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Ronan Farrow’s Moment
National Review ^ | May 7, 2018 | Dan McLaughlin

Posted on 05/08/2018 6:17:25 AM PDT by C19fan

There’s a lot to be said about the New Yorker’s big, multi-sourced expose of how New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has abused four different women – as I have documented at length, Schneiderman is one of President Trump’s bitterest longtime antagonists and a self-styled leader of “The Resistance” – but one point that I keep thinking about is how Ronan Farrow, one of the piece’s authors and a key figure in the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, has truly found his calling as a print journalist exposing sexual abuse. What is particularly striking is the contrast with Farrow’s original, failed journalistic career as a MSNBC television personality.

Farrow, the son of Mia Farrow and (his own mother leaves doubt as to this) either Woody Allen or Frank Sinatra, initially had a too-easy path up the ladder: he got a UNICEF gig in his mother’s footsteps at 14, graduated college at 15, got a job in the Obama Administration out of law school at 22, and was on air on MSNBC at 27. He’s a smart guy, as his educational credentials (including Yale Law and a Rhodes Scholarship) attest, but came off on TV as shallow and callow, a guy who was handed things for his good looks and family name and connections.

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To: miss marmelstein

It’s Hollywood......................


41 posted on 05/08/2018 7:41:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: nopardons

Mark Simone is reporting that the material on Weinstein & Schneiderman was “bundled” and handed to Farrow. Which is what we always suspected.


42 posted on 05/08/2018 8:11:20 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Red Badger

His mom was briefly my neighbor, back when she was married to Andre Previn. Not so glamorous when you see her at 7-eleven buying a half-gallon of milk in sweats.


43 posted on 05/08/2018 8:23:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

None of us are....................


44 posted on 05/08/2018 8:25:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Mark Simone is reporting that the material on Weinstein & Schneiderman was “bundled” and handed to Farrow. Which is what we always suspected.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend....................

45 posted on 05/08/2018 8:27:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Red Badger

What are you going on about? Do you have some bet on Ronan’s DNA?


46 posted on 05/08/2018 8:34:03 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Red Badger

re lineage:

This could all be confirmed or ruled out via DNA.
And I am sure that Ronan knows enough to know the real answer.
After all, he is a REAL journalist, (for now, at least).


47 posted on 05/08/2018 8:36:11 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: miss marmelstein

I was agreeing with you...............someone is feeding him info, and usually it’s the enemy of the person in question.

They see Ronan as a friendly, if unconventional, place to leak their info on their enemy.

As I posted earlier, Ronan is playing a very dangerous game.......................


48 posted on 05/08/2018 8:38:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Red Badger

Its shameful that the media and politicos were telling Ronan not report this stuff, as they have been sitting on it for years because democrat party uber alles.


49 posted on 05/08/2018 9:37:08 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

They were probably involved in the sexual shenanigans themselves................


50 posted on 05/08/2018 9:38:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Oh good grief...not all this again! :-(

And IIRC, no he didn't graduate from college at 15.

51 posted on 05/08/2018 10:23:12 AM PDT by nopardons (,)
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To: miss marmelstein
You're correct! This vaguely male son of Mia and Woody looks just like Mia's father...which is, according to Gregor Mendel's theory, 100% spot on!

And he looks abolutely nothing at all like Frank S.! And the whole Frank thing was NEVER mentioned, not even once, until Satchel/Ronan was an adult.

52 posted on 05/08/2018 10:32:34 AM PDT by nopardons (,)
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To: miss marmelstein
Of course ethat's true...we knew that the Harvey stuff was NOT researched nor written by this brainwashed by Mia little piece of fluff.

Someone else said that that was the story, re the Weinstein stuff, when that all happened. So no way did he do ANYTHING at all re the new supposed outing of the POS Schneiderman. And Trump, as well as many others, have known about the Schneid's "dark secrets, for many, many, many years.

53 posted on 05/08/2018 10:45:39 AM PDT by nopardons (,)
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To: nopardons
Hank Williams III looks very much like his grandfather, Hank Williams, so much so that Minnie Pearl, when introduced to him, said that she was seeing a ghost. Barack Obama, though half black, has several features, notably his ears, that resemble those of his maternal grandfather. Stanley Dunham.
54 posted on 05/08/2018 10:47:18 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: C19fan

I am sure that now that he has broken a big story on this, and now two, more women will be willing to open up... knowing they can trust him to tell their story.

Success, breeds success.


55 posted on 05/08/2018 10:51:31 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: C19fan

I am sure that now that he has broken a big story on this, and now two, more women will be willing to open up... knowing they can trust him to tell their story.

Success, breeds success.


56 posted on 05/08/2018 10:51:32 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: nopardons

I’ve been wondering about the college claim of this kid for a long time. My feelings were always that if he was so bright, why wasn’t he working at MIT or in medical/scientific research? Why was he talking about British African-Americans on MSNBC if he was so smart?

People are shoveling this stuff at him right and left. Maybe he is collating the material with Mommy at his side. We all know she is obsessed with women being treated badly by men. Sort of the way Previn treated Dorie.


57 posted on 05/08/2018 11:47:01 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Wallace T.
Wee barry also has his mother's and maternal grandfather's chin and jaw line.

My brother looks like my mother's grandfather...not our maternal grandfather. Sometimes this skips a generation. But Ronan looks just like his mother and maternal grandfather, which, according to Mendel, IS very usual!

58 posted on 05/08/2018 12:22:32 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: miss marmelstein
He went to Bard; however, Bard is both a high school AND a college for very wealthy, kooky, faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar lefty artsy-fartsy kids ( most of whom can't make it in any "normal school" ), who have parents with lots of pull. So IF he is all that "brilliant", why wasn't he somewhere more challenging?

It seems as though the stories about Ronan have been expanded and changed, these past few years. I wonder what the TRUTH of it all really is.

59 posted on 05/08/2018 12:30:14 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I have a friend (now deceased) who went to Bard - probably in the 50s. I don’t know much about it but thanks for the update.

We need a New Yorker article to get to the bottom of Ronan.


60 posted on 05/08/2018 12:36:03 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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