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Ronan Farrow
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July 16 - July 23, 2021
“Noah says Ronan’s not allowed on set,”
Lauer read my introduction instead.
The bloody irony
“Oppenheim says Ronan came to him several months ago and said he wanted to pursue sexual harassment, and after about two or three months, never secured any documentation and never persuaded any women to go on camera,”
OMFG. Bold face LIES!
“This was a guy who really didn’t have anything,” Oppenheim said
LYING LIAR!!
Asked if he’d had any contact with Weinstein, Oppenheim laughed and said, “I don’t travel in those circles.”
You absolutely do! You, sir, sit on a throne of lies.
perform oral sex on him.”
How absolutely awful.
people give up, and then they feel like it’s their fault.”
It's never the woman's fault in these cases. SHE didn't initiate it. She said no. It's not our job to fight off our attackers, especially when there's a high likelihood you'll lose.
Everything was designed to make me feel comfortable before it happened.
the shame in what happened was also designed to keep me quiet.”
“I can’t talk! I can’t comment on any of this!” She told me to call Harder, Boies, anyone else.
Haha, Bloom, this is what you get when you work for a monster.
Forty minutes after we got off the phone, Bloom tweeted that she’d resigned.
From Weinstein or Price? I assume the former.
an interaction wasn’t rape if the woman in question came back to him later.
Nope, not how that works, Harv.
calling the concept of powerful men intimidating women in the industry a “myth.”
🙄🙄🙄
He spent an inordinate amount of time attacking the character of women in the story.
“Harvey, I have a question,” Remnick interjected at one point, in all earnestness. “How does this relate to your behavior?”
YES, exactly!!
Once, he launched into a detailed discussion of an allegation not included in the story.
OMG 😲 I can just imagine Ronan & Remnick exchanging surprised looks.
“The tape that was destroyed?”
Oh you mean incriminating evidence?
“NBC is pissed,” Weinstein said on several occasions.
WHO CARRRRRREEEEESSSS? They fired Ronan!
“Not our style,”
❤
One magazine writer who broke a significant story about Weinstein showed me the messages and played me the voicemails that eventually graduated to explicit threats of harm to him and his family. The FBI had gotten involved. He’d run his report anyway.
JFC!!
All whispered of abuses of power and of the systems—in government, media, law—deployed to cover them up.
“There are more Harveys in your midst.”
Cryptic & terrifying
“Confident we can get new deal done,” Noah Oppenheim texted that day.
Man, FUCK this guy right here. Ugh.
Obviously Harvey made the story behind the story and the history of it at NBC a big part of his thrust against me,”
I'm not sure I'm picking up what he's putting down.
and to Jonathan.
??
“Speaking of media complicity ask yourself why NBC reporter Ronan Farrow wrote this for The New Yorker.”
Fucking exactly
“That seems like a real lie to me.”
Ha! Yes! PREACH! Glad this one has a good bullshit meter.
But the women’s claims really did deserve exposure on NBC’s platforms. And the truth was, I wanted my job back.
Good. Be strategic, Ronan. You owe them absolutely nothing, but use them *exactly* the way they used you.
congratulations on
an amazing piece!”
Tick tock, muthafucka
I feel like we are working for a media cabal akin to the Vatican, willing to cover up sex crimes.”
“a recording emerges.”
Who could say where it had been before?
Not in Noah Oppenheim’s office for five m...
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🙄😂
large corporate conspiracy
The Weinstein Company (TWC) or NBC?
They tore their guts out talking about this and re-traumatized themselves because they believed they could protect other women going forward.
Yup. And NBC certainly owed them more than this level of total bs.
“I cannot account for Rachel Maddow’s behavior.
HA! No one can; she's amazing.
Oppenheim cut off mid-shout.
WHY is this dick shouting??
“Noah’s a sick fuck, and Andy’s a sick fuck, and they both need to go.”
“And something else. Involving talent here.”
You can see, on the tape of the segment, my eyebrows dart up.
Even he can't suppress is shock at the way NBC he's twisted things.
Lauer seemed strange on set that day,
I wonder why that could possibly be. 🤔🙄
When he reiterated the claim that the network simply never had the story, McHugh spoke up. “Forgive me, Noah,” he said. “But I have to disagree.”
Fuck YES.
never once did I say to anyone, ‘Don’t do it,’” Oppenheim said.
This fucking guy! Like McHugh doesn't remember what happened? There's a GD paper trail!
“I’m now being accused widely,” he said, “of being somehow complicit in covering up for a rapist.
YUP
“I just want to let you know that Harvey’s a rapist and this is going to come out at some point,” she recalled telling a communications staffer, one of several she said she warned.
Yes, gurl, yes. <<I can heart this in her voice.>>
sad for Harvey that [his] life is so messed up.”
No. Woody Allen is so tone-deaf.
‘a witch hunt
It's not a "witch hunt" b/c literally every man is trash.
Harder and Bloom were terrorizing me.”
I always felt so sorry for poor Rose. She grew up in a cult for chrissakes; she coulda used a break.
Seth Freedman.
THIS guy again
