Tone-Deaf, Formulaic Liberals Defend Harvey Weinstein

Hey, folks, you know, the Harvey Weinstein story, this thing just keeps building now. Three women have accused him of rape. It’s in a New Yorker story by Ronan Farrow. Ronan Farrow is the daughter of Mia Farrow.

Anyway, he’s got this story, and in this story, exactly what I told you, in this story you’ll see all over it, you’ll see the name Roger Ailes. You’ll see the story and you’ll see the names, Bill O’Reilly. You know the name you will not see? I mean, this story’s long, 8,000 words. You know the name you won’t see in this story? Bill Clinton.

You do not see the name Bill Clinton in the story of Harvey Weinstein at all in the New Yorker. And you really have to look hard to find the name Bill Clinton in many of the other stories. Can anybody tell me if you’ve heard this, because I haven’t. Has anybody heard anybody defending Harvey, say, “Come on. It didn’t affect the way Harvey did his job. Come on, everybody does it.” Remember the old Bill Clinton defense we got? You haven’t heard anybody say that about Harvey?

He somehow strangely is omitted in all of these stories. It’s uncanny, like this thing from The New Yorker just popped. You see Ailes’ name all over it. You see O’Reilly’s name all over it. It’s a story three women have accused Weinstein of rape. That’s two more than have accused Clinton of rape. So I guess Hillary can take some solace in that. But still, you don’t find Bill Clinton’s name in this or many of the other stories.

In the midst of this they fire Harvey and they announce they’re gonna change the name of the Weinstein Company to the Popsicle Company or whatever it is, and Donna Brazile says, “Whoa, that’s the right thing! That’s great.” So she tweets out a praise for the Weinstein Company taking the lead against sexual assault after they fired Weinstein.

This is a classic, perfunctory, formulaic response that’s in the Democrat playbook that is tone-deaf and is unaware of present activity, things. How in the world do you praise the Weinstein Company for taking the lead against sexual assault? What she thinks she’s doing is being loyal to a donor. Well, the Weinstein Company wasn’t the donor; Harvey was. But she thinks that she’s being loyal to a donor. She thinks that she’s showing proper respect to a donor. It’s entirely tone-deaf, because all she did…This tweet was yesterday, or Sunday. This is Tuesday. This tweet was Sunday. “The Weinstein Company has taken the lead against sexual harassment and assault.” They got rid of Harvey! Donna Brazile is so used to doing PR for Democrats — so used to formulaically defending them — she just naturally tried to spin the story for the Weinstein Company because they’re good, loyal Democrat donors.

But this is as tone-deaf as Hillary’s tweet back in November 2015 when she tweeted at the height of sexual assaults-on-campus hysteria, “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” This is from the woman who ran the “bimbo eruptions unit” in the Clinton White House, whose purpose was to destroy any women that came forth and alleged that Bill Clinton had done anything to them. Now, you may be saying — and if you are, it’s a good question — “Rush, big deal. So they’re formulaic.”

He was probably one of the largest financial backers and powerbrokers of the pro-abortion movement in this country, and that alone will buy you absolution of so many sins that you commit elsewhere, it’s impossible to list them. But abortion is the sacrament. If you look at the American left and liberalism as a religion, abortion is the sacrament, and that’s the big test. If you do right on that issue, you are buying yourself all kinds of Get-Out-of-Jail-Free cards. And Harvey Weinstein was among not just the biggest donors, the biggest attendees at all of these different events and fundraising events all over the world.

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