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March 27, 2019 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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In-Jussie-Tice | Ep. 746
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Jussie Smollett gets off the hook for an awful race hoax.
Mitch McConnell plays AOC like a fish.
And a mosque leader in New Zealand blames the Jews!
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Okay, now to the news.
Jussie Smollett.
You remember Jussie Smollett.
The guy from Empire.
Now, I know.
Maybe you've never seen Empire.
Maybe this wasn't one of your shows.
But Jussie Smollett is apparently an actor.
And he's apparently a star of Empire.
A guy who thinks he's very important.
So important and so upset about Trump's murka that he allegedly sends himself in the mail a piece of hate mail.
A piece of hate mail that contained white powder and a scrawled crayon drawing that threatened him with death.
Allegedly, it was a letter from him to him.
So there was that.
Then he decided, you know what?
I didn't get enough attention for the fake hate crime that I tried to perpetrate via the federal mails.
So I'm going to do this thing in real life.
You know, take it from script to screen.
Now take it from page to reality.
And so he found the two best white actors he knew, Nigerian-born brothers, who were his personal trainers.
And then he paid them with a personal check to fake a hate crime in Chicago.
I'm saying this, I'm gonna say allegedly, just for purposes of legal protection, but it's not some allegedly, guys.
I mean, like, the CPD had all the evidence that this happened, including the signed check.
So, here's his story.
His story was, as you'll recall, that it was two o'clock in the morning, in the middle of a polar vortex in Chicago, and he went to a Subway shop to get a Subway sandwich at two in the morning.
In a polar vortex.
And there, on the streets of Chicago, which voted 86% for Hillary Clinton, he was confronted by two red-hatted MAGA fans who spotted him and knew him from the show Empire.
Because if there is one show that is deeply popular among Trump fans, it is the show Empire.
I mean, everywhere I go, I talk with Trump fans.
First thing they ask is, did you see last night's episode of Empire?
It's like the number one thing they talk about.
I don't know, it's kind of crazy.
That's just been my experience.
In any case, This guy walking down the street and two MAGA-hatted guys apparently spot him out of the corner of their white eyes.
And they look at him and they say, Aha!
Jussie Smollett.
That guy doesn't like Trump.
And this right here is MAGA country in the middle of Chicago at 2 a.m.
in a polar vortex.
And so they happen to have, good news for them, they happen to also have some clothesline and bleach on them.
They proceeded to wrap the clothesline around his neck in a noose, and then they proceeded to pour bleach on him, and then they proceeded to kick him in the ribs and all of this.
Now, the best news for Jussie Smollett, like, that was bad, right?
But the best news for Jussie Smollett, he never lost his grip on that Subway sandwich.
Some of us have priorities.
Some of our priorities include making sure that our children are fed, making sure that we have a home, making sure that we get paid for a job well done.
Others of us have real priorities, like you hold on to that damn Subway sandwich when two guys are beating the crap out of you while committing a fake hate crime.
I mean, that Subway sandwich, it's a long day's work.
You need a snack after you have two guys beat you up for the press.
So then Jussie Smollett goes back to his apartment, walks right past the security guard outside, Heads on up to his room.
Security guard's gotta be like, um, Jussie, you're covered in bleach and you have a noose around your neck.
What happened?
Apparently not.
Apparently Jussie just strolls right up back to his apartment.
He then spends 40 minutes eating that Subway sandwich.
I mean, chow down, buddy.
And then he calls the cops.
They show up.
And he's still got the noose around his neck, because that's what I would do.
I mean, I don't know about you, but for me, if somebody tried to hang me, what I would do is just leave that noose around my neck as long as I could.
Because that's just, I don't know, kind of comfortable.
It's got a look to it, you know?
So the police show up and they say, Jussie, will you hand over your phone?
Because you said that you were on the phone with your manager.
So we can confirm that that's true by location.
We can look at your phone log.
And Jussie Smollett's like, no, I'm not going to do that.
You know why?
Invasion of privacy, guys, invasion of privacy.
And then he turns over a redacted call log.
Well, the police.
are able to use his cell phone number to track down all of the calls he made that night and all of the numbers that he redacted.
And apparently the numbers he redacted included the numbers of the Nigerian-born brothers who, it turns out, were not white, MAGA-hatted Donald Trump fans.
They were Nigerian-born personal trainers who were friends with Jussie Smollett and who Jussie Smollett then proceeded to throw under the bus.
His new claim, Jussie Smollett's new claim, is that these two guys committed a hate crime.
His friends committed a hate crime against him.
For no reason.
Just for the hell of it.
And so all of this came out.
It was obviously stupid.
It was obviously terrible.
The media had jumped on it.
Kamala Harris called it a modern-day lynching.
Cory Spartacus McBooker said the same thing.
Joe Biden.
Pretty much every Democrat came out of the woodwork like, this is America.
This right here.
This is what America looks like.
It looks like a black man walking in Chicago in the middle of a polar vortex, holding on to a Subway sandwich for dear life and being accosted by Mike Pence and Jared Kushner on the streets of Chicago.
That's America.
Trump's America.
Turns out all of it was crap.
The Chicago PD tracked all of it down.
They looked at legitimately thousands of hours of footage.
They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, hundreds of man hours.
They had a bunch of police on this thing.
And finally, they said, you know what?
We should probably indict Jussie Smollett for faking a hate crime and making a false police report.
So 16 felony counts seems about right to us of lying to police.
And then it got to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
Now, in charge of the state's county's public attorney's office, the state's attorney's office, is a woman named Kim Fox.
Kim Fox happens to be very, very close with the Obamas.
Very close with the Obamas.
And you know who else was very close with the Obamas?
Was Jussie Smollett.
So, one of Michelle Obama's aides, Tina Tchen, who was friends with the Smollett family, texted Kim Foxx and said, you know, Kim, is there a way you could, you know, see your way clear to kind of letting this thing go?
Could you kind of see your way clear to letting this thing go?
Because, you know, Jussie's a nice guy and his family knows Michelle O's family and everybody sort of knows each other.
I mean, there are pictures of Jussie Smollett with Barack and Michelle Obama.
So Gina Chen called up Kim Foxx and there are pictures of Kim Foxx with Kamala Harris.
I mean, she's a Democratic politician.
She tweeted out, not all that long ago, I mean, just back in January, quote, I am so excited that Kamala Harris has decided to run for president.
I would not be where I am today without her guidance during my first run for political office.
And she has continued to mentor me as I work to reform the criminal justice system in Cook County.
Well, she definitely has a way of reforming the criminal justice system in Cook County.
And that is to let Jussie Smollett off the hook because the report today is that Kim Fox and her state's attorney's office, as of yesterday, dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett.
They did not require him to apologize.
They did not require him to do any jail time.
They did not require him to do any further community service.
They simply seized his $10,000 bond, which is a weird thing to do if he was completely innocent, right?
He says he's innocent still.
Well, no, if you're innocent, then you want your money back.
But they dropped all of the charges.
And this was obviously, I mean, there's no way this was not done as a corrupt political favor to the Obama crew.
That's all this was.
This is all this was.
Now, Kim Foxx, as I say, She's got an interesting history.
She won office in 2016.
She unseated the former Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez.
She lost popularity, Alvarez did, over her handling of the now infamous Laquan McDonald murder.
You'll remember Laquan McDonald was a black man shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer named Jason Van Dyke and the entire video was kept under wraps for like a year after the shooting and then finally it came out and then the officer was prosecuted.
She's really entrenched in Chicago's political machine.
There's a very good article about all of this by Emily Zanotti over at Daily Wire today.
She is very entrenched in Chicago's political machine.
She grew up in the city.
She went to law school at Southern Illinois University, and then she served as an assistant state's attorney for more than a decade before she entered politics.
In the early 2010s, she served as the chief of staff for Cook County Board President and current mayoral candidate Tony Preckwinkle, herself heavily entrenched in Chicago politics.
She's taken a lot of money from progressive organizations, including $300,000 in donations from George Soros.
Her office had recent issues with handling violent offenders.
She is notorious for lax prosecution.
It has really ticked off the police who feel like she's undercut them repeatedly.
There's a pending complaint against her from the Chicago PD for trying to interfere into their investigation.
Last week, Chicago's primary police union, the Fraternal Order of Police, delivered a letter to the U.S.
The U.S.
Attorney's Office in Chicago, that's the Feds, alleging that Fox had tried to compromise their investigation of Jussie Smollett at the behest of a Smollett relative and a woman by the name of Tina Chen, who we've mentioned.
In a series of text messages and emails, Chen contacted Fox on behalf of Smollett's family.
And then all of this came out thanks to a FOIA request.
And here is what it said.
Here's the letter originally from Tina Tchen to Kim Fox.
Hi, Kim.
I wanted to give you a call on behalf of Jussie Smollett and family who I know.
convince him to turn over investigation of the alleged hate crime to the FBI.
And then all of this came out thanks to a FOIA request.
And here is what it said.
Here's the letter originally from Tina Chendikin Fox.
Hi, Kim.
I sent an email to your work address, I think, as well.
I wanted to give you a call on behalf of Jussie Smollett and family, who I know.
They have concerns about the investigation.
I am on an 8 a.m.
flight to New York City, but please call me before then.
I land about 1015 Chicago time.
My cell number is bleep.
Many thanks.
And then they started texting each other.
Hello, Kim.
Are you available to chat?
Tina Chen gave me your number.
Hi, are you available in five minutes?
I'm at a conference in D.C.
and will step out.
Yes, I am.
Spoke to the superintendent earlier.
He made the ask, trying to figure out logistics.
I'll keep you posted.
So the Chicago PD are rightly livid about this whole thing.
In a second, we'll show you Jussie Smollett continuing to lie, and then we'll show you Rahm Emanuel erupting, erupting on the state attorney's office.
Kim Foxx.
There will be an investigation into Kim Foxx, and well, there should be.
This is insane.
Insane.
As we say in the membrane.
We'll get to all that in one second.
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Okay, so Jussie Smollett continues to lie.
The state's attorney's office didn't even leverage an apology out of Jussie Smollett over all of this.
Here is Jussie Smollett continuing to lie and invoking his dear mother.
I've been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.
I would not be my mother's son if I was capable of one drop of what I have been accused of.
This has been an incredibly difficult time.
Honestly, one of the worst of my entire life.
But I'm a man of faith, and I'm a man that has knowledge of my history, and I would not bring my family, our lives, or the movement through a fire like this.
I just wouldn't.
Now, I'd like nothing more than to just get back to work and move on with my life.
But make no mistakes, I will always continue to fight for the justice, equality, and betterment of marginalized people everywhere.
Well, fortunately, Hollywood is a very forgiving place, so you can lie and completely fake a hate crime, and your brothers in Hollywood will simply welcome you back.
Your brothers and sisters in Hollywood.
Hollywood is a wonderful place.
The Empire Writers Room sent out a tweet with a winky face.
See y'all Wednesday.
Hashtag Empires.
Hashtag Empire Fox.
Because nothing says that you respect your viewers quite like backing an obvious race hoaxer.
Well, Rahm Emanuel went on the warpath over this.
So Rahm Emanuel, you know that something deeply corrupt happened when Rahm Emanuel and I are on the same side.
This has never happened before in presumably all of human history.
I'm on the same side as Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod and Eddie Johnson, the CPD superintendent.
Everybody is looking at this and going, what in the living hell just happened here?
Here is Rahm Emanuel blasting the living daylights out of the state attorney, Kim Foxx.
From top to bottom, this is not on the level.
In the end of the day, it's Mr. Smollett that committed this false claim upon two individuals, and who also testified, but also on the city.
One action, he asked me looking at the state's attorney.
It is not on the level from beginning to end, and there needs to be a level of accountability throughout the system, and this sends an unambiguous message that there is no accountability, and that is wrong.
Okay, so Rahm Emanuel fighting Matt and of course attacking Justice Smollett, too, saying, you know, how dare he do this?
Which, of course, is exactly right.
Here is the mayor of Chicago saying this is just absurd.
Mr. Smollett is still saying that he is innocent, still running down the Chicago Police Department.
How dare him?
How dare him?
After everybody saw, and I want to remind you, this is not the superintendent's word against his.
The grand jury, a sliver of the evidence, and they came to a conclusion, as did the state's attorney's office.
And even after this whitewash, there's still no sense of ownership of what he's done.
He says that, in fact, he is the wrong in this case.
Okay, so Rahm Emanuel fighting Matt over this.
He's not the only one fighting Matt over this.
We'll see in a second that there are other high-ranking officials who are very upset over this.
The media, however, were really sanguine about the whole thing.
Pretty amazing.
So here is Chicago PD Superintendent Eddie Johnson.
He's watched his department get dragged through the mud by Jussie Smollett.
Jussie Smollett suggesting that the lack of charges brought against these phantom white men who attacked him, that that was the fault of the racist CPD.
Here's the Chicago PD superintendent saying, listen, this is a hoax.
It's obvious it was a hoax.
The guy's guilty.
At the end of the day, it's Mr. Smollett who committed this hoax.
Period.
If he wanted to clear his name, the way to do that was in a court of law so that everyone could see the evidence.
Okay, well, you know, that last point is not a great one because obviously you're going to take whatever deal is put in front of you.
With that said, Eddie Johnson has every right to be livid about all of this.
Now, what's hilarious is to watch as Democrats and the media pretend that they don't know what happened here.
Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, continue to pretend that this is all just a giant mystery, guys.
It's just like O.J.
You know, like, who was the real killer anyway?
And I'm really looking forward to the buddy cop comedy where Jussie and O.J.
go looking for the real killer and the real hate crime perpetrators across America.
And it turns out it was in the mirror the whole time.
The adventure was really the journey.
At the end of that adventure?
The real truth is at least they made friends.
That'll be the end of that buddy cop comedy.
In any case, here's Brian Stelter doing yeoman's work as the ombudsman of legal and journalistic ethics over at CNN.
Brian Stelter saying, you know, we may never know what happened.
It's a mystery.
A mystery wrapped!
In an enigma.
We may never know, you know, despite the fact that we have like a signed check, and we have tape of these guys buying all the goods, and we have the cell phone records, and we have all sorts of evidence, and we have their testimony.
No, Brian Stelter says, we just don't know.
Guys, we have to withhold judgment.
So far, no comment from the network, but I do think we will see Smollett get back to work, because the narrative has once again changed from victim, you know, to villain, back to victim.
It's been very confusing, as Ryan was saying.
People don't know what to believe, and we may never really know what happened on the street that night in Chicago, but for his fans, for his friends, this is a triumphant moment that he can now get back to what he wants to do, which is work.
Oh, that's exactly what he wants to do.
I mean, aside from faking racial hoaxes for publicity, that's really what he wants to do is work.
After all, I mean, he wants to get back to making $100,000 per episode.
The reports were, according to Eddie Johnson, you'll recall, that Jussie Smollett did all of this to increase his pay rate, because it wasn't enough to make millions of dollars in a supporting part on a network TV show.
No, he needed to increase his pay.
But Brian Stelter, showing the curiosity of a feeble-minded chameleon there, And just, wow, I mean, I guess that's all we will know.
We'll never know what happened on that street, guys.
I mean, it's just mysteries, mysteries.
What do we do about this?
Kamala Harris did the same thing.
The senator from California who declared this a modern day lynching the same day it happened.
Now she's just confused, which is weird.
I was told that she was once a prosecutor and that she had a legal mind and that she can spot crime a mile away with her eagle eye.
But now Jussie Smollett comes along and it's like, well, I don't know.
It's it's also puzzling and I just can't I can't suss this one out.
What do you think about what happened to Jesse Smollett in Chicago today?
To be perfectly honest with you, Wolf, I'm completely confused.
I don't understand.
I don't know.
I don't know the underlying evidence.
There's a sealed document, obviously.
I don't know.
I'm at a loss.
I think we're going to have to leave it up to the judgment of the prosecutor.
I think we should leave it up to the judgment of the police chief and the mayor, of course, to give us some better sense of what's going on.
I don't know.
I mean, I just don't know.
It's such a mystery.
Like, the day that it happened, and he reported this, he called it a modern-day lynching, linking it to, you know, racial lynchings of the past.
But now, we know exactly what happened, and it's... I'm confused, guys.
I mean, I don't know.
It's just... How am I supposed to come to a conclusion when I have every single bit of evidence?
Now, what was hilarious is Wolf Blitzer on CNN tried this with Rahm Emanuel, and Rahm Emanuel essentially curb-stomped him.
I mean, it's really funny.
Was the full picture painted by the evidence perhaps not as compelling as what was presented to the grand jury?
It was compelling enough, wait a second, the evidence presented to the grand jury is what brought the charges.
The police did a good job and the evidence holds up and he actually did commit the hoax.
They're saying $10,000 and two days of community service is good enough.
And I don't believe, not only is it not good enough, especially when he's walking around Thinking that he is actually innocent, not guilty, and B, he's innocent not only legally and a criminal justice sense, he is also guilty, in my view, of a moral crime, which is to use the hate crimes to advance his own career for selfish reasons.
Rahm Emanuel, the voice of reason.
What in the world is going on, guys?
I don't even know.
Donald Trump's fever dream, in which we are all just living, continues.
The Cook County attorney came out and said, yeah, we know Jesse's guilty.
Like, we're not pretending that he's innocent here.
This was Maggots, the second, literally named Maggots, the second in command over at the state's attorney's office.
He was asked about this.
He's like, it was, you know, it wasn't really like we let him off the hook.
It's an alternative disposition, guys.
It's an alternative disposition.
This was not an exoneration.
To say that he was exonerated by us or anyone else is not true.
I called an alternative disposition in that, uh, he agreed to do community service.
He agreed to forfeit his bail to the remainder of his bond to the city of Chicago.
And in return for him doing those things, we agreed to dismiss the indictment.
Okay.
So yeah.
And then he says, so he was asked, so is he innocent?
Right.
And he's like, no, not, not, not really actually.
Does dropping the charges vindicate him?
No.
Does it exonerate him?
No.
Do you believe that he is innocent?
I do not believe he's innocent.
So you believe he's guilty?
Yes.
So why drop the charges?
Based on all the facts and circumstances, based on his lack of criminal background.
I mean, we defer or do alternative prosecutions.
In the last two years, we've done it on 5,700 other felony cases.
You mean Chicago is super corrupt?
No.
No!
My favorite part of this is Smollett's attorney, who is gamely trying to play this thing out.
Smollett's attorney goes on with Don Lemon, who said that he wanted Jussie Smollett's story to be true, who said that he was texting with Jussie Smollett when all of this was happening, and Smollett's attorney is now relegated to having to explain why two Nigerian-born brothers who were friends with Jussie Smollett committed a hate crime.
I am not kidding you.
This is the new story.
Here's Smollett's attorney doing this routine.
I'm not the prosecutor in the case.
I have no idea what they're doing.
As in any criminal matter, people operate behind the scenes.
That's how it should be.
All I do know is that Jesse was attacked that night, that it was someone else who called the police, and that things went downhill from there.
I have no idea why or what the motive would be behind a situation like this.
We don't know.
There's just no, it doesn't make sense that Jussie has to be the one to come up with an answer to why someone attacked him.
Yeah, it does, since he is the one who made the whole thing up.
So there is that.
OK, meanwhile, in other in other hilarious news, I mean, this news cycle is just bizarro world and and hilarious in many ways.
So the Democrats have been claiming for a long time People are dying.
We need the Green New Deal.
It's been featured on the cover of Time Magazine.
It's been featured by the Washington Post.
We've heard the intelligentsia sound off on AOC.
So fresh.
So face.
So much incredible freshness as well as faceness.
And her Green New Deal, which is the most important piece of legislation since World War II.
We are in a battle with the sun and we are going to win it.
And if it costs us $93 trillion over the next 10 years, i.e.
$65,000 per American family every year from now until doom, well then we're gonna do it.
Because otherwise, in 12 years, guys, we're dead.
In a dozen years, that's right.
You're plotting.
Your kids are plotting.
Your grandparents are plotting.
We're gonna dig them up.
They're gonna plot again.
That's how all this is gonna work.
AOC yesterday was like, you know what, guys?
Like, well, like, people, well, um, they're dying.
Like, well!
This is not an elitist issue.
This is a quality of life issue.
You want to tell people that their concern and their desire for clean air and clean water is elitist?
People are dying.
They are dying.
And the response across the other side of the aisle is to introduce an amendment five minutes before a hearing in a markup?
This is serious.
This should not be a partisan issue.
This is serious.
People are dying, guys.
We need a vote on the... Wait, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
Sorry, sorry.
Let me rephrase.
We need a debate about it!
I'm going to introduce this bill.
It is so important.
We're going to kill the farting cows.
We're going to get rid of airplanes.
We're going to wreck every building, a retrofit every building in the United States.
We're going to get rid of cars.
I mean, guys, it's going to be the best.
We're going to invent unicorns that float on their own flatulence, but their flatulence has no carbon emissions.
None.
No methane.
Methane-free flatulence from unicorns?
That's how all this is going to work?
The Democrats propose all this, right?
Ed Markey does it.
And we are told by Cory Booker, very seriously, this is the most important moment of our lives.
We are told by Kamala Harris that this is so important.
And we're told by Elizabeth Warren, this is so important.
Elizabeth Warren says that this Green New Deal is like the moon landing, which she should know since she recently was on the moon.
It's where she gets most of her ideas.
There was Elizabeth Warren yesterday saying that the Green New Deal is so important, it's just like when we landed on the moon, except for not at all like that.
President Kennedy challenged our nation to lead the space race, and less than seven years later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.
The impossible had become a reality, and America had led the way.
It's time not only to challenge our country to tackle climate change head on, but also to lead the world in doing so.
If we do not lead, then others will.
If we don't lead, others will.
And if others do, we're all going to die.
Everybody's going to die.
Death all around.
So Mitch McConnell looks at the Green New Deal and he's like, you know what?
You're right.
It's super important.
I see now how important it is because you guys keep jabbering about it incessantly.
So you know what we should do?
We should probably vote on it.
Let's have a vote.
Let's see if we can finally move forward on the most pressing issue of our age.
It is deeply important.
We must move forward on this.
Cocaine Mitch bringing it to the floor for a vote.
And then Senator Mike Lee.
Who is low-key extremely funny.
So Senator Mike Lee of Utah, friend to the program, and personal friend of mine, he's really, really... One of the things about Mike Lee is the dude, he's like Bob Newhart.
He's really funny, but it's all with a straight face.
So Mike Lee did a speech on the floor of the United States Senate, mocking the living daylights out of the Green New Deal.
After reading the Green New Deal, I'm mostly afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face.
Ronald Reagan riding a velociraptor while firing a machine gun.
And he explained what this had to do with the Green New Deal.
After reading the Green New Deal, I'm mostly afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face.
For Mr. President, I rise today to consider the Green New Deal with the seriousness it deserves.
This is, of course, a picture of former President Ronald Reagan naturally firing a machine gun while riding on the back of a dinosaur.
You'll notice a couple of important features here.
First of all, the rocket launcher strapped to President Reagan's back.
And then the stirring, unmistakable patriotism of the velociraptor holding up a tattered American flag, a symbol of all it means to be an American flag.
This image has as much to do with overcoming communism in the 20th century as the Green New Deal has to do with overcoming climate change in the 21st.
And that was not the only one.
Then he did this whole thing about how the only way under the Green New Deal to get from Hawaii to the mainland was to swim like Aquaman.
They put up like a picture of Aquaman riding a dolphin.
It was great.
It was great.
So the media did what the media do.
The media pretended that they don't understand what a joke is.
When somebody on the right does something funny, the media's first response is, what is joke?
How funny?
What do funny mean?
And then they run headlines like, Mike Lee makes bizarre criticism of Green New Deal showing Reagan on Velociraptor.
It's like, no, it's a joke, you idiots.
And we all know you're lying.
We all know you get the joke.
But you're going to pretend to play it straight because it's, he's so weird, man.
I mean, he used a meme.
But AOC, she's super cool when she uses memes and says like a lot and also has an instant pot.
I know.
God, it's amazing.
So here's the best part of this.
So it comes up for the vote.
All 53 Republicans vote no on this stupid Green New Deal.
And four Democrats, meaning three Democrats and independent Angus King of Maine, they also vote no.
That would be Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voting no, and Doug Jones of Alabama voting no, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia voting no, all because they are in purple states or red states, and they are afraid of losing their seats if they vote for this dumbass plan.
Okay, then we get to the actual Democrats, including no less than six different Democratic senators voting on this thing.
So how did they vote?
Did any of them vote in favor of bringing the most important piece of legislation of our time to the floor?
Did any of them vote in favor of this world-changing, world-beating proposal?
Did any— Every.
Single.
Democrat.
Voted present.
Everyone.
They didn't want to be on record behind this thing.
So they voted present, which means basically no, right?
They voted present.
And then they proclaimed that the real bad actor here, obviously, I mean, come on, the real bad actor clearly is Mitch McConnell.
So it's not us for proposing this dumb, stupid deal that nobody wants and looks terrible and is pointless and doesn't achieve what it seeks to achieve and pledges to destroy the American economy and wreck the future of the United States.
That's not on us.
It's on Mitch McConnell for bringing it up to a vote.
So Democrats bring this thing up and then they're like, this is the most important thing we've ever done.
And McConnell's like, good, let's vote on it.
Like, no, no, you tricky.
Tricky McConnell.
You're not going to catch us in the voting on it.
And then they just run away.
Like King Arthur and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Just run away, guys.
Run away.
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So the Democrats are fighting, fighting mad at Mitch McConnell and Mike Lee for mocking their beautiful, wonderful program.
Basically, the Democrats brought home a stripper to mom and mom was like, yeah, this is a bad idea.
Like, I love her, though.
She's the best.
And mom's like, so fine.
Why don't you marry her and then have a joint bank account?
And they're like, no, no, we're not going to do that.
We're not stupid enough for that.
So it was really funny to watch the Democrats yesterday trying to back out of this thing as slowly as humanly possible.
So Richard Blumenthal, the foolish senator from Connecticut, he says, no, you know what?
You know what?
We'll vote present.
I mean, we're not going to vote yes on it because that would be real dumb.
We're going to vote present.
You have signed on to Senator Markey's Green New Deal.
How will you be voting today?
I support the Green New Deal.
We may be voting present simply as a kind of protest against the McConnell stunt here.
It really is, in a way, a real disservice to the legislative process to put on the floor a proposal that he knows the president won't sign, that is done just to drive a wedge between different parts of our Democratic colleagues.
I was informed this was the most popular necessary plan in the history of the Republic.
That's what I was told.
I was told AOC was uniquely singular figure in Democratic Party politics.
This thing was so amazing.
It was amazeballs.
It was flaming amazeballs.
It was just incredible in every possible way.
And now the Democrats are like, I can't.
He'd want us to vote on it?
I mean, what a jerk.
Want us to vote on our own proposal?
We got to have hearings.
So here's what McConnell should do next.
He should be like, you know what?
You're right.
Let's have some hearings.
Let's do this thing.
I'm scheduling a bunch of hearings for the financial impact of the Green New Deal.
And I want to hear from you people about why you think it's necessary to destroy every standing building in the United States or retrofit it.
I'd like to hear about the slaughter, the mass slaughter of dying cows.
It's the silence of the cows out there.
So let's hear about it.
Kirsten Gillibrand, who is legitimately the worst.
She's really funny in the sense that she's so obvious about everything that she does.
As I've said before, she's an age-reversed Hillary Clinton.
She has all of the charisma of a speed bump.
She has all of the mental agility of Gumby.
It's pretty astonishing.
So Kirsten Gillibrand, she tweeted out, you know what guys?
We gotta stop playing games.
Stop playing games.
That's my job to play games.
She tweeted out, here's a radical idea.
Instead of a game of political piñata with our planet's future, let's have a real debate about the Great New Deal.
And I have an even better idea.
Instead of having a real debate, let's just vote on it.
She says, we're talking about infrastructure, job creation, and clean air and water.
And if Republicans don't support that, they should explain why.
If you don't support it, you should explain why, Kirsten Gillibrand.
You voted present.
I was informed that we will all die in the next dozen years if Democrats didn't vote for this thing.
And you didn't vote for it.
The children are asking you, Madam Senator, why you wouldn't protect their future.
The children.
So AOC was quite humiliated by all of this.
She was very sad about all of this.
She says, Republicans just want to play games like, um, yeah, it's terrible.
We have thousands of people whose lives are at risk.
There are towns in Iowa that went completely underwater and they want to play games with it.
Oh, they just want to play games with that.
I mean, just, oh man.
And then my favorite is that she tweeted this out.
She tweeted out, after everybody voted president and not a single senator voted for her crappy plan, including Ed Markey, who sponsored her crappy plan, she tweeted out, So first of all, they should.
And I hope that Mitch McConnell takes her up on that.
the Green New Deal straight to the floor without a hearing.
The real question we should be asking, why does the Senate GOP refuse to hold any major hearings on climate change?
So first of all, they should.
And I hope that Mitch McConnell takes her up on that.
Second of all, this is basically her saying, I'm not owned, I'm not owned, as she slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob.
I mean, that is...
And Mitch McConnell's office tweeted that out.
They tweeted out a picture of AOC, her face slowly transforming into a corncob, and above it, the caption, I'm not owned, I'm not owned.
Glorious, glorious day.
Really, really funny stuff.
Again, guys, you don't like your own idea?
Don't put it forward.
If it wasn't ready for primetime, maybe you shouldn't have elevated it.
And yet you decided that AOC was going to be the spokesperson for your dumb ideas, and she goes forth, and then you just saw off that branch right behind her, and there she is standing in midair saying, I told all the senators to vote present, guys.
That was my idea.
So, question.
Chuck Schumer, question.
Kirsten Gillibrand, question.
Elizabeth Warren, question.
Cory Booker, question.
Amy Klobuchar, question.
Kamala Harris, question.
To every Senate Democrat who's running for president, plus the Senate Minority Leader.
Is it true that AOC, a first-term congresswoman with the IQ of a kumquat, is now giving you orders as to how you should vote on bills?
Is that true?
And if so, why should you be President of the United States or Senate Minority Leader?
If this person, who can mix a perfect Tom Collins but not write a bill, if this person is considered the intellectual heavyweight in your party, why should we give you any credence at all?
Like, I really want to know, and if there were a journalist in Washington, D.C.
alive today, I know apparently the failure of the passage of the Green New Deal has killed all the journalists because none of them will ask any of the Democratic senators whether AOC told them to vote President.
She says they did.
So I want to know, are the Democratic senators taking their orders from this numbskull?
Are they taking their orders from this person?
I'm sorry.
She's ignorant, okay?
It is not my fault she's ignorant.
It is your fault that she's ignorant.
You elected her and then you made her into a star.
And now you're taking orders from her.
It is she who single-handedly sunk the entire Green New Deal rollout with her dumb, frequently asked questions that we read word for word on air when it came out.
It was so stupid.
So this one's on you.
It ain't on me.
OK, meanwhile, speaking of the fresh faces of the Democratic Congress, so incredibly fresh as well as incredibly face, I mean, just freshness and faceless beyond imagination.
I will point out that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar continue to be rabid anti-Semites, so that's exciting.
Ilhan Omar's chief of staff, or her communications director, tweeted something out today.
What did she tweet out?
She tweeted, he tweeted out, rather.
He tweeted out, and I'm reading this directly, that his name is Jeremy Slevin.
He has a past working for, I kid you not, Keith Ellison, who is not a friend to the Jews, as well as Louis Farrakhan, really not a friend to the Jews, He tweeted out Jeremy Slevin, quote, Anti-Semitism is a right-wing force.
Anti-Semitism is a right-wing force.
He just tweeted that out like 20 times because nothing is quite as convincing as when a person just repeats a sentence over and over to me.
I know it works with my kids.
When my son just stands there and shouts at me that he wants a cookie, I am so much more likely to give him a cookie.
Or alternatively, I never give him a cookie when he does that because he's just proving himself to be a small, crazy person.
He's two.
Jeremy Slevin is presumably not two.
And yet he keeps repeating that anti-Semitism is a right-wing force.
He works for Ilhan Omar, who is an open anti-Semite.
Ilhan Omar has not hidden the ball here.
And speaking of anti-Semites in Congress, Rashida Tlaib.
Who has used the dual loyalty smear herself on every Israel supporter and Jews particularly.
She has a person who she specifically invited to her inauguration and that person was protesting AIPAC and stood outside of AIPAC and shouted that the Jews are the real Nazis.
That guy was invited to Rashida Tlaib's inauguration, to her swearing in.
Here he was outside the rally shouting that the Jews were actually just Nazis.
You're not here to be lovey-dovey with the progressive Zionists.
Never!
Because a progressive Zionist is like a progressive Nazi.
There is no difference between a progressive Zionist and a progressive Nazi member.
OK, it really is astonishing to pretend that a strong strain of anti-Semitism does not run inside the Muslim community is to pretend away the truth.
OK, the fact is there is a strong strain of anti-Semitism that runs in the Muslim community.
That does not mean that everyone who is Muslim is an anti-Semite, of course.
It does not mean that every Muslim hates Jews.
It does mean that there is a strong strain of anti-Semitism that is present in a lot of Muslim communities around the world, and that it is mainstream in a lot of circles, which is why Rashida Tlaib can host an anti-Semite like this guy at her inauguration.
She's an anti-Semite.
Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite.
You want to know how strong this strain is?
I mean, it's strong enough that at an actual At an actual memorial honoring the slain in Christchurch, the leader of a mosque got up, I mean this is a major mosque in New Zealand, and blamed Mossad and the Jews for the shooting in Christchurch.
I stand here and I say I have a very very strong suspicion that there is some group behind him and I am not afraid to say I feel Mossad is behind this.
And then there's a guy shouting, it's the truth, Israel's behind this.
He says this at a rally of hundreds and hundreds of people.
Mossad, of course, is the foreign intelligence agency of Israel.
It's essentially the CIA of Israel.
That was Ahmed Bamji, the chairman of the Mount Roskill Masjid-e-Umar.
So good times over there.
That's just wonderful.
And covering for all of this antisemitism is, of course, the Huffington Post, which has as its lead today, dual loyalty is a slur that targets Muslims.
So, lest you be thinking that Ilhan Omar accusing Jews of dual loyalty and Israel supporters of dual loyalty is anti-Semitic, the real dual loyalty slur is targeted at Ilhan Omar.
Actually, actually, the real dual loyalty slur is targeted at Rashida Tlaib.
Now, I've never suggested that Rashida Tlaib has dual loyalty.
I've never suggested that Ilhan Omar has dual loyalty.
I've suggested that they're anti-Semites.
And that's because they are.
And the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that continues to lend credence to these people is disgracing itself in incredibly epic ways.
The fact the Democratic Party continues to promote these quote-unquote fresh faces is absolutely stunning and telling.
And it turns out that anti-semitism is not a right-wing phenomenon.
Anti-semitism exists in virtually every political movement, and where it is most virulent, the political movement is most dangerous.
Where it is most virulent in today's world is not inside the conservative party in the United States.
It's not inside the Republican Party.
This is perfectly obvious from every poll done.
It is perfectly obvious from the behavior of Republican congresspeople.
It is perfectly obvious from the behavior of President Trump, who, by the way, is extraordinarily philo-semitic and happens to be the best friend of Israel who has ever sat in the White House.
That was not close.
The repository of anti-Semitism in the modern world, in politics, is largely on the political left.
Those are the people who are covering for Muslim anti-Semitism in the Middle East.
Those are the people who are making excuses for Hamas today, as Hamas continues to fire rockets into southern Israel at civilian areas.
These are the people who continue to claim that Israel is the bad actor in a conflict in which Israel simply argues for its own right to exist.
These are the same people who are claiming that attacks on synagogues are really just anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism.
It is the political left that has made room for anti-Semitism in its mainstream.
It's why Jeremy Corbyn is the head of the Labour Party in Britain, and it's why AOC and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are considered the leading lights of the Democratic Party.
And it's the old-fashioned Democrats who still suggest that Israel is important.
It's Nancy Pelosi and Steini Hoare, you know, people over the age of 65.
It's those old-fashioned Democrats who still look at Israel and see a democratic, free country.
Who still look at Jews and say, yeah, those are fellow Americans.
Those people are the old guard in the Democratic Party, which is the reason why so many of the Democratic presidential candidates decided to skip AIPAC this year.
Kamala Harris, with all the intestinal fortitude of an empty vessel, met secretly, met quietly with people from AIPAC, but she wouldn't go to AIPAC because she was afraid of ticking off her progressive base.
Ilhan Omar's comms person tweeting out anti-Semitism is a right-wing phenomenon.
Your boss is an anti-Semitism, is an anti-Semite, dude.
And from all indicators at your past employment, you seem pretty comfortable with all of that.
Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
So, things that I like today.
There is a good movie from Steve McQueen, not the guy from Bullet, the director of 12 Years a Slave.
The movie is called Widows.
Now, the movie's kind of weird because it's actually, like, three movies in one, and it doesn't hold together completely, but it's got some really interesting things about it.
So, the most interesting thing about this movie is the way that it portrays Chicago.
It's basically just the center of American corruption, which, of course, as we've seen today, it absolutely is.
Colin Farrell is running for city alderman.
He's running against a black guy who happens to be a former gangster and still is into You know, basically all sorts of organized crime.
And that is one story, and that intersects with a heist part of the film, which is really about the widows of these guys deciding to hold a robbery.
And then there is an interpersonal drama between Liam Neeson, who is white, and Violet Davis?
Is that the name of the actress?
I can't remember the name of the actress.
You have no idea, do you?
Really good.
Viola Davis.
Thank you.
And she is and she is his wife and they have a kid and the kid is shot during a traffic stop by the police.
So there's a little bit of interpersonal drama there.
It's really three movies in one, which means that it's too packed.
It's too much.
It's too many storylines.
It could have been more straightforward.
It could have lost half an hour.
But all the political commentary about the city of Chicago is pretty spot on.
Here's a little bit of the preview.
You have no idea, do you?
What did you choose not to know?
Your husband stole two million dollars from me.
*music* This is about my life!
This is about my life!
And because it's about my life, it never comes about yours.
The movie's really well shot, and it's good.
It's a pretty interesting movie.
It has a stupid twist about 35 minutes from the end, but if you can get past that, the movie is at least very interesting.
Elizabeth DeBecky is a revelation.
She is a terrific actress.
She's also 8 feet tall, and it really makes her stand out in this film.
She just towers over everybody.
You'll also remember her from Guardians of the Galaxy 2, I believe, where she plays one of the aliens, and she's Terrific.
She should really connect.
She's in the new Chris Nolan movie.
That's all I care about, by the way.
I was asked on the conversation what movies I was looking forward to, and the answer is anything Chris Nolan makes ever.
So I don't even know what his movie is in 2020.
It's supposed to be an action flick, and the cast is supposed to be just stellar.
It's like a top-line cast.
It's Robert Pattinson, and I'm trying to remember who else, and the guy from Black Klansman.
There are a bunch of really good actors in it, so looking forward to that.
Okay, time for some things that I hate.
Alright, so let's begin with Cardi B. So, Cardi B is a rapper, she is a rap star, and every so often she issues a little rant about how she doesn't want the government taking her money, and that's amusing.
But she is not exactly a model citizen, nor has she ever proclaimed to be one.
Well now, there's a piece of tape that came out from about three years ago, in which she discusses the fact that she used to seduce men back to her apartment, or their apartment, and then she would drug them and rob them.
Motherfuckers must have forgot, motherfuckers, the shit that I did to motherfucking survive.
I had to go straight.
I had to go, oh yeah, you want to fuck me?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Difficult to hear exactly what she's saying then because it's a lot of cursing and a lot of yelling.
But she says that when she was a stripper, she would drug and rob men.
She would bring them back to her apartment.
And then she issued a statement saying this.
So I'm seeing on social media that a live I did three years ago has popped back up.
A live where I talked about things I had to do in my past, right or wrong, that I felt I needed to do to make a living.
That is not a good excuse.
Drugging and robbing people?
That is a crime, gang.
And in America, you do not actually need to drug and rob people in order to make a living.
And if you feel that you needed to do that to make a living, that is still called a crime.
She says, I never claim to be perfect or come from a perfect world with a perfect past.
I always speak my truth.
I always own my bleep.
I'm a part of a hip hop culture where you can talk about where you come from, about the wrong things you had to do to get where you are.
There are rappers that glorify murder, violence, drugs, and robbing, crimes they feel they had to do to survive.
She is right about this.
It is one of my main critiques of rap culture, which is that you glorify all this crap, and that's bad.
She says, crimes they feel they had to do to survive.
I never glorified the things I brought up in that live.
I never even put those things in my music because I'm not proud of it and I feel a responsibility not to glorify it.
I made the choices that I did at the time because I had very limited options.
Again, drugging and robbing men?
Not an option.
Says, I was blessed to have been able to rise from that, but so many women have not.
So does she know of any of the other women who are drugging and robbing men?
Because that seems kind of bad.
She says, whether or not they were poor choices at the time, I did what I had to do to survive.
She keeps saying that.
As though we don't have welfare programs in the United States, or charitable programs in the United States, or as though she wasn't working a job as a stripper at the time, or as though she couldn't get a job as a waitress or anything.
I guess the job, so it was a choice between starvation and drugging and robbing men?
That was the choice?
Pretty sure that's not true.
She says, the men I spoke about in my life were men that I dated, that I was involved with.
Men that were conscious, willing, and aware.
You're gonna have to explain to me how you drug and robbed somebody, and they were conscious, willing, and aware.
That's pretty weird.
I mean, like, it seems to me that if you drug somebody, they are, by necessity, not conscious, willing, and aware.
Just, just me, and biological reality, and facts, over here.
But, you know, she was there.
Says, I have a past that I can't change, we all do.
Okay, so that's what she has to say about this.
She will be exonerated of all this, we will pretend that it's not a big deal, that she just admitted to openly committing a series of crimes.
Now, is there evidence of this?
Should she... I mean, again, there's no victim that has come forward.
She should not be prosecuted for crimes that cannot be proved.
But the willingness of people to overlook stuff like this because she happens to be... Imagine if it had been a man.
If it were R. Kelly.
He said, you know what?
Back in my past, you know what I used to do?
I used to go out to the street, and then I would convince women to come back to my apartment, then I would drug, and I would rape them, and then I would take their money.
It's what I had to do to survive, man.
What I had to do to survive.
You would all be like, uh, what now?
You should go to jail.
But she says this.
Feminism would suggest that if men and women are truly equal, we should be pretty appalled by all of this.
Now, there is something that we are appalled by today.
Something deep and important that we are all appalled by today.
This comes courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Here is the name and the Washington Post.
Here's the name of the article.
Teen boys raided their female classmates based on looks.
The girls fought back.
Boom!
Whammo!
This is from Bethesda, Maryland.
Yasmine Bebahani had just walked into her third period health class when her friend asked if she had seen the list.
There's a list of the girls' names, her friend Nikki Schmidt, a fellow senior at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in Maryland, said, and were ranked.
Bebahani didn't want to see the list or know whether she was on it.
She'd spent the past four years recovering from an eating disorder, working hard to avoid comparing herself with others, she said.
But by her sixth period class on that Monday earlier this month, a text message appeared on her phone with a screenshot of the list typed out on the iPhone's Notes app.
It included the names of 18 girls at this high school, ranked and rated on the basis of their looks, from 5.5 to 9.4, with decimal points to the 100th place.
There with the number beside it was Bebehiney's name.
A group of male students in their program created the list more than a year ago, but it resurfaced earlier this month through text messages and whispers during class.
One male classmate, seeing the name of his good friend Nikki Schmidt on the list, told her about it, and within 24 hours, dozens of girls had heard about the list as well.
Lists like this one had silently circulated among teen boys for generations, and it has happened in more recent years at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, too, the student said.
But it was happening now, in the era of the Me Too movement.
Women had been standing up to harassment in workplaces and on college campuses, and the high school girls who had been witnessing this empowerment decided they weren't going to let the issue slide.
So a couple of quick notes here.
Men rate women based on looks.
Sorry to break it to ladies, this is called evolutionary biology.
Men have always, males of species, rate females of species based on sexual attractiveness.
Now, that does not mean that they should treat women based on that level of sexual attractiveness.
It doesn't mean that they should even mate with women and marry women based solely on the sexual attractiveness scale.
In fact, as I've argued 1,000 times on the show, people should date and marry on the basis of values, not sexual attraction alone, although sexual attraction is a component of a healthy marriage.
But, are we gonna pretend that men don't actually see women sexually?
Are we gonna pretend that teenage boys don't look at teenage girls and then rate their looks?
Because that's stupid.
Now, is it also stupid to compile mass lists like this?
Yes, it's immature and it's dumb.
It's also something that teenage boys do.
And treating it like this is the height of crime worthy of a piece in the Washington Post is pretty astonishing.
It really is.
Because is there any evidence that the boys were actually harassing the girls?
If so, that is an independent activity that should be looked into and the school should do something about it.
But if a bunch of guys get together and then create a secret list amongst themselves where they rate the girls, is that wonderful?
No.
Is that worthy of a piece in the Washington Post, for God's sake?
No, it is not.
So you're gonna ruin these boys' lives.
You know, we're gonna now have the media try and track down these boys, presumably.
Because they had the temerity to basically create an internal Tinder app.
A group Tinder app.
So this is a high priority.
Now, again, I think the girls have every right to be upset about being treated like pieces of meat.
But it's the overblown media coverage of this that is truly astonishing.
And now we're all supposed to pretend that teenage boys don't rate teenage girls on the basis of looks.
By the way, teenage girls rate teenage boys on the basis of looks as well, I should note.
But they say they felt violated, objectified by classmates they considered friends.
Note to teenage girls, teenage boys look at you as potential sex objects.
I will warn my daughter of this.
I will warn every young woman of this.
Men, it turns out, like to look at women and then potentially have sex with them with consent.
This is something that men like to do.
I hate to break it to folks.
I mean, it's uncomfortable, these truths.
Apparently, They said that they felt that there was power in numbers.
It says, Dozens of senior girls decided to speak to the school administration and to their male classmates, demanding not only disciplinary action in response to the list.
Disciplinary action in response to the list?
I'll tell you a solution to this that no one's going to like.
You should have separate boys and girls schools.
When I was in high school, we had a separate boys school and a separate girls school.
This is actually better for girls.
Forget about the boys.
It was much better for girls because studies tend to show that girls deliberately underperform in classrooms in order to attract boys.
Really, this is what the social science tends to suggest.
Girls and boys are better off separate in high school.
But we can't do that.
That would be terrible.
And repressive, apparently.
It was the last straw for us girls of this boys will be boys culture, said Bebahani.
We're the generation that is going to make a change.
So, a group of girls reported the list to an administrator, who encouraged the girls not to talk about it around school.
The next day, the girls learned that after an investigation, school officials decided to discipline one male student within school detention for a day.
And then they had a struggle session.
Because they were unsatisfied with the disciplinary action.
So they texted 15 girls and told them to tell all of their friends to show up at the school's main office the next day during lunch, to tell them we feel unsafe in this environment and we are tired of this toxicity.
I reiterate, this list was secret.
It's not like they took the list, printed it out, and stuck it on the wall.
That would be a form of harassment.
But if I text one of my friends when I'm in high school, and I'm like, you know who's hot?
That girl.
And then she gets ahold of that, you know what?
That is not.
That is not harassment.
That is not harassment, and that is not toxicity.
That is called normal human behavior.
If you get together and you make a game out of it, it makes you kind of a jerk, but it doesn't mean that you should be disciplined by the school or called out in the pages of the Washington Post.
My goodness.
That Friday on International Women's Day, almost all the students in the Ivy program, about 80 students, met in a large conference room for what was supposed to be a 45-minute meeting.
Instead, the meeting lasted two and a half hours.
Several girls delivered personal, impassioned speeches describing not only their presence on the list, but also their previous experiences with sexual abuse, harassment, and objectification.
Again, if they were sexually abused or harassed, that is a different story.
That is behavior that deserves punishment.
But teenage boys texting each other about who is hot in the class... I legitimately can't get myself upset enough that I think that these boys should be targeted by the Washington Post over this.
Is it good behavior?
Again, for the 1,000th time in the segment, you should train your boys not to act like this with regard to girls.
Is this worthy of Me Too coverage?
Does this elevate to the level that boys are supposed to be punished in school for looking at a girl and then rating her looks?
By the way, you think boys are going to stop doing this because you had a struggle session?
You think boys are going to stop doing this?
You know what a normal boy would do?
He would say, yeah, it was kind of a jerky thing to do to be part of that list.
I felt kind of uncomfortable and objectifying.
It was kind of gross.
But why are you lumping me in with the guy who sexually abused you?
Because I didn't do that.
All I did was say who I thought was hot or not.
Hot or not has been a thing in high school since the dawn of high school.
Hot or not has been a thing since forever.
Again, not a wonderful part of human nature, but it is a part of human nature.
The same people who suggest that you can't teach... It's amazing.
The same people who suggest that you can't teach abstinence only before marriage will suggest now that we can somehow beat it out of boys to rate teenage girls based on looks when they're in high school.
Good luck with that.
Good luck with that.
Obviously, this should be top priority for the Washington Post.
This is, it's just, it's over the top, and it's off-putting, and it's not productive in the end.
It doesn't make relations between boys and girls better.
All it really does is make boys more secretive about their behavior, and again, leads the media to believe that they're doing something righteous when in fact they are targeting kids who are legitimately just being kids.
If girls had a similar list about boys, by the way, you know what the reaction would be?
Nada.
There'd be no reaction whatsoever.
Nor should there be.
Nor really should there be.
This is a question for the parents.
It's really not a question for the school unless it was publicly posted in the school.
Then it becomes a question of harassment.
All righty.
Well, we will be back here for two more hours later today.
And I look forward to seeing you then.
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