Scenes of Mr. Derrida watching himself on tape, talking about how he met his wife, Marguerite (he is bashful and thoughtful as he ruminates on this experience), will probably bring to mind the mirror-within-a-mirror Scritti Politti song "Jacques Derrida," with its querulous sense of propriety.
Did he think that this would be flattering to her? Donald Trump frequently makes reference to the "hotness" level of women and was recently caught on tape bragging about how he feels entitled to behave with women.
He also got caught on tape talking about how he might like to punch a reporter, and, while touting the safety of BPA, a chemical found in lots of plastic products that scientists claim is dangerous, said that "the worst case is some women may have little beards".
Mr. O'Keefe catapulted onto the national stage in 2009 when, armed with a hidden camera and accompanied by a partner dressed as a prostitute, he caught Acorn workers on tape offering advice about how to finance a brothel.
Thousands of women took to Twitter Friday to share accounts of sexual assault after news broke that Donald Trump bragged in a leaked tape from 2005 about how his star power entitles him to "move on" women and grope them.
He can also be heard on the tapes expressing concern about how the document was intercepted and whether it would cause him trouble with the authorities.
Mr. Edwards, the former Republican congressman, described the tapes as "all about how to demonize the opposition, how to use invective and scary language," adding: "It wasn't that he trained them to have a better understanding of foreign policy, or economic policy.
"Kill the reporters," Richard Nixon said in early 1971, musing, as his White House taping system rolled, about how to somehow still win in Vietnam.
Riccardi played a tape of Armstrong talking about how having Glaser as his manager had protected him when he got involved in a dispute with the Mob.
Murphy called up a tape of a piece about how Iran is now, in the words of the correspondent Elizabeth Palmer, "the nose-job capital of the world," where young men and women go for plastic surgery, paying thousands of dollars for a procedure.
