How Fox News Hijacked Harvey Weinstein And Made It About Clinton

[Initech]

Somehow, the Harvey Weinstein story became a Hillary Clinton story.

Clinton, who received campaign donations from the Hollywood mogul and attended fundraisers hosted by him, was criticized for saying nothing in the days after the New York Times published an account accusing Weinstein of repeated sexual assault and harassment. And then when she did say something, she was accused of not saying enough.

Weinstein has long been associated with Democratic and liberal politics, hosting fundraisers for Clinton and Barack Obama (also called on to release a statement of condemnation); donating $300,000 to the Democratic National Committee, and more to individual legislators; and publicly championing women’s rights. In the days since the Times’s account (and subsequent revelations in the New Yorker), any progressive or Democratic institution that’s been associated with Weinstein has been expected to cut itself loose quickly, entirely, and permanently. And any Hollywood figure who’s expressed progressive opinions has been expected to do the same.

The investigatory zeal is different than it was for Republican Party politicians who were friendly to Roger Ailes. The former Fox News head advised President Trump on the debate even after he was pushed out at Fox News in 2016 amid allegations of widespread sexual harassment. For that matter, a year after the release of the Access Hollywood tape, Donald Trump has never been made anyone’s problem — except Billy Bush’s.

The disparity between these two scenarios suggests something perverse but inescapable about the media’s expectations for politicians’ response to scandals. Public figures who talk about a social problem in the abstract get pressured to repudiate their associates who contribute to it. Public figures who weren’t vocal about the problem to begin with get to stay silent when it’s one of their friends.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/10/17/16482604/weinstein-clinton-ailes-trump

Fucking scumbags! This is why I have Fux News blocked from my DVR.

[vi5]

1. Really? This required an article?

"How" they did this? They just do it. It doesn't require any logic or reasoning or justification or any of it. If they say something bad is tied to the Clintons (or any Democrat) then it is and that's all their mouth breathing audience needs.

[gratuitous]

2. "Somehow" Vox? Really?

Weinstein became a Clinton story because the popular media are craven little mice, frightened of their own shadows, who can't stand up on their own two feet. Nobody pointed out that Fox comes to this table with dirty, blood-caked hands, permanently crimped into a "white power" rictus.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. To Hillary's credit, she said women who come fwd w/ claims of sexual misconduct should be believed.

[JHan]

4. hillary should never have been the point.

[Suzie57]

5. Ridiculous Ascertain:

From Vox: "The disparity between these two scenarios suggests something perverse but inescapable about the media’s expectations for politicians’ response to scandals. Public figures who talk about a social problem in the abstract get pressured to repudiate their associates who contribute to it. Public figures who weren’t vocal about the problem to begin with get to stay silent when it’s one of their friends."

It's not something perverse but inescapable about the media’s expectations for politicians’ response to scandals, IT'S FOX NEWS!
They didn't care about Ailes because he was their boss, they don't care about Weinstein either, they just saw any opportunity to smear Clinton even using flawed logic, it's all they do, it's their reason for existing, they are a propaganda machine. I just listened to them at the gym, they spend all their time smearing Clinton and Obama, they serve no other purpose. Except to bombard old white people both overtly and subliminally with the message that they are mistreated and threatened by brown people. Fox News is a brainwashing operation pure ans simple, and a very successful one at that.

[Initech]

6. Yes!

Fox News is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Our president thinks he is just the president of those who watch that pathetic network!