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00:03:19.000His story was, as you'll recall, that it was two o'clock in the morning, in the middle of a polar vortex in Chicago, and he went to a Subway shop to get a Subway sandwich at two in the morning.
00:03:33.000And there, on the streets of Chicago, which voted 86% for Hillary Clinton, he was confronted by two red-hatted MAGA fans who spotted him and knew him from the show Empire.
00:03:44.000Because if there is one show that is deeply popular among Trump fans, it is the show Empire.
00:03:48.000I mean, everywhere I go, I talk with Trump fans.
00:03:50.000First thing they ask is, did you see last night's episode of Empire?
00:03:54.000It's like the number one thing they talk about.
00:04:17.000And so they happen to have, good news for them, they happen to also have some clothesline and bleach on them.
00:04:22.000They proceeded to wrap the clothesline around his neck in a noose, and then they proceeded to pour bleach on him, and then they proceeded to kick him in the ribs and all of this.
00:04:31.000Now, the best news for Jussie Smollett, like, that was bad, right?
00:04:33.000But the best news for Jussie Smollett, he never lost his grip on that Subway sandwich.
00:04:38.000Some of our priorities include making sure that our children are fed, making sure that we have a home, making sure that we get paid for a job well done.
00:04:46.000Others of us have real priorities, like you hold on to that damn Subway sandwich when two guys are beating the crap out of you while committing a fake hate crime.
00:04:52.000I mean, that Subway sandwich, it's a long day's work.
00:04:56.000You need a snack after you have two guys beat you up for the press.
00:05:00.000So then Jussie Smollett goes back to his apartment, walks right past the security guard outside, Heads on up to his room.
00:05:09.000Security guard's gotta be like, um, Jussie, you're covered in bleach and you have a noose around your neck.
00:05:24.000And he's still got the noose around his neck, because that's what I would do.
00:05:26.000I mean, I don't know about you, but for me, if somebody tried to hang me, what I would do is just leave that noose around my neck as long as I could.
00:05:31.000Because that's just, I don't know, kind of comfortable.
00:05:55.000are able to use his cell phone number to track down all of the calls he made that night and all of the numbers that he redacted.
00:06:01.000And apparently the numbers he redacted included the numbers of the Nigerian-born brothers who, it turns out, were not white, MAGA-hatted Donald Trump fans.
00:06:09.000They were Nigerian-born personal trainers who were friends with Jussie Smollett and who Jussie Smollett then proceeded to throw under the bus.
00:06:17.000His new claim, Jussie Smollett's new claim, is that these two guys committed a hate crime.
00:06:21.000His friends committed a hate crime against him.
00:06:44.000It looks like a black man walking in Chicago in the middle of a polar vortex, holding on to a Subway sandwich for dear life and being accosted by Mike Pence and Jared Kushner on the streets of Chicago.
00:07:41.000So, one of Michelle Obama's aides, Tina Tchen, who was friends with the Smollett family, texted Kim Foxx and said, you know, Kim, is there a way you could, you know, see your way clear to kind of letting this thing go?
00:07:53.000Could you kind of see your way clear to letting this thing go?
00:07:55.000Because, you know, Jussie's a nice guy and his family knows Michelle O's family and everybody sort of knows each other.
00:08:02.000I mean, there are pictures of Jussie Smollett with Barack and Michelle Obama.
00:08:05.000So Gina Chen called up Kim Foxx and there are pictures of Kim Foxx with Kamala Harris.
00:08:09.000I mean, she's a Democratic politician.
00:08:11.000She tweeted out, not all that long ago, I mean, just back in January, quote, I am so excited that Kamala Harris has decided to run for president.
00:08:19.000I would not be where I am today without her guidance during my first run for political office.
00:08:23.000And she has continued to mentor me as I work to reform the criminal justice system in Cook County.
00:08:27.000Well, she definitely has a way of reforming the criminal justice system in Cook County.
00:08:31.000And that is to let Jussie Smollett off the hook because the report today is that Kim Fox and her state's attorney's office, as of yesterday, dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett.
00:08:40.000They did not require him to apologize.
00:08:41.000They did not require him to do any jail time.
00:08:43.000They did not require him to do any further community service.
00:08:46.000They simply seized his $10,000 bond, which is a weird thing to do if he was completely innocent, right?
00:09:11.000She unseated the former Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez.
00:09:15.000She lost popularity, Alvarez did, over her handling of the now infamous Laquan McDonald murder.
00:09:19.000You'll remember Laquan McDonald was a black man shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer named Jason Van Dyke and the entire video was kept under wraps for like a year after the shooting and then finally it came out and then the officer was prosecuted.
00:09:33.000She's really entrenched in Chicago's political machine.
00:09:35.000There's a very good article about all of this by Emily Zanotti over at Daily Wire today.
00:09:40.000She is very entrenched in Chicago's political machine.
00:09:44.000She went to law school at Southern Illinois University, and then she served as an assistant state's attorney for more than a decade before she entered politics.
00:09:51.000In the early 2010s, she served as the chief of staff for Cook County Board President and current mayoral candidate Tony Preckwinkle, herself heavily entrenched in Chicago politics.
00:10:00.000She's taken a lot of money from progressive organizations, including $300,000 in donations from George Soros.
00:10:07.000Her office had recent issues with handling violent offenders.
00:10:27.000Attorney's Office in Chicago, that's the Feds, alleging that Fox had tried to compromise their investigation of Jussie Smollett at the behest of a Smollett relative and a woman by the name of Tina Chen, who we've mentioned.
00:10:37.000In a series of text messages and emails, Chen contacted Fox on behalf of Smollett's family.
00:10:42.000And then all of this came out thanks to a FOIA request.
00:11:34.000So the Chicago PD are rightly livid about this whole thing.
00:11:38.000In a second, we'll show you Jussie Smollett continuing to lie, and then we'll show you Rahm Emanuel erupting, erupting on the state attorney's office.
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00:13:01.000Okay, so Jussie Smollett continues to lie.
00:13:03.000The state's attorney's office didn't even leverage an apology out of Jussie Smollett over all of this.
00:13:08.000Here is Jussie Smollett continuing to lie and invoking his dear mother.
00:13:12.000I've been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.
00:13:16.000I would not be my mother's son if I was capable of one drop of what I have been accused of.
00:13:21.000This has been an incredibly difficult time.
00:13:24.000Honestly, one of the worst of my entire life.
00:13:27.000But I'm a man of faith, and I'm a man that has knowledge of my history, and I would not bring my family, our lives, or the movement through a fire like this.
00:13:36.000Now, I'd like nothing more than to just get back to work and move on with my life.
00:13:42.000But make no mistakes, I will always continue to fight for the justice, equality, and betterment of marginalized people everywhere.
00:13:47.000Well, fortunately, Hollywood is a very forgiving place, so you can lie and completely fake a hate crime, and your brothers in Hollywood will simply welcome you back.
00:13:54.000Your brothers and sisters in Hollywood.
00:14:04.000Because nothing says that you respect your viewers quite like backing an obvious race hoaxer.
00:14:09.000Well, Rahm Emanuel went on the warpath over this.
00:14:12.000So Rahm Emanuel, you know that something deeply corrupt happened when Rahm Emanuel and I are on the same side.
00:14:17.000This has never happened before in presumably all of human history.
00:14:20.000I'm on the same side as Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod and Eddie Johnson, the CPD superintendent.
00:14:26.000Everybody is looking at this and going, what in the living hell just happened here?
00:14:29.000Here is Rahm Emanuel blasting the living daylights out of the state attorney, Kim Foxx.
00:14:35.000From top to bottom, this is not on the level.
00:14:38.000In the end of the day, it's Mr. Smollett that committed this false claim upon two individuals, and who also testified, but also on the city.
00:14:48.000One action, he asked me looking at the state's attorney.
00:14:51.000It is not on the level from beginning to end, and there needs to be a level of accountability throughout the system, and this sends an unambiguous message that there is no accountability, and that is wrong.
00:15:03.000Okay, so Rahm Emanuel fighting Matt and of course attacking Justice Smollett, too, saying, you know, how dare he do this?
00:16:01.000So here is Chicago PD Superintendent Eddie Johnson.
00:16:04.000He's watched his department get dragged through the mud by Jussie Smollett.
00:16:07.000Jussie Smollett suggesting that the lack of charges brought against these phantom white men who attacked him, that that was the fault of the racist CPD.
00:16:17.000Here's the Chicago PD superintendent saying, listen, this is a hoax.
00:17:36.000We may never know, you know, despite the fact that we have like a signed check, and we have tape of these guys buying all the goods, and we have the cell phone records, and we have all sorts of evidence, and we have their testimony.
00:17:45.000No, Brian Stelter says, we just don't know.
00:17:52.000So far, no comment from the network, but I do think we will see Smollett get back to work, because the narrative has once again changed from victim, you know, to villain, back to victim.
00:18:03.000It's been very confusing, as Ryan was saying.
00:18:06.000People don't know what to believe, and we may never really know what happened on the street that night in Chicago, but for his fans, for his friends, this is a triumphant moment that he can now get back to what he wants to do, which is work.
00:18:18.000Oh, that's exactly what he wants to do.
00:18:19.000I mean, aside from faking racial hoaxes for publicity, that's really what he wants to do is work.
00:18:24.000After all, I mean, he wants to get back to making $100,000 per episode.
00:18:27.000The reports were, according to Eddie Johnson, you'll recall, that Jussie Smollett did all of this to increase his pay rate, because it wasn't enough to make millions of dollars in a supporting part on a network TV show.
00:19:32.000I think we're going to have to leave it up to the judgment of the prosecutor.
00:19:36.000I think we should leave it up to the judgment of the police chief and the mayor, of course, to give us some better sense of what's going on.
00:19:46.000Like, the day that it happened, and he reported this, he called it a modern-day lynching, linking it to, you know, racial lynchings of the past.
00:19:53.000But now, we know exactly what happened, and it's... I'm confused, guys.
00:20:10.000Was the full picture painted by the evidence perhaps not as compelling as what was presented to the grand jury?
00:20:18.000It was compelling enough, wait a second, the evidence presented to the grand jury is what brought the charges.
00:20:22.000The police did a good job and the evidence holds up and he actually did commit the hoax.
00:20:27.000They're saying $10,000 and two days of community service is good enough.
00:20:32.000And I don't believe, not only is it not good enough, especially when he's walking around Thinking that he is actually innocent, not guilty, and B, he's innocent not only legally and a criminal justice sense, he is also guilty, in my view, of a moral crime, which is to use the hate crimes to advance his own career for selfish reasons.
00:22:23.000My favorite part of this is Smollett's attorney, who is gamely trying to play this thing out.
00:22:27.000Smollett's attorney goes on with Don Lemon, who said that he wanted Jussie Smollett's story to be true, who said that he was texting with Jussie Smollett when all of this was happening, and Smollett's attorney is now relegated to having to explain why two Nigerian-born brothers who were friends with Jussie Smollett committed a hate crime.
00:22:55.000All I do know is that Jesse was attacked that night, that it was someone else who called the police, and that things went downhill from there.
00:23:05.000I have no idea why or what the motive would be behind a situation like this.
00:25:24.000And we are told by Cory Booker, very seriously, this is the most important moment of our lives.
00:25:30.000We are told by Kamala Harris that this is so important.
00:25:32.000And we're told by Elizabeth Warren, this is so important.
00:25:34.000Elizabeth Warren says that this Green New Deal is like the moon landing, which she should know since she recently was on the moon.
00:25:41.000It's where she gets most of her ideas.
00:25:43.000There was Elizabeth Warren yesterday saying that the Green New Deal is so important, it's just like when we landed on the moon, except for not at all like that.
00:25:52.000President Kennedy challenged our nation to lead the space race, and less than seven years later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.
00:26:01.000The impossible had become a reality, and America had led the way.
00:26:07.000It's time not only to challenge our country to tackle climate change head on, but also to lead the world in doing so.
00:26:49.000So Senator Mike Lee of Utah, friend to the program, and personal friend of mine, he's really, really... One of the things about Mike Lee is the dude, he's like Bob Newhart.
00:26:59.000He's really funny, but it's all with a straight face.
00:27:02.000So Mike Lee did a speech on the floor of the United States Senate, mocking the living daylights out of the Green New Deal.
00:27:09.000After reading the Green New Deal, I'm mostly afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face.
00:27:14.000Ronald Reagan riding a velociraptor while firing a machine gun.
00:27:18.000And he explained what this had to do with the Green New Deal.
00:27:21.000After reading the Green New Deal, I'm mostly afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face.
00:27:31.000For Mr. President, I rise today to consider the Green New Deal with the seriousness it deserves.
00:27:39.000This is, of course, a picture of former President Ronald Reagan naturally firing a machine gun while riding on the back of a dinosaur.
00:27:47.000You'll notice a couple of important features here.
00:27:50.000First of all, the rocket launcher strapped to President Reagan's back.
00:27:55.000And then the stirring, unmistakable patriotism of the velociraptor holding up a tattered American flag, a symbol of all it means to be an American flag.
00:28:07.000This image has as much to do with overcoming communism in the 20th century as the Green New Deal has to do with overcoming climate change in the 21st.
00:29:14.000All 53 Republicans vote no on this stupid Green New Deal.
00:29:18.000And four Democrats, meaning three Democrats and independent Angus King of Maine, they also vote no.
00:29:23.000That would be Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voting no, and Doug Jones of Alabama voting no, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia voting no, all because they are in purple states or red states, and they are afraid of losing their seats if they vote for this dumbass plan.
00:29:34.000Okay, then we get to the actual Democrats, including no less than six different Democratic senators voting on this thing.
00:30:05.000And then they proclaimed that the real bad actor here, obviously, I mean, come on, the real bad actor clearly is Mitch McConnell.
00:30:13.000So it's not us for proposing this dumb, stupid deal that nobody wants and looks terrible and is pointless and doesn't achieve what it seeks to achieve and pledges to destroy the American economy and wreck the future of the United States.
00:31:58.000Pacific, for the latest episode of DailyWire Backstage.
00:32:01.000DailyWire God King Jeremy Boring, me, Andrew Klavan, the horrible Michael Knowles, and this week's special guest, Matt Walsh, will be here to cover the never-ending insanity of today's political climate.
00:32:10.000As always, only DailyWire subscribers get to ask the questions and speak with sassy Alicia.
00:33:30.000We may be voting present simply as a kind of protest against the McConnell stunt here.
00:33:38.000It really is, in a way, a real disservice to the legislative process to put on the floor a proposal that he knows the president won't sign, that is done just to drive a wedge between different parts of our Democratic colleagues.
00:33:58.000I was informed this was the most popular necessary plan in the history of the Republic.
00:34:28.000I'm scheduling a bunch of hearings for the financial impact of the Green New Deal.
00:34:31.000And I want to hear from you people about why you think it's necessary to destroy every standing building in the United States or retrofit it.
00:34:37.000I'd like to hear about the slaughter, the mass slaughter of dying cows.
00:34:41.000It's the silence of the cows out there.
00:36:12.000And then my favorite is that she tweeted this out.
00:36:14.000She tweeted out, after everybody voted president and not a single senator voted for her crappy plan, including Ed Markey, who sponsored her crappy plan, she tweeted out, So first of all, they should.
00:36:23.000And I hope that Mitch McConnell takes her up on that.
00:36:25.000the Green New Deal straight to the floor without a hearing.
00:36:27.000The real question we should be asking, why does the Senate GOP refuse to hold any major hearings on climate change?
00:37:07.000If it wasn't ready for primetime, maybe you shouldn't have elevated it.
00:37:11.000And yet you decided that AOC was going to be the spokesperson for your dumb ideas, and she goes forth, and then you just saw off that branch right behind her, and there she is standing in midair saying, I told all the senators to vote present, guys.
00:37:50.000And if so, why should you be President of the United States or Senate Minority Leader?
00:37:54.000If this person, who can mix a perfect Tom Collins but not write a bill, if this person is considered the intellectual heavyweight in your party, why should we give you any credence at all?
00:38:07.000Like, I really want to know, and if there were a journalist in Washington, D.C.
00:38:10.000alive today, I know apparently the failure of the passage of the Green New Deal has killed all the journalists because none of them will ask any of the Democratic senators whether AOC told them to vote President.
00:38:32.000You elected her and then you made her into a star.
00:38:35.000And now you're taking orders from her.
00:38:37.000It is she who single-handedly sunk the entire Green New Deal rollout with her dumb, frequently asked questions that we read word for word on air when it came out.
00:38:49.000OK, meanwhile, speaking of the fresh faces of the Democratic Congress, so incredibly fresh as well as incredibly face, I mean, just freshness and faceless beyond imagination.
00:39:00.000I will point out that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar continue to be rabid anti-Semites, so that's exciting.
00:39:06.000Ilhan Omar's chief of staff, or her communications director, tweeted something out today.
00:39:15.000He tweeted out, and I'm reading this directly, that his name is Jeremy Slevin.
00:39:20.000He has a past working for, I kid you not, Keith Ellison, who is not a friend to the Jews, as well as Louis Farrakhan, really not a friend to the Jews, He tweeted out Jeremy Slevin, quote, Anti-Semitism is a right-wing force.
00:39:44.000He just tweeted that out like 20 times because nothing is quite as convincing as when a person just repeats a sentence over and over to me.
00:40:06.000And yet he keeps repeating that anti-Semitism is a right-wing force.
00:40:09.000He works for Ilhan Omar, who is an open anti-Semite.
00:40:13.000Ilhan Omar has not hidden the ball here.
00:40:15.000And speaking of anti-Semites in Congress, Rashida Tlaib.
00:40:18.000Who has used the dual loyalty smear herself on every Israel supporter and Jews particularly.
00:40:25.000She has a person who she specifically invited to her inauguration and that person was protesting AIPAC and stood outside of AIPAC and shouted that the Jews are the real Nazis.
00:40:38.000That guy was invited to Rashida Tlaib's inauguration, to her swearing in.
00:40:43.000Here he was outside the rally shouting that the Jews were actually just Nazis.
00:40:49.000You're not here to be lovey-dovey with the progressive Zionists.
00:40:54.000Because a progressive Zionist is like a progressive Nazi.
00:40:57.000There is no difference between a progressive Zionist and a progressive Nazi member.
00:41:04.000OK, it really is astonishing to pretend that a strong strain of anti-Semitism does not run inside the Muslim community is to pretend away the truth.
00:41:15.000OK, the fact is there is a strong strain of anti-Semitism that runs in the Muslim community.
00:41:19.000That does not mean that everyone who is Muslim is an anti-Semite, of course.
00:41:22.000It does not mean that every Muslim hates Jews.
00:41:25.000It does mean that there is a strong strain of anti-Semitism that is present in a lot of Muslim communities around the world, and that it is mainstream in a lot of circles, which is why Rashida Tlaib can host an anti-Semite like this guy at her inauguration.
00:41:41.000You want to know how strong this strain is?
00:41:43.000I mean, it's strong enough that at an actual At an actual memorial honoring the slain in Christchurch, the leader of a mosque got up, I mean this is a major mosque in New Zealand, and blamed Mossad and the Jews for the shooting in Christchurch.
00:41:59.000I stand here and I say I have a very very strong suspicion that there is some group behind him and I am not afraid to say I feel Mossad is behind this.
00:42:15.000And then there's a guy shouting, it's the truth, Israel's behind this.
00:42:18.000He says this at a rally of hundreds and hundreds of people.
00:42:21.000Mossad, of course, is the foreign intelligence agency of Israel.
00:42:35.000And covering for all of this antisemitism is, of course, the Huffington Post, which has as its lead today, dual loyalty is a slur that targets Muslims.
00:42:43.000So, lest you be thinking that Ilhan Omar accusing Jews of dual loyalty and Israel supporters of dual loyalty is anti-Semitic, the real dual loyalty slur is targeted at Ilhan Omar.
00:42:56.000Actually, actually, the real dual loyalty slur is targeted at Rashida Tlaib.
00:43:02.000Now, I've never suggested that Rashida Tlaib has dual loyalty.
00:43:05.000I've never suggested that Ilhan Omar has dual loyalty.
00:43:07.000I've suggested that they're anti-Semites.
00:43:10.000And the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that continues to lend credence to these people is disgracing itself in incredibly epic ways.
00:43:19.000The fact the Democratic Party continues to promote these quote-unquote fresh faces is absolutely stunning and telling.
00:43:26.000And it turns out that anti-semitism is not a right-wing phenomenon.
00:43:29.000Anti-semitism exists in virtually every political movement, and where it is most virulent, the political movement is most dangerous.
00:43:36.000Where it is most virulent in today's world is not inside the conservative party in the United States.
00:43:42.000This is perfectly obvious from every poll done.
00:43:44.000It is perfectly obvious from the behavior of Republican congresspeople.
00:43:47.000It is perfectly obvious from the behavior of President Trump, who, by the way, is extraordinarily philo-semitic and happens to be the best friend of Israel who has ever sat in the White House.
00:43:57.000The repository of anti-Semitism in the modern world, in politics, is largely on the political left.
00:44:03.000Those are the people who are covering for Muslim anti-Semitism in the Middle East.
00:44:06.000Those are the people who are making excuses for Hamas today, as Hamas continues to fire rockets into southern Israel at civilian areas.
00:44:12.000These are the people who continue to claim that Israel is the bad actor in a conflict in which Israel simply argues for its own right to exist.
00:44:21.000These are the same people who are claiming that attacks on synagogues are really just anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism.
00:44:27.000It is the political left that has made room for anti-Semitism in its mainstream.
00:44:32.000It's why Jeremy Corbyn is the head of the Labour Party in Britain, and it's why AOC and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are considered the leading lights of the Democratic Party.
00:44:40.000And it's the old-fashioned Democrats who still suggest that Israel is important.
00:44:43.000It's Nancy Pelosi and Steini Hoare, you know, people over the age of 65.
00:44:46.000It's those old-fashioned Democrats who still look at Israel and see a democratic, free country.
00:44:51.000Who still look at Jews and say, yeah, those are fellow Americans.
00:44:54.000Those people are the old guard in the Democratic Party, which is the reason why so many of the Democratic presidential candidates decided to skip AIPAC this year.
00:45:01.000Kamala Harris, with all the intestinal fortitude of an empty vessel, met secretly, met quietly with people from AIPAC, but she wouldn't go to AIPAC because she was afraid of ticking off her progressive base.
00:45:14.000Ilhan Omar's comms person tweeting out anti-Semitism is a right-wing phenomenon.
00:45:18.000Your boss is an anti-Semitism, is an anti-Semite, dude.
00:45:21.000And from all indicators at your past employment, you seem pretty comfortable with all of that.
00:45:26.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:45:39.000Now, the movie's kind of weird because it's actually, like, three movies in one, and it doesn't hold together completely, but it's got some really interesting things about it.
00:45:48.000So, the most interesting thing about this movie is the way that it portrays Chicago.
00:45:52.000It's basically just the center of American corruption, which, of course, as we've seen today, it absolutely is.
00:45:58.000Colin Farrell is running for city alderman.
00:46:00.000He's running against a black guy who happens to be a former gangster and still is into You know, basically all sorts of organized crime.
00:46:09.000And that is one story, and that intersects with a heist part of the film, which is really about the widows of these guys deciding to hold a robbery.
00:46:18.000And then there is an interpersonal drama between Liam Neeson, who is white, and Violet Davis?
00:47:59.000It's Robert Pattinson, and I'm trying to remember who else, and the guy from Black Klansman.
00:48:04.000There are a bunch of really good actors in it, so looking forward to that.
00:48:06.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:48:12.000Alright, so let's begin with Cardi B. So, Cardi B is a rapper, she is a rap star, and every so often she issues a little rant about how she doesn't want the government taking her money, and that's amusing.
00:48:24.000But she is not exactly a model citizen, nor has she ever proclaimed to be one.
00:48:27.000Well now, there's a piece of tape that came out from about three years ago, in which she discusses the fact that she used to seduce men back to her apartment, or their apartment, and then she would drug them and rob them.
00:48:38.000Motherfuckers must have forgot, motherfuckers, the shit that I did to motherfucking survive.
00:50:20.000As though we don't have welfare programs in the United States, or charitable programs in the United States, or as though she wasn't working a job as a stripper at the time, or as though she couldn't get a job as a waitress or anything.
00:50:30.000I guess the job, so it was a choice between starvation and drugging and robbing men?
00:51:04.000Says, I have a past that I can't change, we all do.
00:51:06.000Okay, so that's what she has to say about this.
00:51:08.000She will be exonerated of all this, we will pretend that it's not a big deal, that she just admitted to openly committing a series of crimes.
00:51:29.000Back in my past, you know what I used to do?
00:51:31.000I used to go out to the street, and then I would convince women to come back to my apartment, then I would drug, and I would rape them, and then I would take their money.
00:51:37.000It's what I had to do to survive, man.
00:52:10.000Yasmine Bebahani had just walked into her third period health class when her friend asked if she had seen the list.
00:52:15.000There's a list of the girls' names, her friend Nikki Schmidt, a fellow senior at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in Maryland, said, and were ranked.
00:52:22.000Bebahani didn't want to see the list or know whether she was on it.
00:52:24.000She'd spent the past four years recovering from an eating disorder, working hard to avoid comparing herself with others, she said.
00:52:29.000But by her sixth period class on that Monday earlier this month, a text message appeared on her phone with a screenshot of the list typed out on the iPhone's Notes app.
00:52:36.000It included the names of 18 girls at this high school, ranked and rated on the basis of their looks, from 5.5 to 9.4, with decimal points to the 100th place.
00:52:45.000There with the number beside it was Bebehiney's name.
00:52:47.000A group of male students in their program created the list more than a year ago, but it resurfaced earlier this month through text messages and whispers during class.
00:52:54.000One male classmate, seeing the name of his good friend Nikki Schmidt on the list, told her about it, and within 24 hours, dozens of girls had heard about the list as well.
00:53:02.000Lists like this one had silently circulated among teen boys for generations, and it has happened in more recent years at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, too, the student said.
00:53:09.000But it was happening now, in the era of the Me Too movement.
00:53:13.000Women had been standing up to harassment in workplaces and on college campuses, and the high school girls who had been witnessing this empowerment decided they weren't going to let the issue slide.
00:53:25.000Sorry to break it to ladies, this is called evolutionary biology.
00:53:27.000Men have always, males of species, rate females of species based on sexual attractiveness.
00:53:34.000Now, that does not mean that they should treat women based on that level of sexual attractiveness.
00:53:37.000It doesn't mean that they should even mate with women and marry women based solely on the sexual attractiveness scale.
00:53:43.000In fact, as I've argued 1,000 times on the show, people should date and marry on the basis of values, not sexual attraction alone, although sexual attraction is a component of a healthy marriage.
00:53:52.000But, are we gonna pretend that men don't actually see women sexually?
00:53:57.000Are we gonna pretend that teenage boys don't look at teenage girls and then rate their looks?
00:55:32.000I mean, it's uncomfortable, these truths.
00:55:34.000Apparently, They said that they felt that there was power in numbers.
00:55:40.000It says, Dozens of senior girls decided to speak to the school administration and to their male classmates, demanding not only disciplinary action in response to the list.
00:55:47.000Disciplinary action in response to the list?
00:55:49.000I'll tell you a solution to this that no one's going to like.
00:55:51.000You should have separate boys and girls schools.
00:55:52.000When I was in high school, we had a separate boys school and a separate girls school.
00:56:13.000It was the last straw for us girls of this boys will be boys culture, said Bebahani.
00:56:16.000We're the generation that is going to make a change.
00:56:18.000So, a group of girls reported the list to an administrator, who encouraged the girls not to talk about it around school.
00:56:24.000The next day, the girls learned that after an investigation, school officials decided to discipline one male student within school detention for a day.
00:56:34.000Because they were unsatisfied with the disciplinary action.
00:56:36.000So they texted 15 girls and told them to tell all of their friends to show up at the school's main office the next day during lunch, to tell them we feel unsafe in this environment and we are tired of this toxicity.
00:57:05.000If you get together and you make a game out of it, it makes you kind of a jerk, but it doesn't mean that you should be disciplined by the school or called out in the pages of the Washington Post.
00:57:15.000That Friday on International Women's Day, almost all the students in the Ivy program, about 80 students, met in a large conference room for what was supposed to be a 45-minute meeting.
00:57:24.000Instead, the meeting lasted two and a half hours.
00:57:27.000Several girls delivered personal, impassioned speeches describing not only their presence on the list, but also their previous experiences with sexual abuse, harassment, and objectification.
00:57:35.000Again, if they were sexually abused or harassed, that is a different story.
00:57:38.000That is behavior that deserves punishment.
00:57:41.000But teenage boys texting each other about who is hot in the class... I legitimately can't get myself upset enough that I think that these boys should be targeted by the Washington Post over this.
00:58:29.000All I did was say who I thought was hot or not.
00:58:32.000Hot or not has been a thing in high school since the dawn of high school.
00:58:37.000Hot or not has been a thing since forever.
00:58:41.000Again, not a wonderful part of human nature, but it is a part of human nature.
00:58:44.000The same people who suggest that you can't teach... It's amazing.
00:58:48.000The same people who suggest that you can't teach abstinence only before marriage will suggest now that we can somehow beat it out of boys to rate teenage girls based on looks when they're in high school.
00:58:57.000Obviously, this should be top priority for the Washington Post.
00:59:03.000This is, it's just, it's over the top, and it's off-putting, and it's not productive in the end.
00:59:07.000It doesn't make relations between boys and girls better.
00:59:10.000All it really does is make boys more secretive about their behavior, and again, leads the media to believe that they're doing something righteous when in fact they are targeting kids who are legitimately just being kids.
00:59:21.000If girls had a similar list about boys, by the way, you know what the reaction would be?