind.
A gay male producer told our source O’Brien once said to him, “I have a gift for you.” When asked what, O’Brien allegedly answered, “Bend over.” On another occasion, he allegedly stretched out on the producer’s sofa and asked, “What would you do if I masturbated in front of you?”
He also allegedly offended two African-American employees when he walked into a makeup room and greeted them with, “What’s up, my n——s!” Could it be O’Brien feels that he’s down with the bruthas because he once appeared in a P. Diddy video? O’Brien’s lawyer, Abel Lezcano, said: “As far as being able to verify or deny this stuff, I can’t do it.”
“NBC does not comment on personnel issues regarding our current or former employees,” said a spokeswoman for NBC Universal, which produces “Access Hollywood.” “NBC has a strong policy against harassment in the workplace, and takes corrective action when appropriate.” A rep for “The Insider” declined comment.
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