During an interview published Tuesday, actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Donald Glover</a> recalled an instance in his early career in which Tina Fey said he was a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity">diversity</a>&#8221; hire for the popular sitcom &#8220;30 Rock.&#8221;
The 39-year-old actor discussed it during an interview with <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/donald-glover-global-creativity-awards-cover-2023">GQ</a>. &#8220;There is no animosity between us or anything like that, but [Tina Fey] said it herself. &#8230; It was a diversity thing. The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and Kenya Barris,” Glover recalled of being hired as a writer for “30 Rock.”
Barris is the creator of the hit comedy “Black-ish” and other spinoff projects. 
&#8220;I didn’t know it was between me and [Barris] until later. He hit me one day and he was like, ‘I hated you for years!’” Glover continued.
Glover said he suffered from imposter syndrome during that period of his early career, indicating that he didn’t feel qualified to have secured the position. &#8220;It definitely didn’t feel like I was supposed to be there. I used to have stress dreams every night where I was doing cartwheels on the top of a New York skyscraper with the other writers watching me.”
The actor mentioned believing he was hired because he was black before, during a 2018 <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you">profile</a> in The New Yorker. 
“I wondered, Am I being hired just because I’m black?” he said, then allegedly Fey told him funds from NBC’s Diversity Initiative essentially “made him free,” so the answer was technically yes. 
The comedy series “30 Rock” has faced backlash in the past. In 2020, Fey made a comment on removing episodes that included characters in blackface.
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“As we strive to do the work and do better in regards to race in America, we believe that these episodes featuring actors in race-changing makeup are best taken out of circulation,” Fey wrote in a letter to the platforms that streamed or sold “30 Rock,” as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30-rock-blackface-episodes-yanked-tina-fey-apologizes">reported</a>. 
“I understand now that ‘intent’ is not a free pass for white people to use these images. I apologize for pain they have caused. Going forward, no comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness. I thank NBCUniversal for honoring this request.”

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Donald Glover Says Tina Fey Told Him He Was A ‘Diversity’ Hire On ‘30 Rock’

Donald Glover Said Tina Fey Told Him He Was A 'Diversity' Hire On '30 Rock'

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The writer who penned the original novel upon which “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Mean Girls</a>” is based is considering legal action against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tina-fey">Tina Fey</a> and Paramount over “unpaid dues.”
Rosalind Wiseman wrote the book “Queen Bees and Wannabes” in 2002 for parents to help them understand their teenage girls. The book became the basis of the cult classic comedy “Mean Girls” (2004) starring Lindsay Lohan. The film version was written by Fey.
Wiseman sold the film rights in 2002 for $400,000 and, in doing so, relinquished all rights to original motion pictures and derivative works, including musicals and TV shows. The movie was adapted into a Broadway musical.
The author’s contract promised she would receive net profit based on box office performance, but now Wiseman claims the studio hasn&#8217;t paid her any, claiming they have no profits due to extra costs. “Mean Girls” was a surprise hit at the box office, bringing in $130 million worldwide following its release on a $17 million production budget.
Wiseman discussed her feelings about the situation during an interview with <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/18/mean-girls-author-tina-fey-paid-me-nothing-for-hit-franchise/">The New York Post</a> published over the weekend. 
She mentioned how “Mean Girls” has “changed our culture and changed the zeitgeist” due to its massive popularity. 
“Yes, I had a terrible contract, terrible, but the movie has made so much money, and they keep recycling my work over and over again, so to not even consider me,&#8221; the author said, mentioning how the &#8220;hypocrisy is too much.&#8221; 
&#8220;Over the years Tina&#8217;s spoken so eloquently about women supporting other women, but it&#8217;s gotten increasingly clear to me that, in my own personal experience, that&#8217;s not going to be the experience,&#8221; she continued. 
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Wiseman also claimed that a theater director had approached her about turning the book into a musical, but Fey and Paramount killed the deal because they owned the rights to the intellectual property.
&#8220;What&#8217;s hard is that they used my name in the Playbill,&#8221; Wiseman told the Post. &#8220;And Tina, in her interviews, said I was the inspiration and the source, but there was no payment.&#8221;
&#8220;I suspect most people would be shocked at how shabbily Rosalind Wiseman has been treated,&#8221; Wiseman’s lawyer Ryan Keech told the Post. 
&#8220;It is nothing short of shameful for a company with the resources of Paramount to go to the lengths to which it has gone to deny Ms. Wiseman what she is fairly entitled to for having created what has become one of the most iconic entertainment franchises of the last 25 years.&#8221;
“We have reached out to Paramount to have things be more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/equity">equitable</a>, but Paramount is not interested in that,” he noted.
As for why she’s choosing to come forward with her story now and take it public, the author said her pursuit of “equity” is a driving force.
&#8220;For a lot of reasons I didn&#8217;t come forward for a while, and one of the reasons [is] because I was so focused on me not whining or trying to trash Tina,&#8221; she said. However, she added, &#8220;I believe strongly when you&#8217;re in a position of power and privilege that you have a responsibility to share that to create equity.&#8221;

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'Mean Girls' Original Writer Considers Suing Tina Fey Despite Signing Away Rights, Demands 'Equity'

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Woke celebrities do as they’re told by their cancel culture masters … or else.
The most farcical example? “Saved by the Bell” alum Mario Lopez apologized for suggesting it’s dangerous for <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/31/entertainment/mario-lopez-apology-trnd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3-year-olds to determine their gender</a>.
In other cases, stars virtue signal to increase their employment potential and keep past “problematic” work from suddenly resurfacing.
A few celebrities have seen the folly of the woke revolution. It’s often because they’ve been personally impacted by the new cultural rules, and they can’t help but publicly backpedal.
At least a little.
The most recent example? Pakistani-American comic actor Kumail Nanjiani of “Eternals” fame complained about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eternals-actor-said-hollywood-wont-cast-non-white-people-as-bad-guys-despite-his-desire-to-play-a-villain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not being able to snag a ripe role</a> as a film or TV show villain. The bad guys are often the most interesting roles to play.
Why? Hollywood isn’t interested in making people of color <a href="https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a42430017/kumail-nanjiani-interview-chippendales/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the bad guy or gal</a> these days. He sounds envious of fellow MCU star Sebastian Stan, whose versatile career includes playing the quasi-heroic Winter Soldier as well as the villain in horror movies like “Fresh.”
<blockquote>He does these big Marvel movies, and then he’ll play a psychopath. I was told that’s going to be hard because people don’t want to cast non-white people as bad guys.</blockquote>
Nanjiani sees the problem, but he can’t connect the critical dots. Identity politics run wild means actors can no longer act as they did before. Female directors must helm female superhero films. Straight actors shouldn’t play gay characters. And casting a person of color as the villain could be seen as stigmatizing, if not racist.
He’s not the only progressive star who has seen the dark side of the current woke wave.
Jim Gaffigan suffered a bout of Trump Derangement Syndrome in recent years, pushing his formerly apolitical act to the Left. He’s even worse on Twitter, sadly, sounding like a bad MSNBC parody.
He’s also shifted his career to more acting gigs, and he’s acquitted himself well in films like “Chappaquiddick” and “Being Frank.” The latter 2018 film, alas, got him caught up in the woke community’s web.
The movie follows a father (Gaffigan) who secretly serves as the patriarch for not one but two families. Some of the film’s reviews weren’t kind, but not for the usual reasons.
<a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/jim-gaffigan-woke-film-critics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">He shared his concerns</a> on “The Joe Rogan Experience” shortly after the film’s release.
<blockquote>A lot of the reviews … there was a tone of like, ‘how dare this white male [laughs] have two families. They couldn’t get beyond … they would insert, like, a social commentary onto a platform that was not for that. … Some reviews were like, ‘they under-served them!’ You know, the movie was really about my character and his son. … Because of the day we live in, it had to be deciphered through this kind of social critique that is just absurd. And it wasn’t here and there. It was a lot of reviews like that.</blockquote>
Far-Left comic Sarah Silverman once sang the praises of the woke revolution. Let the young social justice <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/09/sarah-silverman-comedians-college-kids-tiff-2015" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warriors teach us how to live our lives</a>, she said.
That was in 2015.
She later said that she lost a coveted movie role because someone objected to a 2007 episode of “The Sarah Silverman Program” in which she donned blackface. The story actually spoke out strongly against racism, but Silverman’s choice of makeup, and the way she attacked the issue, effectively canceled her for the film in question.
After that confession, the liberal comic’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/12/sarah-silverman-fired-from-film-blackface-photo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attitude toward woke shifted</a>. Witness this 2020 rant from her podcast:
<blockquote>If we don&#8217;t give these people a path to redemption, then they&#8217;re going to go where they are accepted, which is the mother****ing dark side.</blockquote>
Silverman hasn’t modulated her progressive politics, but she sees the woke revolution in a far less flattering light than before.
Comic actor Aziz Ansari’s stage shtick often mocked white culture, aligning neatly with the woke mindset suggesting it’s acceptable to target that demographic. His career briefly flatlined after a 2018 blog-style expose written by a 23-year-old woman who accused the &#8220;Parks and Recreation&#8221; star of behaving aggressively during a sexual situation.
It was a “she said, he said” case, except the #MeToo Movement demanded her accusations be taken at face value without him offering a vigorous defense. 
His career briefly crumbled as a result. Ansari slowly crept back into the limelight, treading carefully when the subject of the date in question came up. He uses his stand-up routine to mock white people, still, but it’s often to taunt them for their performative wokeness.
Not all stars follow this pattern. Tina Fey, one of the funnier comic minds of the 21st century, once told jokes with abandon. Her “30 Rock” NBC showcase mocked the Left and the Right, and it came of age right before woke took over.
So when she got hammered by the far Left over jokes on her Netflix comedy “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” Fey didn’t back down.
She said she makes it a policy <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/things-to-do/2015/12/21/tina-fey-jokes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not to explain jokes</a>. That was 2016. She later realized she might get in trouble for sticking to that core belief, and she had a <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/features/tina-fey-mean-girls-movie-snl-1234967386/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dramatic change of heart</a>.
“Everyone’s figuring out what the new rules of comedy are. They definitely have changed for the better.”
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
This article has been updated for clarity.

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President Joe Biden caught some serious blowback for what many criticized as a tone-deaf play on a meme from the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/mean-girls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tina Fey</a> comedy &#8220;Mean Girls.&#8221;
The joke stems from a scene in the film in which the titular &#8220;mean girls,&#8221; played by Rachel McAdams and Lacey Chabert, pull up next to the unsuspecting new girl — played by <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/lindsay-lohan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lindsay Lohan</a>. The tagline McAdams shouts? &#8220;Get in, loser, we&#8217;re going shopping!&#8221;
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You wanna do something fun? You wanna go buy the Mean Girls limited-edition Blu-ray Steelbook? 🛍 💳✨ Get in loser, we&#39;re going shopping: <a href="https://t.co/jU9NK1EkIP">https://t.co/jU9NK1EkIP</a> <a href="https://t.co/fBIgaqkuTE">pic.twitter.com/fBIgaqkuTE</a>
&mdash; Mean Girls (@MeanGirls) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeanGirls/status/1575881653355847686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, October 3 — which also happened to be &#8220;Mean Girls Day&#8221; — President Biden posted a photo of himself in his 1967 Corvette convertible — and included the caption, &#8220;Get in, folks. We&#8217;re building a better America.&#8221;
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Get in, folks. We&#39;re building a better America: <a href="https://t.co/V9Mzpw8kB0">https://t.co/V9Mzpw8kB0</a> <a href="https://t.co/cMKiF0Lqwz">pic.twitter.com/cMKiF0Lqwz</a>
&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1577095536594788352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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But critics weren&#8217;t impressed, and immediately took to Twitter to voice their displeasure.
&#8220;Anytime a politician uses the word &#8216;folks&#8217; I pat my back pocket to make sure I still have my wallet,&#8221; @RotNScoundrel <a href="https://twitter.com/RotNScoundrel/status/1577325004798181376" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> in response.
&#8220;Is that electric?&#8221; John Jackson <a href="https://twitter.com/pvtjokerus/status/1577323279983194113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>, referencing the Biden administration&#8217;s repeated pushes to get more Americans into <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/i-love-the-corvette-biden-revs-praises-gas-powered-sports-car-while-touting-electric-vehicles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">electric vehicles</a>.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t afford groceries, gas &amp; goods and you post a picture of yourself in an expensive, gas powered vehicle claiming you are doing a good job. You are completely out of touch with Americans. You are a hypocritical ass,&#8221; @RetiredNikitaM <a href="https://twitter.com/RetiredNikitaM/status/1577313134087389184" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made it clear</a> that she was not a fan.
Even a few who claimed to lean Left voiced their complaints — like @Bidentracking (&#8220;Tracking Biden from the left&#8221;), who <a href="https://twitter.com/BidenTracking/status/1577288940528304128" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>: &#8220;Hasn&#8217;t increased the minimum wage, hasn&#8217;t legalized marijuana, hasn&#8217;t introduced a public option, held the largest oil and gas sale in US history. What better America?&#8221;
Former Hillary Clinton aide Peter Daou also took a swing at Biden, <a href="https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1577278056980688902" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adding</a>, &#8220;Kids are still in cages. Hundreds of thousands are homeless. Millions lack health care. Tens of millions live paycheck to paycheck. Entire cities don&#8217;t have clean water. The climate emergency threatens our existence. But hey &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;14 miles per gallon. The elite make their own rules,&#8221; Breitbart&#8217;s Joel Pollak <a href="https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1577267478308089856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a>.
Another account posted a checklist of things that did not indicate a &#8220;better America,&#8221; including everything from &#8220;high gas prices&#8221; and &#8220;inflation/recession&#8221; to the shortage of baby formula and rapidly rising violent crime.
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☑️High Gas Prices ☑️Inflation/Recession ☑️Nuclear Threat from Russia ☑️Given Ukraine $60++ Billion ☑️Baby Formula Shortage ☑️Violent Crime Skyrocketing ☑️2+Million Illegals Flooding US ☑️300 Americans/day Dying from Fentanyl ☑️China Buying Farmland &amp; Stealing Secrets <a href="https://t.co/Tq3DZidPKu">https://t.co/Tq3DZidPKu</a>
&mdash; Amy, Doctor of Bitey Dogs 😈🐺 (@HindaRifka) <a href="https://twitter.com/HindaRifka/status/1577248558037995521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Yes, everyone get into your expensive, antique and oh by the way GAS POWERED convertibles! And don’t let anyone tell you you’re oblivious to the financial pain average Americans are feeling. I mean, we all love $6-$7 gas right?&#8221; California State Senator Melissa Melendez (R) added.
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Yes, everyone get into your expensive, antique and oh by the way GAS POWERED convertibles! 
And don’t let anyone tell you you’re oblivious to the financial pain average Americans are feeling. 
I mean, we all love $6-$7 gas right? <a href="https://t.co/wLd8TqeHL2">https://t.co/wLd8TqeHL2</a>
&mdash; Senator Melissa Melendez (@senatormelendez) <a href="https://twitter.com/senatormelendez/status/1577149810305511426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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‘Get In, Loser’: Critics Drag Joe Biden For Tone Deaf Play On ‘Mean Girls’ Meme

Critics Drag Joe Biden For Tone Deaf Play On 'Mean Girls' Meme

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According to a new book previewed by the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/22/alec-baldwin-once-threatened-to-assault-30-rock-director-says-book/">New York Post</a>, Alec Baldwin was prone to outbursts on the set of long-running NBC sitcom, “30 Rock.” In one passage of the new tell-all about the series, titled, “The 30 Rock Book: Inside the Iconic Show, from Blerg to EGOT,” editor Doug Abel claims the ‘Rust’ actor threatened to assault first-season director Adam Bernstein.
“According to [editor Doug] Abel, Alec turned to [Bernstein] and said that if he did that one more time, he was going to assault him. And he didn’t say it with a smile on his face,” the Post quotes the book, which releases Nov. 30, continuing, “For reasons unknown, this angered Alec Baldwin.”
The story goes on to say that the editor believes “animosity between the two was one reason why Bernstein — who went on to direct episodes of ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Fargo,’ among others — left the show in 2007 after only 6 episodes.”
Another director on the show, Paul Feig, best known today for directing episodes of “The Office” and the movie “Bridesmaids,” called working with Baldwin, “challenging.”
“[He] turned out to be the least fun to work with,” Feig said. But he put the blame, in part, on the fact that Baldwin was considered a major film star at the time and viewed as a big draw for the show.
“In Alec’s case, he was like, I just want to get in and get out,” Feig is quoted as saying, “[especially if] you wanted to do something elaborate … more than a few takes.”
The director reportedly added, &#8220;Alec is so brilliant that in two takes, you get something great. It’s just that as a director, then you go, ‘Ooh, try this,’ because I could maybe even make it ten percent greater, and he’s just like, ‘No, we got it.’&#8221;
The critically-acclaimed, Emmy-winning series, somewhat inspired by creator Tina Fey’s own experiences, was set on a fictional weekly sketch comedy show. Baldwin played Jack Donaghy, an NBC executive who mentored Fey’s character and frequently parodied Republican views.
Baldwin has become known for angry outbursts over the years thanks to incidents like a leaked 2007 voicemail in which he screamed at a then-11-year-old Ireland Baldwin, his daughter with ex-wife Kim Basinger, calling her a “rude, thoughtless little pig.”
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rust-script-supervisor-sues-baldwin-i-feel-like-at-any-moment-anything-could-happen-to-me-and-to-those-that-i-care-about">reported</a>, the 63-year-old is now facing a lawsuit stemming from his accidental shooting of 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the western film, &#8216;Rust,&#8217; last month. Mamie Mitchell, script supervisor on the set, was the crew member who called 911 and said in her filing, “I could not believe this was happening. I gave my statement to law enforcement and drove home. Ten minutes after I got home someone notified me that she was dead. I stood in my driveway screaming.”
Mitchell added:
<blockquote>I’ll never forget what happened on the set of “Rust” that day. I relive the shooting and the sound of the explosion from the gun over and over again. I’m depressed; I don’t feel safe; I feel like at any moment anything could happen to me and to those that I care about that are standing close to me. I don’t have a sense of guard rails in my life to keep me safe; I’m frightened of the future; this violent tragedy has taken away the joy in my life.</blockquote>

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In a classic episode of &#8220;30 Rock,&#8221; Tracy Jordan (played by black comedian Tracy Morgan), decides to dress as a white woman to prove to Jenna Maroney (played by white actress Jane Krakowski) that being a woman is easier than being black.
Maroney, in turn, dresses up as a black man. Hilarity ensues.
But the PC police got to NBC Universal, which has decided to pull the episode &#8212; along with three others in which there is blackface, or other things now deemed offensive.
&#8220;30 Rock&#8221; pushed the boundaries of race because the show, which ran from 2006 to 2013, had a diverse cast, unlike a show like &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221; and &#8220;Friends.&#8221; Along with Morgan and his wife Angie, there was DotCom and Grizz, &#8220;Toofer,&#8221; Donald Glover, and others &#8212; all black and all major characters. For instance, in one show, Jack Donaghy (played by Alec Baldwin), laments that NBC&#8217;s writers are all &#8220;so white,&#8221; and Liz Lemon (played by Tina Fey), replies: &#8220;Popo popped Dookie down by the vacants.&#8221;
No outcry then. But now is now.
Four episodes &#8220;are being removed from subscription streaming services Hulu and Amazon Prime and have also been made unavailable for sale on purchase platforms such as iTunes and Google Play,&#8221; Vulture reported. &#8220;The episodes, which will no longer air on traditional TV either, were pulled at the request of NBCUniversal executive producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. A source tells Vulture the four episodes, some of which have already vanished, should be gone by the end of this week.&#8221;
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The two Jenna blackface episodes being removed, which were gone at least a week ago, per Reddit observers, are from the third and fifth seasons of 30 Rock. The season-three episode, “Believe in the Stars,” aired first on November 6, 2008, and includes a plot in which Jenna (Krakowski) and Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) decide to swap identities in order to determine whether black men or white women face more challenges in society. This “experiment” includes Jenna darkening her skin. Her character again appears in blackface in the season-five episode “Christmas Attack Zone,” this time dressed as former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann at a party with boyfriend Paul (Will Forte), who dressed as Natalie Portman, in a spoof of Black Swan.
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NBC Universal is also removing the West Coast version of a live show in which guest star Jon Hamm appears in a wig and blackface, part of a phony racist TV show &#8220;Amos &#8216;n&#8217; Andy.&#8221; The ironic thing about this episode as that Hamm and Morgan were mocking racism, with Hamm&#8217;s character saying unbelievably racist things throughout the short scene as Jordan grew ever more angry.
Wait, there&#8217;s more. &#8220;Vulture is trying to find out the precise reason the East Coast version has been removed. That version did include a fake Fox News chyron that read &#8216;Exclusive Interview With Kenyan Liar,&#8217; a reference to the baseless birther conspiracy pushed by far-right politicians, including Donald Trump. The West Coast version of the live episode subs in a chyron reading &#8216;Impartial Interview With Barack Obammunist.'&#8221;
With the PC police swirling, lead actress Fey offered an apology.
&#8220;As we strive to do the work and do better in regards to race in America, we believe that these episodes featuring actors in race-changing makeup are best taken out of circulation,” Fey wrote in a letter to the platforms that streamed or sold 30 Rock. “I understand now that ‘intent’ is not a free pass for white people to use these images. I apologize for pain they have caused. Going forward, no comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness. I thank NBCUniversal for honoring this request.”
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30 Rock – Season 7

‘30 Rock’ Blackface Episodes Yanked; Tina Fey Apologizes.

Racism

Tina Fey&#8217;s &#8220;sheetcaking&#8221; Saturday Night Live skit, in which she addressed the violence in Charlottesville and the wave of white supremacists rallies, has earned both praise and outrage from the Left. The best thing Americans could do to protest the alt-right white nationalists, suggested Fey in a &#8220;Weekend Update&#8221; skit on Thursday night, was to stay home.
Fey, a former &#8220;Weekend Update&#8221; host, made a guest appearance on the segment Thursday to the delight of the audience. A University of Virginia graduate, Fey was introduced by co-host Colin Jost as coming on to give a personal message regarding the tragedy from the previous weekend and the upcoming white nationalist rallies.
Throughout the skit, Fey took shots at &#8220;Donny John&#8221; Trump, Republicans, and &#8220;Yard Sale Barbie&#8221; Ann Coulter, but spent most of it explaining her advice on how to best respond to the planned Klan rallies. Variety et al of course loved the &#8220;<a href="http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/tina-fey-weekend-update-charlottesville-sheetcaking-1202532456/">takedown of President Trump</a>,&#8221; but it was her recommended response to white supremacists that the permanently outraged feminist site Jezebel blasted as &#8220;obnoxious&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://jezebel.com/tina-feys-vexing-self-parody-1797975376">vexing</a>.&#8221; A few excerpts of the skit below (full transcript below video).
&#8220;[I]t broke my heart to see these evil forces descend upon Charlottesville,&#8221; said Fey. &#8220;And then our president, Donald John Trump &#8211; which, I don&#8217;t think people talk enough about what a stupid, jackass name that is. It does *not* flow &#8211; Donald John? Whatever, he gets away with it &#8217;cause he&#8217;s gorgeous. Anyway, Donnie John comes out, and he says that he condemns violence on many sides. On many sides, Colin. And I&#8217;m feeling sick. &#8216;Cause, you know. I&#8217;ve seen Raiders of the Lost Ark,&#8217; and, uh, I wasn&#8217;t confused by it. No, Colin, Nazis are always bad&#8230;&#8221;
Fey then addressed the scheduled rallies and noted that one is planned for New York City. &#8220;Like, I hope they try it and get the ham salad kicked out of them by a bunch of drag queens? &#8216;Cause, &#8217;cause you know what a drag queen still is? A six-foor-four black man,&#8221; she said, in a line that would have been met with outrage from the Left had it come from a conservative.
Then she finally presented her advice on how to best respond to the racist rallies:
<blockquote>
FEY: But, at the same time, I don&#8217;t want any more good people to get hurt. And I know a lot of us are feeling anxious, and we&#8217;re asking ourselves, like, &#8216;What can I do? I&#8217;m just one person&#8211;what can I do?&#8217; And so, I would urge people this Saturday, instead of participating in the screaming matches and potential violence, find a local business you support. Maybe, a Jewish-run bakery, or, an-African-American run&#8230;bakery. Order a cake with the American flag on it&#8211;like this one&#8211;and, um&#8230;just eat it, Colin.
JOST: Wait &#8211; I&#8217;m sorry; how is that supposed to help?
FEY (mouth overfull with cake): Love is love, Colin.
COLIN: I&#8217;m sorry, what?
FEY: And then, next time, when you see a bunch of white boys, boys in polo shirts screaming about taking our country back, and you want to scream, &#8220;It&#8217;s not our country&#8211;we stole it. We stole it from the Native Americans. And when they have a peaceful protest at Standing Rock, we shoot at them with rubber bullets. But we let you chinless turds march through the streets with semi-automatic weapons.&#8221; When you want to yell that, don&#8217;t yell it at the Klan, Colin. Yell it into the cake. (Screams into cake) Then, when Ann Coulter crawls out of her roach motel, and says, &#8220;Uh, antifa attacked Republicans in Berkeley,&#8221; and you&#8217;re like, &#8220;OK, Yard Sale Barbie, but the other side is Nazis and Klansmen. And also, who drove the car into the crowd? Hillary&#8217;s e-mails?&#8221;
COLIN: Well, you know, they&#8217;ve already canceled some of these new rallies.
FEY: You see? It&#8217;s working already. Sheetcaking is a grassroots movement, Colin. Most of the women I know have been doing it once a week since the election. And don&#8217;t worry, guys &#8211; by the way &#8211; don&#8217;t worry. Some of the people in Charlottesville weren&#8217;t Klansmen &#8211; they were independent militias! Yeah! Did you know there&#8217;s over 250 well-armed militias across the US that are ready to mobilize at any time? Yeah! Guess what, Che &#8211; they&#8217;re not cops. No! They&#8217;re not cops, Che &#8211; they&#8217;re just militias and they train themselves.
</blockquote>
While the skit might be interpreted as actually mocking the idea of sitting out the protests, some sort of ironic twist on &#8220;let them eat cake,&#8221; Fey&#8217;s final comment seemed to confirm that she was serious about people staying home.
&#8220;In conclusion. I really want &#8230; to encourage all good, sane Americans to treat these rallies this weekend like the opening of a thoughtful movie with two female leads: Don&#8217;t show up. Let these morons scream into the empty air,&#8221; she said.
She ended by taking a dig at Thomas Jefferson. &#8220;I love you Charlottesville, and, as Thomas Jefferson once said, &#8216;Who&#8217;s that hot light-skinned girl over by the butter churn?&#8217;&#8221; she said.
Her advice was predictably blasted by some on the left, including Jezebel which hated Fey&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://jezebel.com/tina-feys-vexing-self-parody-1797975376">Vexing Self-Parody</a>&#8221; (h/t: <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/18/tina-feys-response-charlottesville-lefts-nazi-panic/">HotAir</a>):
<blockquote>
What&#8217;s most obnoxious about this clip is how Fey is encouraging people to actively ignore neo-Nazis, by characterizing the protests as &#8220;violent&#8221; and urging those who might otherwise be encouraged to physically show up to stay at home&#8230;In less dire circumstances, this joke might have been actually funny. But right now, when satire hews so close to the truth that even The Onion recently printed a real headline, is [sic] the stakes are a little too high.&#8221;
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Full transcript below (via <a href="https://starcasm.net/archives/375261">Starcasm</a>):
<blockquote>
TINA FEY: Thank you Colin, and, Che: I just want to say that I always come out on Colin&#8217;s side because it&#8217;s the better half of my face&#8211;but I feel like this week it&#8217;s important to be clear about that.
MICHAEL CHE: Still not buying it, Tina. Not buying it at all.
COLIN JOST: Now, Tina, you graduated from UVA in 1992.
TINA: Yes, Colin. It&#8217;s a beautiful school, and I have nothing but fond memories of my time there. And&#8211;I graduated a virgin, and I still liked it. That&#8217;s how good the architecture is down there. So it broke my heart to see these evil forces descend upon Charlottesville. And then our president, Donald John Trump&#8211;which, I don&#8217;t think people talk enough about what a stupid, jackass name that is. It does *not* flow&#8211;Donald John? Whatever, he gets away with it &#8217;cause he&#8217;s gorgeous.
Anyway, Donnie John comes out, and he says that he condemns violence on many sides. On many sides, Colin. And I&#8217;m feeling sick. &#8216;Cause, you know. I&#8217;ve seen Raiders of the Lost Ark, and, uh, I wasn&#8217;t confused by it. No, Colin, Nazis are always bad&#8211;I don&#8217;t care what you say.
COLIN: &#8230;Well, *I* don&#8217;t say&#8230;
TINA: Then, we hear that there&#8217;s nine more alt-right rallies planned around the country this Saturday, including one in Washington Square Park. And part of me hopes these neo-Nazis do try it in New York City? Like, I hope they try it and get the ham salad kicked out of them by a bunch of drag queens? &#8216;Cause, &#8217;cause you know what a drag queen still is? A six-foor-four black man.
But, at the same time, I don&#8217;t want any more good people to get hurt. And I know a lot of us are feeling anxious, and we&#8217;re asking ourselves, like, &#8216;What can I do? I&#8217;m just one person&#8211;what can I do?&#8217; And so, I would urge people this Saturday, instead of participating in the screaming matches and potential violence, find a local business you support. Maybe, a Jewish-run bakery, or, an-African-American run&#8230;bakery. Order a cake with the American flag on it&#8211;like this one&#8211;and, um&#8230;just eat it, Colin.
COLIN: Wait&#8211;I&#8217;m sorry; how is that supposed to help?
TINA (mouth overfull with cake): Love is love, Colin.
COLIN: I&#8217;m sorry, what?
TINA: And then, next time, when you see a bunch of white boys, boys in polo shirts screaming about taking our country back, and you want to scream, &#8216;It&#8217;s not our country&#8211;we stole it. We stole it from the Native Americans. And when they have a peaceful protest at Standing Rock, we shoot at them with rubber bullets. But we let you chinless turds march through the streets with semi-automatic weapons.&#8217; When you want to yell that, don&#8217;t yell it at the Klan, Colin. Yell it into the cake. (Screams into cake) Then, when Ann Coulter crawls out of her roach motel, and says, &#8216;Uh, antifa attacked Republicans in Berkeley,&#8217; and you&#8217;re like, &#8216;OK, yard sale Barbie, but the other side is Nazis and Klansmen. And also, who drove the car into the crowd? Hillary&#8217;s e-mails?&#8217;
COLIN: Well, you know, they&#8217;ve already canceled some of these new rallies.
TINA: You see? It&#8217;s working already. Sheetcaking is a grassroots movement, Colin. Most of the women I know have been doing it once a week since the election. And don&#8217;t worry, guys&#8211;by the way&#8211;don&#8217;t worry. Some of the people in Charlottesville weren&#8217;t Klansmen&#8211;they were independent militias! Yeah! Did you know there&#8217;s over 250 well-armed militias across the US that are ready to mobilize at any time? Yeah! Guess what, Che&#8211;they&#8217;re not cops. No! They&#8217;re not cops, Che&#8211;they&#8217;re just militias and they train themselves.
CHE: Gimme some of that damn cake. (Reaches across the desk, grabs huge handful of cake, starts eating it)
TINA: (Slaps more cake down on the desk for Che) And you know what I say? I say, oh, you know, where&#8217;s Paul Ryan in all this? Right? You&#8217;re supposed to be like the cool, young Congressman in all this, but you don&#8217;t know how to @ somebody on Twitter? &#8216;Racism is bad @realDonaldJTrump, you pussy.&#8217; Then, then Donnie Johnny says we need to defend our country&#8217;s &#8216;beautiful Confederate monuments&#8217; when you know he would take &#8217;em down in a second if he thought he could build a bunch of poorly constructed condos on the spot. Google &#8216;Trump Bonwit Teller,&#8217; okay? And then your family says, &#8216;Oh, mom, you need to calm down,&#8217; and then you start to feel powerless&#8211;and that is when you need to dip a grilled cheese into the cake. (Does so)
COLIN: And&#8230;and are you gonna stay until, like, the whole cake is gone, or&#8230;?
TINA: In conclusion. I really want to say&#8211;to encourage all good, sane Americans to treat these rallies this weekend like the opening of a thoughtful movie with two female leads: Don&#8217;t show up. Let these morons scream into the empty air. I love you Charlottesville, and, as Thomas Jefferson once said, &#8216;Who&#8217;s that hot light-skinned girl over by the butter churn?&#8217;
</blockquote>
H/T <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/18/tina-feys-response-charlottesville-lefts-nazi-panic/">HotAir</a>

Tina Fey Blasted From The Left For Charlottesville Skit

Alt-Right

Antifa

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Race

Saturday Night Live

White Supremacy

Are you white? Do you have a uterus? Did you vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election?
If you answered yes to these questions, you have apparently committed an inexcusable act against Feminism, according to Hollywood liberal Tina Fey.
On Saturday, while discussing &#8220;access to reproductive care,&#8221; which is Feminist Code for &#8220;access to killing babies in the womb,&#8221; Fey lamented white, college-educated women casting their ballots for Trump in November. 
&#8220;The thing that I kinda keep focusing on is the idea that we sort of need to hold the edges, that it&#8217;s sort of like a lot of this election was turned by white, college-educated women who now would like to forget about this election and go back to watching HGTV,&#8221; <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/02/entertainment/tina-fey-aclu-donald-trump-policies/index.html">said </a>the 30 Rock star at the event hosted by the ACLU. &#8220;You can&#8217;t look away because it doesn&#8217;t affect you this minute, but it&#8217;s going to affect you eventually.
&#8220;I personally will make my own pledge as a college-educated white woman to not look away, to not pretend that things that are happening now won&#8217;t eventually affect me if we don&#8217;t put a stop to it,&#8221; added the feminist martyr. 
Apparently, one cannot be female and favor Trump over former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. I mean, SHE HAS A UTERUS, TOO! 
Fey is not the only feminist to blast women for committing Feminist Wrongthink. In the months following the election, countless spiraling feminists blamed women for the election of Trump amidst their breakdowns; apparently female Trump voters are all suffering from Stockholm syndrome and secretly hate themselves.
Here&#8217;s the woman who bragged about sexually abusing her little sister, DNC speaker Lena Dunham: 
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s really important to remember that it is an incredible problem that 53% of women in this country &#8212; 53% of white women in this country voted for Donald Trump which means that they&#8217;re not only voting against the interests of their sisters, of women who may not look like them, who they may not understand but whose rights are just as important, but also remember that they are in that case voting against their own best interest,&#8221; Dunham <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2017/02/10/dunham-feminists-have-work-do-enlightening-white-women-who-voted">told </a>the hags at The View. &#8220;To me a part of feminism &#8212; it&#8217;s almost like being a parent to a teenager where they&#8217;re so mad at you, they think you&#8217;re such a piece of crap and you&#8217;re like, I know you hate me right now but the reason I&#8217;m doing this is because I love you and I want us all to be safe.&#8221;
Yes, Ms. Dunham, please enlighten us lowly Trump voters.
And it wasn&#8217;t just dreadful naked celebs like Dunham; Hillary staffers shamed female Trump voters, too. Former communications outreach director for Hillary, Jess McIntosh, said white women voted for Trump because they are suffering from &#8220;<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/15/clinton-campaign-staffer-blames-internalized-misogyny-for-candidate-losing-white-womens-vote/">internalized misogyny</a>&#8220;:
<blockquote>
&#8220;All In&#8221; host Chris Hayes noted that, while women of color voted &#8220;overwhelmingly&#8221; for Clinton, the former secretary of state did only &#8220;a point better&#8221; among white women than President Barack Obama did in 2012.
Hayes asked McIntosh why Clinton failed to get more white women supporting her.
&#8220;Internalized misogyny is a real thing, and this is a thing we have to be talking about,&#8221; McIntosh replied.
</blockquote>
Of course, this accusation is absurd. Women can actually have different policy opinions without being &#8220;internalized misogynists,&#8221; <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10859/left-says-i-hate-myself-voting-trump-while-female-amanda-prestigiacomo">you condescending idiots. </a>
<blockquote>
&#8220;I personally will make my own pledge as a college-educated white woman to not look away &#8230;&#8221;
Tina Fey
</blockquote>
Do not believe the feminist hype: feminism is not all about &#8220;choice;&#8221; it is about adhering to strict leftist dogma, rejecting any sense of traditionalism, honoring the sacramental act of abortion and voting as the Feminist Gods tell you to vote.

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