Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - 3873 Wait, What? George H.W. Bush Sexual Assault Allegations
Aired: 2017-10-26
Duration: 08:54


=== Hollywood Sexual Improprieties (04:23) ===

[00:00:00]  A quick run-through of what we have so far in Hollywood sexual improprieties and their associated celebrities.
[00:00:09]  What do we got here? So this is a list from Breitbart.
[00:00:11]  We got Terry Richardson, celebrity photographer.
[00:00:14]  He's accused of sexual harassment.
[00:00:16]  Roman Polanski, an Oscar-winning standing ovation director.
[00:00:20]  He's an admitted child rapist, both Vaginally and anally and four other women have claimed that Roman Polanski assaulted them as minors.
[00:00:29]  We've got David O. Russell, Oscar-nominated director, accused of groping, onset, verbal and physical abuse.
[00:00:36]  We've got Oliver Stone, Oscar-winning director, of course, accused of groping a woman at a party.
[00:00:41]  Ben Affleck.
[00:00:44]  Actor, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter.
[00:00:46]  Multiple allegations of groping.
[00:00:47]  One he has apologized for.
[00:00:49]  Harvey Weinstein. Of course, we've gone over that a million times.
[00:00:53]  James Toback, director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter.
[00:00:56]  Over 200 sexual harassment allegations.
[00:01:00]  Bob Weinstein.
[00:01:02]  Some relation. Oscar-winning producer accused of sexually harassing a former employee.
[00:01:06]  Harry Knowles, founder of Ain't It Cool News, stepped down due to allegations of sexual harassment and groping.
[00:01:13]  Devin Faraci, movie writer at Birth Death Movies, accused of sexual assault and harassment.
[00:01:17]  Roy Price, head of Amazon Studios, resigned due to allegations of sexual misconduct.
[00:01:23]  Twiggy Ramirez, bass player for Marilyn Manson, accused of raping a former girlfriend.
[00:01:29]  Huh. When you have a bald-faced devil for a boss.
[00:01:32]  Anyway. Tyler Grasham, talent agent, resigned due to allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault from his male underage clients.
[00:01:40]  It's true that there have been few men, some are coming forward.
[00:01:45]  Netflix, one of the most powerful companies in modern streaming entertainment, settled a $1.5 million sexual harassment claim filed by heterosexual male executives who says he was harassed by male and female superiors.
[00:01:59]  Lockhart Steele, media director at Vox, fired over allegations of sexual harassment.
[00:02:04]  Andy Signor, creator of Honest Trailers, fired due to numerous allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct.
[00:02:10]  David Blaine, superstar magician, seems to magically be able to make his reputation disappear.
[00:02:16]  He's accused of drugging and raping a 21-year-old model.
[00:02:19]  One of the judges on France's Got Talent, Gilbert Raison, suspended over sexual harassment claims.
[00:02:25]  Rupert Myers, British GQ writer.
[00:02:28]  Fired over allegations of sexual assault.
[00:02:31]  John Besh, celebrity chef, accused of sexual assault and harassment.
[00:02:35]  Shady Elnashay, CineFamily executive, fired over allegations of rape and harassment.
[00:02:40]  Hadrian Beloved, CineFamily executive, resigned over allegations of sexual harassment.
[00:02:45]  Woody Allen, Oscar-winning screenwriter and director.
[00:02:48]  Accusations of child molestations.
[00:02:50]  No charges were filed after an investigation.
[00:02:53]  But not so funny story.
[00:02:54]  His new movie has sex between a 40-year-old and a 15-year-old girl.
[00:02:59]  Steven Seagal, actor, allegations of sexual harassment.
[00:03:03]  Chris Savino, creator of Nickelodeon's Loud House, fired over allegations of sexual harassment.
[00:03:08]  And, of course, Bill Cosby, comedian-actor, dozens of accusations of drugging and raping women.
[00:03:14]  Now, there are, of course, a bunch of people who have been talked about but not named.
[00:03:22]  So, whoever preyed on 13-year-old Molly Ringwald.
[00:03:25]  Whoever sexually assaulted 9-year-old America Ferreira.
[00:03:30]  The music executives who abused and allowed the abuse of Kaya Jones, whoever the director who sexually assaulted 16-year-old Reese Witherspoon, the director who harassed and punished Bjork, the singer.
[00:03:44]  The men, pedophiles of course, as it is claimed, who sexually assaulted Corey Haim and Corey Feldman when they were children.
[00:03:53]  The man who assaulted Terry Crews, the men who assaulted James Van Der Beek, of course, the countless unnamed predators in the fashion industry, the man who sexually assaulted 16-year-old Laura Dern, the doctor who molested a 13-year-old Michaela Maroney, the TV executive who assaulted Maureen Ryan, a bunch of harassers, whoever abused Lady Gaga, whoever abused Gabrielle Union, and the producer who declared a 15-year-old Jennifer Lawrence effable.

=== Barbara Bush's Allegation (04:31) ===

[00:04:23]  Now, to this increasing list, and people wonder why I don't go anywhere, right?
[00:04:28]  I mean, this, I mean, maybe it's a witch hunt, maybe it's some sort of tulip mania paranoia, but maybe it's just time to clean house from these scumbags if they're around, and we'll see, of course.
[00:04:40]  You know, innocent until proven guilty, allegations are not proof, so keep all of that in mind.
[00:04:48]  George H.W. Bush.
[00:04:50]  Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush apologizes after actress claims he sexually assaulted her from his wheelchair in a photograph with his wife Barbara standing by his side.
[00:05:04]  So this is an actress named Heather Lynn.
[00:05:06]  She made allegations recently claiming that when she met former President George H.W. Bush, who's 93, He sexually assaulted her from his wheelchair.
[00:05:15]  I guess that Socratic notion that lust is a demon that leaves you in middle age, or at least late middle age, not true for everyone.
[00:05:22]  She claimed the assault, quote, assault happened during a photo op with wife Barbara Bush standing by his side and claims his wife saw the incident unfold.
[00:05:32]  The now 34-year-old actress also claimed that afterwards Bush's security detail told her she shouldn't have stood next to the former president for the photo op.
[00:05:39]  Well, clearly, he's in a wheelchair.
[00:05:41]  Of course he's going to be crabtastic.
[00:05:43]  So this happened, she says, four years ago.
[00:05:45]  She was promoting a movie.
[00:05:48]  And the former president has actually apologized for the incident, saying it was an attempt at humor and not meant to offend her.
[00:05:57]  Now, George, I know you're getting up there just, you know, man to man, man to thing.
[00:06:06]  I don't think you want to apologize for this allegation by basically openly stating that the woman has no sense of humor.
[00:06:18]  Well, the only reason you had a problem and I grabbed at you is because you don't understand a good joke.
[00:06:23]  See? Any apology that creates or contains within it an implicit or explicit insult or denigration or put down is not an apology.
[00:06:34]  I call it a BNAP. A bullcrap non-apology.
[00:06:41]  And she made these allegations against the 93-year-old, I guess he was 89 at the time, in a lengthy post with accompanying photographs.
[00:06:49]  She says, when I got the chance to meet George H.W. Bush four years ago to promote a historical television show I was working on, he sexually assaulted me while I was posing for a similar photo.
[00:06:58]  He didn't shake my hand. He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side.
[00:07:03]  He told me a dirty joke.
[00:07:10]  So he grabbed her butt from behind, told her a dirty joke.
[00:07:18]  And she said, and then all the while being photographed, he touched me again.
[00:07:23]  Barbara rolled her eyes, his wife, as if to say, not again.
[00:07:26]  His security guard told me I shouldn't have stood next to him for the photo.
[00:07:31]  That is, I mean, it's appalling stuff.
[00:07:35]  I mean, I have a daughter. I find myself...
[00:07:39]  Like, increasingly align with...
[00:07:42]  Let me rephrase that.
[00:07:47]  Like I think I'm in some ways more feminist than the feminists because I don't have sort of protected groups of people I don't talk about.
[00:07:55]  And this is horrible and destructive ways to treat people.
[00:07:59]  It should never happen this way.
[00:08:00]  It should never unroll this way. You should not be grabbing women in professional events.
[00:08:06]  You should not be grabbing women against their permission in private, hopefully.
[00:08:10]  And I have a daughter who's going to grow up into this world and I'm damn glad That it's happening now.
[00:08:17]  I think like most people, I'm appalled that it took so long, but I'm damn glad that this stuff is happening now.
[00:08:22]  And either we're going to find out that a lot of these allegations are valid.
[00:08:26]  And of course, it's a lot of he said, she said from no witnesses a long time ago, but we're going to find out this stuff is valid.
[00:08:32]  In which case, it's a dirty secret that really needs to be exposed.
[00:08:35]  Or we're going to find out that there are false allegations, which may be another dirty secret, to be exposed.
[00:08:41]  I guess it's probably fairly clear where I stand on the matter.
[00:08:45]  And I hope that all the people out there who've been mistreated in this kind of way, I'm sorry that it took you so long to speak out.