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Copyright Gated IP Empires"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn 1998, Congress passed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. In a classic case of bipartisan corruption, the bill brought together Republicans, along with Barney Frank and John Conyers, to do a special favor for Disney and for other entertainment industry companies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwuQskvq9iI2Wtblt3PE6BiMw8idCl5DroIWv2I0M8QGe5ik0gySr_WLpUjJSNu3UixUnuFu7Ef3MTYph3xAIvzlQ96uJurgKLJXVQPZitmjc-ED0uWdYHdCBUGNADxdF7xvU_u0AOtH0OJlnPRVGTJ6LzK-3OcCfeosMyba3NzzY2oKuQ3Kw\/s806\/emmys2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"462\" data-original-width=\"806\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwuQskvq9iI2Wtblt3PE6BiMw8idCl5DroIWv2I0M8QGe5ik0gySr_WLpUjJSNu3UixUnuFu7Ef3MTYph3xAIvzlQ96uJurgKLJXVQPZitmjc-ED0uWdYHdCBUGNADxdF7xvU_u0AOtH0OJlnPRVGTJ6LzK-3OcCfeosMyba3NzzY2oKuQ3Kw\/s320\/emmys2.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe Mickey Mouse Act (formally the Copyright Term Extension Act) was one of a series of measures that took the original copyright system, meant to protect an author's rights, and instead turned it into a permanent monopoly cash cow for Hollywood studios.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMickey Mouse, a character created in the 20s, will only become public domain in 2024.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is if Republicans don’t once again decide to do a special favor for Disney, Warner Bros, and a number of other massively woke and wealthy entertainment industry monsters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn response to Disney's support for pushing sexual indoctrination on kindergarteners, Rep. Jim Banks has sent a letter warning that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/exclusive-republicans-threaten-to-let-disneys-mickey-mouse-copyright-lapse-over-radical-political-activism\/\"\u003Ethe free ride was over\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It’s hard to believe that anyone would have considered extending the already lengthy term, but there’s no way they will get the ear of any Republicans after their radical political activism. America’s strong copyright protections helped make America great — they gave our creators and distributors the right incentives to produce content that shows the world the importance of freedom. But Congress should not add to Disney’s 90+ years of federal copyright protection to incentivize its new far left agenda,” Rep. Jim Jordan said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney had spent around\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/priceonomics.com\/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-domain\/#:~:text=By%20the%20mid%2D1990s%2C%20Disney,and%20Donald%20Duck%20in%202009.\"\u003E $150,000\u003C\/a\u003E on members of Congress considering the bill in the 90s. The company these days allegedly spends millions on various direct and indirect lobbying efforts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Congress does nothing, Mickey's copyright will expire in 2024, followed by Pluto in 2026, Goofy in 2028, and Donald Duck in 2029. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves will lapse in 2032, followed by classic Disney movies like Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi and Cinderella.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond Disney, Superman’s copyright ends in 2033, Batman’s copyright in 2034, and Wonder Woman in 2036. In another blow to Warners, Bugs Bunny goes public domain in 2035.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the copyrights apply to specific works, like Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie or the first Superman comic, it would open up opportunities for independent creators and companies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIncluding conservatives and traditionalists who want to recreate American culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney and Warners, among others, would stand to lose billions in profits from these characters. They’ll fight for another copyright extension if they can, and if they can’t, will try to sneak in poison pills that will keep anyone else from being able to use them while bribing politicians left and right. Literally. Conservatives haven’t cared about this in the past. Now they should.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpposing copyright extension is about more than just punishing Disney for wokeness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECompanies like Disney and Warners have built massive war chests of intellectual property that their current management and even ownership had nothing to do with creating while robbing the original creators, on whose behalf copyright laws and extensions were passed, of the profits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Disney's Marvel filed five lawsuits to block the families of Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and other creators of classic characters like Spiderman, Iron Man, Thor, and many others, from reclaiming copyright. This is the latest episode in a series of legal battles over comic rights (Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were originally paid $130 for the rights) and with the artists, creators, and animators who made the entire comic book industry possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEntertainment industry wokeness is built in large part on taking classic characters and “renewing” them by pushing them to be more politically radical, racially recasting them, or killing the characters off entirely and replacing them to prepare for the end of their copyrights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHollywood, increasingly incapable of producing popular original stories, is farming properties that are almost a century old to wring the last shreds of profits from them. The industry and our culture would look very different if it didn’t consist of a few companies milking a few characters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFreeing classic characters into the public domain could enable the rise of an alternative more traditional entertainment industry. And one that might better reflect the values of their creators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWalt Disney was a Republican. J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit’s copyright lapses in 2033) was a deeply religious conservative traditionalist. Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, was an Objectivist. Superman’s creators were Zionists. Many of them would be disgusted by the woke ways in which their work is being twisted by the companies that control them. Few of them would be employable by any of those companies today. Indeed even some living creators, like J.K. Rowling, are being canceled by the companies cashing in on their work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECopyright laws made it possible for creators to earn a living as full-time writers and artists, but the modern Grub Street exploited copyright by giving creators pennies and then using lobbyists to build copyright empires while making it all but impossible for new creators to get started.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Mickey Mouse Protection Act already extended copyright beyond any possible lifetime of a creator. Heirs have had to spend years or decades in court battling for any of the profits. There’s no possible moral argument for yet another copyright extension and compelling arguments for preventing Disney, Warners, and other woke corps from permanently exploiting copyright.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur culture would be better off taking apart Hollywood copyright empires, built on the work of exploited and cheated writers and artists, and making it accessible to everyone. The results couldn’t be any worse than Disney execs boasting of “queering” content meant for children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECulture is meant to be a common heritage, not a permanent corporate asset.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGone With the Wind’s copyright expires in 2031. That means people will finally be able to watch it without HBO Max forcing them to sit through a speech on how they’re a bunch of racists. They’ll however have to wait until 2039 for Song of the South to escape from Disney’s vault.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs there an argument for keeping either one locked up for decades in the thrall of companies like Disney and Warners that despise them and have nothing but contempt for their audiences?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESetting Mickey Mouse free does more than just punish Disney or rebuke Hollywood’s corrupt business model which only exists because enough politicians in California and Washington D.C. have been bribed to make it possible, it frees people to engage with their culture. The entertainment industry is building a world of culture renters who don’t actually own the digital books, songs, comics, shows, games, and other items that they’ve bought online.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best defense against copyright plantations is liberation. Once the creators and partners have passed on and a work is culturally significant, it should belong to the culture, not to a corporation. We don’t live in a world in which Beethoven’s Fifth is wholly owned by Amazon, all the rights to Shakespeare’s works by Netflix, or the Mona Lisa by Disney.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s a good thing too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoth our society and the free market are best served by allowing those works to enrich new creations, instead of being locked up in the Disney vault to be perverted more and more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Disney, Warners, and other companies, no longer sitting on a monopolistic culture hoard, would actually have to create new things and engage with more than just their own woke set.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat would be good for them, for us, and for the culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERepublicans are waking up and warning that Disney won’t get any more free rides. Neither should the rest of the entertainment industry. Americans need a vital, diverse, and active culture market, not one in which a handful of woke titans force their political dogmas on the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBreaking up their copyright monopoly would free Mickey Mouse and free our culture.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8512490010596869444\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/beating-woke-hollywood-means-taking.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8512490010596869444"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8512490010596869444"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/beating-woke-hollywood-means-taking.html","title":"Beating Woke Hollywood Means Taking Away Their Copyright Gated IP Empires"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwuQskvq9iI2Wtblt3PE6BiMw8idCl5DroIWv2I0M8QGe5ik0gySr_WLpUjJSNu3UixUnuFu7Ef3MTYph3xAIvzlQ96uJurgKLJXVQPZitmjc-ED0uWdYHdCBUGNADxdF7xvU_u0AOtH0OJlnPRVGTJ6LzK-3OcCfeosMyba3NzzY2oKuQ3Kw\/s72-c\/emmys2.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2803444390623789416"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-12T04:33:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-12T04:33:36.941-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Culture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hollywood"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Disney Isn't for Kids"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children,\" Walt Disney once said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWalt’s unique strategy of building an entertainment empire for kids once made Disney a trusted source of family entertainment. That didn’t last long after Walt's death as Disney started releasing R-rated movies and adult television programming under the Touchstone label.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgTV0sPBr8KA4JdQ45Z2_wlQ_w9Tv7uOAbEzIm1SpTS810W4EtPqAAnxqJWCtSV07uAUCa_72WRMNoRdoUjNzFVQEJwnM01LZ6VPTPFPQb1Ng92tTVKOYeMmwLacKuO_32hI9rzVatdKhFIktyw98ohvkCR_BUf1fnjwy1MmiKPpBF2wXTAl6c\/s700\/image_2022-04-12_013214048.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"524\" data-original-width=\"700\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgTV0sPBr8KA4JdQ45Z2_wlQ_w9Tv7uOAbEzIm1SpTS810W4EtPqAAnxqJWCtSV07uAUCa_72WRMNoRdoUjNzFVQEJwnM01LZ6VPTPFPQb1Ng92tTVKOYeMmwLacKuO_32hI9rzVatdKhFIktyw98ohvkCR_BUf1fnjwy1MmiKPpBF2wXTAl6c\/s320\/image_2022-04-12_013214048.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EA decade later, Disney bought Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax. During the 90s, while Disney's more family friendly brand was releasing animated cartoons, Miramax featured Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, and the Scream sequels. During this time Weinstein was accused of sexual harassment and assaults. Some of this was taking place even as Disney’s “family friendly” brand released The Hunchback of Notre Dame with its depiction of a lecherous Catholic villain praying before a cross while ranting about his lusts. This was what Disney had become.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the new century the barrier between the two schizoid faces of Disney has come down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney isn’t for kids anymore. Its movie business is dominated by Marvel blockbusters. Half of Disney+ subscribers, its big bet on the home streaming future, are adults with no children. ‘\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat about the theme parks?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E60% of Disneyland visitors were adults with \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.streetlightdata.com\/measuring-travel-behavior-by-demographics-disney-world\/?type=blog\/\"\u003Eno children\u003C\/a\u003E. Only\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/fun\/should-adults-go-to-disney-without-kids-the-internet-rages-20190731\/\"\u003E 36.7% \u003C\/a\u003Eof Disney World visitors had children under 18. The largest demographic for the theme parks, like the movies, are millennials. They are also members of the fandoms who are likeliest to spend money on licensed merchandise, and on toys and movie tie-ins that are Disney’s bread and butter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Disney is rapidly adapting with theme parks and resorts that emphasize its Marvel and Star Wars properties more than classic fare. Its Galactic Starcruiser hotel, aimed at Star Wars fans, costs $4,809 for two adults. Why bother with kid stuff when you can sell $13 beers?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney may have started out feeding the imaginations of children, but now its business model is acquiring intellectual properties with active fandoms and milking the adult fans for every cent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts political opposition to a Florida law barring teachers from pushing sexual issues on kindergarteners might be out of tune with the old family values Disney, but the company’s actual base, like that of virtually every entertainment corp in the country, is a narrow slice of upscale urban millennials with lots of disposable income and no families. Wokes are Disney’s base.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1966, the idea that a single adult would spend more money on Disney merchandise than a family of four would have seemed ridiculous. In 2022, it’s just the new normal. If you doubt that stop by a theme park and see how many of the adults with no children wearing every single piece of Disney merchandise on sale would love to lecture you about queer theory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are the people Disney caters to now. Not little girls who want to be princesses. That’s why its theme parks will no longer address little girls as princesses. That’s also why rides like Pirates of the Caribbean or Jungle Cruise are being revamped to be more politically correct. Disney’s new woke demographic is much pickier than even the pickiest child could be.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s also sexually creepy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney’s new demographic are adults who have never properly grown up and on some level still think of themselves as children. That’s also the profile for the average child molester. And of the kind of adult who insists that schools force children to “explore their sexual identities”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHealthy adults raise, protect and care for children. Deeply unhealthy ones erase the barriers between themselves and children in ways that can be merely immature or outright evil.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney is a messed up company with a messed up base. This is no secret to theme park employees who will, anonymously, spout about it at forums. But some of those employees have also been caught up in\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/disneys-child-predator-problem\"\u003E child sex investigations\u003C\/a\u003E. Disney has the clout to make much of that go away through its advertising budgets and the incredible power its theme parks wield over local governments in California and Florida (though Gov. DeSantis has warned that’s going away.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe growth of Disney paralleled a post-war child-oriented family culture. The collapse of that culture into counterculture sent the company astray. And after decades in the wilderness reemerged with cartoons full of show tunes that catered as much to Broadway lovers as to children, to an indie film movement with a seamy underbelly, and finally perpetual fandom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney found its post-Walt success in moving beyond selling universal family entertainment to tapping into obsessive subcultures. As a company that had nurtured fandom in children, it was uniquely positioned to capitalize on the transformation of adults into overgrown children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this is good for adults, for children, or for the culture. Neither is Disney.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican birth rates are lagging and the family is in a poor state. Only \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2020\/05\/27\/as-millennials-near-40-theyre-approaching-family-life-differently-than-previous-generations\/\"\u003E3 in 10 millennials\u003C\/a\u003E are living with a child and a spouse. Much of the demographic growth is coming from immigrant childbirths, not Americans. Seen from this vantage point, Disney’s bet on diversity in children’s entertainment and on catering to adult fans willing to drop $5,000 on a hotel with lightsaber training or sing-along sessions to cartoon show tunes from their childhoods makes sense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Walt Disney business model depended on a healthy national family. Shareholders are not going to bet on a growth segment in the American nuclear family that doesn’t exist. Betting on dysfunctional adults with sizable disposable incomes makes a whole lot more sense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans are more atomized than ever. Families are drifting apart. Religious faith is imploding among millennials and zoomers. The fictional characters and entertainers of popular culture are taking the place of family and faith. Fandom provides a sense of belonging and culture that community no longer does. Main Street is being replaced by The Avengers and Mos Eisley.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd who can blame a generation born into a broken nation for choosing fantasy over reality?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeter Pan, like the Narnia books, concludes with the reality that children have to leave fantasy behind, grow up and become adults. But what happens when the children never grow up?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney still has a profitable kids segment, but its real profits come from overgrown children born into broken families, prematurely coming of sexual age, who are eager to embrace leftist utopian causes and fantasies, who are seeking an identity and an escape at the same time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe company isn’t for kids, it’s for broken adults. And it’s only natural that Disney would seek to create more broken adults to perpetuate its business model. A healthy functional adult isn’t nearly as profitable for the entertainment giant as a dysfunctional one addicted to its product.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdvocating that schools push sexual identity on kindergarteners is a cause that the entire entertainment industry, which wouldn’t exist without dysfunctional adults, can get behind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat’s bad for America is great for Hollywood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFunctional people don’t spend all of their time in front of a television set. And functional families don’t plant their children in front of one and then buy them whatever they want to get them to shut up. Functional people are not very profitable for Disney or for the rest of Hollywood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe entertainment industry went from a leisure enterprise to one that thrives on dysfunction, that is less interested in having 60% of the country watching something for an hour than having 10% of the country binge watch it for six hours. Ratings and demographic profiles of the industry reflect a profound shift away from entertainment as a past time to entertainment as a lifestyle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd even an identity.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2803444390623789416\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/disney-isnt-for-kids.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2803444390623789416"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2803444390623789416"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/disney-isnt-for-kids.html","title":"Disney Isn't for Kids"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgTV0sPBr8KA4JdQ45Z2_wlQ_w9Tv7uOAbEzIm1SpTS810W4EtPqAAnxqJWCtSV07uAUCa_72WRMNoRdoUjNzFVQEJwnM01LZ6VPTPFPQb1Ng92tTVKOYeMmwLacKuO_32hI9rzVatdKhFIktyw98ohvkCR_BUf1fnjwy1MmiKPpBF2wXTAl6c\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-12_013214048.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1457880351148443029"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-20T04:19:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-20T04:19:24.696-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hollywood"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How HBO Max Went Woke and Broke on BLM"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"After a former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/eight-time-president-hollywood-foreign-press-mark-tapson\/\"\u003Eshared my\u003C\/a\u003E Front Page Magazine article about the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/blm-goes-hollywood-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E BLM Hollywood connection\u003C\/a\u003E, WarnerMedia executives sent a boycott letter to the foreign press organization behind the Golden Globes. Their outrage was understandable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eyRtleWNE7U\/YM76A5dm9LI\/AAAAAAAATUE\/bdhjyAgHT3Q9h2y23w7TO9OVYqXiMyGGACNcBGAsYHQ\/s587\/image_2021-06-20_011915.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"370\" data-original-width=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eyRtleWNE7U\/YM76A5dm9LI\/AAAAAAAATUE\/bdhjyAgHT3Q9h2y23w7TO9OVYqXiMyGGACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-20_011915.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EMy article had cast a light on the ties between Warner and Black Lives Matter. No one had crawled harder and deeper into bed with the racist black nationalist hate group than the company that shared little more than a name with one of Hollywood’s signature studios whose name to most people still brings to mind everything from Bugs Bunny to Casablanca.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Warner brothers were conservatives while a typical billboard for HBO Max, Warner’s streaming effort to compete with Netflix, urges audiences to subscribe and tune in to an adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates's racist black nationalist tract “Between the World and Me”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Between the World and Me” featured Coates \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/ta-nehisi-coates-americas-next-top-victim-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Edescribing \u003C\/a\u003Ethe firefighters and police who risked their lives to rescue people on September 11 as “not human to me” and “menaces”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Their new name has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. the new people were something else before they were white--Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish,\" Coates writes in “Between the World and Me”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile HBO Max pulled and then restored “Gone With the Wind” over its \"racial prejudices\" complete with a disclaimer lecture, and Turner Classic Movies, owned by Warner Bros, launched a series condemning classic movies like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (Mickey Rooney's buck teeth), \"My Fair Lady\" (misogyny), and \"Psycho\" (transphobia),  it promotes the worst possible hatred of white people with million dollar contracts and massive billboards.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner Bros rewarded Coates’ racism further by having him write the script for a black Superman. Possible directors include Shaka King, the director of the Black Panthers propaganda flick, “Judas and the Black Messiah”, who \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/sight-and-sound\/features\/power-people-shaka-king-judas-black-messiah-daniel-kaluuya-lakeith-stanfield-fred-hampton\"\u003Ehad declared\u003C\/a\u003E, “I haven’t needed white people to care about what I do in years now” and “a centrist is, in many ways, more dangerous than a white nationalist, because they’re really silently propping up the system”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHBO Max’s’ Between the World and Me includes Alicia Garza, a co-founder of BLM. Garza is one of two BLM co-founders who is at home at Warner Bros. The Warner Brothers Television Group had signed a production deal with Patrisse Cullors: a self-described Marxist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BLM deal happened the same month that Channing Dungey became the Warner TV chair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs ABC Entertainment boss, Channing Dungey had made the decision to fire Roseanne from her namesake show for comments critical of Obama crony Valerie Jarrett. Dungey jumped to Netflix, bringing along Scandal’s Shonda Rhimes who went on to create “Bridgerton” for Netflix, and worked with Barack Obama’s Higher Ground agitprop production company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDungey was one of the signers of the boycott letter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, all those deaths coming in quick succession — I think it’s opened up an entirely different conversation that particularly in Hollywood, coming in the wake of #MeToo, I think everyone is realizing that the business has been built on some systemic wrongs that need to be righted,” Dungey told Variety.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nature of the systemic wrongs in an industry that took Dungey from a production assistant to the destroyer of genuinely talented people like Roseanne may be harder to define. But she’s a symptom of a larger problem at Warner Bros which has gone all in on black nationalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlong with Dungey and Rimes, Warner Brothers lured away black nationalist director Ava DuVernay with a $100 million deal. DuVernay’s “13th” series for Netflix had falsely accused America of slavery due to the high number of black people convicted of crimes in prison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Warner Bros also had no problem scraping the very bottom of the black nationalist barrel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter signing Cullors, it cut a deal with Kimberly Latrice Jones, a BLM activist who made a viral video in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/blog\/transcripts\/kimberly-latrice-jones-blm-video-speech-transcript\"\u003Esupport of looting\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There’s a social contract that we all have, that if you steal, or if I steal, then the person who is the authority comes in and they fix the situation. But the person who fixes the situation is killing us. So the social contract is broken. And if the social contract is broken, why the f*** do I give a shit about burning the f***ing Football Hall of Fame, about burning a f***ing Target?\" the activist ranted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Far as I’m concerned, they could burn this bitch to the ground, and it still wouldn’t be enough.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe unhinged racist rant helped get her a book deal, a movie deal, and a deal with Warner which under AT\u0026amp;T has been happily burning the company and its brand down to the ground.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner also signed a multi-year deal with Phillip Atiba Goff whose thesis adviser was Cornel West and is the author of \"Saying 'No' to Whiteness\", to produce social justice content. Dungey described Goff as “a leading voice of moral clarity on critical issues facing our society”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the rush to elevate anyone shouting about the evils of white people, HBO Max is littered with basement garbage that looks like the work of college students laboring on public access TV.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can find “Random Acts of Flyness”, a typical episode of which is titled, \"They Got Some S___ That'll Blow Out Your Back\". The Terence Nance variety show features a \"family mourning a high-profile case of police violence\" and asks \"does the Second Amendment apply to black people\". One mock commercial features Mad Men’s Jon Hamm touting “White Be Gone” which promises to help those who are suffering “from white thoughts”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a sign of just how far Warner had toppled its intellectual properties into the gutter of black nationalism, it tried to turn over the Looney Tunes franchise to Nance to direct “Space Jam” with Ryan Coogler, of the anti-police agitprop “Fruitvale Station”, acting as producer. Coogler, who went on to direct Marvel’s black nationalist Black Panther fantasy, also produced “Judas and the Black Messiah” for Warner celebrating Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut you can also find HBO pushing “Beah: A Black Woman Speaks” about Communist activist Beah Richards who played a major role in the We Charge Genocide smear to divert attention from Soviet crimes by falsely accusing America of genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if you thought John Oliver or Stephen Colbert weren’t political enough, Wyatt Cenac's “Problem Areas” is a string of diatribes about racism and social justice. Cenac is a Daily Show veteran who jettisons much of the format and instead lectures audiences about racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHBO Max is struggling to catch up to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+, but the actual numbers show that it's far behind. While the service claims 44 million subscribers and touts ambitious plans to reach 150 million people by 2025, these numbers are suspect.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier this year, activations stood at\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2021\/02\/17\/take-hbo-max-subscriber-count-with-a-grain-of-salt\/\"\u003E only 17 million\u003C\/a\u003E. HBO Max no longer reports activations making its numbers meaningless. By the spring, AT\u0026amp;T had disposed of HBO Max and the rest of its Warner package by merging the whole mess with Discovery’s programming.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe deal also dumps CNN into Discovery under its CEO, Democrat donor David Zaslav.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile AT\u0026amp;T put the best possible face on this move, the $4 billion dollar bet had not paid off. And Warner’s massive investment in black nationalist programming had thoroughly failed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHBO Max’s biggest bump came from its decision to dump “Wonder Woman 1984” on the platform at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. The movie, starring Gal Gadot, a pro-Israel actress under fire by critical race theory activists, was the antithesis of the new intersectionality. The second biggest came from the Friends reunion: a show under fire for its lack of diversity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite HBO Max’s massive investment in black nationalism, its successes were all too white.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile all of its big streaming platforms rivals, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, and Paramount+ invested in black nationalist narratives to varying degrees, none did so as belatedly, futilely, and relentlessly as HBO Max which threw away its brand and its future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarnerMedia may have boycotted the Golden Globes, but subscribers boycotted its service.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner bought into Black Lives Matter and built its content brand around militant black nationalism and anti-white racism. While AT\u0026amp;T’s CNN was touting the looters, AT\u0026amp;T’s HBO Max was being looted. Like so many other companies, after the woke comes the broke.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1457880351148443029\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-hbo-max-went-woke-and-broke-on-blm.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1457880351148443029"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1457880351148443029"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-hbo-max-went-woke-and-broke-on-blm.html","title":"How HBO Max Went Woke and Broke on BLM"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eyRtleWNE7U\/YM76A5dm9LI\/AAAAAAAATUE\/bdhjyAgHT3Q9h2y23w7TO9OVYqXiMyGGACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-20_011915.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-312877976445081122"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-16T06:33:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-16T06:33:00.454-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"entertainment industry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hollywood"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"BLM Goes Hollywood"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A few years ago, CAA announced that it had signed on to represent Patrisse Cullors. The powerful Hollywood talent agency is considered the biggest firm of its kind and doesn’t usually represent activists. But the Black Lives Matter co-founder isn’t a typical activist either.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy the time that Cullors was being represented by the talent agency, the self-proclaimed “trained Marxist” was going from award dinners to studio events. Most speaking fees aren't made public, but last year, Cullors, along with the other two co-founders of the racist BLM hate group, charged the University of Florida \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.alligator.org\/article\/2020\/06\/black-lives-matter-founders-to-be-paid-10-000-each-to-speak\"\u003E$10,000 each\u003C\/a\u003E to address students online.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hnTGvx9rhCI\/YHduHEpBdDI\/AAAAAAAATAI\/dHPWSFtnSzkWBM67lawqrnb_nS23yH7SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s606\/patrisse.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"433\" data-original-width=\"606\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hnTGvx9rhCI\/YHduHEpBdDI\/AAAAAAAATAI\/dHPWSFtnSzkWBM67lawqrnb_nS23yH7SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/w320-h229\/patrisse.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen she isn’t charging thousands to video chat, Cullors curated ComplexCon, a BLM global art show, and worked on an ad campaign for Adidas with Pharell Williams, claims to be a “dancer, choreographer, designer, stylist, producer, and director.”  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECullors got to consult for Good Trouble, a lefty Disney TV series, about two girls, one white and one Latino, who move to Los Angeles and fight racial injustice. Another way of saying that is, she gave a show run by a white lady who used to act on The Bold and the Beautiful street cred.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You only have to spend about five minutes with Patrisse to be blown away by her as an activist, artist, intellectual and force of life energy, love, joy and humanity,” Good Trouble showrunner Joanna Johnson raved. “She has such a wealth of knowledge and life experience. I’m always looking for that in writers because truth is not only stranger but more nuanced and rich than fiction can ever be.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETruth is indeed stranger than fiction. Just ask the Black Lives Matter founder who went from a year in which the hate group's race rioters burned buildings and terrorized communities to buying a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dirt.com\/gallery\/more-dirt\/politicians\/black-lives-matter-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-lands-topanga-canyon-compound-1203374803\/patrissecullors_tc1\/\"\u003E$1.4 million home\u003C\/a\u003E in the mostly white Topanga Canyon through a corporate entity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike every proper trained Marxist should. As an amateur Marxist, Cullors had to settle for the San Fernando Valley, but as a fully trained Marxist she got “vaulted ceilings clad in knotty pine” and “whitewashed hearth fireplaces.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhiteness and whitewashing isn’t all bad. Especially when white studios are paying for it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Topanga Canyon home has \"soaring ceilings\", \"skylights\", and is ideal for \"quietly contemplating cross-canyon vistas framed by mature trees\" or the next town your hate group is going to burn. There's even an art studio and politically incorrect \"maids quarters\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe house is down the road from one of the homes involved in the Manson murders which seems only appropriate since Manson wanted to start a race war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Black Lives Matter is carrying on Manson’s work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was reportedly Cullors’ fourth home purchase after \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/10\/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge\/\"\u003Ebuying a ranch\u003C\/a\u003E on three acres in Atlanta with a private airplane hangar and shopping around for a luxury home in the Bahamas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Cullors signed a deal with Warner Brothers to “develop scripted dramas and comedies, docuseries and animated programming for children, young adults and families”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECullors also has her own anti-police organization, Dignity and Power Now, run by Lamia Al-Sadek, the former county director of Islamic Relief Worldwide, and two white people, near USC. And she also has her own consulting firm with her lover, Janaya And Patrisse Consulting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s unclear if either of these were the entities that Cullors used to buy her $1.4 million home, or if she has other organizations in her portfolio that have yet to be exposed and revealed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Cullors went with CAA, Alicia Garza, the second BLM co-founder, went with ICM, and her book, Purpose Of Power, came out last year. Garza is also due to appear in the HBO adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ racist rant, Between the World and Me.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EICM’s previous coup was boasting about the role of \"client Josh Hartnett\" in the HBO \"documentary\" Exterminate All the Brutes which \"shifts perspectives by highlighting America's founding as inherently genocidal\". It’s no wonder that the entire roster of BLM’s founders have found a comfortable home in an entertainment industry that hates America as much as they do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpal Tometi, the third BLM co-founder, got on board with WME, the rival CAA Hollywood talent agency, which Hollywood Reporter noted had signed stars like,“Elton John, Eva Longoria, Shakira, Tessa Thompson, Sarah Cooper, and Opal Tometi.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can read about all this in Opal’s official press releases, in between telling a newspaper, “I do this because we deserve to live.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd deserve to live very well too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWME used Opal Tometi to launch its Social Justice Now Film Festival through Film Life Foundation, a non-profit founded by Opal and Marvel star, Michael B. Jordan. Sponsored by Sony, Amazon, Heineken, J.P. Morgan, and other great outposts of social justice, the festival’s message is “translate art into change” and features movies like, Who Will Survive America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s hard surviving America while being sponsored by a Japanese electronics firm, a Dutch beer conglomerate, and a banking firm whose predecessors had used slaves as collateral.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpal also has her own production company, Blue Opal Productions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike Cullors and Garza, both of whom came out of Los Angeles, Opal came from Arizona, but Hollywood is the common denominator of the founders of Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe founders of BLM have gone to work acting, writing, consulting, and promoting for Hollywood because their racist hate movement was always an entertainment industry production. BLM’s race riots destroyed communities and small businesses, but its brands and buzzwords were a corporate marketing campaign backed by industry talent. Like Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast, it was a production, even if the physical destruction of the riots was all too real.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy shouldn’t Cullors get a house in the area where Quentin Tarantino filmed a scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and where movie stars house their pets at the Topanga Pet Resort?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s all made in Hollywood anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETruth is stranger than fiction. But Hollywood also specializes in turning fiction into truth. Why not set the country on fire, elect some Democrats, and get some new content in the pipeline?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHollywood had been stagnating. Every piece of IP or intellectual property had been locked down by giants like Disney, and the staggering cost of Silicon Valley streamers like Netflix and Amazon Prime sinking billions into developing original content to keep subscription viewers on their plantation had made it impossible for much of the old industry to compete on its own turf.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow there are books to adapt into movies, TV series to launch, and countless entertainment industry products to sell to guilty liberal suburban moms who joyfully grapple with the depths of their own racism by binge watching black pain. And there are the BLM co-founders to help Hollywood get all the political cred that it needs to make a killing out of racism on a budget.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForget Hearst’s \"You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war.\" The war is easy to furnish. It’s the pictures that are expensive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe damage from the BLM race riots surpassed $2 billion. That sounds like a lot of money, and individually it wiped out countless businesses, crushed neighborhoods and communities, and took more lives and dreams than will ever be accounted for, but that’s nothing compared to the $17 billion that Netflix blew on programming in just one year. And the best part is that $2 billion was entirely paid for by ordinary Americans, insurance companies, and non-industry types.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPeasants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThink of the Kenosha riots as the Atlanta burning scene in Gone With the Wind. But no Hollywood studio had to sacrifice its own sets to produce all that footage. Race rioters were happy to burn down American cities as publicity for Hollywood social justice projects. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome consulting and acting gigs for the marketable founders of the racist hate group is a small price to pay for Warner Brothers to use HBO Max to compete with Netflix. It’s been a long time since Warner Brothers meant the conservative Warner brothers, Jewish immigrants and Republicans who appeared before HUAC, and declared, “We are willing to establish such a fund to ship to Russia the people who don’t like our American system of government.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner Brothers and HBO Max, like CNN, are cultural death rays of the AT\u0026amp;T death star. Or, as a CNN reporter described the riots, “fiery, but mostly peaceful” death rays.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf only there were a fund to ship AT\u0026amp;T, Netflix, and Disney to Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter BLM fades, there will be new productions, spectacles, and extravaganzas to excite, humiliate, and distract the attention of Americans from the havoc being wreaked on their country as a handful of entangled companies fight for supreme dominance in the oligarchy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd BLM’s co-founders have found a good exit strategy with production companies, organizations, and homes in an industry that knows the value of a good show.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESomewhere, Captain David Dorn’s widow is mourning her husband. And the other victims of BLM are immersed in their own private griefs for lost children, spouses, and parents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut in Hollywood, the mansions only get bigger and the party never ends.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/312877976445081122\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/blm-goes-hollywood.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/312877976445081122"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/312877976445081122"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/blm-goes-hollywood.html","title":"BLM Goes Hollywood"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hnTGvx9rhCI\/YHduHEpBdDI\/AAAAAAAATAI\/dHPWSFtnSzkWBM67lawqrnb_nS23yH7SgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w320-h229-c\/patrisse.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5543199778640716037"},"published":{"$t":"2021-03-15T14:27:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-03-15T14:27:05.607-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hollywood"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"sexism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Exec of #MeToo Group That Covered for Biden’s Sex Abuse Heads His Council to Protect Women"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"When Hollywood wanted to divert attention from its sexual abuse of women, it created Time’s Up and staffed it with political hacks from the Obama administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hPjoYBLeqxw\/YE-m6aklEOI\/AAAAAAAAS7c\/TJpOPmGbL2kBckX4pkJ3ubh4pkbayc7FACNcBGAsYHQ\/s681\/image_2021-03-15_112648.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"411\" data-original-width=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hPjoYBLeqxw\/YE-m6aklEOI\/AAAAAAAAS7c\/TJpOPmGbL2kBckX4pkJ3ubh4pkbayc7FACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-03-15_112648.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ETime’s Up was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/268994\/how-hollywood-killed-metoo-daniel-greenfield\"\u003E built as a rival\u003C\/a\u003E to the decentralized social media #MeToo movement. Replacing social media outrage driven by random people with a formal organization funded by Hollywood capital and controlled by the Democrat non-profit sector could prevent another Weinstein mess.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite being backed by Hollywood millionaires, the organization’s legal defense fund launched what became the largest fundraiser on GoFundMe: totaling almost $25 million. But critics \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/28\/star-studded-times-up-charities-spent-big-on-salaries-not-victims\/\"\u003Epointed out\u003C\/a\u003E that Time’s Up’s money was mostly going to salaries, rather than to victims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was even more outrage when Time’s Up Now co-sponsored a retreat at a spa filled with agents from CAA: a powerful talent agency backing Time’s Up \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/12\/caa-apologizes-to-anyone-let-down-1202220778\/\"\u003Ewhich had been accused\u003C\/a\u003E of covering up Weinstein's crimes. Rose McGowan, a key #MeToo figure,\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2020\/12\/03\/rose-mcgowan-says-times-up-organization-is-front-for-human-traffickers-calls-out-hollywood-actresses-like-brie-larson-natalie-portman-marisa-tomei-who-support-it\/\"\u003E tweeted\u003C\/a\u003E, “Times Up A vile PR stunt, a front for evil CAA \u0026amp; other human traffickers like Weinstein.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2019, Lisa Borders, the CEO of Time's Up, was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2019\/02\/head-hollywood-metoo-group-resigns-after-sons-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eforced to resign\u003C\/a\u003E when her son, a formerly homeless yoga instructor, was accused of groping one of his clients during a \"healing\" session. Borders explained that she was resigning because she wanted to defend her son, but still got paid $591,000 for half a year’s work as part of a “severance agreement” with the group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBorders was replaced by Tina Tchen, Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff, who spent 2020 tanking what was left of the little credibility that the Obama\/Hollywood front group still had.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOprah Winfrey had helped launch #TimesUp with a Golden Globes speech declaring, “Their time is up” and she also hosted an interview with Time’s Up leaders on CBS: whose former CEO, Les Moonves, had been \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/clinton-sexual-predator-who-made-murphy-brown-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ETV’s own version of Harvey Weinstein\u003C\/a\u003E. The Time's Up celebs that Oprah interviewed, Shonda Rimes, and Natalie Portman, had not been assaulted by Harvey Weinstein. Or anyone. (McGowan also rightly blasted Portman's theatrics.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut when a documentary about the women alleging that they had been raped by Russell Simmons, a celebrity hip-hop producer who was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.showbiz411.com\/2020\/07\/03\/disgraced-defjam-records-founder-russell-simmons-backs-louis-farrakhan-doubles-down-on-pariah-status-after-rape-accusations\"\u003E also a pal\u003C\/a\u003E of racist Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, was close to release, Oprah Winfrey pulled out, under pressure from Simmons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime’s Up not only \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2020\/06\/russell-simmons-accusers-documentary-times-up.html\"\u003Ejoined Oprah\u003C\/a\u003E in refusing to support the victims, but \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/features\/time-s-up-didnt-step-up-1296938\"\u003Eallegedly started\u003C\/a\u003E a whispering campaign to sabotage the documentary. A Hollywood Reporter\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/features\/time-s-up-didnt-step-up-1296938\"\u003E investigation\u003C\/a\u003E tied together Tina Chen and the role of former Obama consoligere Valerie Jarrett, and noted that, “$2.9 million of Time's Up gross receipts in 2018 came from three undisclosed donors.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the complete collapse of Time’s Up came when Tara Reade accused Joe Biden of sexual assault. Reade had initially reached out to people at Time's Up only to be told that the organization legally couldn't support her because Biden was a political candidate. President Trump was also a political candidate, but that hadn’t stopped Time’s Up from attacking him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same organization that recently put out a statement by Tina Tchen headlined, “Donald Trump Must Be Removed From Office”, claimed that it couldn’t speak out against Biden for legal reasons. The legal reasons were a joke, but the political ones were there for everyone to see.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETchen managed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/times-up-ceo-praises-biden-after-declining-to-aid-accuser-tara-reade\/\"\u003Eto praise Biden\u003C\/a\u003E for having the right response to the allegations. This wasn’t surprising as Time’s Up was populated by former Obama people, and in a glaring conflict of interest, its public relations were being handled by Biden advisor Anita Dunn. Beyond being Biden’s “decision-making authority”, Dunn had also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/high-profile\/joe-biden-accuser-says-times-up-betrayed-her-in-that-hallway-he-was-a-man-assaulting-a-woman\/\"\u003Eprovided advice\u003C\/a\u003E to Harvey Weinstein.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I actually cried a little because I felt really betrayed,” Reade had said. “They never told me that their public relations was run by Anita Dunn. I found out in real-time reading Ryan’s article. I gave them so much personal information and they say they didn’t give it to Biden. But come on. They said they had firewalls or something.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime’s Up said lots of things. But then it did very different things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Chief Strategy and Policy Officer for Time’s Up, Jennifer Klein, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/05\/21\/times-up-operative-donation-fec-joe-biden\/\"\u003Emaxed out\u003C\/a\u003E her donations to Biden. Klein, a former Obama and Clinton vet, has now been appointed by Biden as the co-chair of Biden’s new White House Gender Policy Council, alongside Julissa Reynoso, Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff, an Obama ambassador, and a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe White House Gender Policy Council is tasked in Biden’s executive order with, among a multitude of other things, combatting “sexual harassment”. The Council is expected to throw out policies by former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos that protected the due process rights of students who had been accused of sexual misconduct on college campuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHad Biden faced the same lack of due process as the average college student, he would have been immediately found guilty. But Time’s Up insisted that there was no organization that existed to try Biden. Instead it would be up to the voters to pass judgement on his “character”. That was a convenient rationalization for refusing to stand with the women accusing Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow Klein, who was donating to the abuser, will head up Biden’s program to protect women. Except of course those women who might decide to come forward and accuse her boss.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime’s Up had always existed to silence actual victims on behalf of influential Democrats. It was a partnership between Hollywood and Obama operatives. Rolling executives of Time’s Up into Biden programs just makes the arrangement public.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKlein combined her time at Time’s Up with serving as co-chair of the Women and Families Policy Committee for the campaign of an accused sexual abuser. Now the Biden campaign elevated her campaign role to an administration role. And, in an interview with Ms. Magazine, Tina Tchen touted Klein as “an expert on both domestic and global gender issues”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The policy of this administration is that every individual, every student is entitled to a fair education — free of sexual violence — and that all involved have access to a fair process,” Klein argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFair process and due process are not the same thing. A due process protects the rights of the accused while a fair process is in the eye of the beholder. Equity dispenses with due process and replaces it with bias that is only ‘fair’ if you believe that society is fundamentally unfair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course we already know the outcome.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETina Tchen had already tweeted that due process rules for accused abusers on campus are wrong and the National Women's Law Center, which administers the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, had sued to stop student accusers from being cross-examined after an accusation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration will move to ban cross-examination of campus accusers, but when Reade accused Biden of sexual assault, she was cross-examined and then smeared in the media, while Biden was hardly ever asked about any of the allegations of sexual misconduct.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the ‘fair’ standard of Time’s Up in action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccuse a random student and you have the right to be believed without being cross-examined, but if you accuse Biden, you have the right to be cross-examined without ever being believed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBelieve Reade or don’t, Biden’s inappropriate conduct with women has been captured on video. It’s not hard to find photos and video clips of him inappropriately touching women and girls. That might be one reason he chose to rename the White House Council on Women and Girls that Tina Tchen had headed for Obama to the White House Gender Policy Council headed by Klein.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe existence of women and girls is routinely denied by lefties who insist on using euphemisms like “menustrators” (She the People), “chest-feeders” (NHS),  and “people with vaginas” (Planned Parenthood) and by Biden, one of whose first moves was to effectively eliminate women’s sports. Now women have also been erased from the Council on Women and Girls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd who better to oversee this on behalf of a sexual abuser than a senior figure in an organization that exists to insulate powerful Democrats from the women accusing them.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003ED\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5543199778640716037\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/exec-of-metoo-group-that-covered-for.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5543199778640716037"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5543199778640716037"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/exec-of-metoo-group-that-covered-for.html","title":"Exec of #MeToo Group That Covered for Biden’s Sex Abuse Heads His Council to Protect Women"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hPjoYBLeqxw\/YE-m6aklEOI\/AAAAAAAAS7c\/TJpOPmGbL2kBckX4pkJ3ubh4pkbayc7FACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-03-15_112648.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}}]}});