{"id":3774,"date":"2018-07-29T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/07\/29\/lynda-carter-the-original-wonder-woman-tweets-support-of-les-moonves-i-believe-him\/"},"modified":"2018-07-29T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T17:30:06","slug":"lynda-carter-the-original-wonder-woman-tweets-support-of-les-moonves-i-believe-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/07\/29\/lynda-carter-the-original-wonder-woman-tweets-support-of-les-moonves-i-believe-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynda Carter, the Original Wonder Woman, Tweets Support of Les Moonves: \u2018I Believe Him\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/les-moonves\/\" id=\"auto-tag_les-moonves\">Les Moonves<\/a> has been accused of sexual misconduct by six women who shared their stories in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/08\/06\/les-moonves-and-cbs-face-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">an extensive New Yorker article<\/a>, but not everyone believes the accusations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/lynda-carter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lynda-carter\">Lynda Carter<\/a>, who played Wonder Woman on the TV series of the same name from 1975\u201379, tweeted her support of the CBS President and CEO: &#8220;Les Moonves is a close friend. I\u2019ve known him for 40 years,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealLyndaCarter\/status\/1023283499246202883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;He is a kind, decent and honorable man. I believe him and I believe in him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/leslie-moonves-sexual-harassment-cbs-ronan-farrow-1201988606\/\" title=\"CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Six Women, Including Illeana Douglas\">CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Six Women, Including Illeana Douglas<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Among Moonves&#8217; accusers is actress Illeana Douglas, who claims that he forcibly kissed her and held her down during pre-production of a TV pilot in 1997;\u00a0\u201cit has stayed with me the rest of my life, that terror,\u201d she told Ronan Farrow.\u00a0\u201cWhat happened to me was a sexual assault, and then I was fired for not participating,\u201d Douglas added.<\/p>\n<p>Carter isn&#8217;t the only one who&#8217;s come to Moonves&#8217; defense, as Sharon Osbourne is also skeptical of the allegations (&#8220;interesting timing, seems like an attempt to discredit Leslie before a major court case. I hope people don\u2019t rush to judgement,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrsSOsbourne\/status\/1023195118621286401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tweeted<\/a>) and his wife\u00a0Julie Chen wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulieChen\/status\/1022968567728427012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a statement<\/a>, &#8220;I fully support my husband and stand behind him and his statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/leslie-moonves-accused-sexual-misconduct-ronan-farrow-1201988547\/\" title=\"CBS Investigating Sexual Misconduct Claims Against CEO and President Leslie Moonves\">CBS Investigating Sexual Misconduct Claims Against CEO and President Leslie Moonves<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>In response to Farrow&#8217;s article, Moonves released a statement of his own:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThroughout my time at CBS, we have promoted a culture of respect and opportunity for all employees, and have consistently found success elevating women to top executive positions across our company. I recognize that there were times decades ago when I may have made some women uncomfortable by making advances. Those were mistakes, and I regret them immensely. But I always understood and respected\u2014and abided by the principle\u2014that \u2018no\u2019 means \u2018no,\u2019 and I have never misused my position to harm or hinder anyone\u2019s career. This is a time when we all are appropriately focused on how we help improve our society, and we at CBS are committed to being part of the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CBS is investigating the claims against him.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Les Moonves is a close friend. I\u2019ve known him for 40 years. He is a kind, decent and honorable man. I believe him and I believe in him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealLyndaCarter\/status\/1023283499246202883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 28, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Moonves has been accused of sexual misconduct by six women who shared their stories in an extensive New Yorker article,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-YS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}