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Hugh Hefner Was A Creepy Old Pornographer. So Why Are Leftists Celebrating Him?
On Monday evening, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner died at the ripe old age of 91. He spent his life sleeping with women (he estimated over 1,000 conquests) and pretending to be a deep thinker. But the media’s gushing focus on Hefner is truly astonishing: in an era in which the media routinely condemn President Trump’s “toxic masculinity,” blast the casual vulgarity of Clay Travis’ support for the “First Amendment and boobs,” and complain about exploitation of women in culture, they were willing to overlook all of their basic views about female value in order to laud Hefner. Why? Because Hefner was a creature of the Left through and through, a man who sought to break down traditional sexual mores in favor of a “freer” and more vulgar America.
Let’s be clear about one thing: Hefner’s attempt to glorify the “swinging” lifestyle was a dressed-up version of pure hedonism. While he said he liked to listen to jazz, talk about Nietzsche, and be surrounded by beautiful women, he’s only famous because of the last element: without publishing pictures of bare breasts, Hugh Hefner would have been a nearly-anonymous, seedy-type trying to hit on women who could pass for his granddaughters. Hefner is iconic only because our culture has been so degraded. Yes, Hefner published articles by Norman Mailer and John Updike. So did Picador and Random House. But neither of those publishers have been feted for doing so. The media may pretend that Hefner’s “sophistication” is the reason they’re praising him today, but it’s his obscenity and his open hatred of traditional morality that really turned them on.
None of this is to argue that Hefner’s antics weren’t protected by the First Amendment. They arguably were — although it’s highly doubtful that James Madison and company were particularly concerned about the right of individuals to publish nudity in public. It is to argue that glorifying Hefner for his pornographic use of the First Amendment is ridiculous.
It’s also worth noting that the Left’s attempts to attribute Hefner’s reputation to his forward-thinking on civil rights is an attempt to coat turd in gold. Martin Luther King, Jr. somehow pushed for civil rights without publicly touting a lifestyle straight out of a Saudi harem. Rosa Parks didn’t have to pose as a Playboy centerfold to effect change.
What the Left truly loves about Hefner is that he was instrumental in destroying public support for monogamy. It was Hefner who celebrated polyamory, who suggested that prior generations were repressed and ignorant — as though he was the first man to discover the pleasures of sex. Here’s The New York Times lauding him in a 3,300-word essay (they gave William F. Buckley some 3,000 words):
Mr. Hefner wielded fierce resentment against his era’s sexual strictures, which he said had choked off his own youth. A virgin until he was 22, he married his longtime girlfriend… In “The Playboy Philosophy,” a mix of libertarian and libertine arguments that Mr. Hefner wrote in 25 installments starting in 1962, his message was simple: Society was to blame. His causes — abortion rights, decriminalization of marijuana and, most important, the repeal of 19th-century sex laws — were daring at the time.
What a fellow. He hated that he stayed a virgin until he got married — clearly that cut off his creative juices. He loved abortion and he disliked traditional marriage. Feminists used to be wise enough to understand that Hefner’s brand of female objectification didn’t liberate women; now, feminists suggest that Hefner, who built his infamous grotto into a “squalid prison” for buxom younger women, was somehow a breaker of chains. Hefner didn’t make women more respected; he made men more open in their piggishness.
But he broke the old consensus about the value of marriage, so bully for him.
All of which shows that for many on the Left, principles about female value and opposition to men acting like garbage are disposable, so long as the man in question fulfills certain anti-traditional standards. From Bill Clinton to Teddy Kennedy, political leftism is the golden ticket to enjoying all the rewards of personal depravity. That’s why Hefner was treated as a cultural hero rather than as a pornographer masquerading as a highbrow philosopher.
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Hmmm: Supreme Court to reopen debate on forced union “fees”
Will the fourth time be the charm? The Supreme Court has granted cert in a challenge to the forced payment of union dues by non-members, a dispute that the court has failed to resolve three times in the past. As one of the first actions the high court took on its return from recess, they agreed to hear arguments on Janus v AFSCME, and the new composition promises a resolution to the question — one way or another:
The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a challenge to the so-called “fair share” fees public employee unions collect from non-members, posing a major threat to organized labor.
Unlike the past three times the court has considered similar cases, its five-member conservative majority appears poised to rule that workers opposed to union representation cannot be forced to pay for collective bargaining and other benefits.
The new case comes from Illinois and raises the same issues as a California case on which the court deadlocked, 4-4, following the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016.
The case provides an almost perfect parallel to Friedrichs v California Teachers Association, the first case decided — or really not — after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. Two months afterward, the court split 4-4 on a challenge to a lower-court ruling that kept forced union “fees” deductions in place for non-union workers. The split was announced “per curiam,” with no opinion attached, and the split kept the lower court’s order in place without any precedential weight for other circuits.
The new case involves the same issues, giving the Supreme Court another shot at a conclusion:
The Illinois case involves Mark Janus, a state employee who says Illinois law violates his free speech rights by requiring him to pay fees subsidizing a union he doesn’t support, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. About half the states have similar laws covering so-called “fair share” fees that cover bargaining costs for non-members.
Janus is seeking to overturn a 1977 Supreme Court case, Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, that said public workers who refuse to join a union can still be required to pay for bargaining costs, as long as the fees don’t go toward political purposes. The arrangement was supposed to prevent non-members from “free riding,” since the union has a legal duty to represent all workers.
Forbes’ Brian Miller says it will all come down to Gorsuch — and that’s a bad sign for the unions:
In his eleven years on the federal bench, Justice Gorsuch has not had an occasion to consider the free speech rights of public employees. He has, however, taken a strong position against compelled association.
In 2013, then Judge Gorsuch authored a concurring opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby when that case was before the Tenth Circuit. That case was like Janus in one important way. The owners of Hobby Lobby and others – like the Little Sisters of the Poor – were told by the Obama administration to fund access to contraceptives through their insurance policies.
Much like Mark Janus is arguing that compelled union dues require him to support activities he disagrees with, Hobby Lobby argued that the Obama administration compelled them to violate the teachings of their faith by providing financial support for activities they fundamentally opposed.
Justice Gorsuch sided with the owners of Hobby Lobby. In a concurring opinion, he justified his decision by saying, “All of us face the problem of complicity. All of us must answer for ourselves whether and to what degree we are willing to be involved in the wrongdoing of others.”
That seems like a reach. There is a fundamental difference between religious belief and political ideology, one that Gorsuch intended to protect in his Hobby Lobby opinion. That doesn’t mean that Gorsuch would be likely to side with the unions — he’s probably much more inclined to go the other way — but the connection here seems pretty tenuous at best, and not all that predictive.
This does seem like a slam dunk to go 5-4, but … which way? Anthony Kennedy may have gone with the conservatives to get to the tie in Friedrichs, but who’s to say that wasn’t a strategy to force the issue to wait for a full nine-member panel for a precedential decision? Kennedy usually has an eye for stare decisis, and he’s not going to vote lightly to overturn Abood. On the other hand, Miller reminds us that it was Kennedy who sharply criticized the Abood fees during oral arguments in Friedrichs for making non-members “compelled riders” on the unions’ political agenda.
One thing we know for sure is that the court definitely wants to set precedent this time. The case will come up for argument in the winter, and it seems like a safe bet that the decision will probably come out near the end of the term as most controversial decisions do.
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Outrage: State Employees Paid to Create Sick American Flag Display
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Teachers at a public school in Chicago have a lot of explaining to do after they disrespected the American flag… all while calling it a “lesson.”
According to Fox News, employees of York High School put a U.S. flag on the floor of the school library on Tuesday, and left it there all day. To make matters worse, the teachers apparently knew that putting a flag on the ground was considered disrespectful, but did it on purpose.
“It was used for students to reconcile their feelings about current issues and whether their First Amendment rights are protected,” Principal Erin DeLuga stated in a vague letter to parents.
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“The purpose of the forum was to explore the complexities of the constitutionally protected right of free speech by examining real cases,” the school administrator continued.
It’s not clear how throwing a flag on the floor helps students “reconcile their feelings,” whatever that means.
The public quickly became outraged when photos of the disgraced flag began circulating.
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“This is just plain disrespectful,” a former student stated. “I was taught at a very young age the flag never touches the ground. Never! I am so upset at this sorry excuse for educating today’s youth.”
“I am appalled at this form of teaching,” another alumnus posted on Facebook. “You say that this in no way was mean to be disrespectful, but in all reality it most certainly was.”
The reality is that thousands of Americans — including black citizens — fought and died to protect the flag and everything that it represents. Throwing it on the floor even as some sort of twisted “lesson” fails to respect their sacrifices, and it’s insulting and tone-deaf.
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That disrespect is made worse by the fact that public educators who are paid by American taxpayers are the ones encouraging this kind of behavior.
Instead of teaching students that treating the American flag like a rug is fine, they should be educating the next generation about past sacrifices and the reasons we treat our banner with respect.
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9 Thugs Beat The Crap Out Of A Family Because That’s What Thugs Do
I can’t say for sure if this was a racially motivated attack because the news has little interest in presenting facts that go against the “white supremacy is our nation’s biggest problem” narrative. Maybe all of the attackers were black. Perhaps the victims were white. The news won’t say, but at least one of the scumbags who beat up a child and his elderly parents was black. I’m almost certain that most of the attackers were not white and the victims black, because that would be something the news would report.
18-year-old Gregory Battle (pictured) and 8 of his homies were at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL, a suburb of Chicago, last Saturday for the park’s annual “Fright Fest.” They got it in their mind that they had special privileges and didn’t need to wait in lines like the rest of the park guests. CBS Chicago reports that the gang of 9 cut the line in front of a 50-year-old woman, her 51-year-old husband and their 12-year-old son.
The 9 assholes were acting rowdy and using obscenities. The 50-year-old woman politely asked them to watch their language. One of the thugs responded by sucker-punching the 12-year-old boy. The mother and father came to the aid of their son and the gang began beating the entire family. Yeah, 9 scumbags between the ages of 15 and 18 were attacking two people in their 50’s and a young boy.
Witnesses say that the mob beat the family to the ground and then stomped and kicked them when they were down. The mother, father, and son were all hospitalized with what are being called “significant injuries.”
“This family is lucky they got out with just the injuries that they did,” said Gurnee Deputy Police Chief of Operations Brian Smith.
Define “lucky.”
Park security eventually broke up the one-sided fight and the police were called. Gregory Battle and 8 minors were arrested and charged with offenses ranging from mob action to aggravated battery causing great bodily harm. The names of the other attackers were not released because of their ages.
I did some research and read about this story on several different sites, but none of them mention what the race of the other attackers or the victims are. Were all of the attackers black? Are the victims white? I think it’s a given that these things are true simply by the media silence. They don’t want to go around promoting stories about mobs of black thugs beating the shit out of white people because they are fully invested in America being a place that is intolerably racist against black people.
Had this been a bunch of white teenagers beating up a black family, that would be big news with national interest and a ton of outrage to go with it. Had the family been Muslim, it would be even worse. We live in a country where a white guy running over a white woman proves that white supremacy is an epidemic, but a mobs of blacks beating the hell out of white people never enters the conversation on race.
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Crackpot Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura Says Statue of Liberty Should Come Down
The fool’s parade of leftist cranks continues to march to the beat of a very different drummer than that of mainstream America. Not only do these people talk as if they don’t live in the same country but in many cases, one has to wonder if they are even in the same universe anymore.
Yes, it’s really gotten that bad.
Such is the case with former Navy SEAL, professional wrestler, actor and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura who has long slipped off the grid of what any rational person can define as sanity.
I admit that I always got a kick out of Ventura and his iconoclastic bombast, he even made some very good point about the Deep State on occasion but let’s face it, the 66-year-old has drifted very far to the left in recent years, so far that he seems to have completely lost his marbles.
Leaving aside his personal vendetta with deceased American hero Chris Kyle aka “American Sniper” and his family, for the time being, Ventura has now become an outspoken ambassador for legalized pot and dabbles in amnesty for illegal aliens.
It was the latter that finds him once again in the news over some outlandish comments that popped out of his mouth.
Mr. Ventura has called for throwing open the borders to illegals who can assist with the job in rebuilding Florida and Texas (ostensibly they will then find other ways to undercut American workers) and is scoffing at the concept of a border wall, one of President Trump’s initiatives.
He also states that if a border wall does get built, that the Statue of Liberty should be taken down.
.@GovJVentura said what?
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— #PJMedia (@PJMedia_com) September 28, 2017
Via P.J. Media “Jesse Ventura: If Border Wall Goes Up, Statue of Liberty Must Come Down”:
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura said the federal government should open the United States’ borders to undocumented immigrants who could help rebuild Texas and Florida after the recent hurricanes.
“Who’s going to do this cleanup? The white people? I think we should open our borders and bring the Mexicans up; we’ve got a lot of work for them, cleaning up Houston and cleaning up Florida,” Ventura said during the Nexus Conference in Aspen, Colo., over the weekend.
“Who’s going to do that work? You? Think about it. These are hardworking people. We want them – and let’s remember something, unless you are ‘native United Staten,’ we are all immigrants, aren’t we?” he added. “How quick we forget. And if they want to put this wall up, I’ll tell you what they need to do – take down the Statue of Liberty, take it down, take it down. Why have a statue that is meaningless? That statue says send us your poor, send us your this, send us your that.”
The poem on Statue of Liberty reads, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
Jesse hasn’t completely lost it because right after calling for the Statue of Liberty to be taken down, he did blast the Democrats’ entire Russian election conspiracy theory as bullshit.
Read it all HERE and listen to the words directly from the horse’s mouth.
He seems to be smoking a bit too much of one of the Bernie Bro’s stash these days and reading too much of the Marijuana Manifesto, this has to be one of the dumbest things that he has ever uttered.
Hey, he’s from Minnesota and smokes a lot of dope but that hardly gives him a pass.
Ventura in happier times:
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Elementary School Librarian Rejects ‘Racist Propoganda’ Dr. Seuss Books From Melania Trump
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A Cambridge, Mass. elementary school librarian wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that she would not be keeping a collection of books that First Lady Melania Trump donated to her school.
Liz Phipps Soeiro published a letter to Trump on the Horn Book’s Family Reading blog, in which she said that she would not be keeping the books the first lady donated to Cambridge Elementary School, the Hill reported.
Trump donated a collection of ten Dr. Seuss books to one school in each state earlier this month to mark National Read a Book Day.
“I work in a district that has plenty of resources, which contributes directly to ‘excellence,'” Soeiro wrote. “Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an amazing city with robust social programming, a responsive city government, free all-day kindergarten, and well-paid teachers (relatively speaking — many of us can’t afford to live in the city in which we teach). My students have access to a school library with over nine thousand volumes and a librarian with a graduate degree in library science.”
Soeiro added that the first lady should be donating books to school libraries in cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, and Chicago, because their libraries are being “shuttered” by policies put in place by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
“Are those kids any less deserving of books simply because of circumstances beyond their control?” she wrote. “Why not go out of your way to gift books to underfunded and underprivileged communities that continue to be marginalized and maligned by policies put in place by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos?”
Soeiro then criticized Trump’s choice of Dr. Seuss as “cliché” and said that he is a “tired and worn ambassador for children’s literature.”
“As first lady of the United States, you have an incredible platform with world-class resources at your fingertips,” she wrote. “Just down the street you have access to a phenomenal children’s librarian: Dr. Carla Hayden, the current librarian of Congress. I have no doubt Dr. Hayden would have given you some stellar recommendations.”
She then characterized Dr. Seuss’s illustrations as racist and said that they were steeped in “racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes,” listing several examples in her letter.
Soeiro did not note that former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama both read Dr. Seuss books to children several times during their eight years in the White House. The former president promoted his “Read Across America” initiative last March by reflecting on Dr. Seuss’s literature, saying, “Pretty much all the stuff you need to know is in Dr. Seuss.”
The Cambridge school system responded to Soeiro’s letter to the first lady with a statement that said, “The employee was not authorized to accept or reject donated books on behalf of the school or school district,” CBS Boston reported.
“We have counseled the employee on all relevant policies, including the policy against public resources being used for political purposes,” the district said.
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Breaking: Trump waives Jones Act for Puerto Rico
What a difference a day makes, eh? Yesterday, Donald Trump offered a blunt assessment on why action to waive the Jones Act for the Puerto Rico crisis was unlikely. Others pointed out that even a waiver wouldn’t really help, since shipping capacity for Puerto Rico vastly outstrips logistical capabilities for distribution in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Today, on second thought …
At @ricardorossello request, @POTUS has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico. It will go into effect immediately.
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) September 28, 2017
BREAKING: White House announces Pres Trump has authorized waiving the Jones Act for Puerto Rico, effective immediately.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) September 28, 2017
It’s a smart move, both politically and symbolically. Politically, the White House has had an avalanche of unfair press coverage insinuating that they haven’t paid attention to the crisis in Puerto Rico. As Teri Christoph noted, that’s far from the case; they’ve been responding to it since before Hurricane Maria hit, but Trump himself has spent more of his public time talking and tweeting about the NFL than promoting relief efforts.
Symbolically it matters too, even if it won’t change much in the short run. Trump’s suggestion that protectionism should outweigh a humanitarian crisis — especially when it involves American citizens, which is the case in Puerto Rico — was tin-eared at best. It’s not that it wasn’t rational, but that it was too coldly rational. When Americans are suffering, we put that kind of calculation aside for a while in order to get help where it’s needed, or at least leave all options open to do so.
But will this get more help to Puerto Rico during the acute crisis? Not really, no — and even if it did, it wouldn’t matter. The problem in Puerto Rico isn’t getting aid to the island, Bloomberg’s Laura Blewitt reports. The problem is a lack of resources to get it off the docks once it arrives:
Thousands of cargo containers bearing millions of emergency meals and other relief supplies have been piling up on San Juan’s docks since Saturday. The mountains of materiel may not reach storm survivors for days.
Distributors for big-box companies and smaller retailers are unloading 4,000 20-foot containers full of necessities like food, water and soap this week at a dock in Puerto Rico’s capital operated by Crowley Maritime Corp. In the past few days, Tote Maritime’s terminal has taken the equivalent of almost 3,000. The two facilities have become choke points in the effort to aid survivors of Hurricane Maria.
“There are plenty of ships and plenty of cargo to come into the island,” said Mark Miller, a spokesman for Crowley, based in Jacksonville, Florida. “From there, that’s where the supply chain breaks down — getting the goods from the port to the people on the island who need them.” …
Trucks are ready to be loaded with the goods and precious diesel for backup generators, but workers aren’t around to drive. Instead, they’re caring for families and cleaning up flood damage — and contending with the curfew.
The buildings that would receive supplies are destroyed and without electricity, Miller said. The transport companies that have staff available and diesel on hand encounter downed poles and power lines while navigating 80,000-pound tractor-trailers on delicate washed-out roads.
The Jones Act waiver won’t help get aid to Puerto Rico. The aid has been arriving all along. What is truly needed is an effort to rebuild enough transportation and power infrastructure to get the aid moved off the docks in San Juan. And right now, the US military is trying to solve those problems, rather than worry about tweets or the Jones Act. That is a direct result of White House management of the crisis, and a much better metric than Trump’s Twitter account.
However, at some point a Jones Act waiver will help Puerto Rico save some money when it’s in position to spend its own money on the rebuilding effort — but the waiver will almost certainly expire before that time comes. If Congress wants to remove this protectionist act for good policy reasons, it can do that any time. It won’t have anything to do with aid in the immediate and critical time frame, though.
Trump made the right call, politically and symbolically. Now perhaps everyone else can focus on the actual acute crises.
Update: Like I wrote … symbolic (via Fausta Wertz and Steve Eggleston, emphasis mine):
The waiver from the shipping law, which requires American-made and operated vessels to transport cargo between U.S. ports, will only last for 10 days and goes into effect immediately.
“At @ricardorossello request, @POTUS has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico. It will go into effect immediately,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote on Twitter, referring to Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.
Steve also points out that the waiver might lower costs marginally for charities that are moving goods to Puerto Rico, but it’s not going to have any more dramatic impact than that. Rosselló won’t be in position to do any rebuilding within that ten-day period, which makes this an utterly symbolic move.
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Photo: The Most Sickening Protest Picture We’ve Seen All Week
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Photo: The Most Sickening Protest Picture We’ve Seen All Week
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It’s become quite clear that many Americans find professional athletes taking a knee during the national anthem to be disrespectful of the American flag and the men and women who have fought and died to defend it.
Yet, many of the kneelers and their supporters in the media insist that the protest has nothing to do with disrespecting our nation’s fallen warriors or the flag, and is only intended to raise awareness of racial inequalities and instances of police brutality.
However, a shocking picture that recently went viral has seemingly exposed that narrative to be a lie. It appears to shows a young man taking a knee at The Tomb of the Unknowns monument in Arlington National Cemetery, during the playing of “Taps” no less, according to a Facebook post from Salute Media.
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Salute Media reported that the photo was taken by a combat veteran who was paying his respects to the fallen at the most hallowed grounds of our nation and military — a place generally regarded as one of quiet reverence, honor and self-reflection.
American Military News noted that it is widely considered to be disrespectful for people to do anything other than stand silently and respectfully during the playing of “Taps” — a beautifully somber bugle call often heard at military funerals — particularly while at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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In fact, acts of disrespect at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, if spotted by the guards on duty, have been loudly admonished in the past, as seen in a video shared by Military.com.
Unsurprisingly, many people on social media expressed their displeasure with the sight seen in the viral photo.
Thus far, no other photos or video have emerged of the kneeling man at the hallowed Tomb, nor have any details about his identity or stated reason for kneeling, if he even had one.
Should his identity ever be revealed, he could end up facing consequences for his actions — not from the military or government, but from the rest of society at large, who don’t care for those who have displayed utter disrespect at such an honorable location.
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Recall back in 2012 when another disrespectful photo at the Tomb went viral, in that case a woman flipping the middle finger and pretending to shout next to a sign that asked visitors to remain silent and respectful at all times. According to the New York Daily News, that woman ended up losing her job over the “ignorant and distasteful” photo once her employers saw it.
It remains to be seen if anything else will come of this most recent incident at the Tomb, but hopefully it is not the start of a new trend.
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Watch: Spike Lee Defends Anthem Protests, Suddenly Gold Star Dad Grabs the Mic
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Spike Lee might personify the current national anthem protests perfectly: He’s a millionaire entertainer who acts like he’s the center of the universe and sees every single thing through the lens of race.
Unsurprisingly, the far-left film director recently defended NFL players who refuse to stand for the national anthem… but the parents of a soldier killed in Afghanistan quickly put him in his place.
“How do you support these multi-millionaires on their knees, and don’t support what the fallen heroes died for?” the father of Staff Sgt. Louis Bonacasa asked Spike Lee during a CNN debate Wednesday night.
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The Bernie Sanders-supporting Lee dismissed the question, and bizarrely claimed that refusing to stand for the American flag didn’t insult troops who have died defending it.
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“All these players have said, many many times, that they respect the armed forces,” Lee said. “They respect the flag. And they respect America. And this narrative that when they take a knee, it’s insulting your son who is no longer here, is not true.”
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That response was, in fact, a lie. Colin Kaepernick — the player who started the current movement — has repeatedly said that he doesn’t respect the flag and doesn’t respect America.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” the now unemployed quarterback declared last year.
In other words, literally the opposite of what Spike Lee claimed while looking a gold star family in the eyes.
Luckily, the family of the slain American soldier pushed back against the arrogant Hollywood director.
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“When North Korea aims a nuclear missile at us, are these ‘heroes’ that you say, NFL players who can’t support our flag, are they gonna be on their knees when this happens, or are they gonna support our veterans?” Bonacasa asked.
Lee refused to actually answer that question, but repeated the hysterical and asinine narrative that President Trump was more dangerous than nuclear-armed dictator Kim Jong Un. The claim, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with the question.
“I’m worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea. And he has a nuclear code. I’m worried about that,” Lee said.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that liberals live in a different universe than the majority of Americans.
Out-of-touch views such as continuing to insult veterans with anthem antics, or repeating some drivel about Trump being more dangerous than a dictator who has executed hundreds of people in a human rights hell-hole show that “progressives” like Lee shouldn’t be taken seriously.
Lee is the same as the NFL players who have nothing logical to say but believe that they are great crusaders of justice. At the end of the day, their points don’t hold up, and it’s clear that a desperation for attention is the real reason for their actions.
The American people are tired of it. Lee gave up on making sense a long time ago. The NFL still has a chance at redemption, but that opportunity is quickly running out.
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