George Stephanopoulos' Gross Hypocrisy, and Kate Middleton Fake Photo Controversy, with Andrew Klavan and Maureen Callahan | Ep. 743
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1 hour and 36 minutes
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174.98477
Summary
Jimmy Kimmel wore blackface. Oprah wore a fat suit. Robert De Niro called Donald Trump a monster. And Megyn gives her thoughts on the Oscars and Blackface, and why you can still win an Oscar even if you don t like it.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live from Montana this week.
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Last night was the 96th Academy Awards show, and while you might have missed it, there was one clear winner.
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No, not Oppenheimer. It was sanctimonious leftists for their lead role in pretending they are better than you.
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For the fourth time, Kimmel hosted the Oscars before an adoring crowd of Hollywood stars who laughed and curried favor with the man who wore blackface so many times he's second only to Justin Trudeau in his fondness for the practice.
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Yes, some of the very same celebrities who wanted you to believe they were horrified, horrified, after yours truly said in 2018 that people used to don dark makeup in order to imitate well-known black celebrities and it wasn't a big deal,
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absolutely ate up the performance by Hollywood darling Mr. Kimmel, whose blackface costumes included his oft-repeated bit as basketball star Carl Malone.
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Now, Carl Malone never seen no flying saucer himself, but if he do, that's going to be a spooky time.
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Fifteen minutes a day is all you need to get your heart rate up to weight.
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In truth, the Academy Awards show, though it's since gone on to lecture us incessantly about the importance of racial equity, has long been a promoter of celebrity blackface.
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The 2012 Oscars ceremony featured actor Billy Crystal in blackface announcing a Best Picture nominee.
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Just a few years before that, Robert Downey Jr. was honored with a Best Supporting Actor nomination for the film Tropic Thunder,
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in which Downey Jr. famously wore, you guessed it, blackface, while donning an afro and attending, quote, Ebonics vocal training.
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Obviously, Kimmel's love of blackface was not a deal-breaker for ABC, which already employs him as a late-night host,
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and which, in addition to its many blackface awards shows, also produced and promoted many shows and stars in blackface.
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It appears the real sin with blackface, you see, is talking about how standards on it have changed, not actually wearing it.
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You can still win Oscars and host the Oscars after doing that.
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Winner number two of the Sanctimonious Leftists Pretending They Are Better Than You Award, Robert De Niro.
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Another Oscar for the iconic actor who, now 80, appeared on Bill Maher over the weekend and had some choice words about Donald Trump.
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The guy is a total monster, and anybody, I don't understand it.
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They want to fuck with people, screw them, because they're unhappy about something.
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I never play him as an actor, because I can't see any good in him.
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He's a sociopathic, psychopathic, malignant narcissist.
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That could be tough for an actor to play such a hateful, hateful man.
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Someone like, I don't know, like Bernie Madoff, say.
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A guy who stole $65 billion from nuns and Holocaust survivors like Elie Wiesel and was sentenced to 150 years in prison.
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Maybe he draws the line at the really bad criminals.
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Jimmy Conway from Goodfellas, a character based on real life mobster Jimmy Burke,
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who, according to mobster Henry Hill, really did whack a guy for an insult about shoe shining
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and then finished him off in the trunk of the car when they realized he wasn't quite dead.
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But De Niro doesn't want to play someone truly evil, you see.
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By the way, De Niro is also very upset that Donald Trump is an alleged racist.
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Wonder if he pulled Jimmy Kimmel aside last night and asked him to atone for his blackface
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Our final Oscar for sanctimonious leftists pretending they are better than you is a dark
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horse contender when you consider he's not even an actor.
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The lifelong Democrat took to his Sunday show yesterday and decided to really press Republican
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and Trump endorser Nancy Mace on how on earth she can support a guy who's been found liable
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of sexual assault, especially when, as he pointed out to Mace, she is a rape survivor.
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It's such an opportunity when you can use a woman's rape against her.
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Our next guest is South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace, a Donald Trump supporter who gave
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candid and courageous testimony about her own experience as a rape victim weeks before
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From some of us who've been raped, it can take 25 years to get up the courage and talk about
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How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw?
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It's a shame that you will never feel, George, and I'm not going to sit here on your show
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and be asked a question meant to shame me about another potential rape victim.
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Donald Trump has been found liable for rape by a jury.
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And you're asking me a question about my political choices, trying to shame me as a rape victim.
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Women won't come forward because they're defamed by those who perpetrate rape.
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I'm asking you a question about why you endorse someone who's been found liable for rape.
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And by the way, she joked about the judgment and what she was going to do with all that money.
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How is the question asking you about a presidential candidate who's been not found?
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And you're questioning my political choices because I've been raped.
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No, I'm questioning your political choices because you're supporting them.
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Well, you're welcome to say that, but you also have to answer the question.
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If you want to defend a woman who made a mockery out of rape, then you go ahead and do that.
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Well, actually, what you're doing is defending a man who's been found liable for rape.
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What a kind, sensitive man who clearly cares deeply about women and their sexual assault
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I see how concerned you are that victims might not come forward if they are publicly attacked
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It happens all the time, which, you know, because you invented it.
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Remember when you created a whole command center designed to smear Bill Clinton's sexual assault
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and rape accusers so you could elevate him right into the presidency.
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The attorney, representing many of Bill's accusers, and there were many, George, Juanita Broderick,
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Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers, to name just a few, said you and James Carville
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at Hillary Clinton's direction formed a so-called war room whose purpose was, quote, to destroy
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George Stephanopoulos, I'm director of communications.
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I guarantee you that if you do this, you'll never work in democratic politics again.
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This attorney points out that you don't like to talk about this particular behavior, George.
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Maybe that's why you skipped it in your discussion with Nancy Mace.
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But as you know, private detectives were hired.
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The women say they were threatened and they were publicly shamed by you.
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Did you worry then that this behavior might shame victims from coming forward?
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You admitted in your own memoir that Hillary Clinton told you about one accuser, quote,
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In fact, you later described yourself as Bill Clinton's, quote, enabler.
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But sir, how could you have enabled and defended a man like this,
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accused by multiple women of sexual assault, rape, and harassment?
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You were Clinton's attack dog when Jones came forward claiming Bill Clinton had exposed himself
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That when he was governor of Arkansas, he summoned her through state troopers to a Little Rock,
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A charge Clinton denies, just as Trump denies E.
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What do you think he wanted done with that thing, George?
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Jones was poor, a graduate of secretarial school, and worked for the state.
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She had no power, no connections, and he was the sitting governor.
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She didn't go to Columbia and Oxford and become a Rhodes Scholar like you, George.
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Your buddy Carville immediately went after Ms. Jones, infamously saying,
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if you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.
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Did you defend Paula Jones saying, we don't shame accusers?
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You compared Jones to Tanya Harding as, quoting here from the New York Times,
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just another woman seeking cash for telling a tabloid tale.
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Fire up that war room, George, and destroy her.
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Bill Clinton would ultimately pay Paula Jones almost a million dollars to settle her civil
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To say nothing of Juanita Broderick's rape allegation or Kathleen Willey's allegations and more.
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But now you, quote, don't understand how Nancy Mace can support a man found liable for sexual assault
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of one woman 30 years ago in a civil trial in which the burden of proof is just 51% likely.
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My God, how did anyone at ABC think this was a good line of inquiry for George Stephanopoulos,
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And one need look no further than the kickoff of your interview to see, you haven't changed,
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Who told you that the thing to do with a rape survivor is to casually begin the interview
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with her own testimonial about her rape and then immediately attack her?
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Most people showing this whole exchange that happened on your show on Sunday are not showing
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the fact that you started the whole thing by bringing up Mace's rape when she was just
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They're making it look like Nancy Mace brought it up to deflect your question.
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In fact, you shoved it in her face and demanded that she explain how she could still support
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You were offensive, especially when the other guy, you know, your guy, Joe Biden, has been
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George, trust me, I know I interviewed his alleged victim.
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Maybe you missed it because ABC, where you are and were the chief political correspondent,
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was the only network not to acknowledge or run a single soundbite from our blockbuster interview
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Like Tanya Harding and Paula Jones, just another wrong side of the tracks woman, easily dismissed
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And then you got rewarded with an exclusive sit down with Joe Biden, whom you undoubtedly
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Yes, hypocrisy is alive and well amongst these sanctimonious leftists from Kimmel to De Niro
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They want you to believe they're better than you, more virtuous, more decent.
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They do the very things they accuse you of and the things they say they would never do.
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Evil things like try to destroy people based on feigned outrage from which they spare their
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own side or playing politics with a woman's rape.
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The GOP is capable of hypocrisy, too, to be sure.
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But this weekend, these leftists, best performance in a leading role, bar none.
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He's the host of The Daily Wire's The Andrew Klavan Show and the author of the recently released
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I thought you went a little easy on George Stephanopoulos, to be honest with you.
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Not only did he do everything that you said he did, but he was hired by ABC with that as
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He was hired strictly for what he did for Clinton, which was what he called staunching bimbo
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Bimbos being women who had been assaulted or claimed very plausibly to have been assaulted
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And basically, you showed that wonderful clip that I've shown on my show, too, of him threatening
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a journalist with destroying her career, if she should bring that up.
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He not only did that recently, we got from the Veritas, Project Veritas people, we got
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that clip of ABC anchorwoman Amy Robach, I think her name was, saying that ABC had all
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the news on Jeffrey Epstein, including his associations with Bill Clinton, and spiked it.
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The ABC claimed that Stephanopoulos had absolutely nothing to do with that decision, but I don't
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see how that's possible, seeing as he was essentially in charge of what went out as ABC News.
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He's also a man who attended a gala honoring Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted of child
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So he's a guy who's just drenched in this stuff.
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And the fact that there is no scandal that blows back on him, just the stuff that you
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said right there, that you can get canceled for what you said, as you pointed out, for
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you making a perfectly true remark about blackface having historical context, that you can get
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But you can't get canceled for a career in shaming and silencing women with plausible accusations
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I mean, it would be shocking if we didn't know that that's the world we're living in,
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if we didn't understand that what is called the resistance is, in fact, an incredible wall
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of power in communications, in politics, in academia.
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And George Stephanopoulos is kind of the poster child for that.
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To the point, Andrew, where his hubris and self-delusion have grown so large that he
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thinks he can cross-examine an actual rape survivor on how she could get behind a presidential
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How did somebody not stop him at ABC and say, George, you're not it?
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I thought I would have been thrown off, too, by that kind of questioning.
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I was sorry that Nancy didn't have the information that you just had.
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But just in terms of what she actually said, it is shaming to say you have a political opinion.
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You are a politician who made a political decision.
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How does that fit in if you're being raped is if somehow she were stripped of her power
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to make political decisions by the fact that some clown attacked her, which is incredibly
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shaming and an incredibly an incredible act of blaming the victim for something that she
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How is she supposed to lose her agency, to lose her voice because somebody raped her?
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And the fact that she has to believe everyone else that the implication, of course, Andrew,
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is that she must believe E. Jean Carroll she has to, even though we've all had the chance
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to listen to E. Jean Carroll for three years now.
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We know that this is a political hit job, that the law was changed so she could come forward,
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that she herself joked about rape being sexy and that she couldn't even remember what year
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You are completely within your mind to say, with all due respect to rape victims, I don't
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That's OK that you're not anti holding rapists accountable if you don't happen to believe
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It's the left that tells us we have to believe all women.
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I mean, these the law that allowed people to go back past the sell by date of these accusations
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The fact that she was not he he was not found guilty of rape by the jury.
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The judge just sort of announced that he believed that's an important to be guilty of rape.
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And as you say, it was a civil trial, not a criminal trial.
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I mean, it is one of the worst crimes you can commit.
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But that doesn't mean that somebody committed it just because you're accused of it.
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And just because people shouted at you doesn't mean you committed it.
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But I do want to spend one minute on what you said, because Stephanopoulos kept saying
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he was found liable for rape, found liable for rape in a civil court.
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And finally, Mace did point out he wasn't he wasn't found liable for rape.
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And George Stephanopoulos doubled down and said the judge said he was found liable for rape.
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And just so the audience understands what actually happened in that civil case.
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There were at least two boxes they could have checked.
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Then the judge, after the fact, in trying to explain how they got to the conclusion that
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Jean Carroll had given testimony that he allegedly grabbed her, put his mouth on hers, yanked down
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her tights and penetrated her with his hand and then with his penis.
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Under New York criminal law, an assault constitutes rape only if it involves vaginal penetration
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Sorry for the graphicness, but this is the story.
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This was the definition the jury was instructed to use in the civil case.
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So you the jurors were saying that this sexual abuse found finding necessarily implies that
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they believes he penetrated her with his fingers.
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But obviously they had some doubts about the penis rape.
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Sorry, again, very early in the day to be getting so graphic.
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But this is what a real anchor on ABC would have done and wouldn't have been so loose with
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the language in trying to lecture an actual rape victim who did point out there's a distinction
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between sexual assault and rape and was accurately trying to point out it mattered in the civil
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And no matter what you think about Donald Trump, he is not being treated fairly by the law in New
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York or in D.C., how how can somebody defend himself against an accusation when they can't
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even when the accuser can't even remember the year?
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How are you supposed to say, well, you accuse me of this.
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But on that day, I was in Baltimore when the accuser can't even say what year she's talking
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I mean, surely, surely some kind of specificity is required to accuse somebody of a crime so
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And I just think the way that Trump is being treated has elevated him in ways that the left
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must not have foreseen or they wouldn't have done it.
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And the fact the fact that he's still walking around and still, you know, copacetic and still
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making jokes and things like that elevates him maybe beyond what he deserves, but still
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And I just think that to pass that on to Nancy Mace, who is, in fact, a rape victim, when you
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are George Stephanopoulos, who is, in fact, a man who has covered up for an accused rapist
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and silenced apparent rape victims, alleged rape victims, it's just an incredible display
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of raw power by a media that is owned all by one side, which is not necessarily the leftist
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It's the deep state side, which has become the leftist side because that's what feeds the
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I mean, I'm not sure these guys really care about the politics so much as they care about
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And this this was an incredible display of that power as we see it all the time.
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You know, you got the Sunday morning show with Stephanopoulos into the evening Academy Awards
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broadcast with Kimmel and ABC elevating, you know, the blackface loving Kimmel, who was
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speaking in Ebonics, wearing an Afro and like, no problem.
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With the bald head and then the fat suit and then, OK, that's no problem for them.
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But they at the same time, Andrew fired Chris Harrison, host of The Bachelor, for trying
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to defend one contestant on like The Bachelorette for saying, gee, I know I went to this antebellum
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And all he said was, are we judging her by today's standards?
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Are we judging her by, you know, old standards, whatever?
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He was basically trying to say, are we being too hard on her?
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I don't know why, because he's not a committed leftist, because he's not out there more saying
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all the terrible things about Republicans that Jimmy Kimmel says, which was 100 percent his
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Somebody like that was on the air every night ripping on Trump.
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And the Academy, as you know, at the same time, tries to cloak itself, notwithstanding
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celebrating Tropic Thunder and, you know, putting Billy Crystal on the Oscars in blackface.
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They're trying to celebrate how now, now you can't even get nominated for best picture
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unless you assure them that you have, oh, I wrote it down, has to be at least two of four.
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The lead or significant supporting actors have to be a member of a racial or an ethnic group
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At least 30 percent of all actors in secondary roles have to be from underrepresented groups.
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The main storyline has to center on women or racial or ethnic groups who are underrepresented,
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underrepresented like LGBTQ, including people with disabilities.
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And I guess maybe they're trying to make up with their racist past for their racist past
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You know, you're also leaving out Kevin Hart, which was one of the stories that really offended
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Kevin Hart, a black guy who worked to the top of one of the toughest professions to get
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I mean, you don't nobody understands what it takes to get into that that top rank.
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And because they found some tweet making a discouraging or disparaging remark about gay people.
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And it was a Cowboys and Indians party with his kid.
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But it was, yeah, I mean, and it just wasn't that that was one of the things he got in
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So he was he was canceled from his dream job after working to get to the place where he
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On top of which, I hate to point this out because I don't like to play the left's game.
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But after putting in place all those rules that you mentioned there, you know, it's it's
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You can kind of get away with putting hiring black people, what they call below the line,
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people who don't show up on screen and you can then be qualified.
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But after all that, it was the most white Oscar I can remember.
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I mean, there was no none of the only one one black actress won for her role.
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But the rest, it was all, you know, Oppenheimer, pure white cast.
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All of the stories that were celebrated were white, except for American fiction, which was
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a very, very good movie, one for screenplay and was a very good movie making fun of woke
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white people, making fun of the fact that black people have to basically take on the
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roles that rich, white, woke people give them or they can't make a living.
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I mean, if you if you missed American fiction, I highly recommend it.
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For the most part, all it does is make fun of white, woke people forcing black people
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into the roles that white people want to see them in.
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And so the entire Oscar was just an absolute disaster for its own wokeness, which you can't
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I mean, wokeness is such a stupid, self-contradictory, virtue signaling, wicked philosophy that if
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you have any heart at all, you're going to step on yourself trying to express it.
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I mean, it's just a philosophy that needs to be tossed out the window.
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The DEI of it all needs to be tossed out the window.
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The George Floyd worshiping, guilt mongering ideas have to be thrown out the window.
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None of them serve the actual black guy in his life or any of us in our lives.
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It's and Hollywood has just become, you know, you pointed out Robert De Niro talking about
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the fact that he couldn't imagine how you could play Donald Trump because there's not
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Here's a guy who's done nothing his whole career, but play gangsters who will kill you
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I'm not talking about just the fictional characters.
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Al Capone's reportedly killed over 200 people when he was alive.
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Which shows you, it shows you that this whole thing is taking place in their imagination.
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And because they own the media, they're never required to step out of their imagination into
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the real world and say, well, wait a minute, if Trump is Hitler, where are all the dead bodies?
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How come we never started a war while Trump was president?
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They're living entirely wrapped in their own imagination.
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And unlike conservatives, they're not forced out of their imagination.
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We're forced out of our imaginations because we hear their arguments all the time.
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They think we're all sort of goose stepping around, worried about whether the little mermaid
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But in fact, the entire philosophy of conservatism, which is the philosophy of the founding of the
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United States, is ignored by them because they are living in their imagination and they
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have built their imagination out to encompass the entire communicating world.
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So it's just galling, right, to watch Kimmel get out there night after night and talk
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about how riddance, riddance, he said to Republican viewers who don't like his stance on guns and
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And then you watch Stephanopoulos, like, he's a real ally, as I sarcastically said in my
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Such an ally to women without looking back at any of his past.
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You know, these people like there's there's absolutely no attempt to fact check or hold
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And that brings me to somebody I've been dying to bring up for several years now.
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If I don't bring this person up today, Abigail Fine and my assistant is going to be upset
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And I actually didn't really even know very well who this person is.
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But she's a celebrity chef named Padma Lakshmi.
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And she, for some reason, decided to leave the kitchen and to get up in my grill back
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in 2018 on NBC when I said, you know, people used to wear a blackface and it wasn't such
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When did we get to the point where people found it offensive?
00:30:54.140
This chef, OK, saying I pulled a couple of comments.
00:30:58.780
I was ignorant, uneducated, and she lectured me that caricaturing another race perpetuates
00:31:09.480
So I always wondered whether Padma was going to go on Jimmy Kimmel, right?
00:31:15.960
Like, would she she's so disgusted with me saying people used to do this.
00:31:20.460
Would she draw the line on Jimmy Kimmel and his Karl Malone imitation and his Oprah blackface
00:31:27.680
Was that, you know, not to mention all the stuff he did about women.
00:31:32.620
Well, she has a new show out, apparently, or at least new as of last year.
00:31:41.760
You can't believe she would overlook his racist past to go promote her show.
00:31:46.080
And I'll here's just a clip of her talking to him about the nature of this show.
00:31:57.560
It's really a political show, cultural show, and it allows me to artistically or, you know,
00:32:03.040
with entertainment, say what I want to say will show rather than say what I would say
00:32:13.060
She's going to let her flag fly and come after people, politics, culture, everything's
00:32:19.700
So I'm sure in the next bit, she must have gone after Kimmel for his long history of
00:32:30.860
And there's this big controversy about whether you, you know, ketchup or no ketchup.
00:32:35.320
Where do you stand on the ketchup on the pasteles?
00:32:40.220
I would imagine that no ketchup is the right way to go.
00:32:54.000
I have to say for me, it's personally cathartic because it's like at the time, Andrew, to be
00:32:58.560
honest, when all these people were attacking me, it was traumatic.
00:33:02.180
And now you're like, they just expose themselves over time.
00:33:07.280
They're attacking you for your politics, not for anything you've actually said on culture
00:33:16.280
You know, when this happened to you, Megan, I was talking on my show about it and I was
00:33:20.780
talking about the fact that the entire idea that they were bringing down on your head is
00:33:26.780
If your child, if your black child came to you and said he wanted to go out on Halloween
00:33:32.960
as Batman, would you tell him you can't go out as Batman because Batman is white?
00:33:37.580
And similarly, if your white child came to you and said he wanted to go out as Black Panther,
00:33:41.700
would you tell him that he couldn't because Black Panther was black?
00:33:44.840
There's a wonderful scene in a movie of the recent movie about Jackie Robinson, the first
00:33:50.480
obviously black baseball player in the majors, where they look out a window and they see a
00:33:56.460
little white boy up at bat pretending he's Jackie Robinson.
00:33:59.820
And it's incredibly moving because you realize what a tremendous impact it is to have black
00:34:05.600
So now a white kid is pretending to be a black kid.
00:34:08.480
He's not even thinking about the color of his skin.
00:34:12.060
He's pretending to be Jackie Robinson because Jackie Robinson is his hero.
00:34:17.380
That is obviously what America is supposed to be like.
00:34:20.500
But once you start saying, well, no, no, no, just the very putting on.
00:34:23.880
Look, there are times when people putting on blackface has been incredibly offensive.
00:34:29.600
But to simply isolate it without any kind of nuance, any kind of historical context,
00:34:36.520
It always comes back to racism with the left because they obviously are thinking in
00:34:43.220
The best of conservatives are saying, no, look, we've got to be colorblind.
00:34:48.940
We're trying to do something that hasn't been done since ancient Rome.
00:34:51.900
We're trying to build a multi-ethnic community.
00:34:54.780
You know, people think that there are other multi-ethnic communities like ours, but you only
00:34:57.860
have to look at a picture of foreign cities to know that's not true.
00:35:03.620
It really has not been done since the Roman Republic.
00:35:08.520
What we're trying to do is difficult, and there are going to be bumps in the road.
00:35:11.880
But if all you can do is focus, focus, focus on race, you're just going to end up with
00:35:16.840
And if you give awards and money to clowns like Ibram Kendi, who thinks that anti-racism
00:35:22.100
is race, you know, racism and anti-racism are basically the same thing.
00:35:30.660
Well, it's funny because I think back, you know, at the time, and it was like you had
00:35:34.700
people like Al Roker, Kathy Griffin, Don Lemon, Patton Oswalt, all of these people coming
00:35:42.480
out there to rip on me, like horrified that I would talk about blackface like this.
00:35:47.840
And yet, oddly silent when it came out that some of their heroes like Jimmy Fallon wore
00:35:54.020
it, Jimmy Kimmel, and I'm sure they would never, ever step foot on that Jimmy Kimmel
00:35:59.040
Why would they sit across from a blackface loving host like Jim?
00:36:09.320
My daughter, when she was about two years old, she'd sometimes have a mad face on.
00:36:14.780
And I'd say, are you a silly goose or a serious goose?
00:36:33.840
You do the same thing that I do, except you do it with humor.
00:36:40.580
And you're leaving out, by the way, the man show.
00:36:43.080
You forgot about the man show where he would go out and, you know, do degrading things to
00:36:47.000
women for laughs, which was, which was legitimately funny.
00:36:50.340
Some of it, you know, but it's like, let's talk about that.
00:36:52.460
Cause that was co-hosted by, I think our mutual friend, Adam Carolla.
00:36:55.260
And I realized that they crossed some, you know, lines there and did some things that
00:36:59.480
are, you know, pressing the boundaries for sure.
00:37:01.460
But to be honest, I wasn't offended by the man show at the time.
00:37:04.960
And, and like Kimmel, for sure, those are bad clips of him in the Oprah fat suit with the
00:37:11.980
Like it, what most people were actually not offended.
00:37:15.660
That's why he went on to get hired as the ABC host.
00:37:19.480
Like, that's the point I'm really trying to make here, right?
00:37:23.080
That it's like, we, we have had evolving standards in the country and that's okay.
00:37:29.460
And most of us on our side, don't run around, just need your calling people like Kimmel,
00:37:34.260
racist or misogynist, whatever, we're kind of like live and let live people evolve society
00:37:42.440
It's, it is that side that is obsessed with skin color and gender and hierarchies that they
00:37:52.780
But what we're trying to do is tricky and it's never been done before.
00:37:58.620
And thanks to these people, we're blowing it up right now.
00:38:04.360
It's the only argument they have, the policies that simply do not work.
00:38:08.320
I mean, since really since FDR, but if you just want to take it since the great society,
00:38:12.920
their policies have not improved the lives of black people.
00:38:15.880
They have slowed black people's rise into the middle class.
00:38:18.480
They have cut off, they've destroyed the black family with their stupid policies and their
00:38:26.500
There are now more black children being born out of wedlock than there were when Democrats
00:38:31.540
were actually breaking them up because the Democrats were the slaveholders.
00:38:35.560
So these are things that have, you know, just gone terribly wrong.
00:38:39.260
And the only way they can defend this palace of money that they built, this great society
00:38:44.440
which pours money and power into the Democrat Party and into leftist causes, the only way
00:38:49.620
they can defend it is by calling anybody who stands up against it racist.
00:38:52.820
If you're against the welfare system, if you're against fatherlessness, families, if you're
00:38:56.940
against actual crime in the streets, mostly in black neighborhoods where the black criminals
00:39:02.380
hurt other black people, if you oppose those things, you must be racist.
00:39:09.080
And of course, they become absurd and ridiculous because, you know, people live together.
00:39:16.580
One of the worst things they've done, in my opinion, is stopped us from joking about one
00:39:21.840
Because joking is what friends do to one another, especially male friends.
00:39:28.540
And when you say that, oh, you can't make a joke about a black guy.
00:39:32.380
You can't make a joke about Irish, Italian people.
00:39:37.280
Teasing each other is part of, you know, it's part of what friends do.
00:39:41.100
So all of that stuff that, you know, they did on The Man Club was kind of funny because
00:39:47.060
The relations between the sexes are fraught and funny.
00:39:51.620
And I think that killing humor, making people feel that they have to walk on eggshells before
00:39:56.380
they make a joke or use a phrase or speak some words that might be taken in the wrong
00:40:07.600
It has nothing to do with race because they've done nothing to help people of any race whatsoever.
00:40:12.220
I mean, everything, everything left is touched, turned to crap.
00:40:17.940
And so they just defend it with these policies and they're meant to silence us.
00:40:22.560
And they were, you know, it worked when they they hurt your career briefly.
00:40:26.180
I mean, it's wonderful that you have the skill and the will to come back.
00:40:30.820
But but of course, they're powerful enough to hurt you if they want to.
00:40:34.580
No, I was on every newspaper and every television program in the country as a racist.
00:40:40.420
That is what they did to me as a result of my one comment, truly.
00:40:44.700
And then they drudged up old media matters nonsense about like me calling these guys in
00:40:52.540
And try to build a narrative about you to try to take you out.
00:40:59.560
They've done it to so many people and smeared them.
00:41:01.980
People who haven't been able to come back, who maybe didn't have as, you know, great a
00:41:06.340
foothold in their career as I did when they tried to take me down, who really struggle
00:41:13.220
I mean, that's really where I land, like they can fuck off, like they're terrible people
00:41:21.500
And I'm really happy you mentioned this this fact that people like you and me, because
00:41:27.440
I was thrown out of Hollywood who have established themselves to a certain degree, have a way
00:41:32.360
We have a we have a skill set that's been proved and we can say to people, look, I can do this
00:41:38.840
But I know a lot of people, a lot of people who are just on that upward trajectory or just
00:41:44.100
proving themselves, just getting to Broadway, just getting into the great galleries, just
00:41:49.100
getting into the novel publishing business who were quashed because they weren't quite
00:41:54.160
left enough where they said something and the Twitter crowds came after them.
00:41:59.080
And it drives them insane because they were made by God to do what they were doing.
00:42:04.940
They are created, you know, and I think that when that is frustrated and the ambition that
00:42:15.640
I mean, I know because I'm at the Daily Wire and the Daily Wire has a cultural, you
00:42:29.960
And your immortal words of what they can do with themselves, I think, should be chiseled
00:42:34.700
over the hall of the academy, because really they have destroyed so much and done so little
00:42:42.220
And you mentioned earlier, you know, the media enablers like Stephanopoulos, who will run cover
00:42:46.380
for the Bidens of the world and try to make people like Nancy Mace look like they're on
00:42:54.540
And that continued as late as this morning and will continue to, I'm sure, because that
00:43:00.160
clip that we showed of Stephanopoulos with Nancy Mace is being used by the left.
00:43:09.460
And again, none of them will show the fact that he brought it up.
00:43:14.300
He got into the segment with her by running the clip about her rape.
00:43:31.660
So here's a flavor for how they covered it this morning on Morning Joe.
00:43:37.060
It's just not offensive and she's not shamed because she's incapable of being shamed.
00:43:43.020
What we saw from Representative Mace there, it was indeed, even though she's impossible
00:43:49.340
to be shamed, it was shameful trying to twist what George Stephanopoulos did and go on the
00:43:55.080
political attack, tried to hide behind something, of course, that truly terrible happened in
00:44:05.160
That last guy, Jonathan Lemire, is the chief White House.
00:44:08.820
He's the bureau chief, the White House bureau chief for Politico, which is he's supposed to
00:44:14.280
be a nonpartisan person, also hosts a morning show on MSNBC.
00:44:21.640
You mean the one that was thrown in her face by Stephanopoulos?
00:44:25.300
And once again, Morning Joe didn't show that that's how it was set up.
00:44:35.120
People will look at that and dismiss her as like, oh, she just tried to use her rape to
00:44:43.520
I think they've lost a lot of their credibility.
00:44:45.420
You're talking about NBC, remember, that covered up Harvey Weinstein, that actually shut down
00:44:51.640
Ronan Farrow's book about Harvey Weinstein in order to cover up because their Hollywood
00:44:55.820
and Universal wanted to protect Harvey while they were covering up Matt Lauer's depredation
00:45:03.100
I mean, Matt Lauer was accused of sodomizing a woman while she begged him in tears not to.
00:45:09.360
He was accused of taking an assistant and attacking her so badly she fainted and passed out.
00:45:17.800
I mean, and they silenced all of that for years.
00:45:21.540
You can't tell me they didn't know the guy was doing this in his office where he had a
00:45:25.520
button that locked the door after women came in, or I should say allegedly, since he hasn't
00:45:32.640
But still, still, this is they did everything they could to cover this stuff up.
00:45:37.240
And now they're going to tell us that they're going to elevate George Stephanopoulos again, literally
00:45:43.300
his only credential for doing what he does at ABC was stopping, quote unquote, bimbo eruptions
00:45:55.540
Where are the rape crisis centers and women's support groups right now?
00:46:01.360
Because Nancy Mace, the only thing they say that she attacked E.G.
00:46:06.600
She said, I didn't like the way she laughed about what she was going to do with Donald
00:46:23.760
That's all she said when she was trying to explain why she wasn't all that persuaded
00:46:28.240
and Carol and didn't much appreciate the way she talked about rape.
00:46:37.180
But those where are the women's advocates now to stand up for Nancy Mace?
00:46:41.060
Because if, you know, a Bill O'Reilly or a Tucker Carlson or a Sean Hannity did this
00:46:47.260
to a female rape victim who was a Democrat, right, who came on their show and try to get
00:46:53.140
up in their grill that they would be speaking out.
00:46:56.120
But she will get no support other than from people on the right wing or who are objective
00:47:02.960
Well, this is the I've always wondered this about feminism, organizations like now and
00:47:12.140
So NBC is covering up for Harvey Weinstein, covering up for Matt Lauer.
00:47:16.260
And then they release, strategically release this tape of Donald Trump, you know, doling
00:47:27.580
Women are pouring out into the streets, you know, with the pink hats and all this stuff.
00:47:31.980
When Brett Kavanaugh is accused by a woman who can't even prove that she's ever met him,
00:47:41.740
But when Tara Reid says that Joe Biden threw her up against a wall and penetrated her with
00:47:47.760
his fingers, not only does the New York Times wait, I think it was 20 days before they even
00:47:53.320
covered it and then bury it on the inside of paper on Easter Sunday and basically dismiss
00:47:58.040
it without any kind of investigation whatsoever.
00:48:04.200
I don't understand why there is not a feminism.
00:48:08.160
I mean, honestly, I think the answer is abortion.
00:48:12.040
Like, that's that's what you're going to vote for abortion.
00:48:14.080
They're they'll protect you and favor you and defend you.
00:48:16.800
And if you're not, then you can go under the bus.
00:48:19.100
That's what happened when Tara Reid went to Time's Up.
00:48:21.420
Joe Biden's top person, Anita Dunn, his top comms person, was helping run it.
00:48:26.100
And they they put Tara Reid under that bus and backed up over her twice as the media came
00:48:31.280
out and tried to say she was some lowlife loser who had had a bankruptcy.
00:48:34.580
I mean, it was absolutely disgusting what they did with her.
00:48:41.740
Love talking to Andrew Klavan and Maureen Callahan's ahead as well.
00:48:44.640
Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up but cheap ABC talent, George
00:48:53.620
See if you can guess which former president just posted that on Shusa.
00:49:11.960
The Daily Wire's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show, is with me still.
00:49:23.240
He did not find any time to make fun of Joe Biden, who's the sitting president of the United...
00:49:33.760
You can't find a way to make any comments about him at all.
00:49:36.800
I mean, he's only following what the news media is doing.
00:49:39.080
Joe Biden got up and gave the worst State of the Union address in my lifetime.
00:49:43.420
I've never seen anything as ugly and divisive as a guy getting up and comparing American citizens
00:49:57.740
All we've heard ever since is about Katie Britt, who I admit gave a bad speech.
00:50:03.100
The response to the State of the Union is always bad.
00:50:06.320
You simply are stuck there in this little room responding to the most powerful man on
00:50:15.700
But nobody has touched the fact that this was genuinely terrible.
00:50:24.840
He screamed at Americans for not being happy with his inflation riddled economy, with his
00:50:30.460
border, you know, nonsense, trying to blame the border on Republicans, which has been
00:50:39.140
It's really interesting that after this full court press by the press to protect Joe Biden
00:50:44.180
after that performance, the reviews, the polls on that State of the Union are still as
00:50:52.120
You're not just dealing with the entertainment media.
00:50:57.560
And they're all blended together with the corporations who are putting Dylan Mulvaney
00:51:07.260
And I personally, I think it's on the verge of crumbling.
00:51:11.580
You can already see the tide, which had reached a peak right around the George Floyd riots.
00:51:16.060
You can already see it sort of rolling back as people start to realize, you know, we're
00:51:22.860
What happens is the lies hit us first and they hit us like a wind.
00:51:25.900
But then slowly through the Internet, the truth comes out.
00:51:29.860
And as the truth comes out, the media loses its credibility because suddenly we see like,
00:51:34.780
oh, yeah, you know, this disease did come from China.
00:51:39.880
You suddenly see all these lies poked holes in and all the people who are called conspiracy
00:51:44.880
theorists turn out to just be talking common sense, which does make things confusing on
00:51:49.560
the one hand, because there are crazy conspiracy theorists out there.
00:51:52.700
But on the other hand, it just completely eliminates any credibility this media has, whether
00:52:05.340
And I think it's helping people who are basically just not on board with the regime.
00:52:08.920
And it's interesting you should say, whether it's Hollywood media or news media, because
00:52:12.460
it did in that one clip I showed when Don Lemon was on Kimmel's show, he said, you do
00:52:18.120
That's what's happened to the late night hosts.
00:52:26.360
And last night, one of the things I thought stood out about Kimmel's hosting was he didn't
00:52:33.260
Like the reason Richie Gervais did so well when he hosted those Golden Globes and just eviscerated
00:52:37.800
everyone in that room is because he was making fun of them on things that we knew were true,
00:52:44.080
you know, like the kind of their abuse of their own power and their self-importance,
00:52:52.320
What Kimmel did last night was he tried to mock people's weaknesses and like things that
00:52:58.260
they had genuinely fought hard to overcome, like he did to Robert Downey Jr., who wound up
00:53:09.600
That's probably what all of them should start with.
00:53:13.620
But before he won Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer, Kimmel, in his opening monologue,
00:53:19.280
Everybody knows about Robert Downey Jr.'s long history of trouble with drugs and alcohol.
00:53:25.520
It's something he's, you know, no one celebrates, but he used to be given credit for overcoming
00:53:32.080
He made it all about his wife, who he called his veterinarian, for treating like a dog like
00:53:38.580
But this is how Jimmy Kimmel addressed him in the opening monologue.
00:53:44.180
And congratulations to Cillian's co-star, Robert Downey Jr., who is, this night is,
00:53:49.660
this is the highest point of Robert Downey Jr.'s long and illustrious career, but one of
00:54:01.800
But Robert has been a, was that too on the nose or was that a drug motion you made?
00:54:22.320
Is that an acceptance speech in your pocket or do you just have a very rectangular penis?
00:54:39.440
I worked with Downey Jr.'s wife before she was his wife when she was single and I wrote
00:54:47.160
She's the only enemy I ever made in Hollywood because I refused to do a rewrite on a script.
00:54:51.860
But I really liked her and she was a highly intelligent woman.
00:54:56.040
And when I read she was getting married to this guy, I made fun of her to her face.
00:55:01.480
I said, you know, like, basically, this is this, you know, there's a smart woman making
00:55:08.720
She went out and she really gave that guy, turned that guy around.
00:55:11.820
I mean, he walked around with her picture on his phone to keep himself from going back
00:55:17.480
And you know how bad those habits can be, how they can destroy people.
00:55:23.340
And so she deserves all the credit he gives her.
00:55:25.980
And even though she was angry at me for our relationship, I salute her because she really
00:55:33.420
I don't like, why would you bring up, you know, the guy's drug use on his big night,
00:55:37.140
rub his nose in it, repeatedly double down on it, make a comment about his penis?
00:55:43.680
It was like he was trying to embarrass him and it was a failure.
00:55:52.440
It's a turn, but over the weekend, as we went into the early part of the weekend, the big
00:55:59.260
Joe Biden, speaking of a state of the union was asked about the fact that in that state
00:56:04.320
of the union, when Marjorie Taylor green said, say her name about Lake and Riley, the 22 year
00:56:09.380
old student who was murdered while jogging on the campus of the university of Georgia,
00:56:13.500
uh, by an illegal, she said, you know, he was killed by an, she was killed by an illegal
00:56:22.100
Well, he finally, I guess realized he had to do a mea culpa about that.
00:56:29.540
Listen to this Jonathan Capehart again of MSNBC.
00:56:34.680
Who would watch this program to actually subject your brain to this just insanity, but people
00:56:41.760
Jonathan Capehart is part of that same team and watch this exchange.
00:56:50.940
So that was one hell of a speech you gave Thursday night.
00:56:53.860
I'm going to touch on three specific areas there.
00:56:56.100
The first one being, you know, I noticed the look of surprise on your face when you walked
00:56:59.980
into the chamber and you saw Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor green.
00:57:05.000
You feigned shock at seeing her, but during your response to her heckling of you, you use
00:57:11.160
the word illegal when talking about the man who allegedly killed, um, Lincoln Riley.
00:57:21.300
And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked
00:57:25.700
about in the border was that his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about
00:57:31.780
I talked about what I'm not going to do, what I won't do.
00:57:34.560
I'm not going to treat any, any, any of these people with disrespect.
00:57:40.040
The reason our economy is growing, we have to control the border and more orderly slow,
00:57:54.300
They did gang members like Jose Aubera who murdered Lake and Riley, apparently for fun.
00:57:59.920
They, this is the levels of disrespect and disinformation in that answer.
00:58:06.780
Well, you know, this is, this is kind of the one thing in this administration that I, I
00:58:12.960
do think is hitting people in the face when, when New York is the head of Homeland Security
00:58:17.420
gets up. And in that pro faced way he has, he says, well, the border is secure. And if it's
00:58:22.700
not secure, it's the Republicans fault. And we're doing everything he can. He talks in that kind of
00:58:26.300
blank, double talk bureaucraties. And we see them, they can't hide them. They're coming across the
00:58:32.880
border. All the cities that declare themselves sanctuary cities are now getting flooded with
00:58:37.800
them and sort of saying, I'm not sure the sanctuary was such a great idea. And the Democrats are just
00:58:42.300
pouring money into New York, but there's not enough money to actually take care of this
00:58:47.020
incredible invasion that Biden has let have, has allowed to happen. Whereas in the last month of
00:58:53.620
the Trump administration, I think something like 17 illegals were released into the country. And now
00:59:01.340
And now he's worried about hurting their feelings.
00:59:04.360
He's worried about hurting the feelings of a murderer, of a murderer. I mean, not, it's not just,
00:59:07.760
it's not just hurting the feelings of illegals, some of whom may be decent people running away
00:59:12.620
from bad things. He's, he's hurting the feeling of a murderer and apologizing to him on air.
00:59:18.140
Can't even get the woman's name, right. The victim's name, right. When he said,
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which her mother spoke out about this weekend saying she was offended. She's like, she can't,
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she said, I have, I have it here, but her mom said, Biden doesn't even know my child's name.
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If you're going to say her name when forced to do so, at least say it the right way,
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say the right name. And she appeared with Trump while Biden was over there, apologizing to her
00:59:40.040
murderer for referring to him as an illegal. If Trump, if team Trump doesn't make that a split
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screen ad within the next 24 hours, they don't know what they're doing.
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You know, Ben Shapiro has said this, that Trump is basically running a very moderate campaign.
00:59:56.000
He's being helped by the fact that the news media won't cover him. They won't put him on the air.
00:59:59.740
So we're not seeing him as being kept off social media. So we're not hearing his,
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his kooky rants. But every time I see him, you know, I was going to say this about the state of
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the union. They, they concentrated on Brit because they could take her out, but Trump gave a response.
01:00:12.480
It was really good. And at this point, at this point, everything that Donald Trump has said
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about immigration, even though he puts things in this blunt, sometimes insensitive way,
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everything he said has turned out to be true. They're not sending their best. They are sending
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criminals. It is allowing people to get into the country who should not be in the country.
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And this sensitivity to criminals that we get from the Soros prosecutors and from Joe Biden,
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the sensitivity to people who commit crimes. You can't even say it's illegal to do something
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illegal. It masks this complete insensitivity to the victims of those crimes, which pretty soon is
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going to be a lot of us because some of the people coming in are clearly hooked to terrorist
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organizations. So eventually the victims are going to be all of us. And I don't even understand
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how long, I don't know how long people are going to tolerate this sensitivity toward the hurt feelings
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of criminals that masks a complete insensitivity, a coldness to the pain and suffering that is being
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caused to innocent people by these, by murders, by crime, by rampant crime, by shutting down businesses
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with stealing. Eventually you start to say like, don't normal people deserve some kind of sensitivity?
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Don't normal people who pay the taxes, who keep the world running, don't they deserve some kindness
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too? That's exactly right. I didn't see his apology for calling Lincoln Riley Lincoln. I didn't see
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that, but he wants to apologize and take back calling this alleged gang member per the New York
01:01:43.420
Post. Guy had been here illegally arrested for endangering the welfare of a child. That guy who
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wound up taking the life of a 22 year old young woman who just wanted to help people as a nurse,
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he gets an apology. It's bass-ackwards, as they say. Andrew Klavan, always a pleasure,
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my friend. Great to see you. Great to see you, Megan. Thanks.
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All right. When we come back, Maureen Callahan. I have so much I want to talk to her about. I do
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want to get her take on Stephanopoulos, but I also have got to get into what the hell happened with
01:02:13.080
the Kate Middleton photo with the three kids. Remember we talked about this on Friday? Well,
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we were on point because they put out this photo, you saw it, of her and the kids. All these news
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agencies pulled it, saying it was manipulated. We're going to get into it. Stand by.
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Now we're joined by Daily Mail columnist Maureen Callahan on so much that I want to get to. Maureen,
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I cannot wait to talk about Kate Middleton, but we've got to start with the harder news. And that
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is because I know, I mean, you're always fierce when it comes to women. You are an advocate for
01:03:46.180
women, not in an annoying, preachy way, but you'll go against the grain even when it might not get you
01:03:52.540
the required clicks. And I've seen this in you many, many times. And yet what we have today
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is George Stephanopoulos of all people pretending he is our champion as he attacks an actual rape
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survivor for having the nerve to endorse Donald Trump without pointing out to the audience
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that both of the men running for president right now have been accused of rape. Both of them that
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Trump was essentially found guilty of a digital rape, which the jury said was sexual assault.
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And that's exactly what Tara Reid accused Joe Biden of doing to her, not to mention all the other
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women who are involved in both of these guys. But that's where we are. And ABC lets him get away
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with it, as do the other media now applauding him for that segment. What do you make of it?
01:04:43.880
Oh, my God. Where to begin, Megan? Where to begin? George Stephanopoulos, who, as you noted,
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spearheaded the war room, which became a famous documentary. He and James Carville and all of
01:04:57.260
Clinton's lieutenants set about smearing the reputations of every single woman. And lo,
01:05:04.500
there were many who came forward to say that they had been on the receiving end of either unwelcome
01:05:12.340
sexual advances from Bill Clinton, or in the case of Juanita Broderick, actual rape. And Juanita
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Broderick's story has always, always, always stuck with me. I found her incredibly believable.
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And it was one detail that I believe it was a trauma room nurse came forward and said,
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this is how you know this woman is telling the truth. She spoke about, during the alleged assault,
01:05:40.220
Bill Clinton biting her lower lip to keep her from struggling. And that this is actually something
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that rapists do. And it was such a, such a, such an evocative detail, something very difficult to make
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up, that I just, I've always believed her. And then on top of that, what they did to Monica Lewinsky,
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you know, the, the campaign, the sort of underground campaign that Clinton's lieutenants ran,
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which included, by the way, the full, uh, ascent and cooperation of Hillary was called the nuts and
01:06:20.280
sluts attack. Nuts and sluts. And so the left, and I, I remember, you know, I don't know if back,
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if you do, but the way the New York times would cover this stuff, you know, how many Clinton,
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uh, apologists, people who had been in his corner from the Arkansas days wound up going to prison for
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this guy. You know, it also reminds me of, um, the way the media for months completely disregarded
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real boots on the ground reporting that the national inquirer was doing about John Edwards,
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cheating on his dying wife and getting his mistress pregnant. And the news media just completely refused
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to cover it until it became like, you could not ignore it anymore. And so for George Stephanopoulos
01:07:11.080
to sit in this news chair as part of ABC news, as their figurehead, a guy who went after defenseless
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women who had no money, no power, no resources to say that they were making it up or that they were
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looking for a money grab that they were in the words of James Carville trailer trash is astonishing to
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me. And secondly, I would say no man should ever be interviewing a rape survivor about
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the parameters of what she's allowed to feel or how she's allowed to vote.
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Right. The insensitivity of that exchange is infuriating. He started it by playing a clip of her
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talking about her rape when she was 16 and then immediately pivoted to attacking her with it.
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No one is writing an article about that today. But it's outrageous that he's been allowed to get
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away with this. And to the contrary, the left wing media is celebrating him and painting him as a
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defender of women who are raped because of E. Jean Carroll, like saying, oh, well, you know,
01:08:25.300
he pushed back that the judge said he had raped, Trump had raped her when Mace said, actually,
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the jury only only concluded a sexual assault, completely ignoring the fact that Mace herself
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is a rape victim. And that was shoved down her throat before he even kicked it off.
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Oh, he completely had an agenda. And, you know, I'm sure she was like she was she was lured onto the
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show with, you know, the false promise of telling her side of the story. It you know, it's all it's
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also circumstantial with with these major figures on the left. It reminds me of Rachel Maddow laughing
01:09:00.800
with E. Jean Carroll, who was flanked by her two female lawyers who looked increasingly uncomfortable
01:09:06.920
as the conversation went on laughing about. Yes, I had such such great ideas for all the good I'm
01:09:16.660
going to do with this money. First thing, Rachel, you and I are going to go shopping. Rachel, what
01:09:22.480
do you want? Penthouse? It's yours, Rachel. Penthouse and France. You want France? You want to go fishing
01:09:29.800
in France? Although if if me fishing in France could do something for women's rights, I would take the
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you know, I would obviously take one for the team. Stomach journey, Maureen. Women's rights. These
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are women standing up for women's rights and laughing at what should be a really serious conversation
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about where we're at. You know, I just I don't I don't understand. I don't understand how something
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that should be completely apolitical, you know, that we still live in a world where girls and women
01:10:05.160
have to fear this stuff and then fear the way that they're going to be received, whether in an
01:10:13.160
actual criminal court, a court of public opinion. You know, it makes me think I know we're probably
01:10:20.340
going to touch on the Oscars a little bit, I hope. But, you know, for so many years, the industry
01:10:25.900
turning a complete blind eye while they all knew what Harvey Weinstein was up to, you know, and now
01:10:32.560
they're just like twisting themselves into pretzels to celebrate Barbie, you know, as this like shining
01:10:40.940
feminist achievement. I think to differ. But it's all it's just all hypocrisy. It's all self-serving
01:10:49.240
hypocrisy. George Stephanopoulos did not do that interview in an effort to get at a larger truth or
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in an effort to promote the cause of women's rights and hear what sexual assault survivors
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have to say. He did that interview to make himself look good. And he thinks he made himself look good.
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And that's what's so screwed up about the whole thing. Here's the other thing on this same front.
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Today and over the weekend, Katie Britt, who gave what I openly said was a disastrous response to that
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State of the Union. I mean, the words, I guess, were fine, but the affectation was just too much.
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But now she got hit over the weekend because one of the stories she brought up about this woman who
01:11:37.200
had been raped over and over by the drug cartels, and this should not happen in America. We would be
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upset if this happened in a third world country. It turns out this story has been told by Katie Britt
01:11:48.000
before, and it didn't happen in America. It happened in Mexico. And this woman has now grown
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and told her the story. And she definitely implied in her remarks that this was happening in our
01:12:01.180
country, current, or at least in the not too distant past. And she's been fact-checked on this.
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So she admits, because she has to, that this actually happened years ago. And she met this woman. She was
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trying to contrast when she got into office versus when Biden got into office. He undid all the
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immigration controls. She actually went down to the border, tried to see what was going on and
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learned the story. She was inartful about it to give her the benefit of the doubt. Okay. But that
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brings me to the AP does a fact check on her headline is Katie Britt used decades old example of rapes in
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Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy. And they pointed out all the stuff I just,
01:12:37.400
I just told you about, and yet, you know what they didn't do in this piece, Maureen is point out that
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while that story was described in a way that wasn't spot on, there are rapes happening every day in
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America and along the route to America because of the promise of what they'll get when they get here,
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including free hotel rooms and, you know, free food cards and probably jobs soon on the government
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dime. And the left doesn't seem to much care about any of them. And so the AP, while it really
01:13:10.840
wants to fact check Katie Britt on that story, chooses not to mention anything. We went back and
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checked it twice about how ubiquitous the rape and sexual assault problem is of these women trying to
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get across the Southern border by these drug cartels and their, and the coyotes and those who enabled
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them. And in response to their correction of Katie Britt, you've got people like Katie Couric
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saying to the AP, thank you for reporting this. Thank you. She's very grateful that they've fact
01:13:42.880
checked Katie Britt on her one story about this one woman not actually happening in America. No one
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wants to talk about the fact that many women are being raped all the time down by the Southern border
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because of these lax border policies. Okay. There's so much to unpack here. I love this. First
01:14:01.940
of all, Katie Couric, that great champion of women, that great fellow traveler of sisterhood who wrote
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in her memoir, how she actively undermined female colleagues that she perceived to be a threat,
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Ashley Banfield among them. And she wasn't that sorry. It was the cost of doing business back in the
01:14:22.440
day. What have you, you know, great. Okay. Secondly, there are very few outlets that will report exactly
01:14:31.780
about what you are talking about here. The soap, what they call rape trees, which are basically
01:14:39.300
rapists hang the undergarments of their victims as these kinds of trophies. And they're, they're,
01:14:47.720
they're all over the Southern border. Nobody will talk about this. I don't understand the hypocrisy of
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the left here at all. I mean, to that earlier clip that you played of Jonathan Capehart and President
01:15:01.000
Biden, you know, semantically tearing apart whether they should have called the alleged murderer of
01:15:07.720
that poor woman, an illegal or an undocumented person. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that like
01:15:16.780
is galvanizing people who never thought for a second, they would vote for Donald Trump.
01:15:21.960
Take a, take a beat and reconsider. Um, it also reminds me, I don't know if you happen to see
01:15:28.080
this, but there was this incredible piece in the time, the New York times over the weekend
01:15:32.240
about the number of single Chinese men who are entering the United States illegally through the
01:15:41.120
Southern border. And without so much as raising a question as to why what's going on here, this was
01:15:49.760
an entire piece about how welcoming the community in Chinatown is and how they're trying to get them
01:15:55.820
jobs and food vouchers and all of this stuff. I mean, it's an alternate universe going on.
01:16:01.340
And Biden is pivoting now a little bit to the border as he did in the state of the union,
01:16:08.220
because his polls are so disastrous that he has no choice. Everybody knows his heart isn't in this.
01:16:17.060
You know, in New York, we see this all the time. An acquaintance of mine at a family event told me
01:16:25.580
about her son getting kicked out of school. The entire, the entire school was being taken over
01:16:32.440
by migrants in Brooklyn because a storm was coming. And these children who already lost so much,
01:16:40.300
not just educationally, but emotionally and socially from COVID lockdowns had to sacrifice the school,
01:16:47.980
a private Catholic school that these parents pay tuition for, for undocumented migrants because
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the storm was coming. People are not. What we really, what we really need to worry about is
01:16:59.720
what we call them. I mean, like him trying to make sure we, we're correctly identifying them as
01:17:04.660
undocumented instead of illegal is like trying to say Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't a cannibal. He was just
01:17:11.880
really hungry. It's completely, you're missing the point. I hate to tell you, but you're really
01:17:19.800
missing the point. All right. We've got to go onto these other stories because they're so good.
01:17:23.720
Let's talk about Kate Middleton. Unbelievable. So she had this surgery. They said she was going
01:17:29.620
to be in the hospital for four weeks. We were talking on Friday about what the hell could keep
01:17:34.620
somebody in the hospital for four weeks. Some speculated it could be, this is pure speculation,
01:17:38.920
Crohn's disease disease, which sometimes requires resection of part of the intestine. You could
01:17:43.960
potentially have a colostomy bag. This is pure speculation, but that's, that's how severe it would
01:17:49.180
have to be to keep one in the hospital that length of time. We just don't know. They're not,
01:17:53.240
they're all they're saying was abdominal surgery and that it wasn't cancer related. Okay. But this
01:17:57.600
weekend there was a frenzy over the internet after Kate Middleton, who's only been seen once in a drive
01:18:03.020
by car situation, not her body, not her walking released the first photo of herself and her children
01:18:09.320
in months on the British mother's day, only to have it almost instantly quote killed by the major photo
01:18:16.500
agencies around the world. Maureen over quote manipulation and inconsistencies found with the
01:18:22.960
image. A series of editing errors were found within the photo by sleuths online and by photography
01:18:29.080
professionals, uh, to the point where they were all saying, look at the many things that she's
01:18:33.420
changed or somebody has changed. Like the mock-ups you can see if people do the circles online to show
01:18:36.880
you the number of things that are fishy and that show like blurring where there shouldn't be blurring
01:18:41.420
an arm or a finger looking weird, um, to the point where today Kate Middleton had to reply herself
01:18:47.780
and do what they're never supposed to do, which is explain. And she said, she was the one who quote
01:18:54.460
conducted an experiment with editing. She says like many photographers do, and she's sorry for any
01:19:01.680
confusion, but that's all she said. Now there are more questions than answers about the princess of
01:19:07.320
Wales, her health and what's happening here. What do you make of it, Maureen?
01:19:12.000
This is all feeling really Hitchcockian to me. Like it's feeling like 30s film noir with a heroine
01:19:21.140
in peril. And we can't quite figure out what's going on. Um, these are such a, such a series of
01:19:28.600
unforced errors. I feel on the part of Kensington palace, um, for her to release this photo, which
01:19:38.360
nobody believes she just did it unilaterally. You know, this was something that was thought about
01:19:44.320
and debated and strategized. And then to have all these global news agencies say, we have to pull
01:19:51.380
this picture. It's a fake. And then to have her post an apology, uh, taking the fall for it. When
01:20:01.360
she, if she's this sick, doesn't she just get to be this sick? I mean, that's my question.
01:20:07.860
Nobody has as much built up goodwill and is pretty non-controversial as Kate Middleton is. Um,
01:20:16.080
if anybody should have taken the fall, it should have been Prince William who was credited as the
01:20:20.760
photographer, whether Kate did it or not, she never should have had to take that fall. Then earlier
01:20:27.760
today, she was photographed in the backseat of a car alongside Prince William, but her head was turned
01:20:37.040
away from the cameras. She's looking away. And that to me reads as like an act of defiance. Like now
01:20:45.100
you're going to pro you're going to, you're going to make me, you know, present myself in public again,
01:20:50.940
to make up for this epic failure of public relations. And I refuse to do it. Um, it makes
01:21:00.100
you wonder who their advisors are. And because all of these things are completely of their own making.
01:21:08.640
And, uh, with each, with each misstep, it's getting worse and worse. And it's only fueling
01:21:14.660
all these conspiracy theories that they're actually trying to extinguish. You know, what is really wrong
01:21:22.200
with Kate? Is she, is, is this actually her? Is she divorcing him? Has she had a breakdown? Is she in
01:21:29.900
a wheelchair? The most extreme, is she even alive? Are we looking at body doubles? Like this is very
01:21:39.140
strange. It's verging on camp. I kind of can't wait to see what they do next, but what I know.
01:21:46.240
I'll, I'll show you something that they just, um, posted this morning. I don't know. My team will
01:21:50.900
tell me where we got this from. Um, but there's speculation that this photo of her is actually a
01:21:58.020
from her British Vogue cover. Look at this, Maureen. Oh, wow. Look at that. Oh, wow. It looks,
01:22:09.140
it looks identical. It looks exactly like the cover of British Vogue. And the question is why,
01:22:16.780
why can't Kate Middleton just sit down and take a photo with her three children?
01:22:21.520
That's been the question for, for, for all of these weeks, you know, if she's doing as well as
01:22:30.840
they say that she's doing, if it's not that big of a deal, but a big enough deal that she'll be
01:22:35.800
out of the public eye until at least after Easter. And then there was also that mistake they made where
01:22:41.280
she, it was announced she was going to appear at the Trooping of the Color. And then Kensington Palace
01:22:46.180
said, absolutely not. And that's June 8th, I believe, which is well after Easter. Um, it,
01:22:53.200
it does make one wonder why can't she simply sit for a still photograph in an era of, you know,
01:23:01.480
soft focus retouching. Everybody's got those filters on their phones. Why not?
01:23:08.060
Totally. You can, you can sit, you can sit and have a photograph with your children. I mean,
01:23:13.640
most of us, you know, you can do it even when you look, you're absolute worst. Like when you just
01:23:17.760
had nine months of pregnancy weight on you and have the new baby and you have, you can do it.
01:23:21.640
Why, why wouldn't she do it? What's the problem? I don't know what, what they're trying to cover up.
01:23:26.380
That's my real question is like, all of this is toward what end? What's wrong with her that she
01:23:31.040
can't be on camera, even for a photo with her children, like hiding her, you know, hiding her body.
01:23:36.820
You know, like, why couldn't, why, why would it have to be photoshopped in? Like, it looks to me
01:23:42.860
like maybe the four of them weren't even there. Maybe she wasn't there and they photoshopped her
01:23:47.220
in. I don't know what happened, but it is a five alarm fire when all the news agencies say,
01:23:51.880
don't run this. It was a hard stop put on the airing of this photograph by the AP Reuters down,
01:23:58.340
all of them, all of them down the list to the point where the palace had no choice,
01:24:01.420
but to admit it. And she herself, as you point out, fell on the sword. Sadly, there's going to
01:24:08.140
be more on that. Okay. Wait, it was Ruby Naldritt of the Daily Mirror who put that together. Well
01:24:14.260
done, Ruby. That was very interesting to see. Okay. I do want to talk about the Oscars and I know you
01:24:18.980
do too. Did you watch and what was your impression? I watched it in real time, which is a specific form
01:24:29.180
of agony. Um, you know, I was thinking about this. This is, this is the entertainment industry's
01:24:37.060
annual tribute to itself, right? Yes. How is it the entertainment industry cannot make this broadcast
01:24:43.980
entertaining? Uh, you know, it, it, it, it's a slog to get through the, um, Jimmy Kimmel just,
01:24:52.240
he was issuing these sort of reheated jokes from earlier ceremonies that never worked in the first
01:24:59.840
place. Like his Yorgos quip was like an Oprah Uma kind of thing. And then sort of happy, like, oh,
01:25:06.800
this thing is going to go so long. It's already over. We're only five minutes in every host says that
01:25:11.780
every year. Um, the Barbie stuff was just killing me. It was killing me. And if I had to hear one more
01:25:20.240
time than America Ferrara's soliloquy and Barbie about how hard it is to be a woman, just the
01:25:27.140
thumbnail. If a man does it, he's assertive. If a woman does it, she's a bitch, you know, gold
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plated since the seventies. We get it is a soliloquy on par with like to be or not to be, I'm going to
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throw something. This movie is a mess. It was an infomercial for Mattel. Um, and then we had just
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the self-regard of these actors coming up and like giving each other awards and, you know, talking as
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if they've cured cancer. Emma Jones, completely hysterical reaction. I love you. I love you so much
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because you say exactly the things that I've been thinking and I need somebody to say, please keep
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going. Well, just to say like, she's gotten hard in the paint for the past nine months campaigning for
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this award. And then she confesses when she's on stage that her own director had to talk her down
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the night before, because she was fretting what would happen if she won because it was that likely.
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And then she gets up there and she's crying and she can't pull it together to just say thank you
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and have a proportionate response. You know, my favorite was watching Annette Bening sitting there
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looking just like completely unimpressed and like over it and ready to go home. Um, and then on a,
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on a more serious note, I really wanted to just hit this with you because I don't know if you've had
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the chance to see the zone of interest. Um, the job, but I saw that man's disgraceful acceptance speech.
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And it was a disgrace to the movie he made because that movie is a masterpiece. And I
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encourage it up. I don't know if the audience knows, but they may not know what we're talking about.
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Zone of interest. Uh, it's a Holocaust movie. It's a Holocaust film and it's unlike anyone that
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you have ever seen before. It is, it is brilliant. Um, but the director, Jonathan Glazer, who is
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himself Jewish in accepting his well-earned reward, got up there and said that he renounced his own
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Judaism because of October 7th. There was nary a word issued about October 7th on the, that stage,
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even when they wheeled out like Steven Spielberg on the 30th anniversary of Schindler's list,
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we cannot talk about what's happening in Israel right now. We can only talk about what's happening
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in Gaza and the ceremony itself, the broadcast, which was supposed to start at seven big, big,
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big, you know, deal that they had finally bumped this thing up an hour. So people on the East coast
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aren't like hung over the next morning. It started late, but they didn't say why. And it started late
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because pro-Palestinian protesters had blocked the route to the award ceremony, but they couldn't
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even acknowledge that. It was just wild. Here's this guy turning, who made a movie about the Holocaust,
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who won this inner best international film for his movie about the Holocaust, who is Jewish
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and his acceptance speech in which he tears on Jews in Israel. Watch.
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Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present.
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Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being
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hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.
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Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza,
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all the victims of this dehumanization. How do we resist?
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He refutes his Jewishness. The Holocaust has been hijacked by what's happening in Gaza. I don't even
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understand it, but I know enough to be offended. I know enough to be insulted by what he's saying.
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How about the hostages that are still being held by Hamas? You know, this is the thing that
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my big takeaway from that evening. Donald Trump is an extinction-level event. He is a threat to
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humanity who must be vanquished at all costs. But Hamas is just kind of misunderstood. They need
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better branding. So allow Hollywood to do that for them. It's the strangest thing. I mean,
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the zone of interest is- Pro tip. Pro tip. When Mehdi Hassan is praising your acceptance speech
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for your Holocaust film, you're doing it wrong. Something's gone very, very, very wrong there.
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I love what you said about Emma Stone. When she won, my team will back me up. I texted my team
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and I said, if I were ever to win an award, please remind me to just get up there and say the words,
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thank you, and then sit down and not pretend that it is like winning a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Like, their self-congratulatory nature. I mean, it's fine. The arts play a part in our lives and
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do bring some enjoyment to us. But to pretend like she had just been awarded the Academy Award for
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curing cancer, right, with the tears. I know. I mean, I can't believe. I love the movies. I love pop
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culture. And this is, I think, why I'm really hard on it in some ways, because there's no need for that
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kind of hysteria. Zero. I mean, I loved Robert Downey Jr.'s speech in which he opened by thanking
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his terrible childhood. That was so noteperfect. Everybody knows this guy's been through it and
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everybody was rooting for him. And he did pretty much say thank you. I mean, he was a little self-important
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by saying, you know, everything they make matters. Not everything they make matters. It doesn't have
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to, you know? But yeah, the Emma Stone, there's always one every year. There's always one. I know.
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It's too much. The best speech ever was the Joe Pesci speech in which he literally just got up there.
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And I think it was for Goodfellas, for Best Supporting Actor. And I think all he said was,
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thank you. It's my honor. And sat down. It was my privilege. Thank you.
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Right on. Joe Pesci. Of course, his best movie wasn't Goodfellas. It was My Cousin Vinny. That's
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a fact. It's just well-known, right? It's well-known. It's accepted. Okay. The media and,
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you know, fawning over celebrities, they fawn over themselves and some of their coverage in the media
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is fawning as well. And this brings me to a New York Times piece on Kate Winslet, which I know is on
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your radar. Explain why. Oh, my God. I'm so happy you brought this up. I almost forgot because so
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much has been happening. So I read this Kate Winslet profile in the New York Times magazine,
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which even for the New York Times is over the top in its sort of obsequious, you know, veneration of
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who, listen, good actor, like her stuff. She's an actress. In this piece, we learn that Kate Winslet,
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probably thanks to her Titanic days, can hold her breath for seven and a half minutes straight
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underwater. Navy SEAL, you may not know, can only make it to three. So this is what just one assertion
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that this like hero worshiping, you know, interviewer is, is, uh, just sort of, let me
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read part of it. Let me read part of it just to back you up. They start off by saying Winslet is
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not precious or easily rattled. Unset over the years, she has broken a toe, suffered hypothermia
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and fainted, but very little slows her down when she's shooting. She's not a fan of a lunch break
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goes on about how she's eminently relatable and then says it was for avatar allegedly that she,
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after considerable training, managed to hold her breath underwater for an astonishing
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seven minutes and 15 seconds, and then points out some Navy SEALs never break three minutes.
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Paging Rob O'Neill, I would like a fact check on whether that's possible, but keep going.
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Yes. Great point. I would like a fact check too. My favorite part of the interview.
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She asks, she asks what Ozempic is. She says, what is Ozempic? Kate Winslet says, what is Ozempic?
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And this dummy interviewer is like, oh, you've never heard of Ozempic. It would be like,
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me asking me, like, what does Oxygen do? Explain it to me. I don't get it. She's in Hollywood.
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She's spent the past two decades bitching about how her, her weight is always a topic of conversation
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with casting directors, how unfair it is. She's so brave. She's doing her L'Oreal ads without
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airbrushing, you know, but please. Okay. Whatever. She did Mare of East Town.
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Yeah. She says she's having an eating disorder, but she's never heard of Ozempic. And then when
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the interviewer explains what it is, she says, that's horrible. Let's eat some more stuff and
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start shoving her face. The whole thing is like the nth degree. I encourage everyone to read it.
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It's the, it's the biggest laugh you'll have all week. I promise.
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And do you, is there any chance I actually read it thinking, is there any chance this New York
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Times writer, Susan Dominus, um, is in on it? Like, is there any chance she's espousing like these
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absurdities to, you know, show us how ridiculous this is?
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I think you're more generous than I am. And I don't think she is in on it. And I'll tell you why.
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Kate Winslet, a multi multi-millionaire who you might not know is also married to a relative
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of Richard Branson, who in the piece is only called by his first name, Ned, but Megan, this
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is a middle-aged man who goes by the name Ned rock and roll. Uh, so Kate Winslet makes this
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poor woman conduct this three hour long interview in an uninsulated beach shack on the ocean.
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Like you can picture the wind whipping through these wooden slats and the, and the, and the
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interviewer writes in the piece, she's freezing and she can't understand why Kate Winslet isn't,
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but like, it's, it seemed like a weird sort of test. Like how much, how much would this woman put
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up with because she's spending time with a famous, it was so strange and weird and, uh, just, just
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like peak New York times. Oh gosh. It does make me look a little differently at Kate Winslet who
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previously I liked, and I still like her acting, but it does, you know, I've, I've, I've said many
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times and I, I've, it's what came to mind when I heard this, the seven foot center doesn't tell you
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how tall he is. And I don't think if you're super tough, you know, you don't sit there telling the
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New York times how tough you are and you don't take lunch breaks and you've never said you're cold
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and sit out here in this ice shack and listen to me. I can go under this water at any point for
01:36:14.420
seven minutes and 15 seconds more than the Navy sea. Like that, that doesn't sound right, but, um,
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we'll see. Maybe Kate's people will, will quietly get the word out that it was Susan's doing and not
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Kate's that all this stuff appeared. Maureen, always a pleasure. God, I love talking to you.
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Thanks for being here. Likewise, Megan. Thanks for having me.
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Oh, what a show. Uh, absolutely loved every discussion and I hope you did too.
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We're back tomorrow with the latest on the Trump trials. See you then.
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