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Old 10-09-2017, 09:29 AM
 
Location: NYC
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Hollywood hypocrisy

Ashley Judd, who relentlessly attacks Trump, has been close friends with sexual predator and women abuser Harvey Weinstein for twenty years, and she has actively covered for the deviant, allowing him the freedom to continue abusing women. Being a Hollywood producer do you think Judd is the only one who knew about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual deviancy and predatory behavior, but turned a blind eye because it suited their careers? Hillary is also refusing to denounce her long-term friend and former neighbor, despite attempting to score political points against Donald Trump.

Two decades ago, the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein invited Ashley Judd to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what the actress expected to be a business breakfast meeting. Instead, Weinstein had her sent up to his room, where he appeared in a bathrobe and asked if he could give her a massage or if she could watch him shower, Judd recalled in an interview.

Ashley Judd, Who Calls Trump A Rapist, Protected Harvey Weinstein For Decades
It's not hypocrisy. Judd could have been ruined because Weinstein had the power to do so. It is very different when you are in that position. It's probably why she was so outspoken against Trump because she knows what it is like to be harassed.

I am glad he was finally outed and women are standing up. I can't imagine being in their shoes.
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Old 10-09-2017, 10:16 AM
 
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You don't believe women get harassed in offices every single day. Wow.

From my first office job to my last there has been some degree of harassment.

Some of it physical -- some of it verbal.

It is off putting. I'm a strong, vocal person and I look back and realize that I just took so much 'crap' as a young girl.

Perhaps it happens more frequently in the entertainment industry, but it happens elsewhere.
Harassment that really has no power to affect your job if you work for a large company. All you have to do is turn them in or go work somewhere else. But in Hollywood the stakes are so much higher. They have absolutely nowhere else to go.
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Old 10-09-2017, 10:36 AM
 
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Harassment that really has no power to affect your job if you work for a large company. All you have to do is turn them in or go work somewhere else. But in Hollywood the stakes are so much higher. They have absolutely nowhere else to go.
If they got into acting after age twelve they knew they would have to deal with grubby grabby men. As long as they don't force themselves on the women, it is a choice to put up with this culture or find another line of work.

I think the LA culture in general is sexually uninhibited, compared to say Boston or Chicago, I suppose influenced by the entertainment industry, porn making in the Valley, so many young pretty girls trying to make it there willing to do anything. It isn't new.
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Old 10-09-2017, 11:09 AM
 
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True. That was only funny to people who appreciate classic melody, satirical lyrics, and the hypocrisy of media liberals.
It read more like something best appreciated by the over 70 crowd who wear MAGA hats.

Maybe you should submit it to Fox News or one of the AM radio hosts?

Just remember, if one of them buys it, I get a 10% commission.
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Old 10-09-2017, 01:22 PM
 
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Matt Damon and Russell Crowe pressured the NYSlimes not to expose Harvey in 2004.

"...former reporter Sharon Waxman claimed that while investigating the then-recently appointed head of Miramax Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo, sources claimed he was installed in the position solely to arrange escorts for Weinstein, and had no prior filmmaking experience.

"...the story was eventually killed by The New York Times, after Waxman said the Times’ then-culture editor Jon Landman found it unimportant.

‘He’s not a publicly elected official,’ he told me. I explained, to no avail, that a public company would certainly have a problem with a procurer on the payroll for hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the time, Disney told me they had no idea Lombardo existed,”

“After intense pressure from Weinstein, which included having Matt Damon and Russell Crowe call me directly to vouch for Lombardo and unknown discussions well above my head at the Times
, the story was gutted,” Waxman wrote. “I was told at the time that Weinstein had visited the newsroom in person to make his displeasure known.

Another reason not to read the NY Slimes.
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Old 10-09-2017, 01:32 PM
 
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Matt Damon and Russell Crowe pressured the NYSlimes not to expose Harvey in 2004.

"...former reporter Sharon Waxman claimed that while investigating the then-recently appointed head of Miramax Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo, sources claimed he was installed in the position solely to arrange escorts for Weinstein, and had no prior filmmaking experience.

"...the story was eventually killed by The New York Times, after Waxman said the Times’ then-culture editor Jon Landman found it unimportant.

‘He’s not a publicly elected official,’ he told me. I explained, to no avail, that a public company would certainly have a problem with a procurer on the payroll for hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the time, Disney told me they had no idea Lombardo existed,”

“After intense pressure from Weinstein, which included having Matt Damon and Russell Crowe call me directly to vouch for Lombardo and unknown discussions well above my head at the Times
, the story was gutted,” Waxman wrote. “I was told at the time that Weinstein had visited the newsroom in person to make his displeasure known.

Another reason not to read the NY Slimes.
Waxman has been asked why she didn't print what she knew on her site The Warp....she said she didn't have enough evidence to print what she knew.
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Old 10-09-2017, 02:58 PM
 
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Here's a great article about the hypocrisy of the left and Harvey Weinstein written by Paul Rahe in Ricochet

"When I first read of the supposed antics of Harvey Weinstein, I found myself in the position once assumed by Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca. Just as he was “shocked … shocked” to discover that there was gambling going on in Rick’s Café Américain, so I was completely taken aback at the suggestion that a Hollywood movie mogul, whom Meryl Streep once celebrated as a god, should have taken advantage of his position to bed a host of would-be starlets. Who, I asked myself, could have imagined such a thing?

The answer to that silly question is, of course, that no one who knows anything about Hollywood should be surprised at all. Producers and directors have been sampling the merchandise for more than a century, and much of the merchandise has been ready, willing, and able. Actors and actresses are not famous for their moral integrity; and, if to get ahead, they have to go ahead, they are generally prepared to do so. It is hard to believe Meryl Streep and Judi Dench when they claim that they were blissfully unaware of what everyone in Hollywood apparently knew. We live in an age of pious posturing"

https://ricochet.com/461035/pravda-h...vey-weinstein/
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Old 10-09-2017, 03:13 PM
 
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Waxman has been asked why she didn't print what she knew on her site The Warp....she said she didn't have enough evidence to print what she knew.
Why didn't the New York Slimes say that then?

"...the story was eventually killed by The New York Times, after Waxman said the Times’ then-culture editor Jon Landman found it unimportant.

There was decades of evidence from people directly involved and plenty of witnesses.
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Old 10-09-2017, 06:16 PM
 
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Interestingly, one of the women was Ashley Judd, pussyhat wearing feminist and Hillary supporter. Other women, not all actresses, were victims of this beast. The thought of seeing him naked
Very interesting that all these women had no problems working for Harvey. Very interesting that the loudest Leftist women like Hillary Clinton (long time friend of good old Harvey) and Meryl Streep who called him a "god" had no problems at all with Harvey and his well known abuse of women.

If the Leftist didn't have Double Standards - they would have NO Standards at all.
Biggest bunch of Hypocrites we have ever seen - all Partisan Politics all the time and about the last thing they care about are Women and Abuse of Women. Those abused women are just Cannon Fodder for their Agenda.
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Old 10-09-2017, 06:18 PM
 
Location: Near Manito
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Disgusting hypocrites/

As Democrats denounce Weinstein, Clintons and Obama stay mum - CNNPolitics
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