When
Jesters.
That's the first thing I think of when
Not all of
A dark lord like
They feared him, and they loved him as the fearful and the broken love those with absolute power over them. He was someone who could do wonders for their careers, if only they would submit and serve his appetites.
Perhaps actress
Streep thanked her agent,
"And G0D,
Weinstein had built a reputation as a punisher. But G0D?
Perhaps the word came to her mind because he could reach down and bend and shape not only American culture from the silver screen but shape and twist careers too. So who said
Weinstein indeed was a lord of
Then came the recent expose in
Streep and several others have now properly denounced Weinstein as disgusting, and his pet
But no one knew a thing?
So many have been jabbering that they knew nothing, absolutely nothing, that they never heard and never suspected and never, ever countenanced it, you get the sense Weinstein's behavior was a secret to all the good people in Tinseltown and their counterparts in
It was no secret. It was known. They protected Weinstein while condemning similar behavior in others because they feared him.
A quick hint of how that works was offered by "Saturday
But "SNL" didn't touch Weinstein in that first show after the story broke. They shelved the Weinstein bits, although with
The Amazons had special treatments for men like
But what was
"It's a
Ah, a
The New York Times deserves credit for its recent stories on Weinstein, but it doesn't come away clean, either, as former Times writer
She now says that Weinstein, using connections and getting stars like
The Times denies this, and an editor suggested that Waxman did not have the story nailed down.
But there are many stories coming out now that it's safe. Writing in
"Back then, Harvey could spin -- or suppress -- anything; there were so many journalists on his payroll, working as consultants on movie projects, or as screenwriters, or for his magazine."
It comes back to that: Weinstein's liberal media connections, his political connections, his power, his celebrity virtue-signaling defenders.
And women knew that if they stood up to him, they'd be crushed by this liberal army as it protected itself and its source of nourishment: Weinstein.
They protected
And now they're all jesters, aren't they? They're holding rattles, shaking them in ostentatious anger, as Harvey shrieks and quakes and is devoured.
I bet they're already writing movie treatments for his story.
But before the Harvey Weinstein movie wins an Oscar, I must apologize to medieval jesters for comparing them to
Medieval jesters wrote their own material. And jesters took their own risks.
I am sorry, jesters.
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John Kass is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune who also hosts a radio show on WLS-AM.