The Media is Overblowing Harvey Weinstein’s Connections to Democrats

Jeremy Fassler
5 min readMar 2, 2020
Photograph courtesy of Reuters

Note: I originally wrote this article on October 9th, 2017, four days after Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor’s expose of Harvey Weinstein in The New York Times, and one day before Ronan Farrow’s in The New Yorker. It was published in Banter M, the members only section of The Daily Banter, so not many people had the chance to read it. In the wake of The Daily Beast’s recent

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Jeremy Fassler

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.