An American Cyber-Column s24

Mullings An American Cyber-Column Choose Wisely Rich Galen Monday, November 27, 2017  Let’s make a partial list: - Harvey Weinstein was an easy call: Predator. - Roy Moore: Same. Predator. - Donald Trump: Rich predator. - Bill Clinton: Powerful predator. - Kevin Spacey: Gay Predator. - Al Franken … a little tougher. Stupid. Crude. Unacceptable, but no predation that we know of. - The U.S. Congress: Witting co-conspirators covering up more than $17 million in pay- outs to keep staffers quiet about sexual and other harassment claims over the past 20 years.  Included in that number appears to be Rep. John Conyers Democrat of Michigan. The longest currently serving member of the U.S. House.  According to BuzzFeed.com, Conyers: “settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 with a former employee who alleged she was fired because she would not ‘succumb to [his] sexual advances.’”  Part of the official settlement process with Congress requires the harassed party to sign a confi- dentiality agreement at the front end, thus ensuring the folks back home don’t get a whiff.  I believe that will change.  Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House went on Meet the Press Sunday morning, bobbing and weaving about Conyers. “We are strengthened by due process” she told Chuck Todd, answering a question which had not been asked.  He’s done so much good, she allowed. “He is an icon in our country.”  Yeah. Well. Still did it, though.  When Todd asked her if she believes the women who are accusing Conyers of being a sexual predator, she stood right up for the women, saying, “I don't know who they are. Do you? They have not come forward."  We’ve seen this movie before, this business of Democrat women defending Democrat men in spite of all the evidence.

Copyright © 2017 Barrington Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved  Remember when Bill Clinton – PRESIDENT Bill Clinton – was accused of having groped a woman named Kathleen Willey in the Oval Office suite? You know who came to his defense? That archetypal feminist, Gloria Steinem.  In short, she said Clinton was off the hook because when Mrs. Willey said “Stop,” Clinton "took 'no' for an answer.” I deemed this, in a 1998 Mullings, “The First Feel is Free” defense.  Now that I think back, that may have been when the office of Mullings Director of Standards & Practices was created.  Getting back to Pelosi and Conyers, he is the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Commit- tee. Todd asked Pelosi if she would insist Conyers step down until all this is sorted out.  I think John will do the right thing,” she said, adding, "I'm not sharing that with you right now."  Conyers did half the right thing: He announced he was stepping down from his leadership posi- tion. He didn’t do the other half of the right thing. He didn’t resign from the House.  Conyers said in a statement that "I very much look forward to vindicating myself and my family before the House Committee on Ethics."  I found that “and my family” business interesting. Did members of Conyers’ family act as fa- cilitators in all this?  After Conyers did announce he was leaving his post as Democratic leader on the House Judicia- ry Committee, it was leaked by senior House Democratic aides that it was the result of Pelosi having “worked for days to lay the groundwork for Conyers to step aside gracefully.”  See what I mean? Why “gracefully?” What’s graceful about having been a sexual predator and using taxpayer money to buy the silence of those women (and probably men) who have been, and likely still are being, preyed upon.  Had Conyers been a Republican, Democrats would have been speed dialing every reporter in their contact list demanding – demanding – that they ask every Republican in the near galaxy why they were being silent on Conyers’ not being ridden out of town on a rail.  And, many reporters would have obliged.  This is going to be a tough week for a lot of current and former Members of the House and Senate. Maybe it has already been as they had to tell their spouses/partners that they’re about to hear some things about which the Member is not very proud.  Their unnamed colleagues are going to have to make some difficult choices. As the Grail Knight said in the Indiana Jones movie: “You must choose. But choose wisely, as the true grail will bring you life, and the false grail will take it from you.”  Nancy Pelosi choose poorly.

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Copyright © 2017 Barrington Worldwide, LLC. All Rights Reserved  On the Secret Decoder Ring today: Links to the Congressional Hush Money soon-to-be Scandal; to Conyers, to Pelosi, and the “He chose badly” clip from the third Indiana Jones movie. The Mullfoto is a nice shot from our Thanksgiving vacation location.

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