kevin williamson critiques dunham and her new book.r sheltered, coddled and overprivileged. but excoriates her disclosure she was raped in college and calls the way she writes about it gutless. she describes an incident where she was too intoxicated to consent and she required medical attention following the incident. dunham told npr it was a terrifying thing for her to put into the world. the cover story is a good example for why it is a terrifying thing to put in the world. dunham's writing all this needless to say a gutless and passive aggressive act, williamson writes. barry is a real person, one whose life is being turned up side down by allegations he raped a woman in college. dunham won't call him a rapist but she is happy to use others as sock puppets to call him a rapist. she wouldn't face him in a court of law but she will lynch him in print. joining me now is the co-host of msnbc's "the cycle," and staff writer -- >> there is so much there. >> let's just talk about the juxtaposition of lena dunham trying to bring to the tabl

lena dunham.u? >> hi. >> jon: i love this book. >> thank you. >> jon: you know what i admire about you. your ability at a young age to articulate motivations of your behavior that even you don't -- that to understand yourself well, and the reasons you behave in ways that you end up being self-critical of things like that. your ability to understand that. >> thank you. >> jon: where does it come from? >> if i had more of that ability, i wouldn't have done the things in the first place, and would not have exacerbated writinging this disastrous tone. >> jon: not at all. >> i've been in a lot of therapy. i don't know if that answers your question. it's simply a part of the equation, and then i have this sense that if i don't make some sort of -- if i don't make something out of the events they happened in vain, and i might as well bury myself in the yard. jox*r>> jon: when you were out whether you were younger, were you always in some ways observing yourself as you were in these situations? or is this

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lena dunham is going to be joining us on the show tonight. some of you may have been reading aboutlp a recent incident at the white house. >> the u.s. secret service captured a man who jumped the white house fence and made it inside the building. a spokesman says the man was not armed. he was caught just after passing through the north portico doors. >> sounds like your average overly comfortable tourist probably late for the tour. >> jon: or perhaps the secret service is underselling this incident. >> gonzalez entered the unlocked front door of the executive mansion. >> he then ran more than 30 feet through the entrance hall. >> gonzalez then overpowered an agent and ran a hundred feet into the east room. >> countless white house receptions and public ceremonies are held, that included parties for heads of state. even frank sinatra. >> carrying a three and a half inch knife. >> 800 rounds of ammo, two ratchets and a machety in his car. çlaughterÑ >> jon: oh. now you may wonder how they knew what was in his car. he had that out. so adorable.

the difference with the dunham ad she talked about issues. she talked about health insurance and gay marriage and birth control. she brings up stuff that if you are a young person, a young woman and sitting at home, you hear these key words and say this is my candidate. i think they need to make it a little more edgy. go with humor. young people like humor. >> young people like humor. you heard it here first, folks. >> let bonnie write the ad. make it edgy and make it fun. >> i hear they also like rock music. i i have -- i have a bit of a problem. >> don't play them backwards. >> if they start dancing. >> i have the 12-inch ruler. it allows me to sneak in between them. >> joanne -- >> i thought you liked tiny king. that's a pizza shop. is this what you have to do to get the attention of younger voters? yeah. i didn't realize i was done with the question. >> i don't think the viewers will find this sexist. i don't think us mill 11 y'alls -- mill 11 yells will put two and two together like that. it is corny, but it is honest. the thing though,

but i think the hypocrisy of lena dunham talking about reproductive rights.e whole point of feminism, that women didn't need a man to pay their bills. and this is women encouraging president obama to step up and pay your bills. >> remember talking about problems with your body being a personal issue. but now it's like i need the government, i'm a skrikt. >> we have this belief button that the producersd waiting to push that button. >> the kids who go to harvard are supposed to be the smartest, but smartest, the brightest of the bright. but many of them have stupid things to say when its comes to isis, america and which one is the real threat to world peace. >> what is the biggest threat to world peace, america or isis? >> to world peace? >> oh, america. >> as a western civilization, we're to blame for a lot of the problems we're in know. >> our attempts to control the oil in the middle east, we're allowing groups like isis to retain power. >> america's more threatening to world peace than isis. >> there is some right wing b g blogs edited a few interviews, th

. >> lena dunham did that ad comparing voting to losing your virginity. and they said let's have her do it with her pants on. >> remember, this is rock the vote, it's not rock the liberal vote. but however, every issue that is mentioned in here skews liberal. if you think about it, whether it is pot or -- it's a video celebration of issues that date tore the self. these are things that i want. it not about what makes the country better, it's that i want my pot or i want this or i want that. that's the way of the world. >> but that's good, though, right? i mean -- >> there are single issues that they're voting for. >> right, vote your mind, vote what you want. >> on a serious note, what the republicans need to take a page out of this thing here, because this is a way to get to the youth vote, the republicans have been notoriously bad at not being able to get their message through. >> they don't have to put anything about obama care in there because president obama made it accessible, you can stay on your parents health care, today they're 26, it was a way

>>> then lena dunham bears all on "girls" but tonight she gets real with us about her body image issuesu were actually fearful of being anorexic. >> i don't want to be like the girl on maury povich. >>> beautiful vanessa hudgens getting ugly to scare unsuspecting fans. >> so much fun. her being scary is not what got the biggest scream. >>> now "e.t." with tricks treats and j-lo heat. >>> moms aren't allowed to be sexy? >> you're a mom. >> i am a mom. we all like to be sexy, especially j-lo. that's what she says about her controversial "booty" video and said it to you. you were the first to talk to her about this. >> who wouldn't want to go and talk to j-lo about her booty? serious he there was a lot of ground to cover. the controversy. her recent car crash. jennifer's steamy hot new movie with a younger man and so much more. let's just call this one jennifer lopez exposed. >> can i just say that we had -- >> yes. >> -- there was a controversy clearly when your video came out. ♪ big big booty ♪ >> about what? >> some people were like, that might be too much. >> too much for what? >> i'm

lena dunham is going to be joining us on the show tonight.p a recent incident at the white house. >> the u.s. secret service captured a man who jumped the white house fence and made it inside the building.

>>> then lena dunham bears all on "girls" but tonight she gets real with us about her body image su

but again, another lena dunham story. a guy that wrote novels. not particularly popular novels. but when -- >> when mike at the time, and myself, read something like 420 pages, you knew this was a remarkable piece of work. and to have matthew and woody attach to it, terry directing, everyone felt pretty comfortable this is consonant with our brand. what you don't know is that it is going to become such a huge part of the cultural conversation. that you just can't predict. i'll be honest, if you said that would do 12.5 viewers, i would have said, highly, highly unlikely. it is very -- it is complex. it is dark. you have to stay with it. you have to pay attention. people loved it. >> people loved it. >> and in a huge audience. speaking of which "game of thrones" has been a cultural explosion. what has that meant in terms of your brand, it is nice to have the 17 million, right, have that show -- >> 18. >> oh, excuse me. never get your numbers wrong with richard. know that. but do you need a massive hit like that? >> no. listen, it is wonderful to have something very high quality, v

but again, another lena dunham story. a guy that wrote novels. not particularly popular novels. then writes up the show. i don't think a lot of tv executives would have taken the meeting and -- >> when mike at the time, and myself, read something like 420 pages, you knew this was a remarkable piece of work. and to have matthew and woody attach to it, terry directing, everyone felt pretty comfortable this is consonant with our brand. what you don't know is that it is going to become such a huge part of the cultural conversation. that you just can't predict. i'll be honest, if you said that would do 12.5 viewers, i would have said, highly, highly unlikely. it is very -- it is complex. it is dark. you have to stay with it. you have to pay attention. people loved it. people loved it. >> and in a huge audience. speaking of which "game of thrones" has been a cultural explosion. what has that meant in terms of your brand, it is nice to have the 17 million, right, have that show -- >> 18. >> oh, excuse me. never get your numbers wrong with richard. know that. but do you need a massive h

but again, another lena dunham story. a guy that wrote novels. not particularly popular novels. but when -- >> when mike at the time, and myself, read something like 420 pages, you knew this was a remarkable piece of work. and to have matthew and woody attach to it, terry directing, everyone felt pretty comfortable this is consonant with our brand. what you don't know is that it is going to become such a huge part of the cultural conversation. that you just can't predict. i'll be honest, if you said that would do 12.5 viewers, i would have said, highly, highly unlikely. it is very -- it is complex. it is dark. you have to stay with it. you have to pay attention. people loved it. >> people loved it. >> and in a huge audience. speaking of which "game of thrones" has been a cultural explosion. what has that meant in terms of your brand, it is nice to have the 17 million, right, have that show -- >> 18. >> oh, excuse me. never get your numbers wrong with richard. know that. but do you need a massive hit like that? >> no. listen, it is wonderful to have something very high quality, v

now dunham has decided to compensate her special wierdos. one believes more than i do that creators should be fairly compensated for their work. i applied to be on the tour. here is my video submission. >> i didn't even get a call bar which is insulting. fox pays you in boxes of wine and lottery scratchoff tickets, but is is your proximity to me your greatest reward? >> sure. we'll go with that. i don't like lena. >> why? >> i don't know why. i have never -- that's the thing. she has a cute boyfriend and gets to go on red carpets. why does she wear what she wears? >> are you just mad about the money? >> i have never written a book or had a book tour, but you have. do people really sell tickets for it? that's what i think is the most absurd. >> i think somewhere on ebay for like $300. >> but you have to pay money to see her? >> mine are free. if they weren't no one would be there. >> they buy books and keep coming, america. i don't know. you are a huge fan of the show. are you disappointed in her hipocracy and then she goes and tries to get a

just ask lisa dunham last night in all of her glory, she can do whatever she wants to do, but she hasesponsibility to help others do it as well. >> there's nothing more -- they are literally scared to come out and say something honest. they said that christianity is against women or whatever, while there is an entire radical islamic faction that is torme tormenting women. >> what they said is so irresponsible, they're totally neglecting to stalk about all the work that christians have done throughout the world, that is helping the misfortunate and helping the religion of tolerance. >> i'm just going to take 30 seconds here to stay i've been a liberal for a long time, i'll put my liberal credentials up against nib anybody, what you're doing is -- you don't know what you're talking about, you're saying things that are just absolutely ridiculous. white supremacists? you equate that with christians? we have worked awfully hard on the left to try to disassociate those from each other. so please, i have a tendency to speak about things i don't know about. but this time the world is actually

dunham, the president's mother and phelan love and get married. shortly after that bark was conceived, my brother, my big brother. and after that they divorced, as you know. barack obama sr. went to harvard to pursue his doctorate in economics. that time he left mother in boston where she was teaching. it was a powerful thing. in 1964 there were a lot of crosscurrents that were difficult to era deal with in terms of black white racial relations in the united states. anyway, father went back to kenya later that year. he invited another to follow can get married, which she did. she just knew she remembers camino, but i decided to go to kenya, my grandmother suffered, you couldn't go there. they're all black. [laughter] below is a powerful thing. they went and they were married in december of the year but clear who's she had never been a plan before, but she was a dreamer, they have tremendous force and power and vitality. shortly after that i was born. was born in 1965. so my book starts with kenya . my personal odyssey of self discovery across thre

. >> wait, you're lena dunham, and you're celebrity fitness trainer tracy anderson. >> this is how wei can't wait for the season four of girls. >> you're not the only one that wants to see season four of girls. >> the video was caught, turn out for what. i'm all fired up. seriously. i have been in the club too much. i'm still not ready to turn it down. but turn out for what. it is packed with celebrities. and all the celebrities are talking about issues which matter to them. which i think is really important to show these celebrities have something behind wanting to vote and encourage the younger generation to get out and vote. >> you were ready to vote. hit it one more time. >> turn out the what? >> to the weather with ginger. >> i want to hear it again, michael. we'll do that later. and a very good morning to all my new friends from baton rouge, louisiana. you are here for what? >> shopping. >> shopping. usually it is a celebration, but that is a celebration, too. >> let's get started and see the heat. dallas tied a record at 98 yesterday. that was the hottest october day in 35 year

rock the vote video from folks who claim to be non-partisan, rapper little john and actress lena dunhamong stars sounds like a dream list for liberals. you may be hard-pressed to find a conservative cause mentioned. ♪ >> i'm darren, i'm turning out for education. >> iej, i'm turning out for equality. >> my name is lena. i'm turning out for reproductive rights. >> sorry. some of the other issues highlighted, legalization of marijuana, global warming, awareness, gun control. so kennedy former mtv-vj. >> this nonsense was around in the '90s. we had to deal with the drivel back in the '90s on mtv. completely partisan. wholly biased. all they're trying to do is get younger voters signed up for the democratic party. that's it. you don't see going, i'm voting to repeal obamacare, hoping that my legislator will somehow set the country back on the right course. no one is walking around saying, only way we defend ourself from isis if we own guns. repeal gun control. >> kennedy mentioned obamacare, john, the administration moved to make obamacare eligible. you can stay on your parents plan. these

see matt damon, sean penn, rosie o'donnell, liena dunham and madison, wisconsin.es, you're a white, fundamentalist, fuel loving, gun toegt 1%er. see montgomery burns. but mr. obama was able to take his own party's tired cliches and camouflage them with soaring rhetoric and it worked. it's time now for the republicans to do the same. but this commercial is not the answer. you shouldn't be saying we're just like them. you should be saying why you're better than them. you need to focus on why you're right and you need to do so persuasively with wit, intelligence and passion. if that's asking too much, then you don't deserve to win. you continue to continue losing and drinking the blood of baby pandas. >> say you do not endorse that, though. >> it's tasty. don't knock it until you've tried it. it's great for the skin. does this commercial help or hurt the party or is it basically what they call a push. >> okay, i'm going to say it's a little bit of a push. i like the idea of it but i think the musical score is not going to win any award nominations, people. you could

. >> i'm turning out for -- >> so lena dunham, if she doesn't do it for you, i get it. illustrates the vote hear laze going on in this country in a cool graph. less than 40% of independent voters give a hoot about the midterms. republicans care the most, but that's not saying much because only 55% of them actually care. so try to stay awake while we talk more about this. let's bring in cnn political commentator -- [ laughter ] and democrat hilary rosen, also a cnn political commentator. welcome to both of you. >> good to see you, carol. >> nice to see you, too. so the "wall street journal" also points out that in 1994, voters were upset over the direction of the country and democrats lost the house. they actually went out to vote. in 2006 voters were upset over the war and democrats returned to power. in 2010, voters were upset about the economy and the tea party was born. this year, help me out, hillary, what are voters passionate about? >> the thing voters are most passionate about i don't think they feel slyke going get resolved in this election which is the gridlock

. >>> coming up this afternoon starting at 3:00, "ellen" is new with actress lena dunham and melissa mccarthy. then it's nbc 10 news at 4:00. this afternoon a caution about callers. someone is dialing up unsuspecting people in our area and deceiving them. how it's already cost one elderly victim thousands of dollars. that's this afternoon on nbc 10 at 4:00. and then all new on nbc 10 news at 5:00, all aboard, especially if you ride the rails through chester county. amtrak is planning some big upgrades for the train service there. what's on the drawing board and what it also means for septa commuters as well. and then at 6:00, it's day one of a new law decriminalizing marijuana here in philadelphia. nbc 10 takes a closer look at how it is being enforced and the impact this law could have on the city. >>> now to an update on our breaking news from the top of the newscast. police are questioning the driver of a dump truck who crashed into a school bus in lancaster county. at least four students were injured in that accident. this was the scene earlier this morning in paradise, lancaster

with musician lorde and actor, writer and producer lena dunham both tweeting their endorsements to theirmid enormous and continuing upheaval for the music industry as a whole, with a continuing move away from album sales, to downloads and now to streaming services like spotify and others, where musicians and labels say they earn far less. zack o'malley's forbes article suggested that "1989" could be the last platinum album ever. >> and as long as platinum is measured, as sort of the total actual albums sold as opposed to streamed. >> brown: until the platinum designation takes streaming into account and compensation for those plays rises, other artists may have a difficult time breaking through. >> if you're not a taylor swift, life is very, very difficult. but at the same time, i'm a believer in the access to the internet. and in a lot of ways it's amazing. anyone can put that music online, it can be heard around the world. it's getting attention that is the issue now. and access is unprecedented but how musicians can sort of corral attention is the great mystery of our time. >> brown:

but she has great female friends, lena dunham, ordering chinese food with jamie chung.he's kind of a girlfriend. >> great story. >> yeah. >> when i heard we were doing a segment on the magazine, i was like, great, i'll pull the compilation. and i'm looking through the -- there's no compilation of the sexiest man alive cover. >> what's up with that? >> that's crazy. >> there has actually been a special book, i will make sure we get you one. we'll make sure you have that. >> well played. >> yes. >> but it is coming up, it is one of our favorite issues, as well. and it's, you know, been around since 1985, and the fun fact about that, we never went out to, you know, dub anybody the sexiest man alive. we had a picture of mel gibson up. everyone was shooting ideas. and someone said sexiest man alive and it stuck. >> that's how it happened. >> wow, that's interesting. >> you want to throw your names in the hat, let me know. >> josh wants to be in. and he should. he should. no, that level of intelligence is sexy, isn't it? >> absolutely. absolu absolutely. i agree. >> all right

hollywood a-listers from lena dunham and kate winslet have spoken out about being digitally downsizedmoothed a line and shaved off. >> reporter: and even cindy crawford faced beauty mark bash lash over her now iconic mole. >> my first english "vogue" cover there was no mole, and i looked very different. >> reporter: "snl" isn't commenting on her post. photos making a mountain out of well, you know the rest. now some fans weren't thrilled about the missing moles either. one even did some photo shopping of their own, posting a pic online with the moles added back in. take that, "snl." >> good for her. >>> let's go to ginger now with the weather. >> we want to talk snow, george. all snow. crystal lake, illinois, an hour away from chicago. and that is snow. let me show you a little closer. yep. flurries happening there. serious snow in other places into the weekend. we want to point out a couple of them. we have ploun tan snow out in the west. mountain snow in the west, certainly in parts of california, the sierra. lake effect snow, chesterton, indiana, slammed with lake effect. with an a

lena dunham and others have been nominated. >> here's mine. >> you can't take the picture covering yourke it. >> would you be willing to do that? >> sure. >> george. i think we could take a picture of you when you were 12 and he looks just like that. a 12-year-old -- george just coming out for the first time like right now. george, you will never change, my friend. >> he's got your number. >> i love him. >> and this is just -- >>> this last one, the ticket to kicking off on the high note. i know pandas are a win in "pop news." lara taught us that. but today i'm all about the kangaroos. specifically this epic video. this is going crazy online. look at these two. facing off, it's in australia, on the streets, couldn't keep it in the house. and -- >> oh! >> and don't worry, we tried to interview them, but they didn't to want tell us what they were fighting about. what the battle was about. >> oh, my -- >> man. >> just like you like. it's just a snippet. at home, check it out. it goes for a good five minutes. >> who wins? >> you couldn't tell. it was like moving the cups, switching sides. c

people in the audience should know tonight is that we brought state cases against richard attali ann dunhamnder state law that was applicable to something involved in the laws. i worked cooperatively with the federal government to bring the church is the investigative resources they have and the statutes to get that conviction against cell dimasi. the statement is untrue in the globe. for the record oliver documents support it and we did the investigation we got convictions of three people involved in those ticket scandals and the scandals around the procurement. >> said greg sullivan is flat out lie and? coakley: he's either flat out lying or flat out wrong and i have documentation. baker: greg sullivan has a distinguished career as a leading democrats on beacon hill first in the legislature and then as an investigator working for the inspector general's office and ultimately serving several terms as the inspector general before he retired from state service. he has a number of major convictions that were part of the investigation of the lead during his time as both an investigator and the

lena dunham showing off her dance moves.er celebrities making cameos like natasha leone from "orange is the new black." others telling us why they're voighting. hoping ads will reach the younger generation. dance their way to the polls come election time. >> the need is great, younger voters outvote older voters in presidential elections. in the cycle most recently measured from 1992. >> in mid terms -- >> the other way around. >> a low level of enthusiasm as opposed to 2008 and they're t trying to gin them up with dance moves. >> i feel like more needs to be done. >> i know who can do that? >> john king, that's whey says his name is "inside politics" on "new day." there's the man himself. always enthusiastic about the mid terms, good morning. >> i'm enthusiastic, but john king and dancing do not belong in the same sentence. >> i've seen you dance, move like a sultry scirro. >> let's go "inside politics" this morning, 27 days away from the mid-term elections. with me to share reporting, nia-malika henderson of the "washingto