According to evangelist Franklin Graham, it’s time to give Hollywood a nice, clean flush.
"Hollywood's swamp needs to be flushed,” Graham wrote on a recent Facebook post.
He elaborated: ”For far too long, Hollywood has gotten a free pass. They’ve been allowed to pollute America's youth with moral corruption, and Washington has done nothing to reign them in. Since I was born in 1952, we have seen a continual lowering of the standards by the Federal Communications Commission-that trend needs to be reversed."
Graham was commenting on the sexual abuse scandal surrounding several Hollywood producers and actors, including actor Kevin Spacey and his alleged victim, actor Anthony Rapp, who claims Spacey tried to rape him when Rapp was 14. Graham accused the Clinton and Obama administrations of giving Hollywood a "free pass" and allowing it to "pollute America's youth with moral corruption.”
Responding to Rosie O’Donnell’s claim that “everybody knew” about the sexual abuse problems involving Spacey, Graham, the CEO of Samaritan's Purse, asked, "Well, if everybody knew, why did they remain silent?”
"We've all heard Harvey Weinstein's story - 82 women have now accused him of sexual harassment or even rape, and the number seems to keep growing," Graham wrote. "He's one of Hollywood's premier producers and was in a position to make or break careers. Politicians like the Clintons and Obama flocked to his parties and he was a major Democratic donor."
Even as Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed and assaulted women for decades everybody "in Hollywood-as well as the politicians hanging around with him-knew the kind of man he was," Graham said.
