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00:00:21.000So I guess that we have to set that workplace counter back to zero.
00:00:25.000You know, like the one that says, no sexual harassment allegations today, we have to set that one all the way back to zero from one yesterday.
00:00:32.000Every single day, there are new prominent people who are being hit with sexual harassment allegations and we'll go through them.
00:00:37.000We'll also explain how it is that Congress gets away with it because they have this very sophisticated system where you're not able to detect
00:00:42.000Which Congress people were actually sexually harassing or sexually molesting to help.
00:00:47.000Plus, I do want to get to a theory that I have going about why it is that modern society has actually seems to have accentuated the incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
00:01:01.000We'll talk about that in just a second.
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00:02:56.000I have to say, I don't know what it is about Congress.
00:02:58.000Is there something that enlivens the prostate in Congress?
00:03:03.000Is there something in politics that just allows men's prostates to work longer than normal?
00:03:07.000Because John Conyers in 2015 was 86 years old and was apparently hitting up the interns for sexual favors.
00:03:15.000I hope everything, all the plumbing is working correctly for me when I'm that age, but I also know that I'm not going to be hitting up 20-year-old interns when I'm 86 years old.
00:03:23.000In any case, documents from the complaints obtained by BuzzFeed News include four signed affidavits
00:03:27.000Three of which are notarized from former staff members who allege that Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, repeatedly made sexual advances to female staff that included requests for sex acts, contacting and transporting other women with whom they believed Conyers was having affairs, caressing their hands sexually, and rubbing their legs and backs in public.
00:03:45.000Four people involved in the case verified the documents are authentic.
00:03:48.000And the documents also show, this is the important part, the secret mechanism by which Congress has kept an unknown number of sexual harassment allegations secret.
00:03:55.000A grinding, closely held process that left the alleged victim feeling, she told BuzzFeed News,
00:04:00.000That she had no option rather than to stay quiet and accept a settlement offer to her.
00:04:31.000Alleging that she was fired for refusing his sexual advances and ended up facing a daunting process that ended with a confidentiality agreement in exchange for a settlement of more than $27,000, which, by the way, is a nothing settlement.
00:04:42.000I mean, if you were wrongly fired after your boss demanded sex from you and you only get $27,000, that is a nothing of a settlement.
00:04:49.000The settlement came from a conure's office budget rather than the designated fund for settlements.
00:04:53.000Congress doesn't have an HR department.
00:04:55.000Instead, congressional employees have 180 days to report a sexual harassment incident to the Office of Compliance, which then leads to a lengthy process involving counseling and mediation, and requires the signing of a confidentiality agreement before a complaint can go forward.
00:05:09.000You actually have to go direct to a court and try to sue, or you have to go through this compliance process that requires you to keep your case a secret, which is really horrifying.
00:05:16.000After this, an employee can choose to take the matter to federal district court, but another avenue is available, an administrative hearing after which a negotiation and settlement may follow.
00:05:24.000And the agreement says that the complainant agrees she will not disseminate or publish or cause anyone else to disseminate or publish in any manner disparaging or defamatory remarks or comments adverse to the interests of Representative John Conyers, the office of Representative John Conyers, or any of the office's present or former employees.
00:05:41.000A lot of members of Congress have said that this raises major concerns.
00:05:44.000Members have argued that 90 days is too long to make a person continue working in the same environment with their harasser, that interns and fellows should be eligible to pursue complaints through this process, and that it is unfair for the victim to have to pay for legal representation while the office of the harasser is represented for free by the House's counsel.
00:05:59.000In this case, one of Conyers' former employees was offered a settlement in exchange for her silence that would be paid out of Conyers' taxpayer-funded office budget, and then they would rehire the woman as a temporary employee, and they would pay her through employee funds, so it looked as though she was still working and then she was let go, as opposed to there was a settlement to let her go after she was sexually harassed.
00:06:34.000So, well done, Congress, for creating a process that protects Congress people against their own sexual misconduct.
00:06:43.000Apparently, a bunch of women have come forward about Conyers.
00:06:47.000Apparently, the employee said in her affidavit that Conyers made sexual advances toward her.
00:06:50.000I was driving the congressman in my personal car and resting my hand on the stick shift.
00:06:54.000Conyers reached over and began to caress my hand in a sexual manner.
00:06:57.000The woman said she told Conyers she was married and not interested in pursuing a sexual relationship.
00:07:00.000She said she was told many times by constituents it was well known Conyers had sexual relationships with his staff and said she and other female staffers felt this undermined their credibility.
00:07:09.000A male employee said he witnessed Conyers rub the legs and other body parts of complainants in what appeared to be a sexual and inappropriate manner.
00:07:15.000Conyers said he needed to be more careful because bad publicity would not be as helpful as he runs for reelection.
00:07:20.000He ended the conversation saying he would work on his behavior.
00:07:24.000Great behavior by another member of Congress.
00:08:09.000Apparently, eight women have told the Washington Post that longtime TV host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances on them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks, or genital areas.
00:08:43.000The women were employees or aspired to work for Rose at Charlie Rose from the late 1990s to as recently as 2011.
00:08:49.000So, I have a few notes on all of this.
00:09:07.000Note number one is, it is amazing to see how many women say that the reason they didn't come forward is because they were afraid of repercussions within the industry.
00:09:19.000In Hollywood, in journalism, in politics, there are repercussions for women who speak out against people who sexually harass or sexually assault them.
00:09:27.000Their names are forever linked with these people.
00:09:29.000It's hard for them to get a job elsewhere because now they try to apply for a job, and people at this new job say, well, maybe the complaint was false.
00:09:35.000Maybe she's just, you know, the kind of person who's constantly complaining about things, and we don't want to hire her.
00:10:14.000Because we have to ask ourselves a question.
00:10:16.000Why is it that so many of these guys think they can get away with this?
00:10:18.000Why did Charlie Rose think he could get away with sexually harassing 22-year-old girls when he was in his 70s?
00:10:23.000Why do you think he could get away with just asking them to come over his house and then showering publicly, naked, and then hitting on them?
00:10:30.000Like, what made him think that it was okay?
00:10:33.000Well, misconduct thrives when there's no accountability.
00:10:36.000Historically speaking, we've always had powerful men who exhibit atrocious behavior.
00:10:40.000Typically, those were members of the aristocracy.
00:10:43.000Those were people who could actually exercise power over somebody.
00:10:46.000There were people who could, you know, there's no real evidence that prime anocta ever took place, the idea that nobles would actually go into peasant villages and on the night of a wedding grab the bride away and have sex with her.
00:10:56.000That's sort of mythical, but the idea that it did exist came from peasants who were saying, this is how lords and ladies sort of treat us.
00:11:03.000That there are these aristocrats, that there are these landed classes who would treat people badly because they had power over you and how could you fail to accede to their requests.
00:11:15.000There's that feeling, not with regard to sex in the movie, but with regard to just generalized treatment.
00:11:20.000That if somebody has power over you, sometimes you gotta keep your head down and there's nothing that you can say about it.
00:11:25.000So the question is, in an egalitarian, free association society like ours, why is it that so many of these guys thought they could get away with it?
00:11:33.000I mean, you could see people getting away with it in a time when kings could behead political opponents, in a time when aristocrats could throw you off their land and ensure that you never were able to work anywhere else and you turned into a starving beggar.
00:11:44.000But in an area where, you know, women are free to work all over the United States in various industries, why were all of these powerful men, why did they believe they could get away with it and why did they get away with it?
00:11:54.000And this is a sad truth about Americans.
00:11:56.000We treat our new aristocracy the same way peasants treated the old aristocracy, with deference.
00:12:05.000Elite status in each of those industries doesn't just mean that they have opportunities for brutality, but there's a knowledge that if you engage in this sort of brutality, people are going to look the other way.
00:12:16.000A lot of Americans seek to curry favor with the powerful, and so there's going to be a lot of opportunities for these guys to engage in sexual misconduct.
00:12:23.000Does anyone really think that women were dying to meet Harvey Weinstein?
00:12:26.000The reason women wanted to meet Harvey Weinstein is they thought that he could help their career.
00:12:29.000So that creates the opportunity for misconduct.
00:12:31.000And then, there is the failure of consequences for misconduct, and that's because the public offers no consequences.
00:13:02.000But we have to stop with the idolatry, okay?
00:13:04.000You can't idolize the aristocracy, whether you're talking about the modern-day aristocracy or whether you're talking about the aristocracy that has existed historically.
00:13:41.000The idea being that men are inherently pigs and evil, and if we just rush forward to disown our own sex, then therefore we'll have done some great grand good.
00:13:50.000You get the same thing from white people who intend there's a racist crime, white person against black person.
00:13:55.000We've got a bunch of white people saying, I'm ashamed for my white privilege.
00:14:02.000The reason that it's galling is because it goes to something deeper here.
00:14:06.000You know, conservatives, traditionalists, they look at what's happening right now in Hollywood and journalism and politics and we say, yeah, yeah.
00:14:16.000Not just because prominent people have always done this, but because human beings are inherently capable of sin.
00:14:21.000Conservatives look at human beings differently than people on the left do.
00:14:24.000People in conservative circles, particularly traditional and moral circles, they look at human beings and they say, we are all capable of sin.
00:14:31.000Men particularly have certain sins that attach to their nature.
00:14:34.000Men are more driven to treat women like sex objects than women are driven to treat men like sex objects, for example.
00:15:02.000Chesterton notion that the difference between the left and the right is how we treat rules.
00:15:06.000The left comes to a fence in the middle of a field and says, I see no reason for this fence, and they dismantle the fence.
00:15:13.000The right comes to the fence in the middle of the field and they say, I don't see a reason for this fence.
00:15:18.000I'm gonna go learn what the reason for this fence is, and then if the reason is bad, I'll dismantle the fence.
00:15:23.000Okay, the fences that existed for thousands of years were built up around the idea that men were inherently sinful, that men had these drives, and that you needed to build fences around men.
00:15:34.000Specifically, I mean, this is a very Torah-based concept, a Judaic-based concept, the idea of fences around the Torah.
00:15:39.000You're gonna build up prophylactic rules that prevent people from engaging in behavior they otherwise would behave in.
00:15:46.000You know, conservatives have always said that men left unchecked will act like pigs.
00:15:49.000We recognize that men tend to see women as potential sex objects, and that without boundaries, men would treat women as sex objects.
00:15:56.000But in order to combat that behavior, it wasn't that conservatives sat around and nodded at that behavior.
00:16:00.000We said, no, here's a bunch of rules that can help combat that behavior.
00:16:16.000So you didn't have men going around and victimizing women sexually.
00:16:19.000The idea was that women would not be expected to have sex with men unless it was in the confines of a committed relationship, and men would not be able to have sex with women unless it was in the confines of a committed relationship.
00:17:14.000The counter-suggestion is that it's not so clear that consent has been had in non-marital situations where consent has not been publicly proclaimed.
00:17:40.000And now we're gonna actually, like, go down the checklist?
00:17:42.000Of course, there's no proof of this thing unless it's actually written, so apparently you need a yes-means-yes physical checklist in places like California.
00:17:49.000That's not, number one, how sex works, but number two, what that's doing is it's actually trying to do the same thing that marriage did before.
00:17:56.000Marriage was a public proclamation that now you are in a committed and consensual sexual relationship with someone.
00:18:03.000And the implication was that without that marriage, we don't know.
00:18:07.000We don't know whether the woman consented or not.
00:18:44.000There is a rule that is basically the Pence rule in Judaism.
00:18:47.000It's called yichud, and the idea is that you're not supposed to be alone in a room with a woman to whom you're not married with the door shut, specifically to minimize the possibility of sexual misconduct by a man.
00:18:57.000All of these things were based not on the idea that men shouldn't control themselves, but based on the idea that a lot of men don't control themselves, and that's why we should have rules preventing men from getting into situations that put women at risk.
00:20:04.000It must be that the rules themselves are to blame for the exploitation.
00:20:07.000If we just retrained men, if we somehow perfected human nature and made it so that men didn't see women as sex objects anymore, maybe if we could just teach men, maybe if we could just re-re-enshrine certain basic feminist notions in men, then all of this would go away.
00:21:02.000And so now the left is ad hoc trying to put new rules back in place.
00:21:05.000Now the left is trying to put rules that they're not even clear on back in place.
00:21:08.000I saw, for example, a poll yesterday that showed that 25% of American women said that a man asking a woman for a drink was sexual harassment.
00:21:18.000Is that a more reasonable rule than the idea that sex should be confined within marriage?
00:21:23.000Is it really a reasonable rule that if a guy asks a girl for a drink, that's sexual harassment?
00:21:28.000Or that if a guy says to a girl that she looks pretty, that this constitutes sexual harassment?
00:21:34.000The rules that the left are now setting up are actually significantly more puritan than the rules that conservatives set up over the course of thousands of years that were tried and tested and largely worked.
00:22:05.000How exactly are we supposed to distinguish these rules that are set up on the basis of radical subjectivism?
00:22:11.000The left has created a society where you know that there are landmines everywhere, but you don't know exactly where the landmines are until it's too late and you've stepped on one.
00:22:18.000In fact, we learn where the landmines are by people stepping on them.
00:22:22.000All of this is not to say there shouldn't be rules.
00:22:24.000The case I'm making is that there should be consistent rules.
00:22:26.000And the left is so funny because on the one hand they're saying rules make people worse, and on the other hand they're setting up through the back door all of these rules that are non-equally applied, arbitrarily applied, used as a club to beat down other people, or are insufficient to protect women.
00:24:20.000Only a proactive reinstitution of checks and balances in society is going to help.
00:24:25.000And in order for us to get there, we're going to have to recognize that human behavior is not eminently malleable.
00:24:29.000In fact, human behavior is pretty rigid.
00:24:32.000And the notion that you can ignore the rigidity of human behavior because you just wish to and you wish it were different, that's not going to help anybody.
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00:25:50.000Okay, so these are very serious topics, but we do not treat them seriously because we don't treat anything seriously in the United States anymore.
00:25:58.000We basically treat everything like a joke.
00:25:59.000Sexual harassment becomes very serious business when it's a political opponent of yours.
00:26:03.000When it's a political ally, then you just sort of brush it off.
00:26:07.000Actresses on SNL and writers and producers on SNL, 36 women wrote a letter in support of Al Franken, who, you know, there's a picture of grabbing the boobs of a sleeping woman, so he's a class act.
00:26:18.000Representative Jackie Speier, who has been talking about how there are members of Congress who are sexually depraved, she comes out and she says she's not going to ask Franken to resign.
00:26:26.000Democratic commentator, our contributor Sally Cohn, came out today and tweeted, time for Al Franken to go.
00:27:14.000It feels like an inflection point in American culture.
00:27:16.000And I hope that it is because I think that pigs should be cast out on their ear.
00:27:19.000But do I think that's really where this is going?
00:27:21.000No, because I think too many people have a stake in the current system and in protecting men, more importantly, who have engaged in impropriety under the current system.
00:27:29.000I think there are too many members of the media, too many members of politics, too many members in Hollywood.
00:28:10.000It's amazing to me you get drafted not knowing how to shoot a basketball.
00:28:13.000Like, this seems to me the number one priority.
00:28:15.000But in any case, his father, LeVar, had started... He's made a name for Lonzo basically by being a loudmouth and saying his son is better than Michael Jordan, which is absurd.
00:28:22.000Michael Jordan could shoot and play defense.
00:28:25.000And LeVar Ball then took on Donald Trump.
00:28:28.000So his other son, LiAngelo, went to China and started shoplifting in China, which is a genius move.
00:29:43.000So President Trump gets them out of jail in China, but the problem is the plane ride?
00:29:48.000So, LeVar Ball, obviously a member of higher intelligence at work, even Shannon Sharp, who's come in for serious criticism on the Ben Shapiro show before, even he says, um, LeVar, you're being an idiot.
00:29:58.000I can assure you, even the people that dislike President Trump the most would agree that LeVar Ball is in the wrong in this situation.
00:31:03.000So it turns out that she says she's not been able to get any work since holding up a severed head of President Trump, a mock-up of a severed head of President Trump that has less to do with the fact that Hollywood likes Trump because they don't than the fact that Kathy Griffin is terrible at her job.
00:31:17.000But now she's making a living running around complaining about how everyone is mean to her.
00:31:22.000I think I should be able to get my life back.
00:31:24.000So, I know I took a picture that offended a lot of people, but this wall of crap has never fallen on any woman in the history of America like it has on me.
00:31:34.000So, and by the way, I know about Eartha Kitt, and I very much encourage you to look her up.
00:31:40.000But even Eartha Kitt didn't have, like, Fox News.
00:31:44.000Uh, um, she's the most victimized woman in American history.
00:32:45.000And you are required, by God, by nature, you are required to treat other human beings with respect and decency because they are worthy of respect and decency.
00:32:54.000We are an entertainment culture that treats people as disposable commodities and then we're shocked when people are treated as disposable commodities.
00:33:01.000We should be shocked, because every so often we're shocked into an awake state.
00:33:05.000I have a feeling that we're gonna fall back asleep again, which is really horrifying.
00:33:08.000Okay, I have much more to say on this topic and others.
00:33:11.000We're going to do a significant deconstructing of the culture today, involving many old songs that you will recognize, but have never really listened to the lyrics to.
00:33:19.000Or if you have, and you let them get away with it, then shame on you.
00:34:44.000We are the largest, fastest-growing conservative podcast in the nation.
00:34:52.000Alrighty, okay, so I want to briefly discuss a more serious topic, more serious than Kathy Griffin and LeVar Ball anyway, and that is this AT&T deal.
00:35:00.000So there's been a lot of talk about the DOJ, the Trump DOJ, is going to crack down, they're filing a lawsuit to stop the merger of AT&T
00:36:20.000They're in competition with a bunch of other different companies.
00:36:23.000And Time Warner, obviously, is in competition with a lot of other networks, including Fox News.
00:36:28.000What this has led some people to believe is the real reason that Trump is cracking down, that the DOJ is cracking down, is because Time Warner contains CNN, and Trump doesn't like CNN, so he's trying to damage CNN.
00:36:36.000The DOJ apparently wanted Time Warner to sell CNN away from Time Warner, to separate it off before it sold itself to AT&T.
00:37:01.000Okay, and I think that that is going to be relevant in these court cases.
00:37:14.000It's why, you know, President Trump really should not have been speaking out about CNN and then using that as an excuse.
00:37:22.000I mean, he'll say things like, the Washington Post, Amazon, Bezos consortium.
00:37:27.000Right, and then if he would crack down on Washington Post, you'd have to imagine that it had less to do with law than it had to do with bias.
00:37:32.000Now the same thing is sort of true of CNN.
00:37:33.000He's free to criticize CNN, but he was talking openly during the campaign about how much he hated CNN, and then in the same breath saying that CNN Time War is trying to make a deal with AT&T.
00:38:32.000But, like, the entire conclusion, the last... I don't know why every movie now seems like we have to have a monster fight at the end that involves tremendous use of CGI.
00:38:44.000So those are the things about it that I don't like.
00:38:45.000The other thing I don't like about it is that Ben Affleck, who appears to have developed a serious case of fat face, is... I thought in the last Batman v Superman, which I thought was wildly underrated by the way, I thought it was really mistreated by people at the theaters, The Director's Cut is actually a good movie.
00:39:00.000The Director's Cut is a very enjoyable movie.
00:39:02.000It is not a 40% on Rotten Tomatoes movie.
00:39:09.000I'm not gonna see Justice League twice, I don't think it was as good.
00:39:11.000The only truly horrifying DC movie that I've seen in the last four years was Suicide Squad, which is truly a piece of rotten, pernicious garbage.
00:40:04.000When you look at the poster and you see that Superman's logo is included in the poster, it's not a giveaway that Superman appears in the film.
00:40:10.000But there's a point where the Flash meets Superman, and let's put it this way, when they meet, it's very funny.
00:40:13.000There's one little bit that's very, very funny.
00:40:16.000I thought that the introduction of Cyborg is actually quite well done.
00:40:19.000So I'm not a huge Cyborg fan in the comics, but I thought that they did a decent job with Cyborg.
00:40:24.000I thought they really did a poor job with Aquaman.
00:40:26.000Aquaman is one of the cooler characters in the comics.
00:41:54.000It's not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I have a basic rule of thumb, as I say, when it comes to Rotten Tomatoes.
00:42:00.000If you want to use the Rotten Tomatoes score as sort of a proxy for how good a movie is, you have to subtract 20 points from every Marvel movie and add 20 points to every DC movie.
00:44:07.000Every time I say that, I know I'm foreclosing my possibility of appearing on The View, but I really doubt that I'd ever get an invitation on The View because... I mean, let's be real about this.
00:44:16.000If The View ever invited me on, it would be the most entertaining hour of television in the history of television.
00:44:20.000I mean, it would be unbelievable, so...
00:45:25.000Is it now my necessity that I have to bring your spouse into my home and provide for your spouse?
00:45:30.000Or, do I just think it's a violation of human rights for you to murder your spouse?
00:45:34.000This idea that in order for me to say you shouldn't murder your baby, that I have to pay for your baby is so nonsensical.
00:45:41.000Now, we can have arguments as to what is the best policy for children.
00:45:44.000We can have arguments over whether there is a real problem of incentivizing women to have children out of wedlock when the government is going to pay for them.
00:45:53.000Because the single motherhood rate has skyrocketed in the years since welfare was instituted.
00:46:14.000Does that have anything to do with murdering the baby?
00:46:17.000This idea that I don't want you to kill someone and therefore I have to make them a part of my immediate family or pay for them is insipid.
00:46:44.000But it's something that the left loves to use because they're trying to evade responsibility for the idea that it's fine for a woman to kill her baby because she's poor.
00:46:51.000That's really what they're saying here.
00:46:52.000They're really saying that if I'm not going to pay for your baby, you should be allowed to kill your baby, which is an insane argument that they would never actually make.
00:46:59.000But that's really what they're saying.
00:47:00.000If you get to the root of the logic, that is the logic that they are using.
00:47:07.000Okay, Charles Manson was not a product of the counterculture.
00:47:12.000What's funny about this column is that when you actually read the column, you can see that the author is getting so close to saying something true and then shies away from the true thing.
00:48:22.000He says, Mr. Manson was not the endpoint of the counterculture.
00:48:25.000If anything, he was a backlash against the civil rights movement and a harbinger of white supremacist race warriors like Dylann Roof, the lunatic fringe of the alt-right.
00:48:32.000Now, what's hilarious is that he stops one step short.
00:48:53.000Before you dismiss that possibility, recognize that the alt-right has been supremely critical, supremely critical of constitutional conservatism.
00:49:00.000They've been supremely critical of individualism.
00:49:03.000They say that they are for an identity politics for white people.
00:49:06.000That is much closer in notion and orientation to an identity politics of race that the left embraces than it is to an identity politics embraced by the right.
00:49:14.000It's one of the reasons why I find the alt-right so repulsive and disgusting.
00:49:17.000Okay, time to deconstruct a little bit of culture.
00:49:19.000So, we're looking at our culture right now and we are saying it's a smoking garbage fire, it's a smoking rubble heap of sexual assault and harassment.
00:49:27.000Where could this possibly have come from?
00:49:29.000Where would we see some early indicators that maybe this was going to happen?
00:49:36.000Half of rock music in the 1960s, apparently, was dedicated to the proposition that a 25-year-old shtupping a 14-year-old was fine.
00:49:42.000The destruction of traditional sexual mores, the destruction of the idea that there were certain rules you shouldn't break and that consent was not the only standard, was replaced with this free-flowing era of free love, where basically if you said that it was fine to have sex with a girl, and the girl said okay, then it was fine.
00:49:57.000So if you go back to Animal House, there's an actual scene in Animal House
00:50:24.000It's played as just sort of a funny, oops, my bad.
00:50:27.000If you look back at the film Shampoo with Warren Beatty, Carrie Fisher, who is I think 18 at the time, is playing, younger than 18, she's supposed to be playing 16 or 17, and she just has a casual sexual encounter with Warren Beatty, no problem, it's all fine.
00:50:43.000Right, even this song by the Beatles, I saw her standing, there's still a popular old ballad, right?
00:50:48.000I saw her stand, not really a ballad, but it's still a popular song.
00:50:51.000I saw her standing, it was played on the Ed Sullivan Show.
00:50:54.000Okay, listen to the lyrics for a second.
00:50:56.000Okay, listen to just the beginning of the lyrics.
00:50:58.000♪ Well she was just 17, and you know what I mean ♪
00:51:15.000Okay, so the first lyric there, she was just 17 if you know what I mean.
00:51:18.000Okay, if you know what I mean was apparently like a side note added by John Lennon.
00:51:23.000The age of consent in Britain at the time was 16.
00:51:25.000So when they say if she was just 17, if you know what I mean, what they mean is she's not 17.
00:51:32.000Right, she's just 17, but we're gonna pretend she's- she's not 17, we're gonna pretend she's 17 for purposes of this sexual encounter, right?
00:51:37.000I mean, that's really what the song is about.
00:52:33.000Hey, this is part of the lyric of Jailbait by a huge star, Ted Nugent, who was recently at the White House, by the way, which shows you how our culture has, you know, basically included, you know, a bunch of people who probably would have been in jail for singing this sort of tune in 1930.
00:52:48.000In any case, this is not the only one.
00:54:10.000You can't have a full sexual revolution in which you've tear out every fence available and you celebrate the people tearing out those fences as liberators.
00:54:17.000You greet them as liberators when in fact they are great annihilators.
00:54:21.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest and for our last show before the Thanksgiving Day weekend.