Posted on 12/07/2017 5:53:52 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Harvey Weinstein built his complicity machine out of the witting, the unwitting and those in between. He commanded enablers, silencers and spies, warning others who discovered his secrets to say nothing. He courted those who could provide the money or prestige to enhance his reputation as well as his power to intimidate.
In the weeks and months before allegations of his methodical abuse of women were exposed in October, Mr. Weinstein, the Hollywood producer, pulled on all the levers of his carefully constructed apparatus.
He gathered ammunition, sometimes helped by the editor of The National Enquirer, who had dispatched reporters to find information that could undermine accusers. He turned to old allies, asking a partner in Creative Artists Agency, one of Hollywood’s premier talent shops, to broker a meeting with a C.A.A. client, Ronan Farrow, who was reporting on Mr. Weinstein. He tried to dispense favors: While seeking to stop the actress Rose McGowan from writing in a memoir that he had sexually assaulted her, he tried to arrange a $50,000 payment to her former manager and throw new business to a literary agent advising Ms. McGowan. The agent, Lacy Lynch, replied to him in an email: “No one understands smart, intellectual and commercial like HW.”
Mr. Weinstein’s final, failed round of manipulations shows how he operated for more than three decades: by trying to turn others into instruments or shields for his behavior, according to nearly 200 interviews, internal company records and previously undisclosed emails. Some aided his actions without realizing what he was doing. Many knew something or detected hints, though few understood the scale of his sexual misconduct. Almost everyone had incentives to look the other way or reasons to stay silent.
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David Pecker is getting dragged into this. They are saying Harvey was an FOP, friend of Pecker.
“the Bright Shining Future™ that Presidentess Kamala Harris will provide.”
And she will likely be barely out of a very idealized starting gate when she is that very serious disappointment and everyone will know it, big time.
History will record that Hillary Clinton was able to reach her political zenith only with the aid and association with corrupt and decadent men such as Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein and Tony Podesta. She is nothing more than a lesbian, criminal, power hungry fraud.
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“They say there’s no devil, Jim, but there is, right out of Hell. I saw it!”
David Pecker is getting dragged into this. They are saying Harvey was an FOP, friend of Pecker.
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Pecker? Weiner? Life is stranger than fiction. If one were writing a book, an editor might say those names are too spot on!
There was Thread last night about the filing of a RICO case against Weinstein. Is that true?
The problem is that Pecker is close to the President.
People in Arkansas who said that wound up dead on her path to the top.
“There is no third planet.”
“Don’t you think I know that? There was, but not any more!”
“There is no third planet.”
“Don’t you think I know that? There was, but not any more!”
Thank you, Liz! :)
That’s a very disturbing picture. What’s the context and where was it taken?
“Well, you can believe Mr Pecker...”
“My name is Peck”
His main value would have been as a "bundler" behind the scenes, getting thousands of people to make mid-sized payments, as part of their dues for staying in the Hollywood "club". Lots of little payments look better than a few big payments.
If I were on the jury that there surely will be, I would have to see some clear indication that at least one of these job seekers truly did not know of HW's couch before I could say "Guilty."
A little CYA at the end.
Like the movie King Kong, when they offered up the deathly-afraid little blonde girl to the beast. The look on this soon-to-be Weinstein victim’s face is heart-rending.
Reminiscent of Saddam Hussein touching the little kid’s hair back in 1990, before the 1st Gulf War.
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