Hollywood Moralists Exposed As Hypocrites

By Brent Bozell On Feb. 28 2016 the entertainment industry gave the Oscar for best picture to Spotlight a fictionalized version of The Boston Globes reporting of sexual abuse and its cover-up within the Catholic Church in Boston. The self-congratulation looks amazing now after the exposure of decades of alleged harassment and perhaps even rape by Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein. This film gave a voice to survivors and this Oscar amplifies that voice which we hope will become a choir that will resonate all the way to the Vatican said Spotlight producer Michael Sugar. Pope Francis its time to protect the children and restore the faith. We can guess no one will make a movie about the decades of harassment by Weinstein and Hollywoods cover-up. And certainly no one would win an Oscar for it. No Holy Father in Tinseltown has moral authority. Feminist superstars like Meryl Streep professed they hadnt the slightest idea of what their friend Harvey was doing ... which makes them either profoundly cynical or amazingly clueless. A far more believable response came from French actress Lea Seydoux who wrote in the Guardian that she was groped by Weinstein. She said: Everyone knew what Harvey was up to and no one did anything. Its unbelievable that hes been able to act like this for decades and still keep his career. If the liberal intelligentsia found it completely unbelievable that a Catholic bishop might have been uninformed about sexual abuse by priests then how do they expect anyone to believe its impossible for the Streeps of Hollywood to be unaware? The news reports on this scandal have underplayed or ignored the deep hypocrisy of Weinsteins business efforts against bullying and sexual assault. His company distributed the documentary Bully to theaters in 2012. In 2015 it funded and distributed The Hunting Ground a documentary pitched as a startling expose of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses their institutional cover-ups and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Months after the 2016 Oscars Hollywood feminists railed against President Donald Trump for a 2005 videotape in which he made crude remarks about what a powerful man can do to women. They shared their outrage on Twitter -- Cher Patricia Arquette Debra Messing Lena Dunham and Ashley Judd. The day after Trumps inauguration the Hollywood feminists marched in Washington D.C. in Park City Utah (where they hold the Sundance Film Festival) and other cities. There in the Utah feminist crowd was one Harvey Weinstein. Judd who notoriously screamed grotesqueries at Trump at the March on Washington was the first big name to allow her name to be used in The New York Times story on Weinstein. Dunham wrote in the Times that she regretted shaking Weinsteins hand at a Weinstein-organized rally for Hillary Clinton in 2016. She had heard the rumors but ultimately made a calculation since she desperately wanted Clinton to win. Can todays young women in Hollywood count on an anti-Weinstein choir to resonate around the entertainment industry? The Catholic Church has taken dramatic steps to prevent the abuse of children. It is Hollywoods turn to put its money where its mouth has been.