The Glenn Beck Program - 10⧸16⧸17 - Hour 1
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Summary
Jimmy Kimmel has been getting more and more political on his late night show lately, and it s annoying half of the country. Glenn Beck says it s time for him to go home. Glenn also talks about George Lopez getting booed off stage at a comedy event.
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Jimmy Kimmel seems like a pretty likable guy. I mean, I've laughed at some of the segments on his late night show,
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but he's been getting more and more political on his jokes and on his show lately, and he's caused an awful lot of attention.
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Yesterday, he was on CBS Sunday morning, and here's what he had to say.
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One conservative commentator in particular who says, who made Jimmy Kimmel the moral arbiter?
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I'm not. I mean, yeah, I agree with him. I'm nobody's moral arbiter.
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I mean, you don't have to watch the show. You don't have to listen to what I say.
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Okay. He might think that he's nobody's moral arbiter, but when he does these political monologues, he is presenting himself as one.
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It's the same thing that I do, Jimmy, and you know how you feel about me.
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Comedians will present their political opinions as if it's the default position of the country.
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There's no nuance, no recognition that there are millions of potential viewers that really disagree with him.
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Like three years ago, I was equally liked by Republicans and Democrats,
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and then Republican numbers went way down, like 30 percent or whatever.
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And, you know, as a talk show host, that's not ideal, but I would do it again in a heartbeat.
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So if I was ABC, I would call Jimmy and remind him that his job is trying to get as many viewers as possible,
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so alienating a chunk of the audience is bad for business.
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When he abandons comedy for serious diatribes on politics, he's not doing his job.
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The other thing is it ignores and annoys half of the country.
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If people want politics, they'll watch another channel.
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They'll watch, you know, a show like this, or they'll go someplace where they expect it.
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But how many of us, left and right, just want to laugh?
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So you don't mind if Republicans turn off your show?
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I want everyone with a television to watch the show.
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But if they're so turned off by my opinion on health care and gun violence,
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I probably wouldn't want to have a conversation with them anyway.
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I probably wouldn't want to have a conversation with them anyway.
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How many times are we going to hear this in our society?
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Not that he's saying something, you know, about guns or health care or anything else.
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Not that he's losing audience or gaining others.
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That he says, if you disagree with me, I probably wouldn't want to have a conversation with you anyway.
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Kimmel can have all the political opinions he wants.
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And because of his celebrity, he'll have the opportunities to talk about them.
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These late night hosts might be surprised how much of the audience would just really appreciate them
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for doing their job on not pissing me off at the end of the day
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and just making us all laugh and come together as Americans.
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George Lopez booed off the stage for juvenile diabetes in Denver last week.
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The tables sold for $5,000 to $100,000 to benefit the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes.
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And George was asked nicely, this is according to the event,
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George was asked nicely to stop making Trump jokes by a man in the front row
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So I apologize to your white privilege, but yes.
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If I was a minority of Denver, I'd be upset too.
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Thank you for changing my opinion on old white men,
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but it doesn't change the way I feel about orange men.
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What is happening here is what has happened before.
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And one of the things that I have warned against
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Have the courage because times are going to get tough
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How many people that you know truly have honor?
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if you haven't demonstrated in your own life yet,
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Hey, our heart goes out to those in California, and if you would like to get involved, mercuryone.org, mercuryone.org, to be able to help these people.
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The death toll is now starting to creep up to Vegas numbers, and it doesn't seem like anybody's really paying attention to this.
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And California, we want you to know you're in our thoughts and our prayers, and if you want to get involved and help California, you can.
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I'm wondering why we don't seem to connect with this California story, and maybe, perhaps, it is Puerto Rico we saw as another country.
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People just don't see Puerto Ricans as American citizens.
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I hate the fact that you have to be an American citizen, but I can't figure out why we don't care about the Puerto Rican story as much as we should.
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I mean, people without electricity at all, no phone service, nothing.
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They show something like 40 percent of Americans don't actually realize that, but, yeah, they're American citizens.
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Right, and I don't—but I don't think it's just that they're Americans that there are—that we don't know that they're American citizens.
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Do you think it's natural disaster fatigue at all?
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Because we had, you know, Harvey, Irma, Maria—
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And the Puerto Rico thing, obviously, is in that you have—there were wildfires before the hurricanes and now the ones after.
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So I think it's that, but I also think that people are sick of—they don't want to give to the Red Cross.
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If you're involved in FEMA or the Red Cross, I want nothing to do with it.
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And there was huge reactions to things like Harvey, right?
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I mean, it's not like we've forgotten all natural disasters.
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No, what I'm thinking is, is that you can't really get involved over in Puerto Rico because it's an island.
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So we can't—you know, we don't have people from neighboring states going and driving there.
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It's so massive that it's going to take the government to do something.
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And with California, I think that we look at California not as neighbors but as a giant state.
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And I don't mean giant state like Texas is a giant state or Alaska is a giant state.
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Here in Texas, nobody's going to stop you from getting a boat and going out.
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But in California, A, you can't do anything because it's fires.
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But also, is California even going to welcome that?
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I mean, we were just looking at some stats of the business.
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And one of our big business parts of this, it was—I can't remember if it was subscription or whatever it was.
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There's a lot of real conservatives in California.
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Who feel abandoned because there is—there are real conservatives there.
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And so, obviously, so far, they've held control of the state for most of the time and grown government to massive levels, too.
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I think there are a lot of citizens there who look at it as, this is always the government's job.
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I'll go along, do my life until something happens to me, and then the government will help me.
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And that's obviously a different—totally different vibe than Texas.
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And they just think differently in the—in California, in the liberal regions.
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I mean, I saw what they did with Harvey Weinstein this weekend with the Oscars.
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Okay, so you kicked him out, but Woody Allen is still in.
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Yeah, Woody Allen, who, by the way, was convicted.
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You're thinking Woody Allen is the one who had pictures of his daughter.
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Sorry, I get all these wonderful Hollywood characters confused.
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Right, but Woody Allen's the same thing, right?
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Yeah, Woody Allen, you know, had pictures of his underage daughter.
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His other daughter said he molested her beginning at seven.
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And then his statement on was—his statement on this was, gee, you know, I hope we don't outlaw winking.
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And so you just—I just—I—let me play—let me play Corey Feldman, please.
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She was on—he was on The View, and he was talking about what's happening in Hollywood
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and how he and other star—child stars had been molested by men.
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Now, listen to this, and listen to what Barbara Walters says.
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Saying that there are people that were the people that did this to both me and Corey that are still working,
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they're still out there, and they're some of the richest, most powerful people in this business.
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And they are—and they do not want me saying what I'm saying right now.
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That's what—yeah, and that's what you were saying in your book.
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And they don't want me here right now, trust me.
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There are a lot of parents out here who want to put their kids in this—in this business.
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Their kids are cute, they're great actors, da-da-da.
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What would you say to a parent who just has the best of intentions, who's coming here with their child?
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If you're saying that there's a lot of predators in this industry.
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Don't go into it thinking that it's all roses and sunglasses.
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I'm just trying to say that it's a very important, serious topic.
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You said that there was one gentleman in the industry who did not take advantage of you.
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And we're living in this time where you have to believe the accusers.
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You have to take them seriously and investigate.
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She turns around, you're destroying a whole industry.
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I mean, who's the guy who is the producer that was having the hot tub parties with all of the young boys?
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It's a sick story about this guy in Hollywood who has had these hot tub parties for years and has lured boys over to his home.
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When you have Meryl Streep is coming out and saying, oh, well, I'm very offended about what Harvey Weinstein.
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First of all, you've been calling him God for years.
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Let's just say you didn't know anything about Harvey Weinstein.
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She was praising Roman Polanski from stage multiple times.
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A guy who was convicted of raping a 14-year-old.
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He admitted he ran from the country to avoid prison time and has not been able to return.
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What credibility could you possibly have on this matter?
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It's absolutely incredible that they think that they should be believable.
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And I guess it's because they're actors and actresses.
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They think they can convince anyone of anything.
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I mean, Hillary Clinton is doing the same thing.
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In your book, the three women brought onto stage by Trump attacking your husband.
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I mean, that was the subject of a huge investigation, as you might recall, in the late 90s.
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But it is something that has to be taken seriously.
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As I say, for everyone, not just for those in entertainment right now.
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But nonetheless, powerful women like you also have a duty to call men out.
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I mean, the really sad part of the campaign was how this horrific tape, what he said about women in the past, what he said about women during the campaign was discounted by a lot of voters.
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She went on to say, I didn't know anything about Harvey.
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We have seen too much evidence of too many people that were mauled by him.
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I know people in the Clinton circles who worked for Weinstein.
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You're telling me those people never warned you?
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Why would your people that used to work for you tell me about that and not you?
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Yeah, I mean, it's tough because is there, I read something from an employee of one of the companies, you know, off the record comment from one of the employees.
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And they said, look, we knew what we thought he was, was a guy who screamed at everybody and was a jerk.
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And a guy who, whenever he left, whenever he went on the road, was cheating on his wife.
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That's different than I've never heard these rumors.
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She said in the BBC article deal, wide-eyed, I never, no, I never heard anything like this.
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That's different than, look, I heard that he was a philanderer, but I thought it was all consensual.
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So, yeah, so she has to go to, I never heard any of it, which is also a lie.
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I tell you, the day of the politicians is just, it's just over.
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I read a book this weekend, and I read this, let me see if I can find it, because I don't
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know, I finished this damn novel, and I don't even know the name of it.
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Yeah, because the guy is constantly jumping on pop.
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I think they might make a movie out of that thing, because that is, it was powerful.
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Robert Harris is a great writer, a great novelist, and he wrote a few years ago, Conclave.
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And it's all about the Pope dying, and there's some intrigue, and then what happens in the
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Conclave to get the next Pope, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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And it is, it's so amazing to me that it doesn't matter if it's the Conclave, or if it's, you
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know, over in Europe, or here, all politicians are exactly the same.
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But there is something different this time, and it's called the internet.
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We have the ability to connect with one another and connect with something real.
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And I don't know, it's not going to happen by 2018, but 2020, 2022, there's going to be
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It's just, they're going to be different, because these politicians, we've had enough
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And so if we don't go into communism or fascism, some sort of totalitarianism, Europe is moving
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If we don't go into something like that, there's a chance that we survive by, by rooting all
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of these people out and not replacing them with just a better version of what we already
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I think we have a chance of, of changing this entirely.
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And people who don't feel like that smarmy politician, those are the people that I think
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we have a chance of possibly electing because the entire system is broken.
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And once somebody figures out, here's how you, here's how you go through the gate, or here's
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So I'm having a hard time believing that people in Hollywood did not know about Harvey Weinstein.
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I mean, you may not have known that he was a rapist, but you knew he was a bad guy.
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When Courtney Love is on television saying this, I think in 2012, listen to this.
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Do you have any advice for a young girl moving to Hollywood?
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If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party and it's horsey, it's just that way.
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If Harvey Weinstein invites you that morning, you've got a vibe and you're not having a secret.