One evening this week, I was rereading Lord Byron’s great poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” and came upon a startlingly accurate description of Cancel Culture. Writing in the early 1800s, Byron describes a civilization that has ceased to search for truth but weighs everything in “custom’s falsest scale”:
<blockquote>“Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil
Mantles the earth with darkness, until right
And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale
Lest their own judgments should become too bright,
And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.”</blockquote>
Now, yes, I know I can’t enlist Byron — who used to refer to the more conservative William Wordsworth as ‘Turdsworth’ — as a spokesman for conservatism. But in this moment when the left insists that all disagreement with their orthodoxies equals bigotry and evil, when speaking simple truths like “a man is not a woman” can cost you your reputation or your job, who can fail to recognize a world in which “men grow pale lest their own judgments should become too bright and their free thoughts be crimes”?
This week alone, the left renewed its attempts to vilify the Oscar-nominated film Joker as somehow racist, which it’s not. When a Bible that was used to swear in commanders of the new Space Force was blessed in a ceremony at Washington National Cathedral, an anti-religious group called the blessing a “shocking and repulsive display of only the most vile, exclusivist, fundamentalist Christian supremacy, dominance, triumphalism and exceptionalism.” Even Stephen King, one of our great storytellers and a reliable anti-Trump leftist, was attacked when he said he would “never consider diversity in matters of art” but would only judge it by its quality.
These attacks are relentless and can often be costly. Writer Chadwick Moore, a gay former liberal, says he has been repeatedly banned from Facebook for not towing the homo-leftist line. His latest thirty day expulsion was for posting an article he wrote entitled “Rednecks Are the Least Racist People in America,” based on his own experiences bolstered by research by Thomas Sowell and historian Colin Woodard.
And much worse. In Australia, a young gay conservative who protested Drag Queen Story Hour at a library in Brisbane, committed suicide after being viciously defamed by the so-called LGBTQ Community.
Conservatives tend to treat the fight against such leftist bullying as a side skirmish compared to such major battles as who wins the 12th district in Ohio. They may roll their eyes and tweet their tweets — but at the same time, they teach themselves to watch their words lest they lose their social media platforms or their sponsors or their jobs.
Which, of course, is the whole point. In order to funnel power away from the individual and into the central government, the left is selling a utopian fantasy based on utterly false ideas of human nature and human enterprise. The greatest danger to that fantasy is any expression of the simple truth. Silencing that expression is what political correctness and Cancel Culture are for.
And any conservative who thinks the political fight to save the country from leftism can be won without confronting those devices is an idiot. The fight against Cancel Culture is not a side skirmish. It’s not even a major battle. It’s the war.
In the first two weeks of this year, President Trump eradicated a major terrorist, faced down the evil regime in Iran, made a new trade deal with China and had the new NAFTA-style deal ratified in a bi-partisan vote — all while the economy soared to new heights and low- and middle- class workers of all races saw their wages finally begin to rise. Indeed, lower income households have seen their net worth increase by 47 percent since the president took office.
And yet, the RealClear Politics polling average has Trump’s approval rating at 44.3 percent. About half the people want to see him impeached and removed from office.
Well, why not? Trump is himself the victim-in-chief of Cancel Culture. He is repeatedly and relentlessly portrayed as racist, sexist and otherwise phobic by a news media that gives him 93% negative coverage, according to the Media Research Center. The stone lie that he said there were “very fine people” among white supremacists continues to be shamelessly repeated — this week by the New York Times’ Charles Blow. And Democrat candidate after candidate declares the American economy serves only the rich, unchallenged by their poodle press.
If we cave in to leftist bullying, if the relentless political correctness of social media and the press goes unchallenged and Cancel Culture thrives because “men grow pale lest their own judgments should become too bright, and their free thoughts be crimes,” then the American public will ultimately follow a leftist fantasy straight into leftist reality, which is another name for hell.

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The trouble with Elizabeth Warren’s claims about Bernie Sanders telling her privately that a woman can’t win the presidency is that Elizabeth Warren is a known liar. And it doesn’t help that Bernie Sanders is just about the last person you’d expect to make that comment. Never mind the fact that the alleged comment — even if he did make it — is perfectly innocuous and not remotely sexist, if properly interpreted. “A woman can’t be president” is an insult to the electorate, not to women.
At any rate, Warren does have a couple of factors working in her favor. For one thing, she has CNN openly campaigning on her behalf. At the debate on Tuesday night, the CNN moderator flatly dismissed Sanders’ version of events and proceeded to question Warren on the assumption that the comment was in fact made. She wasn’t asked to justify, prove, explain, or even reiterate her accusations. Instead she was asked how she reacted “when Senator Sanders told [her] that a woman can’t win the election.” It was one of the worst examples of naked partisanship that we’ve seen in a political debate in recent memory, and that’s saying something.
And Warren has another advantage: She’s a woman. According to some of Warren&#8217;s supporters, her gender alone is enough to vindicate her. As the observant among us expected, and the obtuse are no doubt surprised by, the “Believe Women” slogan from the MeToo movement has now been broadened into a universal dictum. Don&#8217;t just believe women when they accuse a man of rape; believe women when they accuse a man of anything at all.
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A number of Warren&#8217;s fans in media and politics have spoken up over the last few days to declare that disbelieving women — in any circumstance, not just with sexual assault allegations — is automatically sexist. Julia Loffe, a correspondent for GQ, <a href="https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1217188806723502080">explained</a>: &#8220;Still thinking about the Warren-Bernie squabble and I have a question to people who have accused Warren of lying: Isn’t the lesson of #MeToo and the last few years that we believe women and don’t call them liars?&#8221;
This sentiment was echoed by <a href="https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1216832259841495044">Neera Tanden</a>, president of Center For American Progress: &#8220;Believe women — unless it doesn’t work for your ambition, apparently.&#8221;
And the reliably nutty Amanda Marcotte: &#8220;I think that Warren got the better of Sanders in that exchange, but who knows how it will play out. I also thought that [eight] women accusing Al Franken of groping was rock solid evidence that he’s a groper, but apparently a lot of people prefer to believe women love lying.&#8221;
And <a href="https://twitter.com/baddestmamajama/status/1216881594352328705">Jessica Ellis</a>: &#8220;Just FYI I double checked and there is no &#8216;except Elizabeth Warren&#8217; clause in that whole BELIEVE WOMEN deal.&#8221;
And former Obama staffer <a href="https://twitter.com/natimontelongo/status/1217277551778959360">Natalie Montelongo</a>: &#8220;Elizabeth Warren is fire right now. Quickly confirming what was said in the private conversation, then pivoting to pointing out that only the women on the stage have won all of their races. But all I gotta say is — Believe Women.&#8221;
These people are making exactly the argument they appear to be making. We must believe women, period, in all situations. We must not &#8220;call them liars.&#8221; Because, in Julia Loffe&#8217;s fantasy world, women never tell lies. We went from the absurd insinuation that women never lie about sexual assault to the patently psychotic claim that women never lie about anything.
But back on planet Earth, of course, individual human beings are not cumulative representatives of their gender. When you call a lying woman like Elizabeth Warren a liar, you aren&#8217;t calling all women liars. You aren&#8217;t saying anything about women. Rather, you&#8217;re saying something about that particular woman, and the thing you&#8217;re saying — that she&#8217;s a liar — has nothing to do with her being a woman and everything to do with her being a person who seems to lack integrity. Reasonable people don&#8217;t believe women or disbelieve women wholesale. We believe people who give us good reason to believe them. Their reproductive organs do not count as evidence, for or against.
Hopefully it is now apparent why the MeToo movement <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/10/31/662178315/on-metoo-americans-more-divided-by-party-than-gender">fell out of favor</a> with many Americans. He said/she said controversies are difficult enough to sort through. Our only hope of ascertaining the truth, or something close to it, is to judge each case individually, weighing the evidence presented by both sides and the track record of both people involved. Hysteria and pitch fork mobs do not make this job any easier. And emotional slogans like &#8220;Believe Women&#8221; make it impossible. Which, in the end, was always the point.

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WALSH: Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s Supporters Declare That We Must Believe Everything She Says Because She&#8217;s A Woman

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Political observers in the year 2020 know that, for the Democratic Party and the broader political Left alike, intersectionality often reigns supreme. For those still wondering what exactly &#8220;intersectionality&#8221; is, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro has produced a helpful explanatory video on the topic:
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&#8220;Intersectionality is a form of identity politics in which the value of your opinion depends on how many victim groups you belong to,&#8221; Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-what-intersectionality-jacob-airey">explained</a>. &#8220;At the bottom of the totem pole is the person everybody loves to hate: The straight, white male. And who’s at the top? Well, it’s very hard to say, because new groups claim victim status all the time. No one can keep track.&#8221;
Alas, it should come as no surprise that contemporary Democrats would rally around what is perhaps one of the most readily identifiable sub-identity groups boasting immense &#8220;intersectional&#8221; street credibility: The transgender illegal alien.
&#8220;House Democrats plan to call on a key immigration agency to release all transgender people who are currently being detained, arguing that the U.S. has failed to follow guidelines to protect individuals who face more perilous conditions in detention than other migrants,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">reported</a> yesterday.
The outlet then reported on the precise contents of the early copy of the letter it obtained. The letter will be sent to Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Matthew Albence. Per <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">The Hill</a>, the letter reads, in relevant part:
<blockquote>We write to demand the release of all transgender people currently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Transgender migrants and asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, solitary confinement, physical assault, and medical neglect. These inhumane conditions and systematic abuses are evidenced in countless reports and accounts by formally detained people.</blockquote>
According to the outlet, the letter cites research from left-wing organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, Amnesty International, and the Center for American Progress in order to argue that &#8220;due to their gender identity, transgender migrants are more likely to face &#8216;the pervasive use of solitary confinement&#8217; and that they are &#8217;97 times more likely to be sexually victimized&#8217; compared to &#8216;their cis-gender and straight counterparts in detention.'&#8221;
The effort is being led by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL), who TheBlaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/house-democrats-want-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">notes</a> is of the belief that ICE is actually required to release all transgender detainees. In order to advance that claim, the letter cites a 2015 ICE memo and the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s 2020 appropriations bill.
&#8220;Quigley&#8217;s office is working to get lawmakers&#8217; signatures on the letter and expects to send it to acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and ICE Director Matt Albence later this week,&#8221; the Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-democrats-to-ask-ice-to-release-all-transgender-immigrants-in-custody">reports</a>.
The year 2019 was a busy year for ICE, especially over the first six months. Record numbers of illegal aliens seemed to flood over America&#8217;s porous southern border on a seemingly monthly basis, although the tide has stemmed over the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/month-decline-unauthorized-border-crossings-nearing-million/story?id=66134521">past few months</a>. As the 2020 election heats up, President Donald Trump is continuing to emphasize border security and immigration enforcement as key political priorities.

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Jailbreak: House Democrats Call To Release All Transgender ICE Detainees

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A convicted sex offender in Michigan is heading to prison for 10–20 years after being caught with child pornography on his computer. What makes this case interesting is the defense that 45-year-old Joseph Gobrick offered in court. Speaking to a judge at his sentencing hearing, <a href="https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/crime/man-sentenced-for-child-sexually-abusive-material/69-7fadc67c-c26e-4a9c-ba51-992caa86caf2">Gobrick claimed</a> that he has a First Amendment right to look at child porn. He also claimed that he identifies as an eight-year-old girl.
“I’ve always been an eight-year-old girl,’’ Gobrick contended. “Even in my drawings and fantasies, I am always an eight-year-old girl. &#8230; There are adults having sex with me in an online forum as an eight-year-old girl.&#8221;
The judge apparently did not find this argument persuasive. No reasonable person would. But an obvious question is raised here. Why exactly can&#8217;t Gobrick identity as a young girl? On what basis can we deny or disqualify his self-identification?
Again, the reasonable among us know the answer. He can&#8217;t identify as one because he isn&#8217;t one. According to all available metrics, he is a 45-year-old pervert, not a third grader. He cannot choose to be a different age. He is the age he is, and that&#8217;s all there is to it. It is either insanity or willful deception that causes him to make this claim about himself. We therefore are perfectly justified in refuting his self-identity and refusing to play along with it. More than merely justified, we are in fact morally obliged to insist on truth over harmful fantasies and delusions.
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But propagators of left-wing gender theory are not reasonable. Rather, they insist on unreason. They argue that a man can be a woman — not just symbolically or legally, but actually, literally — even in spite of the testimony of his own biological and chromosomal makeup. In the case of a man identifying as a woman, the only thing that matters, they say, is how he feels about himself. The objective facts are irrelevant. Biology is a moot point. He need provide no proof. We are to take him at his word, and that&#8217;s all there is to it.
Well, if biology and physical reality are irrelevant to the question of sex, why should they suddenly be relevant to the question of age? If Gobrick can identify as a female, why can&#8217;t he identify as a female of whatever age he chooses? At least a man who &#8220;feels like a child&#8221; can rightly point out that he was once a child, so he has some frame of reference for judging these feelings. And at least it does make sense, in the case of certain mental disabilities, to say that an adult &#8220;has the brain of a child.&#8221; None of this vindicates Gobrick to any extent at all, but my point is that transageism is actually more credible and makes more sense than transgenderism. It&#8217;s still bogus, but slightly less so. Age does change, after all. I will not be a 33-year-old man forever. But I will be a man forever. If my sex is a fluid characteristic, how much more fluid must my age be?
We have not yet gotten to the point where the Left will openly defend a man like Gobrick and his right to be accepted by society as the child he supposedly believes himself to be. But we will get to that point. We have to. They&#8217;ve already argued his case for him, even if they won&#8217;t admit it and maybe don&#8217;t yet realize it.

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WALSH: Every Sane Person Saw This Coming. Now A Pedophile Claims He Identifies As An 8-Year-Old Girl.

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While speaking at a climate change rally on Friday, award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix targeted the meat and dairy industries for being &#8220;the third leading cause of climate change.&#8221;
Standing alongside controversial activist and actress Jane Fonda, who organized the event, Phoenix took to the mic to blast the industries while nonetheless admitting his role in an expanding carbon footprint. For example, Phoenix had to fly a plane to the rally, something the actor suggested was out of his control.
&#8220;Something, I think, isn&#8217;t often times talked about in the environmental movement, or the conversation about climate change, is that the meat and dairy industry is the third leading cause of climate change,&#8221; started the &#8220;Joker&#8221; actor, fresh off his Golden Globes win.
&#8220;And, um, I think sometimes we think, what can we do in this fight against climate change, and there&#8217;s something that you can do today, right now, and tomorrow by making a choice what you consume,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;I struggle so much with what I can do at times,&#8221; Phoenix added. &#8220;There are things that I can&#8217;t avoid — I flew a plane out here today, or last night, rather. But one thing that I can do is change my eating habits.&#8221;
&#8220;So I just wanna urge all of you to join me in that,&#8221; closed the actor.
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Joaquin Phoenix: &quot;I struggle so much with what I can do [to combat climate change] at times. There are things that I can&#39;t avoid &#8212; I flew a plane out here today, or last night rather. But one thing that I can do is change my eating habits.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/RaZILYq0La">pic.twitter.com/RaZILYq0La</a>
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During his Golden Globes award acceptance speech on Sunday, Phoenix also zeroed in on climate change, taking a jab at Hollywood for its collective hypocrisy on the issue.
“It’s really nice that so many people come up and sent their well wishes, but we have to do more than that, right?” Phoenix said, referring to the fires in Australia. “I have not always been a virtuous man. I’m learning so much — so many of you in this room have given me multiple opportunities to get it right.”
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/update-dozens-more-arrested-in-australia-for-deliberately-setting-wildfires">The Daily Wire</a> earlier this week, dozens of alleged arsonists have been arrested in connection to the raging fires in Australia, reportedly setting at least 100 fires.
“It’s great to vote but sometimes we have to take that responsibility on ourselves and make changes and sacrifices in our own lives,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I hope that we can do that — we don’t have to take private jets to Palm Springs sometimes or back, please.&#8221;
“I’ll try to do better and I hope you will too,&#8221; he added.
Earlier in the speech, as noted by <a href="https://variety.com/2020/film/news/joaquin-phoenix-golden-globes-speech-joker-1203456066/">Variety</a>, Phoenix &#8220;lauded the Globes for switching to a vegan meal for the ceremony, thanking the Hollywood Foreign Press for &#8216;recognizing and acknowledging the link between animal agriculture and climate change. It’s a very bold move, making tonight plant-based.'&#8221;
Phoenix&#8217;s stand against meat and dairy has long been a cause of <a href="https://www.peta.org/living/food/10-things-wish-everyone-knew-meat-dairy-industries/">PETA</a>. &#8220;If you’re concerned about the creepy marketing, environmental damage, health risks, economic problems, or ethical issues that plague the meat industry, you can take action immediately,&#8221; the extreme animal activist group says on its website. &#8220;Make a choice to buy less meat (including fish) and fewer eggs and dairy products — or better yet, give them up completely. It’s one of the most powerful things that you can do.&#8221;

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WATCH: Joaquin Phoenix Targets Meat, Dairy Farmers At Climate Rally, Admits He Just Got Off Plane

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Even though everyone ought to be celebrating the fact that President Donald Trump announced that no American soldiers were killed during Iran&#8217;s Tuesday night missile attack on a U.S. air base in Iraq, Trump&#8217;s critics on social media are now trashing him for mispronouncing one word while supposedly slurring his speech that made the official announcement.
Under the hashtag #Slurring as words like &#8220;Sudafed&#8221; and &#8220;Adderall&#8221; began to trend, critics of the president on Twitter immediately accused him of being high on drugs during his Wednesday morning press conference — with many citing his use of the word &#8220;Tolerited&#8221; instead of &#8220;Tolerated&#8221; as proof that Trump is simply off his rocker. None of these critics seem to appreciate the fact that the president probably had little to no sleep the night before, as he paid close attention to the serious situation with Iran — which thankfully resulted in no U.S. casualties. Here is just one sampling of the pettiness on display:
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&#8220;Trump is on drugs, whether we want to face it or not, he is an Adderall addict and has been addicted to speed for decades,&#8221; tweeted comedian Noel Casler. &#8220;Benzo’s figure in as well as the UK Sudafed he takes to control those sniffles and for the buzz. This was NO secret in TV Production.&#8221;
&#8220;Somebody explain to me the difference between what we just saw and a drug addict bluffing his way through a presentation at work,&#8221; said one Twitter user.
&#8220;I am sorry, I understand you&#8217;re a big Trump fan, but he is ill. He was #slurring, out of breath and could hardly read the teleprompter. He is not well. Not at all,&#8221; tweeted another user. 
&#8220;Trump is not ok. He&#8217;s breathing heavy, sniffing, slurring his words &amp; talking like he&#8217;s a [f***ing] robot. Plus he looks like sh**!&#8221; tweeted another.
Other Twitter users came to Trump&#8217;s defense, with many noting that none of the side effects of Adderall — a stimulant — include the slurring of one&#8217;s speech.
&#8220;Trump derangement syndrome takes many forms. He disappoints you by not starting WW3 and now you become petty and accuse him of #slurring during his speech? We must have watched different speeches. I&#8217;m listening to it again. There is no slurring. Get a grip kids,&#8221; tweeted The Progressive Conservative. 
&#8220;President Donald Trump delivers a message of peace. Gives Iran a way out. And the dimwits on Twitter are trending #Adderall and #Slurring. But they have no such hashtags for Nancy Pelosi who slurs everytime she talks,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/CarmineSabia/status/1214955033344782336?s=20">tweeted</a> Carmine Sabia
&#8220;Attention Twitter experts, #slurring is not a side-effect of #Adderall. Stop assigning blame to medications or speculating on drug abuse. Consider instead the possibility of Broca&#8217;s Aphasia, the onset of dementia, or going to medical school if you want to practice medicine,&#8221; tweeted another user. 
&#8220;People obviously have no clue what they are talking about. #slurring your speech and using #adderall do not go together, or most any stimulant for that matter. #adderall is a mix of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, which are CNS stimulants. Motor skills &amp; focus are sharpened,&#8221; tweeted another. 
During his press conference on Tuesday, President Trump promised that Iran would never have nuclear weapons so long as he remains commander-in-chief.
“As long as I am president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “I am pleased to inform you, the American people should be extremely grateful and happy: No Americans were harmed in last night’s attack by the Iranian regime. We suffered no casualties, all of our soldiers are safe, and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases.”

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Critics Say &#8216;Trump Is On Drugs&#8217; For Mispronouncing One Word, Sniffing During Widely Praised Press Conference

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Last night, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, an attorney and former federal judicial law clerk, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cup29nPmOgo">joined</a> “Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler” on One America News Network to discuss New York state&#8217;s extraordinarily controversial new &#8220;bail reform&#8221; legislation. The law, which the New York Post editorial board <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/with-lives-at-stake-albany-must-bail-reform-failure-now/">decries</a> today as a flat-out &#8220;bad law,&#8221; eliminates the possibility of judge-imposed cash bail for the overwhelming majority of crimes committed in the Empire State.
Here is how the Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/with-lives-at-stake-albany-must-bail-reform-failure-now/">describes</a> some of the problems with the law:
<blockquote>One huge problem: The new law prevents judges from ordering most criminal suspects jailed, or even requiring them to post bail, no matter how clear a threat to public safety they pose. Judges retain discretion only if the charges include a handful of very violent crimes and they deem the suspect a clear flight risk.
This guarantees a revolving door for serious perps: Caught for a minor holdup, you’ll be charged and released — and can do it again, get caught again and be released again, time after time after time.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-bail-reform-woman-involved-in-anti-semitic-attack-arrested-released-for-3-crimes-in-5-days">previously reported</a> on the law&#8217;s noxiousness. The Daily Wire&#8217;s Amanda Prestigiacomo recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-bail-reform-woman-involved-in-anti-semitic-attack-arrested-released-for-3-crimes-in-5-days">reported</a> on a serial anti-Semitic assaulter who astoundingly committed three separate crimes in a span of five days due to the law&#8217;s inordinate leniency. As also reported by Prestigiacomo, all five borough district attorneys in New York City have gone on the record stating that the law goes too far in favoring defendants.
Hammer has consistently been very critical of this type of pro-criminal, &#8220;jailbreak&#8221;-style legislation. Last weekend, Giancarlo Sopo of TheBlaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/virginia_weak_on_crime_democrats">quoted</a> him in the context of a similar partisan Democratic initiative in Virginia:
<blockquote>Reached by telephone, constitutional law attorney and Daily Wire editor-at-large Josh Hammer told TheBlaze that [the proposed Virginia] bill is part of a pattern among Democrats and like-minded &#8220;weak-on-crime&#8221; Republicans.
&#8220;Across the country, we see so many leftist Democrats — joined by no small share of libertarian-leaning Republicans — subscribing to the same weak-on-crime agenda,&#8221; Hammer, who has been critical of similar so-called &#8220;criminal justice reform&#8221; efforts, said.
&#8220;New York&#8217;s harrowing recent &#8216;bail reform&#8217; proposal is a shining example, and this Democratic proposal in Virginia fits in neatly, as well. Americans have historically cherished law and order, and it is devastating to see these kind of jailbreak, pro-criminal policies take hold as we descend further into mass lawlessness,&#8221; he added.</blockquote>
Wheeler began the segment by asking Hammer about the New York lawmakers&#8217; purported aim — to reduce inequality and promote justice — and why the law&#8217;s authors do not seem to care about equality and justice for the actual victims of crime. Hammer launched into a rant about how the Left is able to effectively wield seemingly anodyne language, such as &#8220;bail reform,&#8221; as a cudgel to advance their lawless agenda:
<blockquote>The problem with the Left is the Left speaks about justice and compassion and all these fancy words. They never focus on the people who actually suffer &#8230; from their policies. So in the case of border security and amnesty, there is no one who suffers worse from an open border and the human trafficking by drug cartels than the aliens themselves who are trafficked. In the case of &#8220;criminal justice reform,&#8221; &#8220;bail reform,&#8221; no one suffers more than victims of crime.
Where is anyone speaking for the victims of crime? But you know what the Left also does, Liz? The Left is amazing at getting the right version of language for their policies. &#8220;Bail reform,&#8221; it sounds so innocuous, right? What they&#8217;re doing is they&#8217;re throwing out a system of bail that has existed since at least 13th century England! That is how far back bail goes — cash bail, monetary bail. This is literally a centuries-old phenomenon that they are just throwing out.</blockquote>
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In the days since the killing of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-the-just-and-proper-strike-of-mastermind-iranian-jihadist-qassem-soleimani">Iranian terrorist-in-chief Qassem Soleimani</a>, the media and Democrats have bent over backwards trying to show that Soleimani was anything other than a piece of human garbage who deserved his fate. While they do this out of a greater hatred for President Trump than hatred for the killer of hundreds of Americans and countless others, they also display yet another instance of low American expectations for the Middle East.
A recent example is the selective use of the term “cultural sites.” In response to the death of Soleimani, the Iranians <a href="https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/142726/iran-raises-red-flag-over-messianic-mosque-declaring-end-of-days-war-for-first-time-ever/">raised a red flag</a> over a significant cultural site, Jamkarān Mosque in Qom, Iran. According to Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, “This red flag is a call for the deaths of anyone who opposes Shiite Islam.” When President Trump, deterring the Iranians <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1213593975732527112?s=20">on Twitter</a>, mentioned cultural sites as potential targets in retaliation for terrorist action, he was referring to the cultural sites that the Iranians themselves are desecrating by turning them into military targets. Instead of reporting on how Iran uses and misappropriates cultural sites as threats to the West, outlets like <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/after-killing-iran-s-quassem-soleimani-trump-borrows-isis-illegal-ncna1111531">NBC News</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/07/iranians-celebrate-their-favorite-cultural-sites-after-trump-threatened-target-them/">The Washington Post</a> ignore that aspect of the story to attack President Trump.
This shouldn’t be surprising. The very same media that now <a href="https://time.com/5759506/qasem-soleimani-funeral-tehran-crowds-weep/">fawn</a> over the crowd size at Soleimani’s funeral downplayed the large-scale protests against the Iranian regime just a few weeks earlier. They worked hard to ignore the mass slaughter of those very protesters, likely on the order of Soleimani himself. Under normal circumstances, a bevy of op-eds would have been written, but expectations are so low for the behavior of the Iranian government that it was swept under the rug. The 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square is part of the history books, but the victims of Iran will be forgotten because nobody cared to talk about them.
This trend also isn’t limited to Iran. When President Trump moved the United States embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, media members like Peter Beinart <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/trump-announcement-jerusalem-israel-capital-muslim-violence/547652/">referred to the move</a> as a “deadly provocation.” Beinart used a thousand words to describe how it would be Trump’s fault if Palestinians were to commit terrorism in Israel because of the embassy move, and fewer than 50 words to pay lip service to the fact that such action obviously isn’t justified. In a world with reasonable expectations for the actions of a moral people, those numbers would be reversed. There are no expectations for reasonable, civil action from the Palestinian side — only for the Israeli side.
In Syria, where Obama’s “red line” was conveniently ignored when Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his people, the media praised Obama’s “restraint.” Was it restraint on Obama’s part that allowed Assad to be let off the hook, or was it the notion that such behavior has a level of acceptability in that part of the world? Nobody will ever expressly say that it is acceptable, but the lack of action spoke louder than any words.
Now that Iran has launched missiles against a U.S. base in Iraq, the media will defend that action, claiming that it was Trump’s killing of Soleimani that instigated this round of escalation. They readily ignore the recent attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the attacks on numerous ships in the Persian Gulf, the shooting down of an American drone back in June, and the arming of terrorist organizations like Hezbollah to the tune of tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of precision-guided missiles. The media have such low expectations of Iran that those actions are completely forgiven and forgotten — brushed aside as just something else that the Iranians have done.
Iran should be held to the same standard of accountability as that of any other nation. They are not, though, because the media do not expect them to act rationally. That is the bigotry that the media hold: The soft bigotry of low expectations.
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Moshe Hill is a political analyst who has written for The Daily Wire, The Queens Jewish Link, The Jewish Link of New Jersey and JNS.org. He is regularly featured on ‘The Josh M Show’ podcast. Subscribe to aHillwithaview.com for more content from Moshe Hill. Like him on Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AHillWithAView/">facebook.com/ahillwithaview</a> and follow on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMoHill">@TheMoHill</a>.

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After CNN reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit">settled for an undisclosed amount</a> in the defamation lawsuit from Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann, leftists on Twitter have expressed outrage, using the moment to bash Trump supporters and Nicholas Sandmann alike.
&#8220;The same Trump cultists celebrating Nick Sandmann’s victory against the corporate media outlets who smeared him with false accusations from social media mob bullying that generated fake clickbait news articles are strangely silent about all the liberals they falsely accused too,&#8221; tweeted Dr. Eugene Gu. 
&#8220;The same people who promote the QAnon conspiracy theory, which the FBI says is now a domestic terror threat, the Obama Birther conspiracy, the &#8216;Replacement Theory&#8217; don&#8217;t have much high ground to gloat about the Nick Sandmann settlement but when you are without shame&#8230;&#8221; tweeted CNN contributor Wajahat &#8220;Abu Khadija&#8221; Ali. &#8220;Nick Sandmann: future Republican congressman,&#8221; he continued.
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The same Trump cultists celebrating Nick Sandmann’s victory against the corporate media outlets who smeared him with false accusations from social media mob bullying that generated fake clickbait news articles are strangely silent about all the liberals they falsely accused too.
&mdash; Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1214665525285908480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The same people who promote the QAnon conspiracy theory, which the FBI says is now a domestic terror threat, the Obama Birther conspiracy, the &quot;Replacement Theory&quot; don&#39;t have much high ground to gloat about the Nick Sandmann settlement but when you are without shame&#8230;
&mdash; Wajahat &quot;Abu Khadija&quot; Ali (@WajahatAli) <a href="https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1214670577241337857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Nick Sandmann: future Republican Congressman.
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One Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/r2kmoon2/status/1214670827452542976?s=20">even referred</a> to Nick Sandmann, a minor, as a &#8220;cockroach&#8221; that CNN dealt with: &#8220;Conservative news outlets and reporters are eating up this Nick Sandmann settlement like it&#8217;s a big win. CNN shrugged their shoulders and said &#8216;Let the little cockroach have this money. We&#8217;re good for it.'&#8221;
&#8220;In the Trump era, you can profit off publicly ridiculing Native Americas like Nick Sandmann or start your own clothing line after killing a child like Eddie Gallagher. Or murder journalists like Mohammad bin Salman &amp; you will have the full support of the POTUS. #TrumpIsADisgrace,&#8221; tweeted Twitter user &#8220;Bleeding Heart Liberal Marine.&#8221;
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In the Trump era, you can profit off publicly ridiculing Native Americas like Nick Sandmann or start your own clothing line after killing a child like Eddie Gallagher. Or murder journalists like Mohammad bin Salman &amp; you will have the full support of the POTUS. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpIsADisgrace?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpIsADisgrace</a>
&mdash; Bleeding Heart Liberal Marine (@zaharako) <a href="https://twitter.com/zaharako/status/1214656771232415744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Conservatives on Twitter have been roundly celebrating the news, calling it a triumph of justice.
&#8220;This is the greatest news story of the year so far. Suleimani ain&#8217;t got nothin&#8217; on this,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1214660298440732672?s=20">tweeted</a> The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles.
&#8220;Congrats to [CNN] for finally getting at least some of what they deserve for being the enemy of the people,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1214671197880717312?s=20">tweeted</a> actor Nick Searcy.
&#8220;Major victory against fake news,&#8221; tweeted Tim Pool.
&#8220;JUSTICE: CNN has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against them by Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann They brutally smeared him &amp; tried to destroy his life Will the Media cover this admission of guilt as extensively as they covered the lies about Sandmann?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1214637829768146944?s=20">tweeted</a> TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. 
&#8220;Revenge is a dish best served cold,&#8221; tweeted Sebastian Gorka.
Sandmann was thrust into the national spotlight earlier in 2019 when mainstream news outlets like The Washington Post and CNN reported that he and several of his fellow students harassed a Native American man named Nathan Phillips while attending the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Phillips testified that the “Make America Great Again” hat-wearing boys blocked his path and taunted him with racial slurs, which appeared somewhat credible at first when viral video revealed the boys standing around Phillips, cheering as he banged a drum in front of Sandmann’s face. However, the narrative took a dramatic turn when other videos showed that Phillips approached the boys, who were at the time being taunted with racial slurs by the fringe black nationalist group Black Hebrew Israelites.
Without fully investigating the matter, news outlets largely ran with Phillips’ account of what happened, smearing the boys as racists. Sandmann arguably bore the brunt of the smears due to his face being featured so prominently in the video. In fact, media figures, such as CNN contributor Reza Aslan, <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/01/20/reza-aslan-who-cried-at-the-gillette-commercial-thinks-covington-catholic-hs-student-has-a-punchable-face/">suggested</a> he’d like to punch the 16-year-old in the face. “Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?” Aslan tweeted at the time.
In response, Sandmann’s family sued several news outlets for defamation, targeting The Washington Post first for $250 million and accusing the outlet of “using its vast financial resources to enter the bully pulpit by publishing a series of false and defamatory print and online articles … to smear a young boy who was in its view an acceptable casualty in their war against the president.”

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Professional human rights champion Colin Kaepernick went to social media this week to protest the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a man whose only crime was loving too much and murdering thousands of human beings. Kaepernick took a break from selling his new Nike shoe, which can be purchased now for the <a href="https://www.goat.com/sneakers/colin-kaepernick-x-air-force-1-low-07-qs-cq0493-001?utm_source=google_int&amp;utm_medium=google_shopping_int&amp;utm_campaign=2070028993_82049328608&amp;utm_content=368056751951_1o1&amp;utm_term=193154673289&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiA9dDwBRC9ARIsABbedBPNlQkItGwIY2hGwJ6IYEKuv9H2YrklyjhqJ1KZbRnKH33bbZYMC9IaAtiiEALw_wcB">low price of $135</a>, to point out how America is extremely unfair to black and brown people like himself.
&#8220;America has always sanctioned and besieged Black and Brown bodies both at home and abroad,&#8221; the shoe model tweeted. &#8220;America militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism, to enforce its policing and plundering of the non white world.&#8221;
It should be noted here that Kaepernick&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7">Twitter page</a> is adorned with no fewer than eight photos of himself. In each photo, he has the same pensive and persecuted look, as if to say, &#8220;I am pensive and persecuted eight times more than the average person.&#8221; Frankly, I think he understates the case. The world has not seen a man treated with such brutal unfairness since William Wallace was drawn and quartered.
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Kaepernick, of course, pounces on every opportunity to highlight the systemic racism and bigotry in our culture. But now he has taken a look at the problem with a wider lens and discovered that America is plundering the world by killing a war criminal. His accusation of imperialism is especially appropriate here, given that Iran was an imperialist empire for 15 centuries — and through proxies, still pursues its imperialistic ambitions today. This is all the fault of the United States, for reasons that are simply too obvious to bother explaining. Indeed, even the Persian invasion of Greece in 492 can be tied back to America. Ours is a country so meddlesome that it manages to meddle even when it doesn&#8217;t yet exist.
If any of these claims seem dubious to you, remember that Kaepernick is an authority on persecution and you are not. Kaepernick was, to use his phrase, &#8220;sanctioned and besieged&#8221; with an NFL career that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/colin-kaepernick-record-49ers-contract-2017-8">paid him almost $40 million</a>. When he left, he was further sanctioned with a <a href="https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2794022-report-colin-kaepernicks-nike-contract-worth-millions-will-get-branded-line">multi-million dollar Nike contract,</a> which was exacerbated by the added insult of a <a href="https://theweek.com/speedreads/824104/colin-kaepernicks-nfl-collusion-settlement-potentially-60-million-80-million-range">$60 million payout from the NFL</a> and a <a href="https://pagesix.com/2017/10/24/colin-kaepernick-lands-million-dollar-book-deal/">million dollar book deal</a>. Truly, his plight makes the life of a <a href="https://qz.com/1042298/nike-is-facing-a-new-wave-of-anti-sweatshop-protests/">low-wage Nike factory worker in Vietnam</a> look positively glamorous, by comparison.
Imagine what it must be like to walk in his shoes. Well, not his actual Nike shoes. You probably can&#8217;t afford those. I mean, imagine what it is like to walk in his metaphorical shoes. To be rich, famous, celebrated across the media and in Hollywood. No doubt when his book is released and then turned into a movie and he rakes in millions from the royalties and movie rights, the anger he feels about his victimization will reach righteous new heights.
I cannot explain why Kaepernick should be so angry, or why his story is proof of America&#8217;s racism rather than proof that you calling America racist is a profitable business (which it wouldn&#8217;t be if America were actually racist), or why anyone would spend $135 on a football player&#8217;s shoe — especially when that football player isn&#8217;t even a football player anymore and his career completion percentage was less than 60%. But that&#8217;s only because of my own internalized bigotry.
At least that&#8217;s what Kaepernick would tell me.
Editors’ Note: Because the internet is filled with foolish and utterly dishonest people, the editors of The Daily Wire wish to note that this column utilizes a literary device called sarcasm.

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As media leftists continue to bash Ricky Gervais for having the temerity to troll Hollywood hypocrisy while hosting the Golden Globes, fellow comedians have come out in his defense.
In several Twitter posts on Sunday night, comedienne Whitney Cummings (star of the show &#8220;2 Broke Girls&#8221;) blasted people for wasting time on criticizing Gervais rather than doing something more productive.
&#8220;For every second you spend complaining about Ricky Gervais jokes you should have have [sic] to donate 100 dollars to Australia,&#8221; Cummings tweeted, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/whitney-cummings-ricky-gervais-golden-globes">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;I am not watching the Golden Globes live but based on how pissed off everyone is my guess is that Ricky Gervais wrote and performed actual jokes,&#8221; she said in another post, later adding, &#8220;For anyone who wants to call [Ricky Gervais] mean: he&#8217;s done more for animal welfare than most celebrities combined.&#8221;
Finally, echoing Gervais&#8217; own joke about Hollywood&#8217;s perceived &#8220;wokeness&#8221; while being some of the most privileged people on the planet, Cummings said, &#8220;The idea that anyone in a 4K dollar gown covered in diamonds waiting to win a golden plated prize would be upset about a good joke is wild.&#8221;
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For every second you spend complaining about Ricky Gervais jokes you should have have to donate 100 dollars to Australia
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I am not watching the Golden Globes live but based on how pissed off everyone is my guess is that Ricky Gervais wrote and performed actual jokes
&mdash; Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhitneyCummings/status/1214011841757597696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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For anyone who wants to call <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rickygervais</a> mean: he&#39;s done more for animal welfare than most celebrities combined 😉
&mdash; Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhitneyCummings/status/1214020099713036289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The idea that anyone in a 4K dollar gown covered in diamonds waiting to win a golden plated prize would be upset about a good joke is wild <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoldenGlobes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoldenGlobes</a>
&mdash; Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhitneyCummings/status/1214042978110431232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Comedian/Actor Tim Allen, who himself became the butt of a Ricky Gervais joke in 2011, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/tim-allen-buttgolden-globes-joke-ricky-gervais-regrets">said he laughed</a> at much of the &#8220;Office&#8221; creator&#8217;s material throughout the night.
“I thought he was pretty sharp. A couple of things made me laugh out loud.” Allen told The Hollywood Reporter.
Of course, not everyone was laughing at Gervais&#8217; brand of humor on Sunday night, which poked fun at every sacred cow that celebrities hold dear. He perhaps hit peak comedy heaven when he trolled corporations like Disney and Apple for virtue-signaling about their woke purity 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 concluded his opening monologue by advising the night&#8217;s potential winners to avoid political grandstanding of any kind.
“If you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a political platform to make a political speech,” Gervais 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. OK?”
Naturally, the media trashed Ricky Gervais for joking about what is apparently taboo.
“The [Golden Globes] mood was already sober thanks to an impeachment, threat of war with Iran and Australian bush fires. The last thing anyone needed was Ricky Gervais there, telling them they sucked,” <a href="https://twitter.com/LorraineAli/status/1214069393174323201?s=20">tweeted</a> Lorraine Ali of the Los Angeles Times.
Britain&#8217;s The Independent <a href="https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1214323853855510528?s=20">simultaneously argued</a> that &#8220;Ricky Gervais cheapened the Golden Globes and overshadowed vital political statements.&#8221;

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On Monday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about how Ricky Gervais exposed the gap between Hollywood and the American people for all to see. Video and partial transcript below: 
Far more cold-blooded, far more brutal than the killing of Soleimani were Ricky Gervais’ attacks on Hollywood last night at the Golden Globes. The Golden Globes — opening up awards season here in Hollywood — awards season is so irrelevant these days that I didn&#8217;t even know it was happening. I forgot. 
I have worked professionally in show business, I live in Hollywood, I am right here at the center of it, and I forgot that it was going on. I didn&#8217;t know until yesterday when someone said, “You know, the Golden Globes is on.” Oh, really? Okay, who cares? That is how out of touch these people are. 
They decided to become relevant this year that the Golden Globes is going to go vegan. So they served dinner at this particular awards show, and it was going to go completely vegan to help the environment because that&#8217;s that&#8217;s the way that they&#8217;re going to finally turn their failing ratings around and relate to the American people. No, probably not. 
Ricky Gervais gets up there, he&#8217;s hosted this a number of times in the past, he said this would be his last time hosting, and Ricky Gervais didn&#8217;t care. He went for the necks of Hollywood and he — wow, I just realized the pun there because he opened up the night with an Epstein joke, so the pun was not intended. But all of Ricky Gervais’ attacks were intended. He said, I don&#8217;t care. I&#8217;m leaving nothing on the table. 
I think his monologue was pretty much the only shot that the award season has to relate in any way to the American people. It was great, and it was great at the expense of the audience in the room. The Hollywood stars, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, he open[ed] the night with a joke about Jeffrey Epstein. 
<blockquote>GERVAIS: Spoiler alert, Season 2 is on the way, so in the end, he obviously didn&#8217;t kill himself — just like Jeffrey Epstein. Shut up. I know he&#8217;s your friend, but I don&#8217;t care. You had to make your own way here in your own plane, didn’t ya?</blockquote>
Oh my gosh, what a great one-two. He opens up with the Jeffrey Epstein joke, right? That would have been enough, but Hollywood can&#8217;t laugh about Jeffrey Epstein. They didn&#8217;t laugh, they kind of stayed a little quiet. They kind of groaned, which set up Gervais for the actual punchline of his joke, which is, “Oh, shut up, I know you&#8217;re all friends with the guy” — because they are! They are all friends with the guy and they&#8217;re all friends with all the MeToo perpetrators and they&#8217;re friends with all of these sex criminals. 
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They pretend that they&#8217;re not, they clutch their pearls and they pretend to be so nice and wonderful and high and mighty. He says, “Yeah, you had to take your own plane here tonight, didn&#8217;t you?” That one finally got the lights so awkward. It was so brutal and the attacks only got harsher. From there, he went after every single person in that room for hypocrisy, and at many points, you could pretty much hear a pin drop. 
<blockquote>GERVAIS: A superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. So when you say you’re woke but the companies you work for — I mean, unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney — if ISIS started a streaming service, you&#8217;d call your agent, wouldn&#8217;t you? So, if you do win an award tonight, don&#8217;t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You&#8217;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, alright, come up accept your little award, thank your agent, and your god, and [expletive] off. </blockquote>
That little bit that we had to bleep out there at the end is where, Ricky Gervais told people where they could go after they had received their award. It was a wonderful spectacle. It was great, Ricky Gervais is an international treasure. 
Why? Because he showed the gap between Hollywood and the American people. He showed the gap between the Hollywood foreign press, the international press — the big makers of culture and the consumers of culture. And you can&#8217;t deny that gap, because these awards shows have been tanking in the ratings for years now, every single year. Hollywood cannot even laugh at an Epstein joke — a joke about an international sex trafficking, criminal, pedophile — everything. They can&#8217;t laugh at it because they know him — because they were friends with him. They don&#8217;t understand.
The more interesting level of analysis here is whether or not Ricky Gervais was brave to do this set. The conventional wisdom is it was so brave of Gervais to do this set in front of Hollywood. Now, in many ways, it was because this will hurt his employment prospects in Hollywood. He was telling these people that they&#8217;re degenerates to their face, right? It was absolutely hilarious. In that way, it was courageous to do it. 
But in another sense, it wasn&#8217;t brave at all &#8230; [Gervais] knew that the audience would love this, that they would lap this up, that they would say, “Finally, Rickey Gervais, this guy is so good. This guy gets us.” 
He deserves credit because it really will irritate his employers, but this will make him so much more popular among the audience. The only reason that any person is talking about the Golden Globes today is because Ricky Gervais had this great, killer set. Looking ahead on the political scene to 2020, it shows you how absolutely worthless celebrity endorsements are that the Left, they&#8217;re always shocked. They say, “Oh, Hillary Clinton got all the endorsements of Hollywood, all these big-time movie stars and TV stars. How did she lose? John Kerry got all the big endorsements. Bruce Springsteen. Puff Daddy, all these guys. How did they lose?” Because none of us like Hollywood, we don&#8217;t like these people.
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The January 2 death of Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, has prompted consternation from some press and policymakers. Killed in Baghdad by a U.S. drone strike, Soelimani was <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1212907536833220608" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1212907536833220608&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHpilSf6fYHToY3HKxO7dBDmtZp5g">described</a> by The Washington Post as a “revered military leader” and by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as a mere “<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/ilhan-omar-and-ted-cruz-clash-over-qassem-soleimani-strike/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/ilhan-omar-and-ted-cruz-clash-over-qassem-soleimani-strike/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF5c-YWQiOrhhfuX94tA4Xym2dK6w">foreign official</a>.”
In fact, he was an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/raphael-irans-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-is-a-modern-day-nazi-ss">arch-terrorist</a> responsible for the murders of thousands of people — including hundreds of American servicemen and women, many of who were murdered and maimed by Iranian-created explosive devices.
Pundits and reporters alike have claimed that Soleimani’s death has led to Iran threatening the U.S. But they have it backwards. Tehran has been threatening the U.S. for years — a fact the media have often ignored or obfuscated.
Indeed, in the days prior to his death, Soleimani and the Shiite militias under his command had <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2049534/statement-by-the-department-of-defense/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2049534/statement-by-the-department-of-defense/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHMa9PkrZSmYC2xW8fYZ1vNbQ9jUQ">murdered</a> an American contractor and attacked the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
Iranian belligerence long predates the Trump administration.
Ever since its founding in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has consistently called for “death to America.” <a href="https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/anti-american-statements" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/anti-american-statements&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEEZcg3ZcJ_BHvO4a6GXbjKkZW9QA">Anti-Americanism</a>, like anti-Semitism and imperialism, is a core tenet of the regime’s Islamist <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TAPs_r81AqQC&amp;q=ideology#v=snippet&amp;q=ideology&amp;f=false" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DTAPs_r81AqQC%26q%3Dideology%23v%3Dsnippet%26q%3Dideology%26f%3Dfalse&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFH0wn8HiHGON8co_qZTpuMYlgB5g">ideology</a>. For four decades, Iran has sought to make good on its threats, kidnapping and <a href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/why-the-cia-killed-imad-mughniyeh" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/why-the-cia-killed-imad-mughniyeh&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF0l1yNTe6i7IbJDBOyLddUXtGEuA">torturing</a> Americans, bankrolling terrorist groups — Sunni and Shiite <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanDurns/status/1139190702016028672" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/SeanDurns/status/1139190702016028672&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGU6Zm_QmKHPkTTArPeNB3gCvB7Cg">alike</a> — that attack Americans, and murdering <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/iran-killed-us-troops" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://taskandpurpose.com/iran-killed-us-troops&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHx1UBKlC8CMU6EHLKorW4JQceemA">our troops</a>.
Yet Western media have frequently minimized Iran’s open hostility. In December 2015, for example, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/262616-house-panel-supports-bill-to-directly-arm-the-kurdish-peshmerga" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thehill.com/policy/defense/262616-house-panel-supports-bill-to-directly-arm-the-kurdish-peshmerga&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhsPzIt_VMhKvJstZpG-Q8vfPvCg">noted</a> that “powerful Iran-backed Shiite militias” had “threatened to attack U.S. forces in Iraq in response to U.S. legislation” granting Kurdish forces the means to defend themselves from ISIS. Most major U.S. news outlets <a href="https://blog.camera.org/archives/2015/12/wheres_the_coverage_iran_threa.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blog.camera.org/archives/2015/12/wheres_the_coverage_iran_threa.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHTc8EeHpMz_Vr-OyEIX9PwyMANtw">ignored</a> Iran’s gangster-like behavior.
Similarly, on November 26, 2016, an Iranian ship threatened a U.S. military helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz. The incident was profiled in a brief Reuters report at the time that noted that “a small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapon” at a U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter. However, The Washington Post, USA Today, and other prominent newspapers <a href="https://blog.camera.org/2016/12/_iranian_ship_threatens_us_hel.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blog.camera.org/2016/12/_iranian_ship_threatens_us_hel.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0_4WHsusjl8wTHte1QcPg22dz-A">failed</a> to cover it.
In 2014 and 2015 — while the Obama administration was engaged in negotiations with Iran over its illicit nuclear weapons program — the regime was ramping up its cyber war. As one New York Times report <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world/middleeast/iran-hackers-cyberespionage-state-department-social-media.html?_r=0" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world/middleeast/iran-hackers-cyberespionage-state-department-social-media.html?_r%3D0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFp2L3zAElm6sm6U5J29ebbrNo5Lw">detailed</a>, American officials and private security groups “say they see a surge in sophisticated computer espionage by Iran, culminating in a series of cyber attacks against State Department officials.” The attacks, the Times admitted, were “nothing new, having begun in the latter years of the Bush administration and proceeded since then to target U.S. agencies, banks and citizens.” The report pointed out that Iranian cyber attacks transitioned in 2014 from attempting to disrupt, degrade, and destroy targets to “spear phishing for espionage.”
“Beginning in May 2014,” the report said, “researchers found evidence that Iranian hackers were targeting Iranian dissidents, and later policymakers, senior military personnel and defense contractors in the United States, England, and Israel.”
Perhaps most alarmingly, Iranian terrorists have sleeper cells in the U.S., Canada, and Europe — a fact that many in the press have overlooked. On April 17, 2018, several intelligence officials told Congress that Iranian agents tied to the terror group Hezbollah had been discovered. Hezbollah is a Lebanese-based terrorist organization completely <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/hezbollah-backgrounder-2016/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.camera.org/article/hezbollah-backgrounder-2016/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEjhvF0zS7Zt41jYdK4uzRmtUqDKA">funded and controlled</a> by Tehran. Prior to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks by al-Qaeda, Hezbollah had murdered more Americans than any other terrorist entity.
Although the majority of analysts testified that Iranian proxies like Hezbollah pose a threat to the U.S. homeland, many news outlets failed to report their testimony, as the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) <a href="https://blog.camera.org/archives/2018/04/iran_has_sleeper_cells_in_the.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blog.camera.org/archives/2018/04/iran_has_sleeper_cells_in_the.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGQAjDE6ZIZXfOysiC3aF94CQ8Paw">noted</a> at the time.
U.S. law enforcement even arrested two Hezbollah operatives, Samer El Debek and Ali Mohammad Kourani, indicting them in May 2017 for “casing targets for possible future terror attacks.” Both were members of Hezbollah’s External Security Organization (ESO), also known as Unit 910. ESO is tasked with carrying out terrorist attacks and other operations, such as money laundering and drug smuggling, throughout the world. As he later told investigators, Kourani had been recruited into the ESO in January 2008.
The two Hezbollah operatives — both naturalized U.S. citizens — underwent military training in Lebanon and procured explosives, night-vision goggles, and drone technology. El Debek reportedly scoped out potential targets, including New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) and La Guardia International Airports, and the U.S. Armed Forces Career Center in Queens, New York. As the terror analyst Matthew Levitt detailed in a June 14, 2019 Foreign Policy <a href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hezbollah-isnt-just-in-beirut.-its-in-new-york-too" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hezbollah-isnt-just-in-beirut.-its-in-new-york-too&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHixgr6xY7xcaKSjhb7wujvP4nm8w">article</a>, before he was convicted, Kourani’s trial showed that Iranian sleeper cells were far more active in the U.S. than previously thought. Yet this revelation, and the trial itself, received little press attention.
In 2007, Iranian proxies <a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-113hhrg85689/html/CHRG-113hhrg85689.htm" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-113hhrg85689/html/CHRG-113hhrg85689.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHk7Z2JVKGcDEDoxTj36OEqYh53hA">planned</a> to blow up the fuel tanks at JFK International Airport, but were thwarted by authorities. In another foiled plot, Iranian-backed operatives <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-men-charged-alleged-plot-assassinate-saudi-arabian-ambassador-united-states" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-men-charged-alleged-plot-assassinate-saudi-arabian-ambassador-united-states&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF1Cfv2ScXLiMfmDDtw32fuLU4avw">planned</a> to blow up a Washington, D.C. restaurant in 2011 in order to murder a Saudi dignitary. Yet these facts were conveniently ignored in numerous reports on the potential fallout from Soleimani’s death.
Iran itself has openly broadcast its ambitions, holding rallies and marches calling for death to both “the Great Satan” (the U.S.) and “the little Satan” (Israel). In 2017, an Iranian filmmaker <a href="https://apnews.com/6343bea57e224da8b6e30f46a994415f" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://apnews.com/6343bea57e224da8b6e30f46a994415f&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578428303467000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGnAbpF-sOXW-wLoqVf-iUDgimOag">released</a> a 90-minute movie depicting the destruction of U.S. Naval forces by Tehran. In the film, a character that closely resembles Soleimani leads a single vessel against more than a dozen American warships. When a U.S. commander orders him to surrender or die, he replies: “General, I am not a diplomat, I am a revolutionary!”
But Iran’s threats are no mere fantasy. And the threat posed by the Islamic Republic warrants honest and complete media coverage.
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The writer is a Senior Research Analyst for the Washington D.C. office of CAMERA, the 65,000-member, Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

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Ricky Gervais gave some excellent and useful advice at the end of his brilliant monologue to open the Golden Globes last night.
&#8220;So if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech, right?” Gervais said, speaking directly to the assembly of narcissists in front of him. “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. No one cares about your views on politics or culture.”
Predictably, none of the assembled narcissists were willing — or perhaps even physically able — to heed this warning. Least of all Michelle Williams, who wasted no time in turning her acceptance speech into a satanic homily. After winning an award for her dazzling role in something or other, Williams pivoted directly to abortion: Her own abortion, to be precise.
&#8220;I’m grateful for the acknowledgment of the choices I’m made, and I’m also grateful to have lived at a moment in our society where choice exists, because, as women and as girls, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice,” Williams sermonized. &#8220;I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose, to choose when to have my children and with whom.&#8221;
We should note that Williams was visibly pregnant while she bragged about killing a previous child. She then ended her speech with a rousing defense of selfishness.
&#8220;So, women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self interest. It’s what men have been doing for years,&#8221; she proclaimed, as the camera cut to actresses in the audience literally weeping tears of joy at the very mention of self-interest. Ricky Gervais couldn&#8217;t have scripted it any better.
Now, first of all, I very much doubt that the people at the awards ceremony last night needed encouragement to act in their own self-interest. I doubt that anyone anywhere in the world needs that sort of encouragement. But if such a person does exist, you won&#8217;t find her at the Beverly Hills Hilton.
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Second, I feel once again compelled to make the obvious point that Michelle Williams and her progressive pals in Hollywood really can&#8217;t do this girl power schtick anymore. References to a woman&#8217;s body and a woman&#8217;s voting habits make absolutely no sense in light of the gender theory that people like Michelle Williams routinely espouse. What the hell is a woman&#8217;s body? I mean, I know what it is. But Michelle Williams doesn&#8217;t. No member of the American Left does. Yet, when it suits them, they still pretend they do. They obliterate all distinctions between the sexes one minute, and then hope nobody notices when they redraw those distinctions the next minute.
Third, Williams packs about a half-dozen non-sequiturs, falsehoods, and delusions into the two sentences she spends talking about her abortion. Let&#8217;s take a look at just a few of them. She says that pregnancy is something that can &#8220;happen to our bodies that [is] not our choice.&#8221; In cases of rape, this is true. But <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/24/rape-and-incest-account-few-abortions-so-why-all-attention/1211175001/">rape accounts for</a> only 1% of all abortions. The other 99% occur because a woman chose to participate in the reproductive act. She chose to do the thing that, by its nature, can, and in billions and billions of cases does, result in the conception of a human life. To say that conception, in these cases, happens against the will of the woman is like saying that my elevated heart rate happens against my will when I use the treadmill. It may be true that I am not specifically willing my heart to beat faster, and it may even be true that I don&#8217;t want my heart to beat faster, but I am the one who is making it happen because I am the one who chose to get on the treadmill.
Likewise with Williams&#8217; insistence that a woman should be able to choose the person with whom she has children. Every contemporary person on Earth who is not a fundamentalist Islamist agrees. But the word &#8220;have&#8221; has two pertinent definitions here. Have can mean &#8220;to possess, own, or hold,&#8221; or it can mean &#8220;to experience or undergo.&#8221; Another possibly relevant definition is &#8220;to be the recipient of.&#8221; Whichever definition you choose, it&#8217;s clear that you &#8220;have&#8221; children from the moment they exist as distinct physical entities. That moment occurs when they are conceived, and not when they are born. So you choose who you are going to have children with when you choose who you are going to participate in the reproductive act with. Abortion does not protect that right or, indeed, have anything at all to do with that right.
But the most striking and disturbing part of Williams&#8217; abortion apologetic was more subtle. Note that she says &#8220;my children.&#8221; She claims that abortion enabled her to &#8220;choose when to have my children.&#8221; Currently, she has two children: One from a previous relationship and the other in the womb (notice how she identifies herself as &#8220;having&#8221; two children, apparently agreeing that women have children at conception, not birth). When she says that abortion enabled her to &#8220;have my children&#8221; later on in life, she seems to be almost suggesting that the child she eventually birthed was the same one she aborted years before.
Obviously, on an intellectual level, she knows that isn&#8217;t the case. But the rhetoric from the abortion lobby and abortion clinics is meant to give this perverse impression. Women are told that they can &#8220;put off&#8221; being a mother. They can place motherhood on hold for awhile. No need to have a baby now, they&#8217;re assured. They can just have it later, when everything is easier and it&#8217;s the &#8220;right time.&#8221;
Of course, in reality, motherhood occurs at conception. She is only at the abortion clinic because her attempts to &#8220;put off&#8221; parenting and babies failed. It is now too late for putting off. It is too late for waiting for a better time. It is too late to &#8220;have children&#8221; in a more convenient season of life. She is a mother now. That child exists now. If she goes through with the abortion, the child will be killed and he will be dead forever thereafter. And she will not go back to being a woman waiting for the right time. She will now be the mother of a dead child, living in grief or denial.
That is the horrible truth. Michelle Williams has three children, not two. One dead and two alive. She has found ways to talk about it and think about it that make her feel a little better about what she&#8217;s done. But she knows the truth, deep down. Otherwise she wouldn&#8217;t be on that stage, begging for applause.

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WALSH: Michelle Williams Shouted Her Abortion At The Golden Globes. Here&#8217;s The Most Disturbing Part Of What She Said.

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On Sunday night, comedian Ricky Gervais exposed Hollywood in brutal fashion — their pretensions and their cruelties, their hypocrisy and their greed. It was a dazzling exhibition. And it was made even more dazzling by the obvious and insufferable inability of the Great Faces of Celebrity™ to even act as though they could laugh at themselves for a solitary moment.
No sacred cow was off limits. Gervais sideswiped Felicity Huffman, the perpetrator of a scam to defraud colleges: “I came here in a limo tonight and the license plate was made by Felicity Huffman.” He went after the top Hollywood executives, who were “all terrified of Ronan Farrow. He’s coming for you, he’s coming for you.”
He continued, “Many talented people of color were snubbed in major categories. Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about that; the Hollywood Foreign Press are very, very racist. We were going to do an In Memoriam this year, but when I saw the list of people who had died, it wasn’t diverse enough. No, it was mostly white people, and I thought, ‘No, not on my watch.’ Maybe next year. Let’s see what happens.”
He blasted the Hollywood crowd for humoring the likes of Jeffrey Epstein: Speaking of his own show, &#8220;Afterlife,&#8221; he noted, “Spoiler alert, there’s a season two, so in the end, he didn’t kill himself. Just like Jeffrey Epstein.” When the room grew awkward, Gervais dropped the other shoe: “Shut up, I know he’s your friend, but I don’t care. You had to make your own way here in your own plane, didn’t you?”
He scoffed at the ridiculous wokescolds: “Apple rode into the TV game … a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. Well, you say you’re woke, but the companies you work for — Apple, Amazon, Disney — if ISIS started a streaming service, you would call your agent, wouldn’t you? So if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech, right? 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. OK?”
Gervais’ appearance is likely to draw the ire of those in Hollywood who don’t appreciate being called on the carpet for their heresies. But that’s just because Hollywood has lost its own sense of humor. They’ve grown fat and lazy making fun of those who live in the red states and don’t swill from the ocean of self-aggrandizing leftism available to the coastal elitists. In Hollywood, the only funny joke is the one that isn’t a joke at all (see Gadsby, Hannah) or the one about Trump that isn’t actually a joke (see Bee, Samantha) or the one about abortion that isn’t a joke either (see Wolf, Michelle). If the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had any brains at all, they’d see that most Americans want to see comedians rip up celebrities rather than listening to actors lecture them on global warming. Instead of avoiding an Oscar host, they’d host someone like Gervais, who would remind them just why they’re such pretentious asses for canceling their Oscar host in the first place.
Good for Gervais. He has eyes, and he has ears, and what’s more, he has a wicked hook. He used it last night. Thank goodness for that.

Ricky Gervais at Golden Globes

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Hollywood loves taking apart conservatives. So when presented with the idea of men in the highest reaches of the conservative media sexually harassing women at the office, it was manna from heaven.
You&#8217;ll not find a TV dramatization of Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s predations ripped from the headlines. There&#8217;s no movie on the alleged sexual misconduct by Matt Lauer at his hellish NBC offices, or Charlie Rose&#8217;s at CBS. There is only &#8220;Bombshell,&#8221; a fictionalized account of the hostile, sexist atmosphere at Fox News.
The filmmaker on this one is Jay Roach, who has made a series of comically leftist movies for HBO, such as one on Al Gore being denied the presidency (&#8220;Recount&#8221;) and one on Sarah Palin&#8217;s losing turn as vice presidential nominee (&#8220;Game Change&#8221;). Roach&#8217;s idea of a hero movie was &#8220;Trumbo,&#8221; based on screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who, in the &#8217;40s, slavishly plopped Stalinist talking points into movies and belonged to the Communist Party USA, for which he was blacklisted.
Woe is anyone who goes to these movies expecting a faithful recounting of history. What you get instead is rampant editorializing and fiction. Characters are made up out of whole cloth and placed into real events. In &#8220;Bombshell,&#8221; Fake Megyn Kelly and Fake Gretchen Carlson are digitized into actual Fox News footage. Two other central characters in this anti-Fox hit job — an evangelical Christian beauty and a snarky, Hillary Clinton-loving lesbian Fox staffer — are pure inventions.
The lesbian staffer describes the Fox ethos in this way: &#8220;You have to adopt the mentality of an Irish street cop. The world is a bad place. People are lazy morons. Minorities are criminals. Sex is sick but interesting. &#8230; Ask yourself, &#8216;What would scare my grandmother or piss off my grandfather?&#8217; And that&#8217;s a Fox story.&#8221;
Virtually everyone, and this includes Fox employees, has no idea what here is actually true and what is entirely made up. The media suggest the details aren&#8217;t that important. What&#8217;s important is &#8220;starting a conversation.&#8221;
So long as that conversation isn&#8217;t about liberal predators.
To his credit, CNN&#8217;s Brian Stelter asked Roach: &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking myself, where&#8217;s the — where&#8217;s the Matt Lauer movie? Where&#8217;s the Les Moonves? Are those coming? I&#8217;m serious.&#8221; Roach insisted there&#8217;s a Harvey Weinstein documentary coming, and that someone will make a film about Ronan Farrow&#8217;s struggles with NBC News in reporting on Weinstein&#8217;s abuses.
&#8220;I would happily make that movie,&#8221; he claimed. Don&#8217;t bet a nickel on it.
Oh, how they objected to the concept of composite characters in movies based on real events when the subject was Clint Eastwood&#8217;s &#8220;Richard Jewell,&#8221; where it&#8217;s implied that an actual Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter (now deceased) offered sex for information from a fictional FBI agent. But these voices are silent when it comes to the Fox News-bashing movie.
The same thing is happening with &#8220;The Two Popes,&#8221; a Netflix film spinning a tale about the relationship between crusty, traditionalist Pope Benedict XVI and his forward-looking successor, Pope Francis. Entire conversations are manufactured to dramatize the differences between conservative and liberal takes on the Catholic Church.
Catholic journalist Raymond Arroyo was poignant in saying: &#8220;It&#8217;s a nicely acted fantasia, unmoored from fact, that misses the true character of both men. It is slanderous toward 1 Pope and overly fawning toward the other, serving neither the audience nor history.&#8221;
If you&#8217;re looking for historical truth in Hollywood, you&#8217;re looking in the wrong spot.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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BOZELL &#038; GRAHAM: Never Trust Hollywood With History

Bombshell

Conservatism

It is not easy to understand what the Left — as opposed to liberals — stands for. If you ask a Christian what to read to learn the basics of Christianity, you will be told the Bible. If you ask a (religious) Jew, you will be told the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud. If you ask a Mormon, you will be told the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Ask a Muslim, and you will be told the Quran.
But if you ask a leftist what one or two books you should read to understand leftism, every leftist will give you a different answer — or need some time to think it over. Few, if any, will suggest Marx&#8217;s &#8220;Das Kapital&#8221; because almost no leftists have read it and because you will either not finish the book or reject it as incoherent.
So, then, how is one to understand what leftism stands for?
The truth is it is almost impossible. What leftist in history would have ever imagined that to be a leftist, one would have to believe that men give birth or men have periods, or that it is fair to women to have to compete in sports with biological males who identify as females?
There are two primary reasons it is so difficult, if not impossible, to define leftism. One is that it ultimately stands for chaos:
— Open borders.
— &#8220;Nonbinary&#8221; genders.
— Nonsensical and scatological &#8220;art.&#8221;
— &#8220;Music&#8221; without tonality, melody or harmony.
— Drag Queen Story Hour for 5-year-olds.
— Rejection of the concept of better or worse civilizations.
— Rejection of the concept of better or worse art.
— Removal of Shakespeare&#8217;s picture from a university English department because he was a white male.
— The end of all use of fossil fuels — even in transportation (as per the recent recommendation by the head of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization).
— The dismantling of capitalism, the economic engine that has lifted billions of people out of abject poverty.
And much more.
The other major reason it is impossible to define leftism is that it is emotion-based. Leftism consists of causes that give those who otherwise lack meaning something to cling to for meaning.
Two things about Greta Thunberg, Time Magazine&#8217;s 2019 person of the year, embody these explanations.
With regard to chaos, here is what Greta Thunberg wrote at the beginning of the month: &#8220;The climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice and of political will. Colonial, racist and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fuelled it. We need to dismantle them all.&#8221;
Greta Thunberg, like all leftists, seeks to dismantle just about everything. As former President Barack Obama said five days before the 2008 election, &#8220;We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.&#8221;
As regards emotion and meaning, the Guardian reports, this is what Thunberg&#8217;s father just told the BBC: &#8220;Greta Thunberg&#8217;s father has opened up about how activism helped his daughter out of depression &#8230; how activism had changed the outlook of the teenager, who suffered from depression for &#8216;three or four years&#8217; before she began her school strike protest outside the Swedish parliament. She was now &#8216;very happy&#8217;, he said &#8230; &#8216;She stopped talking &#8230; she stopped going to school,&#8217; he said of her illness.&#8221;
The post-Judeo-Christian world the Left has created has left a vast number of the West&#8217;s citizens, especially more and more young people, with no meaning. This Grand-Canyon-sized hole is filled by leftist causes.
The fact is life is better, safer and more affluent, and offers more opportunities for more people, than ever before in history. Just about all emotionally stable, mature people should be walking around the West almost delirious at their good fortune. Americans in particular should feel this way. But leftists (again, as opposed to many liberals) are not usually emotionally stable and are certainly not mature. That is why depression among young Americans (and perhaps Swedes) is at the highest levels ever recorded. So, like Greta, they look to left-wing causes to find meaning and emotional fulfillment. Until she embraced climate crisis activism — a chance, as she sees it, to literally save the world — Greta Thunberg was so depressed &#8220;she stopped talking.&#8221; But thanks to climate activism and other left-wing activism, she is now &#8220;very happy&#8221; (an assessment I suspect many observers find hard to believe).
Feminism and &#8220;fighting patriarchy&#8221; (in an age when American women have more opportunities than ever before and more opportunities than women almost anywhere else in the world), fighting racism (in the least racist multiracial society in history), fighting white supremacy (which has almost disappeared from American life) and fighting on behalf of myriad other leftist causes — in other words, fundamentally transforming society — gives meaning to people with no meaning.
None of that is morally or rationally coherent. But it is very emotionally satisfying. Just ask Greta Thunberg&#8217;s dad.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; comes to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

Greta Thunberg.

PRAGER: Greta Thunberg: A Living Explanation Of The Left

Greta Thunberg

The folks who predict box office results should take a bow.
Months ago these crystal ball types suggested “Bombshell,” the story of Roger Ailes’ self-inflicted downfall at Fox News, wouldn’t compete against the season’s heavy hitters.
Or, in layman’s terms … <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/bombshell-box-office-flop/">bombs away</a>!
Turns out they were right.
The film boasts a $15 million box office haul after three weeks of release (two weeks of which are considered “wide”). That means it might not even make back its $35 million budget.
That figure hardly accounts for the other costs associated with the film, like advertising and marketing. Those “for your consideration” advertisements aren’t cheap.
Still, even left-of-center sites are stating the obvious. “Bombshell” is a <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/fox-news-flick-bombshell-drops-to-9th-place-at-box-office-in-second-weekend/">commercial dud.</a>
That’s not where the story ends, though.
“Bombshell” exists for more than monetary reasons. Hollywood collectively loathes Fox News, so any chance to smite the right-leaning network is more than welcome. The industry previously produced two projects focusing on how Ailes allegedly preyed on his female employees.
Both “Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes” and last year’s Showtime miniseries “The Loudest Voice” dissected the founder’s appetites.
Neither project drew a crowd.
The same is true for “Bombshell,” but its cultural impact can’t be measured by dollars and cents. The film has generated copious media attention, much of it long before it reached theaters.
Story after story broke down the casting updates, the film’s dearth of an official title and its awards season chances.
More recently, we’ve seen endless interviews with director Jay Roach and stars Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, and John Lithgow, among others. We were even treated to articles on how the production team <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/bombshell-fox-news-feet">scoured foot fetish sites</a> to glean every possible detail of the Fox News sets.
That kind of free publicity is invaluable to a film … and its message. And the message is clear. Fox News and its right-leaning ideology provided an incubator for Ailes’ sexual antics. Most of those news stories ignored how other networks faced similar issues, from NBC (Matt Lauer) to CBS (Les Mooves).
Sexual harassment is a bipartisan scourge, but that isn’t reflected in the “Bombshell” rollout.
“Bombshell” also spends serious screen time attacking both Fox News and conservatives above and beyond Ailes’ alleged crimes. The movie mocks Fox News viewers, suggests its employees discriminate against gay peers, and taunts the network’s obsession with beautiful anchors. It’s as if other news divisions care little about what their female stars look like.
How many think pieces did NBC star <a href="https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/critics_on_couric_shes_got_leg.php">Katie Couric’s legs launch</a>?
None of this is an accident, given Roach’s previous films including the hard-Left HBO movies “Game Change” and “Recount.”
“Bombshell” also has serious awards season momentum despite rating a <a href="https://rottentomatoes.com/m/bombshell_2019">modest 67 percent “fresh” at RottenTomatoes.com</a>. The film already snared nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, The Golden Globes, and The Critics’ Choice Awards (this reporter is a voting member of the latter group).
Can Oscar love be far behind?
Last year’s hard-left feature “Vice” followed a similar path. Solid but not spectacular reviews. Weak box office returns. Plenty of awards season love. Wall to wall media coverage.
It’s happening again.
“Bombshell” will fade from theaters soon, ending up as a VOD or Blu-ray option. It might wind up as part of Netflix’s streaming service or make the rounds on HBO.
The film’s message, and perspective, will live much longer than any one awards season.
It’s why the film exists in the first place. Sure, had “Bombshell” crushed the competition, it would have beeb wonderful for all those involved. That wasn’t necessary, though. It’s a culture war weapon, and as such it will live on indefinitely.
Headlines fade. Memories suffer a similar fate.
Capturing a story on screen means it will be far fresher in mind for those who watch it either now … or in a dozen years.
By that measure alone, “Bombshell” is already a success.

Bombshell movie.

TOTO: ‘Bombshell‘ Is Bombing. Here&#8217;s Why Hollywood Doesn&#8217;t Care

Fox News

Have you ever wondered why the political left is so inconsolably angry these days? Why does it consider President Donald Trump to be such a threat and his supporters so contemptible?
This isn&#8217;t my imagination. While most people expressed their New Year&#8217;s greetings in positive terms, the celebrity left defaulted to its Trump-hating form. Every day is a new day to rage against Trump, so why should their New Year&#8217;s Day pronouncements be any different?
Breitbart assembled a list of celebrity tweets illustrating the point. Rob Reiner tweeted, &#8220;Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and a 2020 that doesn&#8217;t include an ignorant corrupt soulless liar occupying the People&#8217;s House.&#8221; Stephen King tweeted, &#8220;Of his lies we&#8217;ve had plenty &#8230; Kick his a— in 2020.&#8221; Rose O&#8217;Donnell couldn&#8217;t quite make it through a New Year&#8217;s tweet without denigrating Trump. &#8220;HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL,&#8221; she tweeted, adding the hashtag #2020removeHIM. Rosanna Arquette said: &#8220;Putin is not my president. happy new year.&#8221; In an interview with CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper, Linda Rondstadt likened Trump to Hitler and the Mexicans to &#8220;the New Jews.&#8221; And the examples go on and on.
What is wrong with these narcissistic malcontents? It&#8217;s not like things are terrible in America. Economically speaking, we couldn&#8217;t be doing much better. We&#8217;re certainly better off than we were during the Obama years — by leaps and bounds.
Trump is also sticking up for America again, rebuilding our defenses; taking decisive action when our people or soldiers are in harm&#8217;s way, as with his immediate response to the attack on our embassy in Iraq; pressuring other countries to contribute to our mutual defense pacts; and expressing his pride in this country — as opposed to trotting around the globe and apologizing for it.
So what&#8217;s not to like? His tweets? Fine, but do you really think that&#8217;s what is driving them mad?
How about his alleged abuses of power? Please. They&#8217;ve been pressing for impeachment since before &#8220;Russia collusion&#8221; became their favorite mantra and long before they could identify Ukraine on a map.
They don&#8217;t hate Trump for having acted outside his constitutional authority — because he hasn&#8217;t. That was Obama. They don&#8217;t hate him because they believe he is extremely partisan. And if they were to believe it, they would have no credibility, for few presidents have been more partisan than Barack Obama, despite the progressive mythical narrative to the contrary.
You might recall how Obama used lawless executive orders to implement policy that Congress declined to legislate, forced Obamacare down our throats and smugly told his Republican opponents, &#8220;I won the election,&#8221; and that he didn&#8217;t &#8220;want them to do a lot of talking.&#8221; And surely you won&#8217;t forget how he bulldozed his stimulus package through Congress with less than a handful of Senate Republican votes after meeting with congressional Republicans just one day before the Democrats had drafted the 1,073-page bill.
They revile Trump because they can tolerate only one viewpoint — their own. They resent that they can&#8217;t cram down their ideas in all sectors of our society, our culture and our government. It&#8217;s not enough that they have virtual monolithic control of the messages disseminating from Hollywood, academia and the mainstream media. They want total power everywhere, without any dissent. They are furious that red-state America won&#8217;t roll over and surrender its sovereignty to them so they can complete the fundamental transformation of America into a socialistic, authoritarian state, and finish converting its culture into a post-Christian utopia. They are like agitated babies who&#8217;ve had their toys taken away and who militantly refuse to take a nap.
Trump is not just an annoying speed bump on their way to total societal and political domination but a force of nature to be reckoned with, wildly beyond their expectations. Having no respect for Trump or his ability, they wrongly assumed they could steamroll, marginalize or oust him and restore themselves to power.
They had no idea Trump would be so formidable an opponent. More importantly, they had no inkling that he represented something far greater than himself: a seemingly silent majority of everyday Americans who had had their fill of the left&#8217;s political and cultural tyranny.
Even though they&#8217;ve also directed their ire at Trump supporters — kicking them out of restaurants and other public places, and trying to suppress their liberties — they still seem to be operating under the illusion that if they can just remove Trump, they&#8217;ll easily recapture power.
Little do they realize that the more they mistreat Trump, the more they alienate his supporters — freedom-loving patriots from shore to shore. Or maybe their animus against him and us is so intense that they just can&#8217;t help themselves, and they don&#8217;t realistically consider the potential political fallout.
Or could it be that they are so cloistered in their elitist bubble that they still don&#8217;t realize the magnitude of support Trump has from tens of millions of people who will never give up on this nation as the world&#8217;s model for freedom and prosperity? The more they hate him, they more they abuse him, the greater our resolve to defend him — and America!
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is &#8220;Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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LIMBAUGH: Trump-Hating Leftists Usher In New Year Of Trump Hatred

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Rosie O'Donnell

On Wednesday, prominent filmmaker Ron Howard ripped into President Donald Trump, explaining that folks in Hollywood hate the president because they see that he is a &#8220;self-serving, dishonest, morally bankrupt ego maniac,&#8221; unlike the rubes in Middle America supporting the president.
After the director was questioned by folks online for <a href="https://twitter.com/RealRonHoward/status/1212415755960115200">denigrating the economic successes</a> of the president, Howard posted: &#8220;In the entertainment industry many who have known/worked [with] Trump think that while his reality show was fun and ran a long time, he’s a self-serving, dishonest, morally bankrupt ego maniac who doesn’t care about anything or anyone but his Fame &amp; bank account &amp; is hustling the US.&#8221;
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In the entertainment industry many who have known/worked w/ Trump think that while his reality show was fun and ran a long time, he’s a self-serving, dishonest,morally bankrupt ego maniac who doesn’t care about anything or anyone but his Fame &amp; bank account &amp; is hustling the US <a href="https://t.co/Ep8ggvquMY">https://t.co/Ep8ggvquMY</a>
&mdash; Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealRonHoward/status/1212432365525622784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The commentary, wherein Hollywood is a framed as a virtuous industry that can spot the &#8220;self-serving, dishonest, morally bankrupt ego maniac[s],&#8221; was generally not taken totally seriously — particularly given the scandalous state of the industry.
Here are some of the online reactions (h/t <a href="https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/01/01/glasshouses-ron-howards-tweet-about-entertainment-industrys-view-of-trump-lights-up-hollywood-projection-detectors/">Twitchy</a>):
&#8220;Says, Ron Howard, my ‘Night Shift’ director who described the majority of the film industry. [By the way], Ron, is there still rampant drug use and adultery in your film trailers and offset, by film execs and cast?!&#8221; wrote former Playboy model and &#8220;Bond girl&#8221; Robbin Young.
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🙄Says, Ron Howard, my ‘Night Shift’ director who described the majority of the film industry. 
BTW, Ron, is there still rampant drug use and adultery in your film trailers and offset, by film execs and cast?! 😵 <a href="https://t.co/qQnqnT5Y0f">https://t.co/qQnqnT5Y0f</a>
&mdash; Robbin Young (@Robbin_Young) <a href="https://twitter.com/Robbin_Young/status/1212682253773373440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Ron Howard is free to hate and tweet bad things about Trump, but he shouldn&#8217;t act like the entertainment industry is some paragon of moral virtue considering how many &#8216;open secrets&#8217; we&#8217;ve learned about lately,&#8221; commented popular political Twitter account &#8220;neontaster.&#8221; &#8220;He palled around with Weinstein likely knowing exactly what&#8217;s what.&#8221;
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Ron Howard is free to hate and tweet bad things about Trump, but he shouldn&#39;t act like the entertainment industry is some paragon of moral virtue considering how many &quot;open secrets&quot; we&#39;ve learned about lately. He palled around with Weinstein likely knowing exactly what&#39;s what.
&mdash; neontaster (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1212739891609640960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You just described the majority of Hollyweirdos&#8230; *golf clap*,&#8221; responded political writer Kimberly Morin.
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You just described the majority of Hollyweirdos&#8230; *golf clap*
&mdash; Kimberly Morin (@Conservativeind) <a href="https://twitter.com/Conservativeind/status/1212563036348829697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Odd, but that&#8217;s how most of Americans feel about Hollywood!!!&#8221; another Twitter user posted.
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Odd, but that&#39;s how most of Americans feel about Hollywood!!! <a href="https://t.co/prVYLdn3ND">https://t.co/prVYLdn3ND</a>
&mdash; Katie Roth (@Katydidinnc) <a href="https://twitter.com/Katydidinnc/status/1212541254757703681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Hey Ron, big fan. Speaking of morally bankrupt, just curious if you took part with the rest of Hollywood in giving Roman Polanski a standing ovation?&#8221; asked another user.
Polanski famously pleaded guilty to raping and sodomizing a 13-year-old girl and then fled to Europe to avoid punishment, as previously noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/admitted-child-rapist-roman-polanski-suing-academy-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a>. Aside from the standing ovation, Hollywood actress and &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Whoopi Goldberg defended the assault, calling it, &#8220;not rape-rape.&#8221;
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Hey Ron, big fan. Speaking of morally bankrupt, just curious if you took part with the rest of Hollywood in giving Roman Polanski a standing ovation?
&mdash; Common Sense (@Paine_1776) <a href="https://twitter.com/Paine_1776/status/1212561174140604416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In recent years, the uncovering of so-called &#8220;casting couch&#8221; culture in Hollywood has come to light. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/metoo-bound-fail-unless-victims-name-names-and-ben-shapiro">The Daily Wire</a>, dozens of women from the industry came forward to claim sexual harassment and assault within Hollywood ranks. One of the most egregious alleged &#8220;casting couch&#8221; offenders named during the height of #MeToo was Democratic Party mega-donor and heavyweight producer Harvey Weinstein:
<blockquote>Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein scandal — a scandal in which dozens of women are coming forward to allege sexual harassment and assault from a man widely rumored to be a monster for decades — famous starlet after famous starlet has written of her experiences in Tinseltown with flesh peddlers who call themselves producers. Molly Ringwald alleges that she has had “plenty of Harvey Weinsteins of my own over the years,” including a fifty-year-old crew member sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old; America Ferrara says she was sexually assaulted at age nine; Reese Witherspoon at age 16.</blockquote>

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