Pity the modern screenwriter.
He or she opens a laptop, fires up a new Word document and takes a long, slow breath.
“How do I write a story that doesn’t trigger a Cancel Culture attack? What if my characters aren’t woke enough? Am I addressing systemic racism in my narrative? Will I ever work again if I anger the wrong people?”
Sound dramatic? Think again.
The scribes behind “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” admit <a href="https://www.cbr.com/brooklyn-nine-nine-scraps-season-8-scripts-will-start-over/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">they scrapped existing scripts</a> because they didn’t fit into the Black Lives Matter world. “We have to start over. Right now we don’t know which direction it’s going to go in,” said show co-star Terry Crews, himself <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ben-carson-defends-terry-crews-black-lives-matter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">attacked for being critical of BLM</a>.
Time Magazine ran an article suggesting superhero films <a href="https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/07/01/time-magazine-declares-superheroes-a-problem-because-they-star-straight-white-men/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">can no longer feature white heroes</a> ignoring racial injustice.
The co-creator of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” admits he has a <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/kenya-barris-greg-daniels-comedy-showrunner-roundtable-1300305" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">staff of young, presumably woke Millennials</a> overseeing story creation to “show me what’s not only funny but what’s relevant, what’s changing, how is it changing, and how can we continue to be on the cutting edge …” Remember how well that worked for <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/how-feminism-crushed-neighbors-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Neighbors 2?”</a>
These are three anecdotes. Think bigger.
We’re already told Hollywood should think twice about telling more police stories. Stories that show heroic cops, a staple of TV and films for decades, are now problematic, or worse. Heck, “Paw Patrol” <a href="https://decider.com/2020/06/11/is-paw-patrol-being-cancelled-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">narrowly escaped cultural cancellation.</a>
Delicate satire, the kind that might feature characters <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/505086-hulu-removes-golden-girls-mud-mask-episode-prompts-pushback-what-the-hell" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">covered in mud masks</a>, is no longer permissible. Can you imagine a comedian whose name isn’t “Chappelle” telling hard but funny truths about race in a Netflix special? Even Dave himself might get cancelled if he yukked it up about Black Lives Matter in a way that clashes with the hard-left narrative.
The timing, alas, simply couldn’t be worse.
For starters, the movie-going experience is on a delayed pause due to the pandemic. Who knows when it will return to full strength?
Crowds may flock to see James Bond and Black Widow again, but not every film boasts a must-see component.
Audiences are <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/woke-broke-movies-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">preternaturally opposed to woke storytelling</a>, witness sizable flops like “Charlie’s Angels,” “Ghostbusters” and “Late Night.” Doubling down on Guilt Cinema is a recipe for financial ruin.
More importantly, we’ve been awash in a golden age of TV content. Theatrical releases remain inconsistent, with a heavy emphasis on loud, IP-driven fare. Last year proved a notable difference, given a crush of quality stories including “<a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/critic-v-critic-joker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Joker</a>,” “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and “Jojo Rabbit.”
It’s on the small screen where the greatest creative progress has been made. For now.
To list all the superlative shows streaming into our homes is too tall a task. What’s more remarkable is the eclectic platforms providing them. HBO. Netflix. Hulu. Syfy. Showtime. AMC. Amazon Prime. Paramount Network. You could spend every waking hour watching the best new shows around and still not keep up with the dynamic flow.
Will that change moving forward? Productions remain mostly on hold due to the pandemic, but screenwriters are working feverishly to prepare for the grand re-opening.
What stories will they tell? What narratives will they be permitted to share?
Even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threatens to upend the organic storytelling process. The Academy is finalizing new rules mean to address<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/12/876481972/oscars-future-films-must-meet-diversity-and-inclusion-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> diversity issues for Oscar-bait films</a>. Think that won’t have an impact on the stories to be told?
There is an upside to the current cultural revolution. We will get to know artists, primarily people of color, who might otherwise have gone unnoticed. Hollywood has had a diversity problem for some time, one not miraculously solved by sharing black squares on Instagram.
Perhaps another Jordan Peele, Issa Rae or Donald Glover will emerge &#8212; young, exciting talents whose work both challenges and entertains.
That’s wonderful.
What a shame the downsides could greatly overshadow that progress.
More from Christian Toto: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-shut-up-the-celebrities-said-hoping-the-pc-police-would-spare-them">‘Shut Up,’ The Celebrities Said (Hoping The PC Police Would Spare Them)</a>
A version of this article was also published on <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/woke-hollywood-crush-tv-golden-age/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.

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The principal leader of the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said on Friday that the West should think again about its depiction of Jesus Christ as a white man, adding that some statues of historical figures in Canterbury Cathedral and Westminster Abbey “will have to come down.”
Welby, who was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral in March 2013, was asked if the “way the western church portrays Jesus needs to be thought about again.” Welby answered, “Yes, of course it does, this sense that God was white . . . ” He noted of churches around the world, “You go into churches and you don&#8217;t see a white Jesus. You see a black Jesus, a Chinese Jesus, a Middle Eastern Jesus — which is of course the most accurate — you see a Fijian Jesus.”
Welby continued, “Jesus is portrayed in as many ways as there are cultures, languages, and understandings. And I don&#8217;t think that throwing out everything we&#8217;ve got in the past is the way to do it, but I do think saying ‘that&#8217;s not the Jesus who exists, that&#8217;s not who we worship,&#8217; it is a reminder of the universality of the God who became fully human.”
Welby said of people who have been memorialized in statues that people should forgive them their “trespasses” instead of knocking them down, but added, “We can only do that if we&#8217;ve got justice, which means the statue needs to be put in context. Some will have to come down … some names will have to change. I mean, the church, goodness me, you know, you just go around Canterbury Cathedral, there&#8217;s monuments everywhere, or Westminster Abbey, and we&#8217;re looking at all that, and some will have to come down,” according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8462735/Archbishop-Canterbury-says-Church-think-portraying-Jesus-white.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
But asked by BBC Today specifically if statues will be torn down in Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby stated, “No, I didn&#8217;t say that. I very carefully didn&#8217;t say that. We&#8217;re going to be looking very carefully and putting them in context and seeing if they all should be there. The question arises. Of course it does.”
Welby said that reconsidering statues is “what people do at times like this . . . And it&#8217;s a good thing, but there has to be, for forgiveness, there has to be this turning round, this conversion, the Pope called it. The change of heart that says we learned from them not to be like that, and to change the way we are in the future.&#8217;
Welby added: “We&#8217;ve seen in some of the crises we&#8217;ve first over the last few months, not just Covid, but also Black Lives Matter and the economic downturn, that there is great injustice. And we need a collective turning away from that, which is what repentance means, but we also need to learn to forgive.”
He continued, “There can be forgiveness, I hope and pray as we come together, but only if there&#8217;s justice. If we change the way we behave now, and say this was then and we learned from that, and change how we&#8217;re going to be in the future, internationally, as well.&#8221;
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Archbishop of Canterbury

Jesus Christ

The actress Jenny Slate has apologized for her “flawed” decision to voice a non-white character on the Netflix show “Big Mouth.” Slate announced that she is stepping aside from the role, acknowledging that her initial decision to voice the animated character was a symptom of her “white privilege.”
She explained that she originally thought it was okay because her character, Missy, has a white Jewish mother. But she now understands that she could only take on that role because of “unjust allowances made within a system of societal white supremacy.” She makes a salient point, of course. It is well known that the ultimate goal of any Nazi or Klan member is to be a voice actor for a mixed race cartoon character. Slate promised to do her part to fight the white supremacist scourge by “engaging in meaningful anti-racist action,” and she expressed deep remorse for anyone she may have “hurt” by doing voice overs on a cartoon show.
On the same day, actress Kristen Bell stepped aside from her role voicing a non-white character named Molly on the animated show “Central Park.” She apologized for her “lack of awareness” of her “pervasive privilege,” and admitted that “casting a mixed race character with a white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race and Black American experience.” It is not clear how a cartoon character’s voice could “undermine” anyone’s “experience,” or even what it means to undermine an experience, but whatever it means, and however it happens, the point is that Kristen Bell is very sorry and wants you to know that she’s one of the good inherently racist white people, not one of the bad ones.
In the Twitter thread she posted on this issue, the humble Bell responded to a person thanking her for her decision by saying she doesn’t “deserve a thank you” but instead “deserves to acknowledge my part in the problem, and then rectify it.” This was an impressive answer and it goes to show that in no way whatsoever did Kristen Bell come to this racial enlightenment at this particular moment in time, and dramatically announce that enlightenment in a public forum, because she wanted applause and approval. That was absolutely not the point at all, to be clear.
I personally find these decisions by Bell and Slate to be so inspiring that I’d like to suggest other characters that should be canceled along similar lines. Obviously Darth Vader has to go. He is a white man in a black suit voiced by a black man. I’m not sure how this is racist but I’m sure that it must be, in some way. Bart Simpson is a boy voiced by an adult woman. For years I accepted this problematic dichotomy because I assumed that “The Simpsons” was headed for a story arc where the young Bart discovers his inner female identity, comes out as transgender, and begins hormone therapy. But after 30 years on the air, this moment still has not arrived, and I’m beginning to despair that “The Simpsons” will ever make the expected transition into a nuanced, introspective drama about the  experiences of transgender adolescents in modern America.
Other characters that should be canceled, abolished, outlawed, imprisoned, executed, or at least recast, are perhaps a little less obvious but nonetheless crucial to defeating white supremacy. E.T., from the film “E.T.,” has only a few lines of dialogue (a problem in and of itself), and those lines are handled by a white voice actress named Pat Welsh. It boggles my mind that, in the whole entire cosmos, populated by 100 billion galaxies and trillions of planets, Steven Spielberg could not find even one actual extra terrestrial to take on this role. A white actor cannot empathize with the lived reality of alien beings enough to capture the fullness and depth of their experiences on screen.
We have to remember something: acting is not about pretending to be something you’re not. Acting, in an ideal society, would consist of people being themselves, and doing and saying all of the same stuff they would do and say on a normal day. In a truly progressive culture, films would have no characters, no script, no plot, and instead the audience would watch people — none of them white, of course — going about their day, running errands, checking the mailbox, preparing dinner, etc. Every film would be like this, all of them would be titled “Experiences,” and all of them would win every Oscar every year. The fact that this scenario I concocted in my head is not a reality just proves that white supremacy is real and literal Nazis are running the country.
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Another bigoted film that must be eradicated or changed immediately is a disturbing fascist manifesto called “The Brave Little Toaster.” The film, released in 1987, tells the story of appliances, led by the titular Toaster, who embark on a quest to find their owner. There are a number of obvious problems here, including the deeply insensitive reference to “owners,” which brings to mind the legacy of slavery. But more to the point, none of the characters — Toaster, Lampy, Blanky, Radio, Kirby the Vacuum — are voiced by actual household appliances. It is difficult enough for toasters to find work in Hollywood. If they aren’t even allowed to play toasters, how are they supposed to find a foothold in the industry?
Similar problems can be found in the film “Babe,” where the protagonist pig is not portrayed by an authentic pig; “Boss Baby,” a film in which Alec Baldwin ruthlessly appropriates a role that could have gone to an actual toddler instead of a man who simply acts like one (both in the film and in real life); “A Nightmare Before Christmas,” a movie about undead humans that exclusively casts fully alive humans; the 90’s Nickelodeon cartoon “Hey Arnold” which features a person with a normal-shaped head voicing a character with a grotesquely deformed head, a casting decision that still rankles the Grotesquely Deformed Head (GDH) community to this day. Many other examples could be provided. The point is that a great many films and television shows — arguably, all of them — have for decades featured actors playing characters that are in some way different from their real selves. This needs to change. Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate have helped us to take the first step. We must have the courage to go all the way. Until then, all movies and shows are canceled.
NOTE: This piece employs a once widely familiar device known as parody and contains flashes of what some might call sarcasm.

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Mike Rowe has parted ways with his fair share of friends. In fact, in one year, he lost as many as a million of them. 
It was around 2013, and in his re-telling, his Facebook following dropped from three million to two after he appeared on “Real Time” with Bill Maher, the left-leaning political commentator who he has described as “opinionated, polarizing and controversial,&#8221; and, that same year, joined conservative radio host Glenn Beck for an interview. 
“My buddies on the right just didn’t know what to do with the optics of me sitting next to Bill Maher,” said Rowe, who recalled the incident in a 2018 interview. “And my pals on the left just had no notion of how to square the cognitive dissonance that forced their heads to explode when they saw me sitting there with Glenn Beck.”
The former “Dirty Jobs” host added: “We’re in the world now, where it’s not what we say that gets us in trouble, it’s what we don’t. And it&#8217;s not where we are that makes people’s eyebrows arch, it’s who we’re next to. It’s the proximity of outrage. It’s the geography of all of it.”
Rowe’s observations, made during a “Sunday Special” conversation with Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro two years ago, continue to hold true — maybe even more so. 
Earlier this month, The Washington Post published a 3,000-word tome about a random woman’s decision to attend a 2018 Halloween party as Meghan Kelly in blackface. Why? Two party guests who confronted the woman at the time were still upset over it, and wanted her to endure a full-throttled public humiliation, nearly two years after she privately apologized to the host. 
Notably, Lyric Prince, one of the two guests, also wanted the host, an editorial cartoonist at the Washington Post, to condemn the woman — his own friend and a non-public figure — in public: “I want people who read this story to say to themselves, ‘I cannot excuse my friend’s bad behavior because it does reflect on me if I say nothing.’” 
The woman has since been fired from her job. Cancel culture abounds. 
According to Rowe, part of the problem can be attributed to social media. Like a gun, social media is a tool, and it demands a level of responsibility from its user. 
“We’re right on the verge, I think, of discovering some really interesting parallels between the First and Second Amendment. And I think people who would never, ever consider or associate a firearm with goodness, are ironically using speech as a real cudgel and restricting it in so many ways,” Rowe told Shapiro. 
But, how you use the tool remains an open question. “Most people simply don’t have the training or the maturity to handle it,” said Rowe. 
“The violence and the anger, and the outrage that you’re seeing, I think in part, is a result of having an unlimited amount of access to a platform that gives you both the mechanism to say whatever you want, and the anonymity, and the comfort to hide behind it,” he said. 
“So people are very shrill and they’re very brave in those scenarios,” said Rowe, who argued that those factors, when combined together, serve as the “portent to a mob.”
“I think that’s what you’ve probably seen. Things get accelerated, and then there&#8217;s no place left for it to go, and so they have to act out,” he said. 
The New York Times recently reported an uptick in high school students and alumni using “social media to expose racism,” including the use of anonymous Instagram accounts, where students can submit stories about others for public humiliation. 
One of the Instagram accounts, described by The Times, was used to share screenshots and videos of local students using anything from racial slurs to engaging in “cultural appropriation.” When students became angry about it, some started photoshopping images to retaliate, and fights between friends broke out online. 
The Times reports that the specific Instagram page in question has since been shut down. 
During the 2018 interview, Rowe told Shapiro that people in society seem to confuse passion with conviction, an observation that reminded him of the “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats’ early-20th Century poem that is infamous for its apocalyptic imagery. 
<blockquote>The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity</blockquote>
“If you don’t have the certainty of your convictions. If you can’t make a case….Then what is left? Nothing is left but an explanation of how you feel,” said Rowe. 
“If your philosophy ultimately redounds to an explanation of how you feel, then you’re completely beholden to whatever feeling you might be experiencing at any given point. And then you’re just one of those people who follow their passion. Good luck with that,” said Rowe. 
So what’s better than relying on feelings? Rowe suggests that “a good-natured skepticism, a ton of gratitude, and some honest intellectual curiosity” could be the best replacement for the “let me tell you how I feel” philosophy that dominates outrage mobs.  
“I really don’t care how you feel, honestly. I mean, over a beer it&#8217;s kind of fun,” he said. “I just don’t care. It’s so much more interesting to understand why you believe what you believe, than it is to understand what you believe. That’s why mobs are boring,” said Rowe. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/sundayspecialep-12-mike-rowe">Watch Rowe’s full interview with Shapiro</a>.

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Variety just published a list of 10 “problematic” films that deserve a warning label a la “Gone With the Wind.” The list includes “Dirty Harry” (it mocks liberal judges), “The Silence of the Lambs” (not trans friendly) and “The Searchers” (it portrays Native Americans as “savage or comical”).
So we clearly need a competing list of 10 liberal films so “problematic” they demand warnings all their own.
OK, we don’t actually want warning labels on these films, or any movies for that matter. Labels are for children, and adults are smart enough to process thoughts and themes from decades ago ‘til now.
That didn’t stop <a href="https://variety.com/2020/film/news/gone-with-the-wind-problem-films-forrest-gump-1234640666/">Variety</a> from demanding a movie released less than a year ago, “Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood,” come with a warning about its “regressive” content.
“It’s about two middle-aged white guys who long for the old days in Hollywood; in other words, MHGA (Make Hollywood Great Again). The film is set in 1969, when some Americans felt the status quo was being threatened by minorities, hippies and newly liberated women.”
Especially the hippies out to slaughter the main characters, mind you.
Still, as a way to reach across the ideological aisle, here are 10 sticker-worthy liberal films. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Or not!
“JFK” (1991)
What you’re about to see comes from the conspiratorial mind of Oliver Stone. Enough said.
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“Truth” (2015)
This Robert Redford vehicle attempted to resurrect Dan Rather’s career. The disgraced CBS News anchor now bloviates on Twitter and CNN, so let’s assume the resurrection didn’t fully take. More importantly, the film says Rather followed solid journalistic standards by reciting the “fake but accurate” mantra.
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“The Day After Tomorrow” (2004)
Hollywood loves climate change apocalyptic stories. This one, from hack auteur Roland Emmerich, may cause intense giggles and rampant eye rolling. Consult your doctor before watching from start to finish.
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“Vice” (2018)
This Adam McKay fever dream purports to tell the unlikely rise of Richard B. Cheney. Instead, it’s a factually wobbly blog post with killer makeup and a starry cast. And when a movie like “Vice” insists the U.S. invaded Iraq for its oil, but never took over the oil fields, you shouldn’t take it seriously.
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“Avatar” (2009)
Even your favorite tree hugger might wince as the film asks us to cheer on blue aliens over Earthlings. It doesn’t help that hack lines like “shock and awe” reached theaters after President George W. Bush went back to his Texas ranch.
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“Collapse” (2009)
This “Peak Oil” screed hit theaters in 2009. Fracking went wild just a few years later.
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“Bushwick” (2017)
Did you know when the Left/Right civil war begins, the progressives will have the upper hand? Yes, this 2017 turkey tells us so, along with the notion that many Red States want out of the U.S. of A. Sure, it’s a fantasy action romp, and a stupefying one at that, still some coherency should come into play.
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“Game Change” (2012)
Sarah Palin has her flaws. All politicians do. Portraying her as a potted plant, not a popular governor reviving a comatose campaign, shows the HBO film didn’t have reality in mind. It won a boatload of awards all the same, to no one’s surprise.
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“Sicko” (2007)
If we’re giving out warning labels, better print up a bunch for this filmmaker’s canon and perhaps his <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/michael-moore-lying-attacks-life/">dubious brand-building</a>. Any movie telling us you’re better off being sick in Cuba than the U.S. has its head up the wrong place.
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“BlacKkKlansman” (2018)
This 2018 film proved director Spike Lee could still spin a dizzying yarn, something he hasn’t done in ages. The movie caps with a montage of news footage featuring the mother of all selectively edited clips. Yes, the <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/the-charlottesville-lie/">Charlottesville Lie</a> makes a vicious cameo.
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By the way, the Variety listicle got pummeled by the site’s own readers. It’s worth reading every scathing response, but here are a few golden nuggets.
<ul>
<li>You guys at The Onion are hilarious! Thanks for the satire but I think you went too far on the unbelievable side.</li>
<li>Tim Gray wants to be the new Tipper Gore. Hey Tim nobody wants to see context, opinions or warnings before watching a movie. Earth to Tim &#8211; These are entertainment movies and not politically correct SJW propaganda films. Warnings are not a form of censorship? You are way off mark.</li>
<li>If you’re an adult and you need a disclaimer before a film, to explain that the past wasn’t exactly like the present, you shouldn’t be going out to the movies or anywhere else in public, unattended.</li>
<li>Please, stop this madness. I remember socialism as a teenager (I am from Prague and in 1989 I was 15) and this is very similar to situation before 1989 &#8211; many films were blacklisted and forbidden because of some “suitable” reason….how can Forrest Gump do harm? Is this really democracy?</li>
</ul>
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10 Problematic Leftist Films That Could Use Warning Labels—Or Better Yet, We Could Just Laugh At Their Absurdity

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Adam Carolla’s upcoming project may put his “no apology” mantra to the test.
The podcaster’s fifth book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1642935883?pf_rd_r=ZF0FPJXYEBRMM5RNXGN8&amp;pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee">“I’m Your Emotional Support Animal: Navigating Our All Woke, No Joke Culture,”</a> shares so many politically incorrect bromides you’ll soon lose count.
Potential publishers didn’t, apparently.
Carolla says publishers weren’t salivating at the chance to claim his latest book, out June 16, even though his previous tomes all became New York Times’ best sellers.
“I think the climate for a voice like mine ten years ago was much different than for a voice like mine today,” he says, referring to his 2010 book “In 50 Years We’ll All Be Chicks.” “The publishers are getting kind of woke, too.”
That may be an understatement, but the comedian isn’t hungry for victimhood status. He thinks that sentiment is crushing our culture, along with wimpy car commercials, Fake News broadsides and, of course, airline passengers requiring more than one support critter.
Off the page, Carolla is worked up over the press making people, especially children, cower during the current pandemic.
“My daughter was freaked out for the last three months. Everyone was scaring her … the news, the moms the dads,” he says. “You’re hurting her life &#8230; they look at it like, ‘I’m doing the responsible thing.’”
He pins much of the blame on the corporate press.
&#8220;Here’s the problem. The facts as it pertains to COVID-19 weren’t that scary. CNN is in the ‘scare’ business,” he says. “They’re not in the ‘facts’ business. The facts are boring, and they won’t scare that many people.
“If they let you know that everyone who was dying was 88 and was in the nursing home, which they should have, you wouldn’t be that freaked out.”
Something similar is brewing over race relations in the country, he says.
“The actual number of cops shooting unarmed black citizens … it wouldn’t be enough to freak people out,” he says, thoughts that echo Heather MacDonald’s <a href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism">research</a> on the subject.
That narrative, he argues, is amplified by both the press and well-meaning adults.
“It’s a big problem when I see parents sitting down and explaining to their kids that we’re a racist nation,” Carolla says.
He name-checks Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Sandra Bullock for telling their adopted black children “you have a target on your back.”
“That’s scary to the kids,” he says.
Carolla’s early years hardly suggested his rise to culture warrior status.
He grew up poor and famously left carpentry behind for a radio career, thanks to a boost from future chum Jimmy Kimmel. Carolla eventually teamed with Dr. Drew Pinsky for the syndicated “Loveline” radio show where they counseled teens on addiction, relationships and abuse.
He followed a bid to replace Howard Stern on terrestrial radio with “The Adam Carolla Show” podcast. And an entrepreneur was born, one coronated by the <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2011/05/adam-carolla-breaks-guinness-world-record-for-podcast-downloads.html">Guinness Book of World Records</a> two years after leaving traditional radio behind.
Today, the Carolla universe includes several podcasts, stand-up comedy tours, TV shows (“Crank Yankers”) and a small but growing library of car-related documentaries under the Chassy Media banner.
Carolla’s observational humor packs a subversive wallop by 2020 American standards, but he doesn’t think it’s doing him any favors.
“I don’t’ think there’s a clamoring for my message. It’s not overall good for me and my career and brand and legacy &#8230; it’s just the truth,” he says. “I didn’t get into this business to take my talking points from woke idiots who can’t decipher facts … if you’re Mayor [Eric] Garcetti or Gov. [Gavin] Newsom, you must then ignore all facts and take your talking points from your woke constituency.”
“I’m Your Emotional Support Animal” starts with a warning and/or promise.
“I’m not going to apologize for anything in this book… If you don’t like something in this book, you can kiss my…” you get the idea.
That stance makes him unique in celebrity circles, something made clear in recent days when NFL quarterback Drew Brees repeatedly asked for forgiveness after he praised the U.S. flag.
Carolla compared the apology phenomena to a classic “Twilight Zone” episode where Bill Mumy’s all-powerful character wished his foes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone)">“into the cornfield</a>.” It’s like what the woke mob does to those who don’t toe the proper narrative, he says.
“We keep talking about having an honest dialogue about race, but if anyone expresses an opinion other than, ‘cops are all racist’ … they have to apologize,” he says. “Would you call that an honest dialogue? How could we have an honest dialogue on any subject if you push back against a thought or notion and for that you were canceled?”
Carolla’s enduring friendship with Kimmel has yet to be canceled despite the chasm between their political takes. Kimmel’s ABC show routinely features the host <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/jimmy-kimmel-transformation-liberal/">excoriating President Donald Trump</a>, his GOP allies and even Republican voters.
Kimmel famously said he doesn’t mind losing the latter as part of his audience.
“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHRuBRCShyA">Not good riddance, but riddance</a>,” he explained.
Even Kimmel’s blurb for “I’m Your Emotional Support Animal” suggests the tension in play.
“Within these pages, you will find written proof that Adam Carolla is insane. Buy this for your uncle,” the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host wrote.
The two agree not to get political when they hang out, Carolla says.
“I think more people should do it,” he says of that approach.
“Even when we shared an office for many years we never talked about politics,” he says of the duo’s tenure hosting Comedy Central’s “The Man Show.” “We’re just dudes who want to make people laugh. We haven’t really changed that … we just continued on not talking about politics &#8230; good people can disagree on subjects.”
Carolla’s book also touches on President Trump, offering readers a unique glimpse at the hard-charging personality.
“I believe he wants to be loved,” he says, something his ideological foes could seize upon if they dropped their Trump derangement for a spell.
“I believe that if Mark Ruffalo and Rosie O’Donnell sent him a fruit basket and said, ‘let’s let bygones be bygones,’ he’d go, ‘Would you like to be Ambassador to Sweden?’” he says.
One reason Carolla can afford his “no apologies” pledge is because he runs his own company, or “pirate ship” to use his phrase. Many Americans lack that luxury, and he says it means they need to think ahead if they dare think for themselves.
“First things first, you need to set yourself up,” he says. “I can get canceled or wished out into the cornfield, but I have stuff I can sell … or I can just retire,” he says with a laugh. “You need to have a Plan B &#8230; something to fall back on, so that you can express your honest opinion and stop apologizing. All it does is begat more apologies.”
The current apology mania isn’t about being kind or respectful, he warns. It’s about power.
“The ultimate power is the apology,” he says. “Being able to beat someone up is a kind of power … but having them apologize in the public square [means] you have dominion over that person.”
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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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After demanding governors &#8220;FREE AMERICA NOW&#8221; and declaring war on California officials for their clampdown on his Tesla factory, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk encouraged everyone on Sunday to &#8220;take the red pill,&#8221; prompting cheers from the right and moans from the left. Now, the SpaceX founder is calling for the end of &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; — and finding that a lot of people are with him, including, at least partly, former President Barack Obama.
&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-take-the-red-pill">Take the red pill</a>,&#8221; Musk tweeted Sunday. While the debate was still raging over Musk&#8217;s Matrix reference, he dropped another context-less, politically loaded comment on Tuesday. &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-cancel-cancel-culture">Cancel Cancel Culture!</a>&#8221; the billionaire wrote. &#8220;More fun, less shun!&#8221; he added in a follow-up post.
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More fun, less shun!
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Like the &#8220;red pill&#8221; post, Musk&#8217;s &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; tweet inspired a flood of responses. Among them was a flashback to a similar comment made by &#8220;The One,&#8221; former President Obama, that made some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-get-over-being-woke-stop-online-outrage-cancel-culture">headlines</a> at the time. Musk has since responded succinctly to the flashback post.
In a speech to a young audience at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago in October last year, Obama offered his thoughts on &#8220;woke&#8221; culture&#8217;s puritanical attitude and reductive worldview.
&#8220;This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re politically woke and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids and you know share certain things with you.&#8221;
&#8220;One danger I see among young people particularly on college campuses — Malia and I talk about this — I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that’s enough,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right, or use the wrong verb then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, ‘Cuz man, did you see how woke I was? I called you out! Let me get on TV, watch my show, watch Grown-ish.'&#8221;
But, Obama concluded, &#8220;That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far. That’s easy to do.&#8221;
When a fan tweeted a clip of Obama&#8217;s comments to Musk, the likewise &#8220;woke&#8221;-critical entrepreneur replied, &#8220;True.&#8221;
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Musk&#8217;s &#8220;political transformation&#8221; began in earnest in late April, when he began to publicly push back on overly restrictive social distancing mandates from governors and counties. In a series of tweets, Musk called on officials to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now">FREE AMERICA NOW</a>.&#8221;
“Give people their freedom back!” Musk tweeted in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, “Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No.&#8221; He also made a point of cheering Texas for being more aggressive than most states in its reopening plans.
The technology entrepreneur made the case in more complete terms during a Tesla earnings call in late April. &#8220;The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all their constitutional rights, is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America and built this country. What the f***!&#8221; he said, as reported by <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science">The Verge</a>. &#8220;If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do… this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their godd*mn freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.&#8221;
Musk has also gone to war with Alameda County officials over reopening his factory, choosing to do so without their consent. But after the governor signaled that he might back Mush, county officials begrudgingly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-wins-california-will-allow-tesla-plant-to-reopen-with-safety-precautions">allowed</a> him to continue to operate.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tesla-owners-freak-out-at-elon-musks-transformation">Tesla Owners Freak Out At Elon Musk’s Transformation</a>
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In a perfect world Dave Rubin wouldn’t have to write “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Burn-this-Book-Thinking/dp/B07W8H9WX7/ref=sr_1_1?crid=P7VE3SUAPN3L&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=don%27t+burn+this+book+dave+rubin&amp;qid=1588614905&amp;sprefix=don%27t+burn+this+book%2Caps%2C195&amp;sr=8-1">Don’t Burn This Book</a>.”
The “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJdKr0Bgd_5saZYqLCa9mng">Rubin Report</a>” host wants his fellow Americans to agree to disagree and maybe share a craft beer later. Sounds like ye olde American experiment, right?
Not the 2020 version, sadly.
Rubin accidentally joined the Intellectual Dark Web by chatting with folks from both sides of the aisle. Now, he’s using free speech’s decline as a tool to share his life story, and more, in his easily digested memoir.
“Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason” wants to open our minds while sharing his right-leaning take on the culture at large.
Rubin shows a flair for self-awareness while trashing what passes for journalism today.
“If it weren’t for [the mainstream media’s] abject failure to do their jobs, you’d have no idea who I was,” he writes.
“Don’t Burn This Book” offers a primer on Fake News as well as Rubin revealing what happened when he shamed a journalist for trafficking in it.
If you follow any of the biggest names in news the answer won’t surprise you.
Rubin, who is gay, defends straight white men mid-book, a section sure to trigger the usual suspects. It’s more about the Left’s sense of “self-loathing” as much as how Leftists clash with a certain civil rights leader’s <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/martin_luther_king_jr_115056">famous line.</a>
Part of the book finds Rubin weighing in on a series of hot button issues &#8212; the Second Amendment, abortion and more. He peels off a few nuggets about each, taking firm but reasonable stances along the way.
It still feels like a detour, and an unnecessary one. His whole thesis revolves around thinking for yourself. Perhaps he could break down in depth how he came to a few of these conclusions, a primer for processing facts en route to a bedrock principle. As is, the chapter marks the book’s weakest point.
“Book” also isn’t as riotous as one might expect given Rubin’s stand-up chops. A few laugh lines prove ineffective, though others more than live up to his background.
Far better is watching Dave Rubin, the media personality, spring to life. The author shares some personal struggles, both mental and physical, that led to his unexpected fame.
Rubin remains kindred spirits with Jordan Peterson, the Canadian intellectual who enraged the Left for telling people to clean their rooms and smiting government speech codes. They make an odd pair, but the chapter dedicated to their tour offers some humble life lessons.
Dress for success may sound obvious, but Rubin frames the old saw in a way that could make a difference. Even better is sharing Peterson’s knack for knowing his own limitations.
In today’s age of scorching hot takes, it’s more than acceptable to say, “I don’t know.” In fact, it’s refreshing and raw. Rubin’s thoughts on how we “catastrophize” everything in our First World lives is equally valuable, although it, too, could be better fleshed out.
The author burns plenty of calories repudiating the woke mob, giving specific techniques to keep the pitchforks at bay. He’s right, of course, but for many people the short-term costs will be considerable.
Rubin famously left the Left, which he says fueled the book’s initial premise. That transformation’s fallout, including hateful messages from former “allies” who now see him as Public Enemy Nos. 1-5, must be read to be believed.
Here’s a sample:
<blockquote>“Suddenly longtime friends are leaving venomous voice mails, calling me racist and misogynistic, while others send emails denouncing me as a hateful bigot who deserves to die.”</blockquote>
The scariest part of Rubin’s book is how he describes cultural forces aligning to silence dissent. He name checks an Economist story that dubbed The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro “a pop idol of the alt-right” as Exhibit A.
Yes, those eager to squelch free expression are on the march, but Rubin and “Don’t Burn This Book” have our backs.
“You’re not a Nazi, you’re just somebody who thinks for themselves,” he writes about Americans who don’t tow the progressive line. That sentence alone justifies Rubin’s cultural ascension. It’s also why “Don’t Burn This Book” should be read by every torch-wielding member of the social media mob.
A version of this review was also published at HollywoodInToto.com.
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Comedian Bill Maher unloaded on Democrats and the woke Left on Friday night for getting offended by people who correctly state that the coronavirus came from China or who call it the &#8220;Chinese virus.&#8221;
Maher hit Democrats for being mad at people who call the coronavirus the &#8220;Chinese virus&#8221; by noting that scientists have named numerous diseases after the geographic location from which they originated.
&#8220;So, why should China get a pass?&#8221; Maher asked. &#8220;Congressman Ted Lieu tweeted, &#8216;The virus is not constrained by country or race. Be just as stupid to call it the Milan virus.&#8217; No, that would be way stupider because it didn&#8217;t come from Milan and if it did I guarantee we&#8217;d be calling it the Milan virus.&#8221;
&#8220;The PC police say it&#8217;s racist to attack any cultural practice that&#8217;s different than our own,&#8221; Maher continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not racist to point out that eating bats is bats**t crazy.&#8221;
&#8220;So when someone says, &#8216;what if people hear Chinese virus and blame China?&#8217; The answer is we should blame China,&#8221; Maher continued. &#8220;Sorry, Americans were going to have to ask you to keep two ideas in your head at the same time. This has nothing to do with Asian Americans and it has everything to do with China. We can&#8217;t afford the luxury anymore of non-judginess towards a country with habits that kill millions of people everywhere because this isn&#8217;t the first time. SARS came from China, and the bird flu, and the Hong Kong flu, the Asian flu.&#8221;
&#8220;Viruses come from China like shortstops come from the Dominican Republic,&#8221; Maher added. &#8220;If they were selling nuclear suitcases at these wet markets, would we be so non-judgmental? And isn&#8217;t this pretty close to what they are selling? And the next one could be even worse.&#8221;
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<blockquote>And finally, new rule, you can&#8217;t yell at someone for breaking a rule you just made up.
Scientists, yes, scientists, are generally pretty liberal, have been naming diseases after the places they came from for a very long time. Zika is from the Zika forest. Ebola from the Ebola River. Hantavirus the Hantan River. There&#8217;s the West Nile virus and guinea worm and Rocky Mountain spotted fever and, of course, the Spanish flu. MERS stands for Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, it&#8217;s plastered all over airports and no one blogs about it.
So, why should China get a pass?
Congressman Ted Lieu tweeted, &#8216;The virus is not constrained by country or race. Be just as stupid to call it the Milan virus.&#8217; No, that would be way stupider because it didn&#8217;t come from Milan and if it did I guarantee we&#8217;d be calling it the Milan virus.
J***s-f***in&#8217;-C***st, can&#8217;t we even have a pandemic without getting offended? When they named Lyme disease after a town in Connecticut the locals didn&#8217;t get all ticked off. Ticked off [laughing].
Seriously, it scares me that there are people out there who would rather die from the virus than call it by the wrong name. This isn&#8217;t about vilifying a culture, this is about facts. It&#8217;s about life and death. We&#8217;re barely four months into this pandemic and the wet markets in China, the ones where exotic animals are sold and consumed, are already starting to reopen.
The PC police say it&#8217;s racist to attack any cultural practice that&#8217;s different than our own. I say liberalism lost its way when it started thinking like that and pretended that forcing a woman to wear this was just a different way instead of an abhorrent human rights violation.
It&#8217;s not racist to point out that eating bats is bats**t crazy.
In 2007 researchers at the University of Hong Kong wrote, &#8220;The presence of a large reservoir saw of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats together with the culture of eating exotic animals in southern China is a time bomb doctor.
Dr. Fauci says we should force a global closure of the wet markets because the current crisis is a &#8216;direct result of them.&#8217; On Monday, the UN&#8217;s acting head of biodiversity said the same thing.
So when someone says, &#8216;what if people hear Chinese virus and blame China?&#8217; The answer is we should blame China. Not Chinese Americans, but we can&#8217;t stop telling the truth because racists get the wrong idea. There are always going to be idiots out there who want to indulge their prejudices.
But this is an emergency, don&#8217;t we have bigger tainted fish to fry? Jesus if the Sun was exploding Twitter would pile on the first guy who called it a dwarf star.
Sorry, Americans were going to have to ask you to keep two ideas in your head at the same time. This has nothing to do with Asian Americans and it has everything to do with China. We can&#8217;t afford the luxury anymore of non-judginess towards a country with habits that kill millions of people everywhere because this isn&#8217;t the first time. SARS came from China, and the bird flu, and the Hong Kong flu, the Asian flu.
Viruses come from China like shortstop&#8217;s come from the Dominican Republic. If they were selling nuclear suitcases at these wet markets, would we be so non-judgmental? And isn&#8217;t this pretty close to what they are selling? And the next one could be even worse.
If the Chinese military had purposefully infected this country with Corona as a bioweapon we&#8217;d be at war with them. We&#8217;re always griping about how China manipulates their currency, well I&#8217;m no monetary expert but I think you would agree this one hurt our economy a little more than the currency manipulation and China can do this.
China once built a 57 story skyscraper in nineteen days. There&#8217;s been a pothole on my street for nineteen years. They&#8217;re not like us, they can actually get shit done. This is a dictatorship that for decades enforced a one child per family policy under penalty of forced sterilization, but you can&#8217;t close down the farmers market from hell?
They need to use that iron fist and pound it down like the whole world depends on it because it kind of does and I hope that if someone told Americans that eating hot pockets could cause a worldwide pandemic that we would have the good sense to stop doing it although I wouldn&#8217;t bet on it.</blockquote>

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Maher Unloads On Democrats For Being Offended Over ‘Chinese Virus’: ‘Blame China’, ‘Has Everything To Do With China’

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The following contains mild spoilers.
The movie &#8220;The Hunt&#8221; was cancelled late last year in a wave of allegations and bad publicity. The majority of the negative publicity around the film came from the Right and conservative commentators.
It&#8217;s easy to see why a superficial look at the premise of the movie got so many people excited and angry. From the trailer, the plot of &#8220;The Hunt&#8221; was clearly about a bunch of ultra-wealthy liberals who arrange the kidnapping of &#8220;deplorables&#8221; (yes they actually use that term) and then hunt them to death in a vast rural enclosure.
That is indeed the plot of the movie, but the film is also so much more. No conservative (or liberal) should miss seeing this new film.
In fact, &#8220;The Hunt&#8221; unexpectedly turns the tables as the elite make the fatal mistake of underestimating the &#8220;rednecks.&#8221;  Doesn’t that sound familiar? Eventually, the movie becomes a battle of intelligence, resourcefulness and stamina between those who believe they are superior and those who have to fight for survival every day.
If &#8220;The Hunt&#8221; were only about this it would be worth the visit to the theater, but the movie is about so much more. It manages to bring home the devastating consequences of having your career and future cancelled over a single, poorly worded private joke. It also looks at how social media mobs can compound the damage.
&#8220;The Hunt&#8221; explores these issues and then allows the victims to indulge in a fantasy revenge which is wildly disproportionate to what the people wrote about them. But then isn’t most reaction on social media wildly disproportionate to reality?
Writers Nick Cuse (&#8220;The Leftovers,&#8221; &#8220;Lost&#8221;) and Damon Lindelof (&#8220;The Leftovers,&#8221; &#8220;The Lost,&#8221; &#8220;Watchmen&#8221;) and director Craig Zobel (&#8220;Compliance&#8221;) throw lots of mud at both sides, the elites and the deplorables, but &#8220;The Hunt&#8221; seems to take particular pleasure in poking fun at the political correctness and hypocrisies of the elites.
Don’t believe the reviews that tell you that this is an &#8220;equal opportunity attack on both sides of America’s political divide.&#8221; It&#8217;s not. &#8220;The Hunt&#8221; is a movie for those who feel Hollywood hates them. It is the perfect revenge fantasy for MAGA supporters who feel they have been attacked, abused and sometimes &#8220;hunted&#8221; by the elites since before the last election.
One memorable scene features an elite couple murdering deplorables without a care but then criticizing each other about using politically incorrect terminology in their conversation. The deplorables — as in all horror movies — die in increasingly inventive and sometimes gory ways but then, as the tables are turned, so do the elites. But no one is allowed to die without a joke or sometimes a political point being made. Sometimes both. There is a lot in the movie for those who love politics, horror and humor.
And, of course, there is the perfect climax with representatives of both sides fighting it out to the death.  The standout star is Crystal (Betty Gilpin of “GLOW”) who is cynical, intelligent and resourceful and who uses all her backstory to maximum use to survive, literally turning the tables on her hunters. For one elite to be outsmarted by her is fatal, but the ultimate humiliation is to realize that Crystal actually reads books and can argue intelligently about what they mean.
Conservatives are so used to being abused and attacked by Hollywood that their initial reaction to &#8220;The Hunt&#8221; is probably understandable, but it would be a pity if this kept them from seeing the movie.
In the end, very few of the characters escape criticism or death, but &#8220;The Hunt&#8221; is a movie that predominantly humanizes the deplorables and satirizes the elites. This is a movie for those who have spent decades condemning Hollywood for attacking their values. &#8220;The Hunt&#8221; doesn’t and, in a sly way, it almost celebrates them. For this, the movie deserves conservatives&#8217; support.
&#8220;The Hunt&#8221; (rated R) opens Friday, March 13th.

Betty Gilpin

‘The Hunt’: Why Every Conservative Must Go And See This Movie [Review]

On Monday, <a href="https://theathletic.com/1615529/2020/02/17/exclusive-giants-will-not-include-aubrey-huff-in-their-2010-world-series-reunion-celebration/">The Athletic</a> reported that MLB star Aubrey Huff was barred from the upcoming 2010 World Series Championship reunion over his past tweets, which includes a photo of Huff at a gun range with his sons and a tweet joking about Iranian women.
&#8220;Earlier this month, we reached out to Aubrey Huff to let him know that he will not be included in the upcoming 2010 World Series Championship reunion,&#8221; the San Francisco Giants announced in a statement.
&#8220;Aubrey has made multiple comments on social media that are unacceptable and run counter to the values of our organization. While we appreciate the many contributions that Aubrey made to the 2010 championship season, we stand by our decision,&#8221; San Fransisco added.
The Athletic noted that Huff was the team&#8217;s starting first baseman and &#8220;led the Giants in home runs and WAR and finished seventh in the National League MVP voting that season.&#8221;
When asked about the decision from the Giants, Huff told The Athletic: &#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for me, they wouldn&#8217;t be having a reunion. But if they want to stick with their politically correct, progressive bullsh**, that&#8217;s fine.&#8221;
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One of the tweets that landed Huff on the outs included a photo of himself at a gun range with his sons.
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&#8220;Getting my boys trained up on how to use a gun in the unlikely event [Bernie Sanders] beats [Donald Trump] in 2020. In which case knowing how to effectively use a gun under socialism will be a must. By the way most the head shots were theirs,&#8221; the MLB star posted.
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Getting my boys trained up on how to use a gun in the unlikely event <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> beats <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> in 2020. In which case knowing how to effectively use a gun under socialism will be a must. By the way most the head shots were theirs. <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NRA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WatchChad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WatchChad</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2ndAmendment?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2ndAmendment</a> <a href="https://t.co/6xUsS7ciX3">pic.twitter.com/6xUsS7ciX3</a>
&mdash; Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) <a href="https://twitter.com/aubrey_huff/status/1199200986658553857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Huff also made a joke about bringing Iranian women to America.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s get a flight over and kidnap about 10 each,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;We can bring them back here as they fan us and feed us grapes, amongst other things&#8230;.&#8221;
In a follow-up post, Huff emphasized that he was joking and never said anything about &#8220;rape.&#8221;
&#8220;Does nobody have a sense of humor anymore!?&#8221; the baseball player asked. &#8220;The way Iranian women are treated over there I simply wanted 2 say I’d go there 2 rescue them &amp; bring them back 2 the states. And they would be so thankful 2 escape that hell that they’d fan me &amp; feed me grapes. Never said rape!&#8221;
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Does nobody have a sense of humor anymore!? 🤦🏻‍♂️ The way Iranian women are treated over there I simply wanted 2 say I’d go there 2 rescue them &amp; bring them back 2 the states. And they would be so thankful 2 escape that hell that they’d fan me &amp; feed me grapes. Never said rape! 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/F3IpCcivkN">https://t.co/F3IpCcivkN</a> <a href="https://t.co/WbGpgnAEmL">pic.twitter.com/WbGpgnAEmL</a>
&mdash; Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) <a href="https://twitter.com/aubrey_huff/status/1214634047172820992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Tuesday morning, Huff expanded on his response, this time posting a lengthy statement and tagging President Donald Trump.
According to Huff, he was informed that he was not to be included at the reunion because of his Twitter posts and his &#8220;political support of Donald Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;My locker room humor on Twitter is meant to be satirical, and sarcastic. And it was that type of humor that loosened up the clubhouse in 2010 for our charge at a World Series title,&#8221; Huff wrote. &#8220;They loved it then, and it hasn&#8217;t changed. That&#8217;s not the issue. It&#8217;s politics.&#8221;
&#8220;We live in a country that is under attack. Society is desperately trying to take away our 1st Amendment, our freedom of speech, and our freedom of political association,&#8221; continued Huff.
Signing off, the MBL star wrote: &#8220;To the fans, you were amazing to me. And just because I might not share some of your political views (which are stupid) I still respect your right to express them.&#8221;
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My response to <a href="https://twitter.com/SFGiants?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SFGiants</a>
 <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mlb</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://t.co/tDs8L8kGNi">pic.twitter.com/tDs8L8kGNi</a>
&mdash; Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) <a href="https://twitter.com/aubrey_huff/status/1229686896378499073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Aubrey Huff

MLB Star Banned From World Series Reunion Over ‘Politically Incorrect’ Tweets, Photo Of Gun Range With Sons

Sports

On Tuesday night, Rose McGowan called fellow actress Natalie Portman a &#8220;fraud&#8221; for her pro-female fashion statement at the 2020 Oscars.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/natalie-portmans-girl-power-oscar-dress-sparks-mockery">The Daily Wire</a>, Portman showed off a designer cape emblazoned with the names of female directors the actress said were snubbed from the award show.
“I wanted to recognize the women who were not recognized for their incredible work this year, in my subtle way,” Portman explained on the red carpet on Sunday night.
The designer cape scored major points with Portman&#8217;s Hollywood peers, save McGowan.
In a lengthy Facebook post, McGowan branded the &#8220;Black Swan&#8221; actress a &#8220;fraud&#8221; who only cares about herself, posing as &#8220;someone who cares.&#8221;
&#8220;Some thoughts on Natalie Portman and her Oscar ‘protest.’ The kind of protest that gets rave reviews from the mainstream media for its bravery. Brave? No, not by a long shot,&#8221; criticized McGowan. &#8220;More like an actress acting the part of someone who cares. As so many of them do.&#8221;
The actress went on to call Portman&#8217;s activism &#8220;deeply offensive to those of us who actually do the work,&#8221; noting that she&#8217;s &#8220;writing out of disgust.&#8221;
&#8220;Natalie, you have worked with two female directors in your very long career — one of them was you,&#8221; wrote McGowan. &#8220;You have a production company that has hired exactly one female director — you.&#8221;
&#8220;You are the problem,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Lip service is the problem. Fake support of other women is the problem.&#8221;
McGown recalled listening to Portman speak at a &#8220;Women in Film&#8221; event: &#8220;I quickly realized you and the other women speakers (and that joke of an organization) are just &#8230; frauds. You say nothing, you do nothing,&#8221; she said.
McGowan closed by urging Portman to &#8220;stop pretending you’re some kind of champion for anything other than yourself,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Until you and your fellow actresses get real, do us all a favor and hang up your embroidered activist cloak, it doesn’t hang right.&#8221;
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<blockquote>Some thoughts on Natalie Portman and her Oscar ‘protest.’ The kind of protest that gets rave reviews from the mainstream media for its bravery. Brave? No, not by a long shot. More like an actress acting the part of someone who cares. As so many of them do.
I find Portman’s type of activism deeply offensive to those of us who actually do the work. I’m not writing this out of bitterness, I am writing out of disgust.
I just want her and other actresses to walk the walk.
Natalie, you have worked with two female directors in your very long career- one of them was you. You have a production company that has hired exactly one female director- you.
What is it with actresses of your ilk? You ‘A-listers’ (🤮) could change the world if you’d take a stand instead of being the problem. Yes, you, Natalie. You are the problem. Lip service is the problem. Fake support of other women is the problem.
As I wrote in my book Brave, what goes on behind the screen, goes onscreen, goes into the world. And it’s a pervasive sickness that needs its own medicine. 
What you do affects the world, Natalie. As does what you do not do.
I am singling you out because you are the latest in a long line of actresses who are acting the part of a woman who cares about other women. Actresses who supposedly stand for women, but in reality do not do much at all. Of course women in the world will keep buying the perfumes you promote, the movies you make, and think they’re buying into who you are. But who are you?
I was at a Women in Film event that you spoke at once, Natalie. You reeled off depressing statistics and then we all went back to our salads. I quickly realized you and the other women speakers (and that joke of an organization) are just&#8230; frauds. You say nothing, you do nothing.
There is no law that says you need to hire women, work with women, or support women. By all means, you do you. But I am saying stop pretending you’re some kind of champion for anything other than yourself.
As for me, I’ll be over here raising my voice and fighting for change without any compensation. That is activism.
Until you and your fellow actresses get real, do us all a favor and hang up your embroidered activist cloak, it doesn’t hang right.
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/natalie-portmans-girl-power-oscar-dress-sparks-mockery">Natalie Portman’s ‘Girl Power’ Oscar Dress Sparks Mockery</a>

Rose McGowan, Natalie Portman

‘FRAUD’: Rose McGowan Rips Natalie Portman Over ‘Girl Power’ Oscar Dress In Brutal Facebook Post: ‘I’m Writing Out Of Disgust’

Feminism

Oscars

Rob Portman

Rose McGowan

Following the very &#8220;woke&#8221; Oscars on Sunday night, British comedian Ricky Gervais highlighted a warning to the privileged leftists who spouted off about their pet causes during acceptance speeches.
&#8220;I have nothing against the most famous people in the world using their privileged, global platform to tell the world what they believe,&#8221; posted Gervais.
&#8220;I even agree with most of it,&#8221; he said
&#8220;I just tried to warn them that when they lecture everyday, hard working people, it has the opposite effect,&#8221; emphasized the &#8220;After Life&#8221; star. &#8220;Peace.&#8221;
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I have nothing against the most famous people in the world using their privileged, global platform to tell the world what they believe. I even agree with most of it. I just tried to warn them that when they lecture everyday, hard working people, it has the opposite effect. Peace.
&mdash; Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1226912751009878016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday night, Mr. Gervais, who went brutally hard at Hollywood hypocrisy during his stint hosting the 2020 Golden Globes, listed off a couple of jokes he would have made if he were hosting the 2020 Oscars.
“I can’t wait to hear all your inspirational speeches about equality, and it’s great that the [three] hours you’re here tonight is the only time your badly paid migrant house staff will get some time off to sleep this week,&#8221; the comedian said, when asked what his first joke of the night would have been. 
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“I can’t wait to hear all your inspirational speeches about equality, and it’s great that the 3 hours you’re here tonight is the only time your badly paid migrant house staff will get some time off to sleep this week” <a href="https://t.co/fsFbdDkv6u">https://t.co/fsFbdDkv6u</a>
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For good measure, Gervais rattled off another joke: “It’s great to see such diversity in the room tonight. Rich sex pests of all shapes and sizes,&#8221; he said.
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“It’s great to see such diversity in the room tonight. Rich sex pests of all shapes and sizes” <a href="https://t.co/fsFbdDkv6u">https://t.co/fsFbdDkv6u</a>
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Despite Gervais&#8217; &#8220;warning,&#8221; there was no shortage of privileged Hollywood liberals&#8217; virtue-signaling.
For example, &#8220;Joker&#8221; actor Joaquin Phoenix bizarrely bloviated about the insemination of cows, The Daily Wire reported.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about some of the distressing issues that we are facing collectively, and I think at times we feel or are made to feel that we champion different causes,” the award-winning actor sounded off. “But for me, I see commonality. I think whether we’re talking about gender inequality or racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights, we’re talking about the fight against injustice.”
“We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth, we steal her baby,&#8221; Phoenix said. &#8220;Even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. And then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.&#8221;
&#8220;And I think we fear the idea of personal change because we think that we have to sacrifice something to give something up but human beings, at our best, are so inventive and creative and ingenious, and I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop, and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment,&#8221; he added.
Following his hosting gig at the Golden Globes, Gervais posted similar tweets to liberals.
“I didn’t roast Hollywood for being a bunch of liberals,” he explained via social media. “I myself am a liberal. Nothing wrong with that.”
“I roasted them for wearing their liberalism like a medal,” Gervais added. “I’m such a snowflake, liberal, I can’t even really hate them for it. But my job is to take the p[*]ss. I did that.”
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I didn&#39;t roast Hollywood for being a bunch of liberals. I myself am a liberal. Nothing wrong with that. I roasted them for wearing their liberalism like a medal. I&#39;m such a snowflake, liberal, I can&#39;t even really hate them for it. But my job is to take the piss. I did that. 😇 <a href="https://t.co/bYwqxiyeKu">pic.twitter.com/bYwqxiyeKu</a>
&mdash; Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1215043466738176000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-responds-to-critics-upset-over-him-accepting-conservatives">Ricky Gervais Responds To Critics Upset Over Him ‘Accepting’ Conservatives</a>

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Not Done With Oscar Comments, Highlights ‘Warning’ To Liberals

Golden Globes

Liberalism

Progressivism

Actress Jameela Jamil, a radical feminist and ethnic minority who made the news recently for bragging about her abortion, discovered this week that she still somehow lacks in Identity Points. As the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51399416">reports</a>, controversy erupted and backlash ensued when HBO hired Jamil as a judge for an upcoming &#8220;unscripted voguing contest.&#8221; We&#8217;re informed that voguing is a dance genre &#8220;founded by black and Latino LGBT people.&#8221; The trouble is that Jamil is not LGBT, which somehow makes her unqualified to judge a dance competition, despite the fact that this style of dance was apparently popularized by the white, heterosexual Madonna.
Jamil knew just what to do. Taking to Twitter, the actress promptly announced that she&#8217;s &#8220;queer&#8221; — marking, after Kevin Spacey, the second time in recent history that an actor has come out of the closet as a defensive tactic. Smartly, especially because she has a boyfriend, Jamil did not claim any definitive sexual orientation or label. &#8220;Queer&#8221; can mean just about anything. All that matters is that it&#8217;s in the Sacred Acronym.
I don&#8217;t know if Jamil is really &#8220;queer,&#8221; or even what it would mean if she were, nor do I care in the slightest. The point is simply that her residence in the LGBTQ camp provides her cover from criticism and gives her access to just about any opportunity in Hollywood without fear of &#8220;appropriation&#8221; charges. On the Left, victimhood is currency. And LGBTQ victims are the wealthiest of all. They stand at the very top of the Victim Hierarchy, over and above mere women and racial minorities.
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Whenever there are competing victimhood claims — for example, when transgender males say they are &#8220;victimized&#8221; by a lack of access to female locker rooms while females say they would be victimized by the privacy infringement such access would entail — the victory will always go to the claimant with the larger victimhood cache. And when one claimant is LGBT and the other is not, the former will win every time. This is why leftists feel perfectly comfortable screaming at adolescent girls to shut up and know their place as boys come into their locker rooms and get naked beside them.
On the Left, all that matters is identity. Your identity will decide what you have the right to say, think, do, and feel. Your identity will decide the content of your character and your value as a person. Your identity will decide if you are persecutor or persecuted, oppressor or martyr, slobbering racist bigot or bold and beautiful hero above reproach. But there is a rather massive problem with this system. Well, there are many problems, starting with its fundamental incoherence, but let&#8217;s focus on just one.
The problem is that the Left hangs everything on the hook of identity, but that hook is not connected to anything itself. It&#8217;s hanging precariously in the ether, not nailed into any sort of sturdy surface. According to their doctrines, identity is a nebulous, fluid, largely arbitrary, and entirely subjective concept. All that matters is how you identify, but anyone can identify as anything, so the edifice collapses in on itself. It becomes like a monetary system where everyone has a money-printing machine at their house. Just look at how the great scourge of white men have been able to manipulate things to their benefit.
By all rights, white men should be at the very bottom of the Victim Hierarchy. They are the serfs, the scum, the class beneath the peasant class. They are inherently bigoted, inherently oppressive, and inherently possessing a mythical privilege that renders all of their achievements moot. All victimhood claims supersede the white man&#8217;s claim, because the white man can make no claim. He is always the scoundrel and bully in every situation. But all that a dastardly white man need do is announce that he is a woman. This will not just move him onto the same victim status as real women, but in fact will put him above women. Five seconds ago he was a patriarchal pseudo-rapist for spreading his legs too wide on the subway. Now he is an awe-inspiring hero for barging into the women&#8217;s bathroom. He has ascended the pyramid all the way to the top simply by speaking a word. And nobody may question it or demand that he prove it or explain himself.
This is the trouble with declaring that everyone in such-and-such category is a drooling bigot and everyone in this other category is a blameless champion of human rights, and then following that declaration with the further declaration that everyone has the absolute and unquestioned power to decide the category in which they belong. It&#8217;s not hard to see why there is now a rush to get to the top of the Victim Hierarchy, with more and more people discovering their inner LGBT identity just in time to get whatever they want.
Consider the timely self-realization of Jonathan Yaniv, who found out he was a woman and then immediately sued a bunch of female estheticians for <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/transgender-activist-jessica-yaniv-loses-wax-her-balls-complaint-against-salon-workers">refusing to wax his genitals</a>. Indeed, Yaniv seems very much to be a <a href="https://www.thepostmillennial.com/the-truth-about-jessica-yaniv-is-beginning-to-emerge/">degenerate and predator</a> who uses his &#8220;womanhood&#8221; to manipulate and prey upon girls. And yet even now, the media will report about him while reverently using his preferred pronouns, still feeling obliged to pretend that his &#8220;transgenderism&#8221; is anything but a perverse ploy by a deranged and despicable adult male. The only doctrine cherished more than the one that gives Yaniv ultimate victimhood privileges is the one that forbids us from questioning the self-identification that accorded those privileges in the first place.
The Left has a tangled mess on its hands. I don&#8217;t think there is any way out of it, aside from abandoning one or all of their key doctrines. But I don&#8217;t think they will ever do that. So all that the rest of us can do now is sit and watch, not without satisfaction, as the house of cards comes tumbling down.

62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards – Arrivals

WALSH: The Left’s System Of Identity Politics Is Collapsing On Itself, And It’s A Fascinating Sight To Behold

Homosexuality

Jameela Jamil

LGBT

Sexuality

After bravely bearing the cruel slings and arrows of the woke scolds that launched a cancel campaign against him for old jokes that offended some members of the LGBT community, Kevin Hart has now apologized for how he handled the situation, which culminated in him <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kevin-hart-steps-down-from-oscar-hosting-gig-after-past-staments" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">stepping down as host </a>of the Academy Awards in 2019.
Though Hart recently expressed regret for being immature at the time in the Netflix documentary “Kevin Hart: Don’t F**k This Up,” he doubled-down on that sentiment in an interview with Men&#8217;s Health.
“With the whole Oscars thing, there was a big gap between what I thought the problem was versus what the problem really was,” <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/trending-news/a30469053/kevin-hart-car-accident-recovery-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hart told the magazine</a>. &#8220;I got 10 years where I made sure not to joke or play in the way that I did back then because it was a problem. I don’t care if you’re gay or not gay. I’m a people person. I’m going to love you regardless.”
Hart, however, feels that he should have become an ally to the LGBT community by speaking up about violence.
“It wasn’t until close friends like Wanda Sykes, Lee Daniels, and Ellen talked to me and explained what they didn’t hear me say that I understood. Then I was like, ‘Oh, s*** — I did f*** up.’”
Kevin Hart had been slated to host the 2019 Oscars but stepped down within 48 hours of accepting the gig after the Academy demanded he apologize for his past jokes.
“I’m not going to continue to go back and tap into the days of old when I moved on, and I’m in a completely different space in my life,” Hart said in a video on Instagram at the time. “I’m going to be me; I’m going to stand my ground.”
Hours later, Hart stepped down from his dream of hosting the Oscars and apologized to the LGBTQ community for his “insensitive words.”
“I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year’s Oscars … this is because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists,” he wrote on Twitter. “I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past.”
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-hart-regrets-how-he-handled-oscars-controversy-i-was-immature">Netflix documentary </a>explored how the comedian disregarded the advice of his publicists and other members of his team at the time, leading him to eventually conclude that he was acting “immature.”
“What I thought was going to blow over ended up becoming a bigger mess than I expected,” Hart says in the documentary.
“You need to learn how to stop and think,” Hart’s publicist tells a team member in the documentary. “He’s not used to being the person that’s not loved and cherished. He needs to just shut up and put his head down for the next few weeks. &#8230; What he needs to remember is he’s feeding 50-60 people. When he takes a sh***er, everybody takes a sh***er and that’s a big issue now.”
Nine days after his stepping down, Hart then told members of his staff at an emergency meeting that he had no desire to keep addressing the controversy, fearing he would be “making it okay to go backward.” Looking back, Hart now feels that he “missed an opportunity.”
“I missed an opportunity to say simply that I don’t condone any type of violence in any way, shape, or form to anyone for being who they are,” Hart now says. “I f***ed up. &#8230; Instead, I said, ‘I addressed it.’ I said, ‘I apologized.’ I said, ‘I talked about this already.’ I was just immature.”

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The politically incorrect comedian Dave Chappelle has bucked the liberal trend once again by declaring that Trump supporters are not his enemy.
Speaking to reporters this week in Iowa about why he supports presidential candidate Andrew Yang, Chappelle says that he welcomes people as fans from both sides of the political aisle, while also admitting that he understands why people voted for Trump. Take a look:
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Dave Chappelle says why he is supporting <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewYang?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AndrewYang</a>. 
“I don’t look at Trump supporters as my enemy at all. I understand why people voted for Trump I understand people are desperate. And I think that Andrew is right you run against the reasons that Trump got elected.” <a href="https://t.co/jcAb1cDfPQ">pic.twitter.com/jcAb1cDfPQ</a>
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t look at Trump supporters as my enemy at all,&#8221; Chappelle told reporters. &#8220;I understand why people voted for Trump, I understand people are desperate. And I think that Andrew is right you run against the reasons that Trump got elected. I got friends on both sides of the political aisle, I got fans on both sides of the political aisle.&#8221;
As to why he supports Andrew Yang, Chappelle said the candidate has brought many &#8220;good ideas&#8221; to the table that nobody has previously addressed.
&#8220;A lot of people say professionally it&#8217;s not wise to support any candidate, but this idea is so good, that I think it should exist,&#8221; said Chappelle. &#8220;And I think the fountainhead of many of the good ideas on the table this year are coming from a single source — Andrew Yang. And for some reason, no one&#8217;s paying attention. This guy is the origin of a platform that really does address where I think the country needs to go.&#8221;
Chappelle announced his support for the &#8220;Yang Gang&#8221; earlier this month, when he pledged to perform several shows for his campaign.
“Thank you [Dave Chappelle] and welcome to the #yanggang,” Yang said in response to his endorsement. “You are the best. Let’s do this for our kids.”
While Dave Chappelle can in no way be classified as a conservative, he certainly has allied with conservatives in their fight against cancel culture. In October, while accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, he gave a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-video-released-of-dave-chappelles-fierce-hilarious-defense-of-first-amendment">fierce defense</a> of free speech.
“I like not knowin’ what’s going to happen. I like makin’ memories. Sometimes I do all this crazy s*** around my colleagues just so they can tell their friends I did it. Rather than talk about myself, just briefly, I want to just talk about my genre. Stand-up comedy is an incredibly American genre,” he said. “I don’t think any other country can produce this many comedians. Unbeknownst to many people in this audience, I don’t think there’s opinion that exists in this country that is not represented in a comedy club by somebody. Each and every one of you has a chance of bein’ in the room.”
“We watch you guys fight, but when we’re together, we talk it out. I know comics that are very racist, and I watch ‘em on stage, and everyone’s laughin’, I’m like, that motherf***** means it,” Chappelle continued. “Don’t get mad at ‘em, don’t hate ‘em, we go upstairs and have a beer and sometimes I even appreciate the artistry that they paint their racist opinions with.”
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“Man, it’s not that serious. The First Amendment is first for a reason. The Second Amendment is just in case the first one doesn’t work out,” he added.
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In today&#8217;s wild and wacky world, the politically correct police have somehow connected the death of a peanut company&#8217;s mascot with the death of a basketball legend.
Planters created Mr. Peanut, the debonair legume who wears a top hat, a monocle, white gloves and spats, in 1916. The cane-carrying mascot once stood as a representative for the whole peanut industry, but in the 21st century, Planters has decided to kill off the icon.
Literally.
Instead of just letting him retire, Planters ordered up a commercial, set to air during the Super Bowl, that shows Mr. Peanut with actors Wesley Snipes and Matt Walsh (not The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh) being ejected from the Nutmobile in a violent crash (the peanut vehicle does not appear to be very safe on the highway). All three are hanging on a tree branch when it begins to break. Snipes tells Walsh to let go, but he refuses. Then Snipes says, &#8220;Mr. Peanut, No you don&#8217;t. Don&#8217;t do it.&#8221;
But Mr. Peanut lets go of his cane and plunges into a canyon, landing on top of the Nutmobile. &#8220;Maybe he&#8217;ll be alright,&#8221; Snipes says. The Nutmobile then explodes into a massive fireball. &#8220;Maybe not,&#8221; Snipes says. It&#8217;s all very pleasant, and perfect for a family event like the Super Bowl.
Planters plans to show a follow-up commercial in the third quarter of the game that will feature Mr. Peanut’s funeral (we don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s an open or closed casket).
Then the P.C. police showed up to decry &#8220;similarities&#8221; between the death of Mr. Peanut and the death of Kobe Bryant.
The plan to air the ad &#8220;will continue as planned, despite the ad’s similarities to the death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, a Planters spokesman confirmed Monday,&#8221; The Washington Post reported. (Uh, Bryant died in a helicopter crash, Mr. Peanut in a Nutmobile crash. Also, Bryant was a human being, Mr. Peanut is a cartoon. But perhaps that&#8217;s splitting hairs.)
Planters felt compelled to release a statement about the death of the 104-year-old Peanut.
“We are saddened by this weekend’s news and Planters has paused campaign activities, including paid media, and will evaluate next steps through a lens of sensitivity to those impacted by this tragedy,” said a Planters spokesman. “At this point, the pause impacts only paid advertising (on channels like Twitter and YouTube), and some other outreach in the immediate wake of this tragedy. No change has been made to our plans for Super Bowl Sunday.”
&#8220;Ad Age first reported that the company was rethinking its marketing leading up to the Super Bowl,&#8221; the Post wrote. &#8220;A social media campaign had encouraged people to &#8216;pay your respects&#8217; with the hashtag #RIPeanut, and Planters changed its Twitter handle to &#8216;The Estate of Mr. Peanut.'&#8221;
But at least some could separate the death of a basketball superstar from the death of a cartoon peanut. In a &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; bit featuring President Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz (played by comedian Jon Lovitz) being interviewed for Satan’s podcast in hell, a few others in hell come by to greet him: Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the musician who wrote the “Baby Shark” song, and Mr. Peanut.
“You ended up in hell?” a surprised Dershowitz asks Peanut.
“Well, I took out a lot of first-graders with peanut allergies,” says Mr. Peanut. “Plus, I never wore pants.”

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In a historic Sunday night episode of &#8220;Batwoman,&#8221; the lady caped crusader came out as a lesbian to Gotham City, thereby making her sexual orientation official.
According to <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/01/batwoman-comes-out-ruby-roses-cw-superhero-tells-gotham-shes-a-lesbian-1202835688/#comments">Deadline</a>, the midseason premiere episode, titled &#8220;How Queer Everything Is Today,&#8221; featured actress Ruby Rose&#8217;s Batwoman revealing her sexual identity after learning about a teenager whose parents refuse to accept her sexuality.
&#8220;The big reveal came in a magazine article published by CatCo, and the scoop belonged to none other than Kara Danvers, a.k.a. Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), the title hero from Batwoman’s Arrowverse sister show,&#8221; the outlet reported of the big moment.
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&quot;What&#39;s next for Lena? Lena Luthor spotted in Gotham&quot; What was Lena doing there?! jajaja and, also, Kara wrote the article of Batwoman being a lesbian!!!! Kara and Kate BROTP! <a href="https://t.co/TH2QbLMV3B">pic.twitter.com/TH2QbLMV3B</a>
&mdash; 𝗗𝗿. 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 (@lKDanvers_) <a href="https://twitter.com/lKDanvers_/status/1219082978292391937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Speaking with <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2020/01/19/batwoman-coming-out-caroline-dries-1x10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk">Entertainment Weekly</a>, series showrunner Caroline Dries, who wrote the episode, said she wanted the character to &#8220;stand in her truth.&#8221;
“For me, it was so important for this character to stand in her truth,” said Dries. “The girl underneath the costume is so comfortable with who she is and so comfortable with being truthful, and she never really has been in the closet.”
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The character Batwoman first came onto the comic book scene in the 1950s as a potential <a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/kathy-kane/4005-81174/">love interest</a> for Batman, but she eventually took a backseat in the 1960s and did not become a lesbian until being reintroduced in DC’s “<a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/batwoman/4005-9052/">New 52</a>.” A previous Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/batwoman-series-poll-elseworlds-recap-1168339">poll</a> showed that 85% (more than 2,000 people) of respondents wanted a separate “Batwoman” series.
Though Batwoman certainly has her own woke pedigree, SJWs were reportedly upset over the openly gay Ruby Rose’s casting, prompting her to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34435/ruby-rose-quits-twitter-after-leftist-critics-emily-zanotti">leave social media</a> after enough people complained she was “not gay enough” to play the title character.
“A #RecastBatwoman hashtag started circulating, with people also wondering why the role couldn’t have gone to a lesser-known LGBTQ+ actress in need of an acting break,” <a href="https://www.glamour.com/story/ruby-rose-quit-twitter-after-getting-bullied-about-her-batwoman-casting">Glamour reported</a> at the time. “Critics also accused Rose of not being a lesbian since she also refers to herself as gender-fluid.”
In response, Rose said she could not believe people were actually insinuating she was not gay enough when her entire career has been people accusing her of being too gay. “Where on earth did ‘Ruby is not a lesbian, therefore she can’t be Batwoman’ come from — has to be the funniest most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read,” the actress tweeted at the time. “I came out at 12? And have for the past five years had to deal with ‘she’s too gay’ how do y’all flip it like that? I didn’t change.”
The CW network broke barriers on the SJW-themed “Supergirl” with the arrival of Nia Nal, the first transgender hero in television history, played by transgender actor Nicole Maines and based on the <a href="http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Nura_Nal_(Pre-Zero_Hour)" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0">DC Comics character Nura Nal</a>. Sometimes called “Dream Girl,” the character Nia Nal is a humanoid alien that also sees into the future.
Marvel has separately announced that phase four in its cinematic universe will feature more LGBTQ representation, starting with “The Eternals,&#8221; which will introduce the universe’s<a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/16/the-eternals-marvel-openly-gay-superhero-trailer-mcu-brian-tyree-henry-angelina-jolie-gemma-chan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> first openly gay superhero, Phastos</a>. The character will be married to a man and will be portrayed by actor Brian Tyree Henry.
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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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