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PIERS MORGAN: Spare me Hollywood’s hypocritical horror over Harvey Weinstein [TR]
Daily Mail ^ | October 11, 2017 | Piers Morgan

Posted on 10/11/2017 9:38:49 AM PDT by EdnaMode

I spoke to Harvey Weinstein on Monday night.

'Harvey…how's your life?' I asked, winning myself the Most Stupid Question of the Year Award.

He sighed loudly, paused for a second or two, then chuckled, wryly. 'My life? It's really not that great right now to be honest, Piers…' At the time, he was still fighting to save his movie mogul career, and his marriage, after the New York Times bombshell report disclosing he had paid off eight women for sexual harassment.

Weinstein asked to go off-the-record, and we talked for another minute or so before I heard urgent mutterings and he suddenly said: 'I have to go….this is a very important call… I'm sorry… I'll call you straight back.' He didn't call back.

Within 24 hours, a blizzard of horrific new revelations erupted in the New York Times and New Yorker magazine featuring fresh allegations against Weinstein from myriad famous and non-famous women of rape, sexual assault and harassment.

Perhaps that 'very important call' was from one of those publications, or his lawyer, who knows?

It doesn't really matter now.

As I write this, Harvey Weinstein's career is gone, his marriage is gone, and his reputation as one of the greatest, and most successful, power brokers in Hollywood history is gone too.

Fired by his own company, and dumped by his wife Georgina, beleaguered Weinstein has escaped to a sex addiction clinic somewhere in Europe. It's a staggering fall from grace, even by the brutal standards of Hollywood. Yet it's a fall that deserves not a scintilla of sympathy, given the scale of his appalling behaviour.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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Piers Morgan calls out Hollywood hypocrisy.
1 posted on 10/11/2017 9:38:49 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Piers Morgan lmao


2 posted on 10/11/2017 9:40:02 AM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: al baby

He gets it right from time to time (like Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes).


3 posted on 10/11/2017 9:41:13 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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🙀. No, seriously pierce, nobody had a clue this was going on. No, really. 😳😉🎭🎬🍹🎥🚬
4 posted on 10/11/2017 9:43:28 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: EdnaMode
Yet it's a fall that deserves not a scintilla of sympathy, given the scale of his appalling behavior.

But he will be lionized and exulted by the left as he has enhanced his 'progressive' creds by abusing women ,lying about it, a la Clinton and funneling tons of money to their party.Make no mistake about this.

5 posted on 10/11/2017 9:45:03 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: EdnaMode

Piers needs his nose punched by Jeremy Clarkson again.


6 posted on 10/11/2017 9:47:20 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: EdnaMode

Ben Affleck getting called out today on groping someone.

Weinstein isn’t the only powerful producer who has taken advantage of the casting couch.

May it all spill out.


7 posted on 10/11/2017 9:53:49 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: EdnaMode

Isn’t the woman with the shaved head in the anti-Trump video that also featured Meryl Streep none other than Rose McGowan? And Meryl never heard about Weinstein before now?


8 posted on 10/11/2017 9:54:13 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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Yeah I just heard about Affleck.


9 posted on 10/11/2017 9:55:00 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Well done Piers. Every once in a while you get it right and you are spot on here.


10 posted on 10/11/2017 9:56:14 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/going-clear-filmmaker-alex-gibney-harvey-weinstein-is-just-the-beginning

"Weinstein was fired from the hugely influential film company he co-founded on Sunday night and sure enough—by Monday lunchtime—Hollywood figures were emerging from the shadows to attack a man they had once lavished with praise.

“There comes a moment when the veil of secrecy gets lifted and it’s like an inchoate agreement by society. It’s like, ‘OK, we’re not going to pretend that this didn’t happen anymore,"
11 posted on 10/11/2017 9:57:08 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: EdnaMode

Whoa. (Rubbing eyes) Piers Morgan defending Trump against Meryl Streep’s and Hillary Clinton’s incredible hypocrisy? Am I reading this?


12 posted on 10/11/2017 10:02:44 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Actually, outside of Gun Control, Piers is for the most part, on the mark.


13 posted on 10/11/2017 10:03:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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“I’ve always got on very well with him and enjoyed his company, and hope he gets the treatment he clearly needs. “

Not possible. He would only have gotten THAT treatment in some 1870s Cowboy town in the American West, not in some posh “clinic” in a European Country which probably does NOT have extradition to the US, but DOES allow bank transfers to Switzerland.


14 posted on 10/11/2017 10:03:55 AM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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Oh I get it! Piers is one of us!


15 posted on 10/11/2017 10:05:26 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

What is your point?


16 posted on 10/11/2017 10:11:28 AM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: EdnaMode

“Harvey Weinstein has witnessed all this at first hand, and doubtless calculated that nobody in his town, and his industry, really cares about sexual harassment or abuse.

In fact, they reward, applaud and enrich people for it.

And the really dreadful part of this horrendous saga is that until now, he was right.”

Looks like Polanski, Allan and Affleck could use a trip back in time to my imaginary western American Cowtown and an invitation to a dance with a rope.


17 posted on 10/11/2017 10:12:47 AM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: Darksheare
Piers needs his nose punched by Jeremy Clarkson again.

Every time I see that mentioned it brings a smile to my face.

18 posted on 10/11/2017 10:15:30 AM PDT by zeugma (I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
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19 posted on 10/11/2017 10:16:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Funny. I just did a search for that and was about to post it.


20 posted on 10/11/2017 10:20:03 AM PDT by zeugma (I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
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