On Monday’s “MSNBC Live,” “Daily Show” co-creator and Lady Parts Justice founder and Chief Creative Officer Lizz Winstead expressed disappointment with President Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s silence on Harvey Weinstein and argued that you can’t have the credibility to denounce President Trump if you won’t denounce Weinstein.
Anchor Katy Tur asked, “President Obama, Hillary Clinton, silent so far. How do you feel about the selective outrage? I could be outraged about Donald Trump last year, but not outraged about this?”
Winstead said, “I feel really disappointed in both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. If you took money from this person, because this person had really good progressive goals that were in line with your politics, great. When you find out that this person is a monster, especially a monster towards women, why wouldn’t you denounce it? Why would you have shame? Come out and denounce it. But you know, 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.’ You know, you’ve got to wonder, did that incident, that just weirdly happened practically to the anniversary of the date that we found out about this, go past America and America gave Trump a pass because we didn’t call out this kind of behavior from Democrats?”
Winstead added, “It’s 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.”
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