Hollywood is full of self-righteous hypocrites, Oprah takes the Golden Globes and wants to run for president, and Steve Bannon is still on the rocks with a very stable genius? Ben Shapiro explains why Hollywood can t seem to get over itself about sexual harassment and abuse in the entertainment industry. He also points out that Hollywood has been a place of sexual harassment for a very long time, and that it s no surprise that women have been sent to the casting couch to be cast in Hollywood movies and TV shows. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative radio show "The Ben Shapiro Show" and is a regular contributor to the conservative website The Weekly Standard. He is also a host on the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and hosts a podcast called "No Spin" with his own co-host, Nick Blevins, who also happens to be a friend of mine. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends, family, and fellow podcasters! Tweet me and let us know what you thought of this episode! Timestamps: 3:00 - The Golden Globe's opening monologue 4:15 - The casting couch 5:30 - Sexual harassment in Hollywood 6:20 - How Hollywood has a culture of hypocrisy 7:40 - How to deal with sexual harassment in entertainment 8:00 9:15 What do you think of Hollywood? 11:30 12:40 13:00 | Sexual harassment? 15:30 | How Hollywood needs to stop talking about it? 16:40 | What are you going to do? 17:10 17, 14:20 15, did you think it s better than it s more than that? 18:40? 19:40] 21:00 Is it better than that ? 22:10? 21) 27:30 Is it a good thing? # #1? #1 26:00 #3? #3 ? #3 #3c? +3c & #3rd place? & ) +#3c3rd Place? #5 And so much more? #2 & #2 #4 , etc. #3#3rd Party? , Folco?
00:00:00.000So, Hollywood is full of self-righteous hypocrites, Oprah takes the Golden Globes and wants to run for president, and Steve Bannon is still on the rocks with a very stable genius.
00:00:19.000It was mostly terrible because Hollywood can't get over itself.
00:00:22.000Watching Hollywood talk about sexual abuse and sexual harassment is like watching NFL executives talk about concussions and then pat themselves on the back for it.
00:02:48.000I mean that the, I don't mean that in an exaggerated fashion.
00:02:51.000I mean that a huge percentage of Hollywood films, a huge percentage of Hollywood starlets got their starts on the Hollywood casting couch
00:02:58.000Virtually every major producer in town at one time or another has thrown his power around as well as his genitals.
00:03:04.000The idea that this is not the dominant, the predominant mode of how casting is done in Hollywood and has been done for decades, I think is a bit of a stretch.
00:03:13.000The fact is Hollywood is pretty degenerate.
00:03:16.000And there are a lot of women who are willing to engage with that, knowing the risks, knowing that they were going to come here and be sent to the casting couch.
00:03:56.000Hollywood has an entire event dedicated to patting itself on the back for how much it's standing up to the sexual harassment scandal that's happening in its own industry and to which many of the people who were testifying last night were party in the first place.
00:04:09.000We'll go through all of this, but let's start with Seth Meyers' opening monologue.
00:04:12.000So Seth Meyers begins by slapping Hollywood, and then, of course, he has his obligatory slams against Trump.
00:04:17.000He's too lazy to actually write any new jokes about Trump, so instead he just hijacks jokes that were told last year by Hugh Laurie, I believe it was, at the Golden Globes, about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
00:04:26.000Here is Seth Meyers again, an overrated comedian who masquerades as a political thinker.
00:04:31.000Here he is doing his opening monologue.
00:04:33.000Good evening, ladies and remaining gentlemen.
00:04:39.000There's a new era underway, and I can tell because it's been years since a white man was this nervous in Hollywood.
00:05:28.000Who's a terrible actress, by the way, and blocked me on Twitter.
00:05:31.000Not because I just called her a terrible actress, but long ago.
00:05:34.000She blocked me because, I guess, she would cancel her subscription to the New York Times after the New York Times did a profile of me that did not rip me as a racist, because I'm not.
00:05:42.000Deborah Messing decides that now's a good time to virtue signal about the pay gap.
00:06:11.000Here's Debra Messing, a very, very wealthy woman for being a garbage actress on a show that was really about the gay guy and about the shrill, high-pitched woman and not about her at all.
00:06:19.000Here is Debra Messing talking about the pay gap at E!
00:06:22.000You know, I was so shocked to hear that E!
00:06:25.000doesn't believe in paying their female co-hosts the same as their male co-hosts.
00:06:31.000I mean, I miss Kat Sadler, and so we stand with her, and that's something that can change tomorrow.
00:06:39.000So much heroism, so much strength, so much Normandy-like bravery.
00:06:46.000Standing on the red carpet, wearing a gown worth probably several thousand dollars, talking about the pay gap that obviously is just brutal for women at E!, whose entire job consists of standing alongside men at E!, both of whom talk about celebrities all day.
00:07:10.000But in terms of the pay gap, the idea that Natalie Portman and Jennifer Lawrence are being destroyed by sexism, or that the women at E couldn't just go to their bosses and say, listen, either pay me more or I'll leave.
00:07:20.000Here's the thing about the free market.
00:07:23.000If you are easily replaceable, and I'm sorry to tell you this, but women at E and men at E are probably pretty replaceable.
00:07:29.000It doesn't seem like a particularly tough job.
00:07:31.000Then maybe you ought to ask for a raise less often rather than more often.
00:07:34.000I mean, you could start an e-channel, honestly, and pay everybody $30,000 a year and be staffed up the wazoo.
00:07:39.000I mean, there are people who are beautiful working at Coffee Bean every single day who would die to work for $35,000.
00:09:33.000Oh, Hollywood is so smug and so irritating.
00:09:35.000I mean, I'm famous for being smug, and they outclass me by orders of magnitude.
00:09:38.000Okay, so, before I go any further, and we'll talk about Oprah, because I have many a thing to say about Oprah Winfrey and her presidential runs.
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00:11:47.000Your future president is going to be a lady who is extraordinarily rich, very good at connecting with audiences, and who is famous for vacillating in her weight for years and years.
00:11:58.000I mean, honestly, we don't get to complain about reality TV stars and self-made billionaires being presidents of the United States, because the president of the United States is those things, right?
00:12:07.000Don't worry, we'll get to that in a little bit.
00:12:09.000She was just so incredible last night.
00:12:11.000She got up there and she finally spoke truth to power.
00:12:13.000Sure, there are tons of pictures of her kissing Harvey Weinstein.
00:12:16.000Sure, there's an actress who back in November alleged that she fell into Harvey Weinstein's trap because she saw Oprah hanging out with Harvey and figured Harvey must be a good guy.
00:12:24.000Sure, Oprah Winfrey existed in this town for 30 years, making oodles of cash, becoming the most powerful woman in media, the queen of all media, and never had one word to say about sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood.
00:12:35.000Sure, all of that's true, but the bravery, the stunningness, the stunningness McBravery, ah!
00:12:44.000Reese Witherspoon tweeted out, in the midst of all of this, that Oprah Winfrey, that she was now going to date time differently, she tweeted, quote,
00:13:34.000The entire media that suggests that inexperience is bad, that we don't need somebody with no policy, that we don't need somebody who doesn't know what the hell they're doing at the head of government.
00:13:41.000And they're like, you know what we need?
00:14:39.000whether Oprah could actually win when she runs for president.
00:14:41.000But first, I want to go through the speech because it's been treated as just grand and glorious because she finally stood up for all the victimized women throughout history and over time.
00:15:17.000In 1982, Sidney received the Cecil B. DeMille Award right here at the Golden Globes, and it is not lost on me that at this moment, there are some little girls watching.
00:15:30.000As I become the first black woman to be given this same award.
00:15:39.000Seriously, name the lives of the little black girls whose lives were changed because they saw Oprah Winfrey win this award.
00:15:44.000Not by Oprah Winfrey making $3 billion over the course of her career.
00:15:47.000Not by Oprah Winfrey becoming the most powerful woman in media over the past 30 years.
00:15:51.000Not by Michelle Obama being First Lady, or Susan Rice being National Security Advisor, or Loretta Lynch being Attorney General, or Condoleezza Rice being Secretary of State.
00:16:25.000And let me tell you, black girls who are watching TV today, they are in exactly the same situation as she was in 1964, watching Sidney Poitier in his white tie and black skin, this is her words, get up and say what he says at the Oscars or at the Golden Globes.
00:18:29.000Legitimately, the only members of the press who did anything about the rampant Hollywood abuse were people like Ronan Farrow.
00:18:36.000People over at the New Yorker did some great work on this.
00:18:38.000But the Hollywood Foreign Press Association did nothing, right?
00:18:40.000I mean, the idea that they're being feeded as some sort of great truth-tellers in a world of lies is just ridiculous.
00:18:45.000Also, I will acknowledge that the entire left focus on the power of the media and the power of the press, aside from when they can rip on the Catholic Church like they praise the press for going after the Catholic Church for its sex abuse scandals, I don't remember them being quite so over the moon about the power and necessary wonder of the press during the Obama administration.
00:19:04.000Now we get movies like The Post, which, I gotta say, I have no desire to see this movie because if the trailer is that tendentious and obnoxious, I cannot imagine that the movie is going to be any better than that.
00:19:15.000I mean, it is the most obnoxious trailer in human history.
00:19:18.000Meryl Streep, oh, oh, you just watch me as I take on all the brutal men in the government
00:19:23.000And Tom Hanks rubbing her shoulders while she does that.
00:19:43.000What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have.
00:19:52.000And I'm especially proud and inspired by all the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak up and share their personal stories.
00:20:38.000Now, I believe women who make these allegations as a general rule.
00:20:43.000I do, but I have to weigh the evidence.
00:20:44.000I have to weigh how credible the women are.
00:20:46.000I have to weigh whether there are repeat accusations.
00:20:48.000I have to review the nature of the man.
00:20:50.000I actually have to look at the evidence on all of these accusations.
00:20:53.000But this phrase, speaking your truth, needs to die, and needs to die slowly and horribly in the torture chamber used in The Princess Bride for Wesley.
00:21:18.000If I've not been clear about that, I've been saying this four months.
00:21:21.000Okay, and for years, and for decades, like literally my entire career.
00:21:24.000But, I'm going to get to what I think was the worst injustice that she did last night, Oprah Winfrey, in this speech, in just a second.
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00:24:46.000In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and a mother.
00:24:52.000She was just walking home from a church service she'd attended in Abbeville, Alabama, when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped and left blindfolded by the side of the road.
00:25:04.000For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men.
00:25:52.000And the part that drives me up a wall here is the implication that America in 1944 is the same as America in 2018 with regard to allegations of rape, particularly cross-racial rape.
00:26:04.000If a group of white men raped a black woman, not only would it be front page story across the nation, the president would sound off, every person in America would be calling for those guys to be strung up.
00:27:48.000And Oprah, by the way, cares about things happening around the world.
00:27:51.000She founded a school for girls in South Africa, right?
00:27:53.000She actually cares about stuff happening outside the United States.
00:27:55.000Wouldn't now have been a good time in that speech to say, not just women here, but women in Iran, and women in Saudi Arabia, and women in Egypt, and women in, right?
00:28:03.000Couldn't she have just listed those off in the middle of it?
00:28:05.000But no, because Hollywood is deeply invested in Hollywood itself, and they have to show that they're leading the fight against themselves, which of course is not true at all.
00:28:13.000Okay, so would Oprah Winfrey win a presidential election?
00:28:16.000Number one, the person hardest hit last night is Joe Biden, because Oprah Winfrey would win the primaries.
00:28:21.000Oprah Winfrey would obviously win the primaries, right?
00:28:23.000Joe Biden would get shellacked by Oprah Winfrey, not just because Oprah Winfrey is black, but because Oprah Winfrey is deeply talented, and she spent 30 years building up a stock of goodwill with the American people, and particularly with women.
00:28:35.000So let's talk more about the general election, because I think that if Oprah ran, she would almost assuredly win the Democratic primary nomination process.
00:29:59.000Unlike Trump, who grew up super duper wealthy and then became super duper more wealthy, largely through branding power, she was born legitimately dirt poor in Mississippi to a single mom, raised in inner city Milwaukee, molested as a child, pregnant at 14.
00:30:59.000As of March 2017, she had a 49-33 favorable rating.
00:31:02.000Honestly, I'm shocked that her favorable rating is that low.
00:31:04.000I would think it would be closer in the 50s.
00:31:06.000She led Trump, and actually polled her against Trump, and she leads Trump right now 47-40 in the polls, which is not a blowout, by the way.
00:31:14.000That's more like Hillary Clinton numbers than anything else.
00:32:30.000I mean, I know everybody wants to bury that, but aside from her various weight loss theories, she hosted Jenny McCarthy on vaccines numerous times.
00:32:36.000She pushed, if you recall, the New Age silliness of the secret, which was this idea that through the power of positive thinking, you could heal yourself.
00:32:42.000And then it became a national scandal when one woman who had cancer said, I'm gonna use the power of positive thinking to heal my cancer.
00:32:56.000She pushed nonsense about the meat industry.
00:32:58.000They had the meat industry actually suing her.
00:33:00.000So, you know, look, Trump is a conspiracy theorist, too, in a lot of ways, but the difference is that Trump is already so filled with mud, right?
00:33:09.000Throwing more mud on Trump doesn't do him any damage.
00:33:11.000Oprah's considered this sort of angelic character, and that means that if you throw mud at an angel, the spots are more likely to show on the dress.
00:33:19.000Right, so there are also scandals that are going to hit her as well.
00:33:22.000So every person has scandals in their past.
00:33:25.000The worst one was in 2009, her school that she runs in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy School for Girls, it was hit with a sex scandal, a sexual abuse scandal, actually two of them in two years.
00:33:36.000So in 2009, there was a series of students who were sexually abused by other students.
00:33:40.000The year before, there was a matron who allegedly sexually abused 15 girls.
00:34:13.000Now, Oprah doing it might be more successful, but I'm not sure schoolmarming works against Trump in any case.
00:34:18.000So, before everybody gets over the moon about Hillary for president, I think there's some real holes in that particular theory.
00:34:24.000I also think that the Democrats are probably going to nominate somebody who's more akin to Joe Biden.
00:34:29.000Meanwhile, putting aside the Golden Globes, now, let's talk about President Trump's tweets.
00:34:33.000So, over the weekend, President Trump had a lot to say about this book, right?
00:34:38.000So, over the weekend, there's a lot to say for President Trump about this Michael Wolff book, Fire and Fury.
00:34:47.000We'll talk about that in just a second, but for this,
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00:37:23.000Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the fake news mainstream media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming, mental stability and intelligence.
00:37:37.000And he continues, along these lines, he says, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
00:37:47.000The like is actually in there, I'm not making that up.
00:39:53.000The reason people are considering Oprah Winfrey for president is because of how she acts, not because of what they think she's going to get done.
00:40:00.000The reality is, what we perceive the presidential election to be, who we perceive the president to be, is what Trump, what Trump evidences in his tweets, not what he does in his policy.
00:40:09.000We can justify his presidency to ourselves by talking about all the things he does in policy.
00:40:47.000If you want Stephen Miller to basically go after Steve Bannon, a statement from Stephen Miller, a public statement from Stephen Miller, released as a video, would have been much better.
00:40:54.000Instead, he goes at it with Jake Tapper.
00:41:37.000With respect to the Trump Tower meeting that he's talking about, he wasn't even there when this went down, so he's not really a remotely credible source on any of it.
00:41:46.000It reads like an angry, vindictive person spouting off to a highly discreditable author.
00:41:53.000The book is best understood as a work of very poorly written fiction.
00:41:58.000And I also will say that the author is a garbage author of a garbage book.
00:42:04.000A phenomenon that was happening that you didn't see, a phenomenon that was happening that the rest of the political class didn't see, all these so-called political geniuses in Washington,
00:42:14.000Okay, this is where it goes off the rails.
00:42:24.000If you just want to say that the book is just a grotesque, if you want to just say the book is fiction, that's fine.
00:42:32.000But this whole, we got to go on TV and we got to treat the president like he's Kim Jong-un, and we're going to go around worshiping, we're actually going to get out a prayer rug and just bow down to Trump.
00:44:35.000Okay, and then of course the, it's not spoiling anything, but the funny thing is the characters they inhabit, so the big black football player ends up being Kevin Hart, right, tiny, and the nerd ends up being Dwayne the Rock Johnson, and then of course the big surprise is that the hot blonde chick ends up being Jack Black.
00:45:22.000Dwayne, The Rock Johnson only makes films that are funny and interesting, actually.
00:45:26.000I have to say, I've become a big fan of The Rock.
00:45:29.000OK, I will even watch Central Intelligence and think that's a good movie, because I think that Dwayne The Rock Johnson is a very funny human.
00:46:01.000So what he says is, by a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
00:46:14.000So what he says basically, a faction is any political group of people organizing against another group of people or organizing against a future interest.
00:46:20.000He says there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of fashion.
00:46:37.000He says, basically, if you want to stop factions from tearing a society apart, stop the majority from hurting the minority, or the minority from hurting the majority, there are only two ways of doing that.
00:46:46.000The one is to get rid of the causes of factions, so make everybody think the same way.
00:46:51.000The other is by controlling its effects.
00:46:52.000If you want to get rid of everybody thinking differently, the only way to do that is by getting rid of liberty on the one hand, or by giving every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests through training.
00:47:02.000He says that getting rid of the causes is a fool's errand.
00:47:06.000He says if you destroy liberty, that's worse than the disease.
00:47:09.000He says liberty is to faction what errors to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires.
00:47:14.000He says that getting rid of liberty is like getting rid of air because you want to get rid of bad animals.
00:47:54.000He says that there will always be material inequality in a free society because people have different abilities.
00:47:59.000He says the diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.
00:48:06.000He says we're always going to fall into mutual animosities based on our varying viewpoints and different abilities.
00:48:11.000And he says legislation means that we're judges in our own case.
00:48:15.000If you were going to judge between the rich and the poor, you really can't have them just vote on it because now you're a judge in your own case.
00:48:33.000And he says no informal checks and balances will suffice.
00:48:37.000He says either the existence of the same passion or interest in a majority at the same time must be prevented, or the majority, having such coexistent passion or interest, must be rendered by number and local situation
00:48:47.000Unable to concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression.
00:48:49.000So what he says is if you have a big republic with lots of varying interests it's hard to actually motivate a majority to curb the rights of others.
00:48:57.000He says pure democracy is going to fail because in a pure democracy you can just have the majority all over the place vote for one policy.
00:50:22.000Instead, he says, we need localism on most levels, but broader republicanism for the big stuff.
00:50:28.000He says the influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within particular states, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other states.
00:50:37.000A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction and part of the Confederacy, but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it must secure the national councils against any danger from that source.
00:50:46.000You won't have Catholic rule or Mormon rule or Jewish rule or Protestant rule in the United States because there's too much diversity.
00:50:52.000He says any bad policy should basically be cancelled out.
00:50:55.000Any oppressive policy should be cancelled out.
00:50:57.000Now, this was largely true in the United States, except for the massive injustice of slavery, in which federalism prevented the imposition of a better policy on the states.