Oct. 26, 2017 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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3873 Wait, What? George H.W. Bush Sexual Assault Allegations
In addition to a long list of Hollywood celebrities, recently former Unites States President George H.W. Bush was accused of sexual assault by actress Heather Lind - prompting backpedaling and apologies from the former U.S. leader. The growing list of other's accused of sexual impropriety includes: Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Bob Weinstein, Terry Richardson, Harry Knowles, Roman Polanski, David O. Russell, Twiggy Ramiriez, David Blaine, Devin Faraci, Oliver Stone, Roy Price, Ben Affleck and many more. Article: http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/10/25/hollywood-accused-harassers-molesters-rapists-rap-sheet-far/Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate
A quick run-through of what we have so far in Hollywood sexual improprieties and their associated celebrities.
What do we got here? So this is a list from Breitbart.
We got Terry Richardson, celebrity photographer.
He's accused of sexual harassment.
Roman Polanski, an Oscar-winning standing ovation director.
He's an admitted child rapist, both Vaginally and anally and four other women have claimed that Roman Polanski assaulted them as minors.
We've got David O. Russell, Oscar-nominated director, accused of groping, onset, verbal and physical abuse.
We've got Oliver Stone, Oscar-winning director, of course, accused of groping a woman at a party.
Ben Affleck.
Actor, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter.
Multiple allegations of groping.
One he has apologized for.
Harvey Weinstein. Of course, we've gone over that a million times.
James Toback, director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter.
Over 200 sexual harassment allegations.
Bob Weinstein.
Some relation. Oscar-winning producer accused of sexually harassing a former employee.
Harry Knowles, founder of Ain't It Cool News, stepped down due to allegations of sexual harassment and groping.
Devin Faraci, movie writer at Birth Death Movies, accused of sexual assault and harassment.
Roy Price, head of Amazon Studios, resigned due to allegations of sexual misconduct.
Twiggy Ramirez, bass player for Marilyn Manson, accused of raping a former girlfriend.
Huh. When you have a bald-faced devil for a boss.
Anyway. Tyler Grasham, talent agent, resigned due to allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault from his male underage clients.
It's true that there have been few men, some are coming forward.
Netflix, one of the most powerful companies in modern streaming entertainment, settled a $1.5 million sexual harassment claim filed by heterosexual male executives who says he was harassed by male and female superiors.
Lockhart Steele, media director at Vox, fired over allegations of sexual harassment.
Andy Signor, creator of Honest Trailers, fired due to numerous allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct.
David Blaine, superstar magician, seems to magically be able to make his reputation disappear.
He's accused of drugging and raping a 21-year-old model.
One of the judges on France's Got Talent, Gilbert Raison, suspended over sexual harassment claims.
Rupert Myers, British GQ writer.
Fired over allegations of sexual assault.
John Besh, celebrity chef, accused of sexual assault and harassment.
Shady Elnashay, CineFamily executive, fired over allegations of rape and harassment.
Hadrian Beloved, CineFamily executive, resigned over allegations of sexual harassment.
Woody Allen, Oscar-winning screenwriter and director.
Accusations of child molestations.
No charges were filed after an investigation.
But not so funny story.
His new movie has sex between a 40-year-old and a 15-year-old girl.
Steven Seagal, actor, allegations of sexual harassment.
Chris Savino, creator of Nickelodeon's Loud House, fired over allegations of sexual harassment.
And, of course, Bill Cosby, comedian-actor, dozens of accusations of drugging and raping women.
Now, there are, of course, a bunch of people who have been talked about but not named.
So, whoever preyed on 13-year-old Molly Ringwald.
Whoever sexually assaulted 9-year-old America Ferreira.
The music executives who abused and allowed the abuse of Kaya Jones, whoever the director who sexually assaulted 16-year-old Reese Witherspoon, the director who harassed and punished Bjork, the singer.
The men, pedophiles of course, as it is claimed, who sexually assaulted Corey Haim and Corey Feldman when they were children.
The man who assaulted Terry Crews, the men who assaulted James Van Der Beek, of course, the countless unnamed predators in the fashion industry, the man who sexually assaulted 16-year-old Laura Dern, the doctor who molested a 13-year-old Michaela Maroney, the TV executive who assaulted Maureen Ryan, a bunch of harassers, whoever abused Lady Gaga, whoever abused Gabrielle Union, and the producer who declared a 15-year-old Jennifer Lawrence effable.
Now, to this increasing list, and people wonder why I don't go anywhere, right?
I mean, this, I mean, maybe it's a witch hunt, maybe it's some sort of tulip mania paranoia, but maybe it's just time to clean house from these scumbags if they're around, and we'll see, of course.
You know, innocent until proven guilty, allegations are not proof, so keep all of that in mind.
George H.W. Bush.
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush apologizes after actress claims he sexually assaulted her from his wheelchair in a photograph with his wife Barbara standing by his side.
So this is an actress named Heather Lynn.
She made allegations recently claiming that when she met former President George H.W. Bush, who's 93, He sexually assaulted her from his wheelchair.
I guess that Socratic notion that lust is a demon that leaves you in middle age, or at least late middle age, not true for everyone.
She claimed the assault, quote, assault happened during a photo op with wife Barbara Bush standing by his side and claims his wife saw the incident unfold.
The now 34-year-old actress also claimed that afterwards Bush's security detail told her she shouldn't have stood next to the former president for the photo op.
Well, clearly, he's in a wheelchair.
Of course he's going to be crabtastic.
So this happened, she says, four years ago.
She was promoting a movie.
And the former president has actually apologized for the incident, saying it was an attempt at humor and not meant to offend her.
Now, George, I know you're getting up there just, you know, man to man, man to thing.
I don't think you want to apologize for this allegation by basically openly stating that the woman has no sense of humor.
Well, the only reason you had a problem and I grabbed at you is because you don't understand a good joke.
See? Any apology that creates or contains within it an implicit or explicit insult or denigration or put down is not an apology.
I call it a BNAP. A bullcrap non-apology.
And she made these allegations against the 93-year-old, I guess he was 89 at the time, in a lengthy post with accompanying photographs.
She says, when I got the chance to meet George H.W. Bush four years ago to promote a historical television show I was working on, he sexually assaulted me while I was posing for a similar photo.
He didn't shake my hand. He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side.
He told me a dirty joke.
So he grabbed her butt from behind, told her a dirty joke.
And she said, and then all the while being photographed, he touched me again.
Barbara rolled her eyes, his wife, as if to say, not again.
His security guard told me I shouldn't have stood next to him for the photo.
That is, I mean, it's appalling stuff.
I mean, I have a daughter. I find myself...
Like, increasingly align with...
Let me rephrase that.
Like I think I'm in some ways more feminist than the feminists because I don't have sort of protected groups of people I don't talk about.
And this is horrible and destructive ways to treat people.
It should never happen this way.
It should never unroll this way. You should not be grabbing women in professional events.
You should not be grabbing women against their permission in private, hopefully.
And I have a daughter who's going to grow up into this world and I'm damn glad That it's happening now.
I think like most people, I'm appalled that it took so long, but I'm damn glad that this stuff is happening now.
And either we're going to find out that a lot of these allegations are valid.
And of course, it's a lot of he said, she said from no witnesses a long time ago, but we're going to find out this stuff is valid.
In which case, it's a dirty secret that really needs to be exposed.
Or we're going to find out that there are false allegations, which may be another dirty secret, to be exposed.
I guess it's probably fairly clear where I stand on the matter.
And I hope that all the people out there who've been mistreated in this kind of way, I'm sorry that it took you so long to speak out.