Posted on 11/19/2017 5:05:25 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Would the war against preying on women be blazing so fiercely had Hillary Clinton been elected?
When I interviewed women in Hollywood about the ugly Harvey Weinstein revelations in The Times and The New Yorker, they told me that feelings of frustration and disgust at having an accused predator in the White House instead of the first woman president had helped give the story velocity.
When I talked to Susan Fowler, after her blog post about sexual harassment at Uber that toppled its C.E.O., Travis Kalanick, she said that before Donald Trump’s election, women in Silicon Valley were speaking up but no one was listening.
“I think it was different this year because Trump won and people felt powerless,” she said. “I know I did. I felt super powerless. Because I felt, with Obama in the White House, I could just take for granted that good people were in charge.”
It is also interesting to speculate: If Hillary were in the Oval, would some women have failed to summon the courage to tell their Weinstein horror stories because the producer was also a power behind the Clinton throne? As Janice Min, the former editor of The Hollywood Reporter, told me, when Barack Obama stepped off a stage and into Weinstein’s arms for a big hug after giving a $400,000 speech as an ex-president in the spring, it sent a signal that the ogre was in a protected magic circle.
And, finally, would Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and other liberals still be saying in the past few days that Bill Clinton should have resigned the presidency over his own sexual misdeeds if he now occupied the first lady’s quarters and reigned over a potent Clinton political machine?
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Ha Ha Ha....
No doubt that if Hillary was elected, folks like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey would still be riding high today, in fact they’d be riding higher than ever knowing that not only would their misdeeds never be exposed but that they could keep right on doing what they were doing.
The Clintons just wouldn’t stop. So their circular firing squad has finally been convened. Its members are hypocritically pretending that they’re purging Bill because they suddenly care about the women he had sexually assaulted over the years.
It only took the Dems an entire generation to figure out that rape is wrong.
Trump = “accused predator”
Whoa, sounds bad, almost like the beginning of the end for Trump.
No, Mo, “guilt by accusation” doesn’t win elections - haven’t you learned that? You need credible witnesses, Mo, not people who are debunked within 24 hours after waiting decades to come forward before an election deadline.
I don’t wanna know why there’s a hole in her tongue
Maureen proves once again how mentally ill she is.
THAT is WEIRD....
That would require thinking. These people only feel.
Great.
Dowd is not worth the ink or paper or the opinion she pushes.
ALWAYS consider the source.
I think women will be going full Minoan soon. That is where the trend is heading. Cool.
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