{"id":655544,"date":"2021-08-17T16:36:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=655544"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:36:38","slug":"opinion-cuomogate-should-be-the-final-nail-in-hollywoods-metoo-coffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-cuomogate-should-be-the-final-nail-in-hollywoods-metoo-coffin\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: CuomoGate Should Be The Final Nail In Hollywood\u2019s MeToo Coffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopinion-cuomogate-should-be-the-final-nail-in-hollywoods-metoo-coffin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=655544&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1322720011.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein\u2019s 2017 fall created a cultural earthquake that spread far beyond La La Land.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Other bad actors, from PBS\u2019s Charlie Rose to NBC\u2019s Matt Lauer, saw their careers crumble following a crush of damning accusations. They weren\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hollywood may be the land of make believe, but by championing the nascent MeToo movement, stars sparked an overdue revolution. Powerful men in any industry, especially politics, would no longer get a pass for their awful behavior.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Or so we thought.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We eventually learned these MeToo warriors often cared as much about party affiliation as guilt or innocence. What started as a noble, necessary movement \u2014 in Hollywood of all places \u2014 morphed into yet another ideological cudgel.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The MeToo movement\u2019s relative silence on Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s fall, which began last year and culminated in his resignation, proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt. In retrospect, the signs were there all along.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax isn\u2019t a household name, yet the dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/justin-fairfax-accuser-vanessa-tyson-speaks-out-sexual-assault\/\">testimony<\/a> from two women in 2019 claiming the Democrat sexually assaulted them was hard to ignore. Except the Hollywood elite did just that, failing to rally behind these alleged victims. The previous year the stars assembled to savage Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh \u2014 President Trump\u2019s right-leaning selection \u2014 for a sexual assault charge sans corroborating data.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Actress Amy Schumer and model\/actress Emily Ratajkowski were arrested in October 2018 during those star-studded Kavanaugh protests. We saw what Hollywood feminists <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/News\/celebrities-helped-launch-metoo-movement-react-kavanaugh-hearing\/story?id=58126207\">could do<\/a> given a singular, alleged monster.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Flash forward to the 2020 presidential race. Former Vice President Joe Biden survived a bruising primary campaign to emerge as the Democratic standard bearer to face President Trump. This despite Biden\u2019s history of uncomfortable <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2019\/04\/trevor-noah-joe-biden-lucy-flores-daily-show.html\">interactions<\/a> with women, captured in fact-based memes and mocked on late night TV.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Those charges included eight women claiming he inappropriately touched them over the years. That group included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jackbrewster\/2020\/05\/07\/a-time-line-of-tara-reades-sexual-assault-allegations-against-joe-biden\/?sh=1a6da26879d1\">Tara Reade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The former Biden aide offered shocking clarity to those charges during a March 2020 podcast interview. She said Biden sexually assaulted her during a 1993 encounter.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Not only had Hollywood elites looked past Biden\u2019s creepy track record up until that point (including Lady Gaga, who co-starred in a sexual assault <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/lady-gaga-joe-biden-appear-in-psa-on-sexual-assault\">PSA<\/a> with Biden in 2017) but they stood down when Reade\u2019s allegations went public.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The \u201cbelieve all women\u201d battle cry shared during the Kavanaugh imbroglio turned to ash in a Thanos-like snap.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Alyssa Milano, who resurrected her career by adding \u201cactivist\u201d to her Twitter profile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/alyssa-milano-joe-biden-metoo\/\">explained<\/a> why \u201cbelieve all women\u201d suddenly required an asterisk.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cEven though we should \u2018believe women\u2019 and that\u2019s an important thing, and what that statement really means is that for&nbsp;so long the go-to has been not to believe them \u2026 We have to societally change that mind set to \u2018believing woman,\u2019 but that does not mean at the expense of not giving men they\u2019re due process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As for the Biden-Reade matter, Milano said she did her \u201cdue diligence\u201d on the subject.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI just don\u2019t feel comfortable throwing away a decent man I\u2019ve known for 15 years in this time of complete chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Politics won the day. Again. Biden was too important to Milano to cast aside. And she wasn\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So when woman after woman accused Gov. Cuomo of inappropriate behavior late last year it didn\u2019t take a crystal ball to predict Hollywood\u2019s reaction. The industry which helped coin the phrase \u201cCuomosexual\u201d stayed mostly silent. (They did give him an Emmy for his pandemic press conferences, though).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That silence endured as the number of accusers climbed, and climbed, topping out at 10.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">No marches. No speeches. No one getting arrested outside the governor\u2019s mansion demanding justice.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They couldn\u2019t completely stay silent following Letitia James\u2019 IG report on the governor\u2019s sexually inappropriate ways, though. This time, the Time\u2019s Up legal group, formed following Weinstein\u2019s fall, suggested the governor resign via Twitter. Milano shared a pair of Tweets suggesting the same.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, Time\u2019s Up, a group Hollywood helped form, appears directly linked to the governor\u2019s defense team, sparking the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/566977-times-up-leader-resigns-over-ties-to-cuomo\">resignation<\/a> of the group\u2019s leader, Roberta Kaplan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That news cycle coaxed some Time\u2019s Up clients and ex-staffers to savage the group. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/aturkos.medium.com\/enough-is-enough-an-open-letter-from-survivors-to-times-up-c1351bcf7673\">open letter<\/a>, bereft of any high-profile celebrity signees, said the group had \u201cabandoned the very people it was supposed to champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mega-producer Shonda Rhimes, Ashley Judd and Eva Longoria currently serve as Time\u2019s Up board members.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hollywood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/07\/30\/climate-change-hardliners-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-vacation-on-130-million-carbon-spewing-super-yacht-in-italy\/\">hypocrisy<\/a> is nothing new. The celebrity \u201ckids in cages\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/grammys-kids-cages-biden-trump\/\">chorus<\/a> went silent once President Biden held the key to said cages.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And remember those star-studded Women\u2019s Marches? Where did they go? Did the PatriarchyTM vanish after Biden took the oath of office?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To be fair, one Hollywood voice has been unwavering in her MeToo support. \u201cCharmed\u201d alum Rose McGowan, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/i-havent-exhaled-in-so-long-surviving-harvey-weinstein\">claims<\/a> Weinstein raped her in 1997, has hammered Cuomo and her fellow stars over the past few years, calling out their hypocrisy along the way.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In many ways, Hollywood changed the culture for the better by boosting the MeToo revolution. Now, their nuclear-level hypocrisy on the vital cause might just burn it to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein\u2019s 2017 fall created a cultural earthquake that spread far beyond La La Land.Other bad actors, from PBS\u2019s Charlie Rose to NBC\u2019s Matt Lauer, saw their careers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}