am david the bruce this is the creative good and we are continuing our series on me to wow and out on this one we're up to number five we have six all total and this one heard it man it will make the hair on you on the stand on and she's the powerful woman and then we have a meet to artist who does artistic designs with her hair  in terms of the meat to movement really interesting and i think she has a i think she has a thing going there anyway they were all going to be talking about the powerful men in media who are facing serious claims of sexual abuse of women who of course says always course you know the creative good all of our content here is in the creative commons which means that the people who release it want it to be shared and twenty in the me to campaign what could be more important than that to share stories and so that's what we're going to do today anyway i'll i'll come back a little bit but let's take a look at a few of these i think you're really these are in lightning and challenging and man maybe it'll make you take a stand and do something about changing the cultural the culture and we are in a cultural thank you toronto burke thank you to all of you fabulous strong powerful me too because we are all me too and thank you harassed i've been maligned and you know what i'm just like you because what happened to me behind the scenes happens to all of us in the society and that cannot stand and it will free are free we are strong we are one massive collective voice that is what rose army is about it is about all of us being roses and our own life not me the actual flower because we have thorns and our thorns carry justice and our thorns carry consequence no more w to the side no more we be hurt it's time to be whole it's time to rise it's time to be brave in the face of actions from one monster we look away to another the head monster of all right now and they are the same and they must die it is time the paradigm must be subverted it is time we've been waiting a very long time for this to happen but we don't need  wait anymore because we got this we've got this i know it my sisters are our brothers we are no nation i came to be a voice for all of us who've been told we are nothing for all of us who can look down on for all of us have been grabbed by the mother fucking pu it call it out join me join all of us as we amplify each other's voices and we do what is right for us and for our sisters and for this planet mother hollywood may seem like it's an isolated thing but it is not it is the messaging system for your mind it is the mirror that you're given to look into this is what you are as a woman this is what you are as a man this is what you were as a boy  all straight transgender but it's all told through ninety six percent males in the directors guild of america that statistic has not changed one nine hundred forty six so we are given one view and i know the men behind that you and they should not be in your mind and they should not be in mine it's time to clean house i want to thank you for being here for giving me wings during this very difficult time but the triggering has been insane the monstrous face everywhere my nightmare but i know i'm not alone because i'm just the same as the girl in the tiny little town who was raped by the football squad and they have full dominance and control of the little town newspaper the really is no actual difference it's the same situation and that situation must because it is not our sha starlit letter is theirs it is not ours we are here we are strong we are brave and we will i am not a child and i have learned that when i have spoken in anger i usually regret the way i express myself so i've been waiting to feel less angry and when i'm ready i'll say what i have to round it all off we have a piece from this n b c titled powerful men in media face claims of sexual harassment wow you know every day you wake up it's just new new accusations against me and they are dropping like flies i mean literally you know it's not that bombshell in the ongoing saga of prominent men accused of sexual harassment or assault the paper reported that last january bill o'reilly then the network's top rated host struck a thirty two million dollar agreement with a longtime network analyst to settle allegations of sexual misconduct the times list the accusations against a rally as repeated harassment the sending of pornography and other sexually explicit material and the times for raising a quote non consensual sexual relationship an attorney for bill o'reilly said the times quote has maliciously smeared his client and failed to print an affidavit in which he says the accuser repudiates her alligator allegations and apparent condition of the settlement the times for the reports of the thirty two million dollars that was at least the sixth and the largest payment to settle a harassment claim against o'reilly but even after the massive settlement which twenty first century fox knew about the company renewed his contract twenty five million dollars a year twenty first century fox released a statement saying that the company was aware of the threat of a new sexual harassment lawsuit but had been told by o'reilly that he had personally reached a confidential financial agreement with his accuser o'reilly was ultimately fired in april as some of the settlements became public the latest accusations against a riley arrived on the heels of news that the los angeles police are now investigating after a woman accused harvey weinstein of sexually assaulting her in a hotel in two thousand and thirteen she is the sixth woman to accuse w contributor and co author of one nation after trump a guide for the perplexed disillusioned the desperate and the not yet deported thank you all for being here tonight start with you michelle you wrote a great column headlined save the phony weinstein outrage republicans because it has struck me that the folks at fox news have you know rightly gone after harvey weinstein they've talked a lot about the complicity of hollywood and how hollywood unable to him and yet we now have information that their own network rehired bill o'reilly at a twenty five million clip after he settled for thirty two million for a non consensual sexual rape and we already had enough information to know that fox news was basically a sexual harassment factory i mean it was maybe the only kind of media conglomerate with a worse record than the weinstein brothers or than miramax i mean the things that we already knew about roger ailes were so shocking so sick and i think that you know when i write this i don't want to in any way minimize what weinstein has been accused of course not but the fact that fox news personalities seem to think that they have kind of some kind of moral high ground in their obsessive coverage of this is you know shocking even by their standards yeah absolutely share just a little bit from the for the new york times article that their decision in this was to renew bill reilly came as the company was trying to convince its employees its board and the public that it cleaned up the networks workplace culture at the same time they were determined to hold on to mr o'reilly whose value to the network increased after the departure of another prominent host megan kelly another clip from the same article earlier in the month the times reported on five settlements involving mr o'reilly leading advertisers to boycott his show and spawning protests calling for his ouster at about the same time the o'reilly settlements arose as an issue in twenty first century fox attempt to buy the european satellite company sky so it seems that the priority for fox news was always what they were doing in business whether it was buying sky or trying to convince their court their investors that they had changed their cultures it was never the priority to protect the women who work at fox never i mean can we just talk about the h word t sheer hypocrisy of this network i mean just in this past week we saw them go after weinstein and you know i want to completely agree with what you and michel said that you know we're not reducing or making small what happened with the weinstein allegations but this week really fox network tried to kind of act like they are the network that cares more about sexual harassment even dragging hillary clinton's name back in the mix but the fact that the week ended with this bombshell about o'reilly and i don't want to you know kind of get immune or hardened to the fact that thirty two million dollars was paid i mean what did alright really do to warrant such a such a settlement and it just goes to show that not only does fox network encourage and you know had a culture where sexual harassment thrived in their workplace but they rewarded they rewarded this kind of behavior because they resigned over riley and you know from now on you've worked in talk radio as i have in the past and you know that on the right there is you know the sort of outrage machine is a part of the entertainment right but you do have this really glaring hypocrisy that i don't think is being dealt with in right wing media that harvey weinstein is a story they like to talk about and they are mom on o'reilly ailes and the rest of the fox news people who've been accused of sexual harassment hypocrisy is the word joy and prepare to be shocked for a second because i actually agree with president trump i think it's time that the f c c look into the license of one of these networks but it's not n b c and it's not on first amendment grounds as the p points out it's fox news on what is clearly a sanction culture of criminal sexual misconduct join you go down the list eric bolling bill o'reilly roger ailes who is the godfather of the network when does it stop i don't think it stops until they stop getting caught fox says no particular interest in trying to move the debate for i think they're just trying to continue to minimize damage and public relations hits but more and more this comes out this seems that kin to me almost to the you know the thirty two million dollars that's that's not coming out from change they found in the cell phone that that's covering up something fairly serious and i think that you know that that lovely phrase a non consensual sexual relationship probably holds the key to why it's thirty two million dollars but do you know the other thing joy that the only thing that i can see that joins the weinstein and o'reilly stories is power that these are power relationships these are not sexual relationships in the remotest sense you know you talk about powerful men taking advantage of their power in grotesque and awful ways that that being said they're both pretty ski guys and i would rather  than be rid of them and just you know it isn't the question of the panel i just want to point out to the audience that you know the team and i when we looked at this story this morning that whole nonconsensual sex relationship thing we found odd so we actually reached out to the new york times to ask them you know what it is that was meant by that and they s essentially that this was the language that came out of this settlement and that they actually took the language that was in the story from the settlement itself so they sort of relying on bad let me just read the statement really quick new york times twenty first century fox which had knowledge of the draft lawsuit use that language to describe the specific allegations in a written response to the times so basically this is fox putting forward that language of a not consensual sex relationship it's an interesting development e j you know we talk about this idea that there are all these powerful men who are being accused of sexual misconduct harvey weinstein you now have at least one of this fifty eight accused fifty six accusers you have bill o'reilly who's got more than seven accusations i'm got bill cosby more than fifty but sitting right there in the middle of that little screen we've got is donald trump with fourteen at least allegations of sexual misconduct and there was a story this week it was in the times of a pose that talked about the women who accused trump thing wait a minute everyone is now listening to women finally believing women believing all these accusers of other people but what about the women who accuse donald trump you know i think that every morning the problem is with these stories is that somehow people this sort of go after the media logical and then me who was accused when as everybody on this panel said this is about the abuse of power and it knows you know it all though i do think that harvey once she is getting a lot more coverage is abuses in these so called liberal and neutral networks it was the new york times after all that broke that story then the fox story is getting certainly on fox itself but i think on the right you know the you've got the brute fact that donald trump there and it's very disconcerting and i think it is just odd to have folks on the right go after weinstein and lord knows he is entirely legitimate to go after him but what about president trump and these women are very frustrated and i don't think any of us can blame them that he is sitting there is president almost immune from these charges and you know i feel like you know michel part of the kind of currency of the right is to accuse the left you  the women right right it's more about how dare you condescend to lecture us about sexism when look at the months during your own house and i would say that the one thing as much as there is hypocrisy on the left in there obviously is 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 was such a reaction that's why liberal institutions very belatedly but ultimately took care of him and why there is now own in our in our own house right i mean roger ailes was finally dethroned from fox and what did he do he became a trump advisor that's right i mean there is no sense that this is seen among people on the right as anything but a public accusations of hollywood men that have done some form of sexual harassment but this is a profile the new york times wrote about sort of it sort of it started out several years ago as a men's self help writer whose work disdained feminism and promoted a message of men's empowerment that often d the question of how to meet women his advice to straight men the subject of a book in video talks men should be dominant alpha males and embrace a gorilla mindset when dealing with the opposite sex he's long been criticized for his argument the date rape is a liberal fiction in a blog post published last october he called a harmful concept for men and women that leads to false rape accusations and these are the guys who are now out there attempting to use this you know this potential list of bad hollywood men in defense of donald trump i guess i guess i don't know my well the thing is is that we have to be really careful first of all that to make sure that sexual harassment and sexual assault don't become a political football it's not a partisan issue you know we we all have a role in upholding and feeding rape culture and it's really great that everyone's talking about how women are speaking but there's been a culture shift where we're taking these accusations really seriously and that's great but the fact of the matter is is that the g o p put a self proclaimed and self admitted sexual assault in the white house i mean this is something i don't understand where our culture can change when the president of the united states is just as bad as weinstein and o'reilly and that's what we really have to talk about it can't be on the left is the worst on sexual harassment or the right are hypocrites we all have a part in this and at the end of the day our president is just as guilty yet to put him in the white house and still support him for not according to all the polls but the vast majority of the people who voted don't jump yes exactly exactly i not only that they  but i don't see trump's pattern absolutely fernand you know like you say i mean just what is this man have to do he said shoot somebody on fifth avenue i guess raping someone that it wasn't bad enough for you there were some of these folks but you know if i can get to one of the systematic issues here because i think the panel talk correctly earlier about abuse of power there's also an abuse of the law and one thing that donald trump and a lot of these other men have done they've hidden behind nondisclosure agreements and confidentiality settlements as if to suggest that because they signed deals with these women it shouldn't be talked about it made everything go away and who is able to do that the politically powerful and the politically wealthy you know i think it's time for this me to movement which has been wonderful to see let's look at that breach also some of this confidentiality movements where you have folks like president trump insisting that the people that work with him not disclose or say anything as if that's going to hide and temper away the problems i think that's one of the issues we're going to be thinking about as well joy yeah  and we have one more and that's the next one and be sure to tune in what we have in the next one are two wonderful women who talk about this but they kind of put themselves in a situation that made them vulnerable and so a lot of people sometimes say you know you just you should've done that they try to blame the victim and it's just wrong so the what we have coming up it's really important for you to see any way oh see that in the meantime be kind