Hollywood mega-producer Harvey Weinstein was revealed in a Thursday report from The New York Times to have had a rather lewd and offensive past of mistreating female employees — and of having paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars due to harassment complaints.
In response to the complaints (some of which were on the record), Weinstein put out an official reply that should be studied by PR companies — it is a play-by-play account of how not to handle negative public allegations.
Seeking to somehow explain away past errors, Weinstein said he was “from a different time” and that he was getting help to better his behavior. He ended his statement by going political — and saying he would now focus his anger during his recovery process on the National Rifle Association and its executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre.
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“I am going to need a place to channel that anger, so I’ve decided that I’m going to give the NRA my full attention. I hope Wayne LaPierre will enjoy his retirement party. I’m going to do it at the same place I had my Bar Mitzvah,” Weinstein wrote.
He also claimed he was making a film about President Donald Trump.
Weinstein’s threats against the NRA are empty, as he’s made them before.
In 2014, Weinstein went after the NRA on Howard Stern’s radio program and said he was making a film with actress Meryl Streep to take the organization “head-on.”
“I think the NRA is a disaster area. I shouldn’t say this, but I’ll tell it to you, Howard,” Weinstein said. “I’m going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we’re going to take this head-on … and they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them.”
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What film was that, you might ask? Nothing. Nada. No such movie was ever released.
What makes the producer’s “crusade” against the NRA even worse is that it is hypocritical. Weinstein is one of the many anti-gun Hollywood liberals who loves to criticize people who exercise their Second Amendment rights — and then turn around and make violent films that often celebrate guns.
Weinstein’s name has been attached to some of the most violent movies ever to come out of modern cinema: “Gangs of New York,” “Kill Bill,” “Jane Got a Gun,” “The Hateful Eight,” “Rambo,” “Killshot,” and many, many more.
Weinstein acknowledged the hypocrisy in making violent films that involve guns when he was criticizing the NRA for promoting violence.
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He even went on the now-canceled “Piers Morgan Live” in 2014 to say he was going to stop making such violent movies. “I have to just choose movies, I mean, that aren’t violent — or as violent as they used to be,” Weinstein said.
Since that interview, he has produced “Django Unchained” and “The Hateful Eight,” arguably two of the most violent and bloody movies over the past decade. They also both have lots and lots of guns.
Weinstein’s words and threats are as empty and hypocritical as his politics.
(photo credit, homepage images: Harvey Weinstein, CC-BY-SA-3.0, by Zff2012)
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