It wasn’t
supposed to be this way.
Democrats
and their enablers in the media and in Hollywood et al were not supposed to be
caught up in the sexual harassment dragnet.
These were elite members of The Club and they were supposed to have
immunity from their misdeeds. That was
the unspoken deal that first took root in the 60’s and 70’s when the Sexual
Revolution emerged, coincidentally timed, mind you, with the women’s rights
movement. Leftist males, clever as they
are, quickly realized that there was both a political and personal advantage to
treating women as a special interest group and championing “the cause.”
When the
movement got around to going after sexual harassers, it was all good to start
with, because the targets were Republicans.
Club members feigned righteous indignation on behalf of the women who
testified against Clarence Thomas and nearly derailed the conservative
justice’s appointment to the Supreme Court (damn!…so close), as well as for the
women who testified against Republican Senator Bob Packwood, who was
successfully (Victory!) forced to resign his seat. (Side note:
The leftwing Washington Post delayed publication of the Packwood
allegations until after he was elected whereupon, following his resignation,
his seat went to a Democrat in a special election. Sound familiar anyone?).
The unspoken
pact was put to the test during the Bill Clinton era, when the moment came
where women had to choose between standing by their sisters in the fight
against sexual harassment or siding with their benefactors who pulled the
political strings in their favor. We all
know what happened there, don’t we? And
when it was tested again during the campaign of “bimbo”- suppressor Hillary
Clinton, the pact was reaffirmed yet again.
Leftist males were starting to believe they were invincible, especially
when psuedo “conservative” powerhouse Bill O’Reilly and Fox News Chairman Roger
Ailes were both forced out at Fox News over sexual harassment allegations.
So what
happened? How did big donor Harvey
Weinstein, media icons Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, Senator Al Franken,
celebrity Garrison Keiller, and other elite members of The Club suddenly get
caught up in the sexual harassment trap even after paying their Club dues? Watching them fall in quick succession I was
reminded of the great children’s story, Yertle the Turtle, by Dr. Suess. It tells the tale of a selfish,
power-obsessed turtle, King Yertle, who forces his subject turtles to climb up
upon each other’s backs so that he can sit on top and survey his
self-designated kingdom. As Yertle
orders his thousands of turtles to climb on the stack, the bottom turtle – a
powerless, inconsequential fellow named Mack – complains of his discomfort to
no avail. Finally, he decides enough is
enough, and he does one simple thing that brings the whole turtle throne and
the arrogant King Yertle crashing down:
he burps.
I’m not sure
if it was Rose McGowan or someone else who finally burped, but whoever it was
shook enough turtles out of their complacent silence to send a flurry of the
Left’s elite club members crashing unceremoniously to the ground. Why now?
Because the pact was starting to come apart. Most of these women are younger and hence
were not around when the pact was first formed.
They see no reason that they should trade their silence – and sacrifice
their bodies – for political privileges that now seem to be the status quo, and
this includes women not just in Hollywood but in the media and in the offices
of elected officials as well, which is why the pact is fracturing.
That’s what
I think happened, but as much as I am enjoying seeing members of The Club turn
on their own, I think there are serious battles ahead with respect to the
politics of sexual harassment. The Left
cannot be allowed to use their newly discovered principles on sexual harassment
as a cover for past sins. For the
moment, however, as far as I am concerned Rose McGowan – or whoever it was that
burped – is excused!
~CW
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