October 10, 2017
Harvey Weinstein Scandal: Nearly Arrested In ’15! Hillary, Obama Still Silent! Feels Betrayed By Brother.
Brian Nolte
Breitbart.com
UPDATE – 10:54 a.m.: Anthony Bourdain BLASTS Matt Damon:
Bourdain is obviously referring to the news that, in 2004, Matt Damon reportedly called the New York Times in order to kill a negative story about Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct. Full story here.
Anthony Bourdain ✔ @Bourdain
Looking forward to "THE BOURNE APOLOGY" in which Jason fights off attempts to expose a pimp
9:10 AM - Oct 10, 2017
UPDATE – 10:51 a.m.: Hillary and Obama remain silent.
UPDATE – 10:33 a.m.: Juanita Broaddrick BLASTS Hillary over her silence.
Juanita Broaddrick is the very brave woman who alleges she was raped by Bill Clinton when he was still governor of Arkansas. What our media and the Clintonistas did to destroy this poor woman back in the 90’s is as shameful as it gets. Twitter, however, has given her a voice, and she has been using it fearlessly ever since:
Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut
Hillary won't talk about Weinstein--kinda makes you wonder what HW could spill about his pervert buddy, Bill Clinton
9:47 AM - Oct 10, 2017 · Arkansas, USA
UPDATE – 10:15 a.m.: Donna Karam Walks It Back as Obama and Hillary Remain Silent.
Fashion mogul Donna Karan is apologizing after praising Harvey Weinstein following his firing from his film company amid allegations of sexual harassment lasting decades.
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In a statement Monday, Karan said her remarks were taken out of context and don’t represent her feelings. She says she believes “sexual harassment is NOT acceptable and this is an issue that MUST be addressed once and for all regardless of the individual.”
UPDATE – 10:14 a.m.: Hillary and Obama still silent.
UPDATE: 10:02 a.m.: Hillary and Obama still silent.
UPDATE 9:44 a.m.: Ashley Judd claims she told Weinstein she would not touch him until she had won an Oscar in one of his films.
Two key points here…
Judd claims she was joking with Harvey.
Judd never won any awards.
UPDATE 9:40 a.m.: WOW –> Tim Kaine to CNN: Hillary will speak on Weinstein ‘when the time is right’
UPDATE – 9:28 a.m.: BOMBSHELL –> Hillary spoke for 90 minutes in California last night and said all kinds of NOTHING about Harvey. No audience questions about Harvey. This almost certainly means the Hillary folks screened them out.
Liz Kreutz ✔ @ABCLiz
Clinton's Davis appearance has wrapped up. She did not bring up Harvey Weinstein, nor was she asked about it during the Q&A.
12:00 AM - Oct 10, 2017
UPDATE – 9:24 a.m.: Judge Judy Says Harvey Weinstein Got the ‘Payback’ He Deserves (as Hillary and Obama remain silent)
UPDATE – 9:12 a.m.: Rob Reiner makes whataboutism great again!
“Weinstein is a bad guy but Trump is far worse … an abuser”
UPDATE – 9: 11 a.m.: Lin-Manuel Miranda ‘appalled and repulsed’ by Harvey Weinstein allegations
UPDATE: 9:10 a.m.: Obama and Hillary still silent.
UPDATE – 9:07 a.m.: Director says, “Hollywood stands on the cusp of a widespread sex scandal with many more movie industry power-players being exposed for attacking women.”
UPDATE: 833 a.m.: As of right now, the word WEINSTEIN appears nowhere on Politico’s homepage. This is a total cover-up on Politico’s part. A brazen protection racket for Democrats.
UPDATE: 8:26 a.m.: SHAMED into mocking Weinstein, Kimmel engages in whataboutism against Trump.
Deadline:
The ABC late-night host acknowledged people are pointing to the fact that Harvey Weinstein was a big Clinton supporter, adding, “I’m not defending Hillary Clinton. The fact is, her campaign did take money from a high-profile man who has been accused of sexual harassment multiple times. And not just one of them by the way. She took money from two of them! Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump, who donated to Hillary’s campaign in 2008.”
Kimmel’s note to Donald Jr.: “Next time you’re defending your father, and you think it’s a good idea to draw a comparison between him and a freshly-accused sexual predator? Don’t. It doesn’t help.”
UPDATE: 8:23 a.m.: SHAMED into mocking Weinstein, Stephen Colbert trots out aging Jon Stewart and engages in whataboutism against Trump.
Deadline:
“Famed Hollywood producer and human Shrek, Harvey Weinstein is a bad person,” Stephen Colbert said at the top of Late Show, joining late night hosts in addressing news about decades of sexual harassment claims.
Meanwhile, Jon Stewart joined Colbert in giving President Donald Trump the late-night equal time he had demanded in a tweet.
UPDATE – 8:21 a.m.: SAG-AFTRA Condemns “Disgraceful” Harvey Weinstein (as Hillary and Obama remain silent)
THR:
SAG-AFTRA issued a statement Monday condemning embattled producer Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual harassment as “abhorrent and unacceptable,” and commending the “courage and candor” of women who speak out — a group that included actresses who are no doubt SAG-AFTRA members — and the “extraordinary reporting” of The New York Times, which first revealed the allegations last Thursday.
UPDATE – 8:18 a.m.: HONESTY – Jessica Chastain admits she knew about Weinstein’s behavior. Says everyone knew and they are not being honest if they say different.
UPDATE – 8:15 a.m.: Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter disavows! (as Hillary and Obama remain silent)
Deadline:
I am a pile of reworked flaws weaved into a semi-functioning man. And my glass house is always in need of repair. But in good conscience, I cannot help but throw this stone —
The allegations against Harvey Weinstein are clearly deplorable. No matter how many great films he’s bullied into production, or his guilt-induced contributions to left-minded ideals, this kind of intimidation and abuse of power is perverse and utterly unforgivable. Period.
UPDATE – 8:10 a.m.: Clooney finally disavows! (as Hillary and Obama remain silent)
Daily Beast:
It’s indefensible. That’s the only word you can start with,” he says. “Harvey’s admitted to it, and it’s indefensible. I’ve known Harvey for 20 years. He gave me my first big break as an actor in films on From Dusk Till Dawn, he gave me my first big break as a director with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. We’ve had dinners, we’ve been on location together, we’ve had arguments. But I can tell you that I’ve never seen any of this behavior—ever.
UPDATE – 8:08 a.m.: JLaw finally disavows! (as Hillary and Obama remain silent)
“I worked with Harvey five years ago and I did not experience any form of harassment personally, nor did I know about any of these allegations,” Lawrence told the outlet.
“My heart goes out to all of the women affected by these gross actions. And I want to thank them for their bravery to come forward,” she added.
UPDATE – 7:58 a.m.: Another bombshell report — Weinstein nearly arrested in 2015 over grope!
Daily Beast:
Harvey Weinstein had no sooner apologized to the 22-year-old woman who had accused him of groping her than he seemed ready to do it again.
“After he apologized, he said, ‘Listen, come up to my room,’” an NYPD commander with direct knowledge of the case says.
Ambra Battilana excused herself to use the restroom and she was met by a detective from the special victims unit, which had been using two cellphones to record this March 28, 2015, meeting in the bar/restaurant at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in downtown Manhattan. Battilana seemed close to panic. The detective promised her that she would be safely under protective surveillance if she went along with Weinstein’s request.
UPDATE – 7:52 a.m.: Harvey Feels betrayed by brother and business partner Bob.
Page Six:
Harvey Weinstein “feels betrayed” by his brother, Bob, after he voted to give him the boot on Sunday, a report says.
One of the media mogul’s longtime friends told CNN on Monday that he felt like his firing from The Weinstein Company was proof that his younger bro had finally turned his back on him following years of turmoil and bad blood.
“Harvey is convinced that this was a takedown,” the friend said. “He feels betrayed by his brother.”
UPDATE – 7:49 a.m.: Late Night caves to pressure, is shamed into mocking Weinstein.
Update – 8:11 p.m.: Another woman has come forward with sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
Louise Goldbold, an executive director at the nonprofit Echo Parenting and Education in Los Angeles, alleged Weinstein “preyed” on her in the 1990s.
The details of what I have learned was not unique to me are out there now – the office tour that became an occasion to trap me in an empty meeting room, the begging for a massage, his hands on my shoulders as I attempted to beat a retreat… all while not wanting to alienate the most powerful man in Hollywood.
Read Goldbold’s full blog post at her website.
Update – 7:41 p.m.: Actress Jessica Chastain writes on Twitter that she was “warned from the beginning” about Weinstein’s behavior. Chastain starred in two movies distributed by The Weinstein Company, 2012’s Lawless, and 2013’s The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. The Oscar-nominated actress condemned the allegations against Weinstein earlier Monday.
Jessica Chastain ✔ @jes_chastain
I was warned from the beginning. The stories were everywhere. To deny that is to create an enviornment for it to happen again.
5:38 PM - Oct 9, 2017
Update – 7:08 p.m.: The New York Times is pushing back on The Wrap chief Sharon Waxman’s claim that her 2004 story about allegations against Harvey Weinstein was spiked by the paper.
Clifford Levy, deputy managing editor at the Times:
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Clifford Levy ✔ @cliffordlevy
Readers asked us about a @sharonwaxman charge that NYT “gutted” her 2004 report on Harvey Weinstein. Our response: http://nyti.ms/2y5t826
6:59 PM - Oct 9, 2017
Update – 6:40 p.m.: CNN reports that Hillary Clinton and former President Obama have not yet commented on the allegations against Weinstein, first reported Thursday by the Times. Weinstein hosted a $33,000 per-plate fundraiser for Clinton in New York City in June of last year, and also made personal donations to her campaign, while Obama was also a major beneficiary of Weinstein’s campaign contributions.
Update – 6:30 p.m.: Lena Dunham op-ed for the New York Times:
“Lena Dunham: Harvey Weinstein and the Silence of the Men.”
Lena Dunham ✔ @lenadunham
Men in Hollywood, it's time to step up for us. https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/917497744700399616 …
5:39 PM - Oct 9, 2017
Update – 6:21 p.m.: Apple has reportedly pulled the plug on a television series about Elvis Presley that was set to be produced by The Weinstein Company. The show was reportedly in the early stages of development.
From Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva:
I have learned that Apple has pulled the plug on an Elvis Presleybiopic series from The Weinstein Company in light of the controversy that has engulfed TWC since last week’s explosive exposé about its co-founder Harvey Weinstein.
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I hear the deal, which has now been terminated, was for an biopic series, but there was an idea to grow that into an anthology franchise with Prince and Michael Jackson eyed as subjects in subsequent installments. I hear TWC COO David Glasser is reengaging another network that had bid on the series when it was first taken out.
More at Deadline.
Update – 6:11 p.m.: – More on Weinstein’s last-ditch effort to save his job, with a letter to Hollywood moguls that reportedly included Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Meyer, and David Zaslav.
From Breitbart’s Jerome Hudson:
Embattled movie mogul and Democratic party super-donor Harvey Weinstein sent an email to major Hollywood executives begging for them to help save him from being fired from the film he co-founded, Weinstein & Co.
“Do not let me be fired,” Weinstein begged his counterparts ahead of his termination from his company, according to an email published by The Hollywood Reporter co-owner Janice Min.
Update – 5:37 p.m.: More actors and actresses are speaking up about the allegations, including Kate Winslet, Jeff Bridges, and This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia.
Winslet, in a statement to Variety:
The fact that these women are starting to speak out about the gross misconduct of one of our most important and well regarded film producers, is incredibly brave and has been deeply shocking to hear. The way Harvey Weinstein has treated these vulnerable, talented young women is NOT the way women should ever EVER deem to be acceptable or commonplace in ANY workplace.
“I have no doubt that for these women this time has been, and continues to be extremely traumatic. I fully embrace and salute their profound courage, and I unequivocally support this level of very necessary exposure of someone who has behaved in reprehensible and disgusting ways. His behaviour is without question disgraceful and appalling and very, very wrong. I had hoped that these kind of stories were just made up rumours, maybe we have all been naïve. And it makes me so angry. There must be ‘no tolerance’ of this degrading, vile treatment of women in ANY workplace anywhere in the world.
Bridges, in a statement to Variety:
“Talk about facing your fear, he’s gotta face his demons now. I wish him the best of luck with that, he needs to lean in and really face those things.
Update – 5:30 p.m.: Mic comes out with a handy reference list of all the Democratic politicians and officials who have pledged to donate campaign contributions from Weinstein. The list includes the near-dozen Democratic senators, including Senators Schumer, Gillibrand, Blumenthal, Leahy, Heinrich, Warren, etc…
See the full list at Mic.
Update – 5:19 p.m.: Hollywood Reporter chief Janice Min claims via her verified Twitter account that Hollywood titans Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Meyer, and David Zaslav were among those who “refused to support Weinstein” after the scandal. Min previously posted a transcribed letter purported to be from Weinstein and sent to various Hollywood power players before he was fired from The Weinstein Company on Sunday. (See full letter below, in earlier update).
Janice Min ✔ @janicemin
Confirmed: among the power players who refused to support Weinstein were Ron Meyer, David Zaslav, Jeffrey Katzenberg
5:00 PM - Oct 9, 2017
Janice Min ✔ @janicemin
Confirmed: among the power players who refused to support Weinstein were Ron Meyer, David Zaslav, Jeffrey Katzenberg
Janice Min ✔ @janicemin
One big player who refused to respond positively to Weinstein's email plea tells me he replied in essence: "no f-ing chance"
5:11 PM - Oct 9, 2017
And I guess that's about enough. But there's more here:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/10/09/harvey-weinstein-scandal-live-wire-quentin-jlaw-remains-silent-kevin-smith-disavows/
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