Posted on 11/15/2017 7:40:51 AM PST by TigerClaws
The Motion Picture Association of America and its chief, former Democratic senator Chris Dodd, have yet to comment on the slew of sexual assault allegations against Hollywood giant Harvey Weinstein, a longtime friend and political donor of Dodd's.
Dodd, who took the reins of MPAA in 2011 after a 30-year stint in the U.S. Senate, has made no public comment on the rape and sexual assault allegations against Weinstein that have piled up after numerous women told their stories to the New York Times and The New Yorker a month ago. The MPAA, which works with major film studios including The Weinstein Company, has not put out a press release on sexual assault by Weinstein or others in the entertainment industry.
Dodd had an existing relationship with Weinstein before he joined MPAA. Weinstein gave more money to Dodd during his political career than he gave to any of the other Democrats he supported. Dodd admitted in 2012 that their friendship affected the way the MPAA worked with Weinstein.
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"I've known Harvey for 25, 30 years, and we've been friends," Dodd said when explaining why MPAA hosted a screening for a Weinstein film. "He was very helpful to me as a candidate for Congress and as a senator over the years."
Dodd also figures into stories involving aggressive sexual behavior on the part of now-deceased Democratic senator Ted Kennedy.
Tucked into an extensive GQ profile of Kennedy are many anecdotes involving Dodd, including one where a waitress named Carla Gaviglio ended up "bruised, shaken, and angry," and claiming she was sexually assaulted at a Washington, D.C., restaurant.
Gaviglio, according to the story, was thrown by Kennedy onto a table and then onto Dodd while the two senators were drinking in a private dining room.
"As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles," wrote the late journalist Michael Kelly in 1990. "Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd's lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair."
"Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room," Kelly wrote. "Kennedy, Dodd and their dates leave shortly thereafter, following a friendly argument between the senators over the check."
Kelly characterizes Kennedy and Dodd as "two guys in a fraternity who have been loosed upon the world" and notes "they'd always get their girls very, very drunk."
The incident, labeled a "waitress sandwich," was also mentioned in New York magazine.
Dodd's office did not return Kelly's requests for comment.
The Democrat tandem's behavior was corroborated by late Hollywood actress Carrie Fisher, who said Kennedy once asked her during a dinner with the senators whether she would have sex with Dodd.
"Suddenly, Senator Kennedy, seated directly across from me, looked at me with his alert, aristocratic eyes and asked me a most surprising question," Fisher wrote of her dinner. "So,' he said, clearly amused, ‘do you think you'll be having sex with Chris at the end of your date?' …To my left, Chris Dodd looked at me with an unusual grin hanging on his very flushed face."
Fisher says she told Kennedy she would not be having sex with Dodd. His response was to ask another question: "Would you have sex with Chris in a hot tub?"
She declined the second time she was asked as well, she says. Representatives for Dodd didn't respond when ABC asked for comment on that incident.
MPAA did not respond to inquiries into the reason for its silence and into the alleged incidents involving Dodd. MPAA's leadership is made up of only men.
The organization announced earlier this year that this would be Dodd's last year as its CEO.
Other Hollywood institutions such as the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences acted swiftly to cut ties with Weinstein. The disgraced movie mogul was even cut loose from his own company.
Many Democratic senators who received money from Weinstein decided to donate the contributions to charity. The Clinton Foundation rejected calls for it to donate any of the $250,000 it received, saying the money has already been spent.
But McTurtle says Moore can't be a part of the Senate....
KimDotCom posted to Twitter yesterday that there are many other shoes yet to drop on Dodd.
What’s in your virtuous sandwich, Chris?
Bologna
Probably too busy making a “waitress sandwich” with Brett Ratner.
Speaking of sexual assault, I was just on Youtube reading comments under this video of Joe Biden groping kids, and I came across this comment which to me sounds VERY credible (she’s speaking about Biden):
Alessandra Jackson
1 week ago
I met him when I was twelve years old and my little sister was 9. My dad and his team were receiving an award and got to go to the White House. When we met Joe, he became immediately fixated on my sister and me. He ignored my dad, and went straight to placing his hands on our shoulders and suggesting we take a picture together. My Dad is a cop, and has witnessed and worked to catch pedophiles and rapists for years. My dad immediately said we should go find our mom, and Joe began to pester him to take a photo with me and my sister. My dad said we could only if he and my mom were in it to. My dad placed us away from him and my mom and him stand closer to him.
As a child I wasn’t entirely sure why my dad did that, until I got older and was able to ask him. He only told me that it was for our own good, and we haven’t discussed it since.
Here’s the link, her comment is about the 4th one down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwXweiRjckI
Of Course he’s silent! Chris Dodd is one of the Congress’s worst sexual offenders along with his good buddy Ted Kennedy.
Yeah, anything he says will start its own avalanche of accusations.
Can someone please tell me why the possible forgery story, as well the step-son of the “assaulted” woman calling her a “filthy liar” is not headlined here at FR? I have been working mucho hours, and I can’t understand why these stories haven’t been highlighted here.
To the point here, is there an archive where you can find ANY Republican demanding expulsion for Dodd and Kennedy after the waitress sandwich affair?
Weinstein’s got the goods on Dodd.
Dodd’s keeping his mouth shut.
Every famous man who ever assaulted a woman knows better than to condemn other men. As soon as they do women they assaulted tell their stories on them.
Boy, the Clintons sure love there dollars.
I thought Dodd was long gone.
Of course,Dodd is silent about Weinstein.
Chris Dodd and TK made a waitress be the filling for their SEX SANDWICH!
Byrd was a GRAND KLEAGLE of the KKK, and he was the CONSCIENCE of the Senate! Joe Biden plants his hands all over little girls and big girls!
The Senate is a SWAMP of DIRTY CREEPS!!
Thanks TigerClaws. This must be that "white privilege" rich/silverspoon liberals are always complaining about.
Source?? Link??
From: Washington Free Beacon
BY: Brent Scher
November 7, 2017
I did too! If someone had asked me I’d of guessed he was dead.
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