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Several days after news broke of Hollywood kingmaker Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual assault of more than a few young women over the course of his long career, liberals in the media and in Washington are finally beginning to emerge from hiding to condemn the filmmaker’s actions. It is not hard to understand their reluctance, Weinstein is, of course, one of them, a fellow media elite who has raised around 1.4 million dollars for Democratic candidates over the years.
Hillary Clinton and former President Obama, who received $17,000 and $45,000 in personal donations respectively from Harvey Weinstein, took their time but did eventually issue statements assuring their “outrage” and “disgust” for Mr. Weinstein’s alleged crimes. Saturday Night Live, who makes their living hammering conservatives over every scandal, big or small, real or imagined, went radio silent. Late night comics ignored the Weinstein story as long as they could but eventually were forced to address it, sort of. Jimmy Fallon brought up the story only to say that Weinstein “would have a future at Fox News” (referring to the sexual harassment claims against Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, and Eric Bolling.) Steven Colbert took the lazier and more predictable route, comparing Weinstein to President Trump.
It is hard not to contrast the tepid, at best, condemnation of Harvey Weinstein to the all-out, total-war style excoriation of former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly who was fired this April amid allegations of sexual harassment. SNL aired a skit attacking Mr. O’Reilly the week of the embattled news man’s firing, late-night comedians, and anchors of FNC’s rival networks were happy, even giddy, to hit O’Reilly as hard as they possibly could.
Like Weinstein, was O’Reilly caught on tape assaulting a woman? No, in fact, the former anchor’s chief accuser, it turns out, was arrested by Detroit police in 2015 for giving a false report to a crime. Though Bill O’Reilly surely had an influential voice in the national political discourse, did he, like Weinstein, raise millions and donate tens of thousands of dollars to the political party of his liking? Not that we know of, in fact, Mr. O’Reilly is a registered independent.
The allegations against Harvey Weinstein dwarf the alleged offenses of Bill O’Reilly both in severity and credibility but O’Reilly, in the eyes of leftists in the media and Hollywood, committed the ultimate crime of opposing their political views. The disparity in how the political left covered these two scandals lays bare the fact that they care less about justice and the facts, and more about collecting scalps of their opponents and protecting their own, regardless of their vile, criminal behavior.
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