“When you find out that this person is a monster, especially a monster towards women, why wouldn’t you denounce it?”
Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
Oct 10, 2017
Appearing on MSNBC, the staunchly liberal co-creator of the Daily Show described the silence of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as regards the Harvey Weinstein scandal as ‘disappointing’ and said it makes their previous ‘outrage’ against President Trump ‘ring hollow’.
“I feel it happens a lot with women’s issues and I feel really disappointed in both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton,” Lizz Winstead told MSNBC host Katy Tur.
“If you took money from this person, because this person had really good progressive goals that were in line with the politics, great. When you find out that this person is a monster, especially a monster towards women, why wouldn’t you denounce it?” Winstead asked.
“Otherwise, you will never have credibility when trying to denounce, oh, I don’t know, a president who talks about the freedom to sexually assault a woman in a tape that we hear on Access Hollywood,” Winstead added, referring to the infamous ‘locker room’ comments of Donald Trump.
Winstead said that she fears Trump could be given “a pass because we didn’t call out this kind of behavior from Democrats.”
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“Malia [Obama] interned for Harvey Weinstein. They got tens of thousands of dollars, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, from donations. How long can they stay silent?” Tur further questioned.
“It is up to us to demand from them – and why aren’t we demanding from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – ‘where is your statement? Please step up. We supported you,’” Winstead answered.
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