Long before Salome petitioned Herod* to behead John the Baptist after dancing particularly well for him, there has been this push and pull between men and women.
* The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus relates in his Antiquities of the Jews that Herod killed John.
The Harvey Weinstein scandal is only the latest, and while many felt that the story would die naturally, and quickly, it has not. It’s not unlike the late pop singer Michael Jackson paying parents of the children who he molested…the hits kept coming.
(Washington Times) She didn’t name names, but when Monica Lewinsky joined the viral online campaign against sexual harassment Sunday by retweeting #MeToo, the first person who came to mind was President Bill Clinton.
Therein lies the problem for the Clintons with the Harvey Weinstein sexual-harassment scandal: It hits perilously close to home.
Not only was Mr. Weinstein a political ally and a major donor to the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation, but his alleged sexual misconduct has refocused attention on Mr. Clinton’s own checkered past as the tide turns against powerful men who take advantage of women.
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| Ashley Judd proclaims that she’s a “nasty woman” and who can argue the point? |
To me, it was not the trade of money for sex** that Ashley Judd, Madonna and other women engaged in with Harvey that will get him. It will be the stories of the no-name women who were lured to Harvey by famous and powerful women (many who wore their pink cat hats with pride more recently in hatred of the President). If those come out and I think that they will, it will be a far darker saga both for Harvey and for the Clintons, who one would think could not sink lower than they already have.
** Prostitution is the act of illegally exchanging sexual services for money, or anything of monetary value, often times drugs. California Penal Code 647(b) states that it is illegal to engage in prostitution, to solicit prostitution, and to agree to engage in prostitution. Prostitution, a misdemeanor is punishable by a sentence of up to six months in a county jail, up to $1,000 in fines, or both.
In order for a defendant to be prosecuted of engaging in an act of prostitution the prosecutor must be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did in fact engage in sexual intercourse or sexual services in the exchange of money. Engaging in prostitution can either mean the act of sexual intercourse or lewd acts; lewd acts include anything that is intended to deliberately arouse another.
The women who did not prostitute themselves, but were lured by Weinstein and raped are a different class of victim and the sentences which may be paned down are far more severe and could put Harvey in prison for the remainder of his life. That also applies to the famous women who engaged in a conspiracy to commit rape by luring young women to Weinstein.
LOCK HER UP.
And all the rest of them, please.
The women progs will wear as a badge of courage that they were molested/raped by Harvey while looking for the money and the next movie to roll in. I don't believe very many of them lost any sleep of humping him.
No, most of the big name starlets likely went back for seconds, thirds, etc.
There were women who he raped. Most of them were likely the people without a name – girls with a pretty face hoping to make it the big city.
Their welcome to the business was Harvey's pud.
It doesn't look like that will happen.
More's the pity…
I had high hopes for a guillotine set up on the White House lawn…
Just remember my latest update of my ham sandwich joke: What is the difference between Harvey Weinstein and a ham sandwich? You can indict a ham sandwich.
Just like the Old Crone, The King of Pop, Bubba Clinton and scores more of powerful rich folk, Harvey will skate, and not spend a single second in prison.
This is not a prophecy that makes anyone happy. Other than Harvey, that is…
I guess there is some real fun news about how Robert De Niro was enabling Old Harvey. I guess that's what actor's do when they can no longer get it up.
Discussing Harvey and a ham sandwich at the same time may be anti-semitic.
Harvey seems from all accounts to still be pert as a rutting billy goat. Of course, we don't know the details, and I for one don't want to read them.
Hollywood has been countenancing this kind of stuff for decades, either by glamorizing it or by sticking up for the pervs in their midst. When Roman Polanski was finally nabbed in Europe, 30 years after skipping out on his sentencing for plying an adolescent girl with booze and quaaludes, then raping and sodomizing her, Hollywood arose in outrage — at the authorities. And Harvey Weinstein was very vocal amongst the outraged.
It would be very interesting to know in what manner Weinstein offended The Establishment so as to lose himself their protection. Whatever it was, it wasn't being a sexual predator.
The behavior of actors and actresses make all us old car peddlers look like pillars of integrity.
And I forgot to say, nice to see some Josephus. His account of the seige of Jerusalem makes for good apocalyptic reading.
I break out Josephus and Pliney the Younger from time to time to bring those events into focus.
I think that Harvey was like the master of a slave ship who lived in mortal fear of native footsteps on the deck above. Polanski's apprehension was a bit of deja vu.
You just took a bit of cash.
Hollywood took their souls.
As always, absolute power corrupts absolutely… sigh
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