Despite the triumph of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, liberal celebrities didn’t get much happier in 2021.
It began with Donald Trump refusing to concede that he lost the presidential election. A year ago, one actor engaged in violent fantasies over this stubborn resistance to the facts. “Who arrests Trump if he refuses to concede? Who drags him out? Pepper spray? Cuffs?” This sounds like an action movie.
But then it turned threatening: “A knee on his neck, cutting off his oxygen? Does he wheeze ‘I can’t breathe'(?) Just whale away on him like a pinata? Rodney King style? The thug who has destroyed the country. What does he deserve?”
Which actor wanted to suffocate and beat Trump senseless? Why, Alec Baldwin, the accidental film-set killer. This is the same Hollywood hothead who fantasized about killing Dick Cheney with the corpse of Osama bin Laden. Somehow all of this rage never came up in his violins-and-handkerchiefs interview with friendly George Stephanopoulos on ABC.
Twitter provides a lot of this left-wing excess. Anyone opposing abortion is a monster. Take author Stephen King, for example, who tweeted in September, “The Taliban would love the Texas abortion law.” There’s also the typical Cher tweet screeching about “barefoot and pregnant women, at the mercy of tyrants” — but all in capital letters because Cher loves the primal-scream tone.
Sometimes this nonsense pops up in the celebrity bubble of late-night TV. Actor Bradley Whitford insisted on Stephen Colbert’s show on CBS that Congress needed to pass H.R. 1, the bill that would ban voter ID requirements and other anti-fraud measures. “Without that, you know, I’ll see you in the internment camp,” he told Colbert. He wasn’t kidding. “Negotiating with a party that worships an insurrectionist feels really close, to me, to negotiating with terrorists.”
These leftists despise Fox News. Screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin said, “There is something lethal that’s wrong with Fox News,” as opposed to CNN or MSNBC or The New York Times. “I recognize there might be a liberal tone to it, but they don’t lie. They don’t make things up.” Dan Rather didn’t lie? New York Times reporter Jayson Blair didn’t make things up?
Rock singer David Crosby really ranted in an interview with The Daily Beast. “Rupert Murdoch should be taken out and shot. The people on Fox are doing great harm to the human race,” he said.
Celebrities were thrilled that Biden would bring unity and sanity and civility to politics — because they’re absolutely incapable of doing so.
Some celebrities switched from anger to what sounded like a drug-induced euphoria. Michael Moore offered a factually deprived summary of the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco under Biden: “I’m still flabbergasted that he pulled this off with such grace and precision and safety.” This mysteriously ignored the 13 U.S. service members killed by a suicide bomber outside the Kabul airport, and the errant drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including an aid worker and seven children.
In a year of increasingly shameless robberies of businesses in big cities, multimillionaire “Sex and the City” actress (and losing political candidate) Cynthia Nixon was upset they were locking up the laundry detergent at CVS drugstores. “I can’t imagine thinking that the way to solve the problem of people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them,” she tweeted.
So, it’s unreasonable (or not compassionate) to treat robbery as a crime. Perhaps victimized merchants would suggest solving this shameful wealth inequality by volunteering Nixon’s address for a thorough housecleaning.
It’s celebrity freakouts such as these that underline America’s rich and famous actors could be nominated for the award “Most Likely to Sound Out of Touch.”
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
There isn’t any difference between the celebrities and the communist news media. The celebrities and the communist news media are enablers and advocates for the criminals / felons running around in society.
99% of pervy wood are down right commies..
One has to wonder why these people think they are such political geniuses. Few of them ever run for office and they are never offered a position within the current administration. At some point, they should get the message that they are revered for their entertainment value and nothing more—because that is where their true talent lies. They may resemble the likes of Ilhan Omar, Maxine Waters, AOC, and Nancy Pelosi, to name a few, but they exhibit absolutely no understanding or comprehension of issues and events that would qualify them for leadership positions.
Democrat party supporters operate strictly on emotion, with very little rational thought and who simply do not understand reality or basic economics. Democrats are willing to destroy themselves and everyone around them before they will agree to face facts, truths and reality.
I favor NO rational thought..
You will never see the opinions of great actors like Denzel Washington, or Clint Eastwood, spewed all over the liberal media. I wonder why?
These ingrates are so wrapped up in believing America cares about their opinions they refuse to see they are freaks of America. Never having worked for a living and depending on others to keep them living in luxury they most assuredly should shut their mouths. I for one turn any show off that has anyone of them associated with it in any way. If only they could be as popular as President Trump they would still not be happy. Jealousy has deep roots in elitistsville.
Part of that is on WE the people, who’ve elevated all these celebs, to such high alters they’ve been placed on for years..