“This same affluent middle class had no ‘moral’ difficulty with
Barack Obama’s 540 murderous drone strikes, “kill lists” and endless
wars in Libya, Syria, Yemen and beyond. This same crowd, made rich and
especially stupid by the stock market boom, has no problem with the
endless suffering of the poor and the working class, men and women, in
the United States or anywhere else. These self-pitying loudmouths, many
of them multi-millionaires, would have us believe that their ‘daily
torment’ is a world-historical occurrence.
“Pardon me, if I don’t take part in celebrating this well-promoted
and well-remunerated ‘bravery.’ These allegations, some or even many of
them may well be true—but I’ll stick my neck out, some of them are lies,
self-serving, outright lies. [More applause, louder boos.]
“This is a Democratic Party-New York Times operation, it
goes hand in hand with the anti-Russian hysteria and Internet
censorship. [‘What are you talking about?’] Ashley Judd and Ronan
Farrow, for example, are essentially Democratic Party operatives. They
have no credibility whatsoever. All of these people supported Hillary
Clinton, a warmonger in the pocket of Wall Street. Even if every
allegation against Weinstein, for example, were true, he would not be
one-hundredth the criminal that Clinton is, up to her elbows in the
blood of the Libyan, Syrian and other peoples. [Gasps. Shouting in
various parts of the auditorium. ‘You’re insane, get off the stage!’
‘No, you have something there!’] Just a few more points—I’d like to
finish, if you please. I realize you haven’t heard this kind of thing
before, but it might be good for you.
-- David Walsh, "The Oscar speech we’d like to hear Sunday night: 'Members of the Academy, what hypocrites and conformists so many of you are!'" (WSWS).