There were warning signs that Jimmy Dore is a raging misogynist.
“You wouldn’t want to have that guy inside you,” disgraced, right-wing misogynist Jimmy Dore said about Gretchen Carlson, in a disturbing 2016 YouTube video— framing it supposedly as a joke.
“She’s fucking gaslighting you again, making you think you can’t have a vote on Medicare For All,” Dore claimed about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in December of last year. Telling his followers, in a meltdown video on YouTube, “Go on Twitter and fucking give it to her!”
Additionally, he issued a disgustingly perverted threat that “we’re going to make it harder for you, AOC. Oh, we’re going to make it harder for you…”
Jimmy Dore has used progressives legitimate concerns for free healthcare, as a stalking horse for unleashing disingenuous, viciously misogynistic attacks on women of color in Congress, most prominently Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and he has treated other women with similar hate, including: Andrea Tantaros, Gretchen Carlson, Ana Kasparian, Francesca Fiorentini, Tulsi Gabbard, and most likely more.
He seemingly gloated when news surfaced that Roger Ailes sexually harassed Andrea Tantaros, saying, “Now, who’s playing the victim. Oh, Andrea Tantaros. Turns out that there is such thing as a victim in the world. There are people who are perpetrators and there are people who are victims. You can tell it’s hard for me to feel sorry for these people who made lots of money out of propping up this horrible, horrible right-wing lie factory.”
Dore recently outed himself as a sexual harasser, in a video which he anticipated would be a brutal rebuttal of The Young Turks. Dore reportedly told Kasparian “how sexy” her legs were, with students observing in her classroom.
This was not the first inappropriate comment Dore made towards Kasparian, but it came to a head in the classroom.
Kasparian told The Daily Dot, “Seeing an older man I work with talk about my body like that in front of my students was wrong. And so for the first time, I actually snapped at him and told him to never make a comment about me like that again.”
“He pretends he’s a fighter for progressive values,” Kasparian added. “He is anything but the so-called leftist that he tries to present himself to be and his audience reflects that.”
The Daily Dot also reported that Kasparian and TYT Founder Cenk Uygur noted “that Dore’s version of events wasn’t entirely accurate — that no one saw her thong.”
In a direct message, sent to Dore on Twitter, Kasparian wrote: “I’m sure you remember when you constantly made inappropriate comments about how sexy you found me at work, and even felt the need to ask me where I buy my jeans so you can buy a pair for your wife so she dresses better. That was followed by an apology card you wrote me for degrading harassment. I’ve been holding back, letting you run your mouth non-stop as if you’re some sort of warrior for what’s good in the world. That’s going to change.”
Dore read this message out on his show, denying it, claiming, “Instead of saying I’m paid by the Russians or saying I’m working for Assad, she’s now gonna try to pretend I sexually harassed her, when I was at The Young Turks.”
He then deflected, saying, “I don’t know if you used to watch The Young Turks, but they used to talk about the most outrageous sex stories in the world.” Conflating co-hosts discussing celebrities and pop culture with Dore’s sexual harassment of Kasparian.
After Dore falsely alleged that I doctored a video of Aaron Mate calling “Assad a hero,” he showcased proof that he made inappropriate comments about Ana Kasparian, but not before excusing his inappropriate comments.
“Ana Kasparian used to dress, when I worked there, unbelievably inappropriately for a newsroom,” Dore said, using a common sexist trope that women who dress a certain way are inviting harassment upon themselves.
“She looked like she was going to a rave,” Dore added. “One time she came into the newsroom, with a skirt so short, it wasn’t a pencil-skirt… it was like a fluffy one, but so short, that she bent over in front of me and I literally saw her ass, and her thong. I literally saw it, everybody saw it, and I go, hey, Ana, nice news skirt and everybody laughed, they laughed louder than I thought they would and so it humiliated her.”
Again, this version of events has been reported as false by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian.
Dore claims he “felt bad for her,” but eagerly retold the “joke,” and stressed that everybody laughed, and that he “was just busting her balls for dressing like that in a news room.”
“I wrote her a card saying sorry… that was inappropriate,” Dore continued. “You don’t have to worry about that happening again. I won’t comment on your clothes anymore.”
On The Dive with Jackson Hinkle, which circulates its videos on YouTube, Dore unconvincingly denied he sexually harassed Kasparian, after having already admitted to it.
“If anybody else at The Young Turks comes out and says that I harassed them, Ana’s gonna get sued,” Dore said in a thinly-veiled threat. “The Young Turks will be sued cause they knew about it and they hired me anyway, but that didn’t happen because they didn’t know about it.That’s why they kept hiring me and if I was a harasser… they wouldn’t have hired me because they knew they could be sued.”
“Believe me,” Dore added, sounding like Trump.
Hate speech is ostensibly not allowed on YouTube, yet thrives on the platform. According to the platform: “Hate speech is not allowed on YouTube. We remove content promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on any of the following attributes”:
- Age
- Caste
- Disability
- Ethnicity
- Gender Identity and Expression
- Nationality
- Race
- Immigration Status
- Religion
- Sex/Gender
- Sexual Orientation
- Victims of a major violent event and their kin
- Veteran Status
There are numerous examples of Dore’s grossly racist, conspiratorial, anti-science, and misogynistic videos violating YouTube’s alleged policy against bullying and hate speech, but Google and Dore continue to make revenue from ads.
Small correction on an accident, I have now distinguished between white women and members of the squad, before it incorrectly claimed Andrea Tantaros, Gretchen Carlson, Ana Kasparian, Francesca Fiorentini, and Tulsi Gabbard, are “women of color in Congress.”