But even if what she says is true, I find it difficult to work up any sympathy for her. She willingly submitted herself to the alleged degradation of Ailes for the sake of her lucrative career. She was not forced into it by violence, or brutality, or extortion or fear. She was in it for the money. IOW, she was a whore.

I use that term without prejudice, I have nothing against the true working girl, it is honest work, which is much more than can be said for what Mr Aisles, Mr Atwater (or Ms Luhn) did for a living. By her own admission, Ms Luhn willingly submitted to degradation and humiliation, not to protect her life or her family, from fear of harm, or even to earn a living. She did it for the promise of great wealth, which she received and enjoyed for years, and then chose to betray her commitments to her employer when it no longer suited her. Cosby had to drug his victims. Ailes paid for them up front. People like him will always be able to find people like her.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/fmr-fox-booker-harassed-by-ailes-for-20-years.html

Fox Family Values…

When she had finished dancing, Ailes told her to get down on her knees in front of him, she said, and put his hands on her temples. As she recalled, he began speaking to her slowly and authoritatively, as if he were some kind of Svengali: “Tell me you will do what I tell you to do, when I tell you to do it. At any time, at any place when I call. No matter where I call you, no matter where you are. Do you understand? You will follow orders. If I tell you to put on your uniform, what are you gonna do, Laurie? WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO, LAURIE?” Then, she recalled, his voice dropped to a whisper: “What are you, Laurie? Are you Roger’s whore? Are you Roger’s spy? Come over here.” Ailes asked her to perform oral sex, she said.

Later, Ailes showed her the footage of her dancing. She asked him what he intended to do with it and, she says, he replied, “I am going to put it in a safe-deposit box just so we understand each other.”

After that, Luhn said, she regularly met Ailes in hotels for sexual encounters. He asked her to buy a boom box so she could bring music to dance to. Ailes always left cash for her. A couple of times, while he was advising French politician Jacques Chirac, he gave her francs. “I remember I had to go exchange the money,” Luhn said.
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As she was promoted through the ranks at Fox, Luhn worked harder and harder to please Ailes. She zealously promoted the network’s right-wing agenda. “I was very proud of the product. I was very proud of how we handled 9/11. Very proud of how we handled the run-up to the Iraq War,” she said. “My job was to sell the war. I needed to get people on the air that were attractive and articulate and could convey the importance of this campaign. It was a drumbeat.”

Luhn said she sensed her colleagues in the Washington bureau gossiped about her frequent trips to New York and treated her suspiciously. She is convinced that many people at Fox News knew about what was going on with Ailes. “They all knew there was quid pro quo,” Luhn recalled. Two former Fox employees confirmed people knew Ailes was involved with Luhn.

A former colleague in Fox’s Washington bureau said that Luhn was “dysfunctional” at work. “No one knew what the heck she did,” the colleague said. “She was a ‘protected person’ and left alone.”

Luhn’s relationship with her boss at the time, Washington bureau chief Kim Hume, became strained. Hume threatened to fire her when she submitted an expense report for the DoubleTree hotel, Luhn recalled. “She said, ‘Do you expect me to sign that? I can get you out of here. I’d get you six weeks of severance.’” (Hume did not respond to a request for comment.)

In 2004, Luhn told Ailes about Hume’s suspicions. Ailes came up with a solution: Luhn got a promotion and a raise, and she would report to Ailes’s deputy Shine. Ailes summoned Luhn to New York to tell her the news, Luhn said. Then he told her to call Hume, from his extension, and inform her that she would no longer be reporting to her. She did, she told me, and Hume hung up. Ailes was sending a message to the bureau chief: Luhn was protected by him. Inside Fox News, Luhn became known as an “FOR” — friend of Roger. After the call, according to Luhn, Ailes turned to her and said, “Now, remember, you’re Doris Day. Go put your uniform on, get over to the DoubleTree, and thank me for this.”

Part one, Fox Will Change, is of course true, and probably in a slightly more moderate direction, as the center of gravity shifts toward other power centers like Shepard Smith.

Part two you heard it here: After the election, Trump hires Ailes to build a rival to Fox News, to promote Trump and his political ilk as assiduously as Fox promoted the Republicans and their ilky Tea Partiers. A challenge to Fox from the farther right almost like being primaried. Will Fox respond by lurching left or right? Stay tuned…