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ted for that one crime if he was forthcoming on the civil case. I don't really understand the details of that, but apparently he got some kind of immunity for the one thing that he was being prosecuted for. And it took them two years to sort that out, and a court finally decided, yeah, you're right, you had the immunity, so you can't be prosecuted for the one that they could prosecute. And 60. So…
← Previous segment →nicality that Harvey Weinstein is just like him and was falsely accused, it takes a lot of lawyer balls to make that argument. But Harvey Weinstein's lawyer is making that argument, that because this completely unrelated case where the guy is guilty as hell got off on a technicality, therefore his client, who has nothing to do with Cosby whatsoever in a completely different situation, should also be freed. Totally logical. Not.
All right. On school choice, we've been watching the change in attitudes here. So listen to this. According to Corey DeAngelis in a tweet yesterday, a year ago-ish, 64 percent of the public was in favor of funding the students instead of the school system, meaning that the student could take their funding and go to any other school that would accept it and the money would just travel with the student instead of going to a public school. So now it's going from 64 percent in favor of the money following the student up to 74. Now 74 percent of those surveyed want the funding schedule thing to change. And in fact a lot of states are looking into doing that.
And somebody asked if Harvey Weinstein is really guilty because he was just trading sex for fame. No, I don't think that was all he was doing. He was masturbating into a plant at one point, and I don't think he traded anything for that. I think he just assaulted a plant. So no, it is not fair to say tha
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t all he did was trade sex for fame. He was actually a rapist, it seems. All right, but back to school choice. It's icky to put these topics right next to each other, but I did it anyway. See if we could deal with it. So 74 percent of those polled say that the funding should follow the student. What do I tell you about the 25 percent rule? You see it over and over again. Twenty-five percent of th…
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