Everyone in Hollywood knew who the perverts were, they’d heard the rumors and seen things for themselves. Many of the people out there experienced it first-hand too. But, for decades, no one said anything.
Everyone in the media knew who the perverts were, they’d heard the rumors and seen things for themselves. Many of the people out there experienced it first-hand too. But, for decades, no one said anything.
And everyone in politics knew who the perverts were, they’d heard the rumors and seen things for themselves. Many of the people out there experienced it first-hand too. But, for decades, no one said anything.
They were all “the worst kept secrets” in their respective fields, and they mostly seemed to be about Democrats. The Hollywood-type perverts paid for the campaigns of the Democrat perverts, so they weren’t about to talk about each other. And the reporters were on the team, so they weren’t about to tell the world about their teammates, especially when they were likely engaging in some level of the same behavior in their own newsrooms – the more you’re around perverts and monsters, the more normal it becomes to you, the more likely you are to become one yourself.
Each of these groups got away with it for so long because they were each a part of the cabal of professions who should be out there exposing what all of them were doing. Anytime a Republican engaged in anything remotely close to something like this, there was no curtain of secrecy or club courtesy, not that there should have been. It was the difference between seeing steroids in the locker of your opponent’s homerun hitter and telling the world while knowing full well your homerun hitter was juicing.
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Eric Swalwell isn’t the problem, he just the symptom that popped up that could not be ignored. I have to assume the Democrat establishment was fine with whatever he was doing while he was in the House because he was essentially the perfect drone – willing to say that stupid and outrageous things they wanted said, but mostly irrelevant and anonymous enough to not matter.
When he decided to run for Governor of California, they likely assumed he’d be an also-ran. There’s no reason to spill the beans on a 5th place finisher in a jungle primary, especially when that was coupled with his leaving the House. One drone leaves, another takes its place.
There was nothing special about Swalwell, other than his willingness to look like a moron on television, but the world (especially the world of politics) is full of people willing to do anything to get on television, including say things that make them look like a moron (or just expose that they are).
You can tell that the Democrat establishment knew about Swalwell by how quickly they turned on him once the stories started being leaked. Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, both of whom demand “full due process” for any illegal alien thug, even if they’re caught on video and with blood on their hands, pulled their endorsements of Eric before the ink was dry on the stories.
They knew what was out there wasn’t as bad as it was going to get and they had to get away from him before the feces really hit the fan. Once a damn starts to crack, everyone in going to get wet.
Swalwell was too high profile a cable news goon and was too high in the polls to be allowed to stay. If this story had broken while he was just a House Member running for reelection, he probably would have survived because the first round would’ve been ignored and there wouldn’t have been the later, more serious stories.
But Governor is a different story. It this story breaks after Swalwell is in the top 2 and on the ballot in November (and against a Republican), well, Democrats couldn’t take that chance. Democrats also couldn’t take the chance of this story breaking too late in the primary and not leave his supporters enough time to coalesce behind someone else (leaving the top 2 finishers both Republicans), the trigger had to be pulled now.
None of this was by accident because none of this was unknown. Maybe not the specifics – knowing someone is a philanderer is one thing, knowing there are women claiming rape, while not a giant leap, is still a decent sized step.
Did any Democrats know those stories? Maybe Ruben Gallego, Eric’s best friend. He is still useful to the party as a young Hispanic leftist. His history with women isn’t great, but treating women like garbage by leaving them for younger “upgrades” isn’t a crime in politics, just ask Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, who recently left his wife and kids for a young activist and is positioning himself to replace Chuck Schumer as their leader in the Senate.
Those stories are known, as are many others about leftists, but are they the worst? Doubtful. Washington is Hollywood for ugly people, but it’s only “ugly” on the outside, as their insides are all the same rot. Harvey Weinstein didn’t get elected to anything and Bill Clinton didn’t make movies, and Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer didn’t say much about either. The worst kept secrets are often only kept for as long as the person they’re about is useful to the left. If you don’t think there are more – A LOT MORE – you haven’t been paying attention.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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