S.E. Cupp calls for men at Fox News to speak out

Political commentator and former Fox News contributor S.E. Cupp is calling on men who work at Fox News to speak up about allegations of sexual harassment, calling their silence “deafening.”

“While woman after woman has come out to tell her story and share her humiliating and outrageous experience, the silence from the men of Fox News has been deafening,” Cupp wrote in a Tuesday op-ed for the New York Daily News.

“Whether they believe their female colleagues have been sexually harassed at Fox or they think the Fox good name is being sullied unfairly, you’d think many would have much more to say.”

Cupp said she knows many men at the network who are “good, decent people” and noted that many have “huge platforms.”

“And all of that is why, if we care about changing a culture of sexual harassment and the unfair treatment of women, their voices would be so incredibly powerful,” she wrote.

{mosads}Cupp, who said she did not experience sexual harassment of any kind over her two years as a contributor for Fox News 10 years ago, said she also never met former host Bill O’Reilly or former chairman Roger Ailes, both of whom left the network amid accusations of sexual harassment.

“But it’s clear, given what so many women have alleged in the past year, that Fox has a very serious woman problem.”

Cupp is the fourth female Fox News contributor to publicly call out the network in the last week.

On Sunday, former Fox News reporter and anchor Alisyn Camerota spoke out for the first time, saying she was sexually harassed by Ailes.

Cupp wrote that the lack condemnation from male Fox News employees signals that “talk from the top of a ‘culture change’ rings hollow.’”

“Excising two prominent figures, years after allegations were made known and after millions were spent to keep them in power, is not a culture change. It’s a business decision,” she wrote.

The company fired O’Reilly last week. CNN reported that the popular host of “The O’Reilly Factor” will receive “tens of millions” in severance from the network.