Another day, another celebrity awards show. During the Grammys on Sunday, many music artists wore white roses in support of the women who have come forward with #MeToo accusations. Kesha and an ensemble of other female vocalists brought the house down with “Praying,” Kesha’s powerful message to her own sexual abuser.

But there was also the Fire and Fury skit. Artists like John Legend and Snoop Dogg read excerpts of Michael Wolff’s new book supposedly documenting President Donald Trump’s first year in the White House. In the skit, artists pretend to audition for a spoken word album. 

After several musicians “audition,” we see glimpses of the hair-sprayed blond. The monochromatic suit. Hillary Clinton reveals her face, wowing the crowd, according to ABC News, while reading an excerpt of Wolff’s book.

Michael Wolff’s Offensive Attack on Nikki Haley

It’s bad enough that Grammys host James Corden and those who participated in the skit thought it would be okay to promote Wolff’s gossip-riddled book. Even the most left-leaning, Trump-bashing news outlets question its reliability. 

They should especially shun his book in light of his recent comments about U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. In an interview with Bill Maher, Wolff alleged that Trump was having an affair and said a clue as to who with was in his book. The internet soon found the relevant passage referencing Haley.

Haley herself, of course, has vehemently denied the rumor. As many conservatives have pointed out, it’s offensive and downright sexist of Wolff to insinuate that Haley’s success is a result of her loose morals. And as Haley pointed out, such attacks are par for the course for many powerful women.

Isn’t it tone deaf, at the least, for the Grammys to promote an author who suggested a successful female politician got where she is today by sleeping with the president? On a night that was supposed to highlight women’s plight in a world too often fraught with misogyny, harassment and assault? 

I still remember the uproar after Trump said that Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand “would do anything” for his donations back in the day. Tacky as his comments were, he didn’t even explicitly claim that “do anything” meant sex. But many took it that way. Some went so far as to call it sexual harassment.

But Wolff claims with zero evidence that Haley is having an affair with the president and gets his work highlighted at the Grammys. (As “funny” as the skit was supposed to be, Trump himself, not Wolff’s book, was clearly the intended target.) 

Hillary the Enabler

And as for Hillary Clinton, washed up and politically irrelevant as she is, I’m used to feminists and big time celebrities worshiping her. It’s annoying. Pretty dumb. But not extremely offensive, until now. 

Last week we learned from The New York Times that Clinton personally covered for a credibly accused sexual harasser on her 2008 presidential campaign, despite counsel to fire him. 

Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager on Clinton's decision to not fire a senior adviser accused of sexual harassment: "There was sexual harassment involved… My recommendation to the Senator [Clinton] was to fire him, and I was overruled." https://t.co/zo5oEPemsM pic.twitter.com/jbIKqXKzUp

— CNN (@CNN) January 29, 2018

In a #MeToo world, the abusers themselves aren’t the only ones taking heat. So are the men — and women — who enabled them. 

Take Larry Nassar’s case. The gymnastics doctor who abused over 100 women and girls was on staff at Michigan State University for years. Some at MSU, including the president, have already resigned, after the administration was accused of covering for him. 

The actors, actresses and employees surrounding Harvey Weinstein have faced criticism as well. Many of them knew about Weinstein’s serial harassment and abuse of women. And yet they did nothing to bring his crimes to light. 

Clinton has long been an enabler. Just look at the disturbing allegations surrounding Bill Clinton and how she did her part to discredit his accusers. But even as #MeToo led to a half-hearted liberal reckoning in regards to Bill, it never came for Hillary. 

Melania? She’s an enabler all day long. Of the worst sort. Complicit in Trump’s failings as president, if you ask the left. Hillary? She’s still the left’s hero, even after more proof of harassers she enabled has come to light.

Sincere or Puppets?

Kudos to the celebrity women who got the #MeToo ball rolling and continue to draw attention to it.

But woe to those who try to draw attention while still schmoozing with the likes of Clinton and Wolff. 

Either they’re sincere about holding those who’ve used, abused and silenced women accountable. Or they’re merely partisan puppets. I’ve defended the sincerity of the celebrity #MeToo movement. I hope they don’t prove me — and the millions of victims looking up to them — wrong.