Rose McGowan,
a woman who has placed herself in
some sort of feminist movement is
now stumping for a man who sees
women as second class citizens.
Now, I'm specifically talking about
the gubernatorial recall election
in California.
Gavin Newsom might be recalled.
It's really too hard to tell based
on polling,
but if California voters do in fact
vote in favor of recalling him,
the person who is likely to replace
him is Larry elder.
Who's got a pretty long history of
treating women in a way that makes
it clear that he sees them as
second class citizens.
Now why?
Why is she supporting Larry elder?
And why did she decide to stump for
him over the weekend?
Well, McGowan denounced
the Democratic Party throughout
her endorsement speech for Elder.
Claiming that Newsom's wife,
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, offered
her hush money in 2017 to stay
quiet regarding her sexual assault
allegations against Weinstein.
Now, as far as I know, there's no
evidence of her paying hush money,
and if she did pay hush money,
that would be a serious allegation.
But she does claim that the entire
Democratic Party is or
was protecting Weinstein.
Newsom's wife denies these charges
through a spokesperson.
She says that it's disappointing
but not surprising to see political
opponents launch these false
attacks just days before
the election.
Their limited correspondence has
been strictly as fellow survivors
of sexual assault and
in Jennifer's former capacity
leading the Representation Project,
an organization that fights
limiting gender stereotypes and
norms.
Now, during her speech,
McGowan also said quote,
do I agree with him on every issue,
meaning Larry Elder?
No, so what?
He's the better candidate.
He's the better man.
And I think that we'll maybe have
a discussion about whether that's
true in just a minute.
But here's a little more from
her stump speech.
>> Why not change?
Why not go big?
Why not put a stake in
the heart of evil,
because that's what this really is.
This is good, and this is evil.
And if you're tired of people
looking at this country like
the Florida of the world, which it
is looked upon that way because
it's earned it in a lot of ways.
I know this place has it in
it to be better.
I know it does.
I've met so
many good people in this country.
Not the elites, absolutely not.
But the person I meet that's
the housekeeper at the hotel
I'm staying at who should even
have that title because
she's a queen of a woman.
And then we have the Jennifer
Siebel Newsom's of the world.
Why? Why do you keep choosing that?
Why do you keep electing that?
Don't listen to their buzzwords,
cult leaders,
which is what these people are.
I would know, I grew up in one,
like I said.
They massage your mind.
They keep you in fear.
They keep you in doubt.
I kind of suspect on the inside
that this is all a lie, but I don't
want to be the one that stands out
and takes it on the chin.
Well, I'm here to confirm for
you it is a lie.
It is a fact.
>> Listen,
I'm no fan of Gavin Newsom.
I'm certainly not in favor of
replacing him with a lunatic like
Larry Elder, but no one elected
Newsom's wife to be the governor.
And she's not the governor,
she's the governor's wife.
With that said, McGowan cares a lot
about the issue of sexual assault.
So I don't know, maybe she didn't
know that Larry Elder has not only
made disparaging comments about
women, but specifically disparaging
comments about women who have
been sexually assaulted.
His disparaging comments have been
as recent as January of 2017 when
he deleted a tweet that implied
women taking part in the Women's
March were too unattractive to
be sexually assaulted.
But he's the better man.
He's the better man.
Anyway, go ahead Cenk.
I have more by the way.
>> Yeah, so look I think it's kind
of a little bit sad to watch.
I mean, I don't know her personal
mental health situation.
But when you are unhinged from
reality enough to think Larry Elder
is the better choice for
women, I got to start questioning
your judgment.
And it's not political in the sense
of, hey, I like Gavin Newsom's tax
position better than I
like Larry Elders tax position.
No, its on this issue, right?
And so look, let me be fair and
tell you what she said about
why she's making this accusation.
And it's not impossible.
So first, apparently she claims
Gavin Newsom's wife said,
what can Boyce Schiller do to make
you happy?
Okay, now Boyce Shiller,
what is that?
Well, Boyce Schiller Flexner is
the law firm that represented
Harvey Weinstein.
And it turns out the son of
the co-founder, Jonathan Schiller,
is Josh Schiller, and
is a sister-in-law to
Jennifer Newsom, okay.
Now, does that mean that she's
actually connected and
actually said those things
when she called Rose McGowan?
I would be surprised.
That's a hell of a thing to say to
a person you don't know.
And some of McGowan's comments have
not proven to be perfectly
accurate.
She went on to say, McGowan did,
I had no idea who that was, so
I just had nothing and
hung up on her.
That was my last contact with her.
Well, I mean, if you say that she
said this mysterious thing
about this law firm, and
then you instantly hung up on her,
even though you didn't know what
that law firm was or
what those series of names were.
Well, then how are we supposed
to know what she actually meant?
Even if your story's 100% true,
you never even gave her a chance.
And so there's a lot of issues here
that makes me go, this doesn't
sound like the most credible story.
>> I lost track, so
how many degrees of separation was
that from Gavin Newsom?
>> How many degrees of separation?
It's Gavin Newsom wife's
sister-in-law's something.
>> Okay. Sister-in-law,
how could Josh be a sister-in-law
to Jennifer Newsom?
>> Yeah, so
understand that stump speech wasn't
about, hey,
Gavin Newsom did a bailout that he
shouldn't have done to PG&E.
Which has sparked many vicious
wildfires and destroyed people's
lives as a result,
it wasn't about that.
It wasn't about the homeless issue.
It wasn't about any of that, right?
Look, I do not like Gavin Newsom.
I voted against the recall.
And the reason why I voted against
the recall is because there are no
candidates who would replace him
and do a better job.
In fact, all the other candidates
are pretty awful.
Larry Elder being the top of that
list of awful replacements, okay?
And for her to make, it's about me,
that's all this was.
That's all that was, me,
based on something that's I don't
know how many degrees of separation
from Gavin Newsom himself.
And you're playing with
people's lives.
Look, I know, I respect the fact
that you're being considerate about
potential mental health issues that
Rose McGowan has, but
she's messing with people's lives.
And it's not cute, it's not funny,
and this is exactly what people
are referring to when they discuss
white feminism, right?
Because white feminism isn't about
doing something in a collective way
to ensure equality between genders.
White feminism is about me.
That's it,
that's all this was about, and
it was disgusting.
Let me give you more from Larry
Elder since that wasn't enough.
Let's go to the next clip.
This is Larry Elder on
his radio show talking about women.
>> When you look at all these women
that have marched,
something like 2 million women.
Donald Trump has probably gotten
more obese women off the couch and
in the streets working out than
Michelle Obama did in eight years.
>> Sounds like he cares a lot
about women.
What a great guy.
There's more though, in the early
2000s, Elder maintained a page on
his personal website on women and
domestic violence statistics.
Citing three articles that alleged
the narrative that violence against
women was exaggerated for
political gain of feminists.
Would love to know what
Rose McGowan thinks about that.
One more, he said, quote,
women know less than men about
political issues, economics and
current events.
Good news for Democrats,
bad news for Republicans.
For the less one knows,
the easier the manipulation.
Women are all just idiots that
are easily manipulated by smart
men.
>> Yeah, and of course Larry Elder
on other social issues that I hope
people like Rose McGowan at least
pretend to care about,
like racial issues, is horrible.
So the reason why republicans love
Larry Elder is it's a person who's
African American who says that it's
the fault of African Americans
at every turn.
And makes them feel like they have
peace of mind about the recent.
Larry Elder has said, well,
the slave owners should have
gotten reparations because
they were losing property.
We showed you that clip last week.
And he said that he was glad George
Zimmerman was doing neighborhood
watch in Trayvon Martin's community
and he'd like it if George
Zimmerman was doing neighborhood
watch in his community.
I mean, that's just absurd.
He's an absurd person,
who like many minorities in
the conservative circles are paid
to be there because of their
particular demographic.
But only under the condition that
they speak out against their
own demographic, their own culture,
their own people, etc.
So to back a guy like that because
you think that Gavin Newsom's wife
said two names you think before you
hung up on her.
If you had real evidence,
we're very open to it because we
don't like Gavin Newsom,
because I don't think he's
remotely progressive and I think
he works for corporate interests.
But right before an election you're
going to put your weight on
Larry Elder who was this awful
track record because you think
Newsom's wife said two names that
you didn't investigate because you
hung up immediately.
No, I'm sorry but
that's not credible enough.
It looks like you're being,
at a minimum, used for
political and electoral reasons, in
a way that's a little disgusting.
>> And I leave you with one more
graphic on this story.
In his books, Larry Elder endorsed
pregnancy discrimination.
According to a report
from Media Matters, suggesting that
working mothers aren't dedicated
and available for an all hands
on deck commitment to work.
What a warrior for women's rights.
Good job, Rose McGowan,
proud of you.
Real proud of you.
She said he was the better man.
Yeah, it doesn't work that way.
No.