Thing is, pigs like this are good at behaving well in public, and knowing when they can get away with their disgusting behavior. And in The Business, someone like Weinstein has a lot going for him–with his power and influence, as we’ve seen even women who rejected him were afraid to stand up and speak.
But what I want to know is, when did he have time to make movies?
I miss the President and Michelle so much.
The rancid behavior of Hollywood moguls is probably pervasive, but Mr. Former President it is NOT exactly the item where you need to show your outrage!!
In this case they had to as Malia just ended a six month internship as part of her gap year with Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax
So rape is not a thing to get outraged about?
While Miramax was founded by the Weinstein brothers, it has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company since 1993.
Harvey Weinstein was president of The Weinstein Company.
Is this Weinstein “thing” going to be like all the “rich people” things: a corp. goes to court. has to pay a fine, large to the 99% nothing to them, and the last comment on the sentence is, " and no guilt is involved." the fires in California are from climate change and why aren’t we blaming and throwing in jail $ Billionaires? How long are we going to let money run aka own our government?
We who miss them could form a support group and we’d need an arena to meet in.
Until the Kochs and the Mercers and other plutocrats and their offspring die.
The state of despair?
Would you be happy if the next time he speaks out it might be about the corporate culture which allowed Weinstein to thrive and is now putting pressure on the women themselves who’ve reported what they experienced and on the journalists who are writing about it. The story is far bigger than what President Obama has spoken of, and it’s not for him to to change the world. But he’s a voice of sanity and reason, and for that reason we must listen up.
And wasn’t it a sweet and boychick-like gesture that he named this company after his parents Miriam and Max.
I imagine that their first reaction was pure terror thinking about Malia. They’d have reached out to her first possibly heading to Harvard to talk to her in person.
Yeah, but Faux News ran with an article for a couple days last week in which they dug up Michelle, at some point in the past (can’t remember if it was months or years), calling Weinstein a “wonderful person” or some such fluff. It was, of course, prior to everyone finding out he’s a sexual harasser extraordinaire…but, obviously, that was not in any way made clear or considered to ruin the article’s value as propaganda that liberals support their own sexual harassers, double standard, hypocrisy, bias bias bias something something white genocide.
To put this Weinstein story in perspective, remember, on October 9, 2016 within hours of the NSA dropping the bombshell about Russian interference with our election the story was completely buried by the pussy tape and then by Wikileaks leaking Podesta’s emails. While we obsess on Weinstein, we are not paying attention to the other more urgent danger – Trump and nuclear war. I am a survivor myself of sexual harassment and molestation at the hands of famous men in the film and art world. I could drop a few names that would raise some eyebrows. Its a painful part of my life I’d rather forget but can’t – and I too would like to see such behavior prevented and justice for the women who endured Weinstein’s vile advances – but goddamn it – we do not need to hear every single democrat and beloved actor forced to denounce Weinstein or be accused of enabling. This is the way the right wing and the media control the narrative. Don’t take the bait.
This is how the media reported the beginning of her internship.
My mistake in attributing it to the wrong company. She was reported as interning with Weinstein.
Thank you for clarifying the point. There are some on in this thread who feel because you say one thing you deny something else or that posting here has something to do with being “happy.” The ills of Hollywood culture in my lifetime don’t seem to self-correct with public or outside pressure or change course indefinitely due to another sexual scandal. Weinstein didn’t invent rape, it’s always been an ugly, serious, damaging assault. It wasn’t my intent to diminish its abhorrence. My intent was strictly a reaction to a former president, whom we so seldom hear from, speaking out on this particular issue when he’s publicly silent on globally critical ones.
Would that the former President and/or First Lady might pick up the phone and inform NYC Prosecutor Cyrus Vance, Jr. to do his job and empanel a grand jury so these charges might be aired and perhaps charges brought. Well enough that the New York PD will open an investigation but I am sure that Vance (like other NY politicians) has taken donations from Harvey and is, therefore, quite willing to “look the other way.” YET ANOTHER REASON TO OUTLAW DONATIONS OF MORE THAN $500 TO ANY POL FROM ANY CONTRIBUTOR!!