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If anything about the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, it truly opened up something that many of us suspected about the entertainment industry. The industry is truly operated by master criminals and thieves who are only care about themselves and their personal gratification.
They have not only robbed people of their own money (legal or not), but also stolen the dignity and innocence (if any) from the many performers they wanted to take advantage of and successfully did. These actors and actresses let Weinstein (and others) do it because they were the gatekeepers in the business and could make or break careers. They also had media and government sympathizers in high places, that would protect them from any accountability. This is why the business is so politically progressive, and why it never saw any problems with sexualized pop divas of the past and present, the content of adult language and graphic sex and violence in many of today’s movies, or even a combination of the above regarding plays and musicals. This is also why the entertainment business never came under the same scrutiny as like many other corporate industries have. Just follow the money and who is making it.
Fear and power
They were many people who wanted to get back at Weinstein and what he did to them personally, but were afraid to do so in fear of retaliation. Because of the power that these entertainment moguls like Weinstein have or had, these performers would not do what was right and allowed them to get more and more power in the business.
The Democrat party loved Weinstein because he gave money to not only the party apparatus but also to individual candidates and the progressive causes and coalitions they believed in and supported. The only reason why the entertainment industry loved Bill Clinton so much was and still is, a reflection on who they are. People who just needed that sexual fix each and every day, no matter what. They just wanted to “do it” with every young woman and even certain young men that they encounter. You wonder why the Democrats in California with the approval of Governor Jerry Brown changed the law regarding intended infection of the HIV virus from a felony to a misdemeanor (including infected blood donations)? The apple does not fall short of the tree.
But Weinstein is just the symptom of a bigger problem. It’s just that Weinstein has become a burden, and what do you do with any burden? You have to let it go. These progressives were hesitant to let him go. But as soon as the Obama’s and Clinton’s of the world called Weinstein’s bluff; the likes of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and then some were given the green light to follow suit. Weinstein is feeling the pain and backlash of political and cultural will that the likes of Woody Allen, and Roman Polanski didn’t feel and there was not enough pushback to bring those men to justice. Meryl Streep might have just recently taken a piece of Weinstein’s hide but this was the same woman that that is still supportive of Polanski in spite of what he did to then 13-year-old Samantha Geimer.
If the Academy chooses to expel Harvey Weinstein, it’ll need to take a hard look at its other accused predators – LA Times
Harvey Weinstein’s spectacular plunge into disgrace has been astounding to watch. Not only has a who’s who of Hollywood denounced him, but his company has fired him, his brother called him a “sick man” and a “liar” and his wife left him. The organization released a statement this week calling the sexual harassment and sexual assaults he has been accused of “repugnant, abhorrent, and antithetical to the high standards of the Academy and the creative community it represents.” If half the stories about Weinstein are true, the academy’s statement is entirely justified.
The Takeaway
The Los Angeles Times editorial page is right when it says that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors needs to go after other movie big wigs. I also agree with syndicated talk show host Mark Levin that a temporary FBI unit be created in order to round up not just Weinstein but other perverts in the entertainment business and see if there was truly any criminal wrongdoing and coverups. This is far worse than the so called “Hollywood Blacklist” of the 1940’s and 1950’s.
Liberal Hollywood destroys any credibility it had left | National Review
Yet at this point in the story, I feel compelled to defend Hillary Clinton’s reluctance to publicly condemn her friend and neighbor Weinstein. After all, if you spent 30 years publicly covering for a predatory lout of a husband such as hers, you wouldn’t have much credibility in condemning Weinstein, either. Many of the same questions once asked about the Catholic Church must now be asked about Hollywood.
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