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““Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion…We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe.””

— That’s Harvey Weinstein, discussing Hollywood’s reaction to the Polanski case. (latimes.com)

C’mon, you guys. Look, I know that some of you nit-pickers may have reservations about this statement, like that there is not even of wisp of cigar smoke to connect Weinstein’s premise to the conclusion, or that you have rarely seen so much intellectual chaos packed into just three sentences, but ask yourselves this: have you ever gone on television to read a 50-second statement off a teleprompter in which you ask people with far less money than you to send in donations for victims of a natural disaster? Have you ever made a movie in which you stare mistily at a gifted yet “at risk” minority teen you have just taught to read? Are you “there” (where?) for victims of any world catastrophe? That’s what I thought.

via josephweisenthal
Posted on Friday, May 1 2009.
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