On Monday’s episode of The View, new co-host Meghan McCain castigated Hollywood stars for their reluctance to talk about Harvey Weinstein:
More actors have thanked Harvey Weinstein than God, according to a study by Georgia Institute of Technology. Let me tell you something, I worked at Fox for the past three and a half years before I came here. I couldn’t go and get a bagel without someone talking to me about sexual harassment. People were very cruel, saying: “How could you still work there? How could you put yourself through this?” I don’t understand why the same standard isn’t being set to actors in Hollywood and actresses in Hollywood that somehow work with him.
I’m surprised Jennifer Lawrence hasn’t said anything. She thanked him during her 2013 Golden Globes speech: “Harvey, thank you for killing whoever you had to kill to get me up here today.” He’s an incredibly powerful man; there are allegedly rumors everywhere all over Hollywood. SNL not making a joke about it.
Whoopi Goldberg interjected:
Let’s be realistic. Let’s start with … this happened Thursday night, so it’s Monday morning. So, if we don’t hear anything else in the next day or two, I think I would be shocked. But I think people are assessing, you know? What did I know, and did I know it? Did I look the other way?
After some back and forth, McCain stated:
I read Rose McGowan’s Twitter, and she’s clearly a woman that’s traumatized from her experience with him, and I feel very bad for her because she seems very alone and she’s really reaching out, asking women to come forth, and there are a lot of crickets right now.
And let me tell you, the media’s more than happy to dance on the grave of Bill O’Reilly and all the other sexual harassers in conservative media. I don’t understand why the same standards [aren’t set] in Hollywood.
Both Goldberg and co-host Joy Behar said: “Give it a minute.”
H/T: Washington Free Beacon.