{"id":250048,"date":"2017-10-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=250048"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:21:07","slug":"the-harvey-weinstein-story-a-teachable-lesson-on-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/09\/the-harvey-weinstein-story-a-teachable-lesson-on-liberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harvey Weinstein Story: A Lesson on Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Of course the Harvey Weinstein situation — folks, this is big. It\u2019s not just about a Hollywood mogul and his misbehavior. As is always the case, it\u2019s a teachable moment and it is filled with life lessons for people about liberalism. And I\u2019m gonna tell you where all of this really began.<\/p>\n

\"\"It all began in 1969 at Chappaquiddick, when Ted Kennedy was allowed to get away with manslaughter at all costs. Now, in 1969 modern-era feminism was just being unrolled, and at the time this happened it really wasn\u2019t established yet. It had some high school girls excited and all atwitter, but that was about it. The real mad dash to the militant era of feminism didn\u2019t really get going until 1970. But the Democrat Party, the Kennedy family going out of their way at all costs to defend Senator Kennedy set the stage for the Democrat Party\u2019s glaring hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

And then we move forward to Bill Clinton in the second term of his presidency with the Monica Lewinsky episode. And once again, after the full era of militant feminism and the modern era had become entrenched into our society, the Democrat Party defending Bill Clinton at all costs, led by his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is what gave us the ongoing behavior of major prominent Democrats up to and including Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n

Ted Kennedy, you might say, made it all possible. Bill Clinton came along and put an exclamation point behind Ted Kennedy. And now even with Harvey Weinstein, look at what he thinks he has to do to save himself: Come out as an even more strident leftist, promise to take out Wayne LaPierre, promise to take out Trump, endow $5 million worth of charity work for women\u2019s issues and so forth. And it\u2019s that simple to buy off the left. In this case, however, time will tell if that will be successful.<\/p>\n

Weinstein\u2019s now been fired from the company he cofounded. But the details of this story and the elements of it as it continues to unfold are once again a gigantic teachable moment. You know what else they are? They\u2019re a giant See, I Told You So. Twenty-five, 30 years of See, I Told You So. But I\u2019m telling you, folks, do not discount this. The Democrat Party and the media going out of its way at all costs to defend Bill Clinton sends a signal to every other Democrat heavyweight predator.<\/p>\n

It sent a signal to virtually every powerful individual on the left that they were not going to be held to account. That excuses would be made and tolerances would be expanded if they remained devoted to the cause or causes. Now, the Harvey Weinstein situation, look at what everybody is saying about how everybody knew. Everybody knew for all these years. We\u2019ve now learned that the New York Times had a story ready to go in 2004 by Sharon Waxman that was gonna detail all of this up to 2004. The New York Times killed it.<\/p>\n

The New York Times killed it, and they\u2019re getting kind of creamed here by Sharon Waxman (no longer writing there) who says (paraphrased), “You know, it\u2019s kind of funny to listen to the New York Times moralize about how the media looked the other way all these years with Harvey Weinstein when they led the league in looking the other way and striking stories about Weinstein.” Saturday Night Live did not talk about Weinstein. They didn\u2019t make any jokes about Weinstein. They didn\u2019t do a thing about Weinstein. And you know what Lorne Michaels said, the producer of Saturday Night Life?<\/p>\n

\"\"(paraphrased) “Well, it\u2019s a New York thing. Harvey is a New Yorker. You know, we give our own people a pass.” He didn\u2019t say that; that\u2019s what he meant. “We give our own people a pass.” Here\u2019s another: Trump is a New Yorker. But that\u2019s what blows the whole story to smithereens, his whole line of reasoning. There is a series of comparisons being made between Trump and Harvey Weinstein, another flailing attempt by the left to neutralize the impact of what Weinstein\u2019s done. Let me tell you. There\u2019s a couple stories in the Stack about this.<\/p>\n

Trump hasn\u2019t done diddly-squat compared to Harvey Weinstein. Trump is nowhere near Harvey Weinstein\u2019s league. Trump hasn\u2019t done anything remotely close to what Harvey Weinstein knowingly did and for which he was excused for all of these years. Somebody did a survey of a number of years of Oscar ceremony broadcasts, and they found that over a long period of time… I forget the number of years. I think it\u2019s at least 10, maybe 14 years. In examining acceptance speeches of Oscar winners, Harvey Weinstein was thanked more than God.<\/p>\n

I mean, he was a thug, he was a pig, he was powerful, he was a bully, and everybody was afraid of him and was sucking up to him and did everything they could to try to make sure Harvey never got mad at them. But all that time people were seething that he was getting away with it, and nobody had the guts to come out and say it. A couple of women did, but they were ignored. So now the comparisons are on between Trump and Harvey Weinstein, and there aren\u2019t any comparisons to Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n

And, yes, they both are New Yorkers and Saturday Night Live is routinely engaged in trying to destroy Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, this is not about hypocrisy. The left never is held accountable on their hypocrisy anyway, no matter how blatant — and this is as blatant an example or case of hypocrisy as you can get. They\u2019re trying to compare now Trump to Weinstein. There\u2019s a big difference here. Donald Trump talked. Donald Trump talked the talk with some host at NBC coming out of a trailer — and interestingly, Trump was talking about what celebrities like Weinstein could get away with simply because they\u2019re celebrities. But Trump? There\u2019s no record of Trump doing any of this. Trump can\u2019t hold a candle to Weinstein in this regard. Weinstein walked the walk.<\/p>\n

All Trump was doing was talking about the very kind of behavior that is permitted when celebrities are involved. But hypocrisy is not… I mean, there\u2019s plenty of it, but that\u2019s not what this is about. What this is about is plain and simple: The abuse of women, the mistreatment of women that was ignored and tolerated — and, in some quarters, laughed at and applauded. “Hey, man, great work if you can get it. Hey, Harvey, way to go, bud! Hey, Harvey, way to get away with this.” Harvey had his supporters.<\/p>\n

Harvey had lots of women in Hollywood who owed him a lot, they believed, and they got silent, and they stayed silent. Although Meryl Streep… Have you heard about this, Mr. Snerdley? Meryl Streep, one of those who has called Harvey Weinstein “god,” has now slammed Weinstein\u2019s disgraceful behavior. She\u2019s finally spoken out. I have it right here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. Here it is. A lengthy statement released early today. “The disgraceful news about Harvey Weinstein has appalled those of us whose work he championed and those whose good and worthy causes he supported.”<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s not the news that\u2019s disgraceful, Ms. Streep, it\u2019s Weinstein. You note the wording? “The disgraceful news about Harvey.” No, no, no. “The disgraceful Harvey Weinstein,” not “the news,” Ms. Streep. She said, “The intrepid women who raised their voices to expose this abuse are our heroes.” You ignored them! She goes on to claim she didn\u2019t know. She didn\u2019t know about this \u2019til she first read the Huffing and Puffington Post, and then she made a point of saying, “I want to correct something. Not everybody knew.”<\/p>\n

Because that was the news on Friday. That everybody knew. She says no. “Not everybody knew.” (sigh) Well, we\u2019ll give her that, if that\u2019s what she wants to say, but it\u2019s awfully hard to believe. But, folks, this isn\u2019t about hypocrisy. This is about the ongoing abuse, serial abuse of women by a prominent the Democrat Party fundraiser, bundler, and donor — a very, very powerful person within the Democrat Party. And they knew, and they willingly looked the other way. They willingly went after everybody else that they thought had anything like this going on in their lives.<\/p>\n

You can name the names — Bill O\u2019Reilly, Roger Ailes, you name it — and these people cannot hold a candle to Harvey Weinstein, and you look at the efforts to destroy them compared to the Democrat Party\u2019s overwhelming (and Hollywood\u2019s overwhelming) talent of ignoring Harvey Weinstein and propping it all up. I\u2019m telling you, it all began with Teddy Kennedy and then really crystallized with Bill Clinton, because when the party and the media spent every bit of capital they had — went to every length possible — to defend and maintain Bill Clinton in office, what\u2019s the message that was sent?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you, folks, here\u2019s the thing to learn about this. The left doesn\u2019t care about people. The left cares about power. They don\u2019t care about people. Yet they own the image of being the only people who do care about people. It\u2019s the left that owns this moniker of compassion and only they have compassion. Conservatives, Republicans, are cold-hearted, mean-spirited racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes. And the people on the left are princes, and they respect, and they hoist women up, and they sponsor women\u2019s causes!<\/p>\n

And they defend women at all costs against the overreaching behavior of so-called conservative predators. When in fact the predation is heaviest and most intense on the left. That\u2019s why the left stayed silent and even lied for Ted Kennedy. It\u2019s why Democrats stayed silent and\/or lied for Bill Clinton. It\u2019s why the left mobilized to “hide the decline.” That\u2019s why Democrats wouldn\u2019t let anyone see the Affordable Care Act before it was crammed down our throats. That\u2019s why the left stays silent or lies about baby butchers at Planned Parenthood. They care more about power than people.<\/p>\n

With the left, folks, it\u2019s never about people. Look at the people they claim to champion! Look at the groups, look at victims they claim to be protecting and looking out for. Ask yourself, how is life for people in those groups? Those groups are routinely angry, are they not? They\u2019re routinely angry and unhappy and discontented, and they are constantly looking for the Democrat Party to make it better. And how does the Democrat Party make it better? By promising to get even with the people who are responsible for the plight of all the people investing everything in the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

For 50 years, African-Americans in this country have been complaining and whining about (you name it), and the Democrat Party has been promising for 50 years to fix it and get even with the people perpetrating all these evils, and nothing changes. The same complaints, the same misery, the same unhappiness for 50 years. Ditto for Latinos and Hispanics. And what would you say about women now who are investing in the Democrat Party thinking it\u2019s the Democrat Party that looks out for them, the Democrat Party that\u2019s gonna protect them from these evil conservative Republicans who are out there just waiting to mistreat them and be misogynists and racists and sexists and male chauvinist pigs?<\/p>\n

\"\"It is the Democrat Party, and they\u2019re momentarily sorry when they get caught for a few days, like Bill Clinton told Juanita Broaddrick, “Put some ice on it!” Her split lip after her encounter with him. So, no, folks, they don\u2019t care about people. They care about power. Harvey Weinstein\u2019s unintentional war on hypocrisy. Harvey Weinstein is a metaphor for the entire Democrat Party. Over the past few decades, I think a lot of people have become numb to the left\u2019s numerous and storied hypocrisies because they\u2019re never held accountable. Hypocrisy never sticks to the left. It\u2019s like they have Teflon against it.<\/p>\n

But every now and then something happens to illuminate the real message of the Democrat Party and the American left. Harvey Weinstein\u2019s implosion is a light shining brightly on just who and just what the American left is. To preserve Hollywood\u2019s casting couch and other vehicles for Democrats\u2019 serial sexual harassments or worse, liberals hijacked feminism to serve as cover. And I really believe this. I think the Democrat Party and liberals hijacked feminism as cover for their own behavior. And it worked like a champ; ask Bill Clinton. It worked like a champ! Ask Harvey Weinstein. Until something happened and he lost his power in Hollywood, which is probably due to losing money.<\/p>\n

Which, by the way, I pointed out last week.<\/p>\n

Now, everybody over the weekend hijacked that comment. No credit to me, of course. And they\u2019re being praised as brilliant to have figured out why now, even though you knew about it before all of them weighed in. But let\u2019s just look, from Ted Kennedy to Bill Clinton to Woody Allen, Bill Cosby to Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Weiner to Eliot Spitzer, they all exploited women without consequence because they were card-carrying members of the liberal establishment, which includes the media and Hollywood and Washington.<\/p>\n

Not only are prominent Democrats guilty of egregious hypocrisy when it comes to feminism, they are equally guilty when it comes to environmentalism. Leftists denounce carbon footprints. They denounce the overabundant use of CO2. They routinely shame people for their lifestyles and yet produce volcano sized carbon footprints themselves.<\/p>\n

On practically every seminal issue, the Democrats mandate, the left mandates a certain behavior for everybody but themselves. They are always exempted from the punitive policies that they want imposed on everybody else. They claim the sea levels are rising. They\u2019re apoplectic in public crying about rising oceans. They shrewdly buy up beachfront property when the cameras aren\u2019t looking. They live in the very places they claim are going to be underwater in a number of years. They know the sky isn\u2019t falling, and they know the oceans aren\u2019t rising.<\/p>\n

Liberalism is a con game. They have no intention of using the same health care system they devise for everybody else. They do everything they can to make sure no law affects them. Affordable health care is the kind of stuff they give us. It\u2019s neither health care nor affordable. It\u2019s a sop to their donors. And it turns out they\u2019re bullies, sexual bullies in the workplace.<\/p>\n

\"\"Equal pay? Equal pay for women, equal pay here, equal treatment there, look at the way they treat women in Hollywood. Equal pay at the Obama White House? That was a joke. Equal pay at the Clinton Crime Family Foundation? We find out that there is no equality in any of these institutions that the left run. There\u2019s no equality, and there\u2019s no safety. Look at Chicago, look at Detroit, look at places they run.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a giant con game that liberalism has going. Harvey Weinstein now becomes a metaphor. He\u2019s Ted Kennedy. He\u2019s Leonardo DiCaprio. He is Bill and Hillary Clinton. He\u2019s Bill Cosby. He\u2019s the Obamas. He\u2019s Eliot Spitzer. Anyway, that\u2019s that. But there are other interesting details in this story which we\u2019ll get to, but we\u2019ll move on to other things when we get back folks \u2019cause we\u2019ve gotta get it all in here. Hang on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, I don\u2019t know who else has said this but I want to go on record right now and say Harvey Weinstein\u2019s career is not over. Oh, no, they\u2019ll find a way to bring him back in the fold. You watch. Brian Williams is still on the air at NBC, is he not? Doesn\u2019t matter. Doesn\u2019t matter. Mark my words. You\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You all looked shocked when I told you my opinion that Weinstein will be back at work before too long. This is something that I have learned. Our culture, the shame aspect of our culture has also been politicized. Public behavior that was considered immoral or lacking, greatly lacking in virtue, really did doom you for the rest of your life. It was a badge or a reputation or image that stayed with you for a long time. But as the culture rotted away, and as it was continually attacked, and when it became politicized — and it\u2019s tough to pinpoint exactly when that was — then certain behaviors were allowed. And in fact certain behaviors even became resume enhancements if you were of the right politics.<\/p>\n

Look at Bill Clinton. Look at Ted Kennedy. Not only did they survive within the Democrat Party, they were God 1 and God 2. And to this day both remain heralded and highly thought of and role models for many on the left. Bill Clinton, I\u2019m sure he doesn\u2019t feel any shame. I\u2019m sure Ted Kennedy never felt any shame for any of the things that equaled reprobate status or behavior.<\/p>\n

\"\"But you see these same standards don\u2019t apply — if you\u2019re on the right, you will be ruined for behavior that doesn\u2019t even come close to, say, Bill Clinton or Harvey Weinstein or Ted Kennedy. You\u2019ll be ruined. And not only will you be ruined, your family name will be under assault for the rest of that generation\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

The left will not let up. I mean, even in every story about Harvey Weinstein, there are two names that you will not miss that are usually in the first two paragraphs: Roger Ailes and Bill O\u2019Reilly. And they\u2019re both there as the first stage in neutralizing the impact of Weinstein and what he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

And then will come the comparisons. “Well, what have Harvey\u2019s contributions been?” And they will be weighed and valued, and at some point some women will come forward to say enough is enough, that Harvey and his wife have suffered enough. It\u2019s time to move on. No such thing will ever be said about Bill O\u2019Reilly or Roger Ailes or take your pick of any other Republican or conservative.<\/p>\n

Once virtue became politicized, it ceased to exist for the left. There\u2019s no requirement for virtue. Virtue is one of these things like morality: It\u2019s for fools. It\u2019s for idiots. “You want to penalize yourself and not have any fun in life, go right ahead, they say, but we\u2019re not playing. We\u2019re gonna do what we want to do, and we\u2019re gonna grease the skids so that we get away with it.” And they do.<\/p>\n

You can look at the names of people who, in any sane world, would have their careers destroyed, lives destroyed, reputationally or in reality and they all come back, and they all recover and they just keep going. I mentioned the name Brian Williams. Snerdley, “Yeah, but that was just lies. Weinstein\u2019s behavior –” Doesn\u2019t matter what it is.<\/p>\n

\"\"What Brian Williams did, literally making up news, inventing himself as being in the news, when you stop and think of how seriously they take what they do, you couldn\u2019t have a greater violation. But Brian Williams is back on the air. And there were elements at NBC that did everything they could to save and protect him.<\/p>\n

Now, you contrast that to anybody in the news business on the right and how they summarily trying to destroy them just for what they think, not for even engaging in any behavior that might be considered improper or wrong. People are destroyed simply for what they believe and what they say if they\u2019re on the right.<\/p>\n

Do you think the Democrat Party really wants to get rid of Harvey Weinstein\u2019s money? They don\u2019t, and they haven\u2019t. Have you seen the stories — I\u2019ve got it right here. DNC gives away 10% of Weinstein\u2019s donations. They\u2019re making a big deal. This is filthy money, they say, we can\u2019t keep this is, ooh, this is sticky, this is gooey, this is evil money. So they\u2019re donating it to Planned Parenthood, or they\u2019re recycling and donating it to other left-wing causes. Harvey\u2019s money is staying right where it was always intended to be: in the bowels of the Democrat Party. In the prostate of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

(interruption) Have they elevated sexual harassment to the level of what? No. They\u2019re piling on to excuse themselves. They\u2019re piling on to give themselves the moral high ground which will then permit them to keep engaging in that behavior. You don\u2019t think this is gonna seriously change the left\u2019s behavior? You think they\u2019re all of a sudden gonna start treating women fairly and equally and not abusing them on the casting couch? You think that\u2019s gonna change? Hell, no. None of that\u2019s not gonna change.<\/p>\n

Weinstein\u2019s gonna pay the price for being the fall guy if somebody decided, “You know what? Somebody needs to take the fall here and buy us some time here,” or what have you. There\u2019s a reason this happened. It goes beyond Weinstein being out of money and being out of power, being out of whatever. There\u2019s a reason. We don\u2019t know what it is, but there\u2019s a reason why it happened.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason why the New York Times, after sitting on this story since 2004, decided to run with it. They\u2019ve been sitting on this story 13 years. And then last week they run with it. We don\u2019t know. We\u2019re being told, well, he\u2019s out of money. That was my first guess, out of money, out of power and so forth. There\u2019s another reason. Don\u2019t know what it is. Ask away. You can ask me anything you want, and every answer is gonna be, where is Bill Clinton today? Every answer is gonna be, where was Ted Kennedy before he died? Go ahead. Ask the question.<\/p>\n

(interruption) The question is do I think the new generation of Hollywood actresses is gonna put up with this stuff the way the old generation of Hollywood actresses did? That is a good question. This young generation of Millennials is so consumed with a mistaken concept of equality. They think it\u2019s sameness. Equality is sameness and so forth.<\/p>\n

I think the allure of stardom, the allure of fame, as it\u2019s seen on Access Hollywood type shows, you gotta remember how people see fame. They see on TV, they see the red carpets, they read Page Six, TMZ, and to them, these people are having the life. Every day they\u2019re at a party, they\u2019re doing this, everybody\u2019s getting laid, everybody wants everybody, everybody\u2019s attractive, everybody\u2019s beautiful, nobody has any hang-ups, everything\u2019s perfect. That\u2019s how it\u2019s presented. And the lure of getting in that door.<\/p>\n

\"\"I think whoever has the power to let people in and make them stars or whatever, that person, that group, that industry, is always going to be able to pretty much have its way with people. And the lure, the allure, the desire for fame is at an all-time high. And the desire for fame for the sake of fame is at an all-time high. And in the Kardashians, people can see that it\u2019s possible. What did they do besides having big butts. What do they do? Why is it they\u2019re famous?<\/p>\n

They throw parties. They have fundraisers. They go to openings. They have a TV show Living with the Kardashians or Dying with the Kardashians, whatever it is, everybody wants to do that, young, impressionable people. So the future, this generation, how they\u2019re gonna react to it, it\u2019s a good question. At some point there may be some that just refuse to play by these rules.<\/p>\n

But as far as Weinstein is concerned, you can see it. People on the left always survive this stuff. They just do. Name for me somebody who has been eternally shamed into invisibility, shrinking away, living on a deserted island, doesn\u2019t want to be seen by anybody because the degree of shame is so high. Anthony Weiner? Give me a break. Anthony Weiner is gonna become one of the biggest stars when he gets out of jail simply because of what he did, simply because of what he went to jail for.<\/p>\n

Now, Weiner\u2019s a bit player, though. He never has been superstar status. But he\u2019s a curiosity. He\u2019s like an exhibit in the zoo. And he\u2019s always gonna be the exhibit in the zoo. You can look on the right side, on the political right side of the divide here and you can see person after person after person who were destroyed forever. Look at Eliot Spitzer. Eliot Spitzer, the guy\u2019s back, after what he did. He\u2019s back. He\u2019s got fame. He\u2019s got fortune. He\u2019s got respect amongst his peers on the left. Always works out.<\/p>\n

\"\"There\u2019s a story at the Fox Business Network here that the Weinstein Company\u2019s gonna change the name of the company. And once they do that, they\u2019re thinking everything\u2019s fixed. Get Harvey\u2019s name off the company and we\u2019re reborn. We got a brand-new life. Nobody\u2019s gonna know who we are, what we are, nobody\u2019s gonna associate Harvey with us. Except Harvey always will. When Harvey tries to come back, it\u2019s gonna be the Weinstein up-yours company or whatever he decides to call it. And the Democrat Party will welcome him back, because he will have done the requisite things, public visits to therapy, public visits here, public groveling, public this, and penance.<\/p>\n

Harvey will be allowed to have learned from his mistakes. He will be welcomed back as a new man. He\u2019ll shave. No longer that scruffy beard. Maybe lose the beer gut. He\u2019ll be a brand-new guy and they\u2019ll be singing his praises and you\u2019ll be hearing nothing but the great movies he produced and what a shame it would be if we\u2019d lost Harvey forever. Can almost make book on this. But my whole point is this is another teachable moment. This is an opportunity for people to learn who and what the left really is.<\/p>\n

Just like this stuff happening in the NFL is a great opportunity for people to learn who and what the left really is, and how they will politicize everything in your life if you let them and take the enjoyment out of everything in your life that you do enjoy. If you let them, that\u2019s what will happen. So those are the teachable moments here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPTS<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you remember how they mocked Mike Pence when he said that he has a rule that he does not go to dinner with a woman without his wife, that he does not have lunch with a woman alone who is not his wife and with his wife not there? Remember how he was laughed at and mocked? The mainstream media making fun of that and talking about how old-fashioned and so out of touch? And they even said that it was anti-female. They accused pension… I forget the term.<\/p>\n

\"\"It wasn\u2019t anti-feminist, but they said he was being unfair to women by saying he couldn\u2019t go to lunch with a woman who was not his wife alone or dinner or even take a meeting. He couldn\u2019t do it. They said, “The fact that he doesn\u2019t trust women, that should tell you everything you need to know about Mike Pence.” Now, you compare that to what we\u2019re learning about the great and the brave and the courageous donor, Harvey Weinstein. And this is my point about virtue.<\/p>\n

Virtue — real virtue, real morality — is now mocked.<\/p>\n

It is satirized, and it\u2019s even attacked in the case of Pence.<\/p>\n

He was accused of making it impossible for women who worked with him to advance by suggesting they could not be trusted. And that\u2019s not what he was saying. He was doing this out of respect to his wife — and he knows, by the way, damn well that if such a photo ever emerged what the Drive-By Media would do with it. Compare that to the Drive-By Media wishing they were Bill Clinton. Compare that to Nina Burleigh saying she would give Clinton a “Lewinsky” just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. The women in the White House press corps would look at Clinton and then Lewinsky and say, “Why her? What about me?”<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t say they said that, but by virtue of their behavior.<\/p>\n

Clinton was treated as a conquering hero, folks, and Mike Pence was treated as a joke.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, Snerdley, you just asked me a question, essentially if the young women of Hollywood will no longer put up with Weinstein kind of behavior. Well, I thought I would check into that. And, lo and behold, we have a 2010 story, and it\u2019s from Pajiba.com, but it\u2019s a Hollywood-oriented site. The current new actresses have already folded to Harvey and the Harveys in their world. Now just stick with me on this, and we\u2019re gonna get to the phones here right after this.<\/p>\n

Quote from this 2010 article on Harvey. The Harvey Girl, capital H, capital G. “The Harvey Girls are easily spotted. They are all very pretty, often in a rather generic sense. Their instant fame and the push behind them comes seemingly out of nowhere and without any justification in terms of resume or skill set.”<\/p>\n

What did I just say? What did I just say about the push for fame and how a guy who can make it happen can do anything? “Most obviously, at least as of 2007, they are clothed exclusively in Marchesa on the red carpet.” Marchesa is the clothing line of Harvey Weinstein\u2019s wife. I was asked earlier today if I thought Harvey\u2019s wife would tire of all this and split the scene, and I choked on my cookie. I said, “Are you kidding?” I try not to comment on other people\u2019s marriages. I mean, no two marriages are the same, so it\u2019s risky, but I said to the person asking, “No way.”<\/p>\n

\"\"“Why?”<\/p>\n

And I said, “Well, nobody would know who she is if it weren\u2019t for Harvey, including she knows that.” So Harvey gets every one of the Harvey Girls to wear her clothing line, Georgina Chapman is her name, she\u2019s got a clothing line called Marchesa, and all of Harvey\u2019s Girls were clothed exclusively in Marchesa on the red carpet and in runway shows.<\/p>\n

“So if you were wondering why Harvey Weinstein seems only interested in actresses who dress like fairy princesses from Planet Sugarplum, it\u2019s his wife\u2019s fault.” So says this story. “But the most telling sign, if you\u2019re looking, is the Want. These girls, each of them, has the look of desperation, of need. They WILL be famous. They WILL be stars.” And Harvey can make it happen.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re talking here about Amy Adams — this is what the story says — Jennifer Lawrence, Gwyneth Paltrow, Blake Lively, Uma Thurman — some of that are not in your Millennial — some of them still are. But it makes the point that never, ever discount the lure of fame. There\u2019s a reason why there\u2019s a term called a star maker. You and I have known one. Star makers — I don\u2019t want to get too inside baseball, but human nature is human nature, and fame, particularly today in the social media age, it has never been a — what\u2019s the word? A more desired status.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And back to the phones we go. It\u2019s gonna be our second call of the day. Nancy, Northville, Michigan. Great to have you. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Thank you very much. But first of all I\u2019d like to say to my family or friends that are listening and are driving, pull off to the side of the road, because the last time my daughter almost got in an accident when she heard my voice on the radio.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We can\u2019t have that. Nothing bad ever happens when this program\u2019s on, so we can\u2019t have that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I called because I was reminded of when David Letterman\u2019s indiscretions were revealed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The hypocrisy of the media and women specifically. Because when he came back after a short vacation, he not only was welcomed, but he got a standing ovation. And I\u2019m sure at least half of that audience were women.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: So how do you explain that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Stupidity. I was appalled and have never watched him since.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s not on now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, there\u2019s reason beyond the stupidity for this. I mean, I remember the episode. He didn\u2019t reveal it. Somebody ratted him out and it ended up being very public, found out he was cheating on somebody, cheating on his wife, kids involved, just typical reprobate behavior. He\u2019s the guy, by the way, who was selected to introduce and honor Peyton Manning yesterday as his statue was unveiled before the game in Indianapolis, because Letterman is from Indianapolis, so he was given that high honor.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no shame. I\u2019ll tell you, I\u2019ll answer the question because time is dwindling. He was applauded because he survived it. He was applauded because CBS didn\u2019t do anything to him about it. I mean, he did not suffer any punishment. Letterman has down pat how to act embarrassed and humble and caught and dumb and stupid and all that, and he prostrated himself. “It\u2019s so sad. He\u2019s such a funny guy, we love him.” Just hero worship. It\u2019s what it was.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question: Do you think that HBO will ever make a movie about Harvey Weinstein the way they did about Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas? Remember HBO did a movie on Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill just 18 months ago, two years ago? You know why they did it? They did it because it happened back in 1991; they had to remind Millennial generation what a rotten SOB Clarence Thomas is. They weren\u2019t born or paying attention when that happened. So they did a movie to tell everybody today who wasn\u2019t born yet what a serial abuser Clarence Thomas was and how virtuous Anita Hill was.<\/p>\n

Now, do you think that HBO, in 25 years, will do a movie highlighting what a reprobate pig Harvey Weinstein was so that the new generation of Hollywood moguls will remember or know? No way, Jose. What will happen is if they do a movie, it will be to herald Harvey Weinstein and his comeback and how he overcame personal demons and — with therapy and the love of a devoted community from Hollywood — was able to fight back and reclaim his seat in the executive suite at the Weinstein Company. That\u2019s how they\u2019ll do it, and this is why I say there will not be any permanent damage to Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n

Mark my words. Because there\u2019s always gonna be some payoff to kissing up to the guy.<\/p>\n

Somewhere in that demented world, it will be the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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