CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY DECEMBER 19, 2018
IN A CLASSIC CASE OF HOW THE MIGHTY CAN FALL, LES MOONVES, THE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF CBS – THE MAN WHO MADE THAT NETWORK NUMBER ONE IN PRIME TIME FOR YEARS – HAS BEEN DENIED $120 MILLION IN SEVERENCE PAY. LET THAT SINK IN FOR A MOMENT $120 MILLION.
THE REASON IS THAT HE LIED TO LAWYERS INVESTIGATING MULTIPLE CLAIMS BY FEMALE EMPLOYEES THAT MOONVES SEXUALLY HARRASSED THEM OVER MANY YEARS. REPORTS SAY THE FINAL STRAW WAS WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO TURN OVER HIS I-PAD TO INVESTIGATORS BUT GAVE THEM HIS SON’S TABLET INSTEAD, PRESUMABLEY TO AVOID INCRIMINATING HIMSELF.
MOONVES IS THE LATEST IN A LONG LINE OF MEN WHO THOUGHT THEIR POSITIONS OF POWER, STARDOM AND WEALTH ENTITLED THEM TO ABUSE WOMEN. SOME HAVE CLAIMED THEY ARE BEING HELD TO A NEW STANDARD OF BEHAVIOR AND NOT AN OLD ONE THAT WAS MORE TOLERANT OF SUCH BEHAVIOR. THAT’S NOT TRUE. GOD’S STANDARDS NEVER CHANGE.
WARNING: NO ONE IS BEYOND ANY SIN GIVEN THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES. YOU MAY THINK YOU ARE, BUT THAT ONLY GIVES OUR ADVERSARY A CHANCE TO PROVE YOU ARE NOT.
MOONVES NEEDS SALVATION, MORE THAN $120 MILLION. WE MIGHT PRAY TO THAT END AND PRAY FOR HIS WIFE AND FAMILY.
