John Nolte: McCarthyism Returns with #MeToo’s Blacklisting of Woody Allen

Good to see conservatives, liberals, and some leftists agree on this. Makes SJWs and #MeToo look deranged. Bezos' WaPo too. Nolte covers mostly entertainment.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/01/18/nolte-mccarthyism-returns-with-metoos-blacklisting-of-woody-allen/

The #MeToo movement is an important and long overdue reckoning within two left-wing institutions: Hollywood and the mainstream media. If this movement is going to sustain its good work, it must respect due process and the right to a fair trial, even if that trial is taking place in the court of public opinion.

Even in this court of public opinion, because people’s careers and reputations are at stake, all of us have a responsibility to take seriously our roles as jurors, especially in the age of social media. And while we must not discard common sense, for the sake of human decency, we must still respect the principle that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

Yes, even Woody Allen deserves a fair trial. The fact that he is a self-involved leftist who has behaved badly in the past should have no bearing on whether or not we as a society stand idly by as he is turned into a non-persona over a 1993 allegation of child molestation.

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Despite the facts, for 25 years these allegations have haunted Allen, and now the bandwagon of #MeToo has resulted in a blacklisting campaign against the Oscar-winner. Actors and producers are being pressured by the Farrows to repudiate Allen, to make him unemployable. So far, among others, Sorvino, Timothée Chalemet, Rebecca Hall, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, David Krumholtz, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Kathleen Kennedy, America Ferrera, attorney Nina Shaw, Tracee Ellis Ross, Shonda Rhimes, and Griffin Newman have done so.

So far only Alec Baldwin and Selena Gomez are refusing to join the mob.

Worse still, using scandalous headlines and mindless innuendo, the left-wing Washington Post joined the witch hunt three weeks ago with Richard Morgan’s misleading piece titled “I read decades of Woody Allen’s private notes. He’s obsessed with teenage girls.”

In 56 boxes of material, Morgan extrapolated a handful of notes written by Allen (all of them within the realm of story ideas and character creation) about older men attracted to women aged 17 and up. There is one example of 16-year-old described as “a flashy sexy blonde in a flaming red low cut evening gown with a long slit up the side” — which reveals nothing in an era that sees girls younger than that sexualized on the Disney Channel.

Not only is none of what so disturbs Morgan criminal, not only is all of it within the realm of fiction, Morgan wants to criminalize the biological fact that older men are attracted to younger girls.

Is this truth suddenly verboten in art?

Naturally, Morgan attacks Allen’s masterpiece Manhattan as the act of “dressing up crime as art,” but fails to mention that the relationship between Allen’s 42-year-old character and a 17-year-old (played by Mariel Hemingway) is in fact not a crime. In the state of New York, 17 was and is above the age of consent. It should also be noted that Allen’s character gets his comeuppance, ends up alone when she moves on.