Weinstein off to Rikers.

Ain’t that a sha… no, wait, crud, I have to pray for the man. I kind of don’t want to, which is all the more reason that I must. We are all sinners, after all. But, yeah, Harvey Weinstein’s convicted, and they won’t let him out before his sentencing.

Everything else I could say comes across as sanctimonious or even smug, and I don’t want to be that kind of person, so I’ll stop now.

Harvey Weinstein announces that he is ending his producer’s career.

I am extrapolating, you understand:

A day after he announced he was going to make a film taking on the NRA with Meryl Streep, Harvey Weinstein — the producer of several violent films — told CNN’s Piers Morgan in an interview to air tonight that he has had a change of heart about violent content in film.  Asked by Morgan about his hypocrisy of making these violent films, Weinstein said, “They have a point. You have to look in the mirror, too. I have to choose movies that aren’t violent or as violent as they used to be. I know for me personally, you know, I can’t continue to do that. The change starts here. It has already. For me, I can’t do it. I can’t make one movie and say this is want I want for my kids and then just go out and be a hypocrite.

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#rsrh @DLoesch ‘accepts’ Harvey Weinstein’s ‘kind’ offer…

…of a Harvey Weinstein/Tea Party bipartisan summit/movie screening.  Mind you, ‘kind’ is in scare quotes because the offer was actually somewhat sarcastic, more than a bit condescending, and (most importantly) done at one remove; and ‘accepts’ is in square quotes because I’m pretty sure Dana knows that there’s not much of a chance that Harvey Weinstein is going to officially ‘see’ her acceptance.  Of course, that particular excuse is going to be particularly threadbare, given that Dana did yeoman’s work at last Monday’s Tea Party debate, but still…

Moe Lane

PS: Happy to be proved wrong on this, of course.

PPS: Who, me?  Not nearly important enough in general; not even remotely possibly justifiably anywhere near connected enough with the Tea Party specifically; most importantly… heh, never mind.  Producers get kid-glove treatment.