Scandal (TV Series)
Dog-Whistle Politics (2015)
Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope
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Olivia Pope : [sitting with her computer] I have at least 1,000 threats of rape here, just on this one site, from guys who are mad that I had the audacity to be born female and black.
President Fitzgerald Grant : Olivia, turn off the computer.
Olivia Pope : Do you think if I told them I own a gun and that I've shot someone, they'd threaten to rape me? Do you think if I told them I've survived being kidnapped and tortured, they would get that their weak little misspellings barely make me blink? That I would welcome the chance to take out a little bit of PTSD on the next man who put his hands on me? You think they'd still want to...
President Fitzgerald Grant : Turn off the computer now, or I will come over there, walk through all the reporters outside your building, and turn it off for you.