The new #MeToo movie She Said has bombed. The prestige picture, based on the crimes of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, only made $2 million — “one of the worst results of a major studio in history,” as Variety put it.
Here’s an idea, Hollywood: Make a #MeToo movie in which the accused actually turn out to be innocent.
While the #MeToo movement has been a huge net gain for raising awareness about people like Weinstein, in some ways, it has become a hammer that sees every man as a nail.
It has also become far too politicized. In Here’s the Deal: A Memoir, written by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, the former counselor to the president slams the feminist hypocrites who were central to the Brett Kavanaugh oppo hit of 2018. The Stasi media would like to forget the appalling hypocrisy, ignorance, and sanctimony they displayed during that episode. Conway makes sure to remind them.
I was a part of that war and write about it in a new book . In the fall of 2018, the political Left and the media tried to destroy Kavanaugh, a high school friend of mine. They used opposition research , extortion threats , and an attempted honey trap . A woman named Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in 1982 when we were all in high school. Ford claimed that I was in the room when it happened .
When I was called by investigative reporter Ronan Farrow in September 2018, Farrow accused me of “sexual misconduct” without telling me who the victim was, when it had allegedly happened, or where. The media told the public that I’d presided over 10 gang rapes and bought and sold cocaine. They used as sources people I’ve never met . Crazy nonsense was fed directly to the media, which regurgitated it without scrutiny.
Indeed, the stuff was so ridiculous that there were many liberals and progressives who did not believe Ford, though few were willing to admit as much out loud. But they knew, just like everyone else, that Ford’s story was fiction. Still, her accusations were the perfect weapon with which to destroy Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
In the end, they failed, and I survived. It would make a pretty good movie.
To their credit, Conway and the White House made every effort to give Ford fair treatment, even as they themselves were trashed. When Conway revealed to Jake Tapper on CNN that she herself had been the victim of a sexual assault, Tapper said he was sorry to hear that and then pivoted back to Trump.
The worst was Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. After Conway told the press that Ford was being treated “like a Faberge egg by all of us, beginning with me and the president,” Brzezinski went berserk. “So tell us your story,” she sneered at the camera. “Who is your attacker? Who broke the law? Who hurt you? You seemed really uncomfortable when you let that slip out. Your voice got small. Your voice cracked.”
This vicious behavior elicited a great response from Conway: “Does the #MeToo movement or the so-called sisterhood go where the law does not, deciding who deserves respect, justice, and compassion based on her politics or day job?”
As Conway notes in Here’s the Deal, feminists and the Left cared about politics, not personal pain: “In fact, [Ford] had been defied by the usual loudmouths, all of whom had no basis to know whether her decades-old claims were true. Those same people couldn’t and wouldn’t have cared less about my own painful experience, because ‘but Trump.’”
The way many women are depicted in films like She Said seems a step backward from the way women were shown in older, better-written films. In film noir, the bad guys are often women . To name just a few examples: Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity, Kathie Moffat in Out of the Past, Gilda Mundson in Gilda, Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (the 1960 noir Gun Crazy was even originally titled Deadly is the Femme Fatale) were all brilliant, conniving, sarcastic, and sometimes downright evil. In other words, they were much more like real people.
Ford would have made a great femme fatale. She was depicted in the media as a sweet, innocent pixie who was naive. She talked in a baby-girl voice.
A picture of Ford as a shrewd, conniving actress and opposition researcher is much more interesting, and far more accurate , than the ingenue created by the media.
So, yes, to answer Conway’s question, #MeToo goes where the law does not. It’s why Kavanaugh and I were declared guilty despite a total lack of evidence backing the allegations made against us. It’s why I received extortionate phone calls and hostile messages demanding I lie about Kavanaugh. (”Do it for humanity.”)
#MeToo shifts its ground depending on the politics of the victim and will create a victim where there is no proof. It then deploys vile sleazebags like disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti , who accused me and Kavanaugh of participating in or witnessing 10 gang rapes. This sentence from Here’s the Deal, in which Conway is at a party and meets Avenatti, says a lot: “Don Lemon pushed me towards Avenatti, who had been touted by Lemon’s CNN colleague Brian Stelter as a serious presidential candidate.”
A final word here should be said for someone who is not mentioned in Here’s the Deal: Leland Keyser. She is the lifelong friend of Ford, who claimed Keyser was there the night Ford was assaulted. When Keyser denied it, Ford threw her under the bus, claiming Keyser had “significant health challenges” and could not be trusted.
It was a despicable and politically motivated smear coming from a leftist operative who may have set feminism back 50 years. The #MeToo movement deserves better. And so does Hollywood.
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Mark Judge is an award-winning journalist and the author of the book The Devil's Triangle: Mark Judge vs. the New American Stasi . He is also the author of God and Man at Georgetown Prep, Damn Senators, and A Tremor of Bliss.
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