Ep. 49 - Mueller Indicts Democrats
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Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manaford has been indicted for crimes related to lobbying that took place primarily three to five years ago. But, while the charges have nothing to do with the Trump campaign itself, special counsel Robert Mueller may have just inculpated top Democrats and the Obama administration. We ll analyze.
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Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort has been indicted for crimes related to lobbying
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that took place primarily three to five years ago.
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But while the charges have nothing to do with the Trump campaign itself,
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special counsel Robert Mueller may have just inculpated top Democrats and the Obama administration.
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Then, finally, at long last, Roaming Millennial is back.
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Alicia Krauss and his eminence Paul Bois join the panel of deplorables to discuss
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Kevin Spacey's gay-out-of-jail-free card, John Boehner's bitterness at Republicans and praise for Obama,
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surprise, surprise, and why soy boy BuzzFeed betas have so little testosterone.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I can't really knock these BuzzFeed betas, by the way,
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because these stupid glasses make me look like a hipstery pajama boy, but more on that later.
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been indicted on completely unrelated charges.
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They also got Manafort's right-hand man, Rick Gates,
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and they've apparently also reached a plea deal with former campaign advisor George Papadopoulos,
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who is the former Clinton war room Clinton spokesman who pretends to be a journalist on television.
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Nobody, it seems, has yet pointed out that the indictment almost certainly inculpates top Democrats,
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including Hillary's campaign chairman, John Podesta's brother, Tony.
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For context, Hillary Clinton was spotted hobnobbing with Tony Podesta just this weekend,
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Right now, in so much as this indictment suggests that the Republicans colluded with Russia,
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we know that the Democrats colluded with Russia at least as much.
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And really, from all the evidence available to us,
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the Democrats committed far graver misdeeds in colluding with Russia
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because we now know that Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid a foreigner connected with Russia
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for alleged dirt on Donald Trump to skew an American election.
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You know, like the thing that they've been accusing us of for the last year incessantly?
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She then lied not only about the $12 million price tag for that document,
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but she also absurdly denied any knowledge of it whatsoever.
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The president's reaction was typically Trumpian.
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Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign,
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but why aren't crooked Hillary and the Dems the focus?
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Also, there is no collusion, in all caps and all, you know, exclamation point.
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it appears that President Trump has deleted every tweet about Manafort from his timeline,
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so the White House is not happy about this, to say the least.
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Former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos is cooperating with the special counsel,
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and he apparently tried to set up a meeting with Russian officials
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for the purpose of warmer American relations with Russia,
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you know, to have a Russian reset or something,
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increase his importance as a policy advisor to the campaign.
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So we know that some campaign aide was offered dirt on Hillary.
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We know they paid millions of dollars for this,
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I will not knock Hillary Clinton for her oppo research per se.
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I will knock her for the ridiculous hypocrisy of accusing your opponents
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That isn't why Papadopoulos struck a plea deal.
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The crime that he committed was lying to the FBI.
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But the focus on Papadopoulos is a distraction away from Manafort
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and why this case wasn't prosecuted for so long.
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We're not talking about crimes that happened six months ago.
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We're talking about crimes that happened five years ago.
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The federal government had all of this information before the election.
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The text of the indictment points to our answer.
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Manafort and Gates solicited two Washington, D.C. firms,
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to lobby in the United States on behalf of Yanukovych,
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the party of regions in the government of Ukraine.
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For instance, Gates wrote to Company A that it would be, quote,
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representing the government of Ukraine in Washington, D.C.
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Who exactly are these elusive companies A and B?
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To minimize public disclosure of their lobbying campaign,
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Manafort and Gates arranged for the Center for a Modern Ukraine to be the nominal client of Company A and B,
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even though, in fact, the center was under ultimate direction of the government of Ukraine,
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Company A and Company B engaged in extensive lobbying.
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Well, we know that five days ago, NBC News reported that Mueller is investigating Democrat lobbyist Tony Podesta.
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The reason that name rings a bell is he's the brother of Hillary's campaign chairman, John Podesta.
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Now, this report went on and showed that Manafort had organized a PR campaign for this front group,
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Podesta's company was one of the firms that worked on the campaign.
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The Podesta group also violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act
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because it only filed as a foreign agent when it was exposed that they hadn't.
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So they got caught, and then retroactively they registered as one.
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Just this afternoon, this broke about an hour ago,
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Tony Podesta stepped down from the Podesta group amid the investigation.
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All of the available evidence points to the indictment inculpating not only a major Democrat firm
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for undisclosed lobbying on behalf of Russian interests,
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but actually the brother of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.
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We're talking about lobbying efforts that took place between 2012 and 2014.
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What do we know about Barack Obama's executive agencies during that time?
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We know they selectively prosecuted perceived enemies like Dinesh D'Souza.
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They targeted conservative Tea Party groups through the IRS.
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We know they ignored major scandals like Fast and Furious,
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Hillary Clinton's email scandal, on and on and on.
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Is it possible that the Obama administration didn't prosecute this case for years
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because it would have implicated top Hillary cronies in the run-up to her presidential run?
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For analysis, we bring on our expert panel of deplorables.
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And at long last, finally, an answer to my prayers, the one and only Roaming Millennial.
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or are Democrats going to hope that they never called for this special counsel?
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I would say that it's not necessarily a win for Democrats,
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who I think we all kind of suspected it was a shady character.
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Are you talking about that very heavy, angry look that he always wore?
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and I, like you said, don't think this directly leads to collusion by the Trump campaign specifically.
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a lot of Democratic experts' analysis and commentators aren't really taking it that way.
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But what I think all these investigations have shown us is that the corruption in at least the Democratic Party
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and their campaigns is definitely not squeaky clean either.
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And I would love to say that, oh, you know, this is great.
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This is going to increase accountability for them.
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I don't think it's going to change anything really.
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And, you know, frankly, with this whole who's who, like hot potato game of who's been collaborating with the Russians,
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I don't think we're ever, I don't know, I don't know if we're ever going to get that satisfaction or the vindication of, like, big prosecutions,
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like people like Hillary Clinton actually being held accountable or, I don't know, I'm not optimistic that anything will change.
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But I do know that from what I've seen, people who are against Trump, the Trump campaign, are very, very happy about this.
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I mean, we don't know who colluded with Russia.
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We don't really know what that phrase means anymore because either everybody did it or nobody did it.
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I'm, of course, this apparently major Trump apologist who will just defend anything he does.
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But, I mean, when we actually look at what some of these things are, things like opposition information and research,
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personally, I wouldn't see that the same way as, like, election ringing, right?
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And the term colluding with Russians is pretty vague.
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When we're talking about transferring millions of dollars, though, I think that is substantial, especially to a foreign entity.
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I think that brings up questions of campaign finance laws, if nothing else.
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Just, you know, just inquiring after, I guess, opposition research, though.
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And, you know, every campaign has oppo research.
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But we know that in this case, Hillary Clinton's campaign gave $12 million to get this oppo.
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Alicia, the White House is insisting that this indictment says nothing about President Trump or his campaign.
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Are they lying, or is this indictment, to borrow a phrase, a nothing burger?
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I think that it's hard for both sides to say that this is a nothing burger.
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But also, I think that you're going to see both sides.
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A friend, Carol Markowitz, who writes for the New York Post, brought this up.
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She's like, this is where you see both sides say there's nothing here, and this is where you see the true fans of both sides truly come out.
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The Hillary Clinton Democratic, you know, DNC fans are going to say nothing to say, or look at there, look at the other guy.
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And then the Trump people are going to say, oh, well, he didn't collude.
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We need to hold our side as accountable as, you know, we would want the Democrats to be.
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And I just got to say, this news cycle is amazing because now Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro and yourself have just used the names in so many ways.
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I'm a fan of Sarah Huckabee Sanders as the White House communications person now.
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But I got to say, like, she's now using an excuse that the Obama administration used of, quote-unquote, lower-level staffer.
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I mean, next we're going to hear that Donald Trump is just finding out about these things from TV.
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Also another excuse that was often used by the Obama administration.
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So, Sarah, I love you, girl, but come up with better talking points about this specific issue because you're reminiscent of the good old days of Where's Waldo when he was behind that same podium.
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And I think we can certainly both agree, whether you prefer Sanders or Spicer.
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That they are both vastly inferior to Mr. Mooch, Anthony Scaramucci, the finest man to ever hold sort of that position.
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Yeah, you have a soft spot in your heart for him, don't you?
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And as, you know, also on this whataboutism, we should make clear the indictment on Manafort is for lobbying that went on years ago, that went on between 2012 and 2014.
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People like myself speculated why would Donald Trump hire him in the first place when he had had these connections and had been known by numerous politicians and corporations and groups and lobbyists, et cetera, in D.C. as a guy that was Putin-friendly.
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And that was a red flag to a lot of conservatives way back during the primary when Donald Trump hired him in the first place.
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I think it was just to get through that convention.
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I think he hired him as a – I think he fired him shortly after the convention, and he wanted to basically knock out poor old Ted Cruz.
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I mean, he had connections going back a long way to Stone, who – you know, Roger Stone also owned a company with Paul Manafort.
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It is unclear exactly what Manafort's influence is.
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Well, and Corey Lewandowski – you know Corey Lewandowski is somewhere.
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I don't know what he's up to nowadays, and I don't really care, but he probably woke up really happy this morning.
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Because he and Manafort were known to have at it in Trump Tower and not get along very well.
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And Ivanka and Jared Trump sided with Manafort originally because they wanted Lewandowski out as campaign manager.
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So it's just – I wish I were a fly on the wall just to see the happenings of what the Trump family really thinks about this behind closed doors.
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And, you know, Corey Lewandowski is probably doing a happy dance today.
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Christmas came early for Lewandowski, no question.
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Your eminence, Mr. Bois, the indictment lists company A&B, one of which, if I were a gambling man, I would say is the Podesta Group.
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Now, they did undisclosed lobbying for which Manafort is being charged.
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Why hasn't Tony Podesta been indicted along with Paul Manafort?
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Well, we know from a NBC News report that was posted like just about an hour ago that most likely that the company's – company A&B is Mercury and, of course, the Podesta Group.
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Now, my reason as to why he says A&B could just be because one of those are named the Podesta Group.
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And that just automatically just puts John Podesta out there front and center.
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And I think possibly they just want to keep it all focused on Manafort and the Trump campaign.
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And as to why John Podesta has not been indicted yet, I mean, he has stepped down.
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We'll wait to see what materializes in the next couple days to see if an indictment is on the table for him.
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So we know that Tony Podesta just stepped down as the head of the Podesta Group amid this investigation.
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Do we wonder why this hasn't been prosecuted until now?
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Do you think, Mr. Bois, that this has something to do with the corruption of the Obama administration and the run-up to Hillary Clinton's presidential run?
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I mean, we all know that this Trump-Russia collusion thing is completely cooked up.
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And, yeah, I would not be afraid to speculate that, no.
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Well, I would because you might end up like Vince Foster or somebody, man.
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I'm not going to get into those conspiracy theories.
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Now, we do have to get into Kevin Spacey cashing in his gay-out-of-jail-free card as well as the beta males at BuzzFeed.
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Let me tell you, folks, on this indictment Monday, things are looking really bad for the Podestas,
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and they're throwing Hillary Clinton in with this too.
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There is going to be a surplus of leftist tears.
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You've got to make sure that you have the appropriate vessels so that you can collect them
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and enjoy delicious, salty leftist tears, hot or cold, no matter how you like them.
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After 58 years, Kevin Spacey has finally cashed in his gay-out-of-jail-free card.
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After being accused of trying to seduce actor Anthony Rapp 30 years ago when Rapp was only 14,
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Spacey sent out a statement neither confirming nor denying the incident, and then he came out as gay.
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A revelation only slightly less shocking than the sky's blueness and water's wetness.
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Was Spacey's first response the response, yeah, I don't remember if this happened.
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Was that too clever by half, or was it the best response he had to work with?
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I think that it was a very cynical but brilliant move by his PR team, because as we saw, the
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mainstream media decided to run with the headline as Kevin Spacey, award-winning actor, comes
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out as gay, instead of addressing the accusations that a now 40-plus-year-old actor made about
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him from a molestation attempt when he was 14 years old.
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And it was also very disturbing for me to read Spacey's words saying, well, you know, I was
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drunk at the time, and I don't remember if this happened or not.
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Yeah, I mean, we've all probably had a couple too many drinks, and we would know whether
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or not something like this happened, or had we perpetrated such a crime.
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He should have, if he knew that he wasn't guilty of this, and he could have said, no one
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else, you know, these people will vouch for me.
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I'm incredibly embarrassed, you know, something.
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And I mean, I'm not an attorney, but from my layman's view of it, it looked as if he
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acknowledged that, yes, the event did happen, but look over here because I'm finally coming
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There's been a lot of people posting on social media that they have friends and family members
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And Netflix announced just before your show started, Fox News, CNN, and numerous other outlets
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are covering it, that House of Cards has been officially canceled by Netflix.
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Well, that should have been canceled because the show's no good anymore.
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But it was really, this season, it's my favorite show and I couldn't even finish it.
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I was tweeting out some snarky comments last night about Spacey and actually I was a little
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surprised the conservatives were so happy that this guy in particular is going down because
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he always struck me as sort of quiet, private, doesn't rub his politics in our face.
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But, you know, I tweeted out something to the effect of, you know, the gay out of jail
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A gay friend of mine texted me this morning and he said, you know, comments like that are
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really flippant and they're myopic because this is a phenomenon that has happened in the
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gay community since the ancient Greeks that confused gay teenagers will look to older gay
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guys in their 20s or 30s and those relationships are prevalent and they happen and to pretend
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that they don't and to pretend that all gay relationships should be exactly like heterosexual
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relationships misses the point or it's off pitch.
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Now, this seems similar to basically what Milo Yiannopoulos was saying and what destroyed
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Does, I mean, when people make comments like that, is it just apologism for pederasty or
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pedophilia or does our rote reaction risk turning a willfully blind eye to a phenomenon that is
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Well, I think just because a phenomenon may or may not be common, that doesn't mean it's
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And I think as a society, we in general, we tend to minimize assault or molestation when
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And, you know, just hearing, I forget the actor's name, his account of the incident.
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I mean, you know, he was of this age, but he clearly, I think, doesn't feel like this
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was just this normal thing and it doesn't matter or, you know, anything like that.
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And I've, you know, I have heard people in the gay community, men in the gay community
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talk about these younger, older male relationships as if they're just this normal thing, kind
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And, you know, regardless, like we can throw around words like pedophilia, pederasty and
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kind of debate what, like, what is the age that it actually is pedophilia?
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I think regardless of, you know, strict definitions like that, when you look at it, these are relationships
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that have an unequal and uneven power dynamic and where I think people are taking advantage
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And I don't think, I don't think it's all right.
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And I really feel for these young men who are maybe confused and in these situations who
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have these predators who are out to take advantage of them.
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I think, I think if it's true that Kevin Spacey did this, it's awful.
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And I think that even since the Harvey Weinstein stuff, it's been become more apparent to me
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via friends and families and acquaintances and people's stories of, unfortunately, how
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many young men in our society are sexually assaulted that really weren't, like, the spotlight
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wasn't put on them during the hashtag MeToo campaign.
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And this is a problem that exists for men and women in the country.
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And I think roaming brings up a really good point that young men and teenage boys are typically
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I mean, we've seen this with the sexy teacher scenarios, right?
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Where were those teachers when I was in school, right?
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And really making light of these types of assaults on young men in the country.
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And I think it's something that needs to be addressed for sure.
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Mr. Bois, I always kind of liked Kevin Spacey, as I mentioned.
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Why are some on the right so gleeful that he has fallen down?
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I think it's mostly because by Kevin Spacey falling down, it's exposing the broader culture
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This has basically morphed now in just a couple of weeks from Harvey Weinstein to it's a full
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blown scandal in Hollywood akin to the Catholic Church that happened over there a decade ago.
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And so now no longer Hollywood can stand on their pedestal and go lecture us and say,
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Now reality has finally hit them and the fire is spreading.
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And I think they just see Kevin Spacey as just another one.
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And they want to know who's going to drop next.
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Unfortunately, you know, Kevin Spacey, it's happening to you.
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I mean, we've had Ben Affleck be accused of groping women and it doesn't appear that anything-
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Why can't we keep Kevin Spacey and knock out Affleck?
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Well, I mean, to get into some more conspiracy theory range here, mostly it's because Ben
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And I don't think Warner Brothers really wants their front man for one of their top franchises
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So they're going to do everything they can in their power to ensure the media tries to
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just downplay his allegations a little bit more.
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There's also a very big difference between a 26-year-old man assaulting a 14-year-old
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boy and Ben Affleck, who allegedly was a serial cheater.
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I mean, this is why Jennifer, a lot of the rumors were fueled by why Jennifer Garner decided
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to finally leave him after a decade of him cheating on her numerous times, inappropriately
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I mean, I feel like this is something that we talked about on an episode of Lady Brains
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over on Ricochet with my girlfriends the other day.
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All of us women have been, quote-unquote, victims of sexual harassment in the workplace at some
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But there's a big difference between a dude trying to smack your ass, excuse my French,
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you know, at a bar when he's drunk and you can respond to him versus a man luring you to
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his apartment, picking you up, throwing you on the bed, and then attempting to molest you.
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Oh, I absolutely agree that the severity of Spacey's allegations are far, far worse than
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I'm just talking about, you know, how far is the industry going to go with this?
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I mean, are they going to take allegations against Ben Affleck seriously, as they've
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Because other executives in the industry and agents have now been let go amidst harassment
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Or are they just going to, you know, stop it with Ben Affleck and say, OK, we're not going
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Well, I think it was specifically with the Spacey thing, more people need to fall because
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now it is coming out that it was a known thing by the cast and crew on his sets to keep young
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If it was known by the cast and crew, then it was known by higher ups and it was known
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by agents and it was known by, I mean, it's just, it's appalling to me.
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I would never agree to work with someone, let alone stay silent if I knew that that was
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And I think there is also a big difference in how the media is treating things like Spacey
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And there's also Terry Richardson, who was the photographer, because, you know, these are
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people who are generally behind the camera, behind the scenes versus actors who we all
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And studios have a lot of banking on their faces and their public image.
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So I think if, you know, studios had to choose between who they want to protect more, I think
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they would be more invested in protecting the actors whose faces and reputation people care
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more and know a lot more about than people behind the camera like Weinstein.
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Speaking of abuse and assault, we need to get on to the people assaulting and abusing our
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Former GOP House Majority Leader John Boehner is lashing out at conservative fellow Republicans
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like Mark Levin and Congressman Jim Jordan while he lavishes praise on Barack Obama.
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He accused Rush and Sean Hannity of having gone to the, quote, dark side.
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He reserved one-word, four-letter epithets for his House Republican colleagues.
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And Boehner said of Obama, quote, some would argue on the right that he did more to divide
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But I kind of reject that notion because it wasn't him.
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John Boehner, our former leader, ladies and gentlemen.
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Roaming, does he have a point or do these stupid comments just vindicate conservatives
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Honestly, I think they just vindicate the allegations that he was a rhino, not a real conservative.
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And I'm someone who also felt very let down by John Boehner.
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I remember when he was first given the speaker show, he actually teared up when talking about
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I don't know if you guys remember that, but he actually did cry when he was giving his
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And in fairness, he also cries when he orders appetizers at lunch.
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I don't know if he orders his next spray on tan.
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But just I think he kind of represents the GOP establishment, par for the course, not
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And so I'm actually not surprised that he's doing this.
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And I see him the same level as I see people like John McCain, who, you know, they're just
00:26:20.260
I mean, people like Trump, but also other members of the GOP.
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I don't know, people like Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, who aren't really towing the party line.
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And I think they care more about politics and protecting the status quo than actual conservatism.
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I don't even think of John Boehner as a conservative anymore, quite frankly.
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So I'm not surprised that he's saying all these things.
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Alicia, are the conservative media, are we unfair to politicians, regardless of what
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you think about Boehner's extremely stupid comments?
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You know, it's very easy from a studio with cameras to throw stones at people who aren't
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But these guys have to go out there, appease constituencies, strike deals.
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Should we have more empathy for our Republican politicians?
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I got to say, I would jump to defend the great one, Mark Levin, but I can't wait to listen
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to his radio show tonight, because I'm sure, and I know that he is more than capable of
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And full disclosure, I did produce the Sean Hannity radio show for seven years for the
00:27:16.740
And even though Sean and I sometimes disagree on politics, during the time that Boehner was
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Speaker, Sean was incredibly fair to then-Speaker Boehner.
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I personally booked him numerous times on the Sean Hannity radio show, heard on over 500 affiliates
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I even think that Sean helped him with a couple of re-election things.
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And it is unbelievable now how the tides have turned, and he's like moping in his whiskey
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Like, you know, Sean and Russell and Mark Levin were so rude to him at the time.
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And then even a couple months ago, he did an interview where he talked about, it's all
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The beautiful thing about this country is our First Amendment, that it allows Michael to
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sit there in his grandpa cardigan and say what he wants.
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It allows the great American Sean Hannity to, you know, sit in his studio in New York and
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And consistently, I actually think that you've seen that talk radio tends to represent the
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true voice of constituents and the true voice of the American voters far better than John
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Boehner ever had a grasp on, and that's why he lost his power.
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Mr. Boehner, I have interacted with many Republican politicians who have more contempt for their
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Do Boehner's comments validate this Bannon view of the world that we've been seeing, that
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the politics is not divided between right and left primarily, but primarily between the
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Yeah, I think this is just right in line with the John McCain's and the Mitch McConnell's
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just, you know, clearly not being a team player, just throwing people, there's hardworking people
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under the bus and turning Trump into some, you know, ogre that's like part of this like
00:29:15.300
It only fuels, like Ben Javiro said, this is the reason why Trump won, and it will only
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fuel his win in 2020 if they want to keep going like this.
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Okay, now we have to get on to our final story of the day.
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We're not science deniers from our friend Amanda Prestigiacomo at The Daily Wire.
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There, in an experiment on male attractiveness, where BuzzFeed fellas compete to see who's
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hottest, four males had their testosterone levels tested.
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Not one, these are Amanda's words, by the way, but they're just so beautiful.
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Rather, all the men testing below the level of a typical 85-year-old male.
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Moreover, three of the four men tested below the average range, and the male with the highest
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testosterone level, Eugene, still had a relatively low T-score.
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Now, this is a really personal issue for me, because these stupid glasses that I have to
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Roaming, why does our culture seem built for pajama boys?
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Well, you know, with this whole BuzzFeed thing, I saw this actually yesterday, the day before,
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on Twitter originally, and I was shocked, but also not that shocked.
00:30:28.920
And when I look at the guys in BuzzFeed, they're just the exact embodiment of what third-way
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feminism wants men to be and wants them to become, right?
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These beta cocks who have as much testosterone as the ladies on The View, right?
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But no, seriously, I look at them, and I look at these test results, and I think they are
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kind of the, I guess, the realization of the current narrative we're seeing that attacks
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toxic masculinity, and I think, I mean, I don't want to make too broad generalizations or assume
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motives or things about people who may adhere to the progressive viewpoint, but I do think
00:31:07.960
that a lot of the men I see attracted to that, all the activists, BuzzFeed, Vox, whatever,
00:31:13.000
HuffPo, they do kind of seem on the lower end of the testosterone scale.
00:31:18.700
And I think that says a lot about the ideology of how much they tend to play into things like
00:31:25.780
emotion versus things like facts and logic, which tend to be things associated with higher
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testosterone, masculinity, and men in general, which obviously these BuzzFeed individuals
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Do we have a cut of these guys just for a little context on what we're talking about here?
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Today we're going to find out which one of you guys is the hottest try guy, scientifically,
00:31:52.140
Today, more than ever, society and media appreciate hot men, like us, for instance.
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And we wondered if that sexiness could be boiled down to a science.
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We're here to find out if the prevailing theories about male beauty have any truth to them.
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The try guys are going to be conducting six experiments.
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We're going to draw our blood, measure our faces, and all sorts of wacky shit.
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I'm going to win all the categories today because I'm the most beautiful, beautiful
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Marshall, can you please destroy these glasses for me?
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Can you take these wherever you, like a nuclear waste site and make sure that they never see
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Alicia, is this a generational trend or is this just more evidence that there is a huge divide
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between the American people and these weird elite elites that are in media and journalism
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I mean, giving those guys the benefit of the doubt, I think they were kind of making fun
00:32:50.640
But I actually think that any conservative men that are watching your show right now should
00:32:55.400
be rejoicing because you have to compete with that and that ain't much, guys.
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So get out there, get married, be fruitful and multiply.
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This is my plan for conservatives to take over the United States again.
00:33:08.340
The then governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, I was talking to him one time at an event in
00:33:13.640
Indiana and we were saying, listen, it's looking really dire.
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How do we win the culture and win the politics?
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He said, well, you can either persuade them or you can find a nice girl and get married
00:33:36.940
A study came out recently which showed that more effeminate men are also more likely to
00:33:41.680
be socialist, which surprised, again, exactly nobody in the whole world.
00:33:46.860
Now, doesn't this observation imply that our political views are not entirely rational
00:33:52.900
but also shaped by something as elemental as hormones or else it just means that masculine
00:33:58.900
Doesn't this throw into chaos our idea that facts don't care about your feelings and we
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Well, that's why I asked it, pal, because I think it's pretty interesting.
00:34:13.540
As far as hormones, I mean, it certainly is built into the male character, absolutely, that
00:34:23.220
a male character is supposed to, the male is supposed to lay his life on the line for
00:34:28.220
the sake of his community and his family and his wife.
00:34:32.180
And I think the moment that that identity has gone out the window, which certainly has
00:34:35.980
in the past 50 years, and man and males are just basically sitting around and pleasuring
00:34:42.560
themselves and consuming things, I think the more effeminate their outlook becomes.
00:34:52.020
If you put a camera in my apartment, Paul, take it out right now.
00:34:55.100
Home only men are always going to be males and they're always going to have that aspect,
00:34:58.660
that natural part of it, but the socialization of them, of turning that into that energy,
00:35:03.800
that power into something that's useful, once that goes away, essentially what you're
00:35:08.660
going to have is just basically a bunch of boys, overgrown boys, and that's what happens.
00:35:13.840
Roaming, are our hormones, are they controlling our thought processes?
00:35:17.600
Are we just little people riding on the big elephant of the subconscious, or can we rely
00:35:25.260
I think we can rely on our faculties of reason, and I don't think hormones mean that no one
00:35:32.780
is logical, no one is rational, I just think hormones mean that some people who tend to
00:35:38.000
be more feminine and effeminate males, or women in general, rely less on their faculties,
00:35:43.580
And we've seen this in multiple studies, men and people who are more masculine, whether
00:35:48.180
it's men or women in terms of their hormone levels, they're more rational, more logical,
00:35:53.100
they care more about facts, and hormones like estrogen, which women have in abundance, and
00:35:58.380
apparently the BuzzFeed men probably do as well, that tends to make people more emotional
00:36:04.980
And I think when we look at leftist arguments, a lot of them are based on emotions versus actual
00:36:10.800
A lot of them are trying to make government into some big compassionate family, which is generally
00:36:17.540
So, you know, I don't think it's that no one's thinking, we're all just slaves to our hormones.
00:36:22.400
I think it's just that for our hormones kind of guide how much or little we depend on our
00:36:27.840
facts and logic, and for some people, that's very, very little.
00:36:32.820
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