Posted on 10/09/2017 10:57:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Of course the Harvey Weinstein situation — folks, this is big. It’s not just about a Hollywood mogul and his misbehavior. As is always the case, it’s a teachable moment and it is filled with life lessons for people about liberalism. And I’m gonna tell you where all of this really began.
It all began in 1969 at Chappaquiddick, when Ted Kennedy was allowed to get away with manslaughter at all costs. Now, in 1969 modern era feminism was just being unrolled, and at the time this happened it really wasn’t established yet. It had some high school girls excited and all atwitter, but that was about it. The real mad dash to the militant era of feminism didn’t really get going until 1970. But the Democrat Party, the Kennedy family going out of their way at all costs to defend Senator Kennedy set the stage for the Democrat Party’s glaring hypocrisy.
And then we move forward to Bill Clinton in the second term of his presidency with the Monica Lewinsky episode. And once again, after the full era of militant feminism and the modern era had become entrenched into our society, the Democrat Party defending Bill Clinton at all costs, led by his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is what gave us the ongoing behavior of major prominent Democrats up to and including Harvey Weinstein.
Ted Kennedy, you might say, made it all possible. Bill Clinton came along and put an exclamation point behind Ted Kennedy. And now even with Harvey Weinstein, look at what he thinks he has to do to save himself: Come out as an even more strident leftist, promise to take out Wayne LaPierre, promise to take out Trump, endow $5 million worth of charity work for women’s issues and so forth. And it’s that simple to buy off the left. In this case, however, time will tell if that will be successful.
Weinstein’s now been fired from the company he cofounded. But the details of this story and the elements of it as it continues to unfold are once again a gigantic teachable moment. You know what else they are? They’re a giant See, I Told You So. Twenty-five, 30 years of See, I Told You So. But I’m telling you, folks, do not discount this. The Democrat Party and the media going out of its way at all costs to defend Bill Clinton sends a signal to every other Democrat heavyweight predator.
It sent a signal to virtually every powerful individual on the left that they were not going to be held to account. That excuses would be made and tolerances would be expanded if they remained devoted to the cause or causes. Now, the Harvey Weinstein situation, look at what everybody is saying about how everybody knew. Everybody knew for all these years. We’ve now learned that the New York Times had a story ready to go in 2004 by Sharon Waxman that was gonna detail all of this up to 2004. The New York Times killed it.
The New York Times killed it, and they’re getting kind of creamed here by Sharon Waxman (no longer writing there) who says (paraphrased), “You know, it’s kind of funny to listen to the New York Times moralize about how the media looked the other way all these years with Harvey Weinstein when they led the league in looking the other way and striking stories about Weinstein.” Saturday Night Live did not talk about Weinstein. They didn’t make any jokes about Weinstein. They didn’t do a thing about Weinstein. And you know what Lorne Michaels said, the producer of Saturday Night Life?
(paraphrased) “Well, it’s a New York thing. Harvey is a New Yorker. You know, we give our own people a pass.” He didn’t say that; that’s what he meant. “We give our own people a pass.” Here’s another: Trump is a New Yorker. But that’s what blows the whole story to smithereens, his whole line of reasoning. There is a series of comparisons being made between Trump and Harvey Weinstein, another flailing attempt by the left to neutralize the impact of what Weinstein’s done. Let me tell you. There’s a couple stories in the Stack about this.
Trump hasn’t done diddly-squat compared to Harvey Weinstein. Trump is nowhere near Harvey Weinstein’s league. Trump hasn’t done anything remotely close to what Harvey Weinstein knowingly did and for which he was excused for all of these years. Somebody did a survey of a number of years of Oscar ceremony broadcasts, and they found that over a long period of time… I forget the number of years. I think it’s at least 10, maybe 14 years. In examining acceptance speeches of Oscar winners, Harvey Weinstein was thanked more than God.
I mean, he was a thug, he was a pig, he was powerful, he was a bully, and everybody was afraid of him and was sucking up to him and did everything they could to try to make sure Harvey never got mad at them. But all that time people were seething that he was getting away with it, and nobody had the guts to come out and say it. A couple of women did, but they were ignored. So now the comparisons are on between Trump and Harvey Weinstein, and there aren’t any comparisons to Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein.
And, yes, they both are New Yorkers and Saturday Night Live is routinely engaged in trying to destroy Donald Trump.
Folks, this is not about hypocrisy. The left never is held accountable on their hypocrisy anyway, no matter how blatant — and this is as blatant an example or case of hypocrisy as you can get. They’re trying to compare now Trump to Weinstein. There’s a big difference here. Donald Trump talked. Donald Trump talked the talk with some host at NBC coming out of a trailer — and interestingly, Trump was talking about what celebrities like Weinstein could get away with simply because they’re celebrities. But Trump? There’s no record of Trump doing any of this. Trump can’t hold a candle to Weinstein in this regard. Weinstein walked the walk.
All Trump was doing was talking about the very kind of behavior that is permitted when celebrities are involved. But hypocrisy is not… I mean, there’s plenty of it, but that’s not what this is about. What this is about is plain and simple: The abuse of women, the mistreatment of women that was ignored and tolerated — and, in some quarters, laughed at and applauded. “Hey, man, great work if you can get it. Hey, Harvey, way to go, bud! Hey, Harvey, way to get away with this.” Harvey had his supporters.
Harvey had lots of women in Hollywood who owed him a lot, they believed, and they got silent, and they stayed silent. Although Meryl Streep… Have you heard about this, Mr. Snerdley? Meryl Streep, one of those who has called Harvey Weinstein “god,” has now slammed Weinstein’s disgraceful behavior. She’s finally spoken out. I have it right here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Here it is. A lengthy statement released early today. “The disgraceful news about Harvey Weinstein has appalled those of us whose work he championed and those whose good and worthy causes he supported.”
It’s not the news that’s disgraceful, Ms. Streep, it’s Weinstein. You note the wording? “The disgraceful news about Harvey.” No, no, no. “The disgraceful Harvey Weinstein,” not “the news,” Ms. Streep. She said, “The intrepid women who raised their voices to expose this abuse are our heroes.” You ignored them! She goes on to claim she didn’t know. She didn’t know about this ’til she first read the Huffing and Puffington Post, and then she made a point of saying, “I want to correct something. Not everybody knew.”
Because that was the news on Friday. That everybody knew. She says no. “Not everybody knew.” (sigh) Well, we’ll give her that, if that’s what she wants to say, but it’s awfully hard to believe. But, folks, this isn’t about hypocrisy. This is about the ongoing abuse, serial abuse of women by a prominent the Democrat Party fundraiser, bundler, and donor — a very, very powerful person within the Democrat Party. And they knew, and they willingly looked the other way. They willingly went after everybody else that they thought had anything like this going on in their lives.
You can name the names — Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, you name it — and these people cannot hold a candle to Harvey Weinstein, and you look at the efforts to destroy them compared to the Democrat Party’s overwhelming (and Hollywood’s overwhelming) talent of ignoring Harvey Weinstein and propping it all up. I’m telling you, it all began with Teddy Kennedy and then really crystallized with Bill Clinton, because when the party and the media spent every bit of capital they had — went to every length possible — to defend and maintain Bill Clinton in office, what’s the message that was sent?
I’ll tell you, folks, here’s the thing to learn about this. The left doesn’t care about people. The left cares about power. They don’t care about people. Yet they own the image of being the only people who do care about people. It’s the left that owns this moniker of compassion and only they have compassion. Conservatives, Republicans, are cold-hearted, mean-spirited racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes. And the people on the left are princes, and they respect, and they hoist women up, and they sponsor women’s causes!
And they defend women at all costs against the overreaching behavior of so-called conservative predators. When in fact the predation is heaviest and most intense on the left. That’s why the left stayed silent and even lied for Ted Kennedy. It’s why Democrats stayed silent and/or lied for Bill Clinton. It’s why the left mobilized to “hide the decline.” That’s why Democrats wouldn’t let anyone see the Affordable Care Act before it was crammed down our throats. That’s why the left stays silent or lies about baby butchers at Planned Parenthood. They care more about power than people.
With the left, folks, it’s never about people. Look at the people they claim to champion! Look at the groups, look at victims they claim to be protecting and looking out for. Ask yourself, how is life for people in those groups? Those groups are routinely angry, are they not? They’re routinely angry and unhappy and discontented, and they are constantly looking for the Democrat Party to make it better. And how does the Democrat Party make it better? By promising to get even with the people who are responsible for the plight of all the people investing everything in the Democrat Party.
For 50 years, African-Americans in this country have been complaining and whining about (you name it), and the Democrat Party has been promising for 50 years to fix it and get even with the people perpetrating all these evils, and nothing changes. The same complaints, the same misery, the same unhappiness for 50 years. Ditto for Latinos and Hispanics. And what would you say about women now who are investing in the Democrat Party thinking it’s the Democrat Party that looks out for them, the Democrat Party that’s gonna protect them from these evil conservative Republicans who are out there just waiting to mistreat them and be misogynists and racists and sexists and male chauvinist pigs?
It is the Democrat Party, and they’re momentarily sorry when they get caught for a few days, like Bill Clinton told Juanita Broaddrick, “Put some ice on it!” Her split lip after her encounter with him. So, no, folks, they don’t care about people. They care about power. Harvey Weinstein’s unintentional war on hypocrisy. Harvey Weinstein is a metaphor for the entire Democrat Party. Over the past few decades, I think a lot of people have become numb to the left’s numerous and storied hypocrisies because they’re never held accountable. Hypocrisy never sticks to the left. It’s like they have Teflon against it.
But every now and then something happens to illuminate the real message of the Democrat Party and the American left. Harvey Weinstein’s implosion is a light shining brightly on just who and just what the American left is. To preserve Hollywood’s casting couch and other vehicles for Democrats’ serial sexual harassments or worse, liberals hijacked feminism to serve as cover. And I really believe this. I think the Democrat Party and liberals hijacked feminism as cover for their own behavior. And it worked like a champ; ask Bill Clinton. It worked like a champ! Ask Harvey Weinstein. Until something happened and he lost his power in Hollywood, which is probably due to losing money.
Which, by the way, I pointed out last week.
Now, everybody over the weekend hijacked that comment. No credit to me, of course. And they’re being praised as brilliant to have figured out why now, even though you knew about it before all of them weighed in. But let’s just look, from Ted Kennedy to Bill Clinton to Woody Allen, Bill Cosby to Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Weiner to Eliot Spitzer, they all exploited women without consequence because they were card-carrying members of the liberal establishment, which includes the media and Hollywood and Washington.
Not only are prominent Democrats guilty of egregious hypocrisy when it comes to feminism, they are equally guilty when it comes to environmentalism. Leftists denounce carbon footprints. They denounce the overabundant use of CO2. They routinely shame people for their lifestyles and yet produce volcano sized carbon footprints themselves.
On practically every seminal issue, the Democrats mandate, the left mandates a certain behavior for everybody but themselves. They are always exempted from the punitive policies that they want imposed on everybody else. They claim the sea levels are rising. They’re apoplectic in public crying about rising oceans. They shrewdly buy up beachfront property when the cameras aren’t looking. They live in the very places they claim are going to be underwater in a number of years. They know the sky isn’t falling, and they know the oceans aren’t rising.
Liberalism is a con game. They have no intention using the same health care system they devise for everybody else. They do everything they can to make sure no law affects them. Affordable health care is the kind of stuff they give us. It’s neither health care nor affordable. It’s a sop to their donors. And it turns out they’re bullies, sexual bullies in the workplace.
Equal pay? Equal pay for women, equal pay here, equal treatment there, look at the way they treat women in Hollywood. Equal pay at the Obama White House? That was a joke. Equal pay at the Clinton Crime Family Foundation? We find out that there is no equality in any of these institutions that the left run. There’s no equality, and there’s no safety. Look at Chicago, look at Detroit, look at places they run.
It’s a giant con game that liberalism has going. Harvey Weinstein now becomes a metaphor. He’s Ted Kennedy. He’s Leonardo DiCaprio. He is Bill and Hillary Clinton. He’s Bill Cosby. He’s the Obamas. He’s Eliot Spitzer. Anyway, that’s that. But there are other interesting details in this story which we’ll get to, but we’ll move on to other things when we get back folks ’cause we’ve gotta get it all in here. Hang on.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: By the way, I don’t know who else has said this but I want to go on record right now and say Harvey Weinstein’s career is not over. Oh, no, they’ll find a way to bring him back in the fold. You watch. Brian Williams is still on the air at NBC, is he not? Doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter. Mark my words. You’ll see.
Isn’t Weinstein the executive who lusted after a lowly subordinate employee in the lobby of a hotel and then ordered one of his guards to bring her to his room?
And once she was there he exposed himself and told her to kiss his male member?
And when she sued later him for sexual harassment, the entire Democrat media rallied behind....him?
Even after he perjured himself during sworn testimony at a deposition?
Bubba dirtied the oval office with a barely legal intern
JFK had affairs while in office
FDR had a mistress (and his wife did too)
But the left saves their fainting couch for when Trump makes an off color comment on a hot mic.
This depravity and its fundamental mendacity are even more appalling than the general depravity and mendacity of Hollywood, Washington, the news media, and the rest of the depraved, evil, and corrupt world of the decadence of Western Civilization.
“But the left saves their fainting couch of when Trump makes an off color comment on a hot mic.”
Pretty good definition of a bunch of double-dealing, perfidious, duplicitous, hypocritical bunch of criminal actors who project their own criminality on the rest of the
non-progressive world.
(Or is that a pretty good definition of a punk?)
Just asking.
IMHO
Very much PROJECTION. Now I know why so many actresses, in particular, went foam-at-the-mouth mad at Trump’s “Grab them by the Pxxxy” remark, they knew what they’d tolerated from Weinstein, and were ashamed. They were the type of women he was talking about. “If you’re rich and famous, they’ll let you do anything.” Yes, they had. And they did NOT like being called on it, however obliquely.
The women’s movement was a ploy for Progressive men to have a stable of pliant women to be their slaves and have abortions on the men’s demand.
IMHO
Totally agree. I’m so tired of people in Hollywood claiming moral superiority over Trump and conservatives when it’s the exact opposite.
Agreed. These Weinstein revelations really shed new light on why Hollywood actresses hate Trump. They’re hypocrites.
It is DEFINITELY the exact opposite. The American Left is morally defective.
That was Bill Clinton, no? I can’t keep these pervs sorted.
#stoppottedplantsexualabuse...
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