Well, another week, another example of liberal hypocrisy.
Reports surfaced last week that Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood heavyweight mega-producer, had been sexually harassing Hollywood starlets and others for years, some of the allegations going back over twenty years. Nasty woman Ashley Judd, a beauty of the first order and equally annoying and unhinged, brought the allegations to light last week, telling people that Weinstein made inappropriate suggestions involving massages and stages of undress. Then the payoff to Rose McGowan came out. After that, the stories came out faster than the rain came down in the Houston floods.
Weinstein, the brash, piggish power-broker who could make or break careers, has lawyered up and started pointing fingers. He even went so far as to say that he would now be tutored how to act more appropriately and would channel his energies into forcing President Trump to resign. This, apparently, was a sop to Leftist Hollywood to garner sympathy. If it's worked, it isn't showing.
Some women, like Judd and Ms. McGowan and, oddly, Lena Dunham, have bravely stepped forward. Others, like Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench and Catherine Zeta-Jones, have so far remained silent. Weinstein's reign of terror still casts its dark shadow over the industry, causing even these highly visible and powerful women to stay out of the limelight.
Weinstein has been forced out of his own company by its board of directors. He's been subjected to some ridicule, a few stories in newspapers, but nowhere near the universal condemnation that President Trump made for his reckless and sexist comments years ago. Apparently, in Hollywood, Weinstein's behavior was such an open secret that it was tolerated and overlooked. But it went farther than even Hollywood. Several Democratic politicians, whom Weinstein favored, received campaign contributions, including Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and the Clintons. Now, the politicians are scrambling to divest themselves of this dirty money, money they had to know came from a sexist pig.
But the difference with which it's being treated by the same industry that pilloried Donald Trump and Fox News for their similar indiscretions is telling. The late night talk shows mention it but don't beat it to death like they did with Mr. Trump. Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live, which has feasted on Donald Trump, had nary a sketch about Weinstein. When asked about it, Lorne Michaels said that during dress rehearsal, the jokes fell flat so the sketches were pulled from the live telecast. Later, he said it was a New York thing...which, given Donald Trump's New York bona fides, begs a very obvious question.
These are the same people -- celebrities in the entertainment industry -- who lecture us in the heartland about how we should vote, how we should view things, what should be important to us and, above all, how horrible Donald Trump is. Yet, when their own industry's president does things that are in the same vein yet more reprehensible, they clam up and refuse to condemn a man who has wrought havoc on women for decades. Moreover, two of the women who came to defend him were late of the Obama administration. Progressive indeed.
And that woman who championed women in her bid to be the first female president? Cankles is even more quiet. She's not been heard from since the story broke. She can attack Donald Trump, but when an abusive man who can help further her career does something similar, she's silent on the matter. This, Cankles supporters, is the disingenuous, two-faced candidate who lost the election through her own fecklessness, not Russian meddling. Then again, Cankles is used to using men who sexually harass women to get ahead. Frankly, Weinstein is getting off lightly.
At least he's not married to her.
(c) 2017 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
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