From sexism to sexual assault allegations, accused public figures fess up, deny or denounce
19.09.2023 - 07:25
/ foxnews.com
There seems to be an outbreak of public figures saying and doing stupid things. Every time I turn around, it seems, famous folks are engaging in awful behavior or apologizing for something of the like. The world will little note nor long remember an embarrassing incident in a Denver theater involving U.S.
Rep. Lauren Boebert.
The conservative Colorado congresswoman initially laughed off the episode at the "Beetlejuice" musical in which the theater ejected her for vaping and taking unauthorized pictures. Once the police were called, she said "do you know who I am" and departed by brandishing a middle finger.
Unfortunately for Boebert, audience members took grainy videos showing her and her boyfriend groping each other. Now she says, "The past few days have been difficult and humbling, and I’m truly sorry." She blamed the incident on "going through a public and difficult divorce." Jann Wenner, co-founder of the Rolling Stone magazine, has no acceptable alibi. He has been booted from the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation – and with good reason.
While explaining to the New York Times why all the rock icons whose interviews he included in a forthcoming book are White dudes, he said this about female musicians and musicians of color: "Just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level." Excuse me, what century are we in? Uh, what about Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Carole King, Madonna, Joni Mitchell? "Joni was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll. She didn’t, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews she did.
The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock." Wenner was similarly dismissive of Black performers before admitting that he wished he could have
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