Weinsteins Pimps: Revenge Of The Ugly Girls

By Ann Coulter Liberalism is a sexual assault protection racket. Judging by the last weeks news coverage EVERYONE in the liberal universe -- Hollywood the fashion industry the media and Democratic politics -- knew about Harvey Weinsteins sexual predations and nearly all of them were covering it up. Liberals circle the wagons to protect fellow liberals. All those sacrosanct laws about rape sexual assault and sexual harassment are the fire ax behind a glass door: Break in case of conservative. Weinstein admitted as much by immediately responding to the accusations against him by offering to donate money to fight the National Rifle Association. (Thats not the thing were worried about being cocked and loaded Harvey.) According to Ronan Farrows comprehensive article in The New Yorker (m)ultiple sources told him how Weinstein bragged that he could use his allies in the press to crush anyone who crossed him. Longtime editor Tina Brown -- ironically one of Weinsteins erstwhile clean-up gals -- told Charlie Rose: What I found really unsettling was how many journalists frankly were on his payroll. I mean you know Harvey would have everyone on his payroll. All the people at the (New York) Post and people in all the tabloids people writing stuff entertainment writers gossip writers. I knew the gossip pages were written by PR agents but I didnt realize they were written by sexual predators too. I was curious about exactly who was protecting Harvey and luckily I have a Nexis account. The full list would take me well over my word limit so this column will focus on the tabloid most slavishly devoted to protecting Weinsteins good name: the New York Post. Farrows sources cited as their proof of how Weinstein could dirty up an accuser the coordinated tabloid attacks on Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez after she reported Weinsteins assault on her to the police in 2015. According to the detailed heavily sourced and apparently 100 percent accurate account given by Farrow 22-year-old Gutierrez met Weinstein at a Radio City Music Hall reception. The next day Weinstein requested that Gutierrez come to his Tribeca office as soon as possible according to her agent. The moment she walked into his office Farrow reports Weinstein began staring at her breasts asking if they were real ... then lunged at her groping her breasts and attempting to put a hand up her skirt while she protested. Several things happened next. No. 1: As she was leaving Weinstein offered Gutierrez tickets to his show Finding Neverland that night saying hed be there. But instead of using the tickets Gutierrez went straight to the nearest police station. We know she didnt attend the show because when Weinstein called her later to complain that she hadnt come she happened to be sitting with Special Victims detectives who recorded his call. This is how the New York Post headlined Gutierrezs non-attendance at Finding Neverland: HARVEY GROPE GALS BIG SHOW Attended Weinsteins Broadway play the day after accusing him (EXCLUSIVE) -- Mara Siegler Jamie Schram Emily Smith and Danika Fears New York Post April 1 2015 The U.K.s Daily Mail repeated the claim in its headline -- citing the Post as its source: Harvey Weinstein model used the $227 ticket he gave her to see his Broadway show the day AFTER she alleged he groped her ... despite knowing he would be at the theater No. 2: The next day Gutierrez wore a police wire to a meeting with Weinstein at the Tribeca Grand Hotel. As she stood intransigently outside his hotel room Weinstein implored her to come in promising Im not gonna do anything. I swear on my children. Thanks to Farrows reporting the taped conversation is now available everywhere. Key exchange: Gutierrez: Why yesterday you touch my breast? Weinstein: Oh please. Im sorry. Just come on in. Im used to that. Gutierrez: Youre used to that? Weinstein: Yes come in. Gutierrez: No but Im not used to that. Weinstein: I wont do it again. Heres the New York Posts description of the meeting where Weinstein -- according to his admission -- grabbed Gutierrezs breast: SHE TRIED TO REEL & DEAL (EXCLUSIVE) Squeezed Harvey for movie role Stalled grope claim during talks -- Jamie Schram New York Post April 3 2015 No. 3: The police working the case believed they had more than enough evidence to prosecute Weinstein. Farrow quotes a detective who was actually involved in the operation saying: We had the evidence. The source added Its a case that made me angrier than I thought possible and I have been on the force a long time. Another police source recently told The Daily Beasts Michael Daly that theyve convicted subway gropers on far less evidence. Here is how the New York Post reported the polices attitude toward the case at the time quoting not officers involved in the operation but random law-enforcement sources: Some law-enforcement sources say her allegations will be difficult to prove since there were no cameras in Weinsteins office. ... Theres no physical evidence. In a nutshell theres no corroboration of her story. -- Mara Siegler Jamie Schram Emily Smith and Danika Fears New York Post April 1 2015 No. 4: The police sting capturing Weinsteins admission was soon leaked to the press. The U.K.s Daily Mail came clean announcing in its headline: Theres no question he did it: Harvey Weinstein did not deny groping Italian model in phone sting set up by police Even a radio station in Columbus Indiana reported on the police sting. Not the New York Post! For the first time that week -- the day newspapers around the world were bristling with news about Weinsteins taped incriminating comments -- the Post had zero Harvey Weinstein news. The Post did briefly mention the operation a few days later at the end of a Jamie Schram article full of sneering about Gutierrezs alleged attendance at Weinsteins play after she was groped (she did not attend) and referring to the models ties to disgraced former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Gutierrezs ties to Berlusconi consisted of her immediately reporting a Berlusconi orgy to the police. She was there but had not participated. No. 5: About a week later Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. decided not to prosecute. The International Business Times reports that soon thereafter David Boies an attorney for the Weinstein Company contributed $10000 to Vances political campaign. Boies and other Weinstein lawyers including defense attorney Elkan Abramowitz have donated a total of about $200000 to Vances political campaigns. As a police source recently told Daly When you say no after a week its not usually over the facts. The New York Posts headline on D.A. Vances decision not to prosecute: Its grope fiction: DA: No paw rap on Harv as doubts dog model -- Rebecca Rosenberg and Jamie Schram New York Post April 11 2015 This story again repeated the false claim that Gutierrez wasnt upset enough by the alleged groping to surrender a primo seat for Weinsteins new Broadway show -- which she attended less than a day after the incident. In her interview Tina Brown explained exactly how Weinstein controlled reporters: If there was any stirring of a negative story Harvey would offer them a book contract a development deal a consultancy and they used to succumb. Journalists are often short of money and they were also very star-struck with the world that Harvey offered which was movies and Hollywood. So what DID the bitter gossip girls get? Did Mara Siegler Jamie Schram Danika Fears or Maria Wiesner end up with phony consultancies book contracts or movie options with Weinsteins companies? (Paging the IRS!) The only other explanation is that the Weinstein-compliant scandal sheets illustrate the oldest primal urge one even more basic than the compulsion that drove Weinstein: Ugly girls taking their revenge on pretty girls.