The classic book collection &#8220;The Baby-Sitters Club&#8221; returned to Netflix recently with a reboot boasting all levels of woke, including a transgender character played by a 9-year-old transgender actor – a boy presenting himself as a girl.
According to <a href="https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/netflix-introduces-transgender-child-into-tv-g-kids-show-baby-sitters-club.html">Christian Headlines</a>, the new show, which has been labeled TV-G, takes a dramatic woke turn in episode 4 when the character Mary Anne is asked to babysit a &#8220;girl&#8221; named Bailey.
&#8220;In episode 4, Mary Anne – one of the five sitters – is asked by a child’s mother to keep a little girl named Bailey,&#8221; reported the outlet. &#8220;Mary Anne and Bailey hold a tea party in Bailey’s room, and when Bailey spills water on her pink dress, Mary Anne opens the little girl’s closet to get a change of clothes. But she only finds boys’ clothes.&#8221;
Bailey tells the perplexed Mary Anne that the boys clothes were his old clothes. In voiceover, Mary Anne says, &#8220;That&#8217;s when I understood: Bailey was a little girl and her new clothes help people see it.&#8221;
Bailey is played by actor Kai Shappley, a 9-year-old boy presenting himself as a girl. As noted by Christian Headlines, the show &#8220;was listed in Netflix’s 10-most popular titles&#8221; last Thursday and is available in children&#8217;s profiles.
Further exploring LGBT themes, Mary Anne later seeks council from her friend Dawn, whose father is gay. According to Dawn, being transgender is about as natural as being left-handed.
“It&#8217;s like this: Are you right-handed or left-handed?” Dawn asks Mary Anne.
“Right,” Mary Anne responds.
“And if someone tried to make you do everything with your left hand, it would be super-weird right?” Dawn asks before adding, “Well, that&#8217;s how Bailey feels. The same way that you know that you’re right-handed, Bailey knows she&#8217;s a girl. … We all want our outsides to match our insides.”
Enlightened by Dawn&#8217;s woke musings, Mary Anne later takes Bailey to the hospital after he falls ill and lectures the doctors about the cruelties of treating him according to his biological sex. &#8220;Bailey is not a boy, and by treating her like one, you are completely ignoring who she is,&#8221; she says.
LGBT representation in children&#8217;s shows has seen a dramatic uptick in just the span of five years, most especially at Disney, which started in 2014 when the show “Good Luck Charlie” <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/good-luck-charlie-lesbians_n_4675943">featured</a> a lesbian mom couple.
“In the storyline, parents Amy and Bob Duncan (Leigh-Allyn Baker and Eric Allan Kramer) set up a playdate for preschooler Charlie (Mia Talerico) and one of her new friends,” TV Guide reported at the time. “When the kid arrives, the Duncans learn that Charlie’s pal has two moms. That’s fine, but the potential new friendship is put to the test as one mom chats with Amy, and the other is stuck listening to Bob’s dull stories.”
In 2019, the PBS television show “Arthur” made waves when a beloved character came out as gay by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/arts/television/ratburn-arthur.html">marrying his male partner</a>. That was later followed by the Disney show “Andi Mack” featuring the first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50097/disney-features-first-teenage-gay-couple-andi-mack-paul-bois">teenage gay couple on the network, </a>which was then followed by the “Rocko’s Modern Life” reboot featuring a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rockos-modern-life-reboot-features-transgender-paul-bois">transgender storyline</a>.
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Netflix’s ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Reboot Features A Transgender 9-Year-Old

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Following the tragic death of George Floyd while in the custody of the Minneapolis police department, corporations and sports teams have been tripping over each other in a game of wokesmanship. Sports commentator and former basketball star Charles Barkley says it&#8217;s becoming a &#8220;circus.&#8221;
Speaking with <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/power-lunch/">CNBC’s Power Lunch</a> on Friday, Barkley said sports organizations should focus more on real, tangible issues instead of cheap sloganeering.
“We need police reform, we need prison reform,” he said. “My concern is turning this into a circus instead of trying to do some good stuff.”
Last week, the NBA announced that it would be permitting players to emblazon their jerseys with social justice messages when the shortened season begins in Orlando, Florida. Barkley believes that sports fans should be given a break from that, given the hardships they face from COVID-19.
“The last thing they want to do is turn on the television and hear arguments all the time. It’s going to be very interesting to see how the public reacts,” he said.
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&#8220;I think you’d have to be foolish to think we could go that whole three months without getting positive tests, but I think we are all flying in the dark right now and I don’t think anybody knows what’s going to happen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That’s a lot of money for these players&#8230; and they can put it back in their community. So I think that’s the main reason to play.&#8221;
The collective losses for two years could be up to $2 billion for the NBA players.
On the issue of kids returning back to school in the fall, Barkley said that he fears prolonged closures would be detrimental to children.
“You’d have to be a fool to think your kids will be safe in school right now,” he said. “A lot of kids who are at home don’t have access to the internet. That really makes the gap between the rich and poor even more so. This is a critical time in our country,” he added.
“I just hope we get some adults who know what they are doing and stop screwing around and dividing our country,” he added.
Last month, Charles Barkley condemned the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement by praising the many police officers who do a good job.
“We need the cops, most of the cops do a fantastic job, but instead of defunding and all this other stuff, let’s just do police reform. Everybody should be on board for that whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, conservative or liberal,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charles-barkley-dismisses-defund-police-movement-most-cops-do-a-fantastic-job">he said</a>.
“The Democrats and the Republicans can’t even talk about police reform,” he continued. “That’s the number one thing they should do before they do anything else. That’s something we have been talking about since [former NFL quarterback Colin] Kaepernick kneeled, and these clowns in the Democratic Party and Republican Party, that’s the number one thing they should do before they do anything else.&#8221;
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Given today&#8217;s culture of cancelation and roving woke mobs, comedian Ricky Gervais believes that his original BBC version of &#8220;The Office&#8221; would be impossible if it were made in 2020.
Speaking with <a class="class" href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Times Radio</a>, Gervais said the &#8220;The Office&#8221; would be destroyed because woke mobs take everything out of context.
&#8220;Now [The Office] would suffer because people would take things literally. There are these outrage mobs who take things out of context,&#8221; he said, as reported by the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8509477/Ricky-Gervais-says-Office-not-today-online-outrage-mobs.html">Daily Mail</a>. &#8220;This was a show about everything — it was about difference, it was about sex, race, all the things that people fear to even be discussed or talked about now, in case they say the wrong thing and they are canceled.&#8221;
&#8220;The BBC have got more and more careful, people want to keep their jobs, so would worry about some of the subjects and jokes, even though they were clearly ironic and we were laughing at this buffoon being uncomfortable around difference,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think if this was put out now, some people have lost their sense of irony and context.&#8221;
Regarding the state of comedy, Gervais said that it has been reduced to “two tribes of people screaming.”
“I genuinely think I don’t do anything that deserves to be canceled,” he said. “Some people now don’t care about the argument or the issue, they just want to own someone, they want to win the argument.”
Earlier this year, comedian Ricky Gervais delivered a seismic opening monologue at the Golden Globes in which he roasted liberal Hollywood for posturing woke while allegedly being total degenerates in their private lives, from friendships with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to shady business deals with communist China.
“If you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a political platform to make a political speech,” Gervais famously told the crowd. “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything, you know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So, if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God — and f*** off, okay?”
Gervais simultaneously roasted corporations like Apple and Amazon for producing supposedly “woke” creative content while doing business in authoritarian countries like China.
“Apple roared into the TV game with ‘The Morning Show,’ a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing — made by a company that runs sweatshops in China,” Gervais said. “Well, you say you’re woke but the companies you work for in China — unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service you’d call your agent, wouldn’t you?”
Gervais recently told <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ricky-gervais-golden-globes-speech-people-tired-of-hypocrisy-140059250.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yahoo Entertainment</a> that the moment became so “zeitgeisty” because people were sick of seeing the hypocrisy.
“It was quite zeitgeisty,” he said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ricky-gervais-reflects-golden-globe-speech">Fox News</a>. “I suppose because people were tired of being lectured by multimillionaires telling them to recycle when they’re flying around in private jets. So I think people were tired of the hypocrisy.”
Gervais added that he did not necessarily believe everything he said in his speech, and only said it to make the best joke possible.
“I’ll often take a complete opposite stance to what I actually believe if it makes the joke better. I’ll pretend to be right-wing, left-wing, or no-wing! It depends on the joke,” he said.
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Rapper Eminem weighed into the national firestorm over police brutality and COVID-19 with a new song featuring Kid Cudi in which he scolded people for not wearing masks and quarterback Drew Brees for his initial opposition to those kneeling for the National Anthem, a position Brees has since apologized for.
According to <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/eminem-slays-anti-maskers-dirty-cops-in-new-single-with-kid-cudi-plus-f-drew-brees-video/">The Wrap</a>, the co-single, titled &#8220;The Adventures of Moonman and Slim Shady,&#8221; explore a variety of topics and give a shout-out to George Floyd, a black man killed by the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis. In one verse, Eminem explicitly denounces New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees:
<blockquote>I had hoop dreams, now I shoot threes (What?) 
Got a lil’ green (Yeah), but I don’t do weed (Nope) 
Purp nor lean (Nah), that’s Tunechi (Yeah) 
That’s New Orleans (What?), f**k Drew Brees (Yeah)</blockquote>
Another verse laments people refusing to wear masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which Eminem refers to as a kind of &#8220;zombie apocalypse.&#8221;
<blockquote>Bunch of half-wits up in office (What?) 
Half of us walking around like a zombie apocalypse 
Other half are just pissed off and (Yeah) 
Don’t wanna wear a mask and they’re just scoffing 
And that’s how you end up catching the s— off ‘em 
I just used the same basket as you shopping 
Now I’m in a f***in’ casket from you coughin’ (Damn)</blockquote>
On the subject of police brutality, Eminem mentions George Floyd by name while smearing &#8220;so many&#8221; dirty cops:
<blockquote>And it’s nonstop fury (Yeah) 
‘Cause I ain’t holding ‘em up like an armed robbery (Nah) 
And God’s my jury, so when I die, I’m not worried (Nah) 
Prayers to George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery (Yeah) 
How the fuck is it that so many cops are dirty? (Huh?) 
Stop, man, please, officer, I’m sorry 
But I can’t breathe when I got you on top of me 
Your goddamn knee’s on my carotid artery (F***)</blockquote>
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Eminem has repeatedly used his music in recent years to push political messages, most especially against President Trump, whom he has referred to as a racist. In 2017, he performed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/dec/07/the-woke-slim-shady-understanding-eminem-in-the-age-of-trump" data-link-name="in body link">two freestyles</a> in which he castigated his own fans for liking Trump. “Any fan of mine who’s a supporter of his / I’m drawing in the sand a line, you’re either for or against,” he said at the time.
However, Eminem has also shown to be slightly less partisan when it comes to certain social issues. His 2017 song “River,” for instance, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eminem-song-river-apologizes-aborted-child-paul-bois">apologized to an aborted child</a>.
“We can’t bring her in this world, shoulda knew/To use protection,” he says in the song. “I made you terminate my baby.”
Eminem also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rapper-eminem-evokes-vegas-massacre-in-pro-gun-control-music-video">sang about gun violence</a> in a music video earlier this year for the song “Darkness” featuring a variety of pro gun-control imageries, messages, and themes. The video also evoked the Vegas massacre by intercutting with footage of a hooded man in a hotel room drinking himself into a stupor as he occasionally peers through the window curtains onto the streets below, appearing to internally wrestle with himself in anticipation of a deadly decision.
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‘F*** Drew Brees’: Eminem Scolds People Not Wearing Masks, Police Brutality In New Song

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Legendary NFL coach and Hall of Famer Tony Dungy slammed CNN host Don Lemon this week for his comment about the perfection of Jesus Christ.
&#8220;Jesus Christ, if that&#8217;s who you believe in, Jesus Christ, admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth,&#8221; Lemon said to his colleague Chris Cuomo this week. &#8220;So why are we deifying the founders of this country, many of whom owned slaves?&#8221;
Given that Christians believe that Jesus Christ was God in the flesh, Lemon&#8217;s suggestion that He was just another imperfect teacher completely slapped all Christian doctrine in the face. Dungy, an outspoken and admitted Christian, called the host out on Twitter.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Lemon, but just who ‘admitted’ that Jesus Christ was not perfect here on earth? Not anyone who believes the Bible. Not anyone who trusts in Jesus as their savior,” Dungy tweeted. “I’m not sure the point you’re making but your premise is dead wrong. That was the point in Jesus coming!”
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I’m sorry Mr Lemon but just who “admitted” that Jesus Christ was not perfect here on earth? Not anyone who believes the Bible. Not anyone who trusts in Jesus as their savior. I’m not sure the point you’re making but your premise is dead wrong. That was the point in Jesus coming! <a href="https://t.co/KXUS9Z0GLA">https://t.co/KXUS9Z0GLA</a>
&mdash; Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyDungy/status/1281334280363274240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As noted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tony-dungy-cnn-don-lemon-jesus-bible">Fox News</a>, multiple Christian leaders stepped up to denounce Lemon&#8217;s comments. Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church of Dallas said the statement &#8220;makes him and his network the uncontested champions of Fake News.&#8221;
&#8220;Don Lemon&#8217;s comments are, first of all, heretical, and it contradicts the most basic tenet of the Christian faith and demonstrates how tone-deaf the left is to faith issues,&#8221; said Jeffress. &#8220;Our founding fathers, like all of us, were imperfect human beings, but Jesus Christ was different than any other man that lived, and as the founder of our faith, he had to be perfect.&#8221;
Eric Metaxes also stated, &#8220;&#8216;To be embarrassingly culturally ignorant may be regarded as a misfortune, but to proclaim one’s ignorance whilst hosting a major tv show looks like carelessness!’ — Oscar Wilde.”
Don Lemon also sparked controversy this week when he lectured actor Terry Crews for emphasizing the importance of black lives not killed in police violence, going as far to say that the phrase Black Lives Matter does not mean &#8220;All Black Lives Matter.&#8221;
“The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality,” Lemon said. “If you want an all black lives matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including, you know, black communities, then, start that movement with that name. But that’s not what Black Lives Matter is about. It’s not an all-encompassing [movement].”
“So if you are talking about — if someone started a movement that said cancer matters,” Lemon continued. “And then, someone comes and says why aren’t you talking about HIV? It’s not the same thing. We’re talking about cancer. So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice, in that manner. Not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods. here are people who are working on that issue. And if you want to start that issue, why don’t you start it? Do you understand what I’m saying?”
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Tony Dungy Slams Don Lemon After He Says Jesus Wasn’t Perfect

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An author from Glasgow, Scotland, has been fired after supporting J.K. Rowling&#8217;s stance vis-a-vis transgender ideology.
According to <a href="https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18564550.scots-author-gillian-philip-dumped-backing-jk-rowling-transgender-row/">Herald Scotland</a>, Gillian Philip, author of a series of popular children&#8217;s books, tweeted in support of J.K. Rowling and was subsequently fired from her position with Working Partners, a fiction packaging firm.
&#8220;Gillian Philip, who is from Glasgow, backed the Harry Potter novelist on Twitter amid an ongoing row over transgender rights,&#8221; reported the outlet. &#8220;Philip, who has penned a popular series of books for eight-to-12-year-olds, added the hashtag #IStandWithJKRowling to her Twitter handle.&#8221;
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&#8220;Her move sparked a torrent of criticism online and emails to her employer Working Partners, a fiction packaging firm which devises series for publishing houses and commissions authors to write them,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;Philip had been one of several authors writing under the name Erin Hunter on popular animal fantasy series including Warrior Cats, Survivors and Bravelands. The publisher cut ties with her last week.&#8221;
In a statement to the Daily Mail, Gillian Philip said that an abusive mob destroyed her professional life.
&#8220;I am disappointed that the hard work and professional attitude I have brought to my work for HarperCollins and for Working Partners counted for nothing in the face of an abusive mob of anonymous Twitter trolls,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It is concerning that my concerns about women’s legal rights and spaces have been presented as &#8216;transphobia&#8217;, and that this accusation has been allowed to stand by my former employers.&#8221;
Working Partners claims, however, that the firing stemmed from Philip&#8217;s use of the name Erin Hunter when voicing her Rowling support, which embroiled the company in her personal stance.
&#8220;Erin Hunter is not a single person but a diverse team of creatives and writers,&#8221; the company said in a statement. &#8220;We recently became aware that Gillian Philip had associated the Erin Hunter pen-name with her personal views on Twitter, thus associating them with the whole collective.&#8221;
&#8220;In light of this situation, the decision was taken to no longer work with Gillian Philip,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;The decision taken was not in direct response to the nature of Gillian’s personally expressed views.&#8221;
Rowling sparked controversy last month when she said that the concept of transgenderism erases the struggles of women across the world.
“If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction,” Rowling tweeted, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jk-rowling-backlash-sex-gender">Fox News</a>. “If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”
“The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women – ie, to male violence – ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences – is a nonsense,” she continued.
Following her post, Rowling faced a severe social media backlash, prompting “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe and “Fantastic Beasts” star Eddie Redmayne to publicly declare their support for trans people. As criticism mounted, Rowling penned an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rowling-pens-essay-defending-herself-against-trans-blowback-i-refuse-to-bow-down">essay</a> about her experiences as a survivor of both sexual assault and domestic violence and argued that the concept of men becoming women erases womanhood entirely.
“It isn’t enough for women to be trans allies,” she wrote. “Women must accept and admit that there is no material difference between trans women and themselves. But, as many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume. ‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head. ‘Woman’ is not a pink brain, a liking for Jimmy Choos, or any of the other sexist ideas now somehow touted as progressive.”
Though the publishing company producing Rowling’s new book,  The Ickabog, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/publishing-staff-threatens-to-strike-if-company-keeps-j-k-rowlings-book">has been pressured</a> by LGBTQ activists to censure the author, the company has stood by her right to express her opinion.
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Former &#8220;Bachelorette&#8221; Rachel Lindsay, the first black American to lead a season of the franchise, opened up Thursday about her struggles with overcoming her personal opposition to interracial dating.
Speaking on the YouTube series “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjc95uGeJ6Q&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Uncomfortable Conversations</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjc95uGeJ6Q&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> with a Black Man</a>” on Thursday, Lindsay said she used to be &#8220;so against&#8221; dating men outside her race.
“I’ve always been told that I wasn’t black enough and I’m not even [biracial],” Lindsay said, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rachel-lindsay-says-she-was-once-against-dating-outside-of-her-race/">Us Weekly</a>. “I’m a black woman and I’ve always been told that I wasn’t black enough because of the way that I grew up, the experiences that I had. So I, you know, to be 100 percent honest it was something that I fought before I came on to &#8216;The Bachelor.'&#8221;
“Up until I was 30 I really didn’t date seriously outside of my race because I felt like society – not my parents, not my friends – society was telling me I had to pick a black man,” she added.
When it came to choosing her man to marry, Lindsay said she did not want to meet people&#8217;s expectations by falling for a man simply because he looked like her.
“I feel like they expect me to pick someone who looks just like me, but that’s not fair. They should just want me to fall in love with whoever it is that I vibe with,” she said.
Lindsay eventually chose Bryan Abasolo, a man of Colombian descent. They were married in August 2019.
As the &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; protests erupted nationwide in early June, Lindsay <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-bachelorette-rachel-lindsay-says-show-needs-more-diversity">called on the show</a> to promote more diversity.
“In 40 seasons, [‘The Bachelor’] had one black lead,” Lindsay said. “You are almost on par to say you’re more likely to become the president of the United States than you are a black lead in this franchise. That’s insane. That’s ridiculous.”
If the franchise does not change course, Lindsay said that she is prepared to step away from it entirely. Just recently, she appeared as a judge on the “Bachelor” spin-off show “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/entertainment/genres/reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to Your Heart</a>.&#8221;
“It’s been asked of me: ‘Will I continue in this franchise if it continues in this way?&#8217;” Lindsay said. “I can’t. I have to see some type of change. It’s ridiculous. It’s embarrassing. At this point, it’s embarrassing to be affiliated with it.”
Lindsay also said in an Instagram post that black women are not appreciated enough in this country.
“We are BLACK WOMEN…we build…we don’t tear down other black women…for many years we have felt the pain of not being seen for our undeniably beautiful skin, instead, we are looked down upon,” she said. “But right now in this moment, we will acknowledge each other! We will uplift each other today! We can see how they portray the black women on the media and what affect that has had on our beautiful black girls. The fighting, the screaming, and the judging has run its course. We are beautifully the same. Upload 1 picture/video of just you and tag as many beautiful black queens as you would like. Please let’s keep this challenge going!”
This article and its headline have been revised for clarity. 
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Dr. Oz, Meredith Vieira And Rachel Lindsay Visit Extra

‘Bachelorette’ Rachel Lindsay: I Used To Be Against Dating Outside My Race

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Actor, comedian, and provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen recently had the cops called on him when trying to pull a prank on former New York City Mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rudy-giuliani-police-sacha-baron-cohen-attempted-prank">Fox News</a>, Giuliani was invited to the Mark Hotel to conduct what he believed was a serious interview about President Trump&#8217;s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was allegedly offered payment for the interview, which he asked be donated to Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation. When Giuliani arrived, he was greeted by a female interviewer and a professional set. Shortly, thereafter, Cohen pulled his stunt.
“This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit,&#8221; the former mayor told Fox News. “It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd. He had the beard, bare legs, and wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive.”
&#8220;This person comes in yelling and screaming, and I thought this must be a scam or a shake-down, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away,&#8221; he added.
The police did not arrive to investigate. Cohen, according to sources, was seen &#8220;sprinting out of the swanky Upper East Side hotel and down 77th Street wearing just a bathrobe.&#8221;
Giuliani said he realized only later that the prankster was Sacha Baron Cohen, who he admitted to being a fan of.
&#8220;I only later realized it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am a fan of some of his movies, ‘Borat,’ in particular, because I’ve been to Kazakhstan. [Adopting a Borat accent, Giuliani repeats a famous line from the movie:] ‘She is my sister. She is number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan.’ That was pretty funny.”
Sacha Baron Cohen&#8217;s prank against Giuliani comes nearly two weeks after he allegedly crashed a gun rights event in Washington, where he posed as a racist country singer, getting some of the crowd to sing along before it reportedly “turned on him” and his security whisked him away.
According to <a href="https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/sacha-baron-cohen-prank-rally-who-is-america-1234692557/">Variety</a>, Cohen infiltrated the event “March for Our Rights 3” headed by the organization Washington Three Percenters — a pro-gun rights group that has been widely described as an “anti-government right-wing militia,” a label the group <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/02/14/805949683/-not-a-paramilitary-inside-a-washington-militias-efforts-to-go-mainstream">rejects</a> — where he sang a racist song before the crowd after posing as a country musician.
Once the actor took the stage, he performed a song while having members of the crowd repeat the overtly racist lyrics back to him. The song focused on “injecting Obama, Clinton, and Fauci with the ‘Wuhan flu’ and chopping up members of the World Health Organization ‘like the Saudis do.&#8217;”
“Obama, what we gonna do? Inject him with the Wuhan flu. Hillary Clinton, what we gonna do? Lock her up like we used to do. Fauci don’t know his head from his a**. He must be smoking grass. I ain’t lying, it ain’t no jokes. Corona is a liberal hoax. Dr. Fauci, what we gonna do? Inject him with the Wuhan flu. WHO, what we gonna do? Chop ’em up like the Saudis do,” Baron Cohen sang.
In a statement, James Connor Blair, a Councilman in Yelm, Washington, described how the stunt unfolded, ending with Baron Cohen escaping in a private ambulance.
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Sacha Baron Cohen Pranked Rudy Giuliani, Gets Police Called On Him

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Ben Stiller will not be caving to the woke mob by removing President Trump&#8217;s cameo from his 2001 comedy &#8220;Zoolander.&#8221;
Speaking on The Daily Beast podcast “<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ben-stiller-on-the-new-abnormal/id1456474041?i=1000482636729">The New Abnormal</a>,” Stiller said that President Trump&#8217;s appearance will remain, noting that his cameo was a spur of the moment opportunity at the VH1 Fashion Awards red carpet pre-show.
“We were shooting at the now defunct VH1 Fashion Awards … and as people were coming up the red carpet, we pulled them aside and asked them to talk about Derek Zoolander, and so Trump and Melania did that,” Stiller said, as reported by the New York Post. “I’ve had people reach out to me and say, ‘You should edit Donald Trump out of “Zoolander,”’ but at the end of the day, that was a time when that exists and that happened.&#8221;
&#8220;There were so many movies [back then] that had a silly cameo from Donald Trump,” Stiller said. “He represented a certain thing,&#8221; he later added.
Ben Stiller also believes that President Trump will always appreciate the fact that he was a part of “Zoolander.” In 2016, for instance, Stiller shared a theory with MSNBC host Chris Matthews as to why he thought “Zoolander 2” did so poorly.
“There was a funny story that Chris Matthews told me,” he said, as reported by the <a href="https://torontosun.com/entertainment/movies/ben-stiller-wont-cut-donald-trump-out-of-zoolander/wcm/72f30e68-a126-4ffa-822d-3a687131e49c">Toronto Sun</a>. “He was interviewing Trump during the (2016 Presidential) campaign and there was a commercial break. ‘Zoolander 2’ had come out and … was a big bomb, didn’t do well … And they’d been talking about nuclear arms or something and what his (Trump’s) stance would be with the Russians, and then … Trump brought up ‘Zoolander 2’ and started talking about why he thought the movie didn’t do well.”
“And he started going into detail (saying), ‘It’s just that in the culture people don’t care about male models any more.’ And Chris found it so interesting that he was so fascinated about why ‘Zoolander 2’ didn’t do well as opposed to what to do with the Russians and nuclear arms proliferation,&#8221; he continued.
This past Christmas, it appeared that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) cut President Trump&#8217;s cameo in the movie &#8220;Home Alone 2&#8221; for political reasons; that theory was, however, debunked by the fact that those edits were made in 2014 before Trump ran for president.
&#8220;As is often the case with feature films adapted for television, ‘Home Alone 2’ was edited for time. The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the movie as none of them were integral to the plot,&#8221; the CBC <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-trumps-home-alone-2-cameo-was-cut-canada-1265005">said in a statement</a>. &#8220;These edits were done in 2014 when we first acquired the film and before Mr. Trump was elected President.&#8221;
According to Matt Damon, Trump also had a cameo in the Oscar-winning movie &#8220;Scent of a Woman&#8221; that was left on the cutting room floor.
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Ben Stiller Refuses To Remove Trump From ‘Zoolander’

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Attorney General William Barr weighed in on the current Black Lives Matter debate raging across the nation by agreeing that Black Americans have been policed differently than White Americans while rejecting the idea of systemic racism in law enforcement.
Speaking with <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/unfair-policing-african-americans-widespread-phenomenon-attorney-general/story?id=71673284">ABC News</a>, Barr said this unjust policing was a &#8220;widespread phenomenon&#8221; that deserves further examination.
“I do think that it is a widespread phenomenon that African American males, particularly, are treated with extra suspicion and maybe not given the benefit of the doubt,” Barr said. “I think it is wrong if people are not respected appropriately and given their due, and I think it’s something that we have to address.”
On George Floyd, a black man killed after a white Minneapolis police officer used his knee to pin Floyd’s neck to the ground for more than eight minutes, Barr said he hoped that Floyd will be &#8220;a catalyst for the kinds of changes that are needed.&#8221;
&#8220;I think before the George Floyd incident, I thought we were in a good place,” he said, later adding, “I think that this episode in Minneapolis showed that we still have some work to do in addressing the distrust that exists in the African American community toward law enforcement.&#8221;
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Barr, however, rejected calls to &#8220;defund the police,&#8221; arguing that law enforcement needs more investment.
“We have to think about more investment in the police,” he said. “So one of the things we’ve been talking about is trying to direct some of the [Health and Human Services] money and grant programs and sync it up with law enforcement spending so we can enable the departments to have co-responders. That is, social workers and mental health experts who can go on certain kinds of calls to help.”
Barr noted that the DOJ investigated a drug unit in Springfield, Massachusetts, that engaged in civil rights violations.
“We found, in that case, that there was a drug unit in the Springfield (Mass.) police department that was engaged in a pattern and practice of using excessive force,” Barr said.
Though Barr agreed with some of the tenets expressed in the Black Lives Matter movement, he made sure to separate the radical organization from the movement itself.
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&#8220;I make a distinction. I&#8217;d make a distinction between the organization, which I don&#8217;t agree with. They have a broader agenda,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;But in terms of the proposition that black lives matter, obviously black lives matter. I think all lives, all human life, is sacred and entitled to respect. And obviously, black lives matter.”
&#8220;I also think that it&#8217;s being used now &#8230; sort of distorting the debate to some extent, because it&#8217;s used really to refer exclusively to black lives that are lost to police misconduct, which &#8230; have been going down statistically. Five years ago, there were 40 such incidents. This last year it was ten. So at least it&#8217;s a positive trajectory there. But then you compare it to 8,000 homicides in the African American community. Those are black lives that matter, too. And those are lives that are protected by the police,&#8221; he added.
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After bashing Planned Parenthood for allegedly pushing abortion on black communities to &#8220;do the Devil&#8217;s work,&#8221; rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West tweeted a photo of babies in the womb saying, &#8220;these souls deserve to live.&#8221; The tweet was deleted shortly after postage for reasons unexplained.
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The post came after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-praises-trump-hammers-planned-parenthood-likens-covid-vaccine-to-mark-of-the-beast">Forbes released an interview</a> with Kanye West in which he ripped into Planned Parenthood for allegedly being a tool of white supremacists to eliminate black babies.
&#8220;Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work,&#8221; he said.
“I am pro-life because I’m following the word of the Bible,&#8221; he later added.
Planned Parenthood then issued a forceful response to Kanye West, accusing him of promoting a &#8220;black genocide&#8221; conspiracy theory that infantilizes blacks.
“Black women are free to make our own decisions about our bodies and pregnancies, and want and deserve to have the best medical care available,” said Nia Martin-Robinson, the organization’s Director of Black Leadership and Engagement. “Any insinuation that abortion is Black genocide is offensive and infantilizing.”
“The real threat to Black communities’ safety, health, and lives stems from lack of access to quality, affordable health care, police violence, and the criminalization of reproductive health care by anti-abortion opposition,” she continued. “At Planned Parenthood, we trust and we stand with Black women who have, and continue to lead the charge when it comes to health, rights, and bodily autonomy of those in their communities.”
Kanye West has been outspoken about his pro-life views ever since the release of his unapologetically Christian album &#8220;Jesus is King.&#8221;
“We’re brainwashed out here, bro. Come on, man. This is a free man talking,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-blacks-dont-have-to-vote-for-democrats">he said</a> during an interview at the Fast Company Innovation Festival. “Democrats had us voting for Democrats with food stamps for years. What are you talking about guns in the 80s, taking the fathers out the home, Plan B, lowering our votes, making us abort children.”
Kanye West also described himself as an instrument of God to help “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-says-he-asked-jesus-is-king-employees-not-to-have-premarital-sex-hits-porn">spread the gospel</a>” of Jesus Christ.
“Now that I’m in service to Christ, my job is to spread the gospel, to let people know what Jesus has done for me,” said West. “I’ve spread a lot of things. There was a time I was letting you know what high fashion had done for me, I was letting you know what the Hennessey had done for me, but now I’m letting you know what Jesus has done for me, and in that I’m no longer a slave, I’m a son now, a son of God. I’m free.”
During his interview with Forbes, West not only ripped into presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for his infamous &#8220;you ain&#8217;t black&#8221; comment but also called for a society centered on God.
“Reinstate in God’s state, in God’s country, the fear and love of God in all schools and organizations and you chill the fear and love of everything else. So that was a plan by the Devil to have our kids committing suicide at an all-time high by removing God, to have murders in Chicago at an all-time high because the human beings working for the Devil removed God and prayer from the schools,” he said. “That means more drugs, more murders, more suicide.”
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‘These Souls Deserve To Live’: Kanye West Tweets Photo Of Babies In The Womb

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After announcing his interest in a 2020 presidential run, rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West came out swinging against abortion, specifically singling out Planned Parenthood, which he suggested was targeting black women and killing black babies.
“Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-praises-trump-hammers-planned-parenthood-likens-covid-vaccine-to-mark-of-the-beast">he said</a>.
In response, Planned Parenthood — whose founder promoted <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-sprinkle-010420-20200104-opc3c76o4na47mtdtun4nvqw3y-story.html">racist ideas</a> and openly <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=238946.xml">described</a> her movement as &#8220;practically identical in ideal, with the final aims of Eugenics&#8221; — tapped Nia Martin-Robinson, the organization&#8217;s Director of Black Leadership and Engagement, to rebuke the rapper&#8217;s forceful statement.
&#8220;Black women are free to make our own decisions about our bodies and pregnancies, and want and deserve to have the best medical care available,&#8221; Martin-Robinson said. &#8220;Any insinuation that abortion is Black genocide is offensive and infantilizing.&#8221;
Martin-Robinson went on to say that the greatest threat to the black community is lack of access to quality health care.
&#8220;The real threat to Black communities&#8217; safety, health, and lives stems from lack of access to quality, affordable health care, police violence, and the criminalization of reproductive health care by anti-abortion opposition,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;At Planned Parenthood, we trust and we stand with Black women who have, and continue to lead the charge when it comes to health, rights, and bodily autonomy of those in their communities.&#8221;
Over at <a href="https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/kanye-wests-anti-planned-parenthood-conspiracy-theory">Bustle</a>, Jake Viswanath even went as far as to argue that pro-lifers have been tied to white supremacy, even though leaders of the racist Alt-Right movement <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/alt-right-abortion-richard-spencer-upholds-margaret-sanger-eugenicist-legacy/">have expressed support for abortion</a>, arguing that it rids the country of undesirables.
&#8220;There has been more ties between white supremacy and pro-life activism in recent years, like when anti-abortion group New Wave Feminists was forced to oust their former leader Kristen Walker Hatten in 2018 after she shared white supremacist messages on Twitter and admitted that she was &#8216;racist by today&#8217;s standards.&#8217; Basically, if Planned Parenthood clinics were planted by anyone, it definitely wasn&#8217;t by white supremacists,&#8221; argued Viswanath.
In a 2017 piece for <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/alt-right-abortion-richard-spencer-upholds-margaret-sanger-eugenicist-legacy/">National Review</a> titled &#8220;The Alt-Right Carries On Margaret Sanger&#8217;s Legacy Of Eugenics,&#8221; Elliott Kaufman presents a far different take on the relationship between white supremacists and abortion:
<blockquote>Richard Spencer, the keynote speaker in Charlottesville and the central figure of the alt-right movement, finds abortion useful. He has explained that abortion will help to bring about his vision of an elite, white America: “The people who are having abortions are generally very often Black or Hispanic or from very poor circumstances.” The people whom Spencer wants to reproduce, he says, “are using abortion when you have a situation like Down Syndrome.” It is only “the unintelligent and blacks and Hispanics,” he claims, “who use abortion as birth control.”
He has openly mocked conservatives who worry about a “black genocide” or “how [abortion] is destroying black communities.” He knows that an estimated 75 percent of women who have abortions are poor. He knows that black women, receiving an outsize 36 percent of all American abortions, are almost five times as likely to terminate their pregnancies as white women. Nothing could make him happier.</blockquote>
Aylmer Fisher wrote in Spencer&#8217;s Radix Journal: “It is important we not fall prey to the pro-life temptation. The only ones who can’t [avoid an unwanted pregnancy] are the least intelligent and responsible members of society: women who are disproportionately Black, Hispanic, and poor.”
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Planned Parenthood, Feminists Respond To Kanye West

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Actor Will Smith jumped into the debate on police brutality by recalling his own experiences growing up in Philadelphia in the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s.
Speaking with Angela Rye on her podcast &#8220;<a href="http://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-one-with-angela-rye/id1257985728" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">On One With Angela Rye,</a>&#8221; Smith said that he was racially profiled and stopped frequently as a black man growing up under Mayor Frank Rizzo. He was reportedly called the N-word by police on several occasions.
&#8220;I grew up in Philadelphia. I grew up under Mayor Rizzo. He went from the chief of police to becoming the mayor, and he had an iron hand,&#8221; Smith said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/will-smith-racially-abused-police-philadelphia">Fox News</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been called n***** by the cops in Philly on more than ten occasions.&#8221;
While Smith appreciated what the current wave of protests have accomplished, he cautioned people against rage.
“We are in a circumstance that we’ve never been in before. The entire globe has stood up and said to the African American people, ‘We see you and we hear you. How can we help?’ We’ve never been there before,&#8221; he said, warning people that “rage is justified under oppression but it also can be really dangerous. You got to be careful not to be consumed by your own rage, and that’s something that I’ve worked really hard on.”
Smith noted that peaceful protests are a wonderful tool to expose the evil of those oppressing you.
&#8220;Peaceful protests put a mirror to the demonic imagery of your oppressor. And the more still you are in your peaceful protest, the more clear the mirror is for your oppressor — for the world to see and for them to see themselves,&#8221; he said.
Smith continued, &#8220;I was really encouraged by how powerfully this generation was able to hold that mirror, and then the response of the world seeing and responding. I was deeply encouraged by the innate connectivity of the protesters, globally.&#8221;
Though Smith unfortunately believes that racism will never fully be eliminated, he expressed hope that future generations will create harmony.
&#8220;I am pledging my unending devotion to the evolution of my community and the evolution of my country, and ultimately the world, towards the greatest harmony that we&#8217;ll be able to create,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;I am happy to be alive during this time, and to serve.&#8221;
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Following the death of George Floyd after a Minneapolis police officer used his knee to pin Floyd’s neck to the ground for more than eight minutes, Smith said that in times of crisis, people reach for their &#8220;higher selves.&#8221;
“You always have a fight you don’t see coming,” <a href="https://cassiuslife.com/243313/will-smith-no-justice-no-peace-protest-video/">Smith said</a>. “I think that there’s a historical river that is running red with the blood of truth tellers. The beauty of being American — when we’re scared, we reach for our higher selves, not our lower selves.”
Speaking with Stephen Colbert in 2016, Will Smith said that racism wasn&#8217;t getting worse in America, only that it was getting filmed.
&#8220;When I hear people say it&#8217;s worse than it&#8217;s ever been, I disagree completely,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/will-smith-colbert-race-relations-obama-politics-sings-summertime-916816">Smith said</a>. &#8220;We are talking about race in this country more clearly and openly than we have almost ever in the history of this country. Racism is not getting worse, it&#8217;s getting filmed.&#8221;
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On Tuesday night, Don Lemon floated a strange idea for solving America&#8217;s racial disparities: putting former President Barack Obama&#8217;s face on Mount Rushmore.
Responding to President Trump&#8217;s speech at the famed monument, Lemon said that the racist and divisive history of the country should translate into the first black president being placed on Mount Rushmore.
&#8220;You see the right-wing machine kick in, media machine kick in, when you see Trump’s poll numbers go south. They kick in with ‘Democratic cities are in chaos right now. Is this what you want from Joe Biden?’ And ‘they’re gonna take your country away,’ and ‘they’re taking down the statues,’ and ‘crime is rising. Oh my gosh, it’s so bad,’&#8221; <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/don-lemon-obama-mount-rushmore">said Lemon regarding Trump&#8217;s speech</a>. &#8220;Defunding police. And the people who you saw there, for the most part – not them specifically, I’m talking about as a whole – fall for it. They fall for it, and that’s why they do things like what they did. They want to paint over signs and they think it’s ‘our country,’ ‘this is the country that we built.’”
Lemon added that the rich diversity of American history shows that the country was built by people who were not fortunate enough to have statues dedicated to them, arguing that Barack Obama&#8217;s face on Mount Rushmore could help rectify that.
&#8220;Even though a rich diversity of people helped to build this country, and many of us, meaning our ancestors, for free — did not get paid for it, could not get an education, could not build wealth, are not on statues, Confederate or otherwise, are not on Mount Rushmore,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think, listen … if they’re going to put someone on Mount Rushmore, considering the history of this country, the first black president should be front and center.”
Shortly after Lemon&#8217;s monologue, CNN host Chris Cuomo jumped into the fray to endorse the idea as being more palatable than destroying the Founding Fathers.
&#8220;Add to Mount Rushmore. I think &#8230; first of all, I think it&#8217;s a more salable idea than the idea of taking away Founding Fathers,&#8221; said Cuomo.
&#8220;So, what&#8217;s wrong with all of us together thinking or reshaping our country so that more people – rethinking our country in the way we think and where our priorities are so that this country belongs to everyone,&#8221; Lemon later added.
&#8220;Nothing’s wrong with it,&#8221; Cuomo responded.
Lemon then brought up the idea that Mount Rushmore is on &#8220;stolen land,&#8221; and that even an addition to the monument might still be offensive to Native Americans.
&#8220;Maybe some of the people up there on Mount Rushmore, who knows? &#8230; The name shouldn&#8217;t be Mount Rushmore if you talk to Native Americans. They say it is stolen land. It was only Mount Rushmore 40 years before they started to carve presidents&#8217; faces in it. No one got any money for that,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;You&#8217;re totally right. I think the premise is where we&#8217;re gonna have to work towards, which is, if we all decide. It&#8217;s about consensus and collective consciousness,&#8221; Cuomo concluded.
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Actor Tom Hanks once again scolded Americans who choose to go maskless in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he has &#8220;no respect&#8221; for such people. His comments come a week after he said not wearing a mask is a &#8220;p***y&#8221; move.
Speaking with The Associated Press, the &#8220;Forrest Gump&#8221; actor said he wouldn&#8217;t trust the mask avoiders with a driver&#8217;s license.
&#8220;I don’t get it. I simply do not get it. It is literally the least you can do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And if anybody wants to build up an argument about doing the least you can do, I wouldn’t trust them with a driver’s license. I mean when you drive a car you have to obey speed limits, you got to use your turn signals, you have to avoid hitting pedestrians.&#8221;
&#8220;If you can’t do those three things, then I get it. You shouldn’t be driving a car. If you can’t wear a mask and wash your hands and social distance, I got no respect for you, man. I don’t buy your argument,&#8221; he added.
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Speaking with &#8220;<a href="https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Tom-Hanks-delivers-a-blunt-message-coronavirus-15391483.php">Today</a>&#8221; while promoting his new World War II movie &#8220;Greyhound,&#8221; Tom Hanks likened the COVID-19 battle to WWII and called on Americans to do their part.
&#8220;There was a sensibility that permeated all of society, which was, do your part. We’re all in this together,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The idea of doing one’s part should be so simple: wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands. That alone means you’re contributing to the betterment of your house, your work, your town, society as a whole.&#8221;
“I don’t know how common sense has somehow been put in question with regards to this,&#8221; he added.
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“The idea of doing one’s part should be so simple: wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands. That alone means you are contributing to the betterment of your house, your work, your town, your society as a whole.” &#8211;<a href="https://twitter.com/tomhanks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tomhanks</a> <a href="https://t.co/N7JDFrk2KH">pic.twitter.com/N7JDFrk2KH</a>
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The actor&#8217;s talking-points this week nearly echoed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-dont-be-a-py-wear-a-mask">what he said</a> during a press conference last week regarding masks.
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“There’s really only three things we can do in order to get to tomorrow: Wear a mask, social distance, wash our hands,” Hanks said while promoting his upcoming movie “Greyhound.”
“Those things are so simple, so easy. If anybody cannot find it in themselves to practice those three very basic things – I just think shame on you,” he added, as reported by <a href="https://people.com/movies/tom-hanks-says-shame-on-you-to-those-who-dont-wear-a-mask-and-social-distance-do-your-part/">People</a>. “Don’t be a p***y, get on with it, do your part. It’s very basic. If you’re driving a car, you don’t go too fast, you use your turn signal, and you avoid hitting pedestrians. My Lord, it’s common sense.”
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On July 4, actor Matthew McConaughey <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-matthew-mcconaughey-wear-the-damn-mask-lets-quit-messing-about">advised his followers</a> on social media to &#8220;wear the damn mask&#8221; in order to beat the pandemic.
“Happy 244th birthday, America,” said McConaughey. “We is going through some growing pains on this one, aren’t we? But growing pains are a good thing, because how the hell else are we going to grow up? I think we gotta look each other in the eye. I think we gotta look ourselves in the eye.”
“We gotta look in the mirror and ask ourselves, ‘How can I be better? How can I expect more of myself and others? How can I be more responsible? How can I have more compassion? How can I have more courage? How can I be more fair? How do I make sure I wear the damn mask?” he continued.
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The coffee and doughnut chain Dunkin&#8217; will be permanently closing 450 stores by the end of 2020.
According to <a href="https://www.today.com/food/dunkin-donuts-closes-all-450-locations-nationwide-t185733">Today Food</a>, the closing Dunkin&#8217; locations will be the ones located inside Speedway gas stations, not free-standing brick and mortar restaurants, and &#8220;follows the termination of the coffee chain&#8217;s partnership with Hess, which was acquired by Speedway in 2014.&#8221;
In a statement, Kate Jaspon, Dunkin&#8217;s chief financial officer, said the closures will help support the chain&#8217;s focus on standalone cafes. The Speedway locations were typically smaller and located mainly on the East Coast.
&#8220;These points of distribution are lower volume units, in total representing less than 0.5% of Dunkin’ U.S. annual systemwide sales in 2019,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;By exiting these sites, we are confident we will be better positioned to serve these trade areas with Dunkin’s newest Next Generation restaurant design that offers a broader menu and modern experience,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We also remain committed to growing our presence in gas and convenience locations, as well as other non-traditional locations, including airports, universities, travel plazas and military installations.&#8221;
The company underwent significant changes earlier this year when it dropped the famed &#8220;Donuts&#8221; from its title as the company sought to become a more standard coffee shop with donut options.
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&#8220;Since then, the company has undergone some significant initiatives that included <a class=" vilynx_listened" href="https://www.today.com/food/dunkin-s-classic-brewed-coffee-getting-makeover-year-t174052" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">installing new espresso machines</a>, ditching styrofoam and selling most of its coffee beverages in more eco-friendly cups and adding plant-based proteins to its breakfast sandwiches,&#8221; reported Today Food.
Though the company made no mention of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dunkin&#8217; closures follow a pattern of other chain businesses that have either had to close locations, downsize staff, or shutdown permanently due to the frozen economic activity.
Three months after the shutdown, reports surfaced that the pizza and arcade franchise Chuck E. Cheese would soon be filing for bankruptcy to offset the massive losses it has incurred. According to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/after-news-bankruptcy-whats-next-chuck-e-cheese-1511249">Newsweek, </a>the franchise, owned by CEC Entertainment, is now nearly $1 billion in debt with 527 locations in 47 states.
In May, the popular buffet chain Souplantation, known as Sweet Tomatoes outside of Southern California, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/popular-buffet-chain-souplantation-sweet-tomatoes-closes-permanently-due-to-covid-19">regretfully announced</a> it will be closing all locations permanently due to the pandemic.
“The FDA had previously put out recommendations that included discontinuing self-serve stations, like self-serve beverages in fast food, but they specifically talked about salad bars and buffets,” Garden Fresh CEO John Haywood told the San Diego Tribune. “The regulations are understandable, but unfortunately, it makes it very difficult to reopen. And I’m not sure the health departments are ever going to allow it.
Following Souplantation’s unfortunate announcement, the fast-food chain Steak N Shake <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fast-food-chain-steak-n-shake-closes-10-of-locations-permanently-due-to-shutdowns">announced</a> it would be closing 10% of its locations due to the shutdowns.
In March, the National Restaurant Association <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-restaurant-association-11-of-restaurants-could-be-lost-in-pandemic">predicted that 11%</a> of restaurants could be closing permanently. Hudson Riehle, the Association’s senior vice president of research, said the data shows the industry is in “uncharted territory.”
“Association research found that 54% of operators made the switch to all off-premises services; 44% have had to temporarily close down. This is uncharted territory,” said Riehle. “The industry has never experienced anything like this before.”
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said she will not be bullied into reopening her state if COVID-19 cases begin to increase, and she unpersuaded by any potential political fallout.
Speaking on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;New Day&#8221; on Tuesday, the Michigan governor said that she will listen to the experts before reopening her state.
“I want to re-engage this economy more than anyone, but I’m not going to do it if it is too risky to do so, and that&#8217;s why we’re staying focussed on the epidemiology,” Whitmer said, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/506207-whitmer-im-not-going-to-be-bullied-into-reopening-before-its-safe">The Hill</a>. “I’m not going to be bullied into moving before it&#8217;s safe, and if we have to move back, we&#8217;re going to.”
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“I’m not going to be bullied into moving before it’s safe, and if we have to move back, we’re going to [do that,]” <a href="https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovWhitmer</a> says as Michigan revises its reopening plan amid a resurgence of Covid-19 cases.<a href="https://t.co/oWB2Xe2OJ2">https://t.co/oWB2Xe2OJ2</a> <a href="https://t.co/GMGKJnfZNQ">pic.twitter.com/GMGKJnfZNQ</a>
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Whitmer responded to criticism that she overstepped her authority when she &#8220;signed an order <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90499_90640-533436--,00.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">closing indoor service</a> at bars throughout much of lower Michigan to mitigate the disease&#8217;s spread ahead of the July 4 holiday weekend.&#8221; Whitmer told CNN that she is prepared to shut down hair salons if need be.
“I took a lot of heat when we brought that curve down, we saved thousands of lives. I’m prepared to take heat if that’s what is going to take to keep people safe,” she said.
“I would hate to think the sacrifices that we&#8217;ve made could be made in vain because some people are losing interest or dropping their guard. We&#8217;ve got to double down right now more than ever,” she continued. “It’s incumbent on every one of us to mask up. From the White House to the statehouse and everywhere in between. That&#8217;s the most important thing we can do right now.”
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said last week that his state will not be locking down again.
“We’re not going back, closing things,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-florida-not-going-into-lockdown-again">told reporters</a>. “I don’t think that that, really, is what’s driving it. People going to business is not what’s driving it. I think when you see the younger folks, I think a lot of it is more just social interactions, so that’s natural.”
“We’re open; we know who we need to protect. Most of the folks in those younger demographics, although we want them to be mindful of what’s going on, are just simply much, much less at risk than the folks who are in those older age groups,” DeSantis continued.
In a Facebook Live stream on Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the United States is still &#8220;knee-deep&#8221; in the first wave of COVID-19.
&#8220;We are still knee-deep in the first wave of this,&#8221; Fauci said, as reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html">CNN</a>. &#8220;I would say, this would not be considered a wave. It was a surge or a resurgence of infections superimposed upon a baseline &#8230; that really never got down to where we wanted to go.&#8221;
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Music icon Justin Timberlake weighed into the current national debate on racial justice in a social media post Monday, arguing for the removal of Confederate monuments and providing his theory on why protests of racism in America are interpreted as &#8220;protesting America itself.&#8221;
On Monday, the world-famous singer shared a post from the ACLU about former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest in which he called for the removal of all Confederate monuments.
&#8220;When we protest racism in America, people think we are protesting America itself. Why is that the reaction? Because America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple. If we plan to move forward, these confederate monuments must come down,&#8221; he tweeted.
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When we protest racism in America, people think we are protesting America itself. Why is that the reaction? Because America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple. 
If we plan to move forward, these confederate monuments must come down. <a href="https://t.co/j2IgZ8Nr7D">https://t.co/j2IgZ8Nr7D</a>
&mdash; Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtimberlake/status/1280252496288636929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Timberlake&#8217;s post on American white supremacy comes several weeks after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-timberlake-black-people-in-america-are-not-safe">declared</a> that &#8220;black people in America are not safe.&#8221;
“The system needs to change… it has repeatedly shown us that Black people in America are not safe. I’ll follow up with more resources and ways to help. Continue to SAY THEIR NAMES. [Black Lives Matter],” said Timberlake.
The characterization of America as a fundamentally white supremacist nation has become a popular talking point since the Black Lives Matter protests took root nationwide.
On July 4, former 49ers quarterback and Black Lives Matter activist Colin Kaepernick <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/celebration-of-white-supremacy-colin-kaepernicks-july-4-posts-compared-to-his-pre-anthem-protest-july-4-post">even said</a> that Independence Day was a &#8220;celebration of white supremacy.&#8221;
“Black [people] have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized [and] terrorized by America for centuries, [and] are expected to join your commemoration of ‘independence,’ while you enslaved our ancestors,” Kaepernick tweeted. “We reject your celebration of white supremacy [and] look forward to liberation for all.”
Last week, actor Danny Glover said that the police are the guardians of white supremacy.
“We see the actual violence because the police is what it is. It’s the last line of defense for white supremacy. That’s what the police represents. They don’t protect African Americans,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/danny-glover-police-are-the-last-line-of-defense-for-white-supremacy">he said</a>. “You can make an argument that the institutional violence has its roots in so many different ways. The violence that we see now that is acted out on the physical body of George Floyd has been the kind of violence that is engrained within the American idea of its culture, in its own subtlety, since the first Africans were brought here. So it’s 400 years of violence. It’s not just now!”
Jon Stewart, former host of &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jon-stewart-the-police-enforce-segregation">said last month</a> that police effectively serve as the &#8220;border patrol&#8221; of a segregated society.
“The police are, in some respects, a border patrol, and they patrol the border between the two Americas. We have that so that the rest of us don’t have to deal with it. Then that situation erupts, and we express our shock and indignation,” Stewart said. “There’s always this begrudging sense that black people are being granted something, when it’s white people’s lack of being able to live up to the defining words of the birth of the country that is the problem. There’s a lack of recognition of the difference in our system.”
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The Twitter mob has targetted actor Shia LaBeouf for playing a gangster in the upcoming David Ayer-directed crime drama &#8220;The Tax Collector,&#8221; alleging he will be performing in &#8220;brownface.&#8221; Just one problem: the character LaBeouf will be playing is a whiteboy, not a Latino.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/shia-labeouf-brownface-movie-role-david-ayer-responds">Fox News</a>, LaBeouf will be making an interesting career turn as a crime boss who swindles &#8220;taxes&#8221; from Los Angeles street gangs. Given that LaBeouf is a Jewish guy acting in a movie with predominantly black and Latino actors, people on Twitter believed the role was some kind of &#8220;brownface&#8221; after the trailer dropped online. Take a look:
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New trailer for David Ayer&#39;s &#39;The Tax Collector&#39; starring Shia LaBeouf and Bobby Soto <a href="https://t.co/XnBh9d6cqu">pic.twitter.com/XnBh9d6cqu</a>
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The Twitter outrage mob was both fast and furious in its condemnation of LaBeouf&#8217;s undeniably electric performance.
&#8220;Oh hey, another movie w/ Latinos and Blacks in glorified gang culture on steroids that reinforces stereotypes &amp; fears for white folks &amp; promotes the cop mentality that &#8216;it’s a battlefield out there.&#8217; Sigh&#8230;..Hollywood, come on. We don’t need this right now,&#8221; tweeted one user.
“It’s so sad we don’t have enough Chicano actors who were in the gang life for roles like this. Thank God for that little white boy stepping in and saving the day,” tweeted another user.
&#8220;Shia Labouf in a new movie and I’m really hoping he’s not playing brownface,&#8221; tweeted another.
Director David Ayer (&#8220;End of Watch&#8221;) immediately responded to the backlash by clarifying that Shia LaBeouf will not be playing a Latino gangster in &#8220;The Tax Collector&#8221; but rather a white gangster who grew up in the hood. Ayer said the role was evocative of his own life experience as a white man who grew up in the hood.
“Really important answer &#8211; Shia is playing a whiteboy who grew up in the hood. This is a Jewish dude playing a white character. Also the only white dude in the movie,” Ayer tweeted.
“I grew up hood and I’m a whiteboy. Chicano culture is inclusive &#8211; I’ve seen whiteys, Asians, Blacks, Filipinos all putting in work for the hood. It’s part of street culture,” he added.
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Really important answer &#8211; Shia is playing a whiteboy who grew up in the hood. This is a Jewish dude playing a white character. Also the only white dude in the movie 💁‍♂️ <a href="https://t.co/PS6foJwQXV">https://t.co/PS6foJwQXV</a>
&mdash; David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAyerMovies/status/1278419491009904640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I grew up hood and I’m a whiteboy. Chicano culture is inclusive &#8211; I’ve seen whiteys, Asians, Blacks, Filipinos all putting in work for the hood. It’s part of street culture. <a href="https://t.co/PS6foJwQXV">https://t.co/PS6foJwQXV</a>
&mdash; David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAyerMovies/status/1278419916547166209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ayer praised the actor for his extensive research into the role, going the extra mile to get the culture right. When one social justice warrior accused Ayer of making another cop movie, the director shot back, &#8220;It ain’t a cop movie. And Shia is playing something very specific. Not brown face.&#8221;
LaBeouf apparently<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/shia-labeouf-tattooed-chest-tax-collector-david-ayer"> dedicated himself so strongly</a> to his role in &#8220;The Tax Collector&#8221; that he even tattooed his whole chest.
&#8220;He’s one of the best actors I’ve worked with, and he’s the most committed to body and soul,&#8221; David Ayer told Slash Film. &#8220;He had a tooth pulled on &#8216;Fury,&#8217; and then on &#8216;Tax Collector,&#8217; he got his whole chest tattooed. So, he kind of goes all in, and I’ve never known anyone that committed.&#8221;
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Shia LaBeouf Accused Of ‘Brownface’ In Latest Movie Role. Director Responds.

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This article has been updated since its publication. 
In a 2015 video that has gone viral since the killings in Atlanta, a black man in Rochester scolded the Black Lives Matter movement and its media supporters for not having nearly the same amount of outrage over blacks killing other blacks as they would if a white police officer had killed a black man.
Interrupting a media report with Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, the man scolded black leaders and those heading the Black Lives Matter movement for not rioting in response to the killings of other blacks.
&#8220;If this was a white police officer gunning down three blacks and injuring four, Wilson High School would be set on fire and every black leader, every community leader, would be up here,&#8221; the man angrily told reporters. &#8220;Black Lives Matter, hands up.  Blacks have murdered other blacks every 32 hours since June. I&#8217;ve been in this town all my life, I&#8217;m 56 years old, I am afraid of being shot and gunned down by a black man.&#8221;
&#8220;Again if this was a white police officer shooting and killing three blacks,  people will be out here, the school will be on fire, people will be coming forward saying, &#8216;I saw this white police officer,'&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But because it&#8217;s black on black crime, it&#8217;s socially acceptable for blacks not to talk to The police. It is appalling. Every 32 hours since June, blacks have been murdering blacks, and you all have to do a better job.&#8221;
The man stormed off, leaving reporters speechless.
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This man&#39;s message to marxist-led <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> will never be aired on CNN.<a href="https://t.co/JHbSdzQVZ7">pic.twitter.com/JHbSdzQVZ7</a>
&mdash; Dinesh D&#39;Souza (@DineshDSouza) <a href="https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1280191357555027969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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D&#8217;Souza posted the video after the tragic death of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/atlanta-mayor-orders-blm-occupied-zone-at-burned-down-wendys-cleared-after-8-year-old-killed">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, Turner was killed near a protester &#8220;occupied zone&#8221; that sprang up in the wake of the Rayshard Brooks killing:
<blockquote>Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has ordered a Black Lives Matter “occupied zone” around a downtown Wendy’s — the site where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed in an encounter with cops last month — dismantled and cleared after an 8-year-old girl was allegedly murdered by protesters Sunday.
The young girl, Secoriea Turner, was killed when her mother exited the freeway and turned into a parking lot playing host to the “occupied” protest similar to the one that cropped up in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood early in June. Protesters reportedly swarmed the woman’s vehicle and fired a number of shots at the family, hitting Secoriea.
Just hours after that incident, police returned to the “occupied” zone to investigate yet another shooting, this one involving a group of adult males. Three people were wounded in that exchange of gunfire, a <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/police-investigate-deadly-triple-shooting-near-southwest-atlanta-wendys">local Fox affiliate</a> reports, and one person was killed.</blockquote>
In Chicago over the weekend, the city <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-more-childen-killed-in-chicago-violence-spike-city-sees-two-mass-shootings-in-under-24-hours">saw two mass shootings</a> in just 24 hours, leaving two children dead – a 7-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy.
UPDATE: The original article mistakenly classified this video as an Atlanta man upset about the recent killings. The incident happened in 2015 in Rochester, NY. Though the incident did not happen in response to the Atlanta killings, the message that Edward Watson made is still applicable to the current situation.

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