‘American Buffalo’ Playwright David Mamet Tells Fox News That Teachers “Are Inclined” To Pedophilia
deadline.comWith the high-profile, starry revival of his American Buffalo opening Thursday on Broadway, playwright David Mamet seems to be doing his best – or worst – to make headlines.
The latest: The conservative Mamet told Fox News’ Mark Levin last night that “teachers are inclined, particularly men because men are predators, to pedophilia.”The offensive take comes just a few days after Mamet’s appearance on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher in which the playwright offered a muddled retraction of a claim made in his new book Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch.
When asked by Maher about his statement in the book that the Left attempted a coup during the last presidential election, Mamet conceded that he “misspoke.”But his appearance on Fox News’ Life, Liberty & Levin – again, to promote the book, not the play – wasn’t so conciliatory.
Speaking on the hot-button topic of community and parental control in schools, Mamet said, “We have to take back control. If there’s no community control of the schools, what we have is kids being not only indoctrinated but groomed in a very real sense by people who are, whether they know it or not, sexual predators.
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