Beware the Rape Allegation Bandwagon

Townhall.com ^ | October 18, 2017 | Michelle Malkin

[subterfuge]

A guy I worked with was accused of rape at Mardi gra in New Orleans. He was fooling around with this girl in a hotel stairwell and the cops came up. The girl was underage and she panicked and cried rape because she was afraid her parents, etc. My poor coworker spent 2 weeks in jail until the stupid cops looked at the girl’s camera that was loaded with pictures of her slobbering all over him.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Interesting point. is there a certain pride, if you will, that the girls are proud that Harvey found them attractive?

On he other hand, is there distress among some, that Harvey never went after them??

[Political Junkie Too]

Many people want a career in entertainment politics. But to get such a career, as a young person, they now must run a gauntlet of perverts incumbents, deviants special interests, and other villains. If they refuse to submit to the fiends, they are blocked, blackballed, and denied a fair chance to succeed.

Same story, different villains.

Substitute Mitch McConnell for Harvey Weinstein, the Senate Leadership Fund for deviants, and Matt Bevin, Chris McDaniel, and Mo Brooks, for Rose McGowan , Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie.

-PJ

[Sicon]

I guess journalists are human beings when they want to be.

And it would seem that most of the time, they don't want to be, or are simply incapable of being...

[griswold3]

This is why we have Courts.
Real action for real crimes.
Weinstein believes he can go to rehab and get a ‘second chance’. Fat chance, IMHO. But without a conviction, there is a possibility.
Meryl Streep and Roman Polanski comes to mind.

[Hoffer Rand]

My thoughts on the “me too” phenomenon is that the same people who went along with the casting couch to advance their careers now see the “me too” victim card as another means by which they can advance their career, so they more than willingly play it. No moral compass. Are there true victims? Undoubtedly. My guess is there are significantly more opportunists.

[Pecos]

It was Rather. The scene was a PBS show (in the 80's?) filmed at Harvard Law School in which each episode had a large round table with a large opening in the middle where the host stood. The panel members had been selected for having alternative views on a given subject. The host would stand in the center and begin a story. As each new fact was dropped into the conversation, he would pick an additional panel member to join the conversation.

This particular panel included a lieutenant that had been medically invalided out of the service for wounds in Vietnam. Amputation, if I recall correctly. After Rather gave his answer, the LT was asked what he would do if he knew his patrol had come under fire from that attack, but now the American journalists were in danger. Paraphrasing the LT, he said, "We would do our best to rescue the journalists, and a lot of my people would die, but we would do it anyway because that is who WE are."

The series is worth finding if you can.

[bboop]

Michelle Malkin’s the best. I’ve been so bothered by the ‘women victims’ in this. Really? I’m not buying it. Thanks MM for setting the record straight.

[DoodleBob]

I would hope that our culture would see a turning point.

I said it before across multiple Weinstein articles, so I apologize for the repetition. However, I feel strongly that this is a golden opportunity to not "let a serious crisis go to waste." Except here, we're not being slimy collectivists, but upright citizens.

Mind you, I really do not like the idea of using the behavior of dirtbags and the tears of actresses/the misfortune of an innocent as a weapon against an enemy (to quote another Freeper). Real men would take these losers out back and beat some sense into them. I am also a free market capitalist and I don't want to regulate anything unless it is in line with the intent of the Founders.

All that said, we're dealing with the lowest of the low. If the Republicans had any sense of testicular fortitude - or a desire to MAGA for ALL individuals - they'd call a press conference and say:

"Democrats are clearly pro-misogyny. Silence equals consent. They said nothing while one of their fundraisers roamed as a sexual predator in Hollywood.

"It is sad that the loudest Democrat since this story broke has been Hillary Clinton, as she acknowledged that the Oval Office has seen a sexual predator - her husband.

"The Republican leadership asks the Democrats to reject their harboring of anti-woman fundraisers, and join us as we announce the start of hearings on this poisonous atmosphere in Hollywood, with an eye toward regulating studios and actors and actresses under the Commerce Clause as so many Democrats have with other parts of the economy."

Others have noted that the Republicans likely have skeletons in their closet and there is a risk in this approach. I agree, but maybe it's time to man-up and clean the Augean Stables. Frankly, I don't care if it's Hollywood or Wall Street or Main Street...this isn't the way real men act.

From Moses to St Joseph to men of fidelity throughout history, now is the time for Deplorables to reclaim the mantle of "compassion" from the statists, and expose their War on Women.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

I read elsewhere that upwards of 60 percent of rape allegations are found to be false.