Freeman took a stronger tone today through his attorney Robert Schwartz, who said in the letter to CNN that its report was a "product of malicious intent, falsehoods, slight-of-hand, an absence of editorial control, and journalistic malpractice."
A spokeswoman for CNN responded to ABC News with the following statement: "The unfounded accusations made by Mr. Freeman’s lawyer are disappointing and are difficult to reconcile with Mr. Freeman’s own public statements in the aftermath of the story. CNN stands by its reporting and will respond forcefully to any attempt by Mr. Freeman or his representatives to intimidate us from covering this important public issue."
Schwartz issued a statement after CNN's.
"We presented CNN with objective evidence, including videotapes and on-the-record denials by the claimed 'victims,' that the alleged incident that gave rise to the story never happened," he said in the statement to ABC News. "We proved to CNN, beyond any doubt, that the whole story was built on fakery. The credibility of the entire CNN attack on Mr. Freeman has now been undermined. And in choosing to ignore all of the evidence that we presented, CNN has confirmed our concerns about its reporters, its lack of oversight, and its gross misconduct in unjustifiably attacking Mr. Freeman."
After the story broke, Martin told WGN, "Some misreporting got out that I was uncomfortable or that he had made sexual remarks to me every time. That’s just not the case. I never said that."
The actor has denied ever sexually assaulting any woman. In a statement to ABC News last Friday, he said the report has "devastated" him and that "it is not right to equate horrific incidents of sexual assault with misplaced compliments or humor."
I read the original CNN report and nowhere does it accuse him of sexual "assault."
Freeman would rest his hand on her lower back or rub her lower back, she said. In one incident, she said, Freeman "kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear."
That doesn't sound like "misplaced compliments or humor."
Hawkeye wrote:"it is not right to equate horrific incidents of sexual assault with misplaced compliments or humor."
Reminds me of Matt Damon.
Hawkeye wrote: Freeman would rest his hand on her lower back or rub her lower back, she said. In one incident, she said, Freeman "kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear."
That doesn't sound like "misplaced compliments or humor."
I am not sure if the above is bad enough to crucify the 80 year old Morgan Freeman, but it comes from an anonymous source.
"He added that "no reader of the article can have any confidence that any of the anonymous sources, which make up the balance of CNN’s article, can be relied upon at all."" https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/morg ... d=55504269
DoubtingThomas wrote:Jesus Christ! No wonder why Sargon of Akkad supports Donald Trump.
What do those two sentences have to do with the quoted material?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"