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Harvey crossed a line, that's why he's toast

posted 6 years ago by MadamShogun (236)
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The casting couch thing is real, this is pretty standard quid pro quo thing in Hollywood. But notice that Harvey was the only real Hollywood big wig that's in trouble? The fact that Harvey Weinstein was the only one called out about sexual assault in Hollywood leaves me to believe, Harvey was just the one that stepped over the line with his aggressive harassment.

There's others too like Bret Rattner, but he doesn't have nowhere near the amount of accusations thrown at him. There's noway he's the only studio head with that type of body count. He just got singled out for being a overzealous creep where as other studio execs wasn't as off putting and predatory/aggressive with their propositions as Harvey was.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16350) 3 years ago

Hell, maybe he'll get lucky. They just overturned Cosby's conviction. Unreal.

[–] cyguration (3902) 3 years ago

Yeah, when people lie and someone goes to jail based on those lies it's usually considered proper justice that someone falsely accused of something should receive proper recourse.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, read the whole deposition yourself and start asking basic questions like...

1) Why did she let Cosby pay her way through school and offer her a place to stay?

2) Why did she maintain a consensual on-and-off-again sexual relationship with Cosby if it was rape?

3) Why did she continue visiting Cosby's house and even had dinner with him after the alleged rape occurred?

4) Why did she work so aggressively with him to get a job in Hollywood and only after that fell through did she turn the whole story on its head about him raping her?

Here's the link to the full deposition:
https://www.scribd.com/document/270728409/Cosby-Depo

[–] MadamShogun (236) 8 days ago

They actually did over turn it. He's getting a new trial.

[–] Otter (24464) 2 years ago

He pissed off his board if directors and investors, that's the REAL reason he fell.

The Hollywood PTB don't actually mind sexual harassment, as long as it doesn't hit the press or cost too much money. And Harvey, he got excoriated in the press AND cost his company too much money! He became more trouble that he was worth.

[–] EmperorOfDragons (295) 10 months ago

It's still bizarre that he was the only major producer that got brought down tho.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12526) 5 months ago

I remember reading the entire article about him. See, he was a very powerful man in Hollyweird....20 years ago. Someone was planning on releasing this explosive story about him to the Washington Post as far back as 2004, but Weinstein practically owned the Washington Post in all but name back then. Almost everyone on the staff secretly worked for him back then, and the story was shot down and buried before it ever got to the printer.

So by the time this story came out in 2017, obviously he'd become old, partially irrelevant, and had also gotten sloppy in covering his tracks. Obviously people he didn't have the safeguards at the Washington Post he needed to stop the story from being published 13 years after the first attempt. That, and he was just a pawn that people higher up on the elite food chain were using to get at Trump. The entire #MeToo movement was one of many schemes to try and destroy the 45th POTUS. Harvey was just one of the fall guys.

[–] MadamShogun (236) 3 months ago

I doubt #MeToo was made to go after Trump. I do think it was used as a indiscriminate weapon to go after powerful men for justice, perceived
slights, or even spiteful petty revenge.