No BS Newshour Episode #421
GARBAGE
VIRAL: The story behind the violent assault at Potbelly.
He’s the same a-hole I tackled 10 years ago for mugging my friend.
ANOTHER Whitmer fail: Neither of us knew he was released.
O Canada! We’re not your dumping ground. Tariff the trash!
See You Next Tuesday: Dopey Dana celebrates elder abuse.
Big Data Bensons: Moonlighting as the grand dragon of the KKK? What’s the silk count on those robes, Madam?
#MeToo Taryn: Former Fox 2 no-talent Taryn Asher’s career in ashes. The petulant former personality drops an anchor on her own head.
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TRANSCRIPT:
So, I prepped the show yesterday at my ba, who’s, you know, fading towards the afterlife. I go through my email, I’m deleting them, and I’m like, here’s a police mugshot. I don’t, I usually just delete.
I go, but they don’t send mugshots. And I look, and it’s, what’s his name, Claude Orlando Thomas Jr. You got his mugshot? That’s him. That’s Orlando Thomas Jr. goes viral, okay, for taking the downtown bus, and as he gets off at his girlfriend, he slams her head into the bus windshield and shatters it.
Then they get out and they go to the potbelly, one block away. And he starts pummeling her. Oh, I saw the video.
Yeah, with the chairs. Yeah. And the table.
Out of fucking control. Do we have sound on that? Oh, dude. Yeah, it’s good.
And nobody does shit. Yeah, look, the people outside the window, they’re just looking. He is stomping her.
Look at this. Oh my God, look at this. Oh my, gee, oh, it’s awful.
And everybody loved it. Went viral. Nobody did a thing.
Not a fucking thing, dude. Was there any sound in that, Claude? Oh, ladies and gentlemen, thanks. Mark’s on vacation.
Working the board today is Cloudy LeDuff. What’s up, kid? We do our best. This is live.
This is a very big show. Are we live? Are we live? Yes, we are. Oh, shit.
It’s good to know. We’re not live, but it’s pre-recorded live. Okay, you saw that.
Now he’s got $100,000 cash bun. That guy, Detroit right here. I’ve been here a long time.
There’s a connection. Watch the videotape. This was 2015 when Orlando Thomas Jr., when he was 19, hit a lick, mugged Grace Carols of America together.
That’s him? That’s him. The dude that just got let out. Yeah, so that’s him running right there.
That’s me chasing him. I drew my coffee. Dude, I didn’t think you were going to turn around.
I was wearing my slippery lambskin sole boots. There it is. I got him.
Take down. Gotcha, bitch. Gotcha.
Took 20 minutes for the police to show up, by the way. That’s the dude. Wow.
So that dude, he was hitting licks all over it down here, man. Larceny, theft, everything. I get him.
He threatens to kill me. He goes, I’ll kill you, motherfucker, on my top. I’m like, you ain’t going to kill me.
I’m going to choke you to death. You pull anything. We go to court.
I’m the witness. And he says, white boy, that’s a lie. I’ll fuck you up.
Like that, in court, in shackles. They had to tackle him. It was nuts.
So they gave him three to 15 years. He’s like a four striker. Three to 15 years for a purple fucking cell phone.
So that means you got to do three years. He doesn’t get out for 10. He doesn’t get out for 10 years.
So apparently no good behavior. Well, now you extrapolate face to the windshield, stools, chairs, tables. Here’s the funny thing.
So I called Karos. I go, this is our guy, isn’t it? She goes, yeah. When you register on the victim’s list, you’re supposed to be notified.
When the fucker is released from prison, she was never notified. It was one block from here that he did this one block. Okay.
So a guy might have a problem with you if you put him away for a decade. Yeah. So shock.
Now we went through COVID, right? Here’s where we go political with it. We knew from COVID how fucked up the prison system was, right? We learned that. We learned about nursing homes, every schools.
Women didn’t do a damn thing about it. The system just fucking collapsed again. It just shows you how incompetent everything is.
He got out in December. We didn’t know it. Wow.
And if Ellie Savitt were the prosecutor, he would not have cash bail. He’d be out on the street right now. Yeah.
And that’s nice. Welcome home, returning citizen. Put your fucking girlfriend’s face to a bus windshield.
That’s insane. The fact that everybody pulled their phone out to video that shit and nobody intervened. Jason Rome, my friend, Anna Hoffman, we just hanging out.
We’re going to hang out today. Thanks, Claude. Because I was just going to take the week off.
But then I said, I got to be professional. So I got my friends to join me. Okay.
He’s in this bestseller here. Shit show. The country’s collapsing and the ratings are great.
I didn’t take it to Mackinac. There wasn’t enough room in my prize bag, Jamie. What? That’s the city.
Okay. Now, where he’s beating him with the chairs and nobody’s doing anything. A block up from there is where the 14 year old took it in the chest during the team takeover.
Let’s just tell you what’s really going on. Anything? Roll it. Intro.
Oh, by the way, before we go to intro, she’s finding it. Is anybody going to do anything? Is anybody going to stand up to corruption? The slow erosion of fairness in our society? Is anybody going to call the oligarchs out? The corrupt government? Is anybody going to intervene when a woman is being beaten to death? Is there anybody around? I’m not trying to play a hero, but my friend gets mugged. I’m going.
Come on. We can do better. Roll it.
Live from downtown Detroit, it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man, Charlene LeDuc and Gary Nunes. No more bullshit. Is this the hole in one? It’s a hole in one, $50,000 if you hit it.
Luke Nowacki, financial wealth management. What is 50 grand after tax? 37,750. What about state tax? Yeah, that’s, I’m throwing both in there.
What about sales tax? There’s no sales tax. Well, you’re buying the beer. It’s income.
You’re buying the beer. Eh, we write that off. Luke Nowacki, financial wealth management.
Expense allowance. I don’t know why I’m in the desert in my underpants. I don’t know why these wolves are following me, but I need sausage.
A good wiener is hard to find, so make sure you treat it kind. Sausage. You may run with a pack, but everything ain’t meant to be said.
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You’re over there playing fucking Minecraft or something. I mean, is Twitter really any better? Let’s be honest. How old are you playing fucking video games? We’re back.
We’re back. Sausage. Sausage.
You guys were here. Red is out of ICU. He’s midtown in rehab.
He’s talking now, praise be to God. Should we go visit him today? Yeah, we should. And I played him the roast.
That guy was laying there. He hasn’t eaten solid food in two months. Dude, he must be thin as a fucking rail.
No, but he was laughing. He was laying in the bed and I’m playing him the joke. In his belly, it was like Santa.
And then he started tearing up. And you know what his ex-wife meant to him, what his friends mean to him, what life means. It was pretty beautiful.
Thanks for coming. It’s been a little patch for me not to be selfish. I guess the patch for me is how lucky I am.
And I’m not sad. I’m happy. I’m overwhelmed.
Life’s a beautiful thing. It’s a beautiful life. Ready? Okay.
Take two. It’s the fucking Canadians again. Fucking Canadians.
They’re literally dumping on us. Millions of tons of industrial waste pouring into Michigan’s landfills every year from Canada. Enough for two Empire State buildings every year in Michigan alone.
Garbage. And we can’t stop it. And it’s all the fault of NAFTA and the U.S. Constitution.
Let me explain. That notorious trade deal provided the legal framework that prevents Michigan from stopping Toronto’s detritus from passing through Detroit. Under the compact, solid waste is legally classified.
Legally classified is a commodity. And because the garbage is entirely manufactured in North America, it avoids a tariff. Michigan’s dumping fees are cheap, about half the cost of Ontario’s.
It’s so cheap that neighboring states also dump on us. We’re surrounded by more garbage per person than any state in the union. And you’ve been to Jersey.
What exit? You know what I’m saying? Forget about New York. Recently tried hauling in nuclear waste from the World War II era Manhattan project. They dug it up and they were going to bring it here.
Ohio. Oh, too fast. Ohio attempted to truck the toxic phosgene dregs from the East Palestine train disaster.
In case you don’t know, phosgene is a substance so deadly that it’s banned by the Geneva Convention of 1925. Only intense local opposition, us, stop both Ohio and New York’s poison from being buried here in our front yard. But their highways, byways, and baby diapers still pour in every day and there’s not much we can do about it.
But then there’s Canada, a nation of environmental moralizers, convenient abstentionists, who live in a vast expanse but can’t seem to find a place to put their garbage besides their neighbor’s lawn. The Constitution’s Commerce Clause forbids Michigan from charging out-of-state and international waste haulers a higher price than we pay ourselves. That can only be done by an act of Congress.
And you know Michigan’s congressional delegation. Roll that tape. What are the five gross points cities? Well, look, I’m not here to answer a quiz.
I’m here to say that I’m going to fight for the people of Detroit. I’m going to fight for my constituents and all of the gross points and all of Taylor and every part of the 13th district. Let me just do this real quick.
Gross point, gross point park, gross point woods, gross point farms, and gross point forest. You know, on your campaign filings, it says occupation. Yours says United States government.
Aren’t you employed by the people of the United States? Yeah, I am. Okay, fix that one. Okay, and finally, you’re getting nailed with this one.
The beagles. You abandoned the beagles, left them to die in their cages. So you know Michigan’s congressional delegation.
So anyhow, here we sit in the Great Lakes state, stuck with mountains of foreign shit, the stench of methane and rot, and hundreds and hundreds of Canadian trucks busting up our roads every day. There’s too much division in Michigan between the red hatters and the green thumbers. But I’ve got an idea, and I think we all can agree upon it.
Tariff the garbage. Big, beautiful tariffs. The best tariffs probably in the history of the world.
Massive, huge, the best. Now the president has sweeping executive powers. He can blow right over NAFTA.
So sir, put a 100% tariff on Canadian garbage and we can stop the flow of Canada’s bullshit altogether. And then maybe after that, we can talk about opening up the new Gordie Howe bridge. How about that? Yes, sir.
Once you get that to your clients, that’s a good issue, right? Love it. Can we tackle the Canadian wildfires too while we’re at it? Well, they want to burn their shit down. What are you going to do about it? You know what I mean? Throw the trash in their wildfires.
I mean, I don’t think people understand what the, I’m not going to go into, we did tariffs before, we’ll do it again. But Johnny on the spot, you know, Charlie tariff guy. We got that tape.
I went out to Bernie. Bernie goes, hey, end of my street. This is the end of Bernie street.
We got that tape. Wow. Dude, how much Canadian garbage do we get? Oh, I get tons and tons.
What’s with all these fucking Canadians? Cause our country’s being sold out and black people and white people did this shit. There’s Canada. Canada’s sitting all over us.
Back to Canada. It’s Charlie LaDuff tariff guy. I’m here at a gigantic dump in Wayne County.
All day long, the trucks going back and forth from Canada. What are they bringing? Cars? No. Wheat? No.
Bread, dairy, milk? No. They’re bringing garbage. It’s considered a commodity.
You know how much they bring to Michigan every year? 3.2 million tons. You know how much that is? Enough to fill the empire state building twice every year. Why are we getting dumped on? Cause they like to take it, I guess.
I don’t know. See, it has to do with the money. Now Canada doesn’t want to bury its own highways in baby diapers.
So we get it. It’s half the price in Michigan than it is in Ontario. And we can’t stop it because that’s in the constitution.
International Trade Commerce Clause. The only way to get Canada to stop dumping on us is tariffs. How about it, Mr. President? How about a tariff on all this Canadian garbage? Look at it.
Come on. Hey, look at you. What’s going on, man? How would you do in hauling trash? Yeah.
From Canada? Yes, from Canada. How come Canada brings all their shit over here? Yeah, because I’m a driver, companies send me there. I know, but why didn’t Canada keep its own garbage? Yeah, because there’s so many landfills.
Here? I don’t know why they are coming here. F***ing Canada, man. So what did you have in the back there? A Taron Asher’s career? I’m going to Canada.
Back to Canada? Yeah. Come bring me all of Canada’s shit and I’ll see you Monday. Okay, bye-bye.
Have fun, bro. Okay, get your ass back to Canada. Get on.
Get out of here. Get out, eh? Is that so believable? Dude, the Commerce Clause applies to international? Yeah. Well, it applies to who can set rates, tariffs, taxes, right? Yes.
So the only one that really benefits here is the- Canadians? Landfill owners. Yeah. Right.
So if 20% of all the Michigan waste buried in Michigan is from Canada, they’re going to lose 20%. We can funnel the tariffs back to them. Well, as far as this corrupts, who’s going to- The issue is, as always, if we raise the rates, we have to raise them on ourselves, too.
So the state- And we’re talking garbage, but it’s important. It’s a pretty big deal. So the legislature, because of the Commerce Clause, couldn’t pass a law that said we could not- They could.
I mean, Congress could. No. I mean, the state legislature, if they said we are no longer accepting trash from other countries- Can’t do it.
They could not do that. No, but what they can do is we’re going to raise our garbage rates and- But then that’s going to end up getting passed to consumers. That’s why a guy you know, Postumus, I think it was.
No, it was Schutte. Sorry, Postumus. Schutte’s not for it because it drives the price up on us.
But everybody across the spectrum wants this stopped. I want it stopped. We live in the Great Lakes Basin.
If you look at all the lakes, we’re the great big sponge in the middle. And what’s beneath us? Sandstone, limestone, granite. It’s going to get in there at some point.
You know what I mean? Yeah, they do. I mean, those landfills, they build like synthetic beds underneath that are supposed to contain all that. Well, when I was researching it, you know, we try to keep it light.
Oh, I had an hour conversation with the trash guy, you know, the lobbyist and the engineer. But I’m just saying, it’s not the Rocky Mountains. Fuck you, Canada.
Come on, man. Pay your defense bill. My people are from Canada.
My people, the European side, founded and settled Canada. Martha Barton, she was a filet de roi. The men came in the 1600s, and they wrote to Louis XIV saying, the Native women can’t give us a lot of children, send the women.
So, Louis gathered up 800 orphaned young women, gave them a chest that was filled with… Oh, so not breast augmentations? No, no, taffeta gloves, four knives, 20 pieces of silver, 100 sewing needles, something like this, taffeta gloves. And my grandmother, Martha, got off at the port in Montreal, and she got married to Jean Chevalier, my very great grandfather. And I could imagine Grandpa Chevalier at the docks, all the other guys, the coureurs du bois, the runners of the woods, slathering.
You know what they got married that day? She got off the ship, the galleon, and they married that day. And their signatures are, their wedding record is in the, whatever it is in Montreal, the Grand Cathedral. Wow.
I know, wonderful. Some history. That’s some history.
Yeah. You know what they say about women? What do they say? They die twice. Once when their heart stops, and the second time when their name is spoken for the last time.
So Grandma’s still alive, and so is my mother, Evangeline. Let’s hear from ex-siege service crew. Before we do that, that’s my friend Bernie.
And when the power goes down, I go to Bernie’s. Bernie, that was a great breakfast we had. Shout out to Billy, by the way.
Billy the Albanian. Cool dude. Well, you know, when it rains, the power goes out.
And when the power goes out, the internet goes out. When the internet goes out, I call my friend Matt and Bernie at ex-siege service group. Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees, giving it everything he’s got.
Look at that man crack. So busy. He forgot to wear a belt.
There’s Matt right there getting the board together. That’s 734-245-4100. If you need Matt and Bernie to come take care of your voice over internet, your security cameras, off-campus access control, Wi-Fi and cameras for homes and business, they’ll design it for you.
You got restaurants, they do drive-through systems, railroad cameras for public safety, total wireless camera systems for your home and business. Yeah, that’s right. Call ex-siege services at 734-245-4100.
See you next Tuesday. Well, it’s dipshit Dana again. Hit me.
If incompetence were a crime, Dana Ness will be on death row. Just saying. What a dope.
Madam, you’re the stupidest attorney general I’ve ever seen, and I was in New York under Elliot Spitzer. Think about that. Man, you’re dumb.
You’re so dumb, Dana, that did you really promote Elder Abuse Awareness Month? When you aided and abetted, allegedly, she’s on trial, your blind pal, the former treasurer of your corrupt party. You helped her, allegedly, milk a brain damaged old woman. We caught, knock him down, you lost your law license yet.
You aided and abetted. You gave a live criminal case conducted against your friend to your friend, made it go away. She went on for three years to allegedly milk this old lady.
Now she’s facing multiple felonies in probate court. We’re going to take her license, her house. They’re going to pay the family back, and we’re not done.
What a dope. You’re a dope. You’re despicable, man.
Let’s see a little Tracy Kornack. Remember this toad dropping F-bombs on me from her upstairs window? Let’s see that one more time. That was friendly.
Must be a lawyer. That was Tracy Kornack. At the time, she was the Democrat state treasurer.
She’s also besties with Governor Whitmer and A.G. Nessel. Kornack was accused three years ago of trying to rip off an insurance company through her client, an old woman with brain damage who slept in a helmet. Despite a mountain of damning documents, Nessel let Kornack off scot-free.
And now the old woman is dead, and a probate judge in Allegan County wants to know what Kornack did with all the old lady’s money. We should be ashamed at how we treat the elderly in this state. I spent my career defending the rights of our most vulnerable.
Nessel wouldn’t let us up in her office. What I want to know is who’s investigating her. And if I was Madam Attorney General, I’d lawyer up.
These people. Again, if you see a woman getting the shit kicked out of her, just do it. If you know that an old woman’s being abused, say something.
Oh, somebody’s calling in. I’ll be right with you. Say something, please.
Okay, I’ll see you next Tuesday. You posted something, Anna, and this is Whitmer at the Saline Township site with the big tech. Go ahead, tell us.
Yeah, there were some leaked audio from the groundbreaking at the Saline data center now dubbed the barn, because they want us to think that this is still somewhat resembling farmland, which it is not. It’s a dystopian nightmare. Nobody wants it.
I didn’t even think of that. Yeah, it’s a really bad PR campaign. But she was caught on a hot mic moment talking to OpenAI CEO, and he’s commiserating with her on how much the community didn’t want this.
And she said, we’re used to hearing hell no, fuck no. I’m not sure which one it was, but we’ll do it anyway. So she was telling the Silicon Valley tech executive that we’re used to pushing people around.
Correct. And our Michigan enjoyer investigation earlier this year kind of confirms that because we had those emails we got between her office and Eagle, where she’s making introductions, kind of putting the project on a fast track. So it all tracks.
I’m hearing she’s not real happy about that leaked audio, but it’s out there and you should watch it because it’s about a minute and a half, and there’s more to it than just to that one line, but that’s the part. Okay, look, full disclosure again, because I don’t want to get caught up in partisan shit. I’m just telling you, do something, say something.
The people of Saleem Township didn’t want it. Big money came in, went to court and drowned them. They have no choice.
I don’t know why you can’t put all of this in the Renaissance Center where nobody lives. Big, thick concrete, a lot of water nearby. I don’t get it.
We’re handing it to Dan Gilbert. What is Gretchen Whitmer’s legacy? I voted for her the first time, never again. I did.
I voted for her. So don’t tell me I’m some right-wing wacko, but I do have a tinfoil hat and a red one and a blue one and a white. What is her legacy? What has she accomplished? Schools?
She’s accomplished driving our state into the ground and making it California with Canadian weather. If you don’t like that woman from Michigan, you’re really not going to like that woman from Pittsburgh. Because her campaign, I’ve been going through their records, completely funded by Big Tech.
What is Gretchen Whitmer’s legacy? Abortion rights enshrined in the Constitution. That is it. That’s the only accomplishment that she can point to in eight years.
She hasn’t fixed the damn roads. She ran on transparency. That was one of her three key issues in 2018.
There’s not a less transparent governor or elected official in Michigan history. And by the way, I think the mainstream media has given her a pass on that. She ran on that.
And the way she bullies the media in this state, she’s great doing Vanity Fair and The Atlantic and Politico. She’s not so great doing local news. She’s afraid.
Yeah. She doesn’t want the colonoscopy that comes with leadership. How are we doing with our paychecks? Shrinking.
Shrinking. How are we doing with manufacturing jobs? Shrinking. Shrinking.
Okay. I led us through the hardest time in modern American life, COVID. I was a leader.
She banned seeds. We know it was proven here, which banned seeds. It was proven here that it was a fraud, that it was fraudulent, that her response, the nursing home response, everything is shut down for the old people.
And her commingling it, we know you didn’t count it right. We know you knew you weren’t counting it right. We now know that you were colluding with a nonprofit to do your report that was incorrect.
That’s what it is. There is no record. Just say something.
Sorry. That’s all I can say about it. See you next Tuesday.
Now, the barn, as you call it, the data center in Saline Township, who’s the point man on that? Who’s the point man on that? Jocelyn Benson’s husband. Ryan Friedrichs, Jocelyn Benson’s husband, a corporate crack, a kleptocrat, a limousine liberal. Where did Friedrichs come from? What was his job before he went to work for Steven Ross and Big Tech? He worked for Mike Duggan.
And he was one of the suspects who was investigated and found out to be the guy that ordered underlings in city hall to delete evidence and emails that Mike Duggan was raising money and giving public money to his mistress, who had a infant mortality foundation. And it was great until you look at the data and infant mortality got worse under this era. It’s all a fucking scam.
People say something now. Speaking of Jocelyn Benson. Madam, more federal information allegations.
When you were on the board of directors of the Southern Poverty Law Center, not only were you paying white nationalists to be white nationalists, so you had something to point to and create a boogeyman. Did you really? Did the law center really pay for the crosses and the gasoline to burn them? And the silk robes? I mean, 400 thread count, bro. And and the grand dragon, he got purple vestments.
I know I carpooled with him. Did you really? I was in the car with the. King legal and grand dragon of the loyal white knights of the Ku Klux Klan going down to Columbia, South Carolina, to protest the taking down of Dixie’s on the southern part of the Capitol building.
Well, on the northern part of the Capitol building was the Black Panthers. It was unbelievable. This is the best job in the world.
Did you really? Now, Ms. Benson, did you? What a dope. What a dope. Did you really say that you were completely unaware of the decade long paid informant program and the alleged misuse of donor funds and the fake bank accounts to pay them when you were sitting on the board of directors? Did you say it’s simply ceremonial? You guys know what boards directors do.
They go like this. What do the bank accounts say? Hey, what’s this antique book thing? We don’t deal in it. Fuck outta here.
Okay. Board members have fiduciary obligations to the entities that they serve. If she was, I mean, think she wants to be the chief executive of the state of Michigan.
What kind of negligence would we see with her as governor? She can’t even build a website. Let’s not forget that. We blew nine million dollars on this transparency upgrade that still doesn’t work.
You can’t run a website. You can’t run a state. And you gave our data away.
I’m working on my lawsuit, madam. You gave my data away without my permission. That’s gotta be unconstitutional.
Speaking of data, your husband’s running data centers down our throats. Really? This is what we got? Okay. Finally.
See you next Tuesday. Hit me. See you next Tuesday.
Nicely done. Somebody get this to Taryn Asher. You go through with this, you’re gonna get creamed.
They lining up. You’re gonna get steamrolled. And I have nothing to do with whatever clownery you were doing at Fox2.
What the mood? I haven’t worked there in 10 years. What was 10 years ago? The last time you were number one. When I made that station number one.
Number one across all broadcasts. Did you notice what coincides? I leave, they make you prominent, and it collapses. They paid you good.
And you decided that I got to have everything without earning it. That’s what you did. So when you sign a contract, it’s like me getting signed by the Tigers.
And I’m going, Riley Green plays right field, I play left field. I need to play left field too. Now they put me on waivers and get me the fuck out of there.
So I can’t believe that she did this. I don’t care that you did it. She filed a sexual discrimination.
I wasn’t the most prized person there. That’s because your journalism sucks. You’re not warm, and people don’t welcome you into the house.
You’re a nasty person. But you decide you’re gonna sue. Good luck with that.
I know all the stuff over there. Fox doesn’t want me to testify. Your people don’t want me to testify.
But I know what Fox has, and the people that you just decided to be crass. You did this. Rup Raj, you did that to him.
This is your federal complaint. You trash Rup Raj, you trash the news director or the general manager, whatever he may be. You name a male employee who screams at people and shouts fuck.
And then you put me in it. Me? Okay. The only reason I found out was because a British paper got a hold of me.
So I wrote back to her lawyer. Oh, dude, man, you’re a mess. I didn’t ask for a correction.
I didn’t ask for you to amend your suit. But if you have any professional integrity and any respect for the historical record, you will. And I’ll be watching now.
I didn’t give a fuck before, but I do now. So let me just read it on the record. To Nathan A. Robbins, Esquire, Somers Schwartz, PC.
Sir, I read with great bemusement the federal complaint filed on behalf of your client, Taryn Asher, against her former employer, Fox 2 News. Like too much of Ms. Asher’s journalism, portions of the document are both graceless and inaccurate. Congratulations, you’ve captured her nicely.
This sordid episode is of little interest to me, excepting for the passage referencing me and an incident 13 years ago, specifically section 115 part C in your complaint. For the record, sir, I was never arrested nor charged with any crime whatsoever. I do not know your hourly rate, but a simple internet search would have shown you this.
Regards, Charlie Ladoff, MJ. First time ever signed those admissions. What’s MJ? Master of Journalism.
Here’s what he wrote. Section 115, Fox on numerous occasions has permitted, tolerated, and or ignored unprofessional behavior and misconduct by multiple male employees without suspending or terminating those male employees, including but not limited to, we’ll get right to C, Charlie Ladoff. Mr. Ladoff worked as an on-air journalist, I’m a fucking reporter, for the Fox 2 Detroit News until 2016.
In or about 2013, Mr. Ladoff was arrested for disorderly conduct in connection with an incident wherein he bit the ear of a security guard. Fox did not terminate Mr. Ladoff’s employment. Now, let’s just go through this.
One, I wasn’t at work, motherfucking people throwing a fit. I’ve been suspended before for being an asshole. I was never arrested at all, not charged, not anything.
What happened, to the best of my recollection, it was Patty’s Day. My brother lost his job. We went to have drinks like everybody else at Patty’s Day.
We’re walking it off as we’re walking it off. A big beefy dude, maybe he’s a fireman, maybe he was a cop, I don’t know, I couldn’t, don’t remember, invited us into a party. It was a judge’s party.
They sat us down, they gave us a whiskey, they gave us a Guinness. We sat there, very nice, how are you, how are you? And then a couple of, this I remember, I don’t know the judge, I don’t know the assailants, but I remember two women were homicide, two homicide detectives. And they asked me, well, what do you, you know, I had been doing stories about how the former chief and the current chief were sleeping with the same underling.
And I interviewed the underling, and she said to me, I go, how can you prove this? And she said, and Fox too, oh, I kept the condom. I said, you kept the condom, what? Yeah. And I said to her, madam, forgive me, but what do you say to the listeners who would think you’re maybe a tramp? She goes, well, I’m not going now, like you know who did.
And I’m like, ooh, okay. So they asked me, how does that reflect on us? In a more sober moment, this is what I thought was coming out. And again, it was relayed to me how it did come out.
But what I said was, it’s unfortunate. I know you two, and you’re great cops, and you’ve worked hard. And it’s sorry that you have to be hard with this.
It must be hard. That is true workplace stuff. What came out was, maybe I’m told, you’re all fucking whores.
It’s not too bad. I mean, whatever. Right then out of nowhere, kabam.
Man, I got decked out of the chair. My brother got dropped. I’m getting choked out, choked out.
I remember people filming with that little light, and I’m thinking, somebody do something. A security guard calls up Fox, calls up other news stations, said he was watching me pissing in the alley. He said it.
Maybe I did. Maybe I pissed in an alley before. But I mean, it’s like I’m running down like Bubbles the monkey down Michigan Avenue with my junk.
Hey, yo, shut the fuck up. Right? Then the guy said, I bit him on the hand, not the ear. So here’s the deal.
Prosecutor wants to talk to me. Guy obviously wants money from me. Who was it? I don’t know.
I don’t know who it was. I don’t. To this day, I don’t.
I don’t want to know. Did you bite him? I go, I don’t know. I was fighting for my life.
I don’t know. I mean, I could have. You were assaulted.
Dude, I was going to die. In fact, I had gravel burns. It’s the only time I ever wore makeup on TV.
I had strangle marks. We went the next day when this thing started bubbling up, we went to emergency to get it all documented, you know, but it’s just it is what it is. It’s the only time.
Oh, did I bite him? I don’t know. Did he scrape it in the gravel? I mean, come on. I don’t know.
This this is bullshit. All I ever tried to do is give this town everything I got. Fuck you.
No arrest. No charges. No, no, man.
The next day, it’s the only time in my life I’ve ever worn makeup on TV. And it was because. Kwame Kilpatrick’s verdict was coming the very next day, and I walk in the newsroom and my boss, chick, female, greatest boss I’ve ever had.
In fact, she goes, Oh, come here. What’s that stuff called? The foundation concealer. Yeah.
Slatter. Now get out. So I get out.
I’m looking like hell. We’ve got to find clips of this. Oh, it’s out there.
We can find it. And Kilpatrick. Here’s he’s been convicted.
There’s a break for lunch and then he has to come back and be taken into custody. I’m the only guy. I saw him.
He was at the federal courthouse. Cypress trees in the pots. He was waiting for his car to pull up.
He’s behind him, but he’s a big guy. And I saw him and I walked all the way live across the street. Just just go live.
And I go, How are you feeling, sir? And then I forget that that man was just looking into the sky like I did. I felt something for him, like the totality of what he had done in his life. And you could just see a man lost.
I’ll never forget that. It was monumental in his life, in my life and the life of all of us around here. He gets in the car, walk around to the other side of the courthouse.
And here comes that dapper dipshit, you know, the aged TV reporter guy who still wears a fedora like he’s Dick Tracy. There was a little fracas. I go, hey, you know, it’s a party.
Boys will be boys. Something like that. Perhaps urinating a little bit.
Pee? I go, it’s possible. I mean, I don’t write that down every time. Thank you.
Goodbye. And then off it goes. So there’s a lot to tell about that place and about you.
And I don’t think you know what you just did because you’re never working again. Not not not immediate. Right.
Never. Never. Yeah, that was that was a resignation from her career.
Yes. It was gratuitous. It was unnecessary.
She burned the place down, burned down former friends of hers. Unnecessary. And it didn’t it didn’t underscore her argument at all.
You’re a woman, but you didn’t demonstrate. No one told you to take your top off. Like, show me the pattern.
You’re just not that good. You didn’t deserve it. You sound like an impetuous twit in this like.
I read the lawsuit. There’s nothing in the lawsuit that validates what her accusation. Fix it or I’ll see you next Tuesday.
Oh, God, thanks anyway. See you next Tuesday.
