Shooting and missing

A faux tweet quietly noted that Chris Hardwick has survived the #MeToo attack. He'll be back on The Wall and his other hosting gigs on NBC and AMC.

For the most part there hasn't been much reaction to the story. I suspect that a lot of people think the whole mess was just a bad break-up instead of any real wrongdoing. Even granting Hardwick's accuser every benefit of the doubt, her own complaints make her sound like more like a jilted lover than a victim of genuine abuse.

A dissenting view comes from - not surprisingly, considering the site's politics - GQ. (I always have to smile a little when a fashion rag like Gentleman's Quarterly has any politics, but they definitely do.) The writer takes every word of Hardwick's accuser as absolute truth - a risky proposition to begin with - and summarily dismisses any evidence to the contrary. He also has the annoying habit of tossing around the s-word and the f-word to prove what a tough-minded person he is.

In the end the writer has no additional evidence or insight to provide on the case. But his conclusion is chilling...

We're never going to know every detail about what happened between Hardwick and Dykstra—but I know there are plenty of eager, capable would-be hosts who haven't been accused of this s--t [editorial deletion of the writer's annoying habit].

Oh, really? So we just end Hardwick's entire career simply because he's been accused, and even though we don't know the truth? This GQ guy would make a swell judge.