It's now being
reported that Jared was reported to the FBI for saying "middle school girls are hot" and other improper things in front of a female journalist. From the linked story:
“Middle school girls are hot,” the woman quoted him as saying. Fogle, to her shock, repeated the stunning remark several times, she told WWSB-TV in Sarasota.
“He said something to me when we were off camera and that really stuck with me,” she told the station. “I thought to myself, ‘Did he really say that to me?’”
The woman, whose identity was withheld, said she was so disturbed by the fast food spokesman’s comment that she reached out to the FBI.
“They weren’t jokes,” she told the station. “They were very serious ... It goes deeper than that.”
She claimed the middle school remark was followed by even more disgusting comments, but refused to go into specifics.
A few thoughts:
1). We now live in a society where speaking of "impure thoughts" will get you turned in to authorities. Decades ago, that authority was a priest. Now it's the FBI. Saying the wrong thing now gets you raided.
2). If you're dealing with a female journalist, be careful what you say. This shows why. Remember those little girls in first grade we called "tattletales?" This is them grown up. You cannot make snide remarks, off-color jokes, or sexually-charged banter. It will be taken out of context and used against you. We live in a Gawker world now, and that's not likely to change (unless they put Ellen Pao in charge).
3). If this pans out and the reporter was in the right and he is doing illegal stuff, that brings up another issue.
Let me preface it by first saying I am not condoning anything illegal here. But I want to say that people who commit illegal acts have a way of giving themselves away with their words. They're often undone by themselves and not authorities, in other words.
So if you're doing anything that's not above board -- from computer hacking to stealing donuts from your work lunchroom -- be aware of this odd quirk of human nature. I once saw an entire career in IT ruined because the guy in question was charging his long-distance calls to his workplace and felt the need to blab about it.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jared-f...ar-AAcP3Ea