Oh, So That's Why NBC Initially Nuked Their Harvey Weinstein Story

Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein is ruined. He’s done. Finished. The once big-time producer whose reputation in Tinseltown was dotted with success and infamy is now facing serious rape allegations. This is the Me Too movement. For years, you had to go through Weinstein to achieve success and he could turn on you in a moment’s notice given what we’ve heard about this individual. A couple of years ago, scores of women came forward not just against Weinstein, countless men in entertainment and media who had behaved badly and frankly, deserved to be raked over the coals. Most of the stories from this movement were based around horrible tales of sexual harassment. Weinstein’s story is all that, plus sordid allegations of rape from dozens of women. The list is approaching 100. And yes, Weinstein worked hard to make sure these stories were deep-sixed at news outlets. Ronan Farrow was one. Farrow along with producer Rich McHugh was going deep into the Weinstein allegations. The further they got, the more resistance they felt. McHugh detailed the history in Vanity Fair, where he mentioned that the effort to stop them reached insane levels; McHugh was spied on by private security firm contractors. And when their work was published at The New Yorker, the NBC brass, in his words, tried to gaslight him, saying they were 100 percent behind them the entire time. Not true. It’s a long narrative about how the Left protects their own in these situations. It’s only bad when Republicans commit these heinous acts, right? But when a Democrat, a. liberal, or someone from the liberal media establishment is accused of acting like a barbarian, circle the wagons, cave to their lawyers, and literally tell the folks looking into these allegations to “stand down.” McHugh details how NBC News chairman Andrew Lack and news president Noah Oppenheim were the quarterback team trying to torpedo the Weinstein story on his lengthy piece, but the real reason appears to be revealed towards the end when former NBC Today Show host Matt Lauer was accused of gross sexual misconduct. And yes, there is a serious allegation of rape in which Lauer allegedly forced a woman to have anal sex with him covering the Olympics in Sochi (via Vanity Fair):-- More...