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Michael P. Ramirez Draws Harvey Weinstein
Ewww!
Hahaha! The thing that slays me is that he was married to one of the most beautiful women in the world, Georgina Chapman (fashion designer – Marchesa). I say “was” because she’s leaving him now. That fat gargoyle should have been so grateful to have her, but instead she just wasn’t enough for him. He’s paying for it now, though, and schadenfreude fills me with delight.
The truth is that the man is ill. It’s a spiritual sickness. No woman would ever be enough. He hates himself too much.
This is how I see it too. So often the person in a relationship who cheats is the one who doesn’t feel he/she has the upper hand. So they have a need to prove themselves.
I threw up a little in my mouth.
Ill indeed, as are the people who make excuses for someone like this. For some it is not about the act of abuse, it depends upon who the abuser is.
Yes, their outrage is pretty selective.
Glad it is just a cartoon. Bodies like that would put Playgirl out of business…if it is still in business.
It’s not so much the bodies, but the dissipated countenance of figures like Weinstein, Weiner and Clinton. There’s something about the leering, creepy look of these guys coupled with the revelations of their habits that make them revolting.
Probably why there aren’t many conservatives in Hollywood…why it is mostly a liberal collective….those who would demean themselves so for a job.
There are no enemies on the Left — unless someone rats one of them out, which happens all too seldom.
I’m beginning to see the NFL has done Americans a huge, huge favor. By selectively enforcing their own code of conduct to favor the Left (no stickers on helmets to commemorate the five murdered cops, but dissing the flag is okay), a lot of Americans are waking up to the capriciousness, the bullying, the hypocrisy, the anti-Americanism, and, ultimately, the abuse of power of the Left.
I’m not sure there was a better way to convince the people of the wisdom of limited government than to let them experience what happens when those with the unconstrained vision get into power. That’s how I see this Weinstein thing. He may be a repulsive man in so many ways, but it’s his abuse of power that should be a cautionary tale about how much power we give someone or some institution.
There is still choice involved. He could have chosen to see a therapist and talk through his issues rather than being an abuser. Its not like he has the excuse of poverty. He didnt go to a therapist to get help because he chose to be an abuser instead.
I dont think anyone was excusing his behavior.
Not enough of them.
Live by sword, die by sword.
LoL… Hey! If you like being watched in the shower, Good News!
I am a little perplexed by this issue. I, a nobody in a flyover state heard that Weinstein was a sick, boor. Though obviously not how much of a sick creep he really was. So why did this just happen? I sense Hollywood politics at work and somebody torpedoed him. Good riddance to bad trash, too bad it was not sooner before he hurt so many.
Good News! Hollywood has thrown the Affleck brothers under the bus for the same crime, molesting and raping women.
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When did that happen, Kay of MT, and where did you read it?
There are several links to stories on Drudge at the moment. Such as this from the Washington Post.
Thanks, Arahant.
Wow. Suddenly no one has a reason to cover for these males. And a lot of women are bitter about what they chose to silently endure back when they (these males) had the power of…..How would Meryl Streep put it ?…..Oh yeah: a god…..when these guys had the power of gods over their careers.
This sudden and rapid melt down—the speed at which some kind of power structure in Hollywood seems to be collapsing—it’s weird. Isn’t it?
Breitbart, it was attached to the Live Upates re: Harvey Weinstein scandal, a link to
Affleck being caught in the fray.
Thanks, Kay.
This business of the Holywood women suddenly losing it and spitting out years of suppressed, and now, seemingly, almost uncontrollable rage over powerful men casually treating them like hookers, so strange.
Those girls probably were forced to do something they didn’t want to do, but felt their job or lively hood depended upon it. I always had the attitude: “I’ve turned down better than you.” So I imagine they have been hording the anger all these years. He paid some of them off, and to come back now seems a bit callous.
Going out of country, eh, for treatment? I suspect he’s pulling a Polanski.
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Kay, when the gals get done spitting bile, and when all of them are finished throwing rocks at each other’s glass houses and the dust finally settles, do you think Hollywood will be a place where it’s customary that, when a man in his dressing room is having a talk with a young woman, the door is always left open?
I wonder if the Pences have heard about all this and are laughing. They’ve earned a good laugh.
Quite. It’s the very reason my exam room doors don’t have locks and I’m chaperoned for all female exams.
I don’t get it. What’s the point of being rich and powerful if you can’t push the little folk around and bend them to your will. I have needs you know.
Thank you for posting this, Melissa. Michael Ramirez is a seriously talented artist. I am so loving this cartoon art. Every time I look at the cartoon, I see something new that adds/reinforces the facts revealed within the “cartoon”; something I missed before. Each aspect of the picture bringing something while taking away nothing. Truly, I am wowed by his talent.
I think at first glance it may look like it’s just a colored line drawing, a cartoon; but, I think it is great art. Speaking to each of us, on a personal level. It reveals what only great art seems able to do: visually display the sad truths, and hazards, of being human; this time, strangely, but effectively wrapped up in a smile.
Great work, great art! Thank you Mr. Ramirez. Oh, and funny, but sad. I almost felt guilty laughing. Was that the point? Shared guilt? Well done.
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“Shared guilt” is right. We’re all guilty of pretending today’s social customs don’t leave young women who haven’t money, or powerful friends or family, unnecessarily vulnerable to the designes and behavior of this kind of creep.
And we’ll all watch these stars anyway, no matter on whom they turned their backs. Or will we ? Cloony, Damon,Crowe and Affleck are now added to my list of people I won’t be supporting.