From the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on last night’s Tony Awards:
A national writer for the Associated Press, Jocelyn Noveck, described the Tony Awards as an event “where tolerance and inclusion were constant themes.” So this is what Robert De Niro was doing—exercising his “tolerance”—when he screamed “F*** Trump”?
At least De Niro didn’t threaten violence against the president, which he did previously (“I’d like to punch Donald Trump in the face,” he said during the last presidential campaign). More recently, he vigorously defended Michelle Wolf’s obscene-laden address at the White House Correspondents Dinner. This is how Mr. Tolerance acts.
Another beacon of tolerance who spoke at the Tony Awards was Tony Kushner. He implored the audience to “heal our country.”
Kushner’s idea of healing is to bash Catholics and Jews. He not only cheered when Terrence McNally gave us “Corpus Christi,” the play where Christ is depicted as having sex with the twelve apostles, he lashed out at the Catholic League for exercising its First Amendment right to free speech by protesting the play.
After Matthew Shepard was murdered in Wyoming, Kushner blamed the pope for the homosexual’s death: “Pope John Paul II endorses murder,” the healer said. He has also been relentless in bashing the democratic state of Israel.
When Andrew Garfield won the best actor award, he took the occasion to reference the Supreme Court decision which affirmed religious liberty in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. He sided against the decision calling on everyone to say “no to bigotry, no to shame, no to exclusion.”
It’s too bad Garfield didn’t direct his comments at the gay bullies who took aim at the baker, Jack Phillips. “We declined to create one custom cake to celebrate a wedding ceremony that would directly violate my faith’s teachings…and it resulted in five years of court battle, 40 percent of my business, losing half my staff and even death threats,” Phillips said.
Tolerance. Inclusion. Civility. The New York-Hollywood axis may shout those virtues from the rooftop, but in practice they violate them with regularity. There are no bigger phonies on earth.
True enough, and what they don't seem to realize is how disliked they are by so many people. It has gotten to the point where most of us are by now pretty savvy about these Communists and where they stand. We refuse to pay money to see them or buy their "products" at all. I've got a fairly long list now of companies I won't visit, products I won't buy, and performers I won't see. It's costing them, and will cost them, as people understand the power of the purse and use it!
ReplyDeleteRobert DiNiro, I wouldn't see another thing this old Leftist participates in, although there are not a lot of calls for old Leftists in films today.
We see, out here in mainstream America and elsewhere, and we're watching them.
Hollywood is disintegrating. Talent has vaporized, these people have no "talent", they are B-list celebrities at best, and they turn out almost exclusively banal junk, not worth buying or seeing. They are out of ideas, even creativity has fled, they aren't humorous, not even entertaining, and someone needs to tell them, vulgarity is not a replacement for intelligent discourse. These entertainers make our culture a more ugly and coarse one, they add nothing good, in fact.
They have the audacity to complain about a vulgar term our president once used, but they are filthy people, in their words and in their habits. What hypocrites.
We like this president, and we're keeping him. We like him a whole lot more than we like people like Robert Deniro. He is actually providing a valuable service to our nation. These old actors and has beens do nothing.