The classic book collection &#8220;The Baby-Sitters Club&#8221; returned to Netflix recently with a reboot boasting all levels of woke, including a transgender character played by a 9-year-old transgender actor – a boy presenting himself as a girl.
According to <a href="https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/netflix-introduces-transgender-child-into-tv-g-kids-show-baby-sitters-club.html">Christian Headlines</a>, the new show, which has been labeled TV-G, takes a dramatic woke turn in episode 4 when the character Mary Anne is asked to babysit a &#8220;girl&#8221; named Bailey.
&#8220;In episode 4, Mary Anne – one of the five sitters – is asked by a child’s mother to keep a little girl named Bailey,&#8221; reported the outlet. &#8220;Mary Anne and Bailey hold a tea party in Bailey’s room, and when Bailey spills water on her pink dress, Mary Anne opens the little girl’s closet to get a change of clothes. But she only finds boys’ clothes.&#8221;
Bailey tells the perplexed Mary Anne that the boys&#8217; clothes were his old clothes. In voiceover, Mary Anne says, &#8220;That&#8217;s when I understood: Bailey was a little girl and her new clothes help people see it.&#8221;
Bailey is played by actor Kai Shappley, a 9-year-old boy presenting himself as a girl. As noted by Christian Headlines, the show &#8220;was listed in Netflix’s 10-most popular titles&#8221; last Thursday and is available in children&#8217;s profiles.
Further exploring LGBT themes, Mary Anne later seeks council from her friend Dawn, whose father is gay. According to Dawn, being transgender is about as natural as being left-handed.
“It&#8217;s like this: Are you right-handed or left-handed?” Dawn asks Mary Anne.
“Right,” Mary Anne responds.
“And if someone tried to make you do everything with your left hand, it would be super-weird right?” Dawn asks before adding, “Well, that&#8217;s how Bailey feels. The same way that you know that you’re right-handed, Bailey knows she&#8217;s a girl. … We all want our outsides to match our insides.”
Enlightened by Dawn&#8217;s woke musings, Mary Anne later takes Bailey to the hospital after he falls ill and lectures the doctors about the cruelties of treating him according to his biological sex. &#8220;Bailey is not a boy, and by treating her like one, you are completely ignoring who she is,&#8221; she says.
LGBT representation in children&#8217;s shows has seen a dramatic uptick in just the span of five years, most especially at Disney, which started in 2014 when the show “Good Luck Charlie” <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/good-luck-charlie-lesbians_n_4675943">featured</a> a lesbian mom couple.
“In the storyline, parents Amy and Bob Duncan (Leigh-Allyn Baker and Eric Allan Kramer) set up a playdate for preschooler Charlie (Mia Talerico) and one of her new friends,” TV Guide reported at the time. “When the kid arrives, the Duncans learn that Charlie’s pal has two moms. That’s fine, but the potential new friendship is put to the test as one mom chats with Amy, and the other is stuck listening to Bob’s dull stories.”
In 2019, the PBS television show “Arthur” made waves when a beloved character came out as gay by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/arts/television/ratburn-arthur.html">marrying his male partner</a>. That was later followed by the Disney show “Andi Mack” featuring the first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50097/disney-features-first-teenage-gay-couple-andi-mack-paul-bois">teenage gay couple on the network, </a>which was then followed by the “Rocko’s Modern Life” reboot featuring a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rockos-modern-life-reboot-features-transgender-paul-bois">transgender storyline</a>.
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Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the man who launched the movement of kneeling during the National Anthem at sporting events, will be getting a scripted Netflix series about his life
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/colin-kaepernick-ava-duvernay-series-netflix">Fox News</a>, Kaepernick will be teaming with &#8220;Selma&#8221; and &#8220;13th&#8221; director Ava DuVernay for the series, &#8220;Colin in Black &amp; White,&#8221; which will focus on the athlete&#8217;s &#8220;formative high school years, lending meaningful insight into the acts and experiences that led him to become the activist he is today.&#8221;
The series will be six episodes, which the former quarterback and Black Lives Matter activist will narrate.
&#8220;With his act of protest, Colin Kaepernick ignited a national conversation about race and justice with far-reaching consequences for football, culture, and for him, personally,” DuVernay said in a press release on Monday. “Colin’s story has much to say about identity, sports, and the enduring spirit of protest and resilience. I couldn’t be happier than to tell this story with the team at Netflix.”
Kaepernick said he is honored to help bring his story to life as a black man adopted into a white neighborhood.
“Too often we see race and Black stories portrayed through a white lens,” said Kaepernick. “We seek to give new perspective to the differing realities that Black people face. We explore the racial conflicts I faced as an adopted Black man in a white community, during my high school years. It’s an honor to bring these stories to life in collaboration with Ava for the world to see.”
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He would grow up to play in the Super Bowl and realize you never stop fighting for your dreams.
She would grow up to tell stories that matter to millions.
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Cindy Holland, vice president of Original Content for Netflix, said the streaming giant is proud to bring Colin&#8217;s story to life.
&#8220;We’re proud to bring Colin’s experience and his creative vision to life as he joins Ava to share his powerful story and message with all our members around the world,&#8221; said Holland. &#8220;It is an unparalleled union of two strong and defining voices coming together to tell the story about what it’s like to be Black in America.&#8221;
Following the violent protests and riots in response to George Floyd&#8217;s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, Colin Kaepernick opposed civil protests, arguing that civility &#8220;leads to death.&#8221;
“When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction,” Kaepernick tweeted. “The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance. We have the right to fight back!”
Back in 2016, Kaepernick launched a protest movement when he said that America has been allowing cops to &#8220;murder&#8221; black people and demanded that police officers undergo further training.
“People of color have been targeted by police,” Kaepernick <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colin-kaepernicks-practice-socks-pig-cops-hat-james-barrett">said</a>. “So that’s a large part of it and they’re government officials. They are put in place by the government. So that’s something that this country has to change. There’s things we can do to hold them more accountable. Make those standards higher. You have people that practice law and are lawyers and go to school for eight years, but you can become a cop in six months and don’t have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist.”
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Being John Malkovich sometimes means calling out stupidity.
The 66-year-old actor, who stars in Netflix’s new series &#8220;Space Force,&#8221; blasted &#8220;outrage culture&#8221; on Thursday, calling it &#8220;toxic.&#8221;
“What’s funny yesterday becomes illegal today and the person uttering it must be canceled,” Malkovich told the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/ny-space-force-netflix-trump-malkovich-carell-20200528-6dgcreavh5huvkdkzdgnjekjtm-story.html">New York Daily News</a>. “Outrage culture is as strong as it is toxic.”
Malkovich also said comedy nowadays isn&#8217;t what it used to be. “Part of what makes it difficult is also the tidal wave of idiocy that can be created on social media in a day &#8230; the outrage mob.”
The actor&#8217;s comments echo those made by other comedians, including Jamie Foxx. The comedian recently defended “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon after he was ripped for appearing in blackface while impersonating Chris Rock for a 2000 sketch on “Saturday Night Live.” Said Foxx: &#8220;Let this one go.”
A slew of other comedians have also criticized the political correctness across the U.S. nowadays.
“I don’t play colleges but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges, they’re so PC,’” megastar Jerry Seinfeld said a few years back.
Rock also said he doesn&#8217;t do colleges anymore because they are &#8220;too conservative.&#8221;
&#8220;Not in their political views, but in their social views and their willingness not to offend anybody,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;You can’t even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.&#8221;
Comedians have for eons danced along the edge of what is appropriate, often crossing the line in an attempt to make people laugh and think. But that is changing amid the outrage and cancel culture.
“The main problem with the present day inquisition squad is that many of our ‘open-minded’ watch guards are among our most close-minded citizens,” comedian Dennis Miller wrote in 2015.
Malkovich plays Dr. Adrian Mallory in &#8220;Space Force,&#8221; premiering Friday. The cast is headed up by &#8220;The Office&#8221; star Steve Carell as Gen. Mark Naird, in charge of running the newly created Space Force invented by an unnamed president during a flurry of posts on Twitter (sound familiar?).
&#8220;The surrounding cast of characters are disasters in their own right: F. Tony Scarapiducci (Ben Schwartz), the social media manager who speaks in memes and emojis, scientist Chen Kaifang (Jimmy O. Yang) and Naird’s wife (Lisa Kudrow) and daughter (Diana Silvers),&#8221; The News wrote.
&#8220;The comedy is full of 2020 references that live in today’s 15-minute news cycles, about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and allusions to midnight tweets that are forgotten by dawn.&#8221;
But Malkovich said the show is hopeful. “It’s about the possibilities of an unlikely directive to achieve a goal,” the actor said. “On a certain level, it’s about teamwork, a concept quite lost in this United States of America at present.&#8221;
And Naird does appear to be modeled after President Trump.
“Naird is not a science person,” Malkovich said. “ He doesn’t trust scientists because sometimes they say carbs are good for you and sometimes they say they’re bad. I’d say about 70% of the world agrees with him. Science suffers from a lot of blah blah and speculation.”
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The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is far from over.
Yes, the disgraced billionaire allegedly took his own life last year while awaiting trial on numerous counts of sexually abusing minors.
That corrosive legacy lives on in the faces of his victims, some of whom speak out in the Netflix docuseries “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.” These women – hardened, angry, and eager for justice – forge the heart of the four-part series.
The saga reminds us of some uncomfortable truths about wealth and power in our society, but it doesn’t push much beyond what we already know. The series repeatedly attacks former Trump labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, a key figure in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-labor-sec-alexander-acosta-helped-epstein-plea-deal-2019-7">slapping Epstein on the proverbial wrist.</a>
It’s a drubbing he may richly deserve.
Other targets include liberal legal eagle Alan Dershowitz, former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, and longtime Epstein partner Ghislaine Maxwell. How she isn’t rotting in jail after the revelations here is astounding.
Still, the documentary pulls some punches, from glossing over President Bill Clinton’s time on Epstein’s <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-lolita-express.html">“Lolita Express”</a> to the people above Acosta who may be just as guilty as he.
The first two minutes of “Filthy Rich” are all you really need to see. Epstein, with a calmness born from arrogance, repeatedly pleads the Fifth during a 2010 deposition. An unseen interrogator asks, over and again, if he ever solicited sex from minors in various parts of the globe.
Sickening. Nauseating. And the worst part is obvious. He knows he’ll wiggle out of this trap, and he’s right.
We then meet the women lured into Epstein’s web. They all share similar stories, “graduating” from Epstein’s $200-a-session masseuse to his sexual plaything. The women come across as reasonable, credible. It helps that they share details of Epstein’s lair that match the physical descriptions.
Plus, the Epstein method rarely changed, even if it involved the girls themselves inviting their school chums into his clutches.
The tone here is somber, appropriately enough, with the kind of slick production values worthy of a Netflix production. The victims’ crush of stories is, after a while, unnecessary. Still, they’re allowed to tell their story, and that’s important.
Epstein’s powerful friends proves a secondary narrative, from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump. The series treads oh, so lightly on the Clinton connections while repeatedly showing images of Epstein and Trump. Given the sorry state of liberal media bias, the tilt here is restrained but unmistakable.
We learn little about Clinton’s Epstein ties until late in the series. Then, we re-learn how flight logs show Clinton flew with Epstein 26 times. More damning? An Epstein employee stationed at the billionaire’s remote island recalls seeing the former president there.
Team Clinton shared a dramatically different version of his Epstein ties, including a denial that the former president ever set foot on said island.
In short, they lied.
It’s the kind of detail a documentary should dig deeper into, but that doesn’t happen here. Doesn’t the creative team behind the series remember Clinton’s appetites and how much he risked to feed them over time?
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The series does confirm sexual abuse allegations against Prince Andrew, even including his<a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a29835327/prince-andrew-bbc-interview-jeffrey-epstein-disaster/"> train wreck interview</a> on the subject last November.
We also meet an Epstein employee who says he saw the Duke of York aggressively fondling an underage girl on the billionaire’s island.
Dershowitz, Epstein’s former lawyer, is accused by one of Epstein’s victims of assaulting her, too. He offers a full-throated denial of the charges. It’s a mesmerizing sequence, whether you believe him or not.
Early in the series we meet a Vanity Fair journalist with an early scoop on Epstein’s predatory behavior. The story seems solid, if not stunning, with two sisters sharing how the financier repeatedly abused them. It’s enough to bring anyone down, even a billionaire with endless connections.
Right?
Carter, a major force in magazine journalism, spiked it for legal reasons. His explanation echoes what journalists heard for years while trying to report on<a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/weinstein-stain-entertainment-journalism/"> film producer Harvey Weinstein</a>.
Just ask <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/business/media/ronan-farrow-weinstein-producer.html">Ronan Farrow.</a>
It all smells like a cover up, down to the threats Carter received during the investigation, including a cat’s head appearing on his property. Carter later said they <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/epstein-used-bullet-dead-cat-to-intimidate-graydon-carter.html">didn’t influence</a> his decision not to publish journalist Vicky Ward’s story.
So what did?
“Filthy Rich” bounces back and forth in time, using a spinning calendar visual to ground each turn. That gives the series plenty of ways to attack Acosta and tie him to Trump.
We’re also told, oh so briefly, that the ridiculous plea deal Epstein secured had to be approved by the U.S. Attorney General at the time – circa 2008. Is that accurate? What other key players were part of this process? The docuseries lasts roughly four hours but leaves no time for these details.
Acosta may be guilty as sin, but it’s clear he didn’t act alone.
More importantly, that slap on the wrist proved even more farcical than at face value. Epstein freely left prison during his 13-month incarceration, and the documentary shows he flouted the parole rules once he gained his freedom.
Money. Power. Influence. It’s gross and deserves to be spotlighted. For the most part, “Filthy Rich” does a meticulous job of just that.
The fourth and final installment shows how the Epstein case overlapped with the budding MeToo movement. The filmmakers couldn’t predict that the feminist revolution would crash and burn to save Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
That’s a documentary for another day, although one Hollywood would never make.
Also left out of “Filthy Rich” are the glitterati, from <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks">Katie Couric to George Stephanopoulos</a>, who partied with Epstein after he was officially registered as a sex offender. Still, the series wraps on a beautiful note, empowering Epstein’s victims to write their own endings.
“Epstein did not act alone … there are so many of them out there. None of them have been held accountable,” one victim says of the late billionaire’s enablers and fellow abusers. “The monsters are still out there, and they’re still abusing other people. Why they have not been named and shamed yet is beyond me.”
She’s right. The full story of Jeffrey Epstein hasn’t been told, and it may never happen. It’s chilling to see how Epstein’s power, his sphere of influence, didn’t die with him.
“Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” debuts on Netflix Nov. 27.
A version of this article appears on <a href="http://HollywoodInToto.com">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.

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President Bill Clinton is following in the Obamas’ footsteps.
The nation’s 42rd president struck a deal with The History Channel to executive produce a new docuseries about life as a U.S. President “through challenging times.”
Like MonicaGate, perhaps?
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8297949/Bill-Clinton-signs-deal-produce-History-Channel-series-presidents-challenging-times.html">writes</a>:
<blockquote>The series, set to air on the History Channel, is expected to explore the history of the Commander-in-Chief position and will delve into struggles of American leaders.
Clinton is said to be &#8216;fully immersed&#8217; in the project and is expected to appear onscreen in the documentary, which is so far untitled.</blockquote>
The History Channel has every right, nay obligation, to seek Clinton’s participation in a project like this. Why the executive producer title, though?
Does anyone think the show’s creative team won’t pull some punches when Clinton is either on set or just looming over the production?
Clinton, like the Obamas, grasps popular culture’s considerable reach. Clinton learned that firsthand when he played the saxophone on “The Arsenio Hall Show” during his first presidential campaign.
The moment indirectly tied to Richard Nixon saying, “<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1968-when-nixon-said-sock-it-me-laugh-tv-was-never-quite-same-again-180967869/">Sock it to me!</a>” decades earlier on “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In.” That 1968 cameo, which Team Nixon initially rebuffed, helped soften the Republican’s stony images.
The recent Clinton maneuver comes after a flurry of pop culture deals by his Democratic successor.
The Obamas have been mostly quiet since leaving the White House three-plus years ago. Their biggest moves have taken place well outside the Beltway.
The former First Couple signed a <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/flashback-obamas-netflix-not-political/">mega-deal with Netflix</a>, promising a full slate of films and TV-like projects that reflect their values.
This week alone we saw what that means. “Becoming,” a cinematic love letter to Michelle Obama, debuted on the streaming service. The documentary captures the former First Lady as she tours the country on behalf of her best-selling memoir.
The movie currently has a 92 percent “fresh” rating from Rotten Tomatoes.
The Obamas also signed a massive memoir deal with Penguin Random House and inked a partnership with Spotify for future podcasts.
Heck, even Joe Biden has a podcast to call his own, dubbed “Here’s the Deal.”
Democrats fully grasp what it means to tap into pop culture’s enormous potential. The Obamas raised that skill to a fine art during their eight years in the White House.
Michelle Obama danced with Jimmy Fallon, sang on Carpool Karaoke and announced the Best Picture winner at the 2013 Oscars ceremony. <a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/news/a17308/michelle-obama-interview-pop-culture/">Harper’s Bazaar</a> called her the “First Lady of Pop Culture,” and It’s hard to argue against it.
So where are the conservatives?
Right-of-center politicians have a huge disadvantage here. First Lady Melania Trump, a former model, has yet to grace the covers of Vogue, Elle, or other women’s magazines since moving to Washington, D.C.
Nor has she yukked it up with Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert.
Those late night hosts wouldn’t let anyone from the Trump family grace their stages … unless they agreed to enter a dunking booth.
In 2015, Donald Trump hosted “Saturday Night Live.” The next year he appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” Progressives still seethe over those isolated moments.
Current tech advances allow conservative politicians to make an end run around cultural gatekeepers.
Just ask Sen. Ted Cruz. The Texas Republican has his own podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” co-hosted by The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles. Congressman Dan Crenshaw hosts “Hold These Truths,” where the rising star weighs in on political issues and more.
“The Devin Nunez Podcast” lets the California Republican sound off above and beyond his D.C. megaphone.
These Republicans are far ahead of the curve, but their access to Hollywood, Inc. remains restricted. And given the industry’s increasing activism, those doors may soon be bolted shut.
Clinton and co. know they have a sizable advantage here, and they’re not afraid to flex it.
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama described having her two children as a &#8220;concession&#8221; that cost her &#8220;aspirations and dreams&#8221; in a new Netflix documentary, &#8220;Becoming.&#8221;
In a portion of the doc, first highlighted by <a href="https://disrn.com/news/michelle-obama-having-kids-was-a-concession-that-cost-me-dreams">Disrn</a>, Mrs. Obama explains her relationship with husband and former President Barack Obama early on. According to the former First Lady, she felt she had to &#8220;set myself off to a place where I was confident that I was going to be his equal.&#8221;
But that apparently that &#8220;changed,&#8221; she suggests, when she had kids.
&#8220;My relationship with Barack was all about our partnership,&#8221; explained Mrs. Obama, according to Disrn. &#8220;If I was going to have an equal voice with this very opinionated man, I had to get myself up and set myself off to a place where I was confident that I was going to be his equal.&#8221;
&#8220;The thing that really changed it was the birth of our children,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t really ready for that. That really made it harder.&#8221;
&#8220;Something had to give – and it was my aspirations and dreams,&#8221; Mrs. Obama said.
&#8220;I made that concession not because he said ‘you have to quit your job,’ but it felt like, ‘I can&#8217;t do all of this so I have to tone down my aspirations, I have to dial it back,'&#8221; concluded the former First Lady.
The couple&#8217;s two kids, Malia and Sasha, are now 21 and 18 years old, respectively.
According to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/07/michelle-obama-says-having-kids-was-concession-in-new-netflix-doc/">the New York Post</a>, Mrs. Obama also said in the documentary that she and former President Obama &#8220;&#8216;do not want to be at the forefront forever&#8217; – and appeared to suggest that they would take a step back from the limelight at some point.&#8221;
“Barack and I don’t want to be at the forefront of it all forever … not even for much longer,” the former First Lady said.
Mrs. Obama does not criticize President Donald Trump in &#8220;Becoming,&#8221; according to the Post, though the doc does feature a scene where she describes “sobbing” when she boarded Air Force One after Trump’s inauguration.
Last month, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would pick Mrs. Obama for his vice presidential slot &#8220;in a heartbeat.&#8221;
“I’ve heard some speculation about Michelle Obama as Vice President,” KDKA reporter Jon Delano asked Biden, as noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-asked-if-hell-commit-to-picking-a-woman-of-color-as-running-mate-discusses-michelle-obama">The Daily Wire</a>. “If she said to you she’d be willing to be your running mate, would you ask her?”
“Oh, I’d take her in a heartbeat,” Biden answered. “She’s brilliant. She knows the way around. She is a really fine woman. The Obamas are great friends.”
The following day, former Obama White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said there is no way Mrs. Obama would take up such a potential offer.
“The reason why I&#8217;m being so unequivocal is that there just simply has never been a time when she&#8217;s expressed an interest in running for office,” Jarrett told <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/494009-valerie-jarret-no-chance-michelle-obama-will-be-bidens-vp">The Hill</a>. “She’s not demurring here. She’s not being hard to get. She doesn’t want the job.”
WATCH:
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H/t <a href="https://disrn.com/news/michelle-obama-having-kids-was-a-concession-that-cost-me-dreams">Disrn</a> 
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WATCH: Michelle Obama Says Having Kids A ‘Concession’ That Cost Her ‘Aspirations And Dreams’

The Hollywood Reporter recently broke a scoop about the latest Netflix documentary from the Obamas, designed to offer us an oasis of joy as we suffer through the coronavirus pandemic. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Becoming,&#8221; and it will be available worldwide on May 6. As the title suggests, it promotes Michelle Obama&#8217;s memoir of the same name, which has sold more than 10 million copies. So let&#8217;s get this straight. The Obamas were awarded a book deal worth an estimated $65 million for their memoirs, hers and then his. They also struck an estimated $50 million production deal with Netflix. (We don&#8217;t have actual numbers. Could someone in the media ask for a tax return?)
With this self-aggrandizing documentary, their second deal is being used to accentuate the profits of their first. The buckraking here is intense. President Donald Trump surely admires their self-promotional moxie. The Obamas quickly became superrich. Vanity Fair celebrated these &#8220;Obamoguls&#8221; and hailed Michelle Obama for her &#8220;saintly popularity.&#8221; This so-called saint doesn&#8217;t spurn the finer things. Last August, TMZ reported the Obamas were buying a $15 million mansion on the coast of Martha&#8217;s Vineyard to match their $8 million Washington, D.C., mansion. Non-Fox network coverage? Zero. In December, they actually bought said Martha&#8217;s Vineyard mansion for $11.75 million. Non-Fox network coverage? Again, zero. There would be no denting haloes by asking how much they&#8217;re giving to charity. The documentary celebrates Michelle Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Becoming&#8221; book tour events at stadium that charged Obama superfans $300 or more a ticket, often with celebrities like Oprah Winfrey along for the ride.
Media outlets repeated Obama&#8217;s self-puffery without rebuttal. &#8220;Those months I spent traveling — meeting and connecting with people in cities across the globe — drove home the idea that what we have in common is deep and real and can&#8217;t be messed with,&#8221; she said in a statement. She augmented her new status as a self-help guru with a workbook of sorts: &#8220;Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice,&#8221; complete with &#8220;an intimate and inspiring introduction by the former First Lady and more than 150 inspiring questions and quotes to help you discover — and rediscover — your story.&#8221;
Not everyone famous is praised for self-help books for women. The current president&#8217;s daughter Ivanka Trump wrote one in 2017, and The New York Times was brutal. &#8220;It reads more like the scrambled Tumblr feed of a demented 12-year-old who just checked out a copy of Bartlett&#8217;s Familiar Quotations from the library,&#8221; it wrote.
There are never Republican critics of Obama in the &#8220;news&#8221; these days. In a Washington Post story on the documentary, writer Sonia Rao quoted Anita McBride, chief of staff to former first lady Laura Bush, who said Obama was &#8220;a reluctant first lady&#8221; but then formed lasting public connections through her &#8220;extraordinary use of media and pop culture and television.&#8221;
Is that Michelle&#8217;s gift to the media? No, it&#8217;s the media&#8217;s gift to Michelle. The infatuated titans of &#8220;news&#8221; and entertainment media appear to have granted her every &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; wish in building this &#8220;billion-dollar brand.&#8221;
The cheers are always presumed to be unanimous. Dissent from this party line is ignored. And no one asks about the profits. For the Obamas, greed is cast as just another inspiring voyage of self-discovery.
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 Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

GRAHAM: Michelle Obama, Saintly Buckraker?

In March 2018, prior to former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle inking their multi-year partnership deal with the internet streaming service Netflix two months later, a senior adviser to Barack Obama <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/politics/obama-netflix-shows.html">enthused</a>, “President and Mrs. Obama have always believed in the power of storytelling to inspire. Throughout their lives, they have lifted up stories of people whose efforts to make a difference are quietly changing the world for the better. As they consider their future personal plans, they continue to explore new ways to help others tell and share their stories.”
Apparently helping others meant helping themselves, as Netflix has announced that the Obama’s company Higher Ground Productions’ latest film is a documentary celebrating Michelle Obama, following her as she traveled around the country to promote her bestselling memoir, “Becoming.”
“The announcement comes with a letter from Obama, in which she says this wasn’t just a standard book tour: ‘In groups large and small, young and old, unique and united, we came together and shared stories, filling those spaces with our joys, worries, and dreams,’” reports <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/27/netflix-announces-a-new-michelle-obama-documentary-becoming-due-out-may-6/">TechCrunch</a>, adding that Netflix plans to release the film on May 6.
Last September, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obamas-new-production-company-gets-deplorable-james-barrett">reported</a> that Higher Ground Productions demanded that another company, founded in 2008 as Higher Ground Enterprises and devoted to helping authors publish e-books, renounce its trademark. <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/barack-obamas-production-company-runs-a-trademark-problem-1236219">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (THR) noted that in August, Higher Ground Productions asked the U.S. Patent &amp; Trademark Office to cancel the trademark registration for &#8220;Higher Ground Enterprises.&#8221;
THR reported, &#8220;Higher Ground Enterprises is run by Hanisya Massey, who, according to her attorney Larry Zerner, is in the business of helping authors publish e-books … On April 10, a Trademark Examiner refused to register the Obamas&#8217; claimed mark with a nod to the one held by Massey. The Obamas … argued the two marks could co-exist in the marketplace.”
The Obamas’ production company stated:
<blockquote>The consumers of “media production services” covered by the Application are likely to be highly sophisticated. Media production services are generally offered not to individual consumers but to commercial entities and professionals in their field. Indeed, Applicant has entered a deal with Netflix in connection with its media production services. Such customers, whether multi-billion-dollar media companies or smaller commercial entities in need of media production services, will exercise the height of care in selecting a media production company and are highly unlikely to be confused by a photographer or e-book publisher — particularly when the other party uses a distinguishable mark.</blockquote>
The U.S. Trademark Office disagreed, countering, &#8220;The overriding concern is not only to prevent buyer confusion as to the source of the goods and/or services, but to protect the registrant from adverse commercial impact due to use of a similar mark by a newcomer.&#8221;
THR continued, “In a petition to cancel, the Obamas essentially allege that Massey doesn&#8217;t deserve a trademark because ‘Higher Ground Enterprises’ wasn&#8217;t actually in use at the time of its 2016 registration. (An online search turns up some early incorporation filings, though the digital trail at least seems thin.)”
Zerner furiously replied, &#8220;The Obamas have known for almost a year that their Higher Ground trademark application was rejected by the USPTO because it infringed my client&#8217;s rights. Instead, of simply picking another name, the Obamas&#8217; lawyers have now filed a meritless petition to cancel my client&#8217;s trademark so they can take it for themselves. This is really deplorable behavior. I hope that the Obamas realize that these actions are not consistent with the values they preach and that they instruct their attorneys to immediately dismiss the petition.&#8221;
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A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Dial would use tigers to help Biden&#8217;s campaign. The article has been corrected, and updated to provide additional information. 
Prior to being jailed for attempted murder-for-hire and other charges, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, better known as Joe Exotic from the Netflix true crime drama “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” ran in both the 2016 presidential election as an independent, and later in the 2018 Oklahoma governor’s race as a Libertarian.
Although the campaigns didn’t propel Joe Exotic to higher office, Joshua Dial, the Netflix sensation’s former campaign manager, has indicated that he would be willing to re-enter the political arena, albeit without Joe Exotic by his side.
In an interview with TMZ, Dial indicated that he would be willing to help out an array of candidates. Although Dial doesn&#8217;t seem to indicate exactly what role he could fill at a campaign, he describes himself as a political operative. 
In the interview, Dial is asked about his previous experience with tiger events, of which the former campaign manager says he’s held several.
“We’d put the metal cage in a van, we’d put a baby tiger in a huge huge kennel, and we’d go to private parties,” Dial told <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/11/joe-exotic-campaign-tiger-fundraiser-party-joshua-dial-manager-joe-biden/">TMZ</a> in an interview. “Bring a tiger out, $5,000-$10,000 dollars, maybe more.”
Despite Dial&#8217;s unorthodox resume and his Libertarian leanings, the interviewer also asked him about the prospect of helping political candidates seeking office at different levels of government, including Biden. 
“No one’s reached out to me at all, actually,” said Dial. “If Joe Biden wanted to reach out to me, I’d be honored. I voted for Obama three times – in the primary and in both general elections.”
While Dial notes that he is still a &#8220;Libertarian at heart,&#8221; he believes that &#8220;sometimes Democratic values and goals align equally with Libertarian.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/joe-exotic-and-his-american-animals.html">New York Magazine</a>, Dial managed Joe Exotic’s campaign for Oklahoma governor in 2018, and likened the candidate to “Donald Trump on meth.” (It’s entirely possible Dial meant this literally, as the magazine reports that “multiple employees say Joe himself was frequently taking drugs, especially meth.”)
Joe Exotic was reportedly first encouraged to run after seeing then-candidate Trump’s rise in popularity amongst Republicans, and NY Magazine notes that the &#8220;Tiger King&#8221; wasn’t actually a Libertarian, and didn’t “seem to know what the word meant.”
In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc-_7RCFArM&amp;feature=emb_title">2015 campaign</a> ad for president, Joe Exotic makes his unorthodox pitch involving his mullet, his sexuality, his drug habits, and his tiger zoo. The campaign video doesn’t mention his stances on issues.
“I am gay, I’ve had two boyfriends most of my life, I currently got legally married,” said Joe Exotic in the video. “I’ve tried drugs through the younger years of my life, I am broke as s***, I have a judgment against me from some b**** down there in Florida, but I can tell you I’ve paid a fine.”
“That is nothing but a civil fine, ladies and gentleman, that does not mean that I’ve been accused or convicted of any kind of animal cruelty thing,” he said.
During a recent coronavirus press briefing, a White House reporter asked President Trump whether he would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-asked-about-possible-pardon-for-joe-exotic-from-netflix-show-tiger-king-ill-take-a-look">consider</a> a pardon for Joe Exotic, in light of Don Jr. jokingly saying he would advocate in favor of it. Trump responded that he would “take a look.”

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President Donald Trump was asked about a possible pardon for Joe Exotic from the Netflix show &#8220;Tiger King&#8221; during the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing on Wednesday, and responded by indicating that he would &#8220;take a look&#8221; at the situation.
&#8220;One of the biggest rating hits of the coronavirus, aside from these briefings, has been a show on Netflix called &#8216;Tiger King,&#8217; and the man who’s the star of this is a former zoo owner who’s serving a 22-year prison sentence,&#8221; a reporter said to Trump. &#8220;He&#8217;s asking you for a pardon, saying he was unfairly convicted. Your son yesterday jokingly said that he was going to advocate for it. I wonder if you&#8217;d seen the show, and if you have any thoughts on pardoning Joe Exotic.&#8221;
&#8220;Which son?&#8221; Trump responded. &#8220;Must be Don.&#8221;
&#8220;It was,&#8221; the reporter responded.
&#8220;I had a feeling it was Don. Is that what he said?&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;I don’t know. I know nothing about it. He has 22 years for what? What did he do?&#8221;
&#8220;He allegedly hired someone to murder an animal rights activist, but he said that he didn&#8217;t do that,&#8221; the reporter answered.
&#8220;You think he didn&#8217;t do it? Are you on his side?&#8221; Trump joking responded. &#8220;Are you recommending a pardon?&#8221;
&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not advocating –&#8221; the reporter said.
&#8220;As a reporter, you&#8217;re not able to do that, you&#8217;d be criticized by [these reporters],&#8221; Trump said.
After a brief moment of interacting with another reporter in the room, Trump responded the reporter who asked the question by saying, &#8220;I&#8217;ll take a look.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> Video: Trump is ASKED by a reporter about <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TigerKing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TigerKing</a> and how <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonaldJTrumpJr</a> took issue with Joe Exotic&#39;s sentence and whether he&#39;d consider a pardon.
Smirks and says &quot;I&#39;d take a look&quot; before shaking his head. He also asked <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acosta</a> if he thinks he should pardon him. <a href="https://t.co/Y7F9jxIj2t">pic.twitter.com/Y7F9jxIj2t</a>
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Trump Asked About Possible Pardon For ‘Joe Exotic’ From Netflix Show ‘Tiger King’: ‘I’ll Take A Look’

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Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic is not the only epidemic spreading through our country. There’s been another one spreading over the last several years with consequences that threaten Americans’ fundamental ideals of free speech and open inquiry as much as the coronavirus threatens Americans’ lives.
This attack on free speech and suppression of ideas has become so commonplace that, along with the brilliant comedian Adam Carolla, I have made a film, No Safe Spaces, documenting this alarming trend.
To continue the analogy, the college campus has become our Wuhan — the epicenter of idea-suppression. Once a marketplace of ideas, American colleges and universities have become infected with the idea that ‘If I don’t like what you say, you do not have the right to say it.’
This attitude has “gone viral,” spreading as rapidly and as widely as the coronavirus — to the arts, entertainment, news media, and tech industries, all of which have become carriers of the disease. Throughout America, people are silenced, punished, or “cancelled” if they say something that is deemed objectionable to the left — not to liberals, it should be stressed. Liberals have a long history of protecting free speech, but they are now so intimidated by the left, they have abandoned their historic commitment to free speech.
I’ve personally experienced this with my Prager University videos, as we continue to fight a legal battle with Google-owned YouTube over its suppression of our video content online. YouTube has placed about a hundred of our videos on its Restricted List, a parent/school/public library-activated option to filter what videos their child can access, as if they feature violence or pornography. Among those who present PragerU videos are four Pulitzer Prize-winners, three former prime ministers, members of European parliaments, professors from MIT, Harvard, and Princeton, and some of the most eminent thinkers of our time.
No Safe Spaces explores the state of free speech in America, featuring prominent figures on the on the left as well as on the right — progressives such as Van Jones, Cornel West, Barack Obama, and Bret Weinstein. After its successful theatrical run, as we prepared for the home entertainment release, a funny thing happened on the way to the living rooms of America: Mainstream Hollywood decided it didn&#8217;t want Americans to see the film.
When I agreed to be in the film, the producers assured me there would be no resistance to the film from distributors — because distributors’ only concern is whether the film was a success. And it was. No Safe Spaces was the #1 political documentary of 2019 at the box office, and it earned the highest audience score at Rotten Tomatoes.com of any film released in 2019 — 99%.
Distributors, of course, have the right to decide what content to place on their platforms — that’s free market capitalism. But when a movie is as successful as No Safe Spaces — in addition to being the number one political documentary of the year, it grossed $1.3 million at the box office — under normal circumstances, distributors would jump at the opportunity to offer such a film to the public. But they didn’t. This is an important thing for Americans to understand: Hollywood’s bottom line no longer drives their decisions; ideological purity is more important to them than money.
Take Netflix, for example. The streaming giant passed on No Safe Spaces months after it paid ten million dollars to acquire Knock Down This House, another political documentary which had not done any business at all at the box office. But that documentary features Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
So, then, a movie with no track record was given piles of cash because it is acceptable to the left while a movie that reaches the top was passed over because it appeals to conservatives and liberals, but not to the left.
In most cases, distributors passed on No Safe Spaces without giving any reason for doing so. But one did. I won’t name them because I appreciate their honesty, but here’s an excerpt from their email to the film’s producers:
<blockquote>“If the film is as provocative in the marketplace as it was in our sales projection meeting, you&#8217;ve got a hit on your hands. That said, in the course of our discussions we discovered a line the majority of the team won&#8217;t cross and that is supporting anything that puts a spotlight on Dennis Prager. The essential message of the film, protecting free speech, is embraced here, but supporting free speech only compels us to permit it, not to spend our time and money promoting a film whose ‘hero’ is someone with some very troubling ideas.&#8221;</blockquote>
Not one of my “troubling ideas” was cited. I suspect they could not find any. I am as mainstream a conservative as there is. If I am “troubling,” what conservative isn’t? So the game is rigged, and it’s important for Americans to know this. The content studios and streaming services offer to viewers has been pre-vetted by people who disdain the most fundamental of American values — people who claim to support free speech while rejecting a film about free speech!
We have therefore looked elsewhere. Salem Media (which owns my radio program) has agreed to make No Safe Spaces available to home viewers on their streaming platform at <a href="http://www.nosafespaces.com/">www.NoSafeSpaces.com</a>. We are also working with another distributor that does value free speech to release No Safe Spaces on other home entertainment platforms later this summer.
Beyond (and predating) our current crisis caused by the coronavirus, we’re in the midst of an epic battle to preserve what is good and unique about America. On that front, good people are divided into three groups: those who fight, those who support the fighters, and those who do nothing. Unfortunately, the largest number of good people fall into the third category. However, those who support the fighters are just as important as the fighters themselves. That’s what conservatives (and liberals true to the liberal commitment to free speech) need to do: support the fighters by seeing No Safe Spaces. It’s as simple as that.
As you sit home during these difficult times, visit NoSafeSpaces.com, download and watch the movie. Buy downloads for all the young people in your life and share it with them. Aside from its critically important message, it is a powerful and entertaining film.
The coronavirus pandemic will pass. But the anti-speech epidemic will remain. No Safe Spaces is an effective vaccine.

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PRAGER: The Anti-Speech Pandemic

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Distributed Bio co-founder and CEO Dr. Jacob Glanville told the Radio New Zealand program &#8220;Checkpoint&#8221; this week that he believes his team of scientists have developed a cure for the coronavirus.
&#8220;I&#8217;m happy to report that my team has successfully taken five antibodies that back in 2002 were determined to bind and neutralise, block and stop the SARS virus,&#8221; Dr Glanville <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018740956/pandemic-scientist-makes-breakthrough-on-covid-19-cure">said</a>. &#8220;We&#8217;ve evolved them in our laboratory, so now they very vigorously block and stop the SARS-CoV-2 [Covid-19] virus as well. This makes them suitable medicines that one could use once they&#8217;ve gone through human testing to treat the virus.&#8221;
Glanville is featured in a Netflix documentary called &#8220;Pandemic&#8221; that explores where viruses come from, how scientists and medical professionals look at pandemics, and how experts try to prevent them from happening.
&#8220;The new virus is a cousin of the old SARS. So what we&#8217;ve done is we&#8217;ve created hundreds of millions of versions of those antibodies, we&#8217;ve mutated them a bit, and in that pool of mutated versions, we found versions that cross them over,&#8221; Glanville continued. &#8220;So now we know they bind on the same spot as the new virus, Covid-19. It binds the spot that the virus uses to gain entry into your cells. It blocks that.&#8221;
&#8220;At this point we know it binds the same spot extremely tightly with high affinity,&#8221; Glanville added. &#8220;The next step is we send the antibodies to the military, and they will directly put those on the virus and show that it blocks its ability to infect cells.&#8221;
Glanville said that the antibodies are being sent to the military because he does not want the coronavirus or SARS in his laboratory and he wants &#8220;the stamp of approval of a government military.&#8221;
Glanville said that his group is not the first group to find the antibodies, but he thinks his group is moving faster than others because they used existing scientific data from the SARS virus as the foundation for their antibodies.
Glanville <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-jacob-glanville-antibody-neutralize-coronavirus">told</a> Fox News&#8217; Martha MacCallum last month that the completed drug is going to go to the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
He said that unlike a typical vaccine, antibodies can take effect almost immediately and can be used to treat those who are very sick. However, he cautioned that the antibodies would only provide protection for 8-10 weeks.
Glanville said that it would still take months before the antibodies could be available for the public to use.
&#8220;The next step, the big-time consuming part, is the GMP manufacturer,&#8221; Glanville said. &#8220;Traditionally, that takes nine to 12 months – obviously, we can&#8217;t wait that long. So we&#8217;ve worked with two different partners to try to accelerate that to take a few months, but that does take time, and there&#8217;s really no way around.&#8221;
&#8220;Assuming that we&#8217;re able to complete our study, at the end of summer… and it looks good, then we would use something called compassionate use,&#8221; Glanville continued. &#8220;This was used in the Ebola crisis, and it&#8217;s been used in other cases where if you have something that&#8217;s effective, and there&#8217;s no other good medicine, you can begin releasing it to the world for use prior to going through all the approval [processes].&#8221;
&#8220;That could be as early as September. Unfortunately, that&#8217;s also as far away as September,&#8221; Glanville concluded. &#8220;So, that&#8217;s as fast as we can conceive of having this medicine widely available.&#8221;
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The Netflix docuseries &#8220;Tiger King,&#8221; which chronicles the rise and fall of an eccentric zookeeper, has taken the world by storm in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though its main subject, Joe Exotic, has yet to publicly comment on his portrayal, two of the doc&#8217;s peripheral subjects – Doc Antle and Jeff Lowe – have denounced it as shameless sensationalism.
According to <a href="https://people.com/tv/tiger-king-doc-antle-slams-salacious-documentary-lauren-and-jeff-lowe-call-portrayal-unfair/">People</a>, Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, who runs a famed exotic animal preserve in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, told <a href="https://www.tmx.news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TMX.news </a>that &#8220;Tiger King&#8221; falsely portrayed him as a cult-like polygamist, asserting that the filmmakers misled him on the show&#8217;s subject.
“Remember, this is not a documentary,&#8221; Antle said. &#8220;This is a salacious, outrageous ride through a television show produced to create drama, to just tie you into some crazy train wreck of a story between the feud of Carole Baskin and Joe Exotic, and the meltdown that ensued between two people who both are far too close to murder themselves, and I think a little bit of madness thrown in on their parts.&#8221;
Antle said that the filmmakers had him believe the documentary was to focus on his wildlife conservation efforts, asserting that he was asked about Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, Exotic&#8217;s bitter rival, on a few occasions.
“[I] worked with the director for two and a half years, saw him probably five or six times for several days in a row each time,&#8221; said Antle. &#8220;That endless portrayal of a program that he was doing with us was purely about a wildlife conservation show about our work that we’re doing in Sumatra [and] Africa, to save endangered species there. It was all about how the tigers that we have here have raised so much money that we’ve been able to go to Sumatra and create a new ranger station there … and that was the documentary that I worked on, and all of that stuff somehow found its way to the cutting room floor.”
“It was not mentioned in any capacity that this show that I was working on would portray anything about Carole or Joe,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Questions about Carole and Joe were a dozen or so thrown into hundreds of others, and I repeatedly told them I have no desire to be involved in some show where you’ve got the feud of Carole and Joe going on, it’s not my thing, leave me out of it. Over and over, that was the intention, and that’s what we worked towards.”
Though the documentary primarily focuses on the dangerous rivalry between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, Antle&#8217;s Myrtle Beach operation is extensively scrutinized in one particular episode to further broaden its themes on how the exotic animal world breeds a cult-like atmosphere centered around a charismatic figure. In Doc Antle&#8217;s case, he is portrayed as a New Age guru who employs harems of women who may or may not be his &#8220;wives.&#8221; Antle says this portrayal is complete hogwash.
“I’m a single guy. My wife died 25 years ago, the mother of my son and daughter, my youngest ones, and I’ve never been married since,&#8221; said Antle. &#8220;I have girlfriends, I’m a single guy. This massive judgmentalness [sic] of somehow I’m not supposed to have girlfriends or something is just off my rocker here with how they got to this point.&#8221;
Antle noted that half his staff members are men, which he claims the documentary explicitly did not show.
&#8220;They are just looking for something to be outrageous,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The girls that they are showing throughout the facility … these are the girls that are the wives of staff who live here, these are my grandchildren, these are my grandchildren’s fiancés, these are my son’s fiancée, this is a variety of ladies who devote their time here that are part of a team. The team is half men. Did you see any men in the series? They cut them all out to make it appear that this is a girl place.”
As to the documentary&#8217;s claim that he euthanizes tiger cubs the moment they cease being profitable, Antle flatly denied this. He also noted that the epilogue stating his compound was recently raided by the feds pertained to a separate case in Virginia and that he was only asked to share some of his lions’ DNA.
As noted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/tiger-king-doc-antle-jeff-lowe-salacious-outrageous-documentary">Fox News</a>, Jeff Lowe, Exotic&#8217;s infamous business partner, also told TMX.news that the documentary only got 10% of the story right and flatly denounced the allegation that he &#8220;stole&#8221; the zoo from Joe Exotic.
“We were being looked at by the feds just like Joe was, so we knew that and we had to protect ourselves. And if it means turning over a guy to the federal authorities that killed not just five tigers – five tigers was just the tip of the iceberg. You know, he’s killed a hundred tigers here that were not beneficial to him monetarily,” Lowe said. “And you know it’s just the five that they picked, we knew exactly where they were buried and we knew exactly how they died, so it was the five easiest to prosecute him and convict him on.”
The documentary also implied that Lowe involved himself in Exotic&#8217;s murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin only to use it as leverage against him. Lowe also denied this.
“It was a constant,” Lowe said. “Every day, it wasn’t about caring for the tigers, it wasn’t about taking care of your staff – it was about: ‘How do I eliminate Carole Baskin?’ We all knew it and it just got to the point where once Joe started making aggressive moves towards a plan, we knew we had to get out of here.”
Hardly anybody came away from the documentary looking clean, and Joe Exotic&#8217;s rival, Carole Baskin, is no exception. Regarding the allegation that she murdered her husband to gain his inheritance, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/tiger-king-star-carole-baskin-denies-killing-husband-don-lewis-slams-netflix-documentary">Baskin wrote a lengthy post</a> on her organization&#8217;s website denouncing that as false.
The filmmakers recently told the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-03-26/joe-exotic-tiger-king-netflix-burning-questions">Los Angeles Times</a> that they were entirely forthright with the documentary they were filming from the get-go, noting that they behaved as good storytellers.
“I would just say we were completely forthright with the characters,” said co-director Rebecca Chaiklin. “With any project that goes on for five years, things evolve and change, and we followed it as any good storyteller does. We could have never known when we started this project that it was going to land where it did.”

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‘Tiger King’ Subjects Doc Antle, Jeff Lowe Slam Netflix Documentary As Salacious Sensationalism

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Joe Exotic, the central figure in the hit Netflix true crime program, &#8220;Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,&#8221; is asking the White House for a presidential pardon, allowing him to walk free from a Florida prison where he&#8217;s serving 22 years for a murder-for-hire plot that forms the central storyline of the seven-part docuseries.
Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage (or Joe Schreibvogel, depending on legal filing), &#8220;posted the public plea on his Facebook page on Wednesday, urging Trump &#8216;for a special investigation or a Presidential Pardon from the Conviction I have Just received,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/netflix-tiger-king-joe-exotic-president-trump">according to Fox Business</a>.
The letter, which goes on for more than a thousand words, suggests that Joe is the victim of a coordinated persecution by both his archnemesis Carol Baskin, who is never named in the letter, and a &#8220;seasoned con man&#8221; &#8212; likely Las Vegas, Nevada, playboy Jeff Lowe who, according to the Netflix series, became an informant on Joe Exotic&#8217;s activities, eventually leading to his arrest for an abortive murder-for-hire plot against Baskin and for five counts of &#8220;violating the Endangered Species Act for killing five tiger cubs,&#8221; per Fox.
&#8220;In November 2017, Maldonado-Passage paid a zoo worker cash to kill Baskin,&#8221; according to Fox Business. &#8220;Instead, he took the money and ran. In a second attempt, he hired another hitman who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, prosecutors said.&#8221;
Joe Exotic says he isn&#8217;t responsible.
&#8220;Here in America we use to take the swearing of Oath seriously to tell the truth,&#8221; Joe Exotic writes. &#8220;These days it means nothing to anyone, not even the Department of Justice or the U.S Attorneys office. My trial was not about the truth, it was about the win for the prosecutors. Why do I say this? Because I can prove every lie and the U.S Attorneys office had that proof to serve real justice and they ignored using the evidence both sides had to present to the jury.&#8221;
He then claims he has evidence that the &#8220;seasoned con man&#8221; engaged in human trafficking, the drug trade, identity theft, internet fraud, and other crimes.
&#8220;Mr. President, I am pleading with you to please have this looked into,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;I am currently incarcerated at the Grady County Jail in Oklahoma and facing 20 &#8211; 50 years in prison for doing the same thing every zoo and sanctuary owner has had to do at one time or another.&#8221;
His petition may be complicated by a separate filing &#8212; a $94 million lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other &#8220;government agents,&#8221; that Joe Exotic filed late last week.
In it, Exotic, identified as Joe Maldonado-Passage, says he&#8217;s &#8220;seeking nearly $74 million in loss of personal property, 18 years of research, and the full care of 200 generic tigers and crossbreeds, which he claimed he conducted at the boarding rate of $60 per day, per animal,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/tiger-king-joe-exotic-files-94m-lawsuit-report">according to Fox News</a>. &#8220;Furthermore, Maldonado-Passage is asking for $15 million for false arrest, false imprisonment, selective enforcement and the death of his mother, Shirley.&#8221;
He also accuses Fish and Wildlife Service agents of knowingly accepting false statements.
&#8220;Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness,&#8221; is currently the most watched program on Netflix&#8217;s behemoth streaming network.

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Star Of Netflix’s Hit Show ‘Tiger King,’ Joe Exotic, Asks Trump For Presidential Pardon

Hey all you cool cats and kittens, are you ready to dive into one of the strangest true crime docuseries ever produced?
Big cats, wild outfits, gunfire, greed, and murder-for-hire. Yeah. You might think you’ve seen it all, but I can near-guarantee you haven’t experienced anything like Netflix’s “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness.”
Meet Joe Exotic, the gun-toting gay polygamist owner of Oklahoma’s G.W. Zoo, around which the series revolves. Exotic, a troubling mix of chaos and charm, wrangles tigers while talking to the camera as if his life is anything but unusual.
Sure, the tigers, lions, and bears (oh my) at the G.W. Zoo are fascinating, but the real attraction isn’t the animals, it’s the madcap antics and intense personality of showman/owner Joe Exotic, who drives the documentary’s narrative forward like a freight train, even when the series seems like it might be carrying too much cargo for just one story.
From the very beginning, Exotic’s boiling feud with Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin drives the primary plot of “Tiger King.” Did Exotic hire a hitman to take out Baskin? Does Baskin have any skeletons hidden away in her own closet? Does either really care about the welfare of the animals they claim to fight for?
Any and all detours, engrossing and disturbing as they may be, inevitably lead right back to the nexus of the narrative, and that’s Exotic versus Baskin.
Though consistently captivating in a watching-a-car-wreck sort of way, some might have a difficult time downloading the enormity of “Tiger King.” It’s main plot becomes obscured, even lost, somewhere within the middle portion of the docuseries, potentially leading viewers to wonder if the producers forgot how they began this sordid tale, and if they can ever manage to find their way back.
That said, the detours and rabbit holes mostly serve a larger narrative purpose, which is to paint a dynamic and sometimes damning portrait of Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, and the half dozen other supporting characters in this peculiar tragicomedy.
Anchoring the docuseries are Exotic and Baskin, but those interviewed along the way – friends, partners, producers, a zookeeper who lost an arm to one of Exotic’s tigers – offer compelling commentary about the two leading figures in this saga. And the series isn’t just a two-hander, as the narrative is stretched to encompass not only Exotic and Baskin, but several other key players who are only slowly revealed as the series unfurls, and who provide crucial context to the larger story.
It all comes to a head in a way that will likely leave viewers conflicted and asking themselves who to stand behind when all is said and done. Can you even choose a side when there isn’t an archetypal “hero” or “villain” in the story? Perhaps that’s the central question the makers of “Tiger King” are asking, eschewing typical true crime trappings, and asking viewers to simply watch as this utterly bizarre story plays out before them.
Through the twists and turns you never see coming, all the way to the somewhat disconcerting final moments, this true crime docuseries from Netflix will leave many viewers satisfied and genuinely curious as to what will happen after the final credits roll.

REVIEW: Netflix Docuseries ‘Tiger King’ Is A Bizarre And Fascinating True Crime Tale

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So, you’re stuck at home because of the coronavirus, practicing “social distancing” from all your friends. Well, what if you could all watch Netflix together online without having to do something annoying like counting down and making sure you all click “play” at the same time so you’re all watching the show or movie at the exact same time?
The Netflix Party Chrome extension can make things easier by automatically synchronizing video playback and adding a group chat to your browser while you all watch what you want on Netflix together. Though Netflix is in the name of the extension and is the platform used by the extension, the company has nothing to do with it, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/22/us/netflix-party-chrome-extension-coronavirus-trnd/index.html">reported</a>.
“Disclaimer: A Netflix spokesperson told CNN the Netflix Party extension is not affiliated with Netflix. Netflix representatives are instructed not to try to troubleshoot it or attempt to answer questions about it,” the outlet reported.
The extension only works for Chrome, so you would need to download that first. Then you can <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/netflix-party/oocalimimngaihdkbihfgmpkcpnmlaoa?hl=en">download</a> the Netflix Party extension from the browser’s web store.
Once you have it installed, find what you and your friends want to watch on Netflix, then select the extension from the top right area of your browser (it will be next to the place where you type in URLs).
“When you click on the Netflix Party extension, it will give you the option of being the only person with control over the player &#8212; meaning only you can rewind, forward, or add subtitles to the video,” CNN explained. “Once you&#8217;ve decided, you can then copy the URL and share it with your friends. Make sure to check the box ‘show chat’ if you want a chat box to appear alongside the video. With the box, everyone watching the video can send each other messages while watching.”
Your friends who will be watching with you will also have to download the extension. After that, have the click the URL you were provided, which will allow them to join the video and the chat. When you’re all done watching, simply click on the extension in the top right corner and select “disconnect.”
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tips-for-those-now-working-from-home-due-to-coronavirus-quarantines-with-or-without-children">reported</a> tips for those who have been forced to work from home due to the coronavirus and for those who now must also homeschool their children as school’s across the country have been closed down to stop the outbreak.
While watching Netflix together is a great way to stay connected with your friends when it’s not safe to meet publicly, the tips explained in the article above are helpful for what to do when you’re not getting a moment to enjoy yourself.
For those suddenly finding themselves working from home, I suggested taking micro-breaks to give your brain a rest. This could be reading an article for fun or, for me, playing a few minutes of a simple video game to take your mind off work and allow you to then refocus and be more productive.
As for parents, multiple writers with children provided tips for how to keep your children occupied so you can work, including doing your most focused work when they are napping.

This Chrome Extension Will Help You Watch Netflix With Online Friends During Coronavirus Quarantine

On Friday, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos <a href="https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/emergency-support-for-workers-in-the-creative-community">announced</a> the creation of a $100 million fund to help those in the entertainment industry who have lost their jobs as a result of production delays and shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a press release, Sarandos states:
<blockquote>The Covid-19 crisis is devastating for many industries, including the creative community. Almost all television and film production has now ceased globally – leaving hundreds of thousands of crew and cast without jobs. These include electricians, carpenters, drivers, hair and makeup artists and more, many of whom are paid hourly wages and work on a project-to-project basis.
This community has supported Netflix through the good times, and we want to help them through these hard times, especially while governments are still figuring out what economic support they will provide. So we’ve created a $100 million fund to help with hardship in the creative community.
Most of the fund will go towards support for the hardest hit workers on our own productions around the world. We’re in the process of working out exactly what this means, production by production. This is in addition to the two weeks pay we’ve already committed to the crew and cast on productions we were forced to suspend last week.
Beyond helping workers on our own productions, we also want to support the broader film and television industry. So $15 million of the fund will go to third parties and non-profits providing emergency relief to out-of-work crew and cast in the countries where we have a large production base.</blockquote>
The CCO then states that Netflix will be donating millions of dollars to several entertainment job-related funds, including the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Covid-19 Disaster Fund. Additionally, because Netflix produces content around the world, the streaming giant is attempting to set up similar charitable endeavors in other regions.
Numerous films and television shows have had to halt production as the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe. Netflix alone has been forced to stall production on season two of “The Witcher,” season four of mega-hit “Stranger Things,” and the last season of “Grace and Frankie,” among many others.
Films that have been forced to temporarily shut down include the “Avatar” sequels, the new “Matrix” movie, “Mission: Impossible 7,” and others.
COVID-19, which originated in China’s Hubei province, has infected nearly 330,000 people worldwide, and led to more than 14,300 deaths, <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">according to data</a> from Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) Global Cases map. 97,846 people have recovered.
As several states have initiated orders to close non-essential businesses and have asked that people stay in their homes barring necessary trips, movie theaters have shuttered and major films have been pulled from their original release dates.
In New York alone, COVID-19 has infected more than 15,700 people, which amounts to approximately 48% of all cases reported in the United States, and 117 deaths have been reported in the state, which amounts to 28.6% of total U.S. deaths related to the virus.
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Netflix Creates ‘$100 Million Fund’ To Aid Workers Hit By Entertainment Industry Shutdown

In response to a &#8220;likely&#8221; case of coronavirus, entertainment giant Netflix has shut down its Los Angeles offices.
&#8220;An employee in the Sunset Blvd offices of the streamer looks &#8216;likely&#8217; to have COVID-19, I’ve learned,&#8221; <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/03/coronavirus-netflix-infection-staffer-lockdown-los-angeles-1202881859/">Deadline</a>&#8216;s Dominic Patten reported Thursday. &#8220;The individual was identified in the past day after coming in close contact with a confirmed case. That confirmed case is the spouse of a Netflix staffer.&#8221;
Patten notes that many of the employees at the streaming company were already working out of office before the &#8220;likely&#8221; case triggered the full shutdown.
&#8220;Though a number of employees were already out of office and working from home in the last week, the Reed Hastings-run company has emptied out one of its Sunset Blvd buildings in immediate response to around 1000 employees being at varying degrees of risk,&#8221; Patten explains. &#8220;Additionally, in what is clearly becoming the norm in Hollywood and around the world, City of Angels staffers have been recommended to absolutely work from home until further notice.&#8221;
Patten also points out that the news comes after Netflix decided to delay the production of one of its new project, &#8220;The Prom.&#8221;
Thursday saw a series of shutdown and cancellation announcements, including from the biggest entertainment company in the world: Disney, which first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-disneyland-shuts-down-because-of-coronavirus">announced</a> the closure of Disneyland in Anaheim Thursday, which, as <a href="https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/disney-theme-park-closed-coronavirus-1203531795/">Variety</a> noted, is only &#8220;the fourth time in history that Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., has fully suspended operations.&#8221;
In a press release Thursday explaining its decision, Disney underscored that there have been &#8220;no reported cases of COVID-19 at Disneyland Resort&#8221; but that it determined that closing until the end of the month was the safest course of action. Disney explained that it would continue to pay cast members during the shutdown and would work with customers to provide refunds. The release read in part:
<blockquote>While there have been no reported cases of COVID-19 at Disneyland Resort, after carefully reviewing the guidelines of the Governor of California’s executive order and in the best interests of our guests and employees, we are proceeding with the closure of Disneyland Park and California Adventure, beginning the morning of March 14 through the end of the month.
The hotels of Disneyland Resort will remain open until Monday march 16, to give guests the ability to make necessary travel arrangements; Downtown Disney will remain open. We will monitor the ongoing situation and follow the advice and guidelines of federal and state officials and health agencies. Disney will continue to pay cast members during this time.</blockquote>
Shortly after the Disneyland announcement, Disney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-disney-world-closing-down-due-to-coronavirus">announced</a> that it was also closing down Disney World in Orlando, Florida as well as Disneyland Paris. &#8220;In an abundance of caution and in the best interest of our guests and employees, we are proceeding with the closure of our theme parks at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Paris Resort, beginning at the close of business on Sunday, March 15, through the end of the month,&#8221; a spokesperson said in a statement.
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Netflix Locks Down Its L.A. Offices

Actress Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven on Netflix&#8217;s hit show &#8220;Stranger Things,&#8221; turned 16 on Thursday. In a lengthy post to Instagram, the young actress lamented the &#8220;sexualization&#8221; and &#8220;insults&#8221; she has endured over the past few years while hoping that a change can happen for the next generation.
&#8220;16 has felt like a long time coming,&#8221; began Brown. &#8220;I feel like change needs to happen for not only this generation but the next. Our world needs kindness and support in order for us children to grow and succeed.&#8221;
&#8220;The last few years haven&#8217;t been easy, I&#8217;ll admit that,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;There are moments I get frustrated from the inaccuracy, inappropriate comments, sexualization, and unnecessary insults that ultimately have resulted in pain and insecurity for me. But not ever will I be defeated. I&#8217;ll continue doing what I love and spreading the message in order to make change.&#8221;
The Instagram post included a montage video of Brown throughout the years intercut with various media clips and Twitter hot takes that were critical of her.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s focus on what needs changing, and I hope this video informs you on the things that go on behind the scenes of the headlines and flashing lights. Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll always find a way to smile,&#8221; she concluded.
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 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/B8v7J8YH_ZR/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">16 has felt like a long time coming. i feel like change needs to happen for not only this generation but the next. our world needs kindness and support in order for us children to grow and succeed. the last few years haven&#39;t been easy, I&#39;ll admit that. there are moments i get frustrated from the inaccuracy, inappropriate comments, sexualization, and unnecessary insults that ultimately have resulted in pain and insecurity for me. but not ever will i be defeated. ill continue doing what i love and spreading the message in order to make change. let&#39;s focus on what needs changing and I hope this video informs you on the things that go on behind the scenes of the headlines and flashing lights. dont worry I&#39;ll always find a way to smile 😉 leggo 16 ♡.</a>
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Millie Bobby Brown has been subject to bizarre press coverage at times throughout her youth. At age 14, for instance, outlets like People and Page Six felt it somehow necessary and newsworthy to report on her breaking up with her boyfriend at the time, as if the relationships of 14-year-olds deserved any level of attention.
“Millie Bobby Brown Splits With Singer Boyfriend,” announced <a href="https://pagesix.com/2018/07/31/millie-bobby-brown-splits-with-singer-boyfriend/">Page Six</a>. “Millie Bobby Brown and Jacob Sartorius Split After Seven Months of Dating,” lamented <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/millie-bobby-brown-jacob-sartorius-split-after-seven-months/">US Magazine</a>. “Millie Bobby Brown and Jacob Sartorius Break Up After 7 Months of Dating,” decried <a href="https://people.com/tv/millie-bobby-brown-jacob-sartorius-break-up/">People</a>. “Millie Bobby Brown just broke up with her boyfriend in the most mature way possible,” wrote <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/01/milly-bobby-brown-just-broke-up-with-her-boyfriend-in-the-most-mature-way-possible/">The Mercury News</a>.
As reported by <a href="https://people.com/tv/millie-bobby-brown-reflects-scrutinity-16th-birthday/">People</a>, Millie Bobby Brown faced a scolding on social media when someone told her to &#8220;act your age&#8221; when she posted a photo of herself in a form-fitting dress. “[I know] everyone on my last pic wants me to ‘act my age,’ but, quite frankly, it&#8217;s my Instagram and if I choose to post that picture and you don’t like it… scroll past it,&#8221; she said in response.
Millie Bobby Brown&#8217;s birthday post was largely met with positive responses from her fans and followers.
&#8220;Happy bday, Millie. This year is gonna be your year. AGAIN. Here’s to 16 years old!&#8221; wrote Brown’s &#8220;Stranger Things&#8221; co-star Noah Schnapp. 
&#8220;I love you, Millie, happy birthday baby girl,&#8221; wrote Bella Hadid.
&#8220;You’re showing tremendous poise in this business that has such built-in scrutiny! Enjoy every facet of being 16. Trust me, it doesn’t stop even when you’re 35 like me. Ok, I’m NOT 35. But hang in there sweetie,&#8221; wrote actress Octavia Spencer.
&#8220;Send you so much love, angel!! Happy Birthdayyy!! Keep thriving and being exactly who you need to be,&#8221; wrote singer Lauren Jauregui.

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The first Netflix film produced by former President Obama and Michelle Obama&#8217;s production company won an award on Sunday during the Oscars and, while accepting the award, the filmmakers recited Karl Marx&#8217;s Communist manifesto.
Julia Reichert of &#8220;American Factory&#8221; received the award and said: &#8220;Working people have it harder and harder these days – and we believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite.&#8221;
The term &#8220;workers of the world unite,&#8221; comes directly from the communist manifesto and was widely noticed by media critics.
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How woke! How Hollywood!
Producer Julia Reichert cites the Communist Manifesto because&#8230; well, we all know why. 
“Workers of the world unite.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/kl64TC0uNh">pic.twitter.com/kl64TC0uNh</a>
&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1226701801820282880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Obama praised them, writing on Twitter, &#8220;Congrats to Julia and Steven, the filmmakers behind American Factory, for telling such a complex, moving story about the very human consequences of wrenching economic change. Glad to see two talented and downright good people take home the Oscar for Higher Ground’s first release.&#8221;
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Congrats to Julia and Steven, the filmmakers behind American Factory, for telling such a complex, moving story about the very human consequences of wrenching economic change. Glad to see two talented and downright good people take home the Oscar for Higher Ground’s first release. <a href="https://t.co/W4AZ68iWoY">https://t.co/W4AZ68iWoY</a>
&mdash; Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1226696870292008960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Communism is an ideology of evil and was estimated to be responsible for the deaths of 100 million people last center.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810">reported</a> in 2017:
<blockquote>Such convictions set the stage for decades of murder on an industrial scale. In total, no fewer than 20 million Soviet citizens were put to death by the regime or died as a direct result of its repressive policies. This does not include the millions who died in the wars, epidemics and famines that were predictable consequences of Bolshevik policies, if not directly caused by them.
The victims include 200,000 killed during the Red Terror (1918-22); 11 million dead from famine and dekulakization; 700,000 executed during the Great Terror (1937-38); 400,000 more executed between 1929 and 1953; 1.6 million dead during forced population transfers; and a minimum 2.7 million dead in the Gulag, labor colonies and special settlements.
To this list should be added nearly a million Gulag prisoners released during World War II into Red Army penal battalions, where they faced almost certain death; the partisans and civilians killed in the postwar revolts against Soviet rule in Ukraine and the Baltics; and dying Gulag inmates freed so that their deaths would not count in official statistics.
If we add to this list the deaths caused by communist regimes that the Soviet Union created and supported—including those in Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia—the total number of victims is closer to 100 million. That makes communism the greatest catastrophe in human history.</blockquote>
Responses varied online with the far-left praises the speech and everyone else either mocking it or expressing shock or outrage.
Far-left activist Adam Best responded: &#8220;The Obamas now have a movie that won at the #Oscars and Trump is still mad over never winning an Emmy. Imagine he’s having a hissy fit right about now.&#8221;
Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles responded to Best by writing, &#8220;Do the Obamas also get credit for the filmmaker&#8217;s quoting the Communist Manifesto in her acceptance speech?&#8221;
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Do the Obamas also get credit for the filmmaker&#39;s quoting the Communist Manifesto in her acceptance speech? <a href="https://t.co/KtbN5VUG1m">https://t.co/KtbN5VUG1m</a>
&mdash; Iowa Caucus Winner Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1226701895961460736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Commentator Jordan Schachtel wrote: &#8220;The 100 million victims of communist regimes would like to have a word.&#8221;
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The 100 million victims of communist regimes would like to have a word.<a href="https://t.co/aKTBr4VrjA">https://t.co/aKTBr4VrjA</a>
&mdash; Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1226702366386380800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Columnist Jonah Goldberg wrote: &#8220;I love that most of my twitter feed thought the big game away from her speech was &#8216;go Buckeyes&#8217; not the opening line from the f***ing Communist Manifesto.&#8221;
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I love that most of my twitter feed thought the big game away from her speech was “go Buckeyes” not the opening line from the f***ing Communist Manifesto. <a href="https://t.co/zHiHVfuoCE">https://t.co/zHiHVfuoCE</a>
&mdash; Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1226692767079858178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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