Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Hamilton Cast to Sing 'America the Beautiful' at Super Bowl Another institution bankrupted by the left.

Hamilton Cast to Sing 'America the Beautiful' at Super Bowl

Another institution bankrupted by the left.

1.31.2017

In an obvious bash against President Trump, the NFL will have the cast of the hit musical Hamilton sing "America the Beautiful" at this year's Super Bowl.

The Hamilton cast and President Trump don't exactly have the friendliest of histories, turning sour in November of last year when VP Mike Pence was heckled and harassed by both the audience and cast members during and after the performance.

"We have a little message for you, sir, and we hope you will hear us out," cast member Brandon Victor Dixon said to Pence in a curtain call address.

"We, sir — we — are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights,” he said. “We truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf all of us."

Though Pence took it gracefully and listened to the message out in the lobby, Trump fired back at Dixon the following day, sparking a Twitter fight.

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

Our wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was harassed last night at the theater by the cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing.This should not happen!

7:48 AM - 19 Nov 2016

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!

7:56 AM - 19 Nov 2016

Donald J. Trump

✔ @realDonaldTrump

Our wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was harassed last night at the theater by the cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing.This should not happen!

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Brandon Victor Dixon

✔@BrandonVDixon

@realDonaldTrump conversation is not harassment sir. And I appreciate @mike_pence for stopping to listen.

8:07 AM - 19 Nov 2016

The NFL might be oblivious to the feud, but considering that "p–ssy hat"-wearing Madonna will be singing at the half-time show, even after she talked about her fantasy to "blow up the White House," the NFL may very well be yet another institution bankrupted by the left. Last year's half-time show featured Beyonce dancing in pro-Black Panthers attire.

No wonder baseball is America's favorite pastime.

Small Connecticut Town Holding Essay Contest for High Schoolers on White Privilege Top prize is $1,000 and release of all white guilt.

Small Connecticut Town Holding Essay Contest for High Schoolers on White Privilege

Top prize is $1,000 and release of all white guilt.

1.31.2017

News

Trey Sanchez

The “diversity council” in the small, coastal town of Westport, Connecticut is holding a student essay competition with a top prize of $1,000 for the lucky high schooler who pens the perfect white privilege paper by the end of February.

"In 1,000 words or less, describe how you understand the term ‘white privilege.’ To what extent do you think this privilege exists? What impact do you think it has had in your life -- whatever your racial or ethnic identity -- and in our society more broadly?" reads the prompt.

The council said the goal was “to increase awareness, foster understanding and promote understanding in this arena.” But some council members were surprised by the pushback:

“There's a lot more controversy around it than many of us expected. Just the fact it says 'white' and 'privilege,' for some people that's all they need to see, and all of a sudden we're race-baiting or trying to get people to feel guilty. That's not at all what it's about."

Some of the town’s 26,000 residents took offense to the essay’s topic.

"It's an open town," Bari Reiner, 72, said. "There are no barricades here. Nobody says if you're black or whatever, you can't move here."

One parent said, “I wouldn’t go there” and said leave it to parents to discuss such a topic with their own children.

However, at least one parent of college-aged kids, Bert Dovo, said, “I like the idea to get it out there so kids can talk about it and embrace it.”

Fox News reports that Westport’s median income is $150,000 and its residents are 93% white. It voted 2 to 1 for Hillary Clinton. Last year, a private Facebook group was discovered at Staples High School which distributed “racially offensive memes.”

Jennifer Lawrence and James Cameron: Trump is Insane "These people are insane."

Jennifer Lawrence and James Cameron: Trump is Insane

"These people are insane."

1.31.2017

News

Paul Bois

Movie star Jennifer Lawrence and Titanic director James Cameron both think President Donald Trump is "insane."

Writing on her Facebook page, Lawrence lamented her "broken heart" over Muslim refugees, a crisis made possible by her beloved President Barack Obama, and asked that "sanity" be restored to the White House. She also suggested that Trump's 120-day ban was a direct discrimination of their race and religion.

"My broken heart goes out to the innocent lives of Muslim refugees that are trying to escape terror and find safety for their families," she wrote. "I and millions of Americans understand that someone’s race or religion should never keep them in harm’s way."

"It should be every person’s duty to help and protect anyone no matter their nationality," she continued. "I pray for sanity and compassion to return to the White House."

During the campaign, Lawrence also warned that Trump's election would be "the end of the world."

Director James Cameron put it in less rosy terms, telling the Daily Beast that Trump just put America on a collision course with an iceberg.

"[Trump] nominated a guy to run the EPA [Scott Pruitt] who has eight lawsuits against the EPA, and refuses to recuse himself from those lawsuits! It’s basically the upside-down world right now, and the kind of dialogue coming out of these guys sounds like George Orwell," Cameron said.

"Alternate facts? There’s no such thing as an alternate fact! These people are insane," Cameron said.

"Years ago, we sort of spotted the iceberg ahead of us and we called out the order to turn, and we’ve been slowly, slowly, slowly trying to turn this big-ass ship to not hit the iceberg, and then Trump grabbed the tiller and just plunged it right back at the center of the iceberg."

Rep. John Lewis and Chief of Staff Under Ethics Investigation

"Not only did Collins violate these rules, but Rep. Lewis also violated them because his own campaign employed Collins in a prohibited position and paid him a prohibited salary."

1.31.2017

News

Mark Tapson

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) is calling for a Congressional investigation into apparent violations of House ethics rules on the part of Georgia Democrat Rep. John Lewis and his chief of staff, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

FACT is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to probe Lewis' chief of staff Michael Collins for his dual roles in the Lewis' Washington office and as the treasurer for the Congressman's 2016 reelection campaign.

As the Beacon points out, "Ethics rules bar senior House staff from serving in any fiduciary role for a political organization, and specifically mentioned campaign treasurers as a prohibited position for such staffers."

FACT's letter oc complaint also targets Lewis: "In this case, not only did Collins directly violate these rules, but Representative Lewis also violated the ethics rules because his own campaign employed Collins in a prohibited position and paid him a prohibited salary."

The Beacon has more:

The House Ethics Committee had previously sanctioned Collins for failing to disclose or pay taxes on more than $50,000 in income from Lewis' campaigns.

He has been paid by the campaign for work going back to 2002, though he did not serve as treasurer until the 2016 cycle. Collins' campaign income for each year since 2012 was exactly or almost exactly the limit for senior staff outside income set by House ethics officials for those years.

In its complaint, FACT wrote, "The outside employment ethics rules are based on fundamental and important principals that require enforcement to maintain the public's trust. Therefore, we urge the Board to immediately investigate and take appropriate action in response to this violation of the House Ethics Rules."

In an interview cited by the Beacon, FACT executive director Matthew Whitaker said he believes the OCE will find "a very clear violation of not only the letter but the spirit of the rules... There's a lot of room, ultimately, for the ethics committee to take action."

To read more about race-baiting John Lewis, check out his profile here at the Freedom Center's Discover the Networks resource site.

Budweiser to Run Pro-Refugee AdDuring Super Bowl “Go back home.”

Budweiser to Run Pro-Refugee AdDuring Super Bowl

“Go back home.”

1.31.2017

News

Mark Tapson

In yet another effort to shoot itself in the foot and alienate its core viewership, the National Football League will allow Budweiser to air an ad during the Super Bowl that takes a pro-immigration stance in the ongoing controversy over Donald Trump's temporary .

Deadline.com reports that the 60-second ad, titled “Born the Hard Way,” follows the "harrowing journey" of aspiring beer brewer Adolphus Busch from Germany to the United States, eventually making his way to St. Louis, where Budweiser, of course, would come to be based. Busch is initially met with prejudice -- you know, because Americans are bigots! -- but he pursues his beer-brewing dream until he connects with the man who will eventually become his partner, fellow immigrant Eberhard Anheuser.

The ad, writes Hollywood insider site Deadline, is "a stark reminder of the people from foreign shores who helped make America great in the first place. It arrives, of course, just as President Trump’s travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries that has inspired backlash from the public, Hollywood and politicians on both sides of the aisle."

It also has the support of the majority of Americans, but you'd never know that from reading Deadline. And as much as Deadline would like to insinuate that it is an anti-Muslim ban, those seven countries mentioned are all terrorism-tied and affect only 13% of the world's Muslims. Muslims from anywhere else are not banned.

The Deadline article closes with the writer wondering how the ad "will be received by the beer-swilling and football-mad masses watching Fox’s Big Game this weekend." Beer-swilling, football-mad masses? Gee, no liberal elitism there.

Vox: Hollywood Should Thumb its Nose at Trump by Cancelling Oscars Great idea!

Vox: Hollywood Should Thumb its Nose at Trump by Cancelling Oscars

Great idea!

1.31.2017

News

Mark Tapson

As a stern stand against Donald Trump's temporary executive order on immigration which has the left in the grip of hysteria, Todd VanDerWerff, the Culture Editor for Vox.com, has proposed a Hollywood response that we at TruthRevolt support wholeheartedly: cancel the Oscars telecast.

VanDerWerff argues that immigration is "written into the very DNA of the industry itself." Hollywood was "built largely by Jewish men who had direct family memories of fleeing persecution in Europe for somewhere more welcoming." So? Does that mean we shouldn't craft a sensible, safe immigration policy today regarding countries that are terrorist states or with ties to terrorism? This isn't about rejecting immigrants or refugees; it's about not throwing our borders open irresponsibly and inviting murder and mayhem.

But VanDerWerff complains that the ban prevents "people associated with various Oscar-nominated films from attending the 2017 Academy Awards." Um, it might also prevent jihadists from entering the country to kill Americans, but I guess I just don't have my priorities straight.

VanDerWerff believes that's reason enough, although there are more, for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to cancel the ceremony and just announce winners via a press release. He notes that the Oscars "have long been seen as a political platform... So it’s likely that almost every winner at the 2017 Oscars will speak out against Trump and his executive order, as so many did at the recent SAG Awards."

Absolutely correct. This year's Oscars is going to be an orgy of leftist virtue-signaling and smug, conformist speechifying.

But VanDerWerff believes Trump's policy "necessitates a bolder response than a night of impassioned political speeches":

The Oscars have become semi-famous for speeches calling for political action. But speeches ultimately don’t risk all that much, because the people delivering them are speaking to a room full of mostly friendly, well-off liberals. Canceling the ceremony altogether would be a bolder and more appropriate act of protest.

[...]

Hollywood has been wondering what it can do in the era of Trump, how it can remain creatively relevant while standing up for its beliefs. Canceling the Oscars won’t make Trump rethink his position — but it will count as a massive, public stand on behalf of those without whom Hollywood would not exist.

News flash for Vox: America doesn't care anymore what Hollywood thinks or does. This is going to be the lowest-rated Oscar telecast in history, and deservedly so, because Hollywood has done its darnedest to alienate more than half its American audience with its political obsession.

So cancel away.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2017