As reported previously on The BFD, the sexual harassment case against Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson seems frivolous to the point of absurdity. New evidence shows that it is also implausible.
As you may recall Cathy Areu claims that Carlson changed his jacket in front of her and also that he mentioned he was staying alone in New York that night. Except that new evidence shows that the second part wasn’t true.
It doesn’t prove or disprove that Carlson said it – only that it was plainly not true that he was alone in New York that night.
Records of Areu’s appearances on the network and other publicly available information has undermined some of her claims. New emails between Areu and the network’s employees seem to add to those concerns.
Even more significantly, eyewitness accounts indicate Carlson’s wife was with him on a key evening when Areu said Carlson promised her he would be alone.
Areu’s other claim, against Sean Hannity, is also falling apart. But inconsistencies and incongruities in her claims against Carlson are coming thick and fast.
Additional inconsistencies involve Areu’s claim that she was harassed during her “final 2018 appearance” on Carlson’s program. “Following the show, Mr. Carlson changed on set into his leather jacket for the annual Christmas party that he told Ms. Areu he would only be attending for approximately 10 minutes,” the suit stated.
Reporters including The Spectator’s Amber Athey quickly noted Areu’s final 2018 appearance with Carlson took place on November 30 of that year, while the network’s annual Christmas party took place on December 10. Areu did not appear on the December 10 episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight.
The timing of the party is also pertinent to Areu’s claim that Carlson would be alone that night.
“Following the show,” Areu asserts in her lawsuit, “Mr. Carlson, hardly making any effort to hide his intentions, began telling Ms. Areu that he would be alone in New York City that night, and specifically said that he would be staying alone in his hotel room without any wife or kids.”
A source familiar with the event told Mediaite that Carlson’s wife did attend the Tucker Carlson Tonight Christmas party. Fox News also told Mediaite that Carlson hosted the entire party for his show’s staff alongside his wife, who stayed in the hotel with him that evening.
Areu’s attorneys argue that a late November event must have taken place as well, aside from the “official” Christmas party. Nothing has emerged yet to substantiate that claim.
Areu is also alleging that, after supposedly rebuffing Carlson’s advances, he retaliated by banning her from further appearances on his show.
Fox told Mediaite that company records indicate Areu appeared on Carlson’s show four times in the four months following the incident, the same number of times she appeared on the show in the four months preceding it. “There is zero evidence of retaliation,” the network claimed. The network also said there were eyewitnesses to Carlson and Areu’s conversation who would contradict her account[…]
The concerns about Areu’s allegations do not necessarily disprove her case, but in a court of law, they could certainly make it far more difficult for her to win.
“When the plaintiff’s allegations can be easily refuted by dates or other facts, those allegations lose credibility,” said David Warrington, a litigator at Kutak Rock in Washington, D.C. “That loss of credibility can have a cumulative effect.”
From then-candidate Trump to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the left have made spurious sexual allegations just another of their go-to tactics in their frantic scramble to silence any powerful conservative who threatens their iron control of the public sphere.
This is looking more and more like yet another attempt.
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