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00:00:15.000Oakley doakley, so much to get through.
00:00:18.000You know, at the end of the week, it's been a long week and it's only Thursday.
00:00:20.000I mean, it really feels like it should be Friday at this point.
00:00:23.000So we're just sitting around the office making Star Wars jokes at this point.
00:00:26.000I won't spoil Star Wars further with the joke that I just made that is spectacular and that I stole from Ben Dominich over at The Federalist.
00:00:31.000But before we get to anything of real interest, and there's a lot of news happening, first I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Tracker.
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00:02:30.000Why would I possibly care what they have to say about whether Jerusalem should be Jewish territory?
00:02:35.000Why in the world would I have to care about that?
00:02:37.000Yet somehow we're supposed to care about this.
00:02:39.000We're supposed to care deeply that the UN, which is basically Mos Eisley,
00:02:44.000You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the United Nations General Assembly.
00:02:48.000I hate the United Nations so much that while I'm against the use of eminent domain to hand over to private businesses, because I think that that's illegal, I would be willing to make an exception if President Trump wanted to use eminent domain to bulldoze the UN and build a Trump Tower on top of it, I'd be fine with that.
00:03:02.000In fact, I think the best use of the UN would be to throw out all the diplomats and use it as an asylum housing project
00:03:09.000For all of the people who have to run from the garbage countries that occupy the U.N.
00:03:56.000More than a quarter of them are Muslim countries who hate Israel.
00:03:59.000And then, you haven't even gotten started with the Europeans, okay?
00:04:01.000Jews ain't exactly popular in Europe, as demonstrated by Exhibit A, the Holocaust.
00:04:06.000So, things have not gone well for Jews in Europe historically.
00:04:09.000Here's how the UN has voted with regard to Israel, a country full of Jews.
00:04:12.000Okay, UN Human Rights Council, which is supposed to be there to, you know, promulgate human rights.
00:04:17.000You might think that they would have some resolutions against China for being a repressive communist country that forces abortions on its citizens.
00:04:23.000Or maybe against North Korea, a giant prison state, a giant gulag.
00:04:27.000Or maybe against Venezuela, an oil-rich petrol oligarchy that has been using its oil to prop up its leadership while simultaneously forcing its citizens to shoot animals to eat in the streets.
00:04:37.000You might think that the UN Human Rights Council might have some things to say about that.
00:04:42.000From its creation in June 2006 through June 2016, a full decade, the UN Human Rights Council has adopted 135 resolutions criticizing countries.
00:05:01.000Literally half of all UN resolutions at the Human Rights Council criticizing a country have been directed not against North Korea, not against Iran, not against Saudi Arabia, not against Egypt, not against China, not against Venezuela, not against Cuba, against Israel, the only democratic free country in the Middle East.
00:06:41.000They don't even adopt resolutions against countries.
00:06:43.000They adopt resolutions against Israel.
00:06:45.000Literally, they adopt one resolution a year, singling out Israel for condemnation.
00:06:49.000The International Labor Organization was established to improve conditions of labor, regulate work hours, and fight unemployment, and ensure adequate living wages.
00:06:56.000Israel has the strongest economy in the Middle East, and it ain't close.
00:06:59.000At its annual conference, the ILO only produces one country-specific report.
00:07:06.000So, is it super shocking that the UN has decided to single out Israel and say that Jerusalem is not Jewish territory?
00:07:12.000Is it super shocking that the Palestinian Authority, a terrorist group, has come out and said, how dare the United States try to blackmail us?
00:08:32.000And then Nikki Haley goes full-bore Jean Kirkpatrick at the UN, and it is fantastic.
00:08:38.000Nikki Haley, you can see the, you know, I don't know whether to say that I have Haley-esque rage or she has Shapiro-esque rage, but whatever it is, we have mind merged here.
00:08:49.000Nikki Haley is now my, at the UN, not Nikki Haley all the time, but Nikki Haley at the UN, at the General Assembly, this is my spirit animal right here.
00:08:57.000The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation.
00:09:08.000We will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world's largest contribution to the United Nations.
00:09:15.000And we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit.
00:09:27.000America will put our embassy in Jerusalem.
00:09:30.000That is what the American people want us to do.
00:09:41.000Why we even spend a dime at this defunct, pathetic institution is beyond me.
00:09:45.000We should just bulldoze the damn place and we should make all these jackasses pay their parking tickets.
00:09:50.000We should make all these diplomats who have been out there raping people and they have diplomatic immunity, we should drag them into court.
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00:12:04.000And they've been having a really rough time of it.
00:12:06.000Because it turns out that the tax bill actually gives a tax break to pretty much everybody.
00:12:10.000The tax bill is going to be good for the economy, that it's not going to harm the economy.
00:12:14.000The real only point of pushback on the tax bill comes from some conservatives who are deficit hawks like Kevin Williamson, who says, listen, at some point we're going to have to get our spending under control.
00:12:23.000That's true, but that's not really a critique of the tax cut so much as it is a critique of our failure to cut our spending.
00:12:29.000Even if there were no tax cut, we'd have a massive debt.
00:12:31.000So we have to cut our spending, in other words, anyway.
00:12:34.000But the tax cut itself is slated to help the economy, and this is what's scaring Democrats also.
00:12:40.000The polling numbers have apparently started to turn around for the tax cut already.
00:12:43.000As people begin to see that this tax cut is not some sort of boondoggle to help the rich, the Democrats are beginning to panic.
00:14:01.000I woke up very early this morning, and I got in my car, and I looked around.
00:14:05.000I saw there was no one on the roads, and I figured everyone had been killed by the tax bill.
00:14:09.000But as it turns out, it was just 5.30 in the morning, and who the hell's on the road at 5.30 in the morning?
00:14:13.000So that was the actual solution, because at 9 o'clock, everybody was out doing their normal stuff.
00:14:18.000In any case, the Democrats are struggling to come up with the rationale for opposing this thing.
00:14:21.000So they've tried the Seth Meyers, it's a brazen heist.
00:14:24.000They've also tried the tax cuts just don't do anything.
00:14:27.000So we've heard this from a couple of Democrats saying, well, you know, at the lower end of these tax cuts, some families are only getting back like $80 a month.
00:17:14.000Now, how does he get from the is to the ought?
00:17:16.000How does he make that jump from people are jealous to we should humor their jealousy by stealing some people's money and giving it to others?
00:17:21.000How does he get from one to the other?
00:17:23.000The answer is, of course, that Ted Lieu believes like so many Democrats believe.
00:17:27.000That what you're jealous of is actually not that guy's property.
00:17:31.000What you're jealous of is not jealousy.
00:17:33.000It's rage at the injustice of a cruel universe that can be healed by an overarching government power.
00:17:39.000You're not jealous of that guy's Lamborghini.
00:17:41.000You're angry at the system that allows a douche like that guy with the Lamborghini to have a Lamborghini.
00:17:47.000And it's the system that's responsible.
00:17:53.000So if we just change the system, you two can have a Lamborghini.
00:17:55.000Or even better, no one can have a Lamborghini ever.
00:17:59.000This is the illogic here, which coincidentally violates at least two others of the Ten Commandments, right?
00:18:03.000The commandment that says you're not allowed to steal.
00:18:06.000It turns out that it is still theft if you vote for somebody to go steal something.
00:18:10.000If Austin and Mathis both come into this room and they say, we just told to vote, there are three of us here, the two of us vote to take half your salary, this would be theft.
00:18:21.000The idea that it's not theft so long as you vote for the theft is really stupid.
00:18:25.000So that violates another one of the Ten Commandments.
00:18:27.000Then there's the third of the Ten Commandments it violates, which is the notion of a supreme arbiter of the universe, a God, who is just and good.
00:18:36.000The idea that government can replace God and that government can provide to you all of the necessities that you seek.
00:18:43.000That is what Democrats are basically saying.
00:18:45.000That if a poor person exists and a rich person exists, government can come in and heal all woes.
00:18:49.000So the Democrats are beginning to show their hand, and it's an ugly hand, it really is.
00:18:53.000I mean, this is ugly stuff that you're hearing from the Democrats.
00:18:57.000And this is why you have people like Bernie Sanders, whose entire raison d'etre is jealousy, right?
00:19:01.000Everything Bernie Sanders is about is the idea that income inequality, this talking point, I've said it many, many times, I'll say it again, that income inequality is not an issue to me so long as my life is getting better.
00:19:10.000If it's an issue to you, even though your life is getting better, it's because you're a bad person.
00:19:16.000If income inequality is an issue for you, if everyone's life is getting better, but income inequality is still an issue for you, it shows a moral shortcoming.
00:19:25.000If you think income inequality is bad because it breaks social fabric, or you think income inequality is bad because it's a zero-sum game, I think you're wrong, but that's at least arguable.
00:19:35.000But if you just think that income inequality is bad because you're jealous,
00:19:39.000Or because you think the system is quote-unquote rigged, but you have no evidence the system is rigged?
00:19:43.000If everyone's life is getting better, but you're angry that everyone's life is getting better, that everyone's life level is going up, but the people at the bottom, it's going up this much, and the people at the top, it's going up this much...
00:19:53.000If you're angry about that, that makes you a bad person.
00:19:55.000Because what you should really be focused on is are you rising or are you falling?
00:19:59.000Is the society rising or is the society falling?
00:20:01.000Bernie Sanders, of course, works from the zero-sum game philosophy of life in which no one can rise without someone else falling.
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00:23:01.000Okay, so, the Democrats have been claiming, without any evidence to support it really, that somehow this is going to hurt the middle class, that corporations don't actually spend the money on people, that somehow the corporations just sock it away in their Scrooge McDuck money bins, and every evening they go swimming in the coins.
00:23:19.000The physics of that I always found puzzling, by the way.
00:23:20.000I'm not sure how Scrooge McDuck was actually able to penetrate the metal of the coins.
00:23:24.000He was always able to sort of jump between the coins.
00:23:26.000But I get the feeling that if you tried to jump into a pile of coins, you'd really hurt yourself in a severe way.
00:23:32.000The actual point that I did want to make is that the Democrats are claiming that this tax cut will be wildly ineffective, that corporations have no intention of helping you.
00:23:39.000They have no intention of helping you at all.
00:23:42.000And leading the charge here is Chuck Schumer.
00:23:44.000So Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader from New York,
00:23:49.000Here's what he had to say about the tax breaks.
00:23:55.000I'll explain why this is so hilarious and ironic in one second, because he basically says something and it gets debunked as he is saying it.
00:24:39.000Over the last 10 years, AT&T has paid an average tax rate of 8% a year.
00:24:46.000They have 80,000 fewer employees today than they had then.
00:24:51.000Tax breaks don't lead to job creation.
00:24:54.000They lead to big CEO salaries and money for the very, very wealthy.
00:25:00.000Okay, so here's the part that's hilarious and ironic.
00:25:03.000So as he's saying, AT&T, they didn't spend any money on their employees.
00:25:06.000They've paid very little taxes and they're spending no money on their employees.
00:25:09.000First of all, this is sort of reversing the polarity.
00:25:11.000One of the reasons corporations pay less in tax is because they're making less money or they've had realizable losses in the last year, right?
00:25:17.000I mean, it's not like they can just pay less taxes and get away with it.
00:25:23.000As Chuck Schumer was speaking, in the same hour, the same hour, AT&T announced that once President Trump signed the bill into law, they would quote, Oops.
00:26:10.000They're also going to give a one-time bonus of $1,000 to more than 13,500 of their employees.
00:26:15.000Wells Fargo, there's a lot more employees than that, announced they will increase their minimum hourly pay rate to $15, and they will aim for $400 million in philanthropic donations next year due to the newly passed GOP tax bill.
00:26:27.000Ryan Saavedra writes about this over at Daily Wire.
00:26:29.000Comcast has announced they're going to give $1,000 bonuses to over 100,000 eligible frontline and non-executive employees and invest $50 billion over the next five years in infrastructure based on the passage of tax reform.
00:26:41.000FedEx announced that they will ramp up hiring in response to the bill.
00:26:44.000They say they're going to see a $1.3 billion increase in annual profit, and they are promising extended hiring.
00:26:51.000CVS announced last month that they would create 3,000 permanent new jobs if the tax bill passed.
00:26:56.000So much for Chuck Schumer's talking point that businesses do not respond to economic incentives.
00:27:01.000Of course they respond to economic incentives.
00:27:06.000And as I discussed yesterday, when Ireland lowered its corporate tax rate from 40% to 12.5%, they basically tripled their GDP growth.
00:27:14.000When businesses have more money to spend, they either invest it, or they do stock buybacks, which raises stock prices, or they spend it on investment in employees and innovation.
00:27:24.000It might as well just go nowhere, as opposed to when Democrats spend the money, when it legitimately goes almost nowhere.
00:27:31.000And I will say another thing here about a differentiation that I think is important.
00:27:36.000So if you recall all the way back to the show last, it would have been December.
00:27:39.000So last December, a year ago, President Trump announced that he and Mike Pence had basically cut a deal with Carrier to keep 500 jobs in the United States with Carrier.
00:27:53.000It was basically a subsidy to Carrier.
00:27:55.000I don't like subsidies, and so when Carrier said they'd keep the jobs there, I said this is a cheap trick, it's a parlor trick, and I don't like it.
00:28:04.000When companies say a broad-based policy that affects millions of people across the United States is good for us or bad for us, that is necessary.
00:28:26.000Because it puts money in your pocket, right?
00:28:27.000This is what Democrats do for a living.
00:28:29.000For a living, Democrats go around telling people that food stamps are great, and the way you know it is because there's an EBT card in your pocket.
00:28:35.000Welfare is great, and the way you know it is every week when you go to pick up your welfare check, it's a little bit more because of me.
00:28:41.000The Democrats are constantly letting people know that they are dependent on government programs.
00:28:45.000Capitalists don't tend to spend a lot of time letting people know that they are reliant on capitalism.
00:28:51.000I don't run around the office telling people around the office, guys, you know what?
00:28:55.000You are reliant on me for your hiring.
00:28:57.000But not only that, you're reliant on the capitalist system.
00:29:00.000You're reliant on free market enterprise for your continuation of your employment.
00:29:24.000And people should be telling their employees this.
00:29:26.000The reason they should be telling their employees this is because otherwise, the Democrats have a stake in basically suggesting that employees and employers are on two sides of the ledger.
00:30:28.000Is it ridiculous the president is this way?
00:30:30.000Yes, but hey, the policy over the last three weeks has been pretty, pretty, pretty good.
00:30:34.000Okay, now, in a second I'm going to explain something that Trump said that is not true about this bill.
00:30:39.000And then I want to get back to some of the Democratic reactions to all of this, because some of the Democratic reactions are truly astonishing.
00:30:46.000So let's start with something President Trump said about Obamacare.
00:30:51.000When it comes to this bill, one of the things the bill does is it repeals the individual mandate.
00:30:55.000As I explained yesterday, the repeal of the individual mandate does not mean Obamacare has been repealed.
00:31:08.000The cost caps on what insurance companies can do.
00:31:11.000There are still heavy regulations on insurance companies across the country, which is one of the reasons why cutting the insurance mandate, the individual mandate, may result in higher prices in the individual insurance market.
00:31:22.000Because if you're forcing a bunch of healthy people, young healthy people to buy insurance in order to cover the cost for older non-healthy people, and then you take all the young people out of the system,
00:31:30.000The costs rise for the insurance companies.
00:31:32.000There are only two ways of filling that gap.
00:31:38.000And the other way to do it would be to backfill that gap by basically signing subsidies to the insurance companies with government cash.
00:31:44.000Unfortunately, it looks like the Republicans have sided with the second way.
00:31:47.000They're looking at the Alexander Murray bill to do exactly that.
00:31:50.000That'd be Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray of the state of Washington, this bipartisan bill.
00:31:54.000But Trump made an announcement that was somewhat disquieting here and should, I think, give people a little bit of pause going into next year because this has been a great last three weeks, okay?
00:32:03.000I've said it, I said it yesterday, the last three weeks, the last month of policy from this administration has been the most conservative policy of any policy I have seen in my lifetime.
00:32:13.000Now, granted, I don't remember the Reagan years particularly, but certainly in the last 33 years, I mean, as long as I've been alive, this is the most conservative policy that I've seen in the last three weeks ever, right?
00:32:26.000Much more conservative than anything George W. Bush did.
00:32:29.000But going into next year, the question is, are we going to keep up this?
00:32:43.000The individual mandate is being repealed.
00:32:48.000When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means Obamacare is being repealed, because they get their money from the individual mandate.
00:32:58.000So the individual mandate is being repealed.
00:33:00.000So in this bill, not only do we have massive tax cuts and tax reform,
00:33:07.000We have essentially repealed Obamacare, and we'll come up with something that will be much better.
00:33:14.000We have not essentially repealed Obamacare.
00:33:16.000We repealed a funding mechanism for the insurance companies, but all the regulations are still in place.
00:33:20.000Unless the Republicans remove those regulations, then they are basically enshrining a new government.
00:33:26.000I mean, if they basically are just going to give giveaways to sick people who can't afford insurance, then that is a new government entitlement program.
00:33:32.000The problem with that is that you're not always talking about sick old people.
00:33:35.000Those people are covered by Medicare already.
00:33:36.000You're really talking about young people who should have bought insurance and didn't.
00:33:40.000If you want incentives for people to buy insurance, then there has to be a punishment, right?
00:33:44.000An incentive system is based on reward and punishment.
00:33:46.000There has to be some sort of punishment for not buying insurance when you could have when you were younger.
00:33:50.000If you just pay for it, then there's no incentive.
00:33:52.000It's a pathway to a government-sponsored program.
00:33:54.000So I'm glad the individual mandate is gone, but it is not true that Obamacare itself has been taken apart.
00:33:59.000Now, the same thing is true with regard to DACA.
00:34:02.000Mitch McConnell is smartly saying that the Republicans should wait on pushing deferred action for childhood arrivals.
00:34:08.000This would be the Obama executive amnesty that Trump revoked, but then asked Congress to pass again.
00:34:14.000I guess the Republicans are going to put this off until next year.
00:34:16.000One of the reasons for that is that they don't want to sort of blot the joy that so many conservatives feel over Republicans finally having a signature piece of legislation.
00:34:24.000McConnell says they might do DACA next year.
00:35:24.000That's the vast majority of the American federal budget.
00:35:26.000That's the stuff no one is willing to touch.
00:35:28.000We'll see where the agenda goes from here.
00:35:30.000But I was talking with a member of the Trump administration last night.
00:35:33.000What I said is, I'm really hoping that this is the Trump administration turning the corner.
00:35:37.000If not, if this is just a high point, I'll celebrate the high point.
00:35:40.000But, you know, you sort of have to hold off the full-scale celebration until you know where things go next in terms of everything's hunky-dory from here on in, particularly with the approval rating so low.
00:35:49.000I mean, the fact is that Trump's approval rating is still down in the 30s.
00:35:53.000Not only has he not suffered any severe crises as president, the economy is doing really well and he just passed a tax reform package.
00:36:00.000Really, his approval rating should be about 53%.
00:36:02.000At the very least, it should be in the mid-40s.
00:36:04.000This is why I say, you know, Mr. President, please, just sign off on Twitter.
00:36:08.000Spend the next couple of weeks enjoying yourself.
00:36:11.000Because the Democrats will raise your approval rating for you.
00:36:14.000The Democrats will play your Hillary Clinton, right?
00:36:17.000Donald Trump won because Hillary Clinton was a garbage candidate.
00:36:20.000Republicans can win as long as Democrats continue to be insane.
00:36:23.000So, speaking of insane, Nancy Pelosi has apparently been digging into one of her grandchildren's high school reading list because every reference she makes is now some sort of literary reference, but a bad literary reference.
00:36:33.000Like a literary reference that makes no sense at all.
00:36:35.000So, she made a literary reference yesterday to Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol because she can't come up with an actual victim of the tax bill since it's just people keeping their money.
00:36:45.000But she can come up with a fictional reference, and that fictional reference comes courtesy of Charles Dickens circa 1843 in London.
00:36:53.000Let me just suggest to Nancy Pelosi, if you have to go all the way back to a fictional child in London in 1843 to find a victim of the tax bill, you're not very good at this.
00:37:01.000Here's Nancy Pelosi, those dentures a-slippin' and a-slidin', explaining that Tiny Tim will be unceremoniously sacrificed to the gods of capital.
00:37:09.000Simon has a rare disease and cerebral palsy.
00:37:14.000His mother spoke of how their family watches the Muppet version of A Christmas Carol and how Simon sees himself in Tiny Tim, another kind boy with braces on his legs.
00:37:24.000Unfortunately, this story, as of today, does not have the same kind of happy ending as A Christmas Carol.
00:38:16.000If you're a Democrat, by the way, and you're citing Tiny Tim, let me just suggest that you probably lay off the abortion stuff, because Tiny Tim is a kid with apparently some sort of genetic condition, living in poverty.
00:38:26.000So that would be like number one on your abortion target list.
00:38:29.000If Nancy Pelosi is around in 1838, and Tiny Tim is in his mommy's tummy, and they know that Tiny Tim is gonna have some sort of condition, and they're living in poverty, she tells mommy to get an abortion, and both cratchits to go into nude body painting in France.
00:38:44.000In any case, here is Jackie Speier in California, again, making a Tiny Tim reference.
00:38:48.000You know, this is the ultimate bad Christmas Carol story.
00:38:54.000This may be the most shameful day in the history of Congress.
00:39:00.000Today, in the House, we are going to shake down hardworking Americans for a 1.3 or 2.3, depending on how you count it,
00:39:12.000And at the same time, we're going to put 9 million kids in this country at risk.
00:39:24.000And these 9 million kids aren't eligible for Medicaid, and their families can't afford the Affordable Care Act because they have to pay a certain amount, and the subsidized amount doesn't cover the cost.
00:39:41.000Okay, she's just making things up now.
00:39:45.000Okay, the Congress is about to pay for the Children's Health Insurance Program.
00:39:49.000The vast, vast, vast majority of people who are going to be quote-unquote thrown off their insurance are opting not to be on insurance after the end of the individual mandate.
00:39:57.000Again, the Tiny Tim references are just absurd.
00:40:00.000I love when she says this is the worst bill in the history of Congress.
00:40:04.000Do you even 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, bro?
00:40:16.000How about the Alien Sedition Act, where we actually put a congressperson in prison?
00:40:20.000How about the public act that allowed FDR to establish Japanese internment?
00:40:24.000How about the Chinese Exclusion Act, which prevented Chinese people from becoming American citizens after immigrating to the United States?
00:40:29.000Or the Indian Removal Act, which set the road for the Trail of Tears?
00:40:40.000I do love that Nancy Pelosi made a second literary reference, which she also botched.
00:40:44.000She said that the tax bill is, quote, a Frankenstein, and anybody who's familiar with Frankenstein knows it was a creation, a monster that was created.
00:40:50.000Well, no, again, Frankenstein's the name of the doctor.
00:40:53.000The monster is not named Frankenstein, you moron.
00:40:56.000And then she says, do you know the ending of Mary Shelley's story?
00:42:26.000Okay, so, in just a second, we're gonna do some things I like and some things I hate, and we have some pretty good things I like and things I hate today for you.
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00:43:21.000This will make your blood run warm in the winter chill.
00:43:25.000It's just, it's the best thing that ever was.
00:43:27.000People tweet about it, people love it, people live it.
00:44:21.000The new True Grit is not my favorite movie.
00:44:24.000I don't know when Jeff Bridges decided that English was no longer his native tongue, but it's a
00:44:30.000It's of great irritation to me that Jeff Bridges has decided to speak like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady with a mouth full of marbles, because Jeff Bridges really is a good actor.
00:46:21.000A lot of things, actually, that Hollywood has been producing lately.
00:46:23.000And I watched a couple of movies on the plane the other day that I liked, and so I had no internet access, which is as close to hell for me as possible.
00:46:39.000This movie is actually about, you guessed it,
00:46:42.000Ted Kennedy basically murdering a woman.
00:46:44.000So the Chappaquiddick incident happened in 1969, July 18th, 1969.
00:46:49.000So apparently, it only takes Hollywood 50 years to come around to actually making a movie about an obviously publicized event.
00:46:56.000It took six months for them to come around to making a movie about Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, a nothing of a story that had made it for a crappy movie.
00:47:03.000It takes them five seconds to make a movie about Sarah Palin, but it takes them 50 years
00:47:10.00050 years to make a movie about a guy who probably would have been president except he left a woman at the bottom of a river and then swam to a house, went to sleep, woke up the next morning, and oops, she's dead.
00:47:20.000Yeah, Ted, turns out that's what you happen when you leave a woman at the bottom of a river.
00:47:25.000It was obviously manslaughter at best, murder at worst.
00:47:28.000In any case, the new movie is Chappaquiddick, and here's a little bit of the preview.
00:49:24.000So Teddy Kennedy was a disgusting perv his entire life.
00:49:27.000Just because he put his name on some important legislation means nothing.
00:49:31.000But it's just, it is astonishing that it took Hollywood 50 years to come around to the idea that the Kennedy family might need a little bit of scrutiny.
00:49:39.000Okay, time for a couple of quick things I hate.
00:50:16.000And on the subject of truth, the actor confesses to Galloway honestly that he would decline to screen the film at the White House if President Donald Trump asked him to.
00:50:24.000Hanks explains, He continues, It's totally taken to the ramparts, by the way.
00:50:28.000It is taken to the ramparts to make a movie about
00:50:46.000Lionizing the press and then not going to the White House.
00:50:49.000You're a real, real heroic activity, Tom.
00:50:54.000Again, he's not even been asked to go to the White House.
00:50:55.000It's not even like Trump was asked and then he refused.
00:50:58.000He's just preemptively saying, I wouldn't go to the White House to meet Trump.
00:51:01.000I wouldn't go to the White House to screen my movie.
00:51:03.000Yeah, these are people of real high moral quality, real high moral standards, all of them defending Bill Clinton up to the last five minutes when it became inconvenient to defend an alleged rapist.
00:51:17.000So I talked a little bit about this cat person story, this short story called Cat Person from The New Yorker, about this 20-year-old woman who has sex with a 34-year-old guy, and then she regrets it, and somehow she's the victim.
00:51:30.000That woman who wrote that story is now going to receive a $1 million advance.
00:51:35.000A $1 million advance for writing a story about awkward sex.
00:51:39.000Welcome to America, where I guess that you telling your story and making yourself into a victim or creating a fictional character who's a victim, not because they're victimized, but because they made bad decisions, this makes you very, very wealthy.
00:51:50.000I don't think it says a lot of good things about the country.