Glenn Thrush has been suspended from the New York Times over allegations of sexual harassment against young female journalists. He's accused of getting drunk with younger female journalists and then coming on to them while under the influence of alcohol. The problem is, these women were in their 20s at the time of the alleged incidents, and he was in his mid-30s, and they were in his 20s. The Times has not responded to a request for comment from Ben Shapiro for further comment on the matter. Ben also discusses the Federalist Papers, a collection of articles written by conservative conservative writer Alex Blumberg, in which he lays out his case for why women in journalism should be protected from sexual harassment in order to protect their careers and reputations. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Fox News Radio. He is a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard and has written for The Daily Wire, The Daily Beast, and the Weekly Standard, and is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and The Huffington Post, among other publications. He is also the author of several books, including "The Devil Next Door" and "The Dark Side Of." and the "New York Times" column "The New York Review of New York" and has been featured in the Hollywood Reporter, The New York Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter and The Globe and Mail, among many other publications, including Playboy, and The National Enquirer, and has a regular column in The New Yorker. and The New Republic. . He's book, "Blame It On Glenn Thrush" is out now on him, "Glennysrush." is out on the road, and on the streets, and in the new book, and he's a new podcast, "The Other Way". The White House has a new book coming out in the next episode of his new podcast called "The White House is a Badass Fact Checker," out soon. , out soon, out in paperback, and it will be out on Amazon, and so much more! Join us on Thanksgiving Day, November 20th, November 21st, 2019, 2020, November 22nd, 2020. by Ben Shapiro November 23rd, 2020 by by Mark Halperin, November 24th, 2020 December 5th, 2019 by Laura Krause, 2019
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00:02:08.000So the New York Times has now suspended famed reporter Glenn Thrush over allegations of sexual harassment.
00:02:15.000So what makes this sort of interesting is that Thrush is one of these guys who's been virtue signaling about sexual harassment for quite a while.
00:02:22.000He posted a Facebook note just a couple of weeks ago blasting political journalist Mark Halperin over allegations of sexual misconduct against young female journalists.
00:02:30.000Young people who come into a newsroom deserve to be taught our trade, given our support, and enlisted in our calling, not betrayed by little men who believe they are bigger than the mission.
00:02:40.000It turns out that the married Thrush apparently has a bad habit of getting sloshed with younger female journalists and then coming on to them.
00:02:47.000In one instance, a 20-something young reporter was so upset by such an alleged incident that she told her friend who texted with Thrush.
00:02:55.000Three young women I interviewed, including the young woman who met Thrush in June, described to me a range of similar experiences, from unwanted groping and kissing, to wet kisses out of nowhere, to hazy sexual encounters that played out under the influence of alcohol.
00:03:05.000Each woman described feeling differently about these experiences, scared, violated, ashamed, weirded out.
00:03:11.000Details of their story suggest a pattern.
00:03:13.000All of the women were in their 20s at the time.
00:03:15.000They were relatively early in their careers compared to Thrush, who was the kind of seasoned journalist who would be good to know.
00:03:20.000At an event with alcohol, he made advances.
00:03:22.000Afterward, they, as I did, the columnist here is actually one of the people Thrush came on to, thought it best to stand good terms with Thrush, whatever their feelings.
00:03:28.000So there's a lot of this going around in Hollywood, in journalism, in politics, where something bad happens and women don't say anything because they're afraid it's going to ruin their career.
00:03:36.000They're afraid there's going to be blowback.
00:03:41.000It's happened to a lot of women in Hollywood.
00:03:43.000It's happened to a lot of women in journalism.
00:03:45.000The woman in the story, the writer of the story, Laura McGann, just five years ago, Thrush, quote, slid into my side of the booth, blocking me in.
00:03:51.000I was wearing a skirt and he put his hand on my thigh.
00:04:04.000There are a bunch of things that need to be asked here that are, I think, worthwhile asking.
00:04:08.000The first question that's worthwhile asking is, the entire journalistic community that's coming down on politicians in Hollywood,
00:04:27.000How many of them are guilty of the same sort of conduct?
00:04:29.000It now seems that this sort of conduct is common across the board, particularly in high-profile industries.
00:04:34.000I'm not sure that it's happening as much in sort of typical business, in typical business areas, because you can switch businesses relatively quickly.
00:04:42.000But if you're in a specialized industry like a journalism or Hollywood, where fame matters,
00:04:47.000Then I feel like the rates of this are much higher, which creates this sense of hypocrisy.
00:04:51.000All these people who claim to be feminists who are going out there and sexually harassing or abusing the people who are trying to make their way in the world.
00:04:59.000Hal Perrin is the first one, obviously, from Politico.
00:05:02.000And now you see Glenn Thrush, who is working over at Politico now at the New York Times.
00:05:07.000The other thing that happens is you see some of these accounts.
00:05:10.000And it's hard to put your finger on where exactly can you say the sin has now taken place.
00:05:15.000The reason being that it seems like a bit of a moving target.
00:05:17.000So in Thrush's situation, there are a bunch of stories in this Vox piece in which Thrush would get drunk with a female colleague and then he would go in for a kiss or he'd kiss her and then she would get uptight and walk away.
00:05:32.000Is that like Al Franken grabbing a woman's breasts while she's sleeping?
00:05:35.000Is that the equivalent of Roy Moore going after a 14-year-old?
00:05:38.000Like, there seem to be gradations here that everybody is ignoring in the rush to throw everyone out.
00:05:43.000Now, I'm okay with throwing everyone out so long as we have a consistent standard for how we apply this.
00:05:47.000One of the ways that you could tell that Glenn Thrush was a creep
00:05:50.000And then you could say if these stories are correct.
00:05:52.000One of the ways that in the old sort of traditionalist morality that we could easily say Glenn Thrush is a creep is Glenn Thrush is married and Glenn Thrush is trying to make out with women, not his wife.
00:06:03.000In 1945, if a married guy tried to make out with a woman who's not his wife, we would all go, that guy's gross.
00:06:09.000But now, thanks to the sexual revolution, we're supposed to assume that that's totally fine unless she doesn't consent.
00:06:14.000But consent is a murky area in the sense that
00:06:17.000Sometimes, I mean, there's one case where the woman says she went back to her hotel with Glenn Thrush, they were both drunk, she was partially unclothed, she decided she didn't want to go any further, and he left.
00:06:27.000And then she says, I don't feel like I was sexually exploited or abused, but there she is in the story anyway.
00:06:31.000So is that a situation of sexual abuse or exploitation?
00:06:34.000Is it the power dynamic that makes it bad?
00:06:35.000Because we were told back in 1998 that there was nothing to the power dynamic stuff when Bill Clinton was shtupping his secretary.
00:06:41.000What exactly is the thing that makes it bad?
00:06:43.000So, it used to be there were some pretty bright lines as to what made things bad.
00:06:46.000The brightest line, of course, was don't have sex until you're married.
00:06:51.000Now, some people didn't, a lot of people didn't keep that line, but I'll tell you what they did keep was getting married after they got pregnant.
00:06:57.000So, some fascinating sort of historical statistics.
00:07:02.000I think it was something like one third of all babies born in colonial era America were born before nine months to a married couple, meaning that somebody got knocked up and then they got married.
00:07:11.000But because marriage was the standard, this meant that we at least had some area where if you walk past this line, we know that you just did something wrong.
00:07:19.000Something that doesn't rely on the subjective sense of what the people involved are saying.
00:07:23.000Now, there's certain cases that clearly don't, right?
00:07:25.000Clearly, rape does not involve a grey area, right?
00:07:29.000There's no grey area with regard to rape.
00:07:31.000Certainly, you know, a guy walking up to a girl and just ramming his tongue down her throat.
00:07:34.000That's obviously sexual assault, and that does not apply a grey area.
00:07:37.000But where two people are drunk and they start making out, and then the girl says no, and the guy walks away,
00:07:42.000You know, this is where you get into dicey territory, particularly in Title IX cases on campus where a guy and a girl get drunk, they've been told that they can be as sexually libidinous as they want to be, and then they go to bed together, and then three days later the girl says that she was sexually exploited or raped.
00:07:55.000What we need are some objective measures.
00:07:57.000This is not to say the girl wasn't sexually exploited or raped, maybe she was, but we need some sort of objective measures that we as a society can take a look at and say this is really bad behavior.
00:08:04.000In this case, one of the things that makes it relatively easy is that we are still using, we don't want to admit it to ourselves, but we are still using the old concepts.
00:08:12.000In our sexually permissive society, we like to pretend that we're not using old concepts here, but the fact is if Glenn Thrush were a single man who were the same age as the women he was drinking with, he'd be being treated very differently than a 50-year-old guy who's going after 20-somethings while he's married.
00:08:27.000We're still using traditional sexual concepts even when we don't want to admit it.
00:08:30.000That's one of the things that's so funny about so much of leftist perspective on these sorts of issues is that they attempt to break with traditional concepts of sexual mores.
00:08:38.000They try to say that those things are hackneyed and stupid and we need to leave those behind.
00:08:42.000They try to say that Mike Pence is a crazy man for not wanting to dine alone with women, not his wife.
00:09:11.000The left is now holding by my standard that a man should not touch a woman unless they're married, essentially.
00:09:16.000That a man should not touch a woman unless he has explicit permission from the woman.
00:09:20.000That drunken revelries that go wrong are a bad thing.
00:09:25.000Now the left comes at it from the angle of radical subjectivity, and this is where you get into dicey territory.
00:09:30.000Because when I say radical subjectivity, I mean that the situation can be exactly the same, as in exactly the same.
00:09:36.000And if the woman perceives it differently than the man,
00:09:39.000And it's reasonable to perceive it either way.
00:09:41.000We have to take the woman's word for her perception.
00:09:43.000That's dangerous territory because what is the man supposed to expect?
00:09:47.000So what we've decided to do instead is become puritanical about sex from the left, right?
00:09:50.000This is why you have no-means-no rules in places like California on campus where you're basically supposed to have a signed checklist before every aspect of sex.
00:09:57.000Like every single, can I touch your arm now?
00:10:00.000You're supposed to actually ask before every single one of these things, which has never happened in the history of sex.
00:10:05.000The left, because the left refused to draw any clear lines, now they have to fall back on drawing new lines that are both unclear and over-restrictive.
00:10:14.000Now, this is not to defend Glenn Thrush.
00:10:15.000I think Glenn Thrush obviously sounds like a scuzzbag.
00:10:18.000But it is to show that the vagary that the left has created with regard to the sexual revolution has not been of benefit to women.
00:10:24.000In many cases, it's actually been of damage to women.
00:10:28.000And this is why I think, because these lines are not clear, I think it's so obvious that men will use the vagueness of the lines in order to cross lines that no one would want them to cross.
00:10:39.000Bad men will use the fact that things are vague to suggest, well,
00:10:42.000You know, maybe it wasn't, like, totally consensual, but it was kind of consensual, wasn't it?
00:10:46.000Right, so in that category falls, for example, Russell Simmons and Brett Ratner, according to a woman named Carrie Klauson-Kaligi.
00:10:52.000Carrie Klauson-Kaligi is a model, and she told the LA Times in a Sunday report that she met Russell Simmons and Brett Ratner at a casting call in 1991 when she was 17.
00:11:01.000She said they brought her over to Simmons' house to show her a music video they were working on, and that's when the music mogul started to pull off her clothes.
00:11:07.000I looked over at Brett and said, help me, and I'll never forget the look on his face, she said.
00:11:11.000In that moment, the realization fell on me that they were in it together.
00:11:14.000She says that Russell Simmons tried to have intercourse, but she resisted and he ended up forcing oral sex.
00:11:19.000Khaligi said she tried to take a shower because she felt disgusting, and there Simmons essentially raped her.
00:11:45.000One is that they just have completely different accounts of the situation and one of them is lying.
00:11:49.000And the other is that there is this weird gray area that now exists with regard to consent, where if a guy pushes a girl hard enough and then she says yes for a moment, she feels like she's been violated because she has been violated from her point of view, but the guy doesn't feel like he's been violated because he's achieved the cherished yes, even by using all sorts of exploitative methods.
00:12:08.000Now again, if you had some clear lines about sexual activity, all of this would become obsolete.
00:12:15.000You'd say Russell Simmons invited a 17-year-old girl to his house and then had sex with her, or tried to force her into sex.
00:12:20.000That's gross, not just because of the consent issue, but because Russell Simmons, much older guy, there's a, this is, this is just, you know, deep down, that this is immoral activity.
00:12:30.000I don't know if, is Russell Simmons married?
00:13:31.000I mean, how many times do you see movies where a guy will be badgering a woman and she's saying, no, no, no, no, no, and it turns into yes?
00:13:43.000The point that I'm making is we have a culture that constantly says that women want it.
00:13:47.000I mean, that's the entire music culture.
00:13:48.000We have a movie culture that says that women want it.
00:13:50.000We have an entire culture of film that says that half the time when women say no, what they really mean is yes.
00:13:55.000And we have an entire feminist movement that spent 40 years trying to convince women that it was just as libidinous as men, and that consent can be had under any circumstances.
00:14:03.000There's a lot of murky area here and now the left is trying to claim that it's black and white.
00:14:07.000Well, I want it to be black and white.
00:14:11.000I want to know what the left's specific rules are.
00:14:13.000And I want to know what their specific definition of consent looks like so we can all apply it and we can determine whether it is correct or not.
00:14:20.000By the way, I'm on the side of all of these women, by the way, who say that they did not consent to these relationships because, again, I'm the prude.
00:14:28.000I think it's wrong for guys to ram their tongues down women's throat.
00:14:31.000I think it's wrong for Glenn Thrush to go drinking with women and then make out with them without their permission.
00:14:36.000Even if the woman says that she's totally into it for the first five minutes and then she says no, I think it's wrong for him to have initiated this stuff.
00:14:43.000So I'm pretty strict on this stuff and it's amazing to see the feminists join me on this side of the aisle.
00:14:48.000Okay, so, with all of that said, I want to get to the Trump Category 5 tweetstorm in just a second, but first I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Zeal.
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00:16:08.000By the way, just a quick note about the sexual consent issue and the vagary on the left.
00:16:23.000You're still seeing this vagary on the left because one of the fascinating things is you see some people on the left saying that Bill Clinton should have resigned in 1998 now.
00:16:29.000But the excuse they use for why he should have resigned varies.
00:16:32.000So some of them say it's because of Juanita Broderick, because of the rape allegation.
00:17:45.000So, on this date, yesterday, yesterday on this date in 1863,
00:17:53.000Abraham Lincoln gave a very famous speech.
00:17:56.000He gave a speech that we all know as the Gettysburg Address.
00:18:00.000It took place on this date, this specific date, November 19th, 1863, so yesterday.
00:18:06.000And in it, he declared that we as a union were going to have to stand together, and that the better angels of our nature were going to bring the country together, and that we have to
00:18:54.000was arrested in China for shoplifting.
00:18:56.000And as you recall, Trump got him out of prison and then demanded a thank you, to which the son acquiesced.
00:19:01.000And I said at the time, like, this is kind of babyish that the president wants a thank you for getting an American citizen out of prison in China.
00:19:06.000But in any case, you know, the son said thank you.
00:20:53.000He's just recently let the NFL kneeling controversy start to subside, start to fade away, and now here he is calling out these players and the families again.
00:21:02.000I think it's immature at best, Fred, but it's really race-baiting at worst.
00:23:12.000I will talk about what the President of the United States says.
00:23:16.000The reason why this is a problem, folks, is for two reasons.
00:23:20.000One, and this is all coming from a conservative point of view,
00:23:23.000One, it's not great for the country when the President of the United States is threatening to leave American citizens overseas in Chinese custody because daddy was mean to him.
00:23:30.000If Obama did that, we'd all go nuts, and rightly so.
00:23:32.000Number two, Donald Trump is trying to make the last-ditch push for a tax cut right now, for serious tax cut legislation before Thanksgiving, or before Christmas.
00:23:41.000One of the votes he's going to need is the vote of Senator Jeff Flake.
00:23:44.000And now, he's saying that Jeff Flake is going to vote against the tax cuts, giving him full ability to vote against the tax cuts.
00:23:51.000Like, this, if you want good legislation to pass, you know what would help?
00:23:55.000If the President of the United States weren't Doug from Up, weren't the dog from Up, chasing every single squirrel.
00:24:03.000His closing argument on healthcare reform, if you recall, was that Jeff Sessions was a poopy head.
00:24:07.000His closing argument on the second round of health care reform is that the NFL player should stop kneeling.
00:24:12.000And now his closing argument on tax reform is that he should have left a basketball player in China under custody and that a particular senator should be
00:24:23.000He'll rip out a particular senator and tell him to vote no on tax cuts because he's mean to him.
00:26:18.000They said, authorities are searching Texas' Big Bend area for potential suspects and witnesses after a U.S.
00:26:22.000Customs and Border Protection agent was fatally injured responding to activity there.
00:26:25.000Border Patrol officials said the agents were on patrol in Culberson County in the Big Bend sector of the Texas border.
00:26:31.000Agent Rogelio Martinez died Sunday morning as a result of injuries he and his partner sustained after responding to activity while on patrol on Interstate 10 near Van Horn, according to a statement from Border Patrol.
00:26:41.000It wasn't immediately clear when the incident occurred.
00:26:44.000Okay, so here's what Trump tweeted about this, and this is good.
00:26:46.000He tweeted, Imagine if all of his tweets were on the news.
00:26:49.000Imagine if all of his tweets were directed at...
00:27:05.000And I will cheer that, because he is correct.
00:27:07.000One of the reasons that you need a physical barrier in some of these areas is to prevent the drug cartels from crossing over and hurting border patrol agents or illegal immigrants from doing the same.
00:27:15.000It's important to have methods of defense.
00:27:43.000Would it be better than alienating a sitting member of the United States Senate whose vote you're going to need on both the wall and the tax reform?
00:27:59.000Although I will say, I do love, the tweets give me something to talk about.
00:28:02.000It's so funny, I saw some MAGA folks saying, Dinesh D'Souza, who I'm friends with, Dinesh said something like, you know, the media wants Trump to stop tweeting.
00:28:18.000What do you think is raising MSNBC's and CNN's ratings?
00:28:21.000If Trump stops tweeting, they'll actually have to treat him like a normal president.
00:28:25.000That's the scariest thing in the world for them.
00:28:27.000They want to treat him the way that they're treating him.
00:28:29.000I want him to stop tweeting because I don't think that it's useful to his agenda.
00:28:33.000Okay, so before I go any further, I'm going to talk about Roy Moore and the latest fallout from that, and Al Franken, another allegation against Al Franken coming out.
00:28:42.000Plus, I want to talk about Charles Manson, so a lot to get to.
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00:29:41.000Over the weekend, the Democrats basically made clear that they're not going to get rid of Minnesota Senator Al Franken.
00:29:45.000That's despite allegations that Al Franken grabbed the boobs of a sleeping woman, Leanne Tweeden, who's a talk show host out in Los Angeles.
00:29:54.000They said, don't worry, we're not going to get rid.
00:30:03.000Well now, a second woman has come out and alleged that Al Franken is doing some booty grabbing.
00:30:08.000So here is a woman, so a woman has said, this is according to CNN, that Al Franken inappropriately touched her in 2010, telling CNN he grabbed her buttocks while taking a photo at the Minnesota State Fair.
00:30:18.000You know what, I gotta tell you, I get the feeling, it's really fascinating, I do get the feeling that there is a generation gap with regard to behavior of men.
00:30:25.000I sort of get this feeling that there are a lot of men over the age of 60 who have grabbed a woman's ass without permission, and that there are fewer men under the age of 40 who have grabbed a woman's ass without permission.
00:30:34.000Maybe I'm getting this completely wrong, but if I'm not, that would explain a few things as far as our politicians and as far as some of our producers.
00:30:43.000The idea that Al Franken just goes to the Minnesota State Fair and grabs this lady's butt.
00:30:52.000So, back when this happened, she was 26.
00:30:54.000She says she wanted to share an uncomfortable interaction that left her feeling gross.
00:30:58.000According to Menz, she attended the Minnesota State Fair with her husband and father in the summer of 2010, almost two years after Franken was elected to the Senate.
00:31:04.000Her father's small business was sponsoring a local radio booth.
00:31:06.000She spent the day meeting various elected officials, political candidates, and celebrities, and taking photos with them as they stopped by the booth.
00:31:13.000When Franken walked in, Menz and her husband, who also spoke with CNN, said they recognized him right away.
00:31:17.000Menz said she had a brief and cordial exchange with the senator.
00:31:20.000Then, as her husband held up her phone and got ready to snap a photo of the two of them, Franken pulled me in really close, like awkward close, and as my husband took the picture, he put his hand full-fledged on my rear, Menz said.
00:31:30.000It was tightly wrapped around my butt cheek.
00:33:21.000I think that the bottom line here is that, what's funny, going back to these sort of traditional sexual mores for just a second, traditional conservatives, the reason we draw very strict lines is because we think that man is inherently capable of sin.
00:33:33.000That man is not good and not bad, but that he's very capable of sin, and particularly in sexual matters he's capable of sin, and that's why we draw all of these lines around men.
00:33:41.000It's one of the reasons why we have all of these rules.
00:33:44.000The left said all those rules were stupid, got rid of all the rules, and then they're surprised when the fallout is bad for women.
00:33:51.000So I want to show you the hypocrisy of the Democrats.
00:33:53.000So Joy Reid, over at MSNBC, she says that she is very disturbed by the fact that many people are still supporting Roy Moore, the Senate Alabama Republican candidate who has been credibly accused of child molestation, or at least of ephebophilia, which is the molestation of girls who have hit puberty but who are still little girls, you know, 14-year-old girls.
00:34:13.000Joy Reid says that she finds the fact that people still support more disturbing.
00:34:16.000We're talking about something of such a different degree.
00:34:20.000You know, you talked about all of the past scandals.
00:34:22.000You talked about the Monica Lewinsky situation, which was a clearly improper relationship.
00:34:40.000And the fact that people are struggling with whether or not they should continue to support Roy Moore for reasons of party, power, and tribe is incredibly disturbing.
00:34:51.000Okay, so I actually agree on a basic level with Joy Reid.
00:34:55.000The problem is that her Democratic Party colleagues don't agree with her on Al Franken.
00:34:58.000So here's Bernie Sanders desperately spinning away from answering whether if Al Franken should resign over what is now obviously clear conduct.
00:35:07.000Do you think that Al Franken should resign?
00:35:11.000I think that's a decision for Al Franken and the people of the state of Minnesota.
00:35:16.000My understanding is that Al is a very popular senator.
00:35:20.000People in Minnesota think that he is doing a good job and his political future will rest with the people of Minnesota.
00:35:26.000Okay, so thank you, Bernie Sanders, for demonstrating that this stuff is political all the way around.
00:35:32.000And if people are drawing lines for political reasons to include Donald Trump and Roy Moore, but not to include Al Franken, that just demonstrates the lines never had any sort of reality in the first place.
00:35:42.000I have condemned, you know, when there are allegations against Trump, I condemn Trump.
00:35:46.000When there are credible allegations against Trump, I condemn Trump's behavior.
00:35:48.000When there was tape of Trump talking about this stuff, I condemn Trump.
00:35:51.000When it was Clinton, I condemn Clinton.
00:35:52.000When it's Roy Moore, I condemn Roy Moore.
00:35:53.000When it's Al Franken, I condemn Al Franken.
00:35:55.000One thing I don't think you can accuse me of is inconsistency on these particular matters, because my standard has never changed.
00:36:00.000But when the standard changes, you do have to ask yourself why, and the obvious answer is that Al Franken has a D by his name.
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00:36:36.000Today, I've decided that I'm going to try to propose.
00:36:39.000I would like to create a mug called the Smug Mug.
00:38:02.000The film is about these two guys who go off to World War II, one of whom is a white guy and one of whom is a black guy, and they both live in rural Mississippi.
00:38:16.000And the white guy comes back and the black guy comes back, and basically the black guy, who's been out fighting for his country,
00:38:21.000He is treated exactly as you would imagine in 1946 Mississippi and it's a really graphic film.
00:38:28.000It's very difficult to watch at times but it does paint a picture of what life must have been like for a lot of black folks living in rural Mississippi in the 1940s.
00:38:37.000It reminds us what racism really looked like in that time and place.
00:38:43.000It also is about readjustment coming back from war.
00:38:48.000A lot of it's about class because it demonstrates how poor white people, a lot of them used race as an excuse to look down on black people who are really of their same class.
00:38:58.000There are a lot of things about the film that are really fascinating.
00:38:59.000There are a couple of problems that I have with the film.
00:39:03.000There is a relationship that is engaged in between the Garrett Hedlum character and the Carey Mulligan character that I think is utterly unnecessary and actually undercuts the plot a little bit.
00:39:11.000I think that it actually does a disservice to some of the characters in the movie.
00:40:09.000So, what's good about this film is, what it looks like from the film is that, you know, all the white people are bad and all the black people are good, and that's not the case in the film.
00:40:49.000He was on death row and then California suspended the death penalty.
00:40:52.000There's a Supreme Court decision nationally that suspended, or at the California Supreme Court level, that suspended the death penalty.
00:40:58.000And everybody who was on death row at the time had their sentence commuted to life in prison.
00:41:02.000And instead, instead, Charlie Manson ended up living out his life and dying at age 83, which is just horrifying considering that Charlie Manson, Charles Manson, was a, was just
00:43:20.000I mean, she's just a bad person, Lena Dunham, all the way around, bragging in her memoir about pleasuring herself next to her younger sister in bed.
00:44:00.000She says that one female in Lena's circles was, quote, known to use the N-word in conversation in order to be provocative, and if she was ever called on it, she would say, it's just a joke.
00:44:07.000I was often in the same room with her, but I never spoke to her, only watched her from afar in anxiety and horror.
00:44:12.000She said she decided to leave Lenny Letter after Dunham expressed her support for the girl's writer Murray Miller, who was accused of sexual assault by actress Aurora Perrineau.
00:44:21.000Clemens wrote that one of my best friends was victimized in almost the exact same way by someone in Lena's circle.
00:45:37.000The reason this behavior is not useful is because you ought to actually focus in on the fake news that they tell instead of just labeling things broadly fake news.
00:45:45.000I still believe in things like true and false.
00:46:04.000So, there are certain statements that you get to make in the United States if you're not a white person, that if you reverse the races would be utterly out of bounds.
00:46:11.000There's an MSNBC panelist who yesterday was talking about threats to America.
00:46:24.000What is interesting, though, is that white men continue to pose the biggest threat to Americans every single day.
00:46:29.000It's been documented and verified that they are more likely to burn down churches, more likely to commit mass murders and mass shootings.
00:46:36.000And so Jeff Sessions' reality and his assessment on these people, I think, is both lacking in facts and both reality.
00:46:43.000Okay, so one, the reason this is coming up is because there's an FBI report on some members of Black Lives Matter, supposedly, or at least what they were calling black identity extremists, people who are sort of, people who are sort of
00:46:58.000Can you imagine if somebody said black men are the greatest threat to America?
00:47:26.000I mean, if we're talking about murder rate, and we're talking about groups of people who are disproportionately likely to murder, or rather, disproportionately involved in murder cases, let's put it that way, who represent a disproportionate share of murderers, it is not white people, actually.
00:47:40.000That does not mean that black people are more likely to murder as like individuals or that white people are less likely to murder as individuals because of race.
00:47:56.000Time for a quick review of the Federalist Papers.
00:47:57.000So, every week we go through new Federalist Papers.
00:48:00.000Today happens to be not one of the most stirring Federalist Papers.
00:48:02.000This one is Federalist Number 4 by John Jay.
00:48:05.000Again, the Federalist Papers begins with this series of papers about why we shouldn't form separate countries, which has some relevance now that it seems like half the country wants to form separate countries.
00:48:14.000But the idea in this Federalist Paper is we can't have a bunch of different elements of the United States.
00:48:21.000We can't have a bunch of different regions that have their own foreign policy.
00:48:25.000Because foreign nations will pit one region of the United States against another.
00:48:30.000He says, whatever may be our situation, whether firmly united under one national government or split into a number of confederacies, certain it is that foreign nations will know and view it exactly as it is, and they will act toward us accordingly.
00:48:40.000If they see that our national government is efficient and well administered, our trade prudently regulated, our militia properly organized and disciplined, our resources and finances discreetly managed, our credit re-established, our people free, contented, and united, they'll be much more disposed to cultivate our friendship
00:48:54.000Okay, so the reason that this is still important today is not because we have a bunch of regions.
00:48:59.000It's because it is true that when the United States is internally divided on key issues, when we don't even have the same definition of what freedom looks like or what vision we have for the country, then our opponents overseas are going to see that and they're going to exploit it.
00:49:12.000This was most obviously true during the Vietnam War, when a huge percentage of the country was attempting to actively undermine our presence in the Vietnam War, and Ho Chi Minh knew that full well and felt like if he held out long enough, we'd pull out, which is exactly what happened.
00:49:24.000Obviously, terrorists felt the same way about the war in Iraq.
00:49:26.000When the United States is internally divided on key issues, the rest of the world knows it.
00:49:30.000This is not the case for bad unity, right?
00:49:34.000But we should recognize that there is well-motivated disunity, well-motivated dissent, and then there's just dissent for the sake of political gain.
00:49:41.000Dissent for the sake of political gain ends up demonstrating to our foreign adversaries that we can be had.
00:49:46.000And right now, I'm seeing a lot of that politically, and it's very disturbing.