On his podcast this week (video below), conservative comedian and commentator Steven Crowder addressed the massive fallout from the seemingly endless Harvey Weinstein accusations, specifically highlighting the widespread hypocrisy the scandal has exposed among so many “pearl-clutching” celebrities.
“I don’t want to attribute to collusion what can be attributed to incompetence,” Crowder begins, “but with the Weinstein in Hollywood sexual assault situation … are we at the point that the preponderance of evidence leaves no other option [but collusion]?” Incompetence on such a wide scale “seems less realistic” than wide-scale collusion, he suggests, and that is where the hypocrisy really comes into play.
“Everyone’s a hypocrite,” says Crowder. “If you have any standards at all, you’re a hypocrite. That’s not what this is about. … The difference is Hollywood gives themselves awards and laud themselves with praise simply for their pearl-clutching hypocrisy, their virtue-signaling. … Everyone’s a hypocrite, but they don’t all make livings as a hypocrite. That’s the issue.”
Crowder then walks through his list of worst offenders, starting with the most pearl-clutching of pearl-clutchers, Meryl Streep, who has publicly touted having worked closely with Weinstein for her various political agendas and praised him as “God” in a now notorious Golden Globes speech back in 2012.
Noting that Streep has now claimed that she knew absolutely nothing about Weinstein’s alleged conduct, Crowder said even if that were true, she has praised pedophile Roman Polanski, saying she felt sorry for him and even once giving him a standing ovation.
“It wouldn’t be as bad if she weren’t traversing the country and in every single speech decrying bullying, taking this pseudo-moral superiority at every opportunity possible,” says Crowder, who asks rhetorically if she would consider rape as bullying.
Crowder next points out that Gwyneth Paltrow, who is one of the many women who has come forward as a victim of Weinstein — and clearly deserves sympathy for that victimhood, Crowder stresses — was nonetheless publicly praising him after he had sexually harassed her, and in so doing was in part functioning as “an active recruiter” for the serial sleazebag. Noting that her boyfriend at the time, Brad Pitt, learned about Weinstein’s actions, Crowder points out that apparently none of the boyfriends or husbands ever took real action.
Next up is Tina Fey, who Crowder shows chastising women who voted for Donald Trump, but was one of many who apparently “looked away” while Weinstein allegedly carried on his decades-long abuses. So many in Hollywood, Crowder notes, publicly “normalized” Weinstein’s behavior for years, empowering him further.
He ends the episode by slamming at length the three men he calls the “worst offenders”: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Jimmy Kimmel. The first two have worked closely with Weinstein over the years, with Damon allegedly helping to squash a 2004 New York Times piece featuring Weinstein and Affleck having been forced to apologize for groping a woman soon after publicly condemning Weinstein. Kimmel, meanwhile, has been slammed online for a segment in which he had women grope his crotch.
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