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Democrats allied with sexual predators

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revoked Harvey Weinstein’s membership. The decision, reached Saturday in an emergency session, comes in the wake of recent reports by The New York Times and The New Yorker magazine that revealed sexual harassment and rape allegations against him going back decades
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revoked Harvey Weinstein’s membership. The decision, reached Saturday in an emergency session, comes in the wake of recent reports by The New York Times and The New Yorker magazine that revealed sexual harassment and rape allegations against him going back decades VINCE BUCCI Associated Press

While America struggles with GOP dunderheads and a petulant, Twitter-obsessed president, the Democratic party has its own problems.

The Democrats have made common cause with the worst misogynists on the planet, sexual predators like prolific party fund-raiser and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Roman Polanski, Bill Cosby, Anthony Weiner, Bill Clinton and Woody Allen.

Over many years, these partisan, self-confessed demigods have purchased absolution for their sins by contributing generously to their blind and cold-hearted party. Liberals can expect the media to give them a pass on this one. In all probability, the media’s ever-tolerant response to the most recent scandal will be, “Are these things really, really wrong?”

T.C. Morgan, Fresno

This story was originally published October 16, 2017 at 4:44 PM with the headline "Democrats allied with sexual predators."

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