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2018-05-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-
It's not right to equate sexual assault with misplaced compliments: Morgan Freeman
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Posted by Fred 2018-05-28 00:17|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 No, it's not, but your people (liberals) have been doing it since day one. Welcome to the crosshairs.
Posted by Thins Spomoter8761 2018-05-28 07:25||   2018-05-28 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 What Thins said - they started it; let this fire burn.
Posted by Raj 2018-05-28 07:49||   2018-05-28 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Trying to sink Trump only to have the torpedoes circle back. Karma can be a bitch.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-05-28 08:12||   2018-05-28 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 One more sanctimonious nitwit who has more free time since he won't be giving bullsh*t political sermons any more.
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-05-28 08:43||   2018-05-28 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Frank G 2018-05-28 09:10||   2018-05-28 09:10|| Front Page Top

#6 #3 Trying to sink Trump only to have the torpedoes circle back. Karma can be a bitch.
Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-05-28 08:12

...Even better may be to come. When Harvey Weinstein turned himself in the other day, he was rather ostentatiously carrying a book by Elia Kazan, the Hollywood director who was reviled by the community for having named names during the McCarthy era. The inference is that if ol' Harv is going down, he's taking people with him.

I believe that Conan the Barbarian should be paraphrased here: "What is best in life? To see your enemies #MeToo'ed, to see them digitally erased, and to hear the lamentations of their agents and significant others."

Popcorn, anyone?

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-05-28 09:36||   2018-05-28 09:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Be interesting if, in addition to naming other Hollywood lechers, he names women who were willing in order to get into the acting biz.
They'd have no defense, since, 1, they were in the biz, and, 2. there were no witnesses so the inference is, and, 3. as Handsy Harve's attorney said, he didn't invent the casting couch.
Each one of the named women may well be completely innocent. But the smear will not go away.

Jeez, what a mess. As to the circling torpedo...what were they thinking? That this could never happen?
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2018-05-28 10:33||   2018-05-28 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Jeez, what a mess. As to the circling torpedo...what were they thinking? That this could never happen?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2018-05-28 10:33

...Well, yes. In their little world everybody got along and kept their mouths shut and hated Trump. On the political side, we've seen more than a few guys who were allowed to keep on assaulting women because they voted the right way (see also 'Eric Schneiderman'), and it's quite likely the glitterati felt the same rules applied there - "We say the right things, so we'll be forgiven'. Remember Harvey's FIRST statement when this came out? He was going to double down on the NRA, f'r God's sake. He really thought that would bail him out.

Worst part is that it's going to change, just not the way they want. It's possible the overt harassment and assault will throttle back considerably - for a while at least - but remember that the major players in Hollywood will still be overwelmingly men. Scared men. Vengeful men. I'd be willing to bet that when this is over, the actresses who were the first to #MeToo will find that a great many doors once open are now closed.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-05-28 10:51||   2018-05-28 10:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, I won't have a closed door meeting alone with a woman. To protect myself.
Posted by Frank G 2018-05-28 11:18||   2018-05-28 11:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Remember the fuss before the election because Mike Pence would not dine alone with a woman not his wife, nor go to functions where alcohol was served without her? He was accused of sex discrimination, patriarchalism, and religious bigotry for it, but look at all the trouble he avoided. Ane example from the L.A. Times can be read here.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-05-28 11:56||   2018-05-28 11:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Ane example from the L.A. Times

Clearly I got caught between an and one. PIMF!!
Posted by trailing wife 2018-05-28 12:24||   2018-05-28 12:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Red on red. I love it
Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-05-28 13:25||   2018-05-28 13:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Blue on blue, heartache on heartache,
Posted by Deacon Blues 2018-05-28 14:23||   2018-05-28 14:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Not just actresses were couched...

Plenty of actors had to give it out to climb up the career ladder in gomorawood
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-05-28 17:35||   2018-05-28 17:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Tailhook for Tinseltown....
Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-05-28 23:16||   2018-05-28 23:16|| Front Page Top

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