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On a panel before the screening of "Wag the Dog," John Oliver confronts Dustin Hoffman about sexual harassment.

Several things you need to notice here:

1. "Wag the Dog" — a 20-year of political satire — was written by David Mamet and satirizes the problem of fake news as it was seen during the Bill Clinton era. A fake war (with Albania) is created to distract people from the President's sex scandal (involving an underage girl).

2. Dustin Hoffman has recently been accused of inappropriately touching a 17-year-old. The alleged touching took place more than 10 years before "Wag the Dog," during the Reagan era.

3. John Oliver has an HBO comedy show that uses the format of a real news show, so it's sort of "fake news" (except that we know what it is and the comedy often sheds light on real news stories). The selection of Oliver to moderate a panel about "Wag the Dog" seems absolutely perfect.

4. This was not an awards show or gala event honoring Hoffman or his movie. This was adiscussion at the at the 92nd Street Y, where (I believe) audiences expect a serious intellectual conversation, not lightweight blather.

5. Under the circumstances, Hoffman had to know that and had to know that the topic of sexual harassment was so obviously on the table that not to talk about it would feel like a coverup. He wasn't blindsided. He chose to appear. And — to his credit — he did not get up and stomp out. He didn't ever raise his voice. He defended himself.

6. Oliver deserves credit for raising the subject and for not letting it go after a superficial answer. The news reports talk about how awkward it felt, but I think it's great that the "fake" newsman (Oliver) demonstrated what a real newsman ought to do with an interview. Keep going and get somewhere with the story.

7. As Deadline Hollywood tells it:

Warning it was “likely to be the tensest part of the evening,” Oliver started in with Hoffman... “You’ve made one statement in print,” Oliver said. “Does that feel like enough to you?” Hoffman replied, “First of all, it didn’t happen, the way she reported.” He said his apology over the incident, offered, he said, at the insistence of his reps, was widely misconstrued “at the click of a button.”...

“It’s that part of the response to this stuff that pisses me off,” Oliver said. “It is reflective of who you were. You’ve given no evidence to show that it didn’t happen. There was a period of time when you were creeping around women. It feels like a cop-out to say, ‘Well, this isn’t me.’ Do you understand how that feels like a dismissal?”‘
Hoffman shot back, “You weren’t there.” Oliver responded, “I’m glad”....

“You’ve put me on display here,” Hoffman told Oliver, seething but never raising his voice or leaving his seat. “You have indicted me. … That’s not innocent until proven guilty.” Hoffman tried to put it in historical context, saying sometimes the atmosphere on set decades ago involved sexually charged banter, which he said was not meant in an offensive way.

"I don’t love that answer either,” Oliver said, cringing.

“What response do you want?” Hoffman demanded. “It doesn’t feel self-reflective in the way it seems the incident demands,” Oliver explained, adding, “I get no pleasure from this conversation. But you and I are not the victims here.”

When Oliver quoted from an account Hoffman’s accuser wrote, the actor asked Oliver, incredulous, “Do you believe this stuff you’re reading?” Oliver said he did “because she would have no reason to lie.”...

“The so-called, alleged comments that are made are truth now,” Hoffman fumed. “And if you try to defend it, you’re guilty... it’s a little more complicated than that.” ...

“I can’t leave certain things unaddressed,” [said Oliver]. “That leads to me at home later tonight hating myself, asking, ‘Why the f–k didn’t I say something? No one stands up to powerful men.'”

Hoffman asked... “Am I the powerful man?”...

8. As evidence of his "incredible respect" for women, Hoffman offered his acting experience dressing as a woman in the movie "Tootsie?" He said he experienced misogyny first-hand because one time he stayed in makeup and costume and went out (presumably in public). He said: “How could I have made that movie if I didn’t have incredible respect for women?” he asked. “It’s shocking to me that you don’t see me more clearly.” Don't we all want to be seen for who we really are, deep down inside? Probably not, but it's a rhetorical device to say I want you to see the real me. It's really the same idea that Oliver called "a cop-out" — saying that whatever is bad "isn’t me."

9. There was a woman on the panel, the "Wag the Dog" producer, Jane Rosenthal. She began with "As the only women here on this panel." As a woman, I am alerted to care about what she then did with the authority she claimed. Well, she made a move I've seen many already successful women make. She turned away from the problem of sexual exploitation to the subject of paying women more and giving them more positions in higher management: “We’ve got to start moving that conversation forward.” Who gets to say which direction is "forward"?

10. I'm glad Oliver pushed back: "We’re about to watch a movie where sexual harassment is an under-plot and there’s an elephant in the room because this conversation is not being had.” Rosenthal's response was: “It wasn’t produced by Weinstein Co. or Miramax, so you don’t have a really big conversation. Kevin Spacey wasn’t starring in it. Let’s look at real sexual criminal predators.” So: go look somewhere else — that's where your real evildoers are — not here with my friend.

11. No, Ms. Rosenthal, the predators seem to be all over the place. And quit making a whipping boy of Kevin Spacey who is not here to defend himself. You're totally stepping on Dustin Hoffman's main point, that he's "innocent until proven guilty" and it's terrible that when an accusation is made it becomes truth, "and if you try to defend it, you’re guilty... it’s a little more complicated than that."

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