Between a Golden Globes’ tribute to Woody Allen and a letter penned by adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow around the same time , allegations of abuse from 1992 resurfaced and were debated in a newly rape-aware era — and former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett has stepped forward to defend the woman after her credibility was viciously attacked in the ensuing fray.
Over on Twitter, Jon Lovett has lashed out at several prominent defenses of Woody Allen, in particular one Daily Beast piece written by Allen associate Robert Weide. The lengthy bit of apologia written by Weide ranges in its scope, assuming a tone of sympathy for Dylan Farrow while summarily essentially dismissing her claims as the vengeful work of an allegedly morally compromised and jilted parent — Mia Farrow. Among Weide’s smoking guns — that Farrow herself was involved in a May-December relationship, and that she became pregnant as the result of an affair.
Weide points to Farrow’s youthful liaisons as evidence her stake in Dylan’s welfare was biased, and further argues that Allen’s relationship with now-wife Soon-Yi Previn (Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter) wasn’t nearly as untoward as it looked — an Olympiad-worthy feat of logic, considering … the indisputable facts of their relationship.
Lovett’s long series of tweets is worth a read in their entirety, but he creates a compelling case against Allen and his defenders, explaining in part:
One advantage Woody Allen has in going after Dylan and Mia is a limitless supply of untrue statements. Whatever he needs to say he’ll say.
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) February 6, 2014
That’s what makes speaking up so risky for anyone. A predator is capable of a lot, much more when threatened. It’s scary.
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) February 6, 2014
This is what the judge said about Woody Allen at the time. He’s up to his old nasty tricks. pic.twitter.com/iLmrCrhNmB
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) February 6, 2014
A babysitter was so unnerved by what she caught Woody Allen doing to Dylan, his head in her lap, she sounded the first alarm.
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) February 6, 2014
Lovett adds:
The power of the internet, I hope, is that powerful men like Woody Allen no longer control the story. That has to be true.
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) February 6, 2014
At the end, he concludes:
The sheer volume of evidence you have to ignore to believe Dylan is not telling the truth, to attack her credibility, is staggering.
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) February 7, 2014
Click through on any one of Jon Lovett’s tweets to see his full series of statements on the Woody Allen incident involving Dylan Farrow in 1992.
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