New Yorker Drops Ryan Lizza Due to Alleged Sexual Misconduct

New Yorker Drops Ryan Lizza Due to Alleged Sexual Misconduct

The New Yorker has cut Ryan Lizza over alleged sexual misconduct:

Statement from @newyorker: “The New Yorker recently learned that Ryan Lizza engaged in what we believe was improper sexual conduct. We have reviewed the matter and, as a result, have severed ties with Lizza. Due to a request for privacy, we are not commenting further.”

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) December 11, 2017

CNN has provided this update:

Statement from CNN PR: “We have just learned of the New Yorker’s decision. We are suspending @RyanLizza from CNN while we look into this matter.”

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 11, 2017

Lizza has released this statement:

Just got statement from Ryan Lizza, who calls his firing from the New Yorker “a terrible mistake” pic.twitter.com/Jf6bQ9Nu83

— Tom Kludt (@TomKludt) December 11, 2017

Yashar Ali has tweeted out a statement from the litigation firm that represents Lizza’s accuser. They insist it was not a respectful relationship:

4. New: A top employment litigation firm says it represents Ryan Lizza's accuser and contrary to his statement above, the relationship was not respectful. pic.twitter.com/HWkumHHwlg

— Yashar Ali ???? (@yashar) December 11, 2017

Back in July, Lizza’s interview with then-White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci led to his ouster after only ten days on the job. Here’s an excerpt from the crude interview:

I asked him why it was so important for the dinner to be kept a secret. Surely, I said, it would become public at some point. “I’ve asked people not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period,” he said. “They won’t do it.” He was getting more and more worked up, and he eventually convinced himself that Priebus was my source.

“They’ll all be fired by me,” he said. “I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow. I’ll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.” The issue, he said, was that he believed Priebus had been worried about the dinner because he hadn’t been invited. “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci said. He channelled Priebus as he spoke: “ ‘Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’ ” (Priebus did not respond to a request for comment.)

On a podcast last week, Scaramucci believed that something would happen to Lizza soon. From The Hill:

“This guy’s obviously a very bad actor,” Scaramucci told Carton on Monday. “Karma’s a bitch. It’ll come back and bite him. You’ll see.”

This past fall, a “Sh*tty Media Men” list made its rounds among female journalists and Lizza had a spot on it. The list said that he is “[C]reepy af [as f*ck] in the DM’s.”

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