totalitarianism. and that the interests that they have is to take down this sort of hollywood elite. there is an exuberance to their attacks as disgraceful and disgusting as he is. it s more about that than the women, right? right. it s more about how dare uconn descend to us or lecture us about sexism when look at the monster in your house. i would say the one thing as much as there s hypocrisy, the very fact that they have these values, that they have these values that harvey weinstein violated has now allowed him to be drummed out of public life. it s why there s such a reaction. it s why liberal institutions took care of him and there s a soul searching and effort at reform. because you don t have the values on the right evidently by the fact that they elected donald trump president, there s no sense of, you know, kind of pain or anguish or what is this that s happening in our own house, right? i mean, roger ales was finally
report over the possibility of limiting middle class contributions. fr trust me, if there is a detail like that, it will be absolutely radioactive across the political spectrum, but those are the kinds of details i really want to know about before i come up with any kind of opinion about these taxes. you already see the republicans preparing for that by saying we re not going to touch the standard deduction, mortgage interest deduction and to use things that are radioactive. since we doe know what s in the bill we don t know. i m going back to what charlie said. trump is a flawed salesman. i don t think he s a flawed salesman, i think he s a serious con man and it s completely right he doesn t know what s in this bill. we don t know what s in this will. the fact that he s trying to act like a benevolent dictator, the owner of a football team told him we don t need the cuts, give it to the people that need it.
they don t feel as if our public life reflects our best. instead of our politics reflecting our values, we ve got politics infecting our communities. e.j., i think he can get an amen. i think so. i would give one. and it s a reminder of how good he is at that stuff. i think that even if it was accidental on the fact that both former presidents obama and bush said what they said is a sign that we are in some kind of real emergency as a country. and i think the fact that obama came out in virginia is particularly important. that governor s race there in a couple of weeks is going to be what, no matter how important local issues are, is going to be read as a national bellwether.
it had struck me that the folks at fox news have rightly gone after harvey weinstein. they ve talked about the complicity of hollywood and how hollywood enabled him and we have information that their own network rehired bill o reilly at a $25 million a year clip after he settled for 24 million for nonconsensual relationship. we had enough to know that foxx ne fox news was a sexual harassment factory. it had a worst record than the weinstein brothers or merrimacks. the things we already knew about roger ales predation were so shocking, so sick and i think that when i write this i don t want to in any way minimize what weinstein has been accused of. of course not, yeah. but the fact that the fox news personalities seem to think they have some kind of moral high ground in their obsessive coverage of this is shocking even by their standards. absolutely.
career then trump becomes president and shortly after he s president he got elected he and mike pence went on 60 minutes. i m watching the show with my wife at our home and i just begin laughing because they re sitting on these mini thrones, the kind of furniture trump has in his apartment and there s that renoir hanging on the wall in trump tower. of course he salvaged that thing. he wasn t going to let it go down with the jet. he says, this is an original renoir. when you look at it, it is a funny story, but there s something about it that s a little bit dark in the sense that this is the president of the united states with tremendous power. yes. the power to start a nuclear war. yes. if he believes he is the greatest president in history as he s been tweeting, taking credit for things he hasn t done, and if he s obsessed with this idea of his own greatness, does that concern that you that narcissism could be dangerous?