CITY’S ‘JAM’ SESSION
WHY NOT Trump? Harvey Weinstein got publicly accused by 59 women of harassment, assault and rape and immediately lost his company, his family, faces possible prosecution and got booted from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Reporter Mark Halperin got accused of sexual misconduct by five women and immediately lost gigs at both NBC and MSNBC, lost his Penguin publishing contract and saw HBO kill a planned movie based on his reporting.
Fox swines Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes and Eric Bolling (to name just three) got accused of all kinds of awful sexual behavior by dozens, often paid out millions and when it all became public after decades, lost almost everything.
Then there’s the horror in the White House, Donald Trump.
He was accused by over a dozen women of sexual assault, harassment and misconduct — and was elected President of the United States.
Meantime, Billy Bush, the dopey former “Today” show host Trump had advised to “Grab them by the p----,” lost his job at NBC for participating in the conversation.
Being the nephew of the former President doesn’t protect you, but being the candidate or the President does.
Tragically, no matter what we American voters like to believe about ourselves, we clearly still harbor some kind of primitive admiration for what we think of as manly men in the White House — predators who treat women like objects to be taken at will. No? JFK had more women
than a The unbearable traffic congestion in the city has caused New Yorkers, according to one study, to have more rage than all other cities. And no, paying eight bucks to drive through Midtown won’t solve things, it will only cause us to get even angrier. Now we have more cars, more bike stations, fewer parking spaces, bike lanes instead of car lanes and parking in the middle of the street. Get out on the left, you get hit by a bike; get out on the right, you get hit by a car. It’s an easy fix: Tear out the pedestrian malls, give us back full lanes for traffic, cut the bike stations by half. Oh, and fire the traffic commissioner. Causing the worst traffic in history isn’t a great reason to keep your job. convent.
Bill Clinton’s girlfriend posed spread-eagle naked in “Penthouse” before he took office. While there, he was accused of rape, groping and exposing himself by three separate women. The Clinton machine caused the ruination of then21-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky, with whom he “did not have sex” — but did have a salacious relationship.
After he left office, he earned bazillions and then, when bored, convinced a huge swath of the American public that his victimized wife was a women’s rights advocate who should also be President.
This past week, President George Bush the Elder issued a second apology for touching a woman’s backside. He says it was to put them at ease. What?
So how is it that, in this climate where sexual harassment claims are flying around power circles as fast as ghouls on Halloween and decided upon even quicker, Trump gets to remain defiantly rude even when sexual misconduct allegations against him resurfaced again?
This week, a year after he called his accusers liars, lawyers for former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos asked for all documents relating to the accusations. Zervos refuses to be shut up and isn’t afraid of all the power in the world. And we women need to have her back, because men sure won’t.
At a presser this week, the leader of the free world reiterated his smear. “All I can say is it’s totally fake news — just fake. It’s fake, it’s made-up stuff. And it’s disgraceful what happens.”
No, it’s not. What IS disgraceful is when men like him make the worst happen, and then go on to become President of the United States.