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Welcome back to the show.
There were lots of powerful men in media exposing
themselves as shitty this week.
Well, apparently there have been a lot of powerful men
in media exposing themselves every week
and now we know about it.
Just today, we learned more about the network
of powerful people who turned a blind eye to Harvey Weinstein's
demonic behavior, including powerful people
who should really, really, really,
really, know better, really.
In the "New York Times" expose, it talks about how--
Lena Dunham has a quote, how she warned the Clinton campaign.
And she said, I just want to let you know
that Harvey is a rapist and that it is going
to come out at some point.
I think it's a really bad idea for him
to host fundraisers and be involved.
We don't know if this info made it all the way to Hillary,
but it made it to her staff.
Oh, my admiration for you is so complicated.
Maybe she really did have a stroke
in the specific part of her brain
that identifies shitty men.
But truthfully, any woman who entered the workforce
before November 2017 had to have such as stroke just to survive.
And no one needed it more than Hillary.
Virtually every man who ever expressed
an opinion about her in front of a camera
turned out to be a huge creep.
Five women have now anonymously come forward
to accuse journalist and author Mark
Halperin of sexual assault.
Also suspended, Glenn Thrush, one of the top reporters
at the "New York Times."
Veteran "Today Show" host Matt Lauer.
Leon Wieseltier.
Charlie Rose.
REPORTER: Garrison Keillor.
I'm not worried about Garrison Keillor's career.
He can easily get a job maintaining a bell tower.
[LAUGHTER]
It's time to ask ourselves, can men who hate women
be objective journalists?
[LAUGHS] That was a trick question.
Everyone knows that men who hate women
can be anything they put their minds to.
Take Charlie Rose.
REPORTER: Eight women tell the "Washington Post,"
longtime television host Charlie Rose
made unwanted sexual advances including
groping, making lewd phone calls,
and walking around naked in their presence.
Until his firing, Charlie Rose was a media institution.
The guy who liked to show his freshly showered dick
to female employees was the same one
who got to interview the first major
female presidential candidate.
And he made sure to press her about the important stuff,
emails.
CHARLIE ROSE: Do you think the email crisis contributed
to the question of trust?
And it hasn't been determined that there was no hacking.
Well, there is no evidence of it.
CHARLIE ROSE: There's no evidence.
There is no evidence.
CHARLIE ROSE: Someone suggested that's the reason that they
were very good at it because there's no evidence of it,
and that you exposed, as you know.
Charlie, there is no evidence of that.
There's evidence that you exposed
the Charlie Rose's penis story.
[LAUGHTER]
The hardest thing about these revelations
is they're not really revelations.
These men have been shitty the whole time.
Take Matt Lauer. MATT LAUER: Nice to see you.
Hi, Matt.
MATT LAUER: Seen a lot of you lately.
Let's just get it out the way.
You had a little wardrobe malfunction.
Can I have one final kiss?
Oh, what is it? What are you?
Don't make me beg.
Is this an attack dog I have here?
Hold it, whoa, whoa.
[SHOUTS]
He molested a Muppet on live TV.
[LAUGHTER]
Which I guess qualified him to moderate a presidential forum?
And he used that platform to see how presidential Clinton could
be while also being shushed.
MATT LAUER: I'm going to jump in.
I want to get to a lot of questions.
And I'm going to jump in.
As briefly as you can.
But I want to just say one additional thing.
MATT LAUER: I've got 30 seconds left.
Oh yeah, now I remember watching that forum.
That was the day my entire female staff
started their periods out of their eyes from pure rage.
You can't just interrupt women when they're
talking like that, Matt.
What do you think this is, every business meeting ever?
And fellow creep and part time smirk
model Mark Halperin, surprise, surprise,
obsessed with Hillary.
So when covering her candidacy, he
asked the intelligent nuanced question,
why is she not more like man?
She does it with humor.
She has to learn to do it with humor.
And when she does it now, she's being kind of
aggressive but not that funny.
Kind of aggressive and not that funny,
the Mark Halperin's penis story.
To be fair, Halperin also asked Trump the hard questions.
Here's a question I've been wanting to ask you for awhile.
We almost never get to see you eat.
What do you like to eat?
We never get to see you eat?
What kind of sick freak are you?
You want to watch Trump masticate?
And apparently the atmosphere in journalism
is so toxic that some assholes still can't read the room.
Geraldo Rivera tweeted something that
really got a lot of attention.
Sad about Matt Lauer, great guy, highly skilled
and empathetic with guests and a real gentleman
to my family and me.
News is a flirty business.
For example, I just listen to Geraldo fuck himself.
[LAUGHTER]
On the one hand, maybe it's unfair of me
to assume because he tweeted that,
that Geraldo has some skeletons in his closet.
But then again on the other hand--
Geraldo and his producer came to do an interview with me.
They pushed me into my bathroom, they broke two poppers
and pushed them under my nose, and proceeded to grope me.
Well, I guess that's not a skeleton in a closet
so much as a skeleton that's been
sitting outside the closet since 1991,
waiting for us to give a shit.
What could have tipped us off that there was
a misogyny problem in media?
If Hillary is not yelling, she's crying.
MAN: She is a shrill, loud person.
She still has that sort of authenticity
likeability problem.
She's not that likable.
I'm not even sure that Bill Clinton likes her.
Comes across as artificial, comes across as grating.
Little caustic and tough and shrill.
Concern about her likability, her trustworthiness.
Somewhat dull at times, somewhat robotic at times.
MAN: She's too shrill, she's too loud.
She is very guarded.
Yeah, why is that shrill robot so guarded?
Why?
Tell me.
[LAUGHTER]
We'll never know how much these pubes affected the election,
but what we do know is that their industry gave us
four times more coverage of Hillary's email scandal
than they did of Trump's gross behavior to women.
But to be fair, they were probably
typing it with one hand.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm not saying men shouldn't talk in public anymore,
I'm just saying maybe women shouldn't listen.
It shouldn't be too hard.
We have decades of practice not being listened to.
We'll be right back.
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