The Left Cannot Let the Access Hollywood Tape Go and They Are Wrong

It has been 18 months since the release of a 2005 Access Hollywood tape of a private conversation between Donald Trump and Billy Bush, but it seems that the Left cannot let it go. It might be because they were so convinced that the release one month before the 2016 presidential election would be the ice pick in the heart of the Trump campaign. They cannot seem to leave it only, but they remain wrong in so many ways.

Yes, the comments on the tape were lewd, coarse, inappropriate and disgusting. And the point is?There are bigger issues here.

The first is how despicable it is that someone taped a private conversation like this and kept it for over ten years. Why would they keep it other than to blackmail someone?In this case they blackmailed someone in a different manner – they tried to bring down a presidential candidate. Who among us, even the most pious, would want their private conversations taped and released upon the timing choice of others?

If it is not alright for you to be treated this way than why is it alright to use in a crass political manner? Yet not one person I saw from the Left was willing to say that.Certainly, The Left wanted to use it during the campaign. Saying the release was sordid mischief would have been politically imprudent, but they have had 16 months for redemption and not taken the opportunity. As so often with the Left the ends justifies the means.

What Trump said about some women throwing themselves at celebrities or rich men is sadly true. There I said it. The Left is unwilling to admit it except for in the case of Bill Clinton. There were many things Trump said, but the one that cut to the heart of the matter was this phrase – “And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” Well maybe not anything and maybe not at your discretion, but there are too many women who encourage men of fame or fortune to have their way with them.

We all know this unless you have cut yourself off from mainstream society. Just recently the story surfaced that baseball star, Daryl Strawberry, was having sex with women in the middle of games while with the New York Mets, using dugout employees as hound dogs to hunt out women who would participate in these episodes. What would possess the women to do this is apparently quite clear. He was famous and making a large salary.

Have things changed much since women threw their underwear on stage in the 1960’s at Tom Jones concerts?

A friend of mine told me that he was at a club in a private room with Prince, the recording artist. A woman was ushered in and performed oral sex on Prince and then left. What would be the cause of this other than she bragged to her friends she did what she did with Prince.

I saw this in action myself when I was the tour accountant for ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) in the summer of 1978. At the time they were the biggest band in the world and it was a huge, expensive tour. ELO certainly did not have the reputation of the Rolling Stones, but was still a Rock ‘n’ Roll band. Women made themselves available to band members and the supporting act we carried on the tour. My God, for some reason they even made themselves available to me -- and I was just the tour accountant. But for a 25-year-old male, it was quite a bonus.

Our culture has spoken of this phenomena for ages. Movie stars, sports stars or rich guys have had women latching on to them not necessarily for their good looks or spectacular conversational skills or humanity. What Trump stated here was essentially true and we all know it, so what are you in a tizzy about?

What the Left does not discuss is the second and more important issue – why do women behave like this and is it possible to ever change it? Certainly, in this age where Americans walk around with a falsely-inflated level of self-esteem created by a childhood of indulgence, one might think women would have moved on from this misguided behavior. On the other hand, it may never stop as some women will always be looking to use their sexuality to gain advantage over men who are instantaneously interested in sex.

One must separate the disgusting behavior of some men forcing themselves on women from the women who look to have lurid interludes with rich and/or famous men or get them into a more permanent relationship because of their fame or money.

I have not read one column addressing this issue and the need to change the culture so that women will not be interested in this (If you have please forward it to me). The #metoo movement may cut into this, but that focuses more on the women who have been abused sexually. It is not focused on addressing the issue of female self-respect.

We must acculture the females in our society to not being sexually abused and accepting it, but also to not selling themselves to men for fame, fortune or simply bragging rights. We know that will not stop for everyone, but at least we can raise the bar.

Let’s make Trump’s comments an anachronism.

Ted wouldn't have had the stones to get the flanking squadron of Clinton abusees in place before the debate, like President Trump did.

I think that was one of the greatest moments of the campaign.

I remember how the media got totally played that day. Trump called a press conference just hours before the second debate and less than 48 hours after the Access Hollywood firestorm. Most of the press assumed that this could only mean that Trump was either withdrawing from the race or offering up a humiliating apology in a desperate attempt to save his candidacy. The press was beside themselves with glee. They thought that this was finally the "end of Trump."

Then the curtain is pulled back revealing Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey and even Kathy Shelton! Most of the press dashed from the room in horror, literally tripping over themselves to get out of there.

I about fell off my chair laughing. That maneuver took such brass balls. Only Trump could turn the tables like that. I'll never forget the mortified look of Bill Clinton at the debate that night as he nervously scanned the room to see what else Trump would have in store for him that night and if I recall correctly, that was also the debate where Trump had his "because you'd be in jail" moment. That's still a promise I haven't given up on (wheels of justice move slow).

Yes, the comments on the tape were lewd, coarse, inappropriate and disgusting.

To you, they were. To me and many others it was an obvious truth.

Trump: "Yeah that's her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything."
Bush: "Whatever you want."
Trump: "Grab them by the p***y. You can do anything."
Tell me, Bruce, have you never seen a woman throw themselves at a man, especially a 'star'?
Talk to some sports stars. (hint - Magic Johnson) Talk to some actors and musicians. (hint - Sweet, sweet Connie) Talk to Wayne Newton! (hint - underwear thrown on the stage)

An idiotic statement, Bruce.

I was recently checking out some early Beatles footage on YouTube. The women attending their shows and chasing them wherever they went were utterly orgasmic in their adulation. When the Beatles stayed at a hotel in NYC on their Ed Sullivan appearances, groups of women would stand out in the street below and literally prostrate themselves on the sidewalks, erupting into a frenzy if they even saw movement of the hotel curtains in their suite of rooms. Interviews of these women often show them in tears, frustrated that they cannot get closer, one of them even saying that she would give up her life for just ten minutes alone with Ringo.

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Even before they were famous, when they played in Germany there was a section in the club where the women would sit who wanted to have sex with them.

“And this is the business to be in if you want some p****y. That’s why I got in show business, for p****y. I figured, if Jimmy Walker can f***, I’m f*****g everybody. F*** this, and it’s like that too.

When you do TV-shows, women would be throwing p****y at me on the street like Frisbees.

“Ed!” *woman throwing a Frisbee*
*Eddie catching the Frisbee* “Thank you! Appreciate that!”

Too much p****y, p****y would be falling outta my pocket. Walking out the street:

“Oh, watch your step, that’s mine.”

-Eddie Murphy (Delirious)

This is precisely the reason why I didn’t care about his comments.

Billionaire aware of gold diggers around him willing to do anything. Shocking eh?

I’ve heard plenty of celebrities say this, especially musicians - these women will let them do ANYTHING to them. The comments by Trump were vulgar but were just expressing this reality people like him are exposed to. What is more surprising is that there aren’t dozens of sex tapes, they’d exist if he’d made a habit of indulging in the actual behavior he had the opportunity to engage in.

That the left is perfectly willing to ignore Bill Clinton’s behavior is typical hypocrisy.

I didn’t vote for him because I had delusions he was a saint. It was because he’d be a Washington wrecking ball to the corruption that saturates the place.

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