Even The Wolf likely can't clean up Harvey Weinstein's pending troubles

Okay. Read this, Dick's post from the Blatter thread, and tell me what it says. Because it sure reads to me like he's saying that ass grabbing is not sexual assault:

I’m sorry, but this shit is absolutely out of control. He allegedly grabbed her ass. That’s bad. He’s a heel if it’s true.

But now every headline I see, including this one and the one in my print paper this morning, blares something like, “Solo accuses Blatter of ‘13 sexual assault.”

For grabbing her ass.

It’s misleading. It’s sensationalism. And every news outlet in America seems to have bought into it because the underlying issue is important.

 

OK ... I see where you’re coming from.

 

Ooh. Fair enough, yeah.

It might have been sexual assault. But what state are we in? What is the law there? Civil? Criminal?

I’m running right now, but I’ll clarify later.

 

That's not the first time he has made some questionable statements about definitions. He thinks we just don't misunderstand his pure journalistic concerns, but the problem lies deeper.

 

Did he consent?

 

The whole “pedantic/pedantry” bit ... I understand whence the criticism comes, but people should be careful to dismiss @Dick Whitman’s point(s) so casually. Guy I was pretty good friends with when I was in the dying stages of my journalism career, he’s gone waaaaaaaaaay SJW in the intervening years. Today on Facebook he bemoaned “rape culture [in which] a sexual assaulter is elected president [by defeating the wife of] a sexual assaulter.”*

I’d be remiss if I didn’t note his closing his post with this: “Not to mention our rape of Mother Earth.” I think he may come to regret that one.


*I’ve massaged the quote a bit to protect the guy.

 

I was at the grocery store today and wondered how the National Enquirer would fit everything in and still save room for its weekly Hillary-bashing.

 

Not sure if anybody mentioned that six women have accused director Brett Ratner of sexual harassment.

https://pagesix.com/2017/11/01/six-actresses-accuse-brett-ratner-of-sexual-harassment/

Ellen Page also said Ratner sexually harassed her and outed her on the set of X-Men: The Last Stand.

Gal Gadot already backed out of an event during which she was scheduled to present an award to Ratner and now Page Six is reporting she won't do Wonder Woman 2 unless Ratner and his company are completely removed from the franchise. A representative for Warner Bros. said the story is false.

https://pagesix.com/2017/11/11/gal-gadot-will-only-be-wonder-woman-again-if-brett-ratner-is-out/

 

https://pagesix.com/2017/11/11/gal-gadot-will-only-be-wonder-woman-again-if-brett-ratner-is-out/

 

Apparently, somebody didn't read the last post before adding one.

 

QFPd_b.

Man, there are d_bs, and then there are some epic ones. TSP, how the hell did you do that? The previous one is just sitting there right above yours!

 

The button, right?