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00:01:22.000Okay, so the big breaking news over all of the day yesterday and most of the day today.
00:01:41.000is Roy Moore, the very controversial Alabama Senate Republican nominee.
00:01:45.000He is, he was hit with a series of allegations by the Washington Post.
00:01:50.00030 sources have talked to the Washington Post about Roy Moore's alleged history of when he was in his early 30s trying to go out with women who are anywhere from 14 to 18 years old.
00:02:01.000The most serious allegation is brought by one particular woman
00:02:05.000who was 14 years old named Leigh Corfman and she alleges sexual assault by Roy Moore when he was 32 and she was 14.
00:02:14.000The allegations themselves are sickening.
00:02:15.000There are some people today who are trying to make light of the allegations by saying, well, you know, he's 32 and she's 16 or 17.
00:02:25.000I'm exactly the age that Roy Moore was when Roy Moore was apparently doing this stuff.
00:02:29.000The idea of even going anywhere near a high school freshman is so perverse and sickening.
00:02:35.000And anyone who ever tried to do that to my sister or my daughter, I would be very tempted to grab my shotgun from my safe, drive them to a remote spot, and take them out.
00:02:43.000Really, if someone were molesting my 14-year-old sister, that would be the proper solution.
00:02:47.000Now, the question is whether these allegations are true or not, but here's what the Washington Post says, and we owe it to the people who have spoken on the record, by name, to at least take the allegations seriously.
00:02:58.000And the reason I say that is there's this tendency on some people, on part of some people,
00:03:03.000On both the right and the left, to basically let things go when it's your side.
00:03:08.000Right, so Teddy Kennedy drives a car off a bridge, there's a woman in the back, she dies.
00:03:11.000But Teddy Kennedy's really an important politician, he's part of the Kennedy family, so we let it go.
00:03:15.000Bill Clinton, he can molest the help, doesn't matter, so long as Bill Clinton is for abortion.
00:03:19.000Nina Burleigh of Time Magazine says that she would perform oral sex on him as long as he keeps abortion legal.
00:03:24.000Right, we see this with Donald Trump in the last election cycle.
00:03:26.000All these allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment hit, and a lot of people say, well, you know, lesser of two evils.
00:03:32.000You still gotta vote for him, or at least we still, we at least have to voice support for him.
00:03:35.000Now, I'm not going to equate voting for a candidate with necessarily supporting everything that the candidate is, does, and has done in the past, because there is more to it than that, but there is a moral question here as to whether you are allowed to either vote or support a candidate who does these sorts of things, and
00:03:53.000This is something that I had serious problems with during the election cycle.
00:03:56.000The lesser of two evils mentality, particularly in politics, will lead to the worsening of all of our politicians.
00:04:02.000Because basically, it allows you to get away with anything, right?
00:04:04.000Teddy Kennedy can murder someone, and that's totally fine, so long as Teddy Kennedy votes the right way.
00:04:09.000Bill Clinton can molest the hell, totally fine, so long as he votes the way, the right way.
00:04:12.000Donald Trump will be the right way on abortion for the right.
00:04:14.000Therefore, who cares whether he was saying that he could grab women by the P word, and then there were allegations of sexual assault by a number of women, some of whom were underage, right?
00:04:26.000The reason I hate it is because in the end, the American people are going to have to decide what kind of people we are.
00:04:32.000Are we the kinds of people who care so much about the policy and so little about the character of our politicians that we are willing to elect the worst people in America just to defeat the other side?
00:04:41.000Or are we going to have to get together and collectively bargain together against our own immorality?
00:04:45.000Because what we have here is a basic classic prisoner's dilemma.
00:04:48.000I've talked about game theory on the program before.
00:04:50.000A prisoner's dilemma is essentially a situation
00:04:54.000in which your dominant strategy is to do the worst possible thing.
00:04:57.000So, to elucidate what a prisoner's dilemma is for purposes of this discussion, think of two guys.
00:05:03.000Confidential, starring Kevin Spacey, and in that movie, they capture two suspects, they put them in separate rooms, and then they tell each suspect, if you rat on the other guy, then we will let you off.
00:05:14.000But if you do not rat, and the other guy rats you out, you're gonna get the max sentence.
00:05:17.000If you both rat on each other, then you're going to get somewhere in the midway, right?
00:05:22.000You're gonna get, instead of a 10-year sentence, you'll both get a five-year sentence.
00:05:24.000So the best solution for these guys would be to not testify to anything, right?
00:05:28.000The best solution would be for them to keep their mouths shut because then they'd be released.
00:05:32.000The second best solution for both of them is if they testified the other guy did something wrong, right?
00:05:38.000So if they both testified the other guy did something wrong, that's the best possible solution because if you say the other guy did something wrong, you get out and the other guy goes to jail, right?
00:05:45.000Well, the problem is, unless you really, really trust the other guy, you're both gonna cheat.
00:05:49.000You're both gonna say the other guy did something wrong, you're gonna tell on each other, and you're both gonna go to jail.
00:05:53.000That's what's happening here with regard to bad people who are politicians.
00:06:00.000We don't trust that the left is gonna uphold any sort of moral standard with regard to their candidates.
00:06:05.000We look at all of these politicians that they've supported, despite how disgusting they are, and we say, well, if you're not gonna support, if you're not gonna withdraw support from politicians who do disgusting things, why should we?
00:06:16.000Why should we hamper ourselves by handing you an Alabama Senate seat by not supporting somebody like Roy Moore?
00:06:23.000This is immoral logic because there's an actual moral... The difference between a normal prisoner's dilemma and this is that there's an actual moral imperative for people to come out against sexual assault.
00:06:33.000That does not exist in a normal prisoner's dilemma situation.
00:06:36.000But you can see why everyone is falling into this trap, right and left.
00:06:41.000The left looks at the right, they say, you supported Trump, why shouldn't we support Clinton?
00:06:44.000The right looks at the left and says, you supported Clinton, why shouldn't we support Trump?
00:06:47.000Each looks at the other and they say, you guys support bad guys, why shouldn't we support bad guys?
00:06:51.000And so we all end up supporting bad guys.
00:06:53.000We need to have a bargain with one another as Americans.
00:06:56.000Everyone needs to say, I am not going to support bad people.
00:07:01.000Now, here are the allegations about Roy Moore.
00:07:03.000The easy way out for people on the right has been over the past 48 hours to basically say, well, it's not been proven.
00:07:09.000One of the problems with sexual assault allegations is it's very difficult to prove them, right?
00:07:50.000On Thursday, The Washington Post dropped a bombshell report on Alabama Senate Republican nominee Roy Moore.
00:07:55.000They allege he engaged in a sexual assault of a 14-year-old and that he solicited multiple other underage women some four decades ago.
00:08:01.000So according to the Post Report, this is over at Daily Wire, in 1979, Moore, then 32 years old, allegedly met a 14-year-old girl named Leigh Corfman outside a courtroom.
00:08:09.000He asked for her phone number, picked her up at her home, took her to his home, where he, quote, took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes.
00:08:15.000He touched her over her bra and underpants, she said, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.
00:08:20.000After that, she asked him to take her home, and he complied.
00:08:24.000That would be just one allegation, but there are multiple allegations of Moore propositioning women who are very, very young.
00:08:30.000Three other women between the ages of 16 and 18 say Moore propositioned them during that same period.
00:08:34.000The Post adds that none of the women say that Moore actually forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact, so it is slightly different than this most egregious allegation.
00:08:42.000According to the Post, Wendy Miller says she was 14 and working as a Santa's helper at the Gadsden Mall when Moore first approached her.
00:08:49.00016 when he asked her on dates, which her mother forbade.
00:08:51.000Debbie Wesson-Gibson says she was 17 when Moore spoke to her high school civics class and asked her out on the first of several dates that did not progress beyond kissing.
00:08:59.000Gloria Thacker Deason said she was an 18-year-old cheerleader when Moore began taking her on dates that included bottles of Matias Rose wine.
00:09:06.000The legal drinking age in Alabama was 19.
00:09:07.000The last one, you see the Washington Post trying to stretch a little bit.
00:09:11.000You know, a 32-year-old guy dating an 18-year-old girl is not my cup of tea.
00:09:14.000But, suggesting that the real wrongdoing is that she drank.
00:09:17.000Okay, underage drinking is a thing in the United States.
00:09:19.000The idea that 18-year-olds don't drink is just silly.
00:09:21.000In any case, you know, approaching 14-year-olds for dates?
00:09:31.000Korfman, by the way, voted for President Trump in 2016.
00:09:34.000She says she did not come out earlier on this story because she is thrice divorced and has children and was afraid that her story would be doubted.
00:09:40.000So a lot of people on the right are saying this looks like a coordinated hit.
00:09:43.000There's one month out from an election and Roy Moore suddenly is being hit with these charges.
00:10:10.000They all gave their names and they all told similar stories.
00:10:13.000So that adds some credibility to these particular allegations.
00:10:17.000So the question becomes, number one, whether people should support more, and the second question becomes whether more should be moved off the ballot involuntarily.
00:10:27.000It's very difficult to get more removed from the ballot.
00:10:29.000If you do that, you can't replace them with anybody else.
00:10:31.000There's a sore loser law in Alabama that makes it nearly impossible for the Alabama Republican Party to replace them on the ballot.
00:10:37.000Now you remember, back all the way to 2002,
00:10:40.000The Democrats had a similar problem with a senator named Bob Torricelli, Bob the Torch Torricelli.
00:10:44.000He was involved in corruption, and the New Jersey Democrats sued to have him removed from the ballot and replaced on the ballot by someone else.
00:10:51.000And the court ruled that was okay, which was a violation of the law, and a lot of Republicans were very upset about it.
00:10:57.000Well, this is a similar sort of situation.
00:11:04.000Senate issued a statement responding to yet another baseless political attack by the Washington Post, a paper that has endorsed Judge Moore's opponent.
00:11:11.000Moore campaign chair Bill Armistead released the following statement on Thursday afternoon, quote, Judge Roy Moore has endured the most outlandish attacks on any candidate in the modern political arena, but this story in today's Washington Post alleging sexual impropriety takes the cake.
00:11:23.000National liberal organizations know their chosen candidate Doug Jones is in a death spiral and this is their last ditch Hail Mary, so he's relying on the media bias charge.
00:11:32.000Right, you do have to say that the media bias charge carries some weight when the media, you know, the same Washington Post way back when, I believe it was actually Newsweek way back when, was quashing Lewinsky stuff.
00:11:42.000But, you know, the Washington Post is against Roy Moore, but that's not changed the credibility of the accusers, right?
00:13:11.000They say that the garbage is the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation.
00:13:15.000You know, the question is whether Roy Moore is going to actually file a lawsuit.
00:13:18.000Even if he files a lawsuit, no guarantee that the lawsuit is either going to succeed or that it proves that Roy Moore is innocent of the charges.
00:13:25.000You can file a lawsuit and then later drop the lawsuit, right, without being countersued, presumably.
00:13:32.000According to the press secretary, she says that Trump said, quote, he believes if allegations are true, he will do the right thing and step aside.
00:13:39.000He's calling for more to step aside if the allegations are true.
00:13:42.000But that statement, if the allegations are true, is a pretty dicey one because, again, there's no way for anyone to confirm whether the allegations are true except based on the word of the person who's talking about this.
00:13:52.000So, I know there are a lot of people who are thinking about, you know, why wouldn't these women come forward earlier?
00:13:59.000And I think that it is important to read some of the accounts of women who didn't come forward earlier.
00:14:04.000I'm just trying to be intellectually honest as I can be about this because I don't know and you don't know.
00:14:07.000I don't know whether it's true and you don't know whether it's true.
00:14:10.000All we can do is go based on the allegations that are made by four different named women in the Washington Post report and somewhat substantiated by supposedly about 30 witnesses, right?
00:14:19.000So, you know, people who were talked to at the time.
00:14:23.000I'm going to get to why I think it's important to read the accounts of women who have kept silent for a long time about people who molested them in just a second.
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00:15:59.000As we drove, I chatted incessantly, happy to have him all to myself without people trying to get his attention in the church parking lot.
00:16:05.000When we got to my house, I was shocked that he walked me inside my dark house, even more surprised when he lingered in conversation, and thunderstruck when he kissed me right on the lips.
00:16:12.000At 12 years old, I swooned over my good luck.
00:16:14.000He picked me out of all the girls at church, but the relationship, especially after he moved on, reset my moral compass.
00:16:18.000If all the church conversation about morality and sexual purity was a lie,
00:16:22.000On Thursday all of this came back to me.
00:16:38.000After I read one sentence in the Washington Post.
00:16:40.000The article was about allegations that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually touched a teenager when he was in his 30s.
00:16:46.000A sentence from Leigh Corfman, who was 14 at the time, jumped out at me.
00:16:55.000After her life spiraled with drinking drugs boyfriends, she attempted suicide two years later.
00:16:59.000In fact, she didn't come forward earlier because she worried that her three divorces and poor financial history would make people doubt her story.
00:17:04.000This is one of the reasons why women don't come forward sooner, is because they do carry guilt when there are situations like this.
00:17:10.000And sexual predators, this is well known, whether or not Roy Moore is one, is still questioned, you know, but...
00:17:16.000It is true, sexual predators tend to target girls who are in a vulnerable state.
00:17:20.000They tend to target girls who they can shed some sort of shadow on their credibility, if push had come to shove.
00:17:28.000They'll target girls who are fragile emotionally, and seen as unstable, and then if the girl says something, they'll say that it was fabricated.
00:17:35.000This is very well known, that this is something that older male sexual predators will do.
00:17:44.000When I say I'm going to leave it up to you, I'm going to say, here's my perspective, and then I'm going to say that you can have your own perspective.
00:17:49.000I believe that these allegations are credible.
00:17:51.000I believe the allegations are credible because this woman went on the record, and because there are multiple women who allege that Roy Moore reached out to them as teenagers.
00:17:58.000And that he went as far as they would allow them to go, and then stopped when they said no.
00:18:39.000But you have to decide whether you believe the allegations are credible, and then you have to take a good hard look inside yourself and determine whether you think the allegations are credible, but you're looking the other way because you think that it is more important to elect someone who has done bad things, but may implement an agenda that you like.
00:18:54.000If that's the case, then we really have reached the point where character means nothing in American politics, like nothing.
00:19:40.000Of course you can be a victim 40 years later.
00:19:41.000And then you're seeing the people who are the most invested in Moore's victory speaking out on behalf of Roy Moore.
00:20:00.000So Steve Bannon, who tried to take credit for Roy Moore winning the primaries against Luther Strange.
00:20:06.000Again, I don't think Bannon picked Moore.
00:20:08.000I don't think Bannon's support of Moore actually pushed Moore to victory.
00:20:12.000But Bannon has now tied himself to Moore's leg.
00:20:15.000Now he's making the case in the same way that he made the case with regard to Donald Trump and the p-word tape, he's now making the case with regard to Roy Moore that it's the media that we have to oppose here.
00:20:24.000The media report on alleged bad behavior, and we can't say that the bad behavior is bad.
00:20:30.000And this does draw a distinction here, right?
00:20:32.000And this is the same distinction I made a little bit during the campaign, and that is, if you vote for Roy Moore while acknowledging that these allegations are credible,
00:20:40.000You know, I have doubts about whether that is good voting logic, but I think that it is possible for you to say I'm voting for a bad man to stop a pro-abortion zealot from entering Congress, for example.
00:20:52.000It's not a logic I hold, because I think the character of our public servants matters, but
00:20:56.000I think that you can hold two thoughts at once, that somebody's a bad person and that you voted for them because of the lesser of two evils, right?
00:21:02.000But what you're seeing from some people on the right is they're actually attempting to minimize what Moore's allegations were, right?
00:21:09.000They're not actually saying the allegations aren't true.
00:21:10.000They're saying even if they are true, it's not a big deal.
00:21:13.000This is a step even beyond voting for Moore.
00:21:16.000This is excusing evil behavior if you believe the allegations are true.
00:21:20.000Here's Steve Bannon basically doing that.
00:21:22.000But it's interesting, the Bezos-Amazon-Washington post that dropped that dime on Donald Trump is the same Bezos-Amazon-Washington post that dropped the dime this afternoon on Judge Roy Moore.
00:21:57.000It was the Washington Post that was doing a huge amount of research, actually, on Hillary's emails.
00:22:02.000And despite all the rips on the mainstream media, and I'll get to the mainstream media in just a second and their hypocrisy, but for him to suggest that it's the Washington Post, it's just a hit job, dismiss the allegations out of hand because you don't like the allegations.
00:22:13.000Steve is too smart for this, but Steve is just manipulative enough for this.
00:22:17.000Steve's smart, and him doing the Washington Post-Amazon-Bezos thing is just...
00:22:22.000Steve knows better than this, but Steve is doing it because obviously Steve wants to be seen as the head of this Trumpist movement, and therefore he feels like he has to stand by Roy Moore.
00:22:30.000Breitbart is out in full-scale defense.
00:22:38.000I was there when they threw their own reporter under the bus after Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, grabbed her by the arm hard enough to bruise her and then lied about it publicly.
00:22:47.000So it's no surprise to me that Breitbart has made itself into an arm of the Moore campaign and is now basically doing PR for Moore on this story.
00:22:56.000Joel Pollack, who's an editor over there, and I know Joel pretty well, Joel was on MSNBC last night.
00:23:00.000Again, these are not defenses that moral people should be making.
00:23:05.000What Joel's about to say here is not a defense that a moral person should make.
00:23:09.000The defenses to Moore should be one, these allegations are not credible, and here's why I think the allegations are not credible.
00:23:14.000That would be the only real moral defense of this.
00:23:17.000And then two would be, maybe he's guilty of all of this, but it's politics, everybody's dirty.
00:23:44.000The article was talking about teenagers.
00:23:45.000I mean, you can argue that maybe they shouldn't be writing about teenagers, but the point is it's not inaccurate.
00:23:50.000My point is that the Post has successfully put a narrative out, at least on MSNBC and in other places, that there's this pattern of teenagers.
00:23:57.000There's really, as far as we know, the facts could come out differently, but as far as we know, there's only one relationship that's been alleged that's problematic.
00:24:13.000And if you're allowing yourself to become the shill of a campaign to the point where, you know, you're saying stuff about a guy on your own side you would never say about anyone on the other side, again, flip the script for a second.
00:24:22.000If there are allegations that Bill Clinton had molested a 14-year-old and that he was asking out 16-year-olds and making out with them when he was 33, and an assistant DA, which is what Roy Moore was at the time, what do you think the right would be doing?
00:24:34.000All I'm asking here is a little intellectual consistency.
00:24:36.000Not because I want a Democrat to take the seat in Alabama.
00:25:17.000To me, it is, to me, the number one problem with human beings just as a species.
00:25:22.000Our biggest problem is that we are unwilling to live with cognitive dissonance.
00:25:27.000We are unwilling to live with the fact that some of the people we may like politically are bad people or do bad things.
00:25:32.000And so instead, what we end up doing is throwing all morals under the bus in order to protect people who we think are actually doing bad things.
00:25:38.000Again, Joel making the case that a 33-year-old making out with a 16-year-old girl is not a problem is pretty amazing.
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00:27:09.000Okay, so, none of this is to ignore the hypocrisy of the left when it comes to these sorts of sexual assault and sexual harassment allegations.
00:27:17.000Bernie Sanders, for example, he comes forward, he says that Judge Moore should step aside.
00:27:22.000I first have to ask you about this revelation about a man who could be your colleague in a matter of weeks, whether you think the Republican Party should rescind his nomination?
00:27:31.000Let us hope that he will not be my colleague or anybody else's colleague.
00:27:36.000You know, I think you have heard, Chris, that there are a number of Republicans who are saying that at this particular time, given these horrific charges against Mr. Moore, that it would be appropriate for him to step aside.
00:27:47.000And again, it's a, you know, I may not, I may agree with Bernie Sanders, but where was Bernie Sanders on Bill Clinton?
00:27:55.000And this is the logic that so many people are using today.
00:27:57.000They're using this logic, I use this logic too, with regard to Bob Menendez saying, you know, it would be nice if the media presented, you know, one-tenth
00:28:04.000The effort on Bob Menendez that they will on Roy Moore.
00:28:08.000Now people are saying, well, yeah, but they've got reporters at Bob Menendez's hearing, right?
00:28:11.000They've got Politico and CNN has covered it.
00:28:13.000It's true, but the New York Times is a very large newspaper, okay?
00:28:17.000There are a lot of pages in that newspaper.
00:28:18.000Is Bob Menendez on page one or is he on page A11?
00:28:20.000You can cover stuff and still bury it.
00:28:23.000Okay, so Newsbusters has done a pretty good study on this, and here's what they found yesterday, okay?
00:28:28.000This is from September 6th to November 10th.
00:29:15.000If you want to know why everybody is lowering their standards, it's because nobody has any standards.
00:29:19.000If the media were consistent about this stuff, if the media said that corrupt people should resign, then everybody would be on the same page.
00:29:26.000But it's very difficult for you to say that people of the other guy's party should resign, but people of my own party should remain.
00:29:33.000That's a very difficult allegation to make.
00:29:34.000Again, another one of the people who's been doing this is Stephen Colbert.
00:29:38.000Stephen Colbert goes after, as you'll see, both Donald Trump and Roy Moore in this particular clip.
00:29:44.000Besides the 14-year-old girl, the Post talked to three other women who say Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18, and he was in his early 30s.
00:30:22.000We're going to get to Hollywood in just a second, where the sexual allegations are flying fast and furious.
00:30:27.000And yet, you're seeing that this stuff was allowed to go on in Hollywood and everybody knew about it for 40 years and nobody did anything about it.
00:30:33.000I do want to point out another area of media hypocrisy, and that is really media malpractice.
00:30:42.000Said that I think Sean Hannity's coverage of President Trump has been rather sycophantic, but it was very unfair.
00:30:47.000Last night, the entire left media jumped on Sean, suggesting that Sean had defended child molestation.
00:30:53.000Here's Chris Hayes on MSNBC, suggesting that Hannity defended child molestation.
00:30:58.000Over the past month, Senate Republicans have made it something of an art form out of ignoring questions about Roy Moore's basic fitness for office.
00:31:03.000A man who was removed twice from the Alabama Supreme Court for ethical reasons.
00:31:06.000A man who believes that, quote, homosexual conduct should be illegal.
00:31:09.000A man who once said Congressman Keith Ellison shouldn't be allowed in Congress because he is Muslim.
00:31:20.000What I did not anticipate was watching a bunch of conservatives today bend over backwards to defend molesting a child, and yet somehow that's apparently where we are.
00:31:32.000I thought I'd lost my capacity for shock, but reading, like, these are just some of the statements from the local Alabama officials who are talking to Daniel Dale today at the Toronto Star about this behavior.
00:32:58.000It just demonstrates how politicized all this stuff has become.
00:33:01.000We should all be on the same page about this stuff happening, about how it's bad.
00:33:05.000Right, and I think that the fact that we are not demonstrates how much politics has infused our lifeblood and poisoned the well, really poisoned the well.
00:33:13.000Okay, so I want to talk about Louis C.K.
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00:34:26.000So speaking of hypocrisy, the entire Hollywood infrastructure that spent years basically making excuses for everyone in Hollywood and ignoring it, but went after Donald Trump and is now going after Roy Moore, well, they got hit hard again yesterday.
00:34:38.000Louis C.K., the allegations are, is that Louis C.K.
00:34:40.000has a nasty habit of touching himself in inappropriate ways before unsuspecting women.
00:34:44.000In 2002, Louis C.K., who, by the way, there's this, there's a sort of hot take online that you can't like Louis C.K.'
00:34:51.000's comedy now that bad stuff has come out about him.
00:35:44.000CK apparently asked two female comedians in 2002 to come to his hotel room and then he proceeded to get naked and pleasure himself before them.
00:35:52.000That was not his only time doing this.
00:35:53.000He did it in 2003 to Abby Shachner apparently.
00:35:58.000And this story from the New York Times resulted in the cancellation of the premiere of his new movie as well as Stephen Colbert's late night show appearance.
00:36:06.000Apparently, in the new movie, there's a scene where Charlie Day, playing one of the characters, mimics publicly pleasuring himself, and in which characters appear to dismiss rumors of sexual predation.
00:36:39.000Alright, let's talk about Kevin Spacey for just a second, okay?
00:36:41.000Because the allegations about Roy Moore and Kevin Spacey are actually quite similar.
00:36:45.000The allegation about Kevin Spacey was that he took a 14-year-old to a party and then brought him into the bedroom and tried to sexually molest him.
00:36:52.000The allegation about Roy Moore is that he picked up a 14-year-old and brought her back to his house and tried to sexually molest her.
00:36:58.000And the allegation is, by the way, exactly the same in the sense that when the 14-year-old said to Spacey, stop, apparently Spacey stopped, and when the 14-year-old said to Roy Moore, stop, Roy Moore apparently stopped.
00:37:07.000Now, some people are saying, well, Spacey didn't deny the allegations, Moore is.
00:37:11.000This is, you know, it's true that that is a significant difference.
00:37:14.000It is also true that if Kevin Spacey had denied it, would you believe it?
00:37:17.000Would you believe it if Kevin Spacey had denied it?
00:37:47.000There's a movie out by Noah Baumbach, who is not my favorite director.
00:37:52.000I really don't like his work very much.
00:37:53.000But the Meyerowitz stories on Netflix, which is now getting all sorts of, it's getting rave reviews and also it's getting buried because Dustin Hoffman was accused of sexual harassment and he stars in the movie.
00:38:04.000He was seen as somebody who would be up for an Oscar nomination probably for this.
00:40:22.000He's a jerk who sees himself as a genius.
00:40:24.000He basically ignored Adam Sandler when Adam Sandler was a kid, but he was very warm to Ben Stiller.
00:40:28.000Ben Stiller didn't turn out to be artistic, but he went out and made a lot of money.
00:40:31.000Adam Sandler ended up being kind of a house husband.
00:40:34.000And so the whole movie is sort of about their relationship with Dustin Hoffman.
00:40:38.000What's fascinating about it is that it's meant to, I think the movie is trying to say that art is worth it, but there is one key speech that Adam Sandler gives where he basically says, I have to think that my dad was a genius because otherwise he's just a jackass, basically.
00:40:53.000And it does demonstrate, I think, in a backhanded way how the artistic community thinks about itself.
00:40:57.000It's okay to be a bad person so long as you create good art.
00:41:00.000I think embedded in here is one of the messages that is plaguing Hollywood right now.
00:41:03.000That Hollywood actually believes that if you make good art, that justifies you being an awful human being.
00:41:09.000And Dustin Hoffman sort of gets away with it in the film, being an awful human being.
00:42:10.000The idea that anyone wants to be shot wherever they go, that's why we own guns, it's just asinine.
00:42:14.000The idea that everyone who voted for Trump is a racist, it's just disgusting and asinine.
00:42:17.000The fever's not going to break because everyone has a fever, okay?
00:42:20.000The reason everyone has a fever is because our politics have taken over our morality, and Hillary Clinton is one of the main drivers in that.
00:43:19.000But I think it's... It's implausible to me that there are that many planets and that many stars and nowhere has a one-celled organism lived.
00:43:29.000Kathy says, Hey Ben, you've held very strong political opinion since you were young.
00:43:32.000Has having children changed any of your earlier positions?
00:43:36.000Not really, because I think I like the way I was raised.
00:43:38.000I mean, I think that one of the things that, when you have kids, what tends to change your positions is you tend to get a little bit stricter on moral matters, but I grew up in an area that was strict on moral matters, and I grew up in a good situation, so I never felt the need to buck them.
00:43:51.000I think a lot of people move from sort of libertarianism toward conservatism when they have kids.
00:43:55.000I was already conservative socially, so there's no place for me to move.
00:43:58.000Janie says, I'm working on a paper concerning judicial review.
00:44:01.000I've always been enticed by your objections to judicial review.
00:44:03.000I've heard your rudimentary arguments against it, but would like to dive a lot deeper into the issue.
00:44:07.000What works or authors do you recommend besides Waldron?
00:44:10.000If judicial review were abolished, would there then be a need for written constitution?
00:44:13.000There'd be a need for a written constitution so that we would at least have a document around Richard Raleigh, right?
00:44:18.000You still have to swear your oath to uphold the Constitution in every office.
00:44:21.000Judicial Review would just not make the judiciary the final repository of judgment on Judicial Review.
00:44:27.000There are a bunch of books on Judicial Review and the problems with it.
00:44:30.000Bork has talked about it extensively in Tempting of America.
00:44:33.000There are also... I'm trying to remember the name of the fellow who... Very, very famous book on Judicial Review.
00:44:41.000I'll have to look it up and I'll get back to you.
00:45:37.000What the tax dollars should be used for are two separate questions.
00:45:39.000I don't think tax dollars should be used for healthcare, because in the end, your healthcare is individually your responsibility, whereas fire and police protection are in the end communal responsibilities, since fire can jump home to home, and because crime has communal effect.
00:45:53.000Okay, Sarah says, hey Ben, you've advertised your ability to better my life via subscription to the Daily Wire.
00:45:57.000Alright, so I'm an annual subscriber and a current student at UCLA, and I cannot get a spot to listen to you come speak next week.
00:46:01.000Can I cash in on your offer to better my life by finding me an extra seat to attend?
00:46:05.000Email me, Sarah, and I will do my best.
00:46:06.000Well, I think that, first of all, I think that a lot of what Trump says on Twitter is really dumb.
00:46:11.000I mean, have you, like, this has been a thing that I've been saying for years now.
00:46:28.000I think that you can uphold conservative principles without having to defend everything Trump does.
00:46:33.000This is a big mistake I think people make.
00:46:35.000So, don't let that be the hill you die on, in other words.
00:46:37.000Don't die on the hill of Trump's Twitter is great.
00:46:40.000That seems to be a bad hill to die on politically.
00:46:43.000Hi Ben, I have heard your opinion on abortion numerous times as an avid listener.
00:46:47.000My question is what is your opinion on the morning after pill?
00:46:49.000I'm truly curious and appreciate your opinion.
00:46:51.000So my opinion on the morning after pill is that the morning after pill is an abortion pill.
00:46:55.000Again, once a human life has been conceived, meaning that the egg has been fertilized, then you are talking about the destruction of that
00:47:07.000No, I don't believe that government ought to be able to bargain on my behalf against my employer.
00:47:10.000It is my job to bargain on my behalf against my employer.
00:47:11.000I am for private sector unions that do just this.
00:47:24.000I'm for private sector unions that do just this.
00:47:26.000I am not for public sector unions that take advantage of tax dollars or legislation that restricts my right to contract with someone freely.
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00:47:42.000One passage of the Bible that has always interested me is the story of the Tower of Babel, which obviously comes right after the story of Noah.
00:47:47.000I've always struggled with this passage because I don't see what would be wrong with the people building a city and a great tower.
00:47:51.000I was wondering if you could elaborate on the meaning of this passage.
00:47:54.000So I actually was planning on doing this next week, but I may as well do it now.
00:47:57.000The basic idea of the Tower of Babel is that it's communitarianism at its worst.
00:48:01.000So the idea of the Tower of Babel is that they're not building the tower to better the lives of the inhabitants.
00:48:05.000They're not building the tower in order to do anything useful.
00:48:08.000It specifically says they're building a tower in order to challenge God.
00:48:11.000In other words, the idea is that we are going to build these massive edifices to demonstrate the capacity of humans as a community to build amazing things.
00:48:19.000And the Midrash, you know, a lot of the commentaries on the Torah,
00:48:22.000They talk about the idea that if a human being, the tower was so great, that if a human being would die in the building of the tower, they would just take the body and stack it into the tower.
00:48:30.000And then we would stop to bury the guy.
00:48:32.000The idea here is that this is much more like a fascist regime.
00:48:34.000That it's a fascist regime that directs all of the communal labor toward the creation of these massive monuments, not toward the betterment of individuals' lives, not toward the betterment of family situations, but instead a community directed not toward the betterment of individuals with value, but directed instead