Posted on 08/09/2018 7:48:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hollywood hates Donald Trump so much it doesn’t consider him worth walking on. That’s fine, but how about a little less preening and lot more consistency?
The West Hollywood City Council unanimously passed a resolution seeking to remove Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
It’s a purely symbolic gesture, since the Walk of Fame is in the City of Los Angeles and is run by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. But the West Hollywood types weren’t going to let such details get in way of some good virtue signaling.
The resolution cited Trump’s “disturbing treatment of women and other actions.”
You want disturbing treatment of women? Two words:
Bill Cosby.
Trump certainly has never been Husband of the Year material, but at least he hasn’t been convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting women.
For some reason, the city fathers of West Hollywood didn’t vote to have Cosby’s star removed. I’d say they were just busy trying to criminalize the possession of plastic straws, but they also missed the star right next to Trump’s.
It belongs to Kevin Spacey, last seen moving to the North Pole after about 15 men accused him of improper sexual advances. One of them was 14 when the incident allegedly occurred....
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
The stars aren’t even in West Hollywood’s district so their decision means nothing. Not sure why news people are talking about it.
Oh, I don’t know, a few of those “stars” need to have winos and the homeless visit them up close and personal.
These are the same liberals-progressives who allowed Harvey Weinstein do his thing for years. They looked the other way, kept quiet, and silenced anyone who would have talked.
Whats the difference between many Hollywood signs?
Will work for Food
or
Will screw for Fame
I await your answers....
If anything should be completely ignored, it’s this.
And yet here I am, I know, I know...
cripes...the dreaded kiss of death, “other actions”.
I envision a front end loader scraping up the Hollywood walk of fame.
this is all over MSM, especially in the left MSM. what to make of it, if true?
9 Aug: NPR: Merrit Kennedy: Julian Assange ‘Seriously Considering’ Testifying Before Senate Panel
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is “seriously considering” a request to testify in person before the U.S. Senate intelligence committee about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a statement from his lawyer...
On Wednesday, the WikiLeaks Twitter account posted a letter that it says was delivered to Assange via the U.S. Embassy in London. The purported document is signed by committee Chairman Richard Burr and Vice Chairman Mark Warner and asks that Assange “make yourself available for a closed interview with bipartisan Committee staff at a mutually agreeable time and location” as part of the probe...
Spokespeople for Burr and Warner declined to comment on whether the document is authentic.
“We are seriously considering the offer but must ensure Mr Assange’s protection is guaranteed,” WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson of Doughty Street Chambers said in a statement...
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/09/637180286/julian-assange-seriously-considering-testifying-before-senate-panel
Actually the idea the street artist had of putting down vinyl reproduction stars is just brilliant. They can’t possibly remove them as fast as they can be put down, and if someone would print up small versions, say 2-3” in size, anyone could order a bunch and slap them up everywhere - on gas pumps, ATM machines, store windows, etc. It takes almost nothing to put a self-adhesive sticker on, but it’s a real Hillary to remove one quickly. Especially if they’re made of that stuff that comes apart instead of peeling off in one piece.
I was placing hand-made post-it notes about the rise in gas prices after Obama assumed office with super glue on gas pumps.
Surely you jest.
Because it makes Trump look bad.
And that's the only reason they're talking about it.
If Trump’s star is removed, so should a whole slew of them:
Clark Gable (for playing a Confederate officer in Gone with the Wind)
Lillian Gish (for starring in Birth of a Nation)
Al Jolson (for appearing in blackface)
Leslie Howard (for starring in Gone with the Wind)
Elia Kazan (for testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities [HUAC] about Communists in Hollywood)
Fulton Lewis (for being the Rush Limbaugh of the 1930’s-50’s)
Adolphe Menjou (for being an anti-Communist activist)
Robert Mitchum (for actively supporting Republicans)
Morrie Ryskind (for testifying before HUAC and a long history of conservative activism)
Probably where I got that idea...but then you’re brilliant too!
John Wayne ... Henry Fonda for having two terrible children.
For some reason, the city fathers of West Hollywood didn’t vote to have Cosby’s star removed. I’d say they were just busy trying to criminalize the possession of plastic straws, but they also missed the star right next to Trump’s. It belongs to Kevin Spacey...
In their defense, this can't be virtue signaling, because Hollywood, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, the state of California, and the entertainment industry nitwits involved don't have any virtue. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle
So then, the sidewalk stars of celebs who endorsed and financed Bill Clinton’s treatment of women also get voted off? Right?
According to FEC Info, an Internet Web site (www.tray.com) that tracks federal political contributions, 176 individual donors actually contributed $10,000 or more to the lewinsky-era Clinton Legal Expense Trust fund through Dec 1999. Another 21 donors gave $10,000 in the first six months of 2000.
Thanks to Hollywood’s generosity, a total of more than $2.2 million was raised in six months, which was notably more than was collected in funding during the previous four years of his presidency—combined. Hollywood producers and stars made up the bulk of the most generous givers. They included:
<><> Harvey Weinstein
<><> Universal Studios tycoon Lew Wasserman and his wife, Edith, who have given $60,000;
<><>DreamWorks trio Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, $20,000 each;
<><> producer Ron Burkle and his wife, Janet, $40,000;
<><> producers Peg and Bud Yorkin, $30,000;
<><> TV producer Norman Lear, $20,000.
Stars, celebrities and executives giving $10,000 included:
<><> singers Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand;
<><> actors Michael Douglas and Tom Hanks;
<><> director Ron Howard; producer Gail Zappa;
<><>Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson.
THIS IS HOW HOLLYWOOD WORKS-—how to get a movie contract in Hollywood——committing sex crimes helps.
SOURCE-—NY POST BY BRUCE GOLDING, Oct 15, 2017
Famed former Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein worked as a consultant for Harvey Weinstein after he was accused of groping a model in his Tribeca office two years ago,according to a new report Sunday.
Fairstein helped set up a series of meetings between Weinstein’s lead defense lawyer and Martha Bashford, the head of the Sex Crimes Unit in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and a “close friend” of Fairstein’s, the New York Times reported.
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. later declined to prosecute Weinstein over the March 27, 2015, incident, and last week said his decision was “guided by the sex-crime team.”
Prosecutor Fairstein — a best-selling novelist who in 2007 wrote a Vanity Fair column about wanting to make a movie with Weinstein — defended her decision to work for the since-disgraced producer by vouching for defense lawyer Elkan Abramowitz.
“Calling Ms. Bashford to tell her who Elkan was and to ask her to consider meeting with him is the kind of thing I do four to six times every year,” she told the Times. The Times didn’t detail Fairstein’s consulting deal, but said the ex-prosecutor — celebrated for winning the conviction of “preppy killer” Robert Chambers in 1988 — didn’t believe the allegation against Weinstein. In a Monday email to The Post, Fairstein said she called Bashford at the request of Abramowitz, who she described as a “friend of 25 years,” and not Weinstein.
“I never received a fee from either,” she wrote. “I read documents and made an intro by phone.”
The Times’ report also revealed that an NYPD detective intervened during a secretly recorded encounter between accuser Ambra Batillana Gutierrez and Weinstein inside the Tribeca Grand Hotel, a day after she accused him of grabbing her breasts and trying to slip his hand up her skirt.
The plainclothes cop got worried when Weinstein “grew belligerent” while trying to coax Gutierrez, then 22, into a hotel room, the Times said, so he pretended to be a TMZ reporter seeking an interview with Weinstein. The maneuver reportedly led Weinstein to “retreat from the hallway” and let Gutierrez escape out a side door.The detective later identified himself to Weinstein, who agreed to go to a police station for questioning.
But Weinstein refused to answer any questions about Gutierrez’ groping allegations and instead asked for a lawyer, the Times said. NYPD officials who spoke to the Times on condition of anonymity denied a claim last week by Vance’s No. 2, Chief Assistant DA Karen Friedman-Agnifilo, who said: “The seasoned prosecutors in our Sex Crimes Unit were not afforded the opportunity before the meeting to counsel investigators on what was necessary to capture in order to prove a misdemeanor sex crime.”“Why would we not call about Harvey Weinstein?” a senior police official said.
The same official said the recording — on which Weinstein apologized for touching Gutierrez and repeatedly promised he wouldn’t do it again — was enough evidence to charge him with misdemeanor sexual abuse.“He admitted, twice, doing it. That’s probable cause to make an arrest,” the official said.
Vance — who is running unopposed for a third term in November — told the Times that he discussed the case with Bashford and Friedman-Agnifilo at least three times before accepting Bashford’s recommendation to drop it. “I didn’t have any pushback on Martha’s opinion, mindful that Martha has greater expertise in sex crimes than I do,” he said. Bashford declined to comment, the Times said.
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