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This is the John Fuglesang podcast.

Welcome back. This is series, Sex and Progress. I am John Fuglesang. And before we bring on the God Squad, I want to say we need to talk about the worst event, maybe the worst event in the Moral Olympics. And that is the race to defend the indefensible. And this month's gold medal has already gone to my pal, Megan Kelly, my co-worker down the hall. But we need to add on the Catholic League and their resident angry deflection machine, Bill Donahue. Remember Bill Donahue of

the Catholic League? He's a guy who wakes up every morning, looks at a headline about child abuse,

and says, you know, I think I can make this worse. And friends, he always does.

So Megan Kelly, as you know, who once angrily announced that Santa Claus is white, she was, you know, like she's filing a police report.

Yes, he's whites officer.

She was discussing Jeff Epstein, and she said he wasn't into like eight-year-olds.

He liked very young teen types that could pass for looking legal. And Megan said there's a difference between like eight-year-olds. He liked very young teen types that could pass for

looking legal. And Megan said there's a difference between a 15-year-old and a five-year-old.

And I've gotten all your letters. I know how angry you are about this. But this was the argument

she put out there, right? He's not a pedophile. He's more of a trendy age gap more of a trendy age gap hobbyist, right? That creepy

line. Megan comes out here treating statutory rape, like, I think I said it was like a wine

tasting event, like, hmm, notes of coercion, hints of trafficking. But this is the kind of take

you only get if you've been at Fox News for years, where the company handbook pretty much says,

if you see something evil, rank its hotness.

And she heard sex trafficking of minors, and she responded with,

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