Boy that’s one ugly dude. Kinda explains some things.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/09/politi...ein/index.html
Longtime Hillary Clinton aides have been confused by the former secretary of state's silence on the issue, questioning -- in private -- why she has not weighed in at all.
Weinstein has long been a Clinton donor with ties to the political family. Weinstein was one of many from Hollywood who donated to Bill Clinton's legal defense fund in the 1990s, a Washington Post report from the time stated. More recently, the Clintons rented a home next to Weinstein in the Hamptons in 2015, and Weinstein served as a connector between Hollywood stars and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
Weinstein raised about $1.5 million from 1990-2016, according to data from the campaign finance-tracking Center for Responsive Politics, and was a bundler for Clinton's 2016 effort, including at a star-studded fundraiser for Clinton in June 2016 at Weinstein's Manhattan home.
Clinton personally headlined multiple fundraisers Weinstein was involved in organizing during the campaign.
CRP's OpenSecrets website shows Weinstein was a bundler for Obama as well, and the Hollywood giant visited the White House on several occasions during Obama's tenure. At a White House event for student films in 2013, first lady Michelle Obama credited Weinstein for making the event happen and praised him as a wonderful person and a good friend.
I mean, this stuff isn't coming from Breitbart.
I guess if you are asking my opinion then I would say that the personal friendship the Clintons have enjoyed for many years with Harvey probably entices the press more than the professional relationships Trump had with O'Reilly and Ailes. I would probably add that Bill's long history of womanizing probably also plays a part. Pressed further, I might conclude that the perception of Hillary giggling as she recalls her defense of a 41 year old man who raped a 12 year old girl doesn't help, and neither does Carl Bernstein's claim that she was the person in charge of keeping Bill's mistresses silent.
But that's just my opinion. I don't exactly why CNN, NYT, Hillary's aides, etc were pushing it so hard.
Last edited by Jaw; 10-10-2017 at 01:08 PM.
We can all rest easy now
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/politi...ein/index.html
"I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein," Clinton said in a statement through her spokesman Nick Merrill. "The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/u...weinstein.html
When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star: The film producer Harvey Weinstein hired her for the lead in the Jane Austen adaptation “Emma.” Before shooting began, he summoned her to his suite at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for a work meeting that began uneventfully.
It ended with Mr. Weinstein placing his hands on her and suggesting they head to the bedroom for massages, she said.
“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” she said in an interview, publicly disclosing that she was sexually harassed by the man who ignited her career and later helped her win an Academy Award.
She refused his advances, she said, and confided in Brad Pitt, her boyfriend at the time. Mr. Pitt confronted Mr. Weinstein, and soon after, the producer warned her not to tell anyone else about his come-on. “I thought he was going to fire me,” she said.
Rosanna Arquette, a star of “Pulp Fiction,” has a similar account of Mr. Weinstein’s behavior, as does Judith Godrèche, a leading French actress. So does Angelina Jolie, who said that during the release of “Playing by Heart” in the late 1990s, he made unwanted advances on her in a hotel room, which she rejected.
“I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,” Ms. Jolie said in an email. “This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.”
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
she was "troubled"
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Yeah, heaven forbid we put a serial woman abuser in the White House.
The scumbag is getting some comeuppance now. The New Yorker, one of those "liberal", artsy-fartsy magazines, lowered the boom with a taped recording of him in action. I hear the Clintons always keep a copy on their coffee table.
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jpx7 (10-11-2017)
Touch a nerve?
No cartoon villains. Weinstein, Ailes, O'Reilly, Clinton, Trump, etc. Plenty of real villains. Sure other places and institutions do. No argument from me there. But I think the political, entertainment, and financial centers are probably pretty filled to the brim with this sort of stuff. Why does that bother you for me to say?
Last edited by BedellBrave; 10-10-2017 at 09:51 PM.
Are we going to see a massive investigation to see how pervasive this sexual harassment is? I thought only redneck trump supporters abused women...
FakeNews outlets are covering this HW thing everywhere.
How does this work? If they’re covering it’s fake? If they’re not covering it’s fake?
Forever Fredi
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