tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87651688996987694642024-03-05T00:28:36.621-08:00Mark TapsonCulture. Entertainment. Politics.Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comBlogger883125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-17041592061947946752023-01-28T23:52:00.004-08:002023-01-28T23:52:45.995-08:00My New Substack - The Culture Warrior<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8JmdFVAIZmaPszikg4gcGtFTGtJcij76RWDAcXHp5t4YG2dfEZ8LXTsVuMeuaW9o-R5v0iWa-yS3wzsM3nah5YgNyC3U09jeRl-E8vPjclB4JBgbvdEd43uhv0rK0fdmQXrUlK0R2vzxWzTJxoEzfLv351RDOlDYz6d1tvgYRc-zdfiYH4z2dhBGgBQ/s1200/Bible%20and%20Sword.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8JmdFVAIZmaPszikg4gcGtFTGtJcij76RWDAcXHp5t4YG2dfEZ8LXTsVuMeuaW9o-R5v0iWa-yS3wzsM3nah5YgNyC3U09jeRl-E8vPjclB4JBgbvdEd43uhv0rK0fdmQXrUlK0R2vzxWzTJxoEzfLv351RDOlDYz6d1tvgYRc-zdfiYH4z2dhBGgBQ/w400-h209/Bible%20and%20Sword.png" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm late making the announcement, but as of about a month ago I'm posting all my latest articles at my new Substack account called <a href="https://marktapson.substack.com/" target="_blank">Culture Warrior</a>. The Culture Warrior tagline? "Make Western Civilization Great Again."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My avatar there (you can see it in the subscribe button below) is a flag with a red cross on a black-and-white field. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">? It
is the Beauséant, the battle flag flown by the warrior-monks of the
medieval Knights Templar. The cross, of course, represents Christ’s
sacrifice, while the blocks of black and white symbolize the duality of
evil and good. The black is on top because evil seems to hold sway in
this world; but beneath, the good is ever-present and ultimately will
prevail.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Subscribing at Culture Warrior is the best way to keep up with what I'm writing, reading, and doing henceforth. I don't currently have the time to cross-post those things here as well (unless there's a quick, automatic way to do it that I just haven't had the time to research yet), although marktapson.com will remain my personal website. It may see some changes too in the very near future.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the meantime, please consider subscribing to Culture Warrior. It's free (many Substack accounts charge a monthly fee) and each weekend you'll get exclusive access to my weekly newsletter, which includes links to all my posts from the week including my podcast episodes, in addition to links to must-read books and articles that I highly recommend in order to keep up with and understand what's happening in the culture (and what to do about it).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Looking forward to seeing you there!</span></span><br /></p><p></p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="320" scrolling="no" src="https://marktapson.substack.com/embed" style="background: white; border: 1px solid #EEE;" width="480"></iframe></p></div>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-37149145210550786082022-12-09T14:58:00.002-08:002022-12-09T14:58:14.779-08:00The Antidote to ‘Toxic’ Masculinity<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxegWxadkiBRE2KK5zYAbspzTm_Aa9kUeqVf8Y5Ym_oYovZb_Sm7edfMVGpCBPymKAbSgad4e85nFQMfjvSdm4lknaGEomOI8SZ-TLa5CdL3EXNfyHyAoSBU7ewc2QtQy_ITR_1rqbDIZKmbfMSP08YWxhv-zUJpFz9a-RkbCsPAJ-MZqp1SnFDWaoLw/s800/helping-hand-e1670616599638.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxegWxadkiBRE2KK5zYAbspzTm_Aa9kUeqVf8Y5Ym_oYovZb_Sm7edfMVGpCBPymKAbSgad4e85nFQMfjvSdm4lknaGEomOI8SZ-TLa5CdL3EXNfyHyAoSBU7ewc2QtQy_ITR_1rqbDIZKmbfMSP08YWxhv-zUJpFz9a-RkbCsPAJ-MZqp1SnFDWaoLw/w400-h266/helping-hand-e1670616599638.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Marine veteran Terry
Bagley, a 70-year-old father of five who does housekeeping at a Veterans
Affairs hospital,<span> was walking </span>to buy items for Thanksgiving <span>in the Pigtown
area of Baltimore, Maryland, on the Tuesday afternoon before </span>the holiday.
On his way to the market, a <span>rowhome on the block </span><a href="https://www.wbaltv.com/article/terry-bagley-hospitalized-rowhome-explosion-hero/42052107"><span>exploded</span></a><span>—likely from a
ruptured gas line.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Bagley reportedly wasted
no time hurrying to the rescue of anyone who might be trapped inside the
burning building.</span> <span>Firefighters later found him in the rubble. Bagley, in critical
condition, was placed in a medically-induced coma. His injuries—including a
broken pelvis, femur, and hand—will require surgery. (A GoFundMe page set up
for the Vietnam vet has </span><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-veteran-hero-once-a-marine-always-a-marine?qid=ea2e665afde363c0d34ac94b425ac26a"><span>raised</span></a><span> over $40,000 of a
$150,000 goal thus far.) But a 16-year-old girl and 48-year-old woman who were
inside the home survived in stable condition.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Amid the usual litany of disheartening news
items highlighting the worst of human behavior—mass shootings, wartime
atrocities, and acts of random, pointless violence—Terry Bagley’s story is one
that shines a spotlight on the <i>best</i> of what we are capable of.<span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>His daughter Eris
Bagley later told Baltimore’s 11 News, “He thought nothing about his own life
to save two women that he did not know.” Questioned about why her father entered
the burning home, she replied, “Because he’s a Marine.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>“My dad endured
polio as a child. He also endured the thing with </span><a href="https://www.wbaltv.com/article/i-team-some-people-find-difficulty-while-filing-claims-over-contaminated-water-at-camp-lejeune/41903038"><span>Camp Lejeune with
toxic water</span></a><span> and he also served in the Vietnam War,” she added. “[He was] heroic,
but I wish he didn’t do it because now I’m scared that I am about to lose him.
But I’m glad he did it to save people he didn’t know.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>His son Terry Bagley
Jr. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/HellgrenWJZ/status/1595548631935111173"><span>told</span></a><span> reporters:</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>“His heroic behavior is nothing new. …</span><span> I’ve always seen this, and I think that every
child should look up to their father. … Every child should be proud of their
father, and I am very proud of what he did, but I am also scared as well, and
I’ve got to be honest with that. But I’m praying to my God, and I believe in my
God, and I just want my father to get better, and I just want his story to be
out there that a 70-year-old man put his life on the line to save two people.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span>A 70-year-old man put his life on the line to
save two people</span></i><span>. Even at his
advanced age, which he surely knew would make his own survival unlikely, <span>Bagley </span>did not hesitate to take that
risk in an attempt to rescue total strangers in terrible danger. He exhibited
the heroic degree of selfless courage that is the hallmark of a cultural virtue
that, among younger generations today, has become a dirty word: <i>chivalry</i>.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span></span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">Chivalry originated in the Middle Ages as a knightly
code of valor and virtue. Under the influence of the church, chivalry evolved
in moral scope from the timeless warrior virtues of loyalty, generosity, and prowess
on the battlefield to emphasize Christian service to the defenseless—a courageous,
<i>selfless</i> service to others that still defines for us the word <i>hero</i>.</span><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>With its origins in a warrior code, chivalry—distinct
from mere politeness and manners—has always been linked to masculinity. Among
men and women of older generations, it was just a given that chivalry was an
admirable trait for a man. But thanks to the excesses of modern feminism, chivalry
today has unfairly earned the scorn and contempt of many young women who view
even the most basic chivalrous gesture—say, the gentlemanly opening of a door for
them—to be a demeaning, sexist, power play. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Young men, deeply resentful of feminist
misandry and ignorant of the history of chivalry, have come to view it wrongly as
a self-abasing genuflection to women who don’t appreciate or deserve it. And so,
while the concept of chivalry may not be dead, it is an endangered species.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>In fact, in our time of a <a name="_Hlk121247596">concerted ideological assault</a> on masculinity, when the
very nature of men is deemed toxic and oppressively patriarchal, chivalry
represents the kind of moral masculinity we need now more than ever. It is the
kind of righteous manhood the critics of masculinity never talk about because
it exposes their lie that masculinity is inherently poisonous. It is the
antidote to so-called <i>toxic masculinity</i>.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>The Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico
della Mirandola declared in his </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=z_ZOH0zQEBoC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Oration+on+the+Dignity+of+Man&source=gbs_navlinks_s"><i><span>Oration on the Dignity of Man</span></i></a><span> that the free will granted to us by God enables
us either to descend to the level of brutes or to aspire to the level of angels.
Men are capable of cravenness and evil or of heroism and righteousness. Chivalry
inspires and leads us to strive toward the latter. It is an ideal our society
desperately needs to recover and celebrate in men, not dismiss as sexist and
outdated.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Terry Bagley is an exemplar of that masculine
ideal—the kind that compels even a 70-year-old man to put his life on the line to
protect and defend others. God willing, he will recover fully. No matter what,
though, he is a hero.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><i>From <a href="https://intellectualtakeout.org/2022/12/the-antidote-to-toxic-masculinity/" target="_blank">Intellectual Takeout</a>, 12/9/22<br /></i></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span></span>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-66526833883893622482022-12-04T18:33:00.003-08:002022-12-04T18:34:34.018-08:00Institutions of Lower Learning<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pYn1ew_e92BATttz08bhjSXhkt9KyJsgxYyuIiOm2Iiueb3WTG-nnTbxK-QMH9YoEHmAAi76mTsOYX7MqZYWh7HxiN0thjMZN-ykkctbLZx0Lobs2YFZlg_at56d2P8ygclekNFMdcej4RJY4TghQfLEonvIv4hgA5I5t6CsBbN8dhftg38iATxn2A/s580/Princeton%20BDSM%20class.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="580" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pYn1ew_e92BATttz08bhjSXhkt9KyJsgxYyuIiOm2Iiueb3WTG-nnTbxK-QMH9YoEHmAAi76mTsOYX7MqZYWh7HxiN0thjMZN-ykkctbLZx0Lobs2YFZlg_at56d2P8ygclekNFMdcej4RJY4TghQfLEonvIv4hgA5I5t6CsBbN8dhftg38iATxn2A/w400-h263/Princeton%20BDSM%20class.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>As if you needed
any further evidence that even our most prestigious institutions of higher
learning have degenerated into woke indoctrination mills aimed at deconstructing
the moral, intellectual, and cultural underpinnings of our civilization, a new </span><a href="https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/new-courses"><span>course catalog</span></a><span> for Princeton
University </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/11/19/the-elites-are-at-it-again-princeton-to-offer-courses-on-bdsm-fetishism/"><span>reveals</span></a><span> that the Ivy
League school will begin offering its students courses on BDSM and fetishism next
year. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>As colleges and
universities all over the Western world hasten to “decolonize” their curricula
in order to erase the magnificent legacy of no-longer-relevant Dead White Males™
such as </span><a href="https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/decolonizing-shakespeare-toward-an-antiracist-culturally-sustaining-praxis-904cb9ff8a96"><span>Will Shakespeare</span></a><span> and </span><a href="https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/07/14/time-to-cancel-isaac-newton-and-decolonize-physics/"><span>Isaac Newton</span></a><span>, they offer, as
alternatives, courses like Princeton’s “Black + Queer in Leather: Black
Leather/BDSM Material Culture” and “Anthropology of Religion: Fetishism and
Decolonization,” both of which students (or their parents) </span><a href="https://admission.princeton.edu/cost-aid/fees-payment-options"><span>paying $57,000 in
tuition</span></a><span> can look forward to in 2023.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“Black Queer BDSM
material culture resists contextualization in relationship to biographical
narratives because of the underground elements of the community,” reads the jargon-bloated
course description. What will students be doing in the course? Why, they will “consider
the fragility of archival engagement with these communities by surveying
existing BDSM archives in research libraries, community groups, and individuals
and their personal ephemera,” of course.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Nothing expands
the mind and prepares one to become a productive citizen of society quite like surveying
the personal ephemera of BDSM enthusiasts.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Students of the Black
+ Queer in Leather course will be required to read such classic works of scholarship
as </span><i><span>The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography</span></i><span> by Ariane
Cruz and </span><i><span>A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography</span></i><span> by Mireille
Miller-Young. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>In “Anthropology
of Religion: Fetishism and Decolonization,” a course which impressively manages
to combine the Left’s obsessions with perversion </span><i><span>and</span></i><span> anti-Westernism, students
will be reading, among other works, </span><i><span>On the Worship of the Fetish Gods</span></i><span> by Charles De
Brosses and “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof” by Karl Marx.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>With a reading
load like that, who’s got time to trudge through Shakespeare?</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span></span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“This course
introduces students to the anthropology of religion and a key debate of the
field on the fetish,” the Anthropology of Religion course description reads.
“Students will learn about the colonial history of the study of religion
and the role of fetishism therein.” Ah, colonial fetishism – now </span><i><span>there’s</span></i><span> a neglected field
worthy of its own degree program.</span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>But wait
– there’s more!</span></i><span> as the old infomercial sales pitch used to go. Students also “will
gain the tools to critically intervene in ongoing conversations about race,
sexuality, cultural difference, and decolonization by becoming familiar with
debates on fetishism in anthropology, critical theory, and Black and queer
studies.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>It’s difficult – okay,
impossible – to envision just what uses these courses will have for students
once they graduate from college and attempt to enter into the working world –
unless they enter the intellectually-degraded and ideologically-straitjacketed field
of academia. Are employers now eagerly scouting for potential employees who are
“familiar with debates” on fetishism and decolonization? Workers who have “the
tools to critically intervene in ongoing conversations about race, sexuality,
cultural difference, and decolonization”? Not specifically, but woke Human
Resources departments everywhere </span><i><span>are</span></i><span> looking for employees who have the cultural
Marxist </span><i><span>bona fides</span></i><span> to fit right into the new corporate culture of anti-racism and LGBT </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyship"><span>allyship</span></a><span>.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>By the way, this
is hardly the first time fetishism and BDSM (that’s “bondage, discipline,
dominance, and submission,” for you uneducated non-elites) have made inroads into
what used to be considered higher education. In 2020, Indiana University
Bloomington </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/02/07/indiana-university-hosts-sex-fest-event-featuring-bdsm-demonstration/"><span>hosted</span></a><span> an annual “sex
fest” on campus, which featured “kink,” sex toys, and BDSM demonstrations. In
2019, Ohio State University </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/02/14/ohio-state-university-hosts-sex-week-and-planned-parenthood-events-for-valentines-day/"><span>hosted</span></a><span> a “Sex Week”
during the week of Valentine’s Day (how romantic), which included an event on
how to use sex toys, as well as a Planned Parenthood-sponsored talk on abortion
(because, you know, sex sometimes results in the unfortunate byproduct of an
unwanted clump of cells). </span><i><span>Since 2012</span></i><span>, Harvard University – founded </span>in 1636
to train clergy for the new commonwealth – <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/11/9/sex-week-begins-2021/"><span>has hosted annual
Sex Week</span></a><span> workshops on such stimulating topics as “</span>What, What, In the
Butt?: Anal Sex 101<span>” and </span>“Kinks & Fetishes & and Taboos, Oh My!”<span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>All snarkiness
aside, the tragic truth of all this campus kink is that the modern university –
in fact, all public (and arguably most private) education now beginning as
early as pre-K – is no longer a setting for the expansion of minds, or the transmittal
of our civilizational legacy, or even the development of career skills. It is
now – in addition to disseminating the divisive racism of Critical Race Theory –
about normalizing, legitimizing, and even celebrating transgressive sexual
practices designed to smash the supposed oppression of bourgeois morality, and a
gender ideology designed to dissolve the nuclear family. The undisguised
Progressive agenda now is revolution against all of the West’s civilizational
norms, at the heart of which is a Judeo-Christian sexual morality that clashes
with the anti-family, godless collectivism of today’s cultural Marxists.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Their corrosive
racial and gender ideologies have infected even the math and hard science
departments, medical schools, and law schools. In light of this, parents and
students need to rethink the value of pursuing “higher education” until this
educational indoctrination is confronted and stamped out wherever it rears its
ugly head. A good place to start would be the elimination of campus programs
and courses promoting sexual perversity.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>A civilization hell-bent
on undermining itself cannot survive. It’s time for a revolution of the unwoke
against the subversive elites and the institutions they dominate which are </span><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/news/how-barack-obama-fundamentally-transformed-the-united-states"><span>fundamentally
transforming</span></a><span> our social and political landscapes.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/institutions-of-lower-learning/" target="_blank">From FrontPage Mag</a>, 12/4/22</i> <br /></span></span></span></p>
<p></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-54386255199236509182022-11-30T11:57:00.003-08:002022-11-30T11:57:37.249-08:00The Right Take Podcast Episode 11: "Has Our Culture Lost its Mind?" with Dr. Chloe Carmichael<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmCVYJFEwvMt4kzs8HlRff3j4YrkUCEc7XBWrbd9tO65zQL8UGO9hKyviCf9aGDIZrEOD-IG0kFubaMEuea46RMd4Y6otYma5gjC7jkhigj3GrMu9Cu3v6IaZYyvxlMJy0zlS83bzkFaVVyVTmq_6fMvi0jFoOWCwPc05l3EvaKm9ERypOOL1_d1H9Q/s472/The%20Right%20Take%20banner%20final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="472" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmCVYJFEwvMt4kzs8HlRff3j4YrkUCEc7XBWrbd9tO65zQL8UGO9hKyviCf9aGDIZrEOD-IG0kFubaMEuea46RMd4Y6otYma5gjC7jkhigj3GrMu9Cu3v6IaZYyvxlMJy0zlS83bzkFaVVyVTmq_6fMvi0jFoOWCwPc05l3EvaKm9ERypOOL1_d1H9Q/w400-h200/The%20Right%20Take%20banner%20final.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Clinical psychologist Dr. Chloe Carmichael and I discuss everything from gender ideology to the crisis of masculinity to COVID masking and more. She was a fun, enlightening guest. Check it out:<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/podcasts/" target="_blank">Here</a> is the episode on FrontPage Mag. And <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4K5y0M39gwkTyVSInJ5Qs1?si=0e28aca7a1c64bf6" target="_blank">Spotify</a>. And <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-11-has-our-culture-lost-its-mind-featuring-dr-chloe/id1641531126?i=1000588172704" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>.</span></span><br /></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-85817351422444156672022-11-27T23:29:00.006-08:002022-11-27T23:30:42.430-08:00This Thanksgiving, 'The Nation' Was Grateful for Abortions<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyflpVUCg-x3z7AjhYui0tpeg5r0TExph8_KgDRvommsMrNtG-BUZBaj9yI3UTutpRRG-xEE32wdrOilde8QZ0PYisLHwWER6WzVLtK0heJlaKAKDf71vqEmENjZ3VTaAYRbKaWDOQoMvyppcZ8CfCBW_FeXEAiaYyuryWMO5WPZUtbHGSKvROBtNRw/s1440/Abortion%20Storytellers%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="907" data-original-width="1440" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyflpVUCg-x3z7AjhYui0tpeg5r0TExph8_KgDRvommsMrNtG-BUZBaj9yI3UTutpRRG-xEE32wdrOilde8QZ0PYisLHwWER6WzVLtK0heJlaKAKDf71vqEmENjZ3VTaAYRbKaWDOQoMvyppcZ8CfCBW_FeXEAiaYyuryWMO5WPZUtbHGSKvROBtNRw/w400-h253/Abortion%20Storytellers%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This past
Thanksgiving Day was greeted with the usual chorus of anti-American diatribes
from the miserable utopians of the Left. Wealthy celebrity ingrates like Bette
Midler and John Leguizamo <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/11/25/bette-midler-trashes-thanksgiving-pilgrims-were-undocumented-aliens-from-europe/">sneered
at Americans</a> and the holiday on social media (the <i>John Wick</i> <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/11/20/actor-john-leguizamo-happy-indigenous-survivors-day-fck-thanksgiving/">actor
tweeted</a>, “Happy indigenous survivor’s day! F*ck thanksgiving!”). MSNBC’s
resident race-monger <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/joy-reid" target="_blank">Joy
Reid</a> <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/news/reid-gop-trying-to-keep-thanksgiving-simplistic-fairy-tale-to-erase-genocide">accused
Republicans</a> of wanting to portray Thanksgiving as a “simplistic fairy tale”
to cover up that America was founded on “genocide.” Even the head of terrorism-linked
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, <a href="https://www.cair.com/op_eds/cair-islam-oped-this-thanksgiving-lets-use-our-blessings-for-good/">lectured
Americans</a> about “the dark history associated with this holiday” and the “unspeakable
atrocities” committed against Native Americans.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But nothing sank
to the depth of the Left’s perverse worldview quite like <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/24/nation-celebrates-feticide-thanksgiving-were-thankful-abortions/" target="_blank"><span>a Thanksgiving Day essay</span></a><span> in the radical rag </span><a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/the-nation-tn" target="_blank"><i><span>The Nation</span></i></a><span> titled, “We’re
Thankful for Our Abortions,” which declared there’s literally nothing to be grateful
for in our current state of the union except the endangered freedom to abort one’s
own unborn children<b>.</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The essay’s author
is Nikiya Natale (preferred pronouns “she/her”), deputy director of </span><a href="https://www.wetestify.org/"><span>We Testify</span></a><span>, a group created by the National Network of
Abortion Funds (NNAF) which advocates for women who have undergone abortions. Her
bio on the group’s website states that Natale’s “passion” for her work “stems
from her own multiple abortion experiences.” </span><i><span>Multiple</span></i><span> “experiences.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Natale claims in
her </span><i><span>Nation</span></i><span> article that many of those who have had abortions “celebrate their
experience”; some of the women themselves – We Testify “abortion storytellers”
– then go on to detail their infanticides in the article and why they are “thankful”
for them.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Predictably, like
all social justice warriors who live in a state of ceaseless discontent over
perceived historical injustices, Natale felt compelled to begin her essay by wondering
“why our nation celebrates the complicated holiday of Thanksgiving at all” – “complicated”
because America was “founded on the unforgivable genocide of Native Americans.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span></span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">“[T]he harsh
reality is that the utter disregard for all Indigenous people in the 1800s
fuels the same systems of white supremacy that dehumanize all of us today,” she
charged.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Let’s pause for
some fact checks: 1) The United States of America was founded not on genocide, but
in the affirmation that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with
the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That this basic fact even
has to be clarified shows how deeply the Left has subverted our youth through
decades of anti-American historical revisionism; 2) isolated atrocities aside
(and there were atrocities committed by </span><i><span>both</span></i><span> sides) the European
colonial powers did not wage genocide against Native Americans; 3) America is demonstrably
</span><i><span>not</span></i><span> a nation in the grip of “systems of white supremacy.” It is, however,
in the grip of an irrational, anti-Western wokeness that has twisted any potential
sense of gratitude in privileged young people like Nikiya Natale into perpetual
grievance. They can’t set aside their Marxist obsession with imagined power struggles
for even one day in November to appreciate the freedoms and abundance that previous
generations of Americans have struggled and fought to grant them. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“When I look at
the state of this nation, the anger piles up, and my gratitude is depleted,” she
complained. In all fairness to her, I confess I feel the same sense of anger,
but for completely different reasons. When I look at the state of this nation, I
see it riven by a not-so-cold civil war between people who love this country
despite its historical and current faults, and people like Nakiya Natale who
despise this country because </span><i><span>all they want to see</span></i><span> are its
historical and current faults.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Anyway, despite
the weight of the world bearing down on her as a social justice activist, she did
manage to find a modicum of gratitude — for the right to end the lives of her unborn.
Natale and her fellow abortion storytellers want not only to be able to “</span><a href="https://shoutyourabortion.com/"><span>shout their abortions</span></a><span>” without shame or
guilt; they want their “choice” to be validated, preferably celebrated, by
others. They believe, as Natale puts it, that “</span>people should be
supported in whatever they decide, every time.<span>” They want to end “abortion stigma.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Of all the things
for which Americans could be grateful – rights and freedoms which exist nowhere
else in the world, our historically unprecedented material prosperity, even the
simple personal pleasures of family and friends – pro-abortionists like Natale
and </span><i><span>The Nation</span></i><span> could find nothing to “celebrate” but their “experiences” of having terminated
inconvenient pregnancies. Even more tragically warped, they demand that society
cheer the fact that they have made an idol of sexual liberation and sacrificed their
own unborn to it. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Pro-lifers don’t
want to send anyone to jail or tar-and-feather them over abortion. We don’t
want to shame young women into living with corrosive guilt. We don’t want single
mothers or struggling young couples to be overwhelmed by the responsibility of
unplanned children. We want to create a culture of life in which the least
among us are protected, and in which abortion is not viewed as a casual, go-to
solution. We want to reclaim a culture which recognizes the reality that sex
was biological designed for </span><i><span>procreation</span></i><span>, and therefore any time you decide to engage
in it for </span><i><span>recreation</span></i><span>, you risk creating a baby (</span><i><span>that</span></i><span> decision is where one should exercise one’s
“choice”). We want to reclaim a culture which prioritizes intact, fruitful
families. The day that comes to pass, we can all truly celebrate together.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/this-thanksgiving-the-nation-was-grateful-for-abortions/" target="_blank">From FrontPage Mag</a>, 11/27/22</i> <br /></span></span></span></p>
<p></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-39083423075333876102022-11-24T10:21:00.002-08:002022-12-10T00:01:24.431-08:00Traditional Masculinity Should Be GQ’s 'New Masculinity' -- My latest at Intellectual Takeout<p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"></span></span></span></i></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEFnAes5bp8xP5pcD0WJWKIjuo4PV7-xPF54OsQRnYi8vcza_SiOl_6VuBiBd5rLAsp3QJq2p1PkgpZ2D17wbLJ1o1YPoLkGLsi0S2cuBd6Q4sPICmLUoc9z8y_5EQ3uDtdn1jo4hLFrQMlD6nVgvH0yXmlVTQz-gG7dl9s5kbGHOgOSQmNjRtlE64Hg/s690/hands-suit-e1669056657158-690x450.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="690" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEFnAes5bp8xP5pcD0WJWKIjuo4PV7-xPF54OsQRnYi8vcza_SiOl_6VuBiBd5rLAsp3QJq2p1PkgpZ2D17wbLJ1o1YPoLkGLsi0S2cuBd6Q4sPICmLUoc9z8y_5EQ3uDtdn1jo4hLFrQMlD6nVgvH0yXmlVTQz-gG7dl9s5kbGHOgOSQmNjRtlE64Hg/w400-h261/hands-suit-e1669056657158-690x450.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i><p></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Several years ago when I wrote cultural pieces for the now-defunct <span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="http://Acculturated.com/?fbclid=IwAR1WVXLHcXvBoNsxCZrzo7O_5HwmkXCFXszPSZRW-T6yqzC4SaV1pZcl7IU" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank">Acculturated.com</a></span>,
Intellectual Takeout reposted about a dozen of those articles. Last Monday they published this new one I wrote specifically for them, and I hope to contribute to them more often:</span></span></span></i></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>GQ</i> magazine held its 25th “Men of the Year” <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/gq-men-awards-stormzy-andrew-223749494.html'" rel="noopener" target="_blank">event</a>
in London last Wednesday. Talents from across the fields of culture,
sports, and entertainment gathered for the glitzy gala celebrating the
British men’s style magazine’s honorees for Men of the Year. Curiously,
over a third of the personalities on that list were <i>women</i>.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/men-of-the-year/article/gq-men-of-the-year-2022-honourees/amp" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Of the 26 honorees named</a>, an eyebrow-raising <i>nine</i> were female, including <i>Euphoria</i> star Sydney Sweeney, <i>The Batman</i> actress Zoë Kravitz, English soccer captain Leah Williamson, and <i>House of the Dragon</i> star Emma D’arcy, who apparently identifies as “<a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/naming-nonbinary-tv-star-emma-darcys-as-one-of-gqs-men-of-the-year-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-when-it-comes-to-hollywood-inconsistency/news-story/e9596c82aa79702df720d80234347d1c" rel="noopener" target="_blank">non-binary</a>.” Other women were Marisa Abela, Sheila Atim, Es Devlin, Myha’la Herrold, and Sharon Horgan.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Making a feeble stab at clarification, the host Condé Nast Events <a href="https://condenastevents.com/events" rel="noopener" target="_blank">wrote</a>
in a statement, “Rather than honouring people in a distinct ‘awards’
section of the issue, the entire MOTY issue will become a celebration of
the people who dominated culture and shaped the zeitgeist of 2022.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">So, “people” and not simply “men.” Fair enough, but then why not call the honorees “GQ’s <i>People</i> of the Year,” rather than lump women in under the label “Men of the Year”? In fact, given that <i>GQ</i>
is a style magazine for men, why include any women at all? There are
far more fashion magazines for women than for men; I’m unaware whether
any of them offer an annual “Women of the Year” issue, but I’m highly
skeptical that the list would include a man—a <i>transgender</i> man pretending to be a woman, yes, but that’s a topic for another day.</span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>GQ</i> was founded in 1931 as <i>Gentlemen’s Quarterly</i> and renamed <i>GQ</i>
in 1967. The magazine originally emphasized more classic fashions for
grownups. But especially under the 15-year tenure of editor <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/gq-editor-chief-jim-nelson-201958474.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Jim Nelson</a> from 2003–2018, <i>GQ</i>
began targeting a younger readership, pushing a wildly flamboyant
style, and ramping up a political focus, including promoting activists
such as notorious national anthem–kneeler Colin Kaepernick as <i>GQ</i>’s “<a href="https://www.gq.com/story/colin-kaepernick-cover-men-of-the-year" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Citizen of the Year</a>.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Current Editor-in-Chief Will Welch decided to reimagine the magazine, part of which meant a change of <i>GQ</i>’s take on masculinity. The 41-year-old said in an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221027055430/https:/www.nytimes.com/2022/09/17/style/will-welch-leads-gq-to-the-new-masculinity.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">interview</a>:
“In my first days as editor, I just had this language—‘the new
masculinity’—because the culture was demanding that men change, straight
up. … It was an important moment for us to do two things. Reflect on
this moment where the culture was demanding that men evolve, and lead;
and show men what that evolution might look like.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To announce Welch’s vision of what that evolution might look like, <i>GQ</i> released a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221024214525/https:/www.gq.com/story/masculinity-is-changing-editors-letter-november-2019" rel="noopener" target="_blank">fall 2019 cover</a>
with singer and producer Pharrell Williams in a sort of quilted,
gown-like coat, framed by the words “The New Masculinity Issue” in a
very frilly font.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The men’s fashion that <i>GQ</i> promotes and that the culture
celebrates today leans metrosexual at best and at worst effeminate.
Harry Styles, for example, a 28-year-old singer and actor who is wildly
popular among young people, is becoming a fashion icon by incorporating
women’s clothing and accessories into his wardrobe. He has even appeared
in a recent <i><a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/harry-styles-cover-december-2020?utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=vogue&utm_medium=social" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Vogue layout</a></i> (including the cover) in a dress. Brad Pitt caused a stir a couple of months ago when he appeared at the premiere of his film, <i>Bullet Train</i>, wearing a <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/brad-pitt-skirt-bullet-train-premiere-1235331233/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">linen skirt</a>.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All this talk about what attention-seeking celebrities wear seems
shallow and trivial—and to a certain extent, of course, it is. But it is
indicative of the confusion about masculinity, the <i>subversion</i>
of masculinity, that has been sown over the course of decades by our
cultural elites. It has reached the point where an A-list movie star
like Brad Pitt feels the need to signal his rejection of traditional
masculinity by flouncing around in women’s clothing and pretending that
this is the next step in the evolution of manhood.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is a modest suggestion for <i>GQ</i>: In our gender-blurred
era, when traditional masculinity is unfairly scorned as “toxic,” why
not carve out a cultural space for men where they can be celebrated
without having to share the stage (just as women shouldn’t have to share
the stage with biological males identifying as female) and where they
can feel comfortable expressing their natural masculinity, not the false
one our culture today is imposing on them?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And rather than surf the wave of the prevailing, emasculated
zeitgeist that you helped create over the last couple of decades, why
not take a refreshing, even <i>rebellious</i> stance in defense of a
more traditional masculinity? Why not revive the grown-up, classic,
manly look of yesteryear as exemplified by the style icons of their day:
Cary Grant, Paul Newman, or the scruffy King of Cool, Steve McQueen?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In other words, <i>GQ</i>, imagine what a bold, countercultural gesture it would be if you announced that the “new masculinity” is actually the <i>old</i> masculinity.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://intellectualtakeout.org/2022/11/gq-traditional-new-masculinity/" target="_blank">Published here at Intellectual Takeout</a>, 11/21/22</i></span></span> <br /></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-63169299667542242102022-11-24T10:03:00.013-08:002022-11-24T10:11:02.481-08:00The Right Take Podcast Player<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCYDUoqr8LfeJuAPFmaZiIqsrfdQ0mscsP7Bap0KTEXzmgnQcqRLQWPdEILZnkFXHGzb-M8oD9dNFf8cfRPZ11jU3O13fyPG0bFKX6xn8TS_jPZyQo-l6OgMrzyDEKaT5-jPpgCH3mLuQEoxEJ6SV5WaP7xeSLD6FUBN0Mvi8gLfFFuR1D7u49biJysQ/s472/The%20Right%20Take%20banner%20final.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCYDUoqr8LfeJuAPFmaZiIqsrfdQ0mscsP7Bap0KTEXzmgnQcqRLQWPdEILZnkFXHGzb-M8oD9dNFf8cfRPZ11jU3O13fyPG0bFKX6xn8TS_jPZyQo-l6OgMrzyDEKaT5-jPpgCH3mLuQEoxEJ6SV5WaP7xeSLD6FUBN0Mvi8gLfFFuR1D7u49biJysQ/w640-h320/The%20Right%20Take%20banner%20final.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've fallen behind in posting my latest episodes of <i>The Right Take</i> podcast -- I'm up to 10 now -- but it finally occurred to me to just embed the player to the upper right side of the page. So you can now just check out the latest episodes there. I'll post here whenever a new episode is up.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The latest is my conversation with Dr. Peter Wood, author of two important books we discuss in the episode: <i>1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project</i>, and <i>Wrath: America Enraged</i>. Check it out in the player to the right.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">All the episodes are collected <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/podcasts/the-right-take/" target="_blank">here at FrontPage Mag</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3csCyFpOiYsuLQ4LbFzKzv" target="_blank">here at Spotify</a>, and <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-right-take-with-mark-tapson/id1641531126" target="_blank">here at Apple Podcasts</a>. </span></span><br /></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-78533321018081614102022-10-03T11:56:00.005-07:002022-10-03T11:56:41.344-07:00The Right Take podcast ep. 5: 'The Muslim Brotherhood of Death'<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERn1BqAISavx3iiVr_IOhHuy1MNnpJFpBADjZlpa4KJEqgsneDOwnsVl5k644VaEyPz_bWZf3DsxMgKnlFAc8t2cvz6IYTr6mNBI6E-0yP-a5BSm-gwpA1BVwMqXTGkiCqiaVZG37asRDLjyeQgDWO4xo7cXZ9MZkttU19IK5TQzVmrHZAniFFTlRaQ/s472/The%20Right%20Take%20banner%20final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERn1BqAISavx3iiVr_IOhHuy1MNnpJFpBADjZlpa4KJEqgsneDOwnsVl5k644VaEyPz_bWZf3DsxMgKnlFAc8t2cvz6IYTr6mNBI6E-0yP-a5BSm-gwpA1BVwMqXTGkiCqiaVZG37asRDLjyeQgDWO4xo7cXZ9MZkttU19IK5TQzVmrHZAniFFTlRaQ/w640-h320/The%20Right%20Take%20banner%20final.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Qf0vsmMD54fUWycIqdGhs?si=vFEFDifnSQW_ExZC0e52jw" target="_blank"> latest </a></span></span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Qf0vsmMD54fUWycIqdGhs?si=vFEFDifnSQW_ExZC0e52jw" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">episode of <i>The Right Take</i> </span></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Qf0vsmMD54fUWycIqdGhs?si=vFEFDifnSQW_ExZC0e52jw" target="_blank">podcast</a> is up, this one a fascinating talk with my friend, Egyptian-American scholar and patriot Cynthia Farahat, about her new book on the Muslim Brotherhood. </span></span></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-75989960490232758532022-10-03T11:53:00.007-07:002022-10-04T23:49:35.475-07:00The Right Take podcast: 'My Son Hunter' and Conservative Storytelling (featuring Brian Godawa)<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Don't miss it!<br /></span></span></span><p></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-77784144849971464902022-09-11T16:53:00.003-07:002022-10-04T23:48:50.029-07:00The Right Take podcast: The Devil's Pleasure Palace (featuring Michael Walsh)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixwYEP_be_8U0K1OnlyMEy5cHXRib-ws8_p04otS-uDjc4f_Iab25WkxKsdgjictZsFrPcd4mlt8zZvg8OGGM7ZWHIsqRGGfUXbHkS83ZzrSW0NPwPBQOPJojBdM8HY0oTmPKaPoMQvFA2BiSToj22qcS6rZecwIsl8SD5mhM_pC_EnM1z2hKo6KYY1g/s472/The%20Right%20Take%20banner%20final.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixwYEP_be_8U0K1OnlyMEy5cHXRib-ws8_p04otS-uDjc4f_Iab25WkxKsdgjictZsFrPcd4mlt8zZvg8OGGM7ZWHIsqRGGfUXbHkS83ZzrSW0NPwPBQOPJojBdM8HY0oTmPKaPoMQvFA2BiSToj22qcS6rZecwIsl8SD5mhM_pC_EnM1z2hKo6KYY1g/w640-h320/The%20Right%20Take%20banner%20final.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div dir="auto"><div class="d2hqwtrz r227ecj6 ez8dtbzv gt60zsk1" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_6v"><div class="alzwoclg cqf1kptm siwo0mpr gu5uzgus"><div class="jroqu855 nthtkgg5"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"><div class="m8h3af8h l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/51WiSXdKkDfhfTd1UU3lzY?si=-YS236_HT9i2EqFPERIvVA" target="_blank">Here is episode #2 of my new podcast</a>, this one an interview with author, screenwriter, culture critic and pundit Michael Walsh about cultural Marxism, the state of masculinity, and much more.<br /></div></div></span></span></span></div></div></div></div>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-56395712941729496862022-09-09T21:54:00.002-07:002022-10-04T23:46:55.596-07:00The Right Take podcast: The Diversity Delusion (featuring Heather Mac Donald)<div class="" dir="auto"><div class="d2hqwtrz r227ecj6 ez8dtbzv gt60zsk1" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_3g"><div class="alzwoclg cqf1kptm siwo0mpr gu5uzgus"><div class="jroqu855 nthtkgg5"><span class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf exr7barw b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas m2nijcs8 hxfwr5lz k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6 ztn2w49o" dir="auto"><div class="m8h3af8h l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf n3t5jt4f"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The movie that conservative
audiences have been waiting for is here. And by that I don’t just mean that yesterday
was the eagerly-anticipated premiere of </span><i><span>My Son Hunter</span></i><span>, the Robert
Davi-directed dark comedy about Joe Biden’s wayward son and his </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President/dp/163758105X/"><span>laptop from hell</span></a><span>. I mean that </span><i><span>this</span></i><span> is the political film
that finally sets a new bar for conservative filmmaking, far above the heavy-handed
messaging and awkward acting that right-leaning audiences have generally had to
settle for in the recent past.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>You have never
seen a conservative film quite like this. Produced by Phelim McAleer and Anne
McIlhenny (</span><i><span>FrackNation</span></i><span>, </span><i><span>Gosnell</span></i><span>, </span><i><span>The Obamagate Movie</span></i><span>) and written by screenwriter/novelist </span><a href="https://godawa.com/"><span>Brian Godawa</span></a><span> (</span><i><span>To End All Wars</span></i><span>, </span><i><span>The
Obamagate Movie</span></i><span>), </span><i><span>My Son Hunter</span></i><span> careens – like a drunken Hunter himself – from comedy
to tragedy, from family drama to high-level political corruption, from moral
brokenness to moral courage. Surprising stylistic quirks abound, including word
balloons onscreen and characters breaking the “fourth wall” to address the
audience directly. And yes, just like Hunter’s life, there is an almost nonstop
parade of hookers, drugs, and shady deals – hence the R rating that sadly may discourage
some conservative moviegoers (Movieguide gives </span><i><span>My Son Hunter</span></i><span> an “Excellent”
rating but </span>advises “extreme caution” due to “immoral carnal behavior,
images of women in skimpy outfits, and strong foul language”<span>). </span><i><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11174229/Strippers-sex-drugs-chats-Joe-Ukraine-deals-Daily-Mails-look-Son-Hunter.html">The
Daily Mail<span style="font-style: normal;"> reported</span></a></i> overhearing one
viewer at a private screening describing the film as “Not your mother's
conservative movie.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The plot centers
on Teflon Addict Hunter Biden, played by British actor Laurence Fox (</span><i><span>Gosford
Park</span></i><span>,
</span><i><span>Elizabeth: The Golden Age</span></i><span>, </span><i><span>The Frankenstein Chronicles</span></i><span>), and his terrified
realization that the personal laptop he carelessly forgot to pick up from a
repair shop could derail his father’s presidential campaign. A hooker who has
captured Hunter’s heart offers to help him spin the publicity, but in order to
do that, she needs to know all the potentially damaging material on that computer.
As the sordid contents reveal the depth and breadth of Biden family corruption,
the hooker comes to a slow political revelation. <span> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span></span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">But the real emotional
core of the film is the strained relationship between needy, hapless Hunter,
who craves his father’s love and respect, and resentful Joe, played by John
James, who is best-known for TV performances in ‘80s TV like <i><span>Dynasty</span></i><span> and </span><i><span>The
Colbys</span></i><span>. The two give </span><i><span>outstanding</span></i><span> performances: Fox </span><i><span>is</span></i><span> Hunter Biden,
perhaps more so than Hunter himself, and James manages to convey the elder
Biden’s emotional coldness, creepiness, corruption, and encroaching dementia
without once going over the top. Their interaction makes for the most
compelling moments in the film, both comic and tragic.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Conservatives will
appreciate that </span><i><span>My Son Hunter</span></i><span> begins by
slamming the complicit news media, which originally dismissed the laptop
controversy as “Russian disinformation” and a right-wing conspiracy theory. We
are treated to the hilarious re-creation of a Rachel Maddow lookalike
whitewashing a violent Black Lives Matter protest as “mostly peaceful” while
ginning up outrage over Donald Trump’s latest tweet.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>They will also appreciate
that screenwriter Brian Godawa laces his script with mental hiccups from Joe Biden,
such as when he claims he spent 120 years in the Senate, confuses Hillary
Clinton’s campaign slogan #ImWithHer with the #MeToo movement hashtag, and worries
that revelations about Hunter’s laptop contents will ruin his “erection”
chances in 2020. These lines are all the funnier because actor John James
delivers them with a deadpan obliviousness.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Godawa told </span><i><span>Daily
Mail</span></i><span>
that his “goal in writing </span><i><span>My Son Hunter</span></i><span> was to tell a
fictional story about Hunter and a stripper in order to provide a creative
portal through which to handle an overwhelming amount of facts about the Biden
family corruption.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“My standard,” he
continued, “was that even the fictional elements would be based on the real
reported lifestyle of Hunter with dancers, prostitutes, drugs and the addictive
personality. This movie's stripper may be fictional, but she represents many of
Hunter's real life experiences with strippers, even falling in love with some
of them, as he does in the movie.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>He added that he “drew
dialogue from actual incidents or documents, transcripts or emails reported in
the media as the base language of Hunter and Joe’s characters, many of them
actual quoted lines. And many of them were taken from Hunter’s actual emails
from his laptop. I drew from Hunter’s eulogy for his brother Beau for his own
description of his relationship in the movie.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Reviews predictably
have been split along ideological lines: the Left-dominated media hate it, and
the few conservative alternatives love it. <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/09/07/hot-air-raves-about-my-son-hunter-a-fun-irreverent-romp-through-biden-inc/">Hot
Air called it</a> a “fun, irreverent romp.” <a href="https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/my-son-hunter.html">Movieguide wrote</a>
that it is “extremely well-directed, written and acted, with some crazy, funny
moments and high drama.” An otherwise <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/09/08/nolte-daily-beast-says-trump-supporters-will-love-my-son-hunter-best-conservative-movie-in-recent-memory/">dismissive
review</a> at the far-Left Daily Beast correctly admits that </span><i><span>My
Son Hunter</span></i><span> “</span><span>probably the best
conservative movie to emerge from the right-wing media in recent memory.” <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/09/08/left-wing-film-critic-admits-my-son-hunter-helped-him-discover-truth-about-bidens/">A
reviewer at Britain’s left-wing <i>The
Independent</i></a> trashed the movie but grudgingly conceded,</span> “Several
times, the film had me rushing to Google, where I discovered that this or that
piece of unflattering Biden trivia was in fact rooted in truth.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Reviewers’ political
bias aside, </span><i><span>My Son Hunter</span></i><span> manages to be
both wildly entertaining and deeply affecting, often in the same scene; again,
you can largely credit Laurence Fox’s extraordinary performance and Godawa’s deft
screenwriting for that.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Casting Fox as the
debauched Hunter was a fortuitous stroke of genius. An accomplished actor known
as an outspoken champion of free speech and anti-wokeness, he even founded the
Reclaim Party in the U.K. and ran for mayor of London last year. <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/09/08/laurence-fox-tells-tucker-carlson-hes-grateful-he-hasnt-been-epsteined-over-my-son-hunter/">Discussing
the film on <i>Tucker Carlson Tonight</i></a>,
Fox joked about being grateful he hasn’t been “Jeffrey Epsteined” by Cancel
Culture fanatics for appearing in the movie, then added, “The most important
thing actually is that the film is watched by the remaining sane Democrats as
well because these conversations are the ones that are the things that change
culture.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“Back in the day
this film would have been made by Oliver Stone,” he continued. “It wouldn’t
have been down to small, independent filmmakers to make it. Hollywood would
have lapped it up. It shows how badly Hollywood has been corrupted by the woke
ideology, that they won’t go anywhere near this. Along with the FBI.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>And that is why
conservatives need more films like </span><i><span>My Son Hunter</span></i><span> – indeed, that is
why </span><i><span>America</span></i><span> needs more films like this. The left’s stranglehold on popular culture
must be broken.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/09/movie-conservatives-have-been-waiting-here-mark-tapson" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 9/8/22</i> <br /></span></span></span></p>
<p></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-46197889998086128102022-09-02T19:22:00.001-07:002022-09-02T19:22:07.059-07:00The Bullies of Woke<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeLCAM5Z-xmhL-iSLe6nT0TZ-HdMqn0gKNt80JjrarM5weMUlH7p3HqxCHGS7vhG1HNzU2-m18CR6P875kVtiXKbkq_dmbkdbSf0AbwRsfLVpK15FxSpke0s0ZON_G6cOC_2bhJ8pfmoAS9m9ZrLG7obkKk18gRZZpziFA0FP_j9rcS9-IU8Q-udJg_Q/s500/Bullies%20of%20woke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeLCAM5Z-xmhL-iSLe6nT0TZ-HdMqn0gKNt80JjrarM5weMUlH7p3HqxCHGS7vhG1HNzU2-m18CR6P875kVtiXKbkq_dmbkdbSf0AbwRsfLVpK15FxSpke0s0ZON_G6cOC_2bhJ8pfmoAS9m9ZrLG7obkKk18gRZZpziFA0FP_j9rcS9-IU8Q-udJg_Q/s320/Bullies%20of%20woke.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Totalitarian Cancel
Culture, the bullying trans lobby, and the race-mongering indoctrination of
Critical Race Theorists, among other leftist assaults on society, have turned
daily life into everyday battlefields for normal Americans who stand in the way
of Progressive social engineering.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To address this ubiquitous,
corrosive phenomenon, <span>Canadian author Diane Bederman has written</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bullies-their-Assault-Mental-Health/dp/B0B8QB34F9/"><i><span>Bullies
of Woke and Their Assault on Mental Health</span></i></a><span> just published by
New English Review Press. </span>Ms. Bederman is also the author of <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/back-ethic-mark-tapson/"><i>Back to
the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values</i></a>, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/serpent-and-red-thread-mark-tapson/"><i>The
Serpent and the Red Thread: The Definitive Biography of Evil</i></a>, and <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/11/islamophobia-industry-mark-tapson/"><i>The
#IslamophobiaIndustry: The Insidious Infiltration of Islam into the West</i></a>,
all of which I have either reviewed or interviewed her about (see links) for
FrontPage Mag.<span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>Bullies
of Woke</span></i><span> documents the serious damage that bellicose leftist activists are wreaking
upon the mental health of our children, who are subjected in schools and in the
culture at large to unrelenting pressure to conform to, if not actually
celebrate, woke ideology. In many cases our children are literally being
bullied to death – committing suicide because they are unable to handle the
aggressive bullying from the fanatical proponents of Progressive-driven movements
such as Critical Race Theory, transgenderism, and Cancel Culture. </span><i><span>Bullies
of Woke</span></i><span> is simultaneously a guidebook to the modern woke movement and a call
to action for the silent majority to push back and restore common sense and bedrock
Judeo-Christian values in our homes, our schools, and our nations in the West.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I asked Ms.
Bederman some questions about her new book.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>Mark
Tapson</span></b><span>:<span> </span></span><i><span>Diane,
your book covers a lot of ground and many questions come to mind, but let me
just begin by asking what inspired you to view the left’s ideological assaults
of Cancel Culture, Critical Race Theory, and the like through the lens of its
impact on the West’s mental health? </span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><span></span></span></b></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Diane
Bederman</b><span>:<span> </span>Mark, as much as I would like
to take credit for this idea, a friend and I were talking about our world
today, and we went from discussing the bullying by Progressives to mental
illness. I had previously written about bullying and mental illness on my blog.
And so it began.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I wrote this book
to give courage to our parents and grandparents and our politicians, no matter
race, color, creed or sexual orientation, to fight back and protect our
children, our families, our communities and our countries from the bullying by the
new religion of Progressivism and their apostles of fear. Their constant
bullying is destroying Western culture and affecting the mental well-being of
our children that can last generations.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>MT</span></b><span>:<span> </span></span><i><span>How are social media “influencers” spreading
this culturally-acquired psychosis, as you call it, of wokeness?</span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>DB</span></b><span>:<span> </span>We, the adults in the room, have stood by
as our children have moved to their “screens” to get information. Transgender
spokespeople are all over social media. And they speak to your children in your
absence. It’s akin to letting pedophiles come into the room. They are teaching
our children that one can pick one’s sex. They are sharing their stories! One
tells of her “epiphany” at the age of five! She knew she was a girl. Or he
knew. And his/her parents were thrilled. Who is more ill: the child or the
parents? Hear something enough at an impressionable age, from people who are
“famous” long before your pre-frontal cortex is developed (at 25) and you will
believe. This is culturally-acquired psychosis.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>MT</span></b><span>:<span> </span></span><i><span>One of your chapter headings is “Cancel
Culture Cancels Family.” What is the danger that Cancel Culture poses to the
traditional nuclear family?</span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>DB</span></b><span>:<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">The family is the
smallest unit of authority in any society. Parents teach the morals and values
of that society to their offspring. Cancel Culture promotes Marxist theory that
the abolition of the family is essential to promoting communism - as you so
succinctly wrote elsewhere and I shared in the book.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Cancel Culture demeans the work of mothering, the importance of raising
one’s own children. Seems it is more important to go to work and make widgets
than raise children; except we can recall a defective widget but we cannot
recall a “defective” child. It demeans and denigrates fathers. Look how many
children are being raised without a father – as if fathers had nothing to do
with creating a human being. These children are failing.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">If Cancel Culture and Progressive ideology succeeds in tearing apart
the family, our society will fall from the bottom up as diversity, inclusion
and equity destroy us from the top down.</span><span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>MT</span></b><span>:<span> </span></span><i><span>What is “malignant normality” and what
happens to a culture that succumbs to it? What is an example of it that you can
point to in American and the West today?</span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>DB</span></b><span>:<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">I learned this term
from a neighbor who hated Donald Trump. Malignant normality as described by
John Gartner, a practicing psychotherapist at Johns Hopkins University:</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">“Malignant normality is when a malignant narcissistic leader takes
control of a society and gradually changes reality for everyone.” </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Well, reality has certainly changed in America. But not from a man;
rather from an evil ideology that promotes the idea that we are the object of
our fate, not the subject of our destiny. We are at the mercy of our
characteristics and not our character. We are being taught by this new
Progressive Woke agenda that we are either victims or oppressors based on our
skin color. This ideology is diametrically opposed to the ethic that underpins
America: that all people are born with equal intrinsic value, all life is
sacred and we have free will, what Professor Jason D. Hill calls “moral
agency.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">This malignant normality has infiltrated every aspect of our society
from media to government, and most dangerously, education via industrialized
bullying.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">Malignant morality takes away our sense of freedom “to be.” And as I
shared in the book, freedom is extremely important for good mental health. Good
mental health is characterized by having personal freedom… to be free to make
good choices for one’s self and others.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>MT</span></b><span>:<span> </span></span><i><span>Can you briefly sketch the truth about the
“white privileged people” who have been demonized by Progressive bullies as
history’s “victimizers”?</span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>DB</span></b><span>:<span> </span>The attack on white people as privileged is
appalling; as if white people have always been elitist like the
monarchy. I shared the stories of desperate Ukrainians and Irish coming to
the New World to escape the hellish conditions in their home countries where
they were treated as “lesser than.” They arrived on ships that were often
referred to as floating coffins. I shared the story of my father who came on
one of those ships, by himself at the age of twelve. I have no idea how he
managed to get from the Russian/Polish border to Scotland to get a boat to
Canada. He spoke no English. But these are the people whom we call privileged.
I guess they were. They were “privileged” to make it alive to Canada and
America where they had the freedom to work, to make a living, to provide a home
for their children, and to teach them the miracle of the Judeo/Christian ethic
of freedom.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>MT</span></b><span>:<span> </span></span><i><span>You write that “we are our stories, our
narratives.” What happens to our civilization when we allow Progressive
bullying to cancel our cultural narratives?</span></i><span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>DB</span></b><span>:<span> </span>I write about the Bible a great deal. For
those who do not believe in God, the Bible is still a remarkable book because
it teaches us how to be compassionate people in a compassionate society and by
teaching us about the importance of the individual and the ethics of freedom.
Progressive Woke ideology wants us to destroy the past by removing
words from our books, by removing books, by taking down statues that reflect on
the past. If we do not know our past, how can we move forward into the
future?<span> </span>Back to the Bible. Moses warns
the people fourteen times “not to forget.” Our stories are our collective
memory. If we erase the stories that made us free how will we remain free?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>MT</span></b><span>:<span> </span></span><i><span>One of the book’s chapters stresses the
urgency for us to develop resilience in our children. What are a couple of ways
we can do that to ensure that the next generation resists Progressive bullying?</span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>DB</span></b><span>:<span> </span>Bullying leads to anxiety which can fall
into depression. Many of us have had experiences being bullied. I shared mine
in the book. Some children fall into suicide from bullying, especially when it
is online, while others rise above.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>To make our
children more resilient we must stop the industrialized bullying taking place
in our schools where teachers are indoctrinating our children with revenge
racism: labeling white people as evil. If we are going to prepare our
children to be free in a free society we must remind them over and over that
they are not victims – of their color or of any other characteristic. We must
teach them that no one can take away their self-esteem, which is taught by <i>doing</i>.
And no one can take away their “self,” their soul. No one.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/09/bullies-woke-mark-tapson" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 9/5/22</i> <br /></span></span></span></p>
<p></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-44621424976365935442022-08-10T21:50:00.003-07:002022-08-10T21:50:30.639-07:00Finding Hope Amid Global Persecution<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTasGmt-TDE1wmG6G_wojK5pB1EJj_DSRzQPNhtbaD5-aopkZFhPhgeBTmGQLgMngS2RZbAlkaBCC7qlXS-bpdapa6UU5MizZ7zIUFgBWJfIr0tFG4LM6NhoccNlDRe1HEhxp4NvnNJxM12EAlbF4Y9yjwe8B2KiNWgCGB7rbcvVfyAQfcUA2ZhvtlIw/s600/Gilbert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTasGmt-TDE1wmG6G_wojK5pB1EJj_DSRzQPNhtbaD5-aopkZFhPhgeBTmGQLgMngS2RZbAlkaBCC7qlXS-bpdapa6UU5MizZ7zIUFgBWJfIr0tFG4LM6NhoccNlDRe1HEhxp4NvnNJxM12EAlbF4Y9yjwe8B2KiNWgCGB7rbcvVfyAQfcUA2ZhvtlIw/s320/Gilbert.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/are-christians-being-persecuted-america-raymond-ibrahim/">a recent FrontPage Mag article</a>, Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim noted that a new <a href="https://research.lifeway.com/2022/07/12/americans-believe-religious-liberty-is-declining-more-believe-christians-face-intolerance/">study</a>
found that more than half (54%) of the Americans surveyed believe
religious freedom is eroding in the United States, and an even larger
number (59%) believe that the treatment of Christians and intolerance
for their beliefs are getting worse. This echoes the warnings of
journalist Rod Dreher, author of <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/0593087399/">Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents</a></em>,
who insists that the “soft totalitarianism” already here in America
will inevitably lead to increasingly harsh persecution of the Christian
community. That community, Dreher urges, needs to prepare itself
accordingly, even for the possibility of martyrdom.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Unfortunately, many Christians in America suffer from an “it couldn’t
happen here” naiveté and the sort of complacency that generally afflicts
the affluent, free West. Too many of us are unaware – because the
overwhelmingly secular mainstream media largely ignores this crisis –
that Christianity is the <a href="https://www.cato.org/commentary/christianity-worlds-most-persecuted-religion-confirms-new-report">most-persecuted religion</a>
worldwide. The shocking reality for Christians in regions where the
powers-that-be are violently hostile to them should not only galvanize
us into taking action to help those victims, but also wake us up to the
growing threat here at home. It must be stressed that this is an issue
that impacts all of us who value the right of religious freedom, not
just Christian believers.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
To gain an eye-opening understanding of the dire circumstances for Christians around the world, the <a href="https://www.frc.org/">Family Research Council</a> has released a necessary new book by my friend <a href="http://lelagilbert.com/">Lela Gilbert</a>, Arielle Del Turco, and retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Heroic-Faith-Hope-Global-Persecution/dp/173717636X/"><em>Heroic Faith: Hope Amid Global Persecution</em></a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Lela Gilbert is a prolific and award-winning writer who has authored or
co-authored more than sixty books, including the critically-acclaimed <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Saturday-People-Sunday-Christian-Sojourner/dp/159403639X/"><em>Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner</em></a>, which was listed as one of the 20 best non-fiction Jewish books of 2012, and more recently, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09FLGD7WG/"><em>Baroness Cox, Eyewitness to a Broken World</em></a>,
released in November 2021. She serves as Senior Fellow for
International Religious Freedom at Family Research Council and as a
Fellow at the Hudson Institute, working with the Center for Religious
Freedom. She writes for <em>Newsweek</em>, <em>Jerusalem Post</em>, Fox News, and elsewhere.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
I posed some questions to Lela about the new book.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; width: 41.5301%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: initial; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: initial;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: initial; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; width: initial;"><img alt="" aria-hidden="true" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20version=%271.1%27%20width=%27304%27%20height=%27312%27/%3e" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; display: block; height: initial; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; width: initial;" /></span><img alt="" data-nimg="intrinsic" src="https://www.frontpagemag.com/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.frontpagemag.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F08%2Fhf.jpg&w=640&q=75" style="border: medium none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 0px; inset: 0px; margin: auto; max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; min-height: 100%; min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 0px;" /></span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong><span></span></strong></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Mark Tapson</strong>: <em>Lela,
thank you and your co-authors and the Family Research Council for
putting this important book together. In a Western world in which
Christianity seems to be more and more diminished as a civilizational
force, it can’t be stressed enough not only that Christians are
suffering global persecution, but also that many of those Christians are
demonstrating inspirational resistance, some at the cost of martyrdom.
That’s the “heroic faith” in your title, of course, and the instances of
it that you write about should shame us in the comfortable West to do
more to support them.</em></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em>Can you give us an example of heroic faith from the book?</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Lela Gilbert</strong>:
General Boykin, Arielle Del Turco and I sincerely hope our readers will
be inspired by stories of brave pastors, faithful teenagers, and
countless unnamed heroes who protect and encourage the persecuted
despite the dangers. And I think readers will quickly notice that one
shining example of heroic faith continues to repeat itself throughout
our book. It is an amazing dynamic of boldly courageous women and men,
young and old, who have chosen to move beyond lifeless, inherited
religious systems, and step into a new, vibrant life in the Christian
faith. They do this knowing full well that they’re likely to be shunned,
persecuted and perhaps even killed for their decision. And yet –
heroically – millions are making that life-changing faith decision every
day.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <em>Why should we in the Western world
care about supporting and defending religious freedom, or the lack
thereof, in far-flung places like North Korea or Afghanistan?</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>LG</strong>:
The earliest Christian writings explain to us that believers all belong
to “one body,” no matter how distant we may physically be from one
another. And with that in mind, one particular biblical passage
instructs us to “Continue to remember those in prison as if you were
together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you
yourselves were suffering.” (Heb 13:3 NIV). Although we are now spread
across a vast global community, we remain united into one spiritual body
of Christians, joined together by “one faith one baptism, one God and
Father of all,” and thus by admonitions to pray for one another. That’s
how faraway Christians’ struggles become our struggles as well.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <em>Can
you elaborate a little on the story of Leah Sharibu, one of the
Nigerian girls infamously kidnapped in 2019 by Boko Haram? She remains
in their custody even today because she refuses to convert to Islam. You
even met with Leah’s mother to discuss her situation. What’s Leah’s
story?</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>LG</strong>: Leah Sharibu is shining example
of the faithful teenagers I mentioned earlier. At just fourteen years
old, she was among some 100 Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped by
the Islamist group Boko Haram in February 2019. It was a violent attack,
and a few girls even died in the back of a truck during the brutal ride
to the terrorists’ outpost. In the days that followed, the fanatical
kidnappers demanded that each of the girls declare her faith in Islam.
Repeatedly Leah refused, and thus she became the only captive not
released a few weeks later.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Today, after more than four years and despite international appeals,
Leah remains in captivity. No one knows her present circumstances,
although there are reports that she has given birth to two children
fathered by her captors. As her heartbroken mother says, “Leah did an
amazing thing by refusing to renounce Christ and I’m proud of her. I’m
not sure if I was in her position at 14-years-old that I would have done
what she has done.” </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>:<em> Your book
addresses global religious persecution in the Middle East, Asia, Africa,
and Afghanistan. Is there one country or region in particular where it
is currently most dire?</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>LG</strong>: It’s true that
there are myriad sites of harsh persecution – North Korea, Iran,
Pakistan and Nigeria quickly come to mind. But, according to <a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-04/2022%20USCIRF%20Annual%20Report_1.pdf">Open Doors World Watch List</a>,
one somewhat unexpected country has emerged as the world’s number one
persecutor of Christians: Afghanistan. This came as a shock to many of
us because we’d never heard about an existing Christian community in
that strictly Islamist society. But, as we’ve since discovered, there is
vibrant underground Afghan church comprised of thousands of believers –
virtually all converts from Islam.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Meanwhile, in the eyes of the ruthless Taliban rulers, conversion from
Islam is designated as “apostasy” and demands a death sentence. So once
the names of Christians are exposed, they are ferociously sought out,
targeted and executed, often brutally. Ongoing rescue efforts continue,
but the process is costly and extremely dangerous.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <em>Despite
persecution, Christianity has expanded rapidly in China since 1980 and
it is estimated that by 2030 the country will have more Christians than
any other in the world. What does it say about Christianity that it
always manages to flourish even in countries where it is targeted for
persecution?</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>LG</strong>: It is often said that “the
blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.” And although that may
not always be the result, it is true that despite decades of vicious
persecution, today’s Chinese Christians reportedly outnumber members of
the Chinese Communist Party.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Meanwhile, we hear multiple reports from across the Middle East about
widespread conversions from Islam to Christianity, particularly in Iran.
Specific stories, of course, cannot be publicized because of the risk
of arrests, imprisonment and even death. But in these troubling times,
in every corner of the world, there continues to be a deep spiritual
craving for an alternative to hatred and violence; a hunger for
authentic, unconditional love. And that is the message of Jesus.
Meanwhile, His promise of eternal life is deeply meaningful to those in
places where deadly dangers prevail.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>:<em> Your
book is a necessary reminder that, even in international crises that
seem far removed from the ability of the average American to help, our
actions matter. What are a couple of steps each of us can take to make a
difference?</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>LG</strong>: Even though it’s not always
evident in news reports, America continues to have powerful influence
in the world. But in order to be “a voice for the voiceless,” we first
need to keep ourselves informed about the conditions Christians are
facing in other regions. We can find this information through
international organizations that work on behalf of the persecuted and
provide updated newsletters, such as Open Doors, Voice the Martyrs,
International Christian Concern and others. That way we are equipped to
persistently contact and remind our elected officials about the dangers
Christians and other religious minorities face in specific countries.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Of course, any effort we make in the face of worldwide anti-Christian
persecution will require persistent action and patient perseverance to
succeed. But above all else, “prayer without ceasing” is indispensable.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/finding-hope-amid-global-persecution-mark-tapson/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 8/10/22</i> <br /></span></span></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-29654284537987553672022-08-10T21:47:00.004-07:002022-08-10T21:47:33.849-07:00Inside the Horror of Islamic Sex Slavery - and the Real War on Women<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBpNB4Mrz6uUPpm_WI87mJbGfhU8iYWP8NYt1jUxXVxwKBwkmKPHLSBexnj1C4XrIHxBeV449c_wgSkz6i-ATLw7xvJXtoRf6Z70q36qZqT53mvXd_wwu0TQY_pFgK4h-hECiv1fJp19bGkJ3umLvqajJNgvcmZWM_9wzaSDdpfEV2q6BBSoRlWs3hZg/s1280/Yazidi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBpNB4Mrz6uUPpm_WI87mJbGfhU8iYWP8NYt1jUxXVxwKBwkmKPHLSBexnj1C4XrIHxBeV449c_wgSkz6i-ATLw7xvJXtoRf6Z70q36qZqT53mvXd_wwu0TQY_pFgK4h-hECiv1fJp19bGkJ3umLvqajJNgvcmZWM_9wzaSDdpfEV2q6BBSoRlWs3hZg/s320/Yazidi.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Last week marked the <a href="https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/statement/remarks-for-yazda-seventh-annual-commemoration-of-the-yazidi-genocide-on-the-theme-towards-a-sustainable-future-for-yazidis-and-minorities-in-iraq-and-kri-2-3-august-202/">seventh annual commemoration of the Yazidi genocide</a>, though you wouldn’t know it from watching establishment media. Nor would you know that there is an ongoing <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/jihadist-genocide-christians-nigeria-intensifies-raymond-ibrahim/">genocide of Christians</a>
taking place in Nigeria, nor that throughout the Islamic world
countless women and girls are enduring kidnapping, forced marriages,
forced conversions of Christians to Islam, genocidal rape, and/or
widespread sex trafficking even in countries that are supposedly our
allies in the War on Terror.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
To keep abreast of these crises, one needs to seek out the work of such concerned journalists as the Freedom Center’s own <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/author/raymond-ibrahim/">Raymond Ibrahim</a> or Dutch journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/sonjadahlmans?lang=en">Sonja Dahlmans</a>, who work desperately to bring international attention to the plight of the victims of an <em>actual</em> war on women.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
I recently interviewed <a href="https://twitter.com/sonjadahlmans?lang=en">Ms. Dahlmans</a> about these issues. She currently writes (<a href="https://palnws.be/author/sonja-dahlmans/">in Dutch only</a>) for the conservative political news site<a href="https://twitter.com/PALNWS"> PAL NWS</a>, and is studying Islam at the Melbourne School of Theology, where she will be starting her thesis.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
For those readers who would like to help make a change - and to
participate in the effort to protecting and liberating the victims of
Islamic Jihad, sex slavery and rape, please contact Sonja on her Twitter
at: <a href="https://twitter.com/sonjadahlmans?lang=en">@SonjaDahlmans</a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Mark Tapson</strong>: <strong><em>Sonja, please tell us what the focus of your journalistic work has been in recent years, and why you’re passionate about it</em>.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Sonja Dahlmans</strong>:
I focus mainly on Christian persecution, but I have also written about
persecution of the Yazidis in Iraq and Syria and of Hindu girls in
Pakistan. Women and girls from these groups are often targeted in
Islamic countries or regions. The abduction, rape, forced marriage and
forced conversion (to Islam) of non-Muslim women and girls is a
widespread problem. This is the subject I write about the most, because I
am afraid it is still underestimated, although lately there has been
more attention to it. Unfortunately not often in the mainstream media,
the subject is almost only discussed on Christian (or other religious
minority) pages or reports.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <strong><em>This
past week was another annual commemoration of the Yazidi genocide, but
it’s not over, is it? Western media give this little attention, but
there are still literally thousands of women and girls missing today,
aren’t there?</em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>SD</strong>: No, it is not
over at all. First of all, ISIS is still active in Iraq and Syria as we
have seen for example in Syria (last February) when they helped
jihadists within al-Sina prison to escape. There are so called sleeper
cells too and they still carry out attacks. With regard to the Yazidi
women and girls that they took captive, there are still around 2.700 of
them in the hands of ISIS, or at least they are missing and we don't
know where they are. This is devastating for them and their families, as
you can imagine. While there is only a little attention to this, the
Yazidi women and girls that are probably still in the hands of ISIS,
let's not forget that there are also Christian women and girls who were
taken by ISIS and are still missing. That is a subject you hardly hear
anything about, but it does not mean it doesn't exist. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
I still hear and read that women and girls are being bought back,
sometimes for a lot of money, and brought back to their families. This
is really gruesome; these men, jihadists, have already earned money by
trading these women, sexually exploiting them, and now earn money by
selling them back to their own communities. There should be a lot more
media coverage on this; it is not over, not by far for these victims and
their families. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">Then I would also add that in my opinion what happened under ISIS to Yazidi and Christian women and girls was not rape, but <em>genocidal</em>
rape, as I have argued in an article that I wrote in 2017. There is a
difference between rape during wartime and genocidal rape. The latter is
often used for rape on the basis of a group’s race or ethnicity, but I
think that in the case of the Yazidis and Christians we could say that
this happened because they are part of an ethnic-religious group. A UN
report states that ISIS came to destroy the Yazidis through sexual
slavery. Genocidal rape is a strategy, it is organized from above, meant
to make a group or community fear the rape of their women and daughters
so much that they will try to escape the region. We know this has
happened. And Yazidi victims are also telling stories of forced
conversions or at least that they were being put under pressure to do
so.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
This is not new at all, unfortunately. The Sayfo, what is known as the
Armenian genocide (but included Aramaic, Greek and Assyrian Christian
women and girls as well) was also – according to many scholars – gender
specific. Some even called it “a fate worse than dying.” During this
period we have also seen forced conversions, abductions, planned,
organized rape of women and very young girls.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>:<strong> <em>Can
you tell us a bit about how sex trafficking is a problem even in
countries that are supposedly American allies in the War on Terror, like
Turkey?</em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>SD</strong>: First of all, sex
trafficking of Christian women and girls is a huge problem in several
Islamic countries such as Nigeria, Syria, Egypt and Iraq. With regard to
the women and girls ISIS took, we know from witness statements, from
several reports, that some of them were held captive and/or were freed
from a place in Turkey (Ankara, for example). Not just in Turkey; these
women and girls were also sold to men from other countries in the Middle
East, but Turkey certainly plays a huge role in this. This is also a
claim the Yazidi Justice Committee makes in their report in which they
say that Turkey, Iraq and Syria could and should be held responsible for
not preventing genocide of the Yazidis within their own borders. This
committee also states in their report that Turkey, bordering both Iraq
and Syria, failed to take all available measures to protect Yazidi women
and girls from transportation, trade and enslavement on Turkish
territory. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Then there currently are Turkish-backed groups, supported by Ankara,
operating in Syria who are – according to many observers – committing
human rights violations. Some reports say that they are committing war
crimes. Rape and torture, kidnapping too, of women are certainly huge
parts of these violations.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
According to a report by the UN, women and girls have been sold to men
from Morocco, Libya, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Egypt,
Tunisia and Algeria. In an interview on Dutch national radio I said a
few months ago that I think it is time we hold these countries
accountable for what their citizens have done. And this is, as I said
during the interview, something we hardly read or hear about in the
media nor in the political arena and I think it is high time we do. Some
of these countries – all Islamic – are so called “allies in the war
against terror” or even NATO allies. Where are the restrictions, where
is the demand that these countries will find these men who purchased
women for their own pleasure and hold them accountable for it? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <strong><em>There
is an ongoing, literal genocide of Christians being carried out right
now in Nigeria, which the Western media largely ignores. Can you talk a
bit about that and how Christian women and girls are being especially
targeted?</em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>SD</strong>: Yes, the situation in
Nigeria is a huge problem right now. I not only read about this in
reports from experts, but also hear it from Nigerian friends within the
police force and journalists. According to a report by Aid to the Church
in Need, 95% of the victims being held by Islamists in Nigeria are
Christian. We know there are several groups active: Boko Haram is well
known to the public, I think, but there is also Islamic State West
African Province (ISWAP) and the militant form of the Fulani Muslims.
Very young girls can get abducted and sold for example, but boys too,
which makes parents decide to keep their children at home. Many children
in Nigeria do not attend school due to fear for these abductions that
actually happen on a daily basis. A few years ago we talked to each
other about the situation of Leah Sharibu. She was one of the Dapchi
girls that were abducted from school by Boko Haram, and Leah, being the
only Christian girl, was never released. She was 14 at the time, she is
still in captivity, although I believe she is now in the hands of ISWAP,
a splinter cell of Boko Haram. They have declared that she, for
refusing to deny Christ, will be their slave for the rest of her life. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
I hear stories, but haven't been able yet to dive into this, that some
of these rapes are being filmed and sold for example to pornography
sites. That is a horrible thing; this would mean that this horrible act
will be online, probably forever, and relatives might see their loved
ones being brutally raped, might be confronted with these brutal acts.
Obviously for these women and girls this is a nightmare; their dignity
is completely stolen from them by these groups that have no respect for
human life at all. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Abduction of women and girls – boys too – is a huge problem in Nigeria
that is done not only by jihadist or Islamist extremist groups but also
by bandits who are doing this to benefit financially. Then we must also
not forget that Nigeria is, regardless of any specific religion, a
transit and destination country for human trafficking. There are also,
for example, so-called “madams” within Pentecostal churches who are
trafficking young, underaged girls. But because Christians in almost
every Islamic society are marginalized and/or discriminated against,
Christian women and girls are much more vulnerable to be exposed to this
type of violence and abuse.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <strong><em>What
are a few other problem areas around the world that people might not be
aware of, where women and girls are targeted for abuses like sex
trafficking and child marriage?</em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>SD</strong>:
This is a very, very big problem around the Islamic world in
particular. For example in Egypt and Pakistan the situation for
Christian girls – mostly underaged – is particularly problematic. In
Pakistan an estimated 2.000 girls, Christian, Hindu and Sikh,
“disappear” every year. They are abducted, forced to marry a Muslim man
and then forced to convert to Islam. Within Islamic Law (sharia) a
non-Muslim parent cannot be the guardian over a Muslim child. So by
forcibly converting these girls to Islam, it is much more difficult, not
impossible, for parents to get their daughters back. In Pakistan
Christian (and Hindu) girls are also abducted and trafficked to China.
Some are victims of sexual exploitation, others end up being “married”
to a Chinese man. In some cases, both have happened: a girl or woman
first being forced to marry a Chinese man, then forced to have sex with
other men. This just adds to the vulnerability of religious minority
women in Pakistan.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
We see similar things happening in Egypt where Christian girls and
women are taken from the streets into a car and married off to a Muslim
man and converted to Islam. They then often appear in the media, veiled,
claiming they have converted to Islam freely. That is most of the time
not the case; it happens by force. Some girls from poor families are
groomed with gifts, fancy dresses or nice meals, and lured into a
relationship/friendship with a Muslim man. I also hear stories of women
being abducted and having their clothes stripped off and then they are
filmed which makes them very vulnerable for blackmail, threats to expose
this type of material online or show it to their communities. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
With regard to these forced conversions, don't forget that in many
Islamic countries your religion is mentioned on your ID card. So once
they have converted, under pressure, it will be really difficult to
convert back to Christianity or Hinduism, due to the apostasy laws in
Islam. And another important thing I would like to mention, is that this
abduction and marrying fertile women and girls, converting them to
Islam, also changes the demographics of a country. These Christian or
Hindu or Sikh women and girls will now have Muslim children. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Don't forget that child marriage, including abduction, is also an issue
within the Islamic communities in these countries as well. For example,
wealthy men from Saudi Arabia are traveling (and have been doing so for
at least decades) to poor Islamic regions or countries to "marry" minor
girls under Sharia for a short period of time. This could be a couple
of days, a week or a month. We know this is happening in Egypt,
Mauretania, Indonesia, Yemen and many other countries as well. So there
is also abuse of Muslim women and girls. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Bride kidnapping happens for example in former Soviet states such as
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and others. During the Soviet Union it was
suppressed, but during the fall of the Soviet Union and since we have
seen an increase of that custom again, unfortunately. Women's rights,
girls' rights, are a problem in the countries I have mentioned, but we
can definitely say that being a woman from a religious minority group
makes women and girls even more vulnerable.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <strong><em>Is there anything the ordinary American citizen can do to have an impact on any of these urgent issues?</em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>SD</strong>:
I think it all starts with getting the message out, speaking about it
to each other, within your church, community, friends, family. Write to
your congressman (or -woman) and ask what will be done for the Yazidis
in Syria and Iraq, for example, that are still held captive. Make sure
nobody can hide from the responsibility to help these women and girls,
that they are not forgotten.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/shining-spotlight-real-war-women-mark-tapson/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 8/9/22</i> <br /></span></span></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-51108739943271076402022-08-10T21:45:00.003-07:002022-08-10T21:45:33.907-07:00Defenders of the West<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKeuzemEEWv4WYQW1nQaWulpMFhfYkZsU6d7BIgU_1rFDQkOnyhcc4XUGOUUpbD2EO-n-KM3hLndukDHity2yLPymF7dnAWS0b34o1LGaGaCe2cItBZbMc-Hd7UErm0Doi-CCpZnj-3SMhqmGGjZA1v7I_2W51-aVGNBuHXtdXWtWVH8hOvOsKxG0_7Q/s1600/Defenders-of-the-West.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1317" data-original-width="1600" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKeuzemEEWv4WYQW1nQaWulpMFhfYkZsU6d7BIgU_1rFDQkOnyhcc4XUGOUUpbD2EO-n-KM3hLndukDHity2yLPymF7dnAWS0b34o1LGaGaCe2cItBZbMc-Hd7UErm0Doi-CCpZnj-3SMhqmGGjZA1v7I_2W51-aVGNBuHXtdXWtWVH8hOvOsKxG0_7Q/s320/Defenders-of-the-West.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Historiography has been dominated in recent decades almost exclusively
by leftists determined to take a wrecking ball to the glorious edifice
of Western civilization in the name of social justice and
multiculturalism. <em>New York Times</em> propagandist Nikole Hannah-Jones of the widely-debunked but nonetheless influential <em><a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/1619-project">1619 Project</a></em>
comes to mind. The coordinated mission of such activists has been to
pervert and subvert the grand narrative of our culture into a sordid
tale of oppression, exploitation, and white supremacy, and to brand all
our flawed heroes as racists and knock them off their pedestals, both
figuratively and literally.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
This is one reason why the new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Defenders-West-Christian-Heroes-Against/dp/1642938203/"><em>Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam</em></a>, by historian Raymond Ibrahim, a <a name="_Hlk109490215">Shillman Fellow</a>
at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Senior Fellow at the Gatestone
Institute, is such a refreshing, even thrilling read. As if the title
alone weren’t guaranteed to inflame Progressive sensibilities, the book
is unabashedly dedicated to “all the Past, Present, and Future Defenders
of that which is Good, Right, and True.” Standing up for the Good, the
Right, and the True (capitalized, no less) in our postmodern,
post-Christian era? That’s a bold, increasingly rare position for any
historian and publisher (<a href="https://posthillpress.com/bombardier-books">Bombardier Books</a>, in this case) to take today.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>Defenders</em> is a sort of follow-up to Ibrahim’s essential 2018 book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Scimitar-Fourteen-Centuries-between/dp/0306921421/"><em>Sword and Scimitar</em>: <em>Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West</em></a>. That book centered on decisive <em>battles</em> in the clash of civilizations, while the newer one zeroes in on the profiles of eight decisive <em>men</em> in that ongoing conflict, between the 11<sup>th</sup> and 15<sup>th</sup>
centuries, from Spain’s El Cid and England’s Richard Lionheart to
lesser-known but no less heroic figures such as France’s Saint Louis and
the “Albanian Braveheart” Skanderbeg.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
As in <em>Sword and Scimitar</em>, the foreword to <em>Defenders</em>
was written by renowned historian Victor Davis Hanson, who actually
served as Ibrahim’s Master’s thesis advisor in the late ‘90s. Hanson
says of the men in Ibrahim’s latest, “In what now may seem an archaic
sensibility, they were fighting for a unique way of life—or often a
restoration of it—against a rising challenge completely foreign to
everything in their experience, from the aspirations voiced on the
Sermon of the Mount to Classical traditions of individual liberty.”
Ibrahim himself explains that the book is about “eight men who, driven
by something greater than themselves, devoted much of their lives and
went to great lengths… to make a militant if not desperate stand against
Islamic aggression.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">Ibrahim begins his profiles with a chapter on one of the most notable
figures of the Age of Chivalry, Duke Godfrey of Bouillon, descendant of
Charlemagne and Charles Martel. Godfrey – “a man totally devoted to war
and God,” as one contemporary put it – did not hesitate to answer Pope
Urban II’s call in 1096 to undertake the first of the Crusades against
the Muslim occupiers of the Holy Land. The Crusades have been demonized,
of course, by today’s anti-Western apologists as Christian aggression
against Islam, when in fact, as Ibrahim notes,</span><p></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Duke Godfrey and the other First Crusaders traveled to the Holy Land
only because Muslims had been slaughtering and enslaving literally
hundreds of thousands of Christians in the region over the preceding
years and decades; [and because] Muslims had violently conquered that
city most holy to Christians—Jerusalem, repeatedly defiling and
torching Christ’s Sepulchre therein—to say nothing of the Islamic
conquest of two-thirds of the Christian world in the preceding
centuries, all of which gave Europe’s Christians little choice but to
fight fire with fire.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
One of the very first to set out to liberate the Holy Land, Godfrey led
a force of 80,000 crusaders there, beginning years of combating not
only Muslim warriors while retaking such cities as Nicaea and Antioch
but hunger and thirst as well, in the unforgiving desert region, before
finally reaching the gates of Jerusalem in 1099. Ibrahim’s rendering of
the Crusaders’ determined siege of the Muslim-held city, and the bloody
aftermath, is masterful storytelling. In the end, as historian Edward
Gibbon described it, “Godfrey of Bouillon stood victorious on the walls
of Jerusalem. His example was followed on every side by the emulation
of valour; and about four hundred and sixty years after the conquest of
Omar, the holy city was rescued from the Mohammedan yoke.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
In the wake of the siege, a reluctant Godfrey was chosen unanimously to
rule the city, but only under his condition that he not be called King
of Jerusalem, but Defender of the Holy Sepulchre. “God forbid,” he said,
“that I should be crowned with a crown of gold, where my Saviour bore a
crown of thorns.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Upon his untimely death a year later at the age of 40 (likely having
been poisoned by Muslim enemies), King Godfrey’s fame immediately spread
far and wide; Ibrahim notes that “he was seen as <em>the </em>chivalrous
hero” of the First Crusade. Visiting the Holy Sepulchre in 1867, no
less a luminary than Mark Twain observed, upon seeing the relic of
Godfrey’s sword there,</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
No blade in Christendom wields such enchantment as this—no blade of all
that rust in the ancestral halls of Europe is able to invoke such
visions of romance in the brain of him who looks upon it— none that can
prate of such chivalric deeds or tell such brave tales of the warrior
days of old…. This very sword has cloven hundreds of Saracen Knights
from crown to chin in those old times when Godfrey wielded it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
In subsequent but no less fascinating chapters, Ibrahim paints portraits of seven more inspirational heroes of the West:</span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
the 11<sup>th</sup>-century Castilian knight Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar,
Spain’s undefeated national hero El Cid, who showed to his countrymen
that Islam’s most fanatical hordes were not invincible, and whom even
one of his Muslim enemies admitted was “a miracle among the great
miracles of the Almighty”;</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
King Richard Lionheart, “the archetypal medieval warrior-king and
chivalrous knight par excellence,” as Ibrahim writes, who “went against
the odds… cowed the forces of Islam, retook several cities and castles,
and gave the Christians the much-needed breathing space to regroup and
refortify”;</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
the 13<sup>th</sup>-century warrior-king and saint Ferdinand, who
spearheaded the Reconquista of Islamic Spain and was dubbed a “special
athlete for Christ” by the Pope at the time;</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
France’s pious Crusader King Louis IX who, upon hearing of the
jihadist sacking of Jerusalem in 1244 while he lay dying from dysentery,
literally rose up from his deathbed and vowed to “wrest the land from
the Saracens”;</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
John Hunyadi, the “warlord of Transylvania” who defended Central and
Southeastern Europe against Ottoman plunderers in the mid-15<sup>th</sup> century and is still revered today as a national hero and savior in Hungary and beyond;</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Albania’s Skanderbeg, of whom one historian wrote, “Only the legendary
feats of King Arthur and his knights…suggest a parallel of wondrous
achievement,” who spent nearly twenty-five years of nonstop war in the
mid-15<sup>th</sup> century in the successful defense of his tiny homeland against the world’s most powerful empire, the Ottomans;</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
and last but not least, Vlad Dracul “the Lord Impaler,” the dreaded
Romanian leader who turned the terror tactics of the Turks against them
so successfully that his fearsome legend became the model (albeit an
historically ignorant one) for Bram Stoker’s bloodthirsty literary
creation.</span></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
None of the brief recaps above comes close to capturing the epic narratives of the lives and exploits of Ibrahim’s subjects. <em>Defenders of the West</em>
includes a wealth of detail about these men and their historical
context, grounded in more than 1200 endnotes, mostly from both Christian
and Arabic primary sources, without ever losing narrative momentum.
Victor Davis Hanson rightly concludes in his foreword that the book “is
engaging storytelling of fascinating people and forgotten events at its
best. Although anchored in arcane or archaic texts, it reads and flows
like an adroitly crafted novel, buttressed by a scholarship that allows
those of the past to speak for the past.” As a reader with a special
passion for medieval history and chivalric exploits both fictional and
historical, I can attest that Raymond Ibrahim’s new book is as essential
and compelling, if not more so, as his previous one.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
And relevant as well, despite being centered on centuries-old warriors.
As Hanson notes, “Ibrahim argues that these men’s careers can still
offer some guidance in a far more dangerous modern world.” In the book’s
conclusion, Ibrahim explains why the men in this book are among
yesterday’s heroes who have become today’s villains:</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
For starters, they defended the lands and cause of Christendom and
actually stood against the conquering armies of Islam. This is a big
no-no for that overwhelming force—generically known as “the Left” that
currently dominates mainstream thought and discourse, particularly
through those two institutions that have had a profound impact on
shaping Western society’s epistemology: media (social and
otherwise—news, films, comedies, documentaries, and, of course,
Hollywood) and academia (from kindergarten to postgraduate studies).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Not to mention the fact that, as Ibrahim writes, “every one of them was
the living embodiment of what is today condemned as ‘toxic masculinity’
and ‘the patriarchy.’ Worse, not only were they all white, male, and
Christian, but—far from being ashamed or apologetic over these now
‘troubling’ attributes—two of these identity markers, their masculinity
and religious faith, are precisely what animated them to act.” Ibrahim
is careful not to argue that the heroes of his book were moral exemplars
in every way, only that “[w]ithout them and so many more Defenders like
them over the centuries, there would not have been a West to speak of
today.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
And for the West to survive its current enemies, both foreign and domestic, it needs new Defenders like them. Toward that end, <em>Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam</em> serves as much-needed edification and inspiration.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/defenders-west-mark-tapson/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 7/28/22</i> <br /></span></span></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-59466363238614099382022-08-10T21:42:00.006-07:002022-08-10T21:42:53.762-07:00Guns and Masculinity<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7KbGeqLLSf4BEeXKF5JgHlsX_nJKtpObolfM3Cq8UPiZqAdXxrS6dJhfEWw5Acdsp9cbCHe2LoWW5sgtW4oK4P9dAgg1s_20ZBEnXCJFSBsGo_rRTTOxrX6LgORATM0maQi4BKfyG30rVJ6a4eQ8sdLsiIw94-CkMyWhYWLxGWFy-2NoNfps1Pg6tng/s1280/Guns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7KbGeqLLSf4BEeXKF5JgHlsX_nJKtpObolfM3Cq8UPiZqAdXxrS6dJhfEWw5Acdsp9cbCHe2LoWW5sgtW4oK4P9dAgg1s_20ZBEnXCJFSBsGo_rRTTOxrX6LgORATM0maQi4BKfyG30rVJ6a4eQ8sdLsiIw94-CkMyWhYWLxGWFy-2NoNfps1Pg6tng/s320/Guns.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/democrat-sen-dick-durbin-time-to-name-and-shame-ar-15-makers/" target="_blank">In opening comments Wednesday for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings</a> on so-called “assault weapons,” Democrat Senator and gun-confiscation enthusiast <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/richard-durbin" target="_blank">Dick Durbin</a>
threatened that it is “time to name and shame” the makers of AR-15s,
the rifle Democrats have demonized as “weapons of war.” Gun
manufacturers aren’t the trigger-pullers behind mass shootings, but they
are a much easier and more politically useful scapegoat to target than
the criminally insane minds of the actual shooters. Democrats aren’t
interested in ending gun violence anyway; if they were, they would be
holding hearings on the shootings perpetrated by gang members in
Democrat-run inner cities, by terrorists, and by the criminally insane.
What they want to end is not gun violence but gun ownership.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Sitting with posters of AR-15 advertisements placed prominently behind
him, Durbin claimed hyperbolically that there have been “309 mass
shootings” in the United States so far in 2022. “Why are these killing
machines flying off the shelves after they were banned for a decade,
until 2004?” he asked rhetorically. "Maybe it’s the ads that market the
‘assault weapons.’ Symbols of independence, freedom, or the promise that
owning an AR-15-style-gun will make you more of a man. Or could it be
the enticing prospect of toting around the same style of weapon that
soldiers and Marines use to defend our country in combat?"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Let’s break down this sneering statement, because it is very revealing
of the Left’s perspective on guns and masculinity, both of which the
Left would like to eradicate.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
First of all, there is the obvious propaganda of the loaded (pardon the
pun) terminology like “killing machines” and “assault weapons” to refer
to tools that are more often used to <em>stop</em> or <em>prevent</em>
killing and assaults. Second, what's wrong with an advertisement and a
product that appeal to one’s desire for independence, freedom, and the
capability to defend one’s home and community? Nothing to the average
American patriot, but they run against the grain of the average
leftist’s totalitarian impulse for control.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
As for owning an AR-15 making you “more of a man,” Durbin meant it as a
taunt to suggest that male gun owners are insecure about their
masculinity. But in fact – and this assertion will cause the heads of
feminists and proud non-binary types to explode – owning a firearm
actually <em>does</em> make one more of a man. One of the universal duties of manhood is to fulfill the role of <em>protector</em>.
Having the capability (such as a firearm), the training, and the will
to stand up and protect your life, your loved ones, your property, and
your community is a clear marker of moral masculinity. Not in the
swaggering way of someone looking to pick a fight, but in the quiet
strength and confidence of a man who understands, respects, and is
capable of wielding the power of righteous force. In that sense, owning a
firearm and being trained and ready to use it when necessary does
indeed make you more of a man than someone who willfully abdicates that
responsibility. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">(Female gun owners benefit from a similar independence and empowerment,
but Durbin didn’t mention women because his aim was to diminish and
humiliate predominantly male gun owners.)</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Democrats despise masculinity, especially moral masculinity, which is
why the tip of the spear of their neo-Marxist revolution is gender
ideology – the eradication of traditional sex roles and even of the
biological reality of male and female. (The only arena in which toxic
masculinity is acceptable to the Left today is in women’s sports.) They
fear and despise men’s inherent warrior spirit because it is the most
elemental barrier to their totalitarian agenda. They fear and despise
the fact that the constitutional right to own a firearm empowers you to
fulfill your responsibility as a man, to maintain your freedom as an
American, and to defend the lives and freedom of others.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
As for Durbin’s comment about “toting around the same style of weapon
that soldiers and Marines use to defend our country in combat,”
civilians <em>aren’t</em>, for the most part, using the same weapons as the military. That having been said, <em>owning “weapons of war”</em>
is precisely the point of the Second Amendment, which is to empower
civilians to defend themselves against government tyranny. Democrats
know this full well but try to skirt around it by pretending the issue
is hunting. That’s why they make silly, seemingly <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cuomo-no-one-needs-10-bullets-to-kill-a-deer-video">irrelevant declarations</a>
like former New York governor Andrew Cuomo once did, that “no one needs
ten bullets to kill a deer.” Or even more embarrassingly, decrepit Joe
Biden’s 2019 <a href="https://conservative-daily.com/gun-rights/stupid-joe-biden-no-one-needs-100-clips-or-30-clips-in-their-weapon">pronouncement</a> that “if you need 100 clips or 30 clips in a weapon, then you shouldn’t be hunting, man!”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
As is often noted by conservative commentators, mass shooters aren’t
National Rifle Association members who value their freedom and
independence and right to bear arms. They are mostly
homicidally/suicidally angry young men whose problems run far deeper
than just being enticed by advertisements. Indeed, if they're being
enticed by anything to commit gun violence, it's by a leftist-dominated
news media that thrives on turning mass-murdering losers into overnight
celebrities.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
But Durbin and his fellow Democrats don't care about getting to the
real, cultural roots of the problem of gun violence. Their aim is to
roll back, if not eliminate, the Second Amendment and to disarm the
populace. Toward that end, Democrats want to punish firearm makers. So
Durbin blames “the marketing tactics used by gun manufacturers like
Mossberg, Bushmaster, and Daniel Defense. It’s time to name and shame
these companies,” he stated ominously.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Last weekend, 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken stopped a mass shooter at
Indiana’s Greenwood Park Mall by taking him out with a handgun within
seconds of the shooter launching his rampage. In a sane world, Dicken
would be unanimously hailed as a hero. And sane people <em>have</em>
hailed him as such. Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison said of Dicken, “I’m
going to tell you, the real hero of the day was the citizen that was
lawfully carrying a firearm in the food court and was able to stop the
shooter almost as soon as he began.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
But instead of being grateful and relieved that Dicken’s courage,
skill, and concealed-carry weapon limited the murderer to three victims
(still a terrible loss, but it could have been exponentially worse),
Democrats openly resent the fact that Dicken is living refutation of
their false narrative that a “good guy with a gun” is a myth. They have
taken to social media to <em>condemn</em> him, for God’s sake, as an “<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/19/leftists-lash-out-22-year-old-who-stopped-mall-mass-shooting-was-no-good-samaritan/">armed vigilante</a>” and to grumble that, as journalist David Leavitt stupidly <a href="https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1548892694176464897" target="_blank">tweeted</a>,
“You’d never need a ‘Good Samaritan’ with a gun at Greenwood Park Mall
or at any other place if there weren’t any guns to begin with.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
And that is the Democrat fantasy: an America in which there are no guns
(except, of course, those belonging to the government, to the
privately-funded security teams of anti-Second Amendment celebrities,
and to the taxpayer-funded security teams protecting <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/news/defund-police-advocate-bush-spent-400k-on-private-security">Democrat politicians</a>).
And no men either, at least those who exhibit the dangerous, moral
masculinity of an “armed vigilante” like hero Elisjsha Dicken.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/guns-and-masculinity-mark-tapson/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 7/22/22</i> <br /></span></span></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-32416207876131396322022-08-10T21:40:00.005-07:002022-08-10T21:40:50.279-07:00Lockdown: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZyIg6s4_WEvci816e72EQxQVUqx_qUvb7ZQlBbjWDqK-NH5A3y23OpObh9ThL9sjt6M_Mxksni0pxAskwaxe0DLLSVhJ8zEx7PM5j291d6ETFKXD7kdMeHOB9iXfvXiqnfGbiv-89k4K68b5juIi9jbx1Uaur56AVG1abVZCnGCn7riFEAJ4IfVwow/s1200/Lockdown.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZyIg6s4_WEvci816e72EQxQVUqx_qUvb7ZQlBbjWDqK-NH5A3y23OpObh9ThL9sjt6M_Mxksni0pxAskwaxe0DLLSVhJ8zEx7PM5j291d6ETFKXD7kdMeHOB9iXfvXiqnfGbiv-89k4K68b5juIi9jbx1Uaur56AVG1abVZCnGCn7riFEAJ4IfVwow/s320/Lockdown.webp" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
When COVID-19 first reared its ugly head a mere couple of years ago
(seems like much longer, doesn’t it?), the Trump-hating Left recognized
that here was a crisis too good to waste, to paraphrase Obama’s former
Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. As Cheryl Chumley observes in her new book
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/LOCKDOWN-Socialist-Plan-Take-Freedom/dp/163006209X/"><em>Lockdown: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom</em></a>, “Democrats, progressives, globalists, collectivists, socialists, and Marxists saw opportunity to reshape an entire world.” <em>Lockdown</em>,
from Humanix Books, is her damning overview of how the power-lusting
Left manipulated and exploited the pandemic to kickstart their Great
Socialist Reset.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Chumley is the online opinion editor for <em>The Washington Times</em>, an Army vet, a journalist, and author – most previously (2020) of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Socialists-Dont-Sleep-Christians-America/dp/1630061476/"><em>Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall</em></a>.
If you are unfamiliar with her writing, Ms. Chumley pulls no punches in
her takedowns of the Left, and makes no apologies for her Christian
perspective on political events. She is not reticent about identifying
as “evil” the forces wreaking ruin in the world today; nor is she vague
about their aim: leftists “want total and complete lockdowns of
individual freedoms, individual rights, individually held liberties so
they can stage their reset and reshape a new America, a new world, more
in line with their collectivist and elitist beliefs. It’s called
destroy, then rebuild. What they’re destroying is the Constitution; what
they’re trying to rebuild is cultural Marxism and communist control.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Along those lines, she bluntly states that, in the COVID pandemic,
“Democrats saw opportunity to control. To expand power. To rule. To
crush. To subjugate. To usher in political reforms, economic changes,
and societal shifts of such magnitude that even a Trump term two
couldn’t undo.” This agenda, Chumley correctly writes, is “shameless,
despicable, and outright evil.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
After that forceful opening, Chumley goes on to break down the Left’s
pandemic strategy in chapters devoted to: the media-driven
fear-mongering that herded Americans into lockdowns and mask mandates;
the targeting of children to mold collectivist thinking in
impressionable young minds; the narrative that true patriotism means
conformity to government command; the takeover of the health care field;
the push to expand climate change legislation and a “green” economy;
and more. Along the way she slams billionaire globalist technocrats like
subversive philanthropist Bill Gates and evil mastermind Klaus Schwab
of the World Economic Forum, men who are funding the collectivist
reshaping of every aspect of our society.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">In a chapter titled, “Spinning the Truth so Socialism Can Thrive,” for
example, Chumley notes that once the coronavirus hit the scene,
“[f]ear-fueled prognostications became the order of the day.” Dissent
and “misinformation” against the official government/Big
Pharma/globalist narrative were treated as a virus more threatening than
COVID. Those who told the truth about the so-called vaccine, or who
even raised reasonable concerns and questions about its efficacy and
side effects, were deemed dangerous “conspiracy theorists.” Cancel
culture surged. The Left seized the opportunity to demonize the enemies
of atheistic Marxism – manufacturing the threat, for example, of “rising
Christian nationalism.”</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
The targeting of Christian patriots is particularly telling – and
alarming. “Strip away God, and what’s left is government,” Chumley
warns. “Government, big government, bigger government, ever-growing,
ever-expanding government: Democratic, socialist, communist,
collectivist government. Do that, and America itself is cancelled.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
The Left also grasped the opportunity to turn schools and colleges into
totalitarian “breeding grounds for… government informants”; to empower
and enrich the bullying teachers unions, which are controlled by leftist
activists, of course; and to train an entire generation to believe the
government is the beneficent parent of society – all while causing
long-term scholastic and emotional damage to the students themselves.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
To help facilitate their agenda, the Left also fashioned the divisive narrative that <em>real</em>
patriotism meant submission to the ever-changing health orders from
politicians and globalist medical authorities drunk on power and profit:
mask mandates, social distancing, multiple rounds of experimental
vaccines, the shuttering of businesses, etc. Resist such manipulation of
our language, Chumley urges: don’t “hand the socialists an easy win by
allowing them to redefine noble patriotism, in all its American
individualistic glory, as dark sheep-bleating collectivism.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In her chapter on the “free market freefall,” Chumley warns that the
Great Reset envisioned by our elitist betters – Marxism “masked as
‘better’ capitalism” – will be the end of America as we know it. The
pandemic has been exploited to usher in a new era of woke corporatism in
which CEOs “serve as enforcers” for a leftist agenda. It is nothing
less than “the weaponizing of the private sector against private
citizens, on behalf of government’s wishes.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In “Lessons on Deception From <em>Animal Farm</em>,” Chumley draws an
insightful comparison between the Left’s self-serving, ever-shifting
narratives and those of the totalitarian pigs in George Orwell’s 1945
political fable, who modify the Farm Rules as necessary to benefit
themselves (“Some animals are more equal than others”).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“The sanest people in America today,” Chumley writes, are those
Americans who rejected, and continue to reject, this politicized
pandemic: “the gym owners in New Jersey who made national headlines by
defying their governor’s order to shut down and shut doors”; “the moms
and dads who stand before school boards in their communities and deliver
impassioned pleas to… return to a time when teachers actually taught on
the things that mattered, and not on the things that mattered only to
Black Lives Matter…”; “those who dismiss Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates as
either outright charlatans, or at best, as bureaucrats with
overinflated senses of self-importance…” The Democrats label such people
as “reckless – dangerous, even,” Chumley writes. But the “Leftists are
the insane.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Warning that we are “paying the consequences for our idolatrous
behavior” in a country that has degenerated into secularism and fear,
Chumley concludes with an exhortation to turn back to God and stand
strong in the face of Big Government overreach in your community. “There
is no other way to save America,” she asserts, noting that evil
collectivists “won’t be able to withstand the pushback from a
God-centered, Constitution-knowing citizenry.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Supported by nearly 30 pages of endnotes, Cheryl Chumley’s <em>Lockdown: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom</em>
is a must-read summary of the collectivist, globalist, Marxist agenda
that surged during the pandemic, and which the Left is still pursuing
with desperate abandon. Fight back, she encourages. Quoting 1 John 2:18,
Chumley writes, “‘It is the last hour; and as you have heard that
antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we
know that it is the last hour.’ Make that hour count.”</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/lockdown-socialist-plan-take-away-your-freedom-mark-tapson/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 6/17/22<br /></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></span></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-28583523028656618532022-08-10T21:38:00.004-07:002022-08-10T21:38:51.910-07:00A Conservative Professor Fights UCLA's Bias - and Wins<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqsy29H_QbD0FW3x0joX9L3YG-ENqiu8axbwNzr7XSAQb2kZlFaDuJ8TOI9Tb_phpP4pYrM1XedGhQ7HhyqSZecQRdPqT4RAw9_v2bI70wa4SHsi7d0wwfWypkrSrcMjyGZLtT0dXSWRfWT5IHui86z3V4kgfVZ38rDYXIzH-uOkhzGxjdx9IZIediww/s978/Fink.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="978" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqsy29H_QbD0FW3x0joX9L3YG-ENqiu8axbwNzr7XSAQb2kZlFaDuJ8TOI9Tb_phpP4pYrM1XedGhQ7HhyqSZecQRdPqT4RAw9_v2bI70wa4SHsi7d0wwfWypkrSrcMjyGZLtT0dXSWRfWT5IHui86z3V4kgfVZ38rDYXIzH-uOkhzGxjdx9IZIediww/s320/Fink.webp" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
It is a given today that our so-called institutions of higher learning
are hostile to political conservatives, not only students but the
minority of professors who openly lean Right. Even <em>Progressive</em>
academics can find themselves targeted by Cancel Culture for minor or
accidental transgressions against woke dogma. The punishment can range
from “mere” ostracization, to a hopelessly smeared reputation, to the
loss of one’s job – usually a combination thereof. It’s ugly and
totalitarian, which is why any moral victory against the Left’s
ideological intolerance is a blow for freedom of speech and political
balance in the classroom.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Keith Fink – a successful attorney, legal commentator, academic, and
author –was a Communications Studies lecturer at the University of
California Los Angeles from 2008 until his forced departure in June
2017. His courses on “Race, Sex & Politics: Free Speech on Campus;”
“Free Speech in the Workplace;” “Entertainment Law;” and “Arguing
Contemporary Social Issues” were among the students’ most popular ones
at UCLA. But Fink is politically conservative and an ardent, fair-minded
advocate for truth, so a confrontation with the school’s Progressive
administrators was inevitable.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In early 2017, Professor Fink found, for the first time in his
experience, that his Department of Communication Studies was beginning
to deny his PTEs (“permission-to-enroll” forms for students whose
attendance in a class, for a variety of reasons, requires a professor’s
approval). And it was clear he was being singled out. Even the school
paper <em>The</em> <em>Daily Bruin</em> acknowledged that other
professors in the department had no difficulties getting their PTEs
approved. Fink, his TAs (teaching assistants), and even some students
suspected the source of the problem was the reportedly leftist new Chair
of the Department of Communication Studies, Kerri Johnson, who also
arbitrarily decided to cap the size of the conservative Fink’s
overflowing classes.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Austin Kaidi, a UCLA alumnus who has served as Fink’s TA, noted at the
time that the room in which Fink taught “Communications Studies 167”
held 292 seats, yet only 200 of the 241 students who attempted to join
the class that year were able to enroll. Kaidi told <em>The College Fix</em>,
“For the past five years, Professor Fink has been able to educate large
numbers of students without any problems. However one quarter after the
Communication Studies appoints a chairwoman with incredibly
left-leaning ideals, Professor Fink, the only outspoken conservative in
the department, is singled out, his PTE’s are revoked, and his future
classes are limited.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">Andrew Litt, another of Fink’s TAs, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucla-students-blocked-enrolling-conservative-professors-free-speech-campus-class/">explained to <em>The College Fix</em></a><em>,</em></span><p></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Ever since this leadership change, the school has targeted Professor
Fink and his classes in many ways, including by: (1) restricting his
ability to enroll students at his discretion (a restriction not imposed
on any other CommStudies professors), (2) reducing the size of his
classes and moving them to smaller classrooms despite overwhelming
student demand, (3) dishonoring ‘Permission to Enroll’ forms issued by
him and failing to help students whose PTEs had been dishonored.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“Higher education is supposed to be about providing students with
opportunities to learn and expand their horizons, rather than limiting
them,” one senior trying to take Fink’s class told <em>The College Fix</em>.
“I have never experienced a situation like this: the professor wants to
admit more students at no cost to the school, the room FITS more
students, yet the actual department housing the course is thwarting his
efforts and effectively denying me an educational opportunity — one that
happens to be of great importance to me.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Fink told the <em>Daily Bruin</em>, “This is a violation of academic
freedom, a violation of (UCLA’s) own rules and students’ rights.
Students are not being treated with equity here.” He decided to push
back against the bias. “This is an important issue. Most people don’t
stand up to the administration when they are wronged, either out of
ignorance of their rights or fear that their situation will be
exacerbated if they challenge the school.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“I am a voice of a teacher who’s not going to go away,” he added. “When
I see an injustice toward students, I am going to fight.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Fink responded to Kerri Johnson’s email denying him a larger room for one class by asserting, in part,</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
I do not find the reasons for your refusal to increase the class size
credible and continue to believe it is based on the viewpoint of my
classroom teachings. I have not the power in my role as a lecturer to
increase the class size but I maintain my right to speak out for the
students, other teachers and the UCLA community against what I see to be
the failure of the department and the school to abide by its own rules
and act in a viewpoint-discriminatory manner.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Elise Zappia, a prospective student in Fink’s “Free Speech in the
Workplace” course who was unable to register before the class filled up,
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8898">told <em>Campus Reform</em></a>
at the time that she suspected the department’s real purpose in
limiting his class size was to suppress the influence of one of the few
conservative professors on campus, especially considering his enormous
popularity: “They are pushing a liberal point of view on the students,
so I think what the department is doing to Fink is discrimination
against him as one of the few conservative professors,” she stated. “He
doesn’t align with UCLA’s narrative so they are limiting his exposure to
students.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
It soon became clear to Fink that his days at UCLA might be numbered. He received a critical <a href="https://www.thefire.org/fire-raises-questions-about-ucla-lecturer-keith-finks-firing/" target="_blank">review</a>
of one of his classes from the department’s vice-chair Greg Bryant who,
ironically, disapproved that Fink purportedly “attacked UCLA as not
supportive of free speech rights.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Fink also believes the department engaged in a “bait and switch” in
2017 to lure students into enrolling in two of his highly-rated and very
popular summer courses – significant sources of funding for the
department – despite the fact that the school had not invited Fink to
teach them that summer. “Students were coming from all over the world to
UCLA specifically to take classes with me as well as from other
universities,” Fink told <em>Campus Reform</em>. “These students would
be stuck in the class once a teacher was changed if not notified until
the last minute for several reasons.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
When Fink came up for a routine “excellence review” in May 2017 to
consider his promotion to “Continuing Lecturer,” he objected that at
least two members of the faculty committee conducting it had previously
shown bias against him, including the new Department Chair Johnson. The
committee went forward and deadlocked at 3-3, with the tie-breaking vote
to be cast by Social Sciences Dean Laura Gomez – one of those Fink had
identified as biased. Offering no explanation at all, Gomez voted weeks
later not to renew his contract, suggesting that Fink's teaching failed
to meet UCLA's standard of excellence.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
This was a demonstrably false judgment. End-of-term student evaluations
consistently described Fink in such glowing terms as “one of the best
instructors,” the “epitome of a role model,” and “inspiring and
life-changing.” Furthermore, he had earned an average Instructor Rating
of 8.17 and an average Course Rating of 8.14 (on a nine-point scale),
both of which were described by colleagues as “very high.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In addition, Fink noted that “the department omitted the single strongest department-solicited letter from my dossier.” He <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9142">argued</a>,
“I find it hard to believe that the omitted letter was accidentally
left out of my file—the letter is simply too strong for it to be a mere
coincidence.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Fink’s TA Andrew Litt told <em>Campus Reform</em> that “there are no
credible arguments to be made that support the conclusion that Keith is
not excellent.” Litt concluded that “no reason makes sense other than
the fact that this review has been conducted in a politically-motivated,
viewpoint-discriminatory manner from the outset.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Litt added, “His termination is an injustice to the students and the
taxpayers of the state, a threat to all teachers and academic freedom,
and a slap in the face to the notion of due process and fundamental
fairness.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“[Kerri] Johnson would stop at nothing to try and get rid of me,” Fink wrote me in recent email correspondence:</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
She violated any notion of fundamental fairness and due process by
secretly writing Gomez a letter then trying to enlist to tell Gomez that
I should not continue teaching. None of this was I told about. These
actions violated the procedure for my review where I was entitled to see
everything in my file and had the opportunity to respond. UCLA tried to
hide this evidence. It took me two years in discovery to get it. Then
UCLA refused to acknowledge that my rights were violated at every step
of the sham internal grievance process they have.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“When you’re a conservative and they want to silence you they will
surreptitiously derail your review – fairness be damned,” Fink asserted.
“There is just nothing UCLA won’t do or say no matter how false it may
be.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In November of 2017, Fink exposed some of those “dirty tricks” in a
presentation to the Bruin Republicans Club posted to YouTube (“<a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=33shn7d7jb8">Keith Fink Reveals UCLA’s Dirty Tricks to Quash Intellectual Pluralism on Campus</a>”). Afterward grad student Cynthia Truhan wrote to the <em>Daily Bruin</em> demanding to know why there was no <em>Bruin</em> coverage about the “well-publicized event”:</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Prof. Fink spoke to a packed room and not one person left before his
entire presentation was done. In fact, many people stayed to speak to
him afterwards and shared their own experiences within UCLA's
liberal-dominate environment.</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Prof. Fink's story is still unfolding and is shockingly
representative of UCLA's currently well-documented, aggressive,
strategic practice of silencing intellectual diversity. I cannot for the
life of me understand why the <em>Daily Bruin</em> has not continued to actively track this situation.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Why? No doubt because Fink’s righteous cause and refusal to slink away in defeat was an embarrassment to the school. The <em>Bruin</em>
tried to ignore Fink, but the Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson found
his situation so concerning and controversial that he brought Fink on as
a guest on more than one occasion to <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/06/28/conservative-ucla-lecturer-let-go-by-school-after-criticizing-school/">present his case</a>.
There Fink held nothing back, telling Carlson that UCLA continually
trampled on the free speech of conservative students and punished them
for deviating from the school’s Progressive perspective.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In a recent email, Fink noted that “in the five years since I have been
away from teaching at UCLA they cancelled all the classes – all! – that
I taught. Now, these were some of the most popular classes on campus
where I would pack halls of 300. So you could say they were not able to
find someone who the knowledge to teach these classes.” While that may
have been part of it, Fink continued,</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
the real reason they did not replace two of the classes – the Free
Speech courses – is that UCLA’s administration will brook no
interference with its attempts at ideological indoctrination of their
progressive agenda. Teachers like me who eschew trigger warnings and
developing “a safe space” in the classroom because they are anathema to
the First Amendment and the belief that students’ beliefs should be
vigorously challenged are now relics. Unless higher education makes a
sea change and the era of indoctrination comes to an end the public
university game will not be worth the candle. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Fink kept up the fight through five years of resistance, denial, and
lies from UCLA. In a recent email to the Freedom Center’s David
Horowitz, he shared the verdict of an arbitration between himself and
UCLA over the 2017 non-renewal of his contract. The arbitrator sided
with Fink, noting bluntly in the decision that, in “a metaphorical way,
[Department Chair Kerri] Johnson <em>stabbed Fink in the back</em>” [emphasis added]:</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Fink expressed concerns about her neutrality. When Johnson abstained at
the time of the vote and simply summarized the review committee’s
position, Fink thought his concerns had been recognized and respected.
Instead, Johnson took advantage of an opportunity to sabotage Fink’s
candidacy without Fink’s knowing about it or being able to respond to
it. As a result, <em>the grievance must be sustained</em>. [emphasis added]</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
The arbitration hearing resulted in vindication for Fink. But personal
vindication was never his motive. “I fought this all these years,” he
wrote to Horowitz, “because like you, I am fighter and here we are
dealing with the most important American values – due process,
fundamental fairness, free speech – all principles anathema to the
progressive politics at UCLA.”</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/conservative-professor-fights-uclas-bias-and-wins-mark-tapson/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 6/13/22</i> <br /></span></span></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-56379056600562163912022-08-10T21:35:00.005-07:002022-08-10T21:35:26.797-07:00The 20 Dumbest Hollywood Hatemongers - The Top Five (written with David Horowitz)<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjT1m7RV926v9v9CxVDApaKF6WentRjferi62sXSVbayFnBygcHI-sKEAsTxx3HZGsXDmZESLgElSWOCPUNIB4454EOATZpnrBs_ce2ZC4RDThm3mXxNTlJS71ukHjq549Q3zqcJ30tQqESjnLj0UICnOWPhBkUQDJ58S31sLnygjUKvxypgaL_DZkaQ/s961/De%20Niro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="961" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjT1m7RV926v9v9CxVDApaKF6WentRjferi62sXSVbayFnBygcHI-sKEAsTxx3HZGsXDmZESLgElSWOCPUNIB4454EOATZpnrBs_ce2ZC4RDThm3mXxNTlJS71ukHjq549Q3zqcJ30tQqESjnLj0UICnOWPhBkUQDJ58S31sLnygjUKvxypgaL_DZkaQ/s320/De%20Niro.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Top Tier: 5-1</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em>“He’s a punk,
he’s a dog, he’s a pig, he’s a con, he’s a bullshit artist, a mutt who
doesn’t know what he’s talking about, doesn’t do his homework, doesn’t
care, thinks he’s gaming society, doesn’t pay his taxes. He’s an
embarrassment to this country.”</em></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>5. Jim Carrey</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Rubber-faced comedic actor Jim Carrey, 60, has been a star ever since the early ‘90s, going from the sketch comedy TV series <em>In Living Color</em> to starring roles in films such as <em>Ace Ventura: Pet Detective</em>, <em>Liar Liar</em>, and <em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</em>.
But as his career peaked and waned, he remained relevant, as many other
actors have, by becoming a virtuoso of self-righteous venom aimed at
Republicans who disagree with him.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In November 2017 he tweeted, “The GOP and WH have become sinister
conclaves of souless traitors, liars and thieves – a gangrene we must
remove so democracy can live.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a>
A few months later he tweeted about President Trump, “If we allow this
one-man Gomorrah and his corrupt Republican congress to continue
alienating the world we are headed for suffering beyond all
imagination.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In a November 2018 interview he declared about the Trump
administration, “These are not people you can deal with. You cannot be
bipartisan with a criminal. A rapist needs to be removed, not negotiated
with. These people are raping our system, they’re destroying it right
in front of us. These people have to be removed from our system because
they’re bad for us.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title="">[3]</a> Bye-bye, two-party democracy. Hello, one-party state.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Carrey took his anti-GOP derangement to a whole other level by painting
garish, crude images demonizing Trump and other conservative figures,
and posting them to Twitter. He painted Melania Trump as a brainwashed
robot,<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title="">[4]</a> Senator Ted Cruz as a vampire,<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title="">[5]</a> Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh forcing himself on a woman,<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title="">[6]</a> Trump sons Eric and Donald Jr. gruesomely gored by elephant tusks,<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title="">[7]</a> and psychotic portraits of Vice President Mike Pence<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title="">[8]</a> and Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title="">[9]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
But Trump, of course, was the primary target of Carrey’s demented
visions. In 2017 he scrawled a lewd drawing of Trump kissing Putin’s
bare butt.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title="">[10]</a>
He tweeted another infantile cartoon drawing of Trump with bloodied
fangs, writing that the President would “EAT A BABY” onstage at an
upcoming rally “to the delight of his zombie base.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title="">[11]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In June 2018 he depicted Trump as an angry Roman soldier crucifying Jesus Christ.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title="">[12]</a> In August he painted Trump being burned at the stake as a witch.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title="">[13]</a>
He also painted Trump dangling from a flagpole over a bustling
cityscape, trussed in a straightjacket, his ankles tied to the pole with
an American flag. Caption: “Can the Great Spewdini spew enough lies to
escape the straight-jacket of his un-Presidented criminality?”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title="">[14]</a> Funny you should mention a straightjacket, Jim.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>4. Rosie O’Donnell</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Former comedienne Rosie O’Donnell, 60, actress in films such as <em>A League of Their Own</em> (1992) and host of her own daytime talk show, is a longtime political activist with a long-running feud with Trump.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In 2015, in response to what she called a war on women being waged by
Trump and others, Rosie went on SirusXM radio to announce, “I’d like to
take my period blood that I no longer have and write, ‘You’re all
a–holes,’” before saying, “I’d like to smear it all over some people’s
faces.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title="">[15]</a> As Donald Trump might say: “Sad.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In January 2017, O’Donnell called for martial law to delay Trump’s
inauguration. When the military didn’t take her up on that, she fretted
in a subsequent interview with <em>W Magazine</em>, “I seriously worry
whether I personally will be able to live through [his presidency] and
whether the nation will be able to live through it and survive.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title="">[16]</a> Actually Rosie, the nation did pretty well under Trump, and a damn sight better than your guy.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
During an October 2017 appearance on MSNBC, O’Donnell called Trump
“evil” and claimed that on election night 2016, “I actually got
physically sick.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title="">[17]</a>
Onstage at the Beacon Theatre in New York City prior to the election,
she told the audience that she was “depressed because I fucking hate
that orange piece of shit.” She referred to him as “a shit-stain with a
tinge of orange,” and at one point grabbed her crotch before exclaiming,
“Eat me, Donald.” She also told the audience that, after being advised
not to focus on Trump, she told her therapist, “I would rather give
birth to a flaming iguana while taking a shit. “I hate him. I hate him.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title="">[18]</a> We have a problem Houston, a psychological problem. But the same could be said about everybody else on this list.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In 2017, she attacked members of Trump’s administration as – that’s
right – Nazis, tweeting that “if u stand next 2 and work with adolf
trump – yes u fucking are a nazi.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title="">[19]</a> She added in August 2018 that Trump is “a horrible, horrible human with no soul. He has a very serious mental disorder.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title="">[20]</a>
In 2020, as the pandemic raged, O’Donnell predictably blamed Trump,
tweeting that had he become “the leading cause of death in the United
States.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" title="">[21]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In 2018 she began selling anti-Trump artwork on the crafts website Etsy
as a means of expressing her “sadness, rage, and disappointment” with
the president. Her first piece featured a cartoon caricature of Trump’s
head alongside the words, “Rapist,” “Cheat,” “Liar,” “Racist,” “Conman,”
and “Asshole.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" title="">[22]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In a July 2019 interview, O’Donnell said she believed Trump had an
incestuous relationship with his daughter Ivanka and possibly with his
sons. “I think he’s been doing bad things with her for a very long
time,” she said. “There’s a creepy incest feel that is very prevalent
amongst Donald Trump and his children, at least his daughter. Very
creepy.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" title="">[23]</a> Not so creepy as the person who thought up these malicious attacks.</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>3. Rob Reiner</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
After starring as Michael “Meathead” Stivic on <em>All in the Family</em> from 1971-78, Reiner turned his attention to producing and directing such films as <em>This is Spinal Tap</em>, <em>A Few Good Men</em>, and <em>The American President</em>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
A major donor to left-wing candidates and causes, Reiner explained once
that “Hollywood has always been way out in front [politically], and
that’s why we [entertainers] do what we do”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" title="">[24]</a> – i.e., rant about political subjects frequently and hysterically.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
As early as 2016, when Trump was still a candidate, Reiner told CNN
that “it’s no secret there are a lot of white supremacist and neo-Nazi
groups that support him. Those people have a violent nature, and a
violent streak, and they want to redress things with violence.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25" title="">[25]</a>
Curiously, Reiner had nothing to say about the violent nature of Antifa
thugs and Black Lives Matter rioters who “sought to redress things”
during the Trump presidency by burning, looting and spreading mayhem
across the nation.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“How much longer do we have to put up with a mentally ill sociopath?”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26" title="">[26]</a>
Reiner cried about Trump in December 2018. Later that month he added,
“The President of the United States is a sick criminal. New Year’s
resolution: Get him the fuck out of the White House.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27" title="">[27]</a>
Two days later, he tweeted: “[W]hen the dust settles, we will be rid of
this lying malignant narcissistic cancer. Happy New Year.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28" title="">[28]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
During the 2020 election campaign, Reiner ranted that Trump was “Jefferson Davis” in America’s “modern-day civil war,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29" title="">[29]</a> repeating the slander in January 2021 by labeling Trump as “the new leader of the Confederacy.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30" title="">[30]</a> He added that “the Republican Party is out of its collective fucking mind. And an accomplice to murder,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" title="">[31]</a> referring to Joe Biden’s evil claim that Trump had murdered every COVID-19 victim.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In April 2022, still spooked by the popularity and influence of the
ex-president, Reiner said on the racist MSNBC network, “[Trump] controls
every aspect of what he would now call the Republican Party. I don’t
know what it is. This is an autocratic movement. So, if you’re voting
for Republicans, you’re not voting for Republicans. You’re voting for
autocracy. You’re voting for the man who tried to overthrow the
government.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32" title="">[32]</a>
Spying on a presidential candidate and framing him as a traitor,
impeaching a president twice on a partisan basis, inventing an
“insurrection” to smear a political opponent, conducting massive
election fraud in a presidential election – <em>that’s</em> trying to overthrow the government Rob, and you supported all of that.</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>2. Cher</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
A former singer, actress, and widow of performing partner and late
Republican congressman Sonny Bono, the 76-year-old Cher is now known
mostly for her creatively illiterate, emoji-stuffed, ALL-CAPS social
media outbursts like this one, in the wake of Republican Glenn
Youngkin’s 2021 defeat of radical Terry McAuliffe for Virginia Governor:
“IF GOP TAKE POWER IT’LL “TOTAL POWER”.ITS “WHITE’S”ONLY CLUB,&
BLM,LGBT,JEWS,ASIANS,MINORITIES,R IN [German flag] STYLE PERIL”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33" title="">[33]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
A longtime Democrat supporter who names Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, and the late Malcolm X among her heroes,<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn34" name="_ftnref34" title="">[34]</a>
Cher joins the chorus of Hollywood shrews smearing Republicans as
racist, sexist, heartless Nazis: “If you’re black in this country, if
you’re a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country
at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?” she once
asked.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn35" name="_ftnref35" title="">[35]</a>
On another occasion she reiterated her befuddlement: “I just don’t
understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. If you’re poor, if
you’re any kind of minority — gay, black, Latino, anything…. If you’re
not a rich born-again-Christian, I don’t get it.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn36" name="_ftnref36" title="">[36]</a>
For starters, try comparing the respect Republicans afford Democrat
First Ladies with the disgusting attacks your Hollywood comrades have
leveled against Melania Trump.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
At a 2016 fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in Cape Cod, Cher compared GOP
nominee Trump to mass-murdering Joseph Stalin and Hitler, saying, “Do
you remember ‘Fun With Dick and Jane’? It’s like racist Fun With Dick
and Jane! ‘We’re going to build walls!’ He doesn’t mean: ‘We’re going to
make America great again.’ He means: ‘We’re going to make America
straight and white.'”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn37" name="_ftnref37" title="">[37]</a>
Sure, that’s why Trump appointed a gay man to be Director of National
Intelligence. And why he appointed a black man to be his Surgeon
General, not only the nation’s physician but his White House physician
to protect his health in the midst of a pandemic.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
By 2018 Cher was describing Trump as a “a Cancer Ravaging Our Nation”
and “a Malignant Tumor Eating Its Way Through Our Constitution,Our
Honor,& Our Standing In The [world].”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn38" name="_ftnref38" title="">[38]</a>
She also slammed the president as a “Lying Con
Man,Criminal,Conspirator, Collusionist,Traitor,Imbecile,
Adulterer,Hypocritical Narcissist,Lecher,Coward,
Charlatan,Bully,Decaying, Sociopath,Draft Dodger, Despot,& Loathsome
RACIST RAT WHO EVEN STOLE AN ELECTION,WITH PUTINS HELP.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn39" name="_ftnref39" title="">[39]</a>
Apparently she missed the results of the $35 million Mueller
investigation which found no evidence to support this fraudulent and
treasonous claim.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Nothing could deter Cher from her self-appointed crusade to libel,
smear and assassinate the character of the presidential choice of 74
million Americans. She tweeted that she hoped there is a special hell
for a “LIAR, WHITE NATIONALIST, RACIST,TRAITOR,WHO’D HAVE PHOTO OP WITH
HITLER,IF HE THOUGHT IT WOULD RALLY HIS BASE.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn40" name="_ftnref40" title="">[40]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Cher relentlessly complained that Trump would bring death and
destruction to minority communities. In June 2019, she tweeted to the
LGBT community, “IF trump WINS 2020,HE’LL BE 1ST 2 STRIP U
OF’ALL’PROTECTIONS,& PUT U IN INTERNMENT CAMPS‼️HE’LL PUT HISON UR
SHOULDER & STICK HISIN UR BACK.WAKE UP & SMELL PAIN,HIS BASE
WANTS U GONE.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn41" name="_ftnref41" title="">[41]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
A couple of months later, Cher wailed incoherently on Twitter, “WILL
HIS REIGN OF TERROR EVER END?HOW MUCH ANGUISH IS HE CAPABLE OF
INFLICTING ON? WISH HE’D VANISH IN PUFF OF,OR PUT IN 1 OF HIS INTERNMENT
CAMPS.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn42" name="_ftnref42" title="">[42]</a> Internment camps?</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>1. Robert De Niro</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
And the Number One Dumbest Hollywood Hatemonger Award goes to (<em>drum roll) </em>one of our most highly-regarded actors, Robert De Niro, 78. The star of <em>Taxi Driver</em>, <em>The Deer Hunter</em>, <em>Raging Bull</em>,
and scores more films, longtime Democrat Party supporter De Niro is
finishing his career less well-known for his performances than for his
uncontrollable public outbursts of Trump-deranged profanity – once again
displaying the occupational hazard of making your fame and fortune by
inhabiting other people minds and depending on other people’s words.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Just prior to Trump’s 2016 election victory stunner over Hillary
Clinton, the inarticulate De Niro dismissed the Republican presidential
nominee as “blatantly stupid. He’s a punk, he’s a dog, he’s a pig, he’s a
con, he’s a bullshit artist, a mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking
about, doesn’t do his homework, doesn’t care, thinks he’s gaming
society, doesn’t pay his taxes. He’s an embarrassment to this country.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn43" name="_ftnref43" title="">[43]</a>
It was like a perfect script for one of the mafia goons he has so
successfully played. And to punctuate it, De Niro concluded: “I’d like
to punch him in the face.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“I feel like I did after 9/11,” DeNiro said when Trump won.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn44" name="_ftnref44" title="">[44]</a>
And as if it was one of his prized cinema roles, he couldn’t let it go.
While presenting actress Meryl Streep with a Best Actress award at the
National Board of Review’s annual Awards Gala on January 9, 2018, De
Niro seemed, like Will Smith, less interested in paying tribute to a
fellow actor than in ranting about the villain Trump, whom he called a
“fucking fool,” a “fucking idiot,” the “baby-in-chief,” and the
“jerkoff-in-chief,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn45" name="_ftnref45" title="">[45]</a> while eclipsing Streep on her day in the sun.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Presenting an award onstage at the Tonys ceremony five months later, De
Niro’s frustration and hatred boiled over again and he raved “Fuck
Trump” multiple times, as though the repetition made him articulate.
“I’m going to say one thing,” he declared to a credulous audience of
entertainment professionals who cheered in response: <a name="_Hlk104016042">“Fuck Trump! It’s no longer ‘Down with Trump.’ It’s ‘Fuck Trump!’”</a><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn46" name="_ftnref46" title="">[46]</a>
It was the Fonda fantasy: DeNiro was no longer just an actor reading
other people’s lines. He was an activist, a revolutionary leading a
movement to save the country.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
That same month he attended a New York ceremony for high-school student
recipients of the Rosemary Breslin “American Writer Award.” As though
he were the Surgeon General and the attendees were member of Congress,
he told them that Trump was “psychologically incapable of discharging
duties of the President of the United States.” And he was just getting
started. De Niro went on to tell the high schooler winners, their
parents, and the assembled supporters of the Breslin “American Writer
Award” that Trump was “a congenital liar, a mean-spirited, soulless,
amoral, abusive con-artist son-of-a-bitch.” And to top it off, he told
them “Fuck Donald Trump.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn47" name="_ftnref47" title="">[47]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Throughout Trump’s White House tenure, De Niro made untold numbers of
appearances on leftist media outlets such as MSNBC where he was given a
platform to hurl smears and profanities at the president like “white
supremacist,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn48" name="_ftnref48" title="">[48]</a> “nasty little bitch” and “petulant little punk,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn49" name="_ftnref49" title="">[49]</a> “lowlife,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn50" name="_ftnref50" title="">[50]</a> “criminal,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn51" name="_ftnref51" title="">[51]</a> “dangerous buffoon-in-chief,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn52" name="_ftnref52" title="">[52]</a> and, of course, a “dictator” and American Hitler.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn53" name="_ftnref53" title="">[53]</a>
On a 2019 episode of Michael Moore’s podcast, De Niro exclaimed, “I’d
like to see a bag of shit right in his face. Hit him right in the face
like that, and let the picture go all over the world.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn54" name="_ftnref54" title="">[54]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
As repellent as this parade of profanity is, it is also revealing about
America’s showbiz elites. For all their calls for “tolerance” and
“inclusion,” they are foul-mouthed bullies, seething with irrational
hatred for those who disagree with them. They are filled with
self-loathing anti-white racism, insulated from reality, desperate to be
validated by their celebrity peers, and devoid of anything substantial
to say about the issues they claim to be concerned about.</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
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Many of the figures above are profiled at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s online encyclopedia of the Left, <strong>www.DiscoverTheNetworks.com</strong>. Some of the information above is drawn from that source. Find out more about their political positions and activities there.</span></span></p><div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong><em>*</em><br /><em>David Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the bestselling author of </em><a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/frontpage/products/i-cant-breathe-how-a-racial-hoax-is-killing-america">I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax is Killing America</a><em>.<br /><br />
Mark <span data-scayt-word="Tapson" data-wsc-id="l3rlc1vvu26eamqty" data-wsc-lang="en_US">Tapson</span> is the <span data-scayt-word="Shillman" data-wsc-id="l3rlc1vtpl2cgyma2" data-wsc-lang="en_US">Shillman</span> Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.<br />
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Notes:</em></strong></span></span></p><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title="">[1]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/935914112994832389</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn2"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title="">[2]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/952284494257508352</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn3"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title="">[3]</a> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/jim-carrey-at-vulture-fest-calls-donald-trump-a-melanoma-1162343/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn4"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title="">[4]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1003055023268347904</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn5"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title="">[5]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1059309649642512384</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn6"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title="">[6]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1041749562677850112</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn7"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title="">[7]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/978787329010626560</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn8"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title="">[8]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/994985168262709248</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn9"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title="">[9]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/975123558803259392</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn10"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title="">[10]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/929800404983877632</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn11"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title="">[11]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/893162627550986240</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn12"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title="">[12]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1011056459319336961</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn13"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title="">[13]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1032298710703562753</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn14"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" title="">[14]</a> https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1032049342981464064</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn15"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" title="">[15]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2015/08/14/rosie-odonnell-wants-to-wipe-period-blood-on-peoples-faces-to-fight-trumps-war-on-women/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn16"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" title="">[16]</a> https://www.wmagazine.com/story/rosie-odonnell-smilf-showtime-new-donald-trump-interview</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn17"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" title="">[17]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2018/10/18/rosie-odonnell-trump-is-evil-i-want-to-send-the-military-to-the-white-house-to-get-him/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn18"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" title="">[18]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2016/05/26/rosie-odonnell-rants-orange-piece-sht-donald-trump/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn19"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19" title="">[19]</a> https://twitter.com/Rosie/status/897565262894858240</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn20"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20" title="">[20]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2018/08/06/rosie-odonnell-trump-not-legitimate-has-a-serious-mental-disorder-should-be-impeached/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn21"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref21" name="_ftn21" title="">[21]</a> https://twitter.com/Rosie/status/1286141266036752385</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn22"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref22" name="_ftn22" title="">[22]</a> https://twitter.com/Rosie/status/966421385907245058</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn23"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref23" name="_ftn23" title="">[23]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/11/rosie-odonnell-theres-a-creepy-incest-feel-between-pres-trump-and-ivanka/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn24"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref24" name="_ftn24" title="">[24]</a> https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/rob-reiner</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn25"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref25" name="_ftn25" title="">[25]</a> 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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-de-niro-donald-trumps-election-i-feel-like-i-did-9-11-946672</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn45"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref45" name="_ftn45" title="">[45]</a> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5253711/Robert-Niro-launches-anti-Trump-rant-awards.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn46"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref46" name="_ftn46" title="">[46]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2018/06/10/robert-deniro-at-tony-awards-f-ck-trump/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn47"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref47" name="_ftn47" title="">[47]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/06/10/robert-de-niro-unloads-on-trump-soulless-amoral-abusive-con-artist-son-of-a-bitch/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn48"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref48" name="_ftn48" title="">[48]</a> https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/06/robert-de-niro-trump-is-a-real-racist-a-white-supremacist</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn49"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref49" name="_ftn49" title="">[49]</a> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/magazine/robert-deniro-interview.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn50"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref50" name="_ftn50" title="">[50]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12/16/robert-de-niro-trump-is-a-lowlife-hes-got-to-be-taken-out-of-office/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn51"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref51" name="_ftn51" title="">[51]</a> https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/robert-de-niro-donald-trump-ruth-bader-ginsburg-223523039.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn52"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref52" name="_ftn52" title="">[52]</a> https://variety.com/2018/scene/news/robert-de-niro-bashes-trump-again-down-with-this-motherf-er-1203027278/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn53"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref53" name="_ftn53" title="">[53]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/11/10/robert-de-niro-trump-used-same-playbook-as-hitler/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn54"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref54" name="_ftn54" title="">[54]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12/20/de-niro-trump-needs-to-be-humiliated-id-like-to-see-a-bag-of-sht-right-in-his-face/</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-top-five-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 6/1/22</i> <br /></span></span></p></div></div>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-78011685811253504682022-08-10T21:32:00.004-07:002022-08-10T21:32:33.445-07:00The 20 Dumbest Hollywood Hatemongers Part III (written with David Horowitz)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH8hht5tYmjgc32QGayMKjuTy-ArqnutVo9HZHZiHYBlGiUCIEjzY5pFPXgqJdEae6VwTvitbHIWxXSd9kp0H1FUljSFO6nMDS0W5qiKU7PkXmvb4M49IMD92Dv9zQtrdpdE4WW3UbdrAZT6VGGx3tiJs1Ks5MvALs1zPMHxVgQSmird_QptjwNBWysQ/s1296/Griffin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1296" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH8hht5tYmjgc32QGayMKjuTy-ArqnutVo9HZHZiHYBlGiUCIEjzY5pFPXgqJdEae6VwTvitbHIWxXSd9kp0H1FUljSFO6nMDS0W5qiKU7PkXmvb4M49IMD92Dv9zQtrdpdE4WW3UbdrAZT6VGGx3tiJs1Ks5MvALs1zPMHxVgQSmird_QptjwNBWysQ/s320/Griffin.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span><p></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Tier 2: 10-6</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>10. Michael Moore</strong></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em>“This is a nation founded on genocide<br />
and built on the backs of slaves!”</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Cinema propagandist Michael Moore, 68, is arguably one of the Left’s
loudest and angriest voices of anti-American bile and anti-white racism.
He is best-known for his 2002 anti-gun documentary <em>Bowling for Columbine</em>
which depicted America as a violent, gun-crazed culture. It won the
2003 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. He is also known for <em>Fahrenheit 9/11</em>,
which won the top award at Cannes and became the highest-grossing
documentary of all time. Both are packed with what Spinsanity.org
charitably described as “deceptive half-truths and carefully phrased
insinuations.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Typical of Moore’s work, <em>Bowling for Columbine</em> was found to be “replete with staged, concocted, or deceptively edited content,” as the Freedom Center’s John Perazzo puts it.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a>
That includes, for example, a scene in which Moore walked out of a bank
with a rifle he claimed to have received as a reward for opening a new
account – a staged event that involved a six-week clearance process for
real customers.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
A wealthy sycophant of communist dictators (he once characterized
himself as a “fanboy” of the late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez,<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title="">[3]</a> for example, and has tweeted about his great admiration for Karl Marx<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title="">[4]</a>).
Moore never tires of smearing America as a nation of gun-happy racists
(“This is a nation founded on genocide and built on the backs of
slaves!”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title="">[5]</a>). He even complained that the SEAL team killing of Osama bin Laden was an “execution”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title="">[6]</a> – as though the mass-murdering terrorist deserved a mere fine and probation.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Moore called Trump an “evil genius”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title="">[7]</a> and “mass killer”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title="">[8]</a> on the scale of Bin Laden for allegedly causing every COVID-19 death, and smeared Trump supporters as “legal terrorists.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title="">[9]</a> He even devoted a documentary to Trump’s political ascendance, <em>Fahrenheit 11/9</em>
(the title is a wordplay on both his earlier 9/11 documentary and the
date Trump was elected to office). In it he made the predictable
mindless comparison of Trump to Hitler.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Among his innumerable grotesque lies about America, the author of <em>Stupid White Men</em>
has condemned our electoral system for being rooted in “racism,” “white
supremacy,” and a desire to “stop black and brown people from voting.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title="">[10]</a> A more accurate name for his book would have been <em>Stupid White Man</em>. Naturally Moore sees no hypocrisy in his desire to keep <em>his</em>
political opponents from voting. “Fuck the Republicans,” he stated
after Joe Biden won the Presidency in 2020 amid accusations of
widespread voter fraud. “Stop listening to them. They have nothing to do
with what the majority of this country wants... We are the majority. We
are the majority.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title="">[11]</a> False – more Americans identify as conservative than as liberals, or more to the point, pro-Castro leftists.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>9. Kathy Griffin</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
No list of the Hollywood unhinged would be complete without this
comedienne and actress, 61, the Emmy-winning star of the reality show <em>Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List</em>. The buzzsaw-voiced redhead posted a video of herself on May 30, 2017 holding a mask resembling Trump’s severed, bloody head.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title="">[12]</a>
In the wake of the shock this image produced, which outraged even some
of her political fellow-travelers, she took it down and apologized.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title="">[13]</a> Her attorney later claimed that Griffin “never imagined that it could be misinterpreted as a threat of violence against Trump.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title="">[14]</a>
(That comment is probably the funniest joke Griffin ever came up with.)
As her comedy show appearances began to be cancelled and her career
threatened to evaporate, Griffin whined that the Trump family was
“trying to ruin my life forever.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title="">[15]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
During an Australian TV interview in August 2017, she complained, “Stop
acting like my little picture is more important than talking about the
actual atrocities that the president of the United States is
committing.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title="">[16]</a> Instead of producing a Trump atrocity to back up her claim, she later reposted the photo with Trump's fake decapitated head<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title="">[17]</a> after the 2020 election.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Prior to the 2018 midterm elections, Griffin tweeted, “FUCKING VOTE FUCKING VOTE BLUE DON’T FUCK ANYONE UNLESS THEY VOTE.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title="">[18]</a>
This was shortly after she attacked Melania Trump on Twitter, writing
“Fuck you, Melanie [sic]” and calling her a “feckless complicit piece of
shit.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title="">[19]</a> Naturally Griffin sees herself as a liberated woman standing up for women’s independence, and women’s rights.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Griffin is fond of targeting children as well as women with her hate.
After “joking” in 2017 that she intended to “deliver a beat down” to
Trump’s young son Barron, she added, “You know a lot of comics are going
to go hard for Donald. My edge is that I’ll go direct for Barron.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title="">[20]</a>
She later called for doxxing the Covington High School kids who were
falsely accused of mocking a Native American: “Name these kids. I want
NAMES. Shame them. If you think these fuckers wouldn’t dox you in a
heartbeat, think again,” she wrote in a social media post.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" title="">[21]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In 2018 she caused controversy again for calling stand-up comedian and
actor Kevin Hart, who is black, a “pussy” for refusing to attack Trump
in his stage act.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" title="">[22]</a>
Later that year, in response to a tweet by the president who was
promoting his border wall, Griffin said, “Just shut the fuck up and
prepare for prison.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" title="">[23]</a></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>8. Ron Perlman</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Perlman, 72, is known for playing tough guys on such fare as the <em>Sons of Anarchy</em> series and the <em>Hellboy</em>
movie franchise. He apparently has convinced himself that he is a tough
guy in real life as well – or at least on the Internet. Breitbart News
correctly described him as “one of Hollywood’s most incendiary and
belligerent left-wing ideologues.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" title="">[24]</a>
His gruff, inarticulate social media posts are bursting with
anti-Trump, anti-GOP profanities. “You are the KKK party,” he tweeted
angrily in 2019. “Own it muthafuckas! And one more thing…FUCK YOU!”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25" title="">[25]</a> (Like his fellow Hollywood progressives, Ron’s vocabulary is quite limited.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Among his many other bullying, foul-mouthed posts: in 2013 Perlman
advocated violence against a Republican congressman, tweeting, “every
day somebody doesn’t punch #DarrelIssa in the mouth is a dark day in
#America!!”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26" title="">[26]</a> Censorious Twitter gave this incitement a pass.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In November 2017 he called Trump “a racist cunt,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27" title="">[27]</a> and a year later opined that the President would soon be “in chains” for committing the “high crime of treason.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28" title="">[28]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In December 2020 he tweeted that Mitch McConnell would “go down in the
history books as one of the biggest cunts in US politics,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29" title="">[29]</a>
and the month prior to that, Perlman posted a homophobic fantasy on
Twitter about Lindsey Graham, whom he wrote “is ripe for an ass
fucking.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30" title="">[30]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Regarding the failed California vote to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom in
2021, Perlman posted to Twitter a predictably profanity-laced video in
which he ludicrously compared Republicans to the Islamic terror group
ISIS, adding, “fuck you, GOP.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" title="">[31]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
It’s difficult for normal people to fathom the depths of hatred Perlman
and his comrades have for those who disagree with them. But it’s not
hard to comprehend why people who make a living reciting other people’s
words should have such impoverished imaginations and gutter verbal tics.
</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>7. Bette Midler</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Former entertainer Midler, 76, has been reduced from winning Grammy and
Tony awards, to composing lewd doggerel on social media aimed at soft
targets such as Donald Trump’s young son Barron and wife Melania (whom
Midler dismissed as “FLOTITS,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32" title="">[32]</a>
a crude play on Melania’s position as FLOTUS, or First Lady). In
addition, she posts homophobic jabs at the masculinity of conservatives
like Lindsay Graham (who is straight), such as this juvenile tweet
trying to link Graham romantically to openly gay conservative and former
Director of National Intelligence, Ric Grenell:</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Linseedy Graham, that Southern ham,</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Has got a secret, oh yes ma’am</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
The truth is coming out and soon,</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Seed’s in love with a Trumpy goon!</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
That brand new hack? Head of Intell?</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Lindsey’s such a Southern Belle!<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33" title="">[33]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In August 2019, Midler posted a “joke” about Trump’s penis in “a poem from Melania”:</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Each day I’m filled with the hope<br />
That #Donald won’t be such a Dope<br />
So I get on my knees<br />
And say vip it out plise<br />
As I reach for my new microscope.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn34" name="_ftnref34" title="">[34]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Midler incited violence against Trump in her advice to then-candidate
Joe Biden prior to the first presidential debate in 2020: “KICK HIM IN
THE NUTS! And then do it again for the 200,000 people he murdered!” she
tweeted,<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn35" name="_ftnref35" title="">[35]</a>
referring to Joe Biden’s sick assertion during the 2020 campaign that
Trump had killed that many COVID-19 victims. Whom, then, does she blame
for the 600,000 COVID-19 victims who died on President Joe Biden’s
watch?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In December 2021, Midler tweeted to her two million followers the
insane theory that Trump deliberately attempted to infect then-opponent
Joe Biden with COVID-19 during a presidential debate the previous year:
“#DonaldTrump should be arrested for attempted murder. He tried to
infect & kill #JoeBiden at the debate; by turning up too late to be
tested, knowing full well he was positive; then screeched, sputtered,
spit, and foamed at the mouth, hoping to infect Joe. He IS the devil.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn36" name="_ftnref36" title="">[36]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Midler has smeared Trump on social media as a “racist criminal,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn37" name="_ftnref37" title="">[37]</a> and “murderer and plunderer”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn38" name="_ftnref38" title="">[38]</a> who “rapes us all with impunity.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn39" name="_ftnref39" title="">[39]</a> She fantasized about him and his family being hanged “good and high.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn40" name="_ftnref40" title="">[40]</a>
In June 2019 she suggested in a tweet that Trump should be stabbed:
“Maybe someone in his camp can gently give him a shiv. I mean, shove.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn41" name="_ftnref41" title="">[41]</a> She also claimed that he “KILLED people”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn42" name="_ftnref42" title="">[42]</a>
at the January 2021 Capitol chaos which the Left insists on falsely
labeling an “insurrection.” In fact it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s
Capitol police who murdered the unarmed protester Ashley Babbitt on
January 6, and thanks to Pelosi were able to cover up the crime. The
only other people who died on January 6 were Trump supporters.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn43" name="_ftnref43" title="">[43]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Twitter has suspended the accounts of conservatives, including Trump,
for posts not remotely as offensive as Midler’s sick hatred. That’s
Progressive privilege.</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>6. Michael Rapaport</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Rapaport, 52, is recognizable from prominent supporting roles in films such as <em>True Romance</em> and Woody Allen’s <em>Mighty Aphrodite</em>, and TV roles from <em>Friends</em> to <em>Boston Public</em>.
Now the actor with the Old School New York accent and attitude is
perhaps even more well-known as an exceptionally foul-mouthed hater of
Republicans.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“Dick stain fuck… let me tell you something on your stupid fucking
Independence Day parade,” Rapaport began in a video rant directed at
Donald Trump posted to Twitter on Independence Day, 2019. “The only
thing we want independence from is you, you fucking dog you. Let me tell
you something, those tanks, those bombers, if they come back with one
scratch, one dent, I’m charging you, you fucking pig.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn44" name="_ftnref44" title="">[44]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
He then turned his venom on Trump’s daughter and White House advisor
Ivanka, calling her a “fucking chickenhead” who doesn’t have a
personality because her father “sucked it out of her. That’s what
happens when you’re raised by a fucking piggy narcissist.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn45" name="_ftnref45" title="">[45]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In another video rant released in March 2020 as pandemic lockdowns took
effect against COVID-19, Rapaport urged Trump to use his children as
guinea pigs to test the waters:</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“Why don’t you send your fucking son, dick stain Donald Trump Jr.,
big-toothed Eric Trump, little fucking Barron, fucking Ivanka, junkyard
Jared… let them go out there and test the fucking waters. Let them see
if shit is sweet. Let them take the cars, the trains, the buses, the
Amtrak, let them play in the park. And if everything’s good after five
days of them playing in the streets, we’ll all go back to [work].”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn46" name="_ftnref46" title="">[46]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Rapaport, who has called Trump’s elegant wife Melania a “hooker”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn47" name="_ftnref47" title="">[47]</a> and “dumb animal,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn48" name="_ftnref48" title="">[48]</a> attacked Fox News host Laura Ingraham as a “bitch,” a “filthy pig,” a “fucking pig, and a “dog-faced animal.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn49" name="_ftnref49" title="">[49]</a>
He piled on the Covington High School students too, as the media
demonized them as white supremacists, calling them “cocksuckers” and
“MAGA hat-wearing shit stains.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn50" name="_ftnref50" title="">[50]</a>
He recorded a 2020 Presidents’ Day video in which he called Trump a
“fucking pussy grabbing, draft dodging,
Vladimir-Putin-balls-on-his-chin, lying colluding, fucking President.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn51" name="_ftnref51" title="">[51]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
After the 2020 election, Rapaport posted another unhinged video rant in
which he explained to Trump, “You lost, you fucking lost, and I’m going
to tell you why you lost. Your stupid wife, your dumb fucking
daughters, your two fucking sons… I’m going to tell you why you lost.
You lost because you’re a cocksucker. You’re a cocksucker. You’re a
lying, conniving, deceitful, cocksucker!”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn52" name="_ftnref52" title="">[52]</a></span></span></p><div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong><em>Next: Tier 1, Celebrities 5-1.<br />
*</em><br /><em>David Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the bestselling author of </em><a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/frontpage/products/i-cant-breathe-how-a-racial-hoax-is-killing-america">I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax is Killing America</a><em>.<br /><br />
Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.<br />
*<br />
Notes:</em></strong></span></span></p><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title="">[1]</a> http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020403.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn2"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title="">[2]</a> https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/michael-moore</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn3"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title="">[3]</a> https://nypost.com/2019/12/14/how-the-rich-and-famous-profess-sympathy-for-left-wing-sociopaths/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn4"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title="">[4]</a> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/michael-moore-karl-marx-was-mostly-right</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn5"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title="">[5]</a> https://humanevents.com/2012/01/21/michael-moore-this-is-a-nation-founded-on-genocide-and-built-on-the-backs-of-slaves/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn6"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title="">[6]</a> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/06/michael-moore-piers-morgan-bin-laden_n_858472.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn7"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title="">[7]</a> https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/16/entertainment/michael-moore-fahrenheit-11-9-donald-trump/index.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn8"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title="">[8]</a> https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-moore-compares-trump-to-osama-bin-laden-he-is-a-mass-killer</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn9"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title="">[9]</a> https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/michael-moore-to-donald-trump-voters-youre-legal-terrorists-111980/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn10"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title="">[10]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/03/18/michael-moore-gops-message-is-were-trying-to-kill-as-many-americans-as-possible/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn11"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title="">[11]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/03/18/michael-moore-gops-message-is-were-trying-to-kill-as-many-americans-as-possible/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn12"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title="">[12]</a> https://www.tmz.com/2017/05/30/kathy-griffin-beheads-donald-trump-photo-tyler-shields/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn13"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title="">[13]</a> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/so-heres-a-photo-of-kathy-griffin-beheading-donald-trump_n_592dbd5ce4b0c0608e8bdb08</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn14"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" title="">[14]</a> https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/entertainment/kathy-griffin-trump/index.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn15"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" title="">[15]</a> https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/entertainment/kathy-griffin-trump/index.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn16"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" title="">[16]</a>
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/kathy-griffin-is-no-longer-sorry-about-trump-photo-shoot-outrage-was-b-s-196289/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn17"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" title="">[17]</a> https://www.the-sun.com/news/1742978/kathy-griffin-decapitated-trump-head-election/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn18"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" title="">[18]</a> https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1055128696212897794</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn19"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19" title="">[19]</a> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kathy-griffin-feckless-melania-trump_n_5b277556e4b0f9178a9eb774</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn20"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20" title="">[20]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2017/06/02/flashback-kathy-griffin-happy-deliver-beat-barron-trump/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn21"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref21" name="_ftn21" title="">[21]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/20/kathy-griffin-calls-for-doxxing-high-school-kids-i-want-names-shame-them/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn22"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref22" name="_ftn22" title="">[22]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/06/13/kathy-griffin-slams-kevin-hart-for-not-trashing-trump-thats-a-puy-move-because-hes-a-black-man/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn23"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref23" name="_ftn23" title="">[23]</a> https://www.lifezette.com/2018/12/kathy-griffin-tells-donald-trump-to-prepare-for-prison/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn24"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref24" name="_ftn24" title="">[24]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/02/04/ron-perlman-calls-for-secession-you-dont-wanna-live-in-my-world-and-i-certainly-dont-want-to-live-in-yours/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn25"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref25" name="_ftn25" title="">[25]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/14/ron-perlman-explodes-on-gop-you-are-the-kkk-party-fck-you/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn26"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref26" name="_ftn26" title="">[26]</a>
https://twitchy.com/2013/07/23/new-tone-actor-ron-perlman-cant-wait-for-someone-to-punch-darrell-issa-in-the-mouth/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn27"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref27" name="_ftn27" title="">[27]</a>
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/11/28/counting-is-hard-ron-perlmans-clever-attempt-to-call-trump-a-racist-cnt-backfires-hilariously/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn28"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref28" name="_ftn28" title="">[28]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/11/27/ron-perlman-trump-will-be-in-chains-for-high-crime-of-treason/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn29"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref29" name="_ftn29" title="">[29]</a> https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/sergie-daez/2020/12/04/classy-ron-perlman-mitch-mcconnell-one-biggest-cnts-us</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn30"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref30" name="_ftn30" title="">[30]</a> https://www.inquisitr.com/6388143/ron-perlman-lindsey-graham-ripe/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn31"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref31" name="_ftn31" title="">[31]</a> https://twitter.com/perlmutations/status/1433476374493204480</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn32"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref32" name="_ftn32" title="">[32]</a> https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1062781726739447808</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn33"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref33" name="_ftn33" title="">[33]</a> https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1233042466464550917</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn34"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref34" name="_ftn34" title="">[34]</a> https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1164194092621991936</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn35"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref35" name="_ftn35" title="">[35]</a> https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1309970043783000064</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn36"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref36" name="_ftn36" title="">[36]</a> https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1466668751563198465</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn37"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref37" name="_ftn37" title="">[37]</a>
https://www.themix.net/2020/10/bette-midler-begs-god-to-defeat-racist-criminal-trump-then-her-hateful-racist-history-is-exposed/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn38"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref38" name="_ftn38" title="">[38]</a> https://www.mrctv.org/blog/bette-midler-calls-trump-murderer-plunderer-using-biology-transgender-debate</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn39"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref39" name="_ftn39" title="">[39]</a> https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1154147476242403328</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn40"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref40" name="_ftn40" title="">[40]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/11/30/bette-midler-fantasizes-trump-and-family-hanged-high/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn41"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref41" name="_ftn41" title="">[41]</a> https://www.mrctv.org/blog/too-far-bette-midler-jokes-someone-should-give-trump-shiv</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn42"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref42" name="_ftn42" title="">[42]</a> https://www.the-sun.com/news/2331208/bette-midler-trump-killed-people-capitol-riots-gop/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn43"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref43" name="_ftn43" title="">[43]</a> https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1452666467078574090</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn44"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref44" name="_ftn44" title="">[44]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/07/04/michael-rapaport-attacks-dck-stain-president-trump-and-fcking-chicken-head-ivanka/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn45"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref45" name="_ftn45" title="">[45]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/07/04/michael-rapaport-attacks-dck-stain-president-trump-and-fcking-chicken-head-ivanka/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn46"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref46" name="_ftn46" title="">[46]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/05/10/michael-rapaport-uses-mothers-day-to-attack-trump-family/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn47"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref47" name="_ftn47" title="">[47]</a> https://twitter.com/MichaelRapaport/status/1249005945058779136</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn48"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref48" name="_ftn48" title="">[48]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/03/22/michael-rapaport-calls-melania-trump-a-dumb-fkc-and-a-dumb-animal/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn49"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref49" name="_ftn49" title="">[49]</a> https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/979507045727694848</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn50"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref50" name="_ftn50" title="">[50]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/23/michael-rapaport-melts-down-on-covington-students-catholic-school-cucks-ccksuckers/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn51"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref51" name="_ftn51" title="">[51]</a> https://twitter.com/MichaelRapaport/status/1229453928770699264</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn52"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref52" name="_ftn52" title="">[52]</a> https://twitter.com/MichaelRapaport/status/1325120513950146565</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-iii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 5/27/22</i> <br /></span></span></p></div></div>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-19262018654327934652022-08-10T21:28:00.000-07:002022-08-10T21:28:13.560-07:00The 20 Dumbest Hollywood Hatemongers Part II (written with David Horowitz)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZq8iKLh0k38mSui0mSIpnWHvIqpHo02G67QtSPIrAQfA8DHc0CmBLtbvKlinZb6HmLWywtzgJ_a2rUrVurtaeYOV1Hj8a48JPhJhe3KrJ2aToIeD3JlZSIQp54SNSrPBwAN6wMQBOeNjLi0JyUBesMtjIyJfuUyEmRP_ZBio2fEzcdJczz-k2QSVRQg/s640/joy-behar-whoopi-goldberg-feud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="640" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZq8iKLh0k38mSui0mSIpnWHvIqpHo02G67QtSPIrAQfA8DHc0CmBLtbvKlinZb6HmLWywtzgJ_a2rUrVurtaeYOV1Hj8a48JPhJhe3KrJ2aToIeD3JlZSIQp54SNSrPBwAN6wMQBOeNjLi0JyUBesMtjIyJfuUyEmRP_ZBio2fEzcdJczz-k2QSVRQg/s320/joy-behar-whoopi-goldberg-feud.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span><p></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Tier 3: #15-11</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>15. Alyssa Milano</strong></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em>“The red MAGA hat is the new white hood.”</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Alyssa Milano, 49, has gone from child star in <em>Who’s the Boss?</em> to TV roles in <em>Melrose Place</em> and <em>Charmed</em>,
to tireless activism on issues such as AIDS, health care, gun violence,
abortion, and of course, the #MeToo movement, which she helped launch. A
supporter of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden, Milano
revealed in 2019 that she had had two abortions when she was young, and
she didn’t regret them because otherwise “I would not have my career.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
She campaigned against the Supreme Court confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, dressing up as an oppressed <em>Handmaid’s Tale </em>character
and urging her followers to “bang down” their senators’ doors in
protest. She warned that Kavanaugh would “affect everything we know to
be true as American citizens.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a>
Later she told CNN she was “filled with rage” that conservatives like
Trump and Kavanaugh were “institutionalizing sexual abuse.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title="">[3]</a> (Perhaps she confused them with the gender-fluidity crowd in America’s K-12 school administrations.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Milano proclaimed at an October 2021 abortion rally in Los Angeles, “I
cannot believe how fucked up America is right now. I can’t believe how a
handful of men are successfully taking 50 years of rights away from
women, and how a Supreme Court packed with abusers [sic] is just going
to sit by and let it all fucking happen.” She called on men to “use your
privilege to destroy your own privilege.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title="">[4]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Claiming that this is the most dangerous time women have ever faced,
she told attendees at a January 2019 rally in Washington, D.C., “I do
not have equal rights in the Constitution. That’s right, because I have a
vagina I do not have equality and justice.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title="">[5]</a>
Of course, the Constitution does not contain the words “male” and
“female” – precisely because its equal rights are afforded to all
citizens, not genders. She also later lamented that giving birth was
“very reminiscent of being sexually assaulted.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title="">[6]</a>
A woman who equates rape with giving life is what you might call a
perfect spokesperson for the crowd that wants to abort the unborn up to
the moment of birth.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In early 2019 she sparked controversy for tweeting that <a name="_Hlk104014165">“The red MAGA hat is the new white hood.</a> Without white boys being able to empathize with other people, humanity will continue to destroy itself.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title="">[7]</a> After drawing backlash for this racist assault she doubled down:</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
I am sorry. I’m sorry for the decades and decades of oppression and
abuses people of color have faced in this country. I’m sorry that as
part of a privileged white majority we did not stop this Administration
from happening. I’m sorry to those who have suffered at the hands of the
Red Hats and the policies their leadership implements. See, I’m not
apologizing to the Red Hats. I’m apologizing for them.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title="">[8]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Even though Milano wrestled in February 2021 with the dawning
realization that hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett was not the victim of
MAGA Trumpers but faked the attack on himself,<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title="">[9]</a>
she tweeted: “Police exist to uphold white supremacy and have been
empowered by laws and the courts to inject themselves into Black life
for any reason…”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title="">[10]</a> A brazen lie – and not a white one.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>14. Alec Baldwin</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
A star in <em>The Hunt for Red October</em>, the TV Show <em>30 Rock</em>, and dozens more entertainments (including <em>Saturday Night Live</em>,
where he used to recur regularly to imitate and mock President Trump),
Baldwin, 64, is one of the industry’s most outspoken spreaders of
Democrat slanders. An opponent of capital punishment, the Second
Amendment, and Republicans, he has also been a fervent supporter of
convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the city-burning Occupy Wall
Street movement, and leftist Presidents Clinton and Obama.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title="">[11]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
On Conan O’Brien’s late-night NBC talk show during the impeachment
proceedings against Bill Clinton, Baldwin angrily denounced GOP
congressman Henry Hyde, who was managing the hearings in the House: “If
we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together…
would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We
would stone him to death!… We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we
would go to their homes and we’d kill their [Republicans’] wives and
their children. We would kill their families!”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title="">[12]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In April 2018, Baldwin tweeted that the Trump administration was filled with “pirates, whores, and thieves.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title="">[13]</a> In November of that year, he slammed Trump as a “National Socialist tumor” growing “day by day.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title="">[14]</a> That tweet came from the official Twitter account of Baldwin’s arts charity foundation.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In May 2019, Baldwin tweeted that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was “nothing more than Trump’s fluffer,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title="">[15]</a> referring to the woman whose job it is on porn film sets to keep the male stars in a state of sexual readiness.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In the wake of Trump’s disputed election loss in 2020,
Baldwin tweeted, “Bury Trump in a Nazi graveyard and put a swastika on
his grave. The majority of Americans made the right choice. Trump is a
maniac.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title="">[16]</a> Pondering what to do if Trump refused to concede the election, Baldwin tweeted,</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em>Who arrests Trump if he refuses to concede?<br />
Who drags him out?<br />
Pepper spray? Cuffs?<br />
A knee on his neck, cutting off his oxygen?<br />
Does he wheeze “I can’t breathe.”<br />
Just whale away on him like a piñata?<br />
Rodney King style?<br />
The thug who has destroyed the country. What does he deserve?</em><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title="">[17]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Or the 74 million Americans who voted for him – over 10 million more than voted for Barack Obama?</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>13. Joy Behar</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
The 79-year-old Joy Behar is an opinionated airhead on the daytime gab-fest <em>The View</em>,
with no respect for people who disagree with her. Complaining in 2017
that Trump’s budget would hurt the most vulnerable Americans, Behar
claimed, “Just when you thought it was safe to stop talking about Trump,
he unleashes his budget on us. He wants to cut clean water. He wants to
stop helping old people and public education so we can all be as dumb
as he is!”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title="">[18]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Taking a swipe at Trump’s wife Melania, who is not really a political
figure, just because she is his wife, Behar said, “I feel sorry for her.
She had to sleep with him once.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title="">[19]</a> This was an ugly reference to the couple’s only child together, Barron.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“This is an unbelievable corrupt president, corrupt administration, and
the Republican Party is right behind him, and they all should be thrown
into jail as far as I’m concerned,” Behar ranted on air in 2019.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title="">[20]</a> At other times she called Trump a “psycho,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" title="">[21]</a> “anarchist,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" title="">[22]</a> and mentally-ill “snake-oil salesman”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" title="">[23]</a> who “made it his business for four years to rape this country”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" title="">[24]</a> and who rose “to the level of treason.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25" title="">[25]</a>
Prior to the 2020 election, Behar fretted apocalyptically that a Trump
victory would mean “the end of democracy. It’s the end of this country,
four more years of this.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26" title="">[26]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Before that election, she claimed Trump “doesn’t denounce white supremacy because he is a white supremacist.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27" title="">[27]</a>
Like her other claims about Trump, this was false. Trump had actually
denounced white supremacy and racism dozens of times publicly.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In June 2021 she told <em>The View</em> audience that Trump looked like he “pooped” his pants during a speech to the North Carolina Republican Party.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28" title="">[28]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Behar supported the silencing of Trump on Twitter despite his 80
million followers. She compared Facebook’s parallel ban on him to a
radio ban imposed on Benito Mussolini.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29" title="">[29]</a>
According to Behar, Trump’s supporters – presumably all 74 million –
suffered from a “herd mentality” because they followed him “like
lemmings going over a cliff.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30" title="">[30]</a> She argued on <em>The View</em> that Presidents’ Day should not honor “losers” like Republicans Trump and Nixon,<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" title="">[31]</a> thereby demonstrating that the only form of government she is truly comfortable with is a one-party state.</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>12. Whoopi Goldberg</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
The comedienne Goldberg, 66, was once an Oscar-winning actress but is
now best-known as the ringleader of the long-running, ABC daytime talk
circus <em>The View</em>, which features a regular panel of mainly left-wing women chatting about the news of the day.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In 2015, Goldberg slammed critics of the abortion mill Planned Parenthood, telling them unoriginally to “Get out of my vagina!”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32" title="">[32]</a>
In an episode the following year, she claimed that the right to an
abortion is no different from the right of Christians to celebrate
Christmas.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33" title="">[33]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In a separate episode, she added her view that “there have been a lot
of monster Christians.” As an example she said “Hitler was a Christian”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn34" name="_ftnref34" title="">[34]</a> – putting her out-of-control bigotry and bottomless ignorance on display for millions of viewers.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
A relentless critic of Trump before, during, and after his presidency,
Goldberg chastised the candidate in January 2016 for criticizing illegal
immigration. “That’s scapegoating,” she lamented. “It’s as old as the
hills. What do you think World War II is all about? You know that. It’s
all about blaming the Jews. Now it’s the Mexicans and the Muslims.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn35" name="_ftnref35" title="">[35]</a>
Like so many of her anti-Trump colleagues Goldberg doesn’t seem to
understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration. Under
Trump there was no ban on legal Mexican or Muslim immigration. None.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Goldberg is quick to defend violence, of course, as long as it’s in the
service of leftist agendas. After co-host Meghan McCain said if Trump
fired special counsel Robert Mueller, there would be riots in Washington
D.C. “at levels we haven’t seen,” Goldberg interjected, “Now that would
be fun to watch, I have to say.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn36" name="_ftnref36" title="">[36]</a>
As the jury deliberated in the case of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse,
however, Goldberg fear-mongered that “it’s really a red light for white
folks coming to help at social justice protests. Because basically what
they’re saying is ‘Oh, it’s OK to shoot white people too.'”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn37" name="_ftnref37" title="">[37]</a>
Never mind that the three culprits were convicted felons armed with
weapons or otherwise lethal objects, threatening Rittenhouse’s life.
Also, the violent “protests” were not about “justice”; they were lynch
mobs demanding verdicts against police officers in advance of any
trials.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Whoopi’s treatment of the few conservative guests the show invites is
often nastier than Joy Behar’s mouth. In 2018, after an appearance by
author Judge Jeanine Pirro, Pirro recounted how Goldberg cursed “Fuck
you” at her repeatedly off-camera during show, and “got in my face to
the point where she was actually spitting at me and she said, ‘Get the f
out of here. Get the f out of this building,’ and she’s pointing to the
door.’”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn38" name="_ftnref38" title="">[38]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Like Behar, Whoopi is fond of scatological references. She told her
audience in 2018 that she did not “recognize” Donald Trump as president
because he was taking a “giant dump” on the country.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn39" name="_ftnref39" title="">[39]</a>
Similarly, after a federal judge ordered reporter Jim Acosta‘s White
House access be restored, she warned Trump, “You can’t poop on the
Constitution.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn40" name="_ftnref40" title="">[40]</a></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>11. Patton Oswalt</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
The actor, comedian, and screenwriter Patton Oswalt, 53, is known for
many roles in television and film, and has appeared in six stand-up
specials. He is also well-known for his mindless verbal assaults on
Trump, whom he calls “an ignorant, vengeful, racist asshole,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn41" name="_ftnref41" title="">[41]</a>
and for his support of the violent Brownshirts of Antifa, whom he
equated in a sarcastic May 2020 tweet to U.S. troops landing at Normandy
on D-Day.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn42" name="_ftnref42" title="">[42]</a> Officially, Antifa views America as a fascist country, with which it considers itself at war.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
When a Twitter user posted that “Trump has properties all over the
world” and therefore “terrorists will have a long list of targets that
are literally owned by POTUS and bear his name,” Oswalt retweeted it
with the caption, “Holy Fuck. Come ‘n’ get it, terrorists.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn43" name="_ftnref43" title="">[43]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Dismissing Russian collusion in the 2016 election as a conspiracy
theory, he declared, “But the SCARIER thing is facing the fact that
America elected an openly racist, failed grifter, sexual predator to the
highest office in the land — all by ourselves.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn44" name="_ftnref44" title="">[44]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“The President is a stupid asshole and if you voted for him you’re a
stupid asshole and if you still support him you’re a stupid asshole,”
Oswalt ranted in December 2019.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn45" name="_ftnref45" title="">[45]</a>
A few months later he joked that Trump’s “MAGA” supporters infected
with COVID-19 would be angry about the media’s “fake news” even as they
coughed themselves to death.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn46" name="_ftnref46" title="">[46]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In a Buzzfeed interview in February 2019, Oswalt offered a description
of the Trump administration as “an 18-wheeler full of monkeys and PCP
that has crashed into a train full of diarrhea, and so there’s
diarrhea-covered monkeys on PCP running around.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn47" name="_ftnref47" title="">[47]</a> Yes, the standards for comedy on the Hollywood left are just that low.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In an August 2018 essay published on McSweeny’s, Oswalt called for
Trump’s impeachment, claiming that “[o]ur president surrounds himself
with criminals,” and that anyone who supports those “bullies… can fuck
right off.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftn48" name="_ftnref48" title="">[48]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong><em>Next: Tier 2, Celebrities 10-6.<br />
*</em><br /><em>David Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the bestselling author of </em><a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/frontpage/products/i-cant-breathe-how-a-racial-hoax-is-killing-america">I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax is Killing America</a><em>.<br /><br />
Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.<br />
*<br />
Notes:</em></strong></span></span></p><div><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title="">[1]</a> https://pagesix.com/2019/08/20/alyssa-milano-explains-why-she-had-two-abortions-in-1993/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn2"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title="">[2]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/08/26/alyssa-milano-bang-down-doors-stop-brett-kavanaugh/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn3"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title="">[3]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2018/10/03/alyssa-milano-im-filled-with-rage-trump-gop-institutionalizing-sexual-abuse/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn4"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title="">[4]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/10/02/alyssa-milano-rants-about-how-fked-up-america-is-right-now-supreme-court-abusers-at-abortion-rally/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn5"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title="">[5]</a> https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/427453-patricia-arquette-alyssa-milano-rally-for-equal-rights/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn6"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title="">[6]</a> https://people.com/parents/alyssa-milano-childbirth-similar-to-sexual-assault-experience-exclusive/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn7"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title="">[7]</a> https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1087021713651421184</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn8"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title="">[8]</a> https://www.thewrap.com/alyssa-milano-red-hats-maga-hats-in-trumps-america-its-not-enough-to-not-be-a-racist/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn9"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title="">[9]</a> https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1097319146532962304</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn10"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title="">[10]</a> https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1382822809995341825</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn11"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title="">[11]</a> https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/alec-baldwin-2</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn12"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title="">[12]</a> https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/alec-baldwin-2</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn13"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title="">[13]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/04/26/alec-baldwin-trump-white-house-full-whores-thieves/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn14"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" title="">[14]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/11/21/alec-baldwin-trump-a-national-socialist-tumor-destroying-america/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn15"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" title="">[15]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/05/01/alec-baldwin-declares-lindsey-graham-trumps-fluffer/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn16"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" title="">[16]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/11/16/alec-baldwin-bury-trump-in-a-nazi-graveyard-put-swastika-on-grave/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn17"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" title="">[17]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/12/21/alec-baldwin-suggests-violent-punishments-for-trump-a-knee-on-his-neck-cutting-off-his-oxygen/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn18"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" title="">[18]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2017/03/17/joy-behar-trumps-cutting-education-can-dumb/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn19"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19" title="">[19]</a> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmrdCAtzL10</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn20"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20" title="">[20]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/21/joy-behar-trump-and-all-the-republicans-should-be-thrown-into-jail/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn21"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref21" name="_ftn21" title="">[21]</a> https://toofab.com/2018/11/24/joy-behar-liked-donald-trump-psycho-president/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn22"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref22" name="_ftn22" title="">[22]</a> https://toofab.com/2018/11/24/joy-behar-liked-donald-trump-psycho-president/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn23"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref23" name="_ftn23" title="">[23]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/12/09/behar-still-furious-hillary-clinton-lost-to-snake-oil-salesman-trump/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn24"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref24" name="_ftn24" title="">[24]</a> https://meaww.com/joy-behar-trump-business-rape-country-four-years</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn25"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref25" name="_ftn25" title="">[25]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2018/07/17/joy-behar-trump-denying-russia-meddling-equivalent-to-denying-pearl-harbor-rises-to-the-level-of-treason/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn26"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref26" name="_ftn26" title="">[26]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/10/15/joy-behar-end-of-democracy-if-trump-reelected/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn27"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref27" name="_ftn27" title="">[27]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/09/30/behar-trump-wont-denounce-white-supremacy-because-he-is-a-white-supremacist/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn28"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref28" name="_ftn28" title="">[28]</a> https://www.salon.com/2021/06/08/view-co-host-joy-behar-crazy-trump-was-wearing-pants-that-look-like-he-pooped-in-them_partner/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn29"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref29" name="_ftn29" title="">[29]</a> https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/05/joy-behar-facebook-trump-banned/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn30"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref30" name="_ftn30" title="">[30]</a> https://newspunch.com/joy-behar-trumps-followers-are-like-lemmings-going-over-a-cliff/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn31"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref31" name="_ftn31" title="">[31]</a>
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https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/whoopi-goldberg-under-fire-for-saying-right-to-celebrate-christmas-is-like-right-to-abortion</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn34"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref34" name="_ftn34" title="">[34]</a> https://thefederalist.com/2015/11/18/whoopi-goldberg-christians-are-just-dangerous-as-muslims-because-hitler/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn35"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref35" name="_ftn35" title="">[35]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/01/20/whoopi-threatens-to-leave-u-s-over-trump-you-cant-blame-immigrants-for-countrys-problems/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn36"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref36" name="_ftn36" title="">[36]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2018/04/11/whoopi-goldberg-riots-mueller-firing-fun-watch/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn37"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref37" name="_ftn37" title="">[37]</a> https://www.mediaite.com/tv/whoopi-goldberg-says-rittenhouse-trial-sends-message-its-okay-to-shoot-white-people-too/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn38"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref38" name="_ftn38" title="">[38]</a> https://www.thewrap.com/the-view-blowup-jeanine-pirro-says-whoopi-goldberg/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn39"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-part-ii-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz/#_ftnref39" name="_ftn39" title="">[39]</a>
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On March 27, 2022, during a live television broadcast of the 94th
Academy Awards, popular actor Will Smith hijacked the ceremony by
storming onstage to slap comedian Chris Rock for a tame joke about
Smith’s actress wife, Jada Pinkett. Then Smith returned to his seat and,
in an epic explosion of Hollywood narcissism, spewed profane threats at
Rock, which were broadcast around the world, sucking all the air out of
an event designed to showcase the achievements of his fellow artists.
Some speculated that Smith’s meltdown stemmed not from a chivalrous
defense of his wife’s honor, but from the pent-up humiliation of being
wedded to a woman who publicly insisted on having an “open marriage.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Instead of being ejected from the event and arrested for the assault,
Smith was given the Best Actor Oscar moments later and received a
standing ovation from the celebrity colleagues whose showcase he had
just hijacked and trashed. As composer Oscar Levant once quipped in
regard to Hollywood’s moral spinelessness: “Beneath the Tinsel of
Tinseltown is … tinsel.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Not long after Smith’s shocking performance, the world tuned-in to the
pathetic spectacle of actor Johnny Depp’s anti-defamation lawsuit
against his abusive ex-wife, actress Amber Heard. Trial testimony
included such sordid revelations as: rampant drug and alcohol abuse
(Heard reportedly drank two $500 bottles of wine a night, while Depp
himself regularly spent as much as $30,000 a month on wine); mutual
accusations of physical abuse; and the allegation that Heard defecated
on Depp’s side of the bed when he tried to break up with her.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
These are just two of the most recent examples of the moral bankruptcy
of the Hollywood elites. For all their glamorous parading on red
carpets, and their self-righteous posturing about social justice,
Tinseltown is teeming with permanently damaged children and spoiled
brats.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
These are the same poseurs who powered the #MeToo movement but still
defended and even honored the depraved director Roman Polanski, who
drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl in 1977<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a> – prefiguring the exploits of “America’s Dad,” comedian and TV star Bill Cosby.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title="">[3]</a> They turned a blind eye to disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assaults<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title="">[4]</a>
while he was making them stars until the avalanche of accusations
rendered him unable to boost their careers anymore. At the same time
they were engaged in moral preening, they were fighting tooth-and-nail
to deny one of Hollywood’s greatest directors, Elia Kazan (<em>On the Waterfront, East of Eden</em>), an honorary Oscar because he was anti-Communist and they weren’t.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title="">[5]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">Recently, audiences on both the Right <em>and</em> the Left have been
turned off by Hollywood’s hypocrisy, condescension, and “woke”
derangements. Studio executives now have to look to China for profits,
having been forced to rely less on the domestic box office. The
streaming giant Netflix is hemorrhaging subscribers. Hollywood awards
shows, which stars have turned into personal soapboxes for political
dementia, are plunging to record lows in viewership year after year.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Fearless British comedian Ricky Gervais called out the Hollywood elites
for their hypocrisy and fading significance when he hosted the 2020
Golden Globes Awards show. He savaged them over their predatory friends
such as Weinstein and the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The
celebrities squirmed in their seats as Gervais told them not to bother
giving political speeches when receiving their “little awards:” “You’re
in no position to lecture the public about anything,” he said. “You know
nothing about the real world.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title="">[6]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
This was a brutal dose of inarguable truth. And yet the mainstream
media regularly grants a megaphone to these virtue-signaling
narcissists, who live in the most thought-conformist bubble of any
demographic in the country. Filmmaker Rob Reiner, for example, aptly
known as “Meathead” in his role in the 1970s sitcom <em>All in the Family</em>,
has no expertise or insight as a political commentator beyond a rabid
hatred of his political opponents. But he appears frequently on the
Trump-phobic, racist MSNBC network to deliver his deranged diatribes.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
When Donald Trump stunned Hollywood by denying their
conspiracy-mongering icon Hillary Clinton a White House win in 2016, he
triggered a tsunami of celebrity bile like Reiner’s. For the next four
years and beyond, Hollywood elitists vented their rage at Trump, at the
63 million Americans who voted for him in 2016, and the 74 million who
voted for him in 2020, smearing them as “white supremacists” and
“deplorables.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Given the media power of these celebrity elitists, an antidote exists
in reprising the vile opinions of the 20 worst of these hate-mongers,
and including them in one foul list.<a name="_Hlk101983350"></a> Below
are the bottom five celebrities on the list, with the others to follow
in three more future posts of five more celebrities each.</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>The 20 Dumbest Hollywood Hatemongers</strong></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Tier 4: 20-16</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>20. Jane Fonda</strong></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em>“If you understood what communism was,<br />
you would hope, you would pray on your knees<br />
that we would someday become communist.”</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Jane Fonda, 84, is and always has been one of Hollywood’s most shallow,
cringeworthy luminaries. Born into Hollywood royalty, the daughter of
Henry Fonda has had a long and highly successful acting career, with
seven Academy Award nominations and two Oscar wins for such films as <em>Cat Ballou, Barefoot in the Park</em>, <em>Klute</em>, <em>Coming Home</em>, and <em>On Golden Pond</em> – not to mention her lucrative side gig as the star and producer of exercise videos and books.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Despite her wealth and privilege, as early as 1970 she was telling
American college students: “If you understood what communism was, you
would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become
communist... I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a
socialist society, all the way to communism.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title="">[7]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In the summer of 1972 Fonda made her infamous trip to North Vietnam, a
communist dictatorship with whom the United States was at war. The
purpose of her trip was to volunteer herself as an enemy propaganda
prop, denying that American POWs were being tortured – they were – and
posing for pictures on an anti-aircraft gun that had been used to shoot
down American planes (see photo above). To ice this treasonous cake, she
made radio addresses urging South Vietnamese soldiers to desert and
warning American troops that they were participating in war crimes.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title="">[8]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Declaring herself “a revolutionary woman” whose biggest regret was “I never got to fuck Che Guevara,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title="">[9]</a>
Fonda continued over the decades to openly support every far-left cause
from abortion on demand and gun control to Black Lives Matter and
environmentalism. She married the Machiavellian, anti-American leader of
the left, Tom Hayden, who advocated forming armed “liberated zones” in
the United States to achieve the Communist fantasy she had promoted.
Together they led the street radicals who had attempted to burn America
down in the Sixties into the Democrat Party during the 1972 McGovern
campaign, which set the stage for its transformation into an
anti-American, totalitarian enemy within.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In 2016, Fonda was one of dozens of celebrities and activists who
campaigned against soon-to-be-President Donald Trump, claiming that he
represented</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
a grave threat to democracy, freedom, human rights, equality, and the
welfare of the country. We have witnessed Trump inciting hatred against
Muslims, immigrants, women, the disabled. We have seen him evidencing
dangerous tendencies that threaten the bedrock of democracy: unleashing a
lynch mob mentality against protesters, calling for the expulsion of
Muslims from the country, bullying, and fear-mongering. History has
shown us what happens when people refuse to stand against hate-filled
leaders.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title="">[10]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Asked in an October 2017 interview if she was proud of her country, she
immediately answered “No,” clarifying that she was “proud of the
resistance. I’m proud of the people who are turning out in unprecedented
numbers and continue over and over and over again to protest what Trump
is doing.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title="">[11]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In a November 2018 interview with <em>Variety</em>, Fonda warned that
Trump was a Nazi on the rise: “If you have read anything about the rise
of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler you will see the parallels.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title="">[12]</a>
Hysterical nonsense, but equating President Trump with history’s most
notorious monster was the narrative the Left decided to run with.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Former First Lady Michelle Obama, who became “proud” of her country
only when her husband was elected president, praised Fonda as a
“politically savvy role model.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title="">[13]</a> The purported comedian Stephen Colbert gushed that she is “an icon of her generation.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title="">[14]</a> Michael Moore honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her activism.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title="">[15]</a> <a name="_Hlk101983371"></a><a name="_Hlk101983441"></a>Ever
the actress, she had scripted her life as a kitsch melodrama, in which
she played a “revolutionary” who couldn’t tell the difference between a
Trotskyite and an Uzbek.</span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>19. Sean Penn</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Actor Sean Penn, 61, has been a longtime radical activist in a variety
of causes, often taking roles that were vehicles for his radical
agendas. He has also buddied up with the most sadistic communist tyrants
of the Western hemisphere. After Raul Castro replaced his brother Fidel
as president of Cuba, Penn, who had previously met Fidel on at least
one occasion, traveled to Havana for a friendly visit.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title="">[16]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
He developed an even closer relationship with the late Venezuelan
dictator Hugo Chávez, whom he called “a warm and friendly man with a
robust sense of humor (who daily risks his own life for his country in
ways Dick Cheney could never imagine). To treat such a man coldly is
akin to spitting on him. As a country we’ve done enough of that.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title="">[17]</a> He subsequently suggested that anyone who referred to Chavez as a dictator should be incarcerated<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title="">[18]</a> – an indication that the dictator’s views along with his charisma had rubbed off on him.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
As Chavez battled cancer in December 2012, Penn hailed him as “one of the most important forces we’ve had on this planet.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title="">[19]</a>
After the dictator’s death a few months later, Penn wept and said,
“Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it
had. And poor people around the world lost a champion. I lost a friend I
was blessed to have.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title="">[20]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
That “friend” of the United States was a man who supported and fomented
anti-American terrorism around the world, from his own Cuba-trained
private militia to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to
al Qaeda. He had close ties with Cuba, China and Russia, and
“cooperation agreements” with Libya, Iraq, and Iran. Indeed, he was
awarded Iran’s Islamic Republic Medal for supporting Tehran’s ambition
to develop its nuclear program. “Let’s save the human race, let’s finish
off the U.S. empire,” Chavez said on that occasion.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" title="">[21]</a>
As a “champion” of the poor people of the world, Chavez’s socialist
policies steered the oil-wealthy nation of Venezuela into severe
economic crisis, with food shortages<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" title="">[22]</a>
eventually leading to such desperate hunger that people hunted stray
dogs in the streets. Chavez, by contrast, died with an estimated
personal net worth of between $1 billion and $2 billion.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" title="">[23]</a> This is the “friend” Sean Penn was “blessed to have.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
By contrast, Penn has denounced a number of conservatives such as Rush
Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dick Cheney and Bill O’Reilly, claiming without
evidence that they “effectively hate the principles upon which we [the
United States] were founded.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" title="">[24]</a>
In an October 2011 appearance on CNN, Penn characterized the Tea Party
movement for limited government as a racist menace whose objective was
to “lynch” then-President Obama, dubbing it “The ‘Get the N-Word Out of
the White House Party.’”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25" title="">[25]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In an op-ed for <em>Time </em>in 2018<em>, </em>he blasted Trump as an “enemy of mankind” and “enemy of the state.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26" title="">[26]</a> In 2020 he labeled Republicans “the party of Putin.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27" title="">[27]</a>
The following year at the Cannes Film Festival he told the audience the
Trump administration’s coronavirus policies were no better than
“gunning down” vulnerable communities “from a turret at the White
House.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28" title="">[28]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In a January 13, 2021 tweet, Penn likened former President Trump to the
dead terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, and Trump’s supporters to the
Islamic terror group al-Qaeda.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29" title="">[29]</a> That same month he also urged Trump to swallow cyanide capsules.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30" title="">[30]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
As for his critics, Penn once told CBS News’ <em>Sunday Morning</em> that he hopes they “die screaming of rectal cancer.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" title="">[31]</a></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>18. George Takei</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
The ex-<em>Star Trek</em> navigator “Sulu,” 85, has carved a second
career out of snarky political soundbites and LGBT activism in the media
and on Twitter. He has smeared black Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas as a “clown in blackface,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32" title="">[32]</a> compared the “barbaric” enforcement of U.S. border security to “slavery,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33" title="">[33]</a> declared that police shootings of black suspects happen because officers “are afraid of black men,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn34" name="_ftnref34" title="">[34]</a> and called Trump “not only the stupidest, most incompetent president ever, but also the cruelest and pettiest.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn35" name="_ftnref35" title="">[35]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Just prior to Trump’s 2016 election victory, Takei joined other <em>Star Trek</em>
personalities in signing an open letter warning that a Trump election
“would take this country backward, perhaps disastrously.” The letter
characterized the candidate as “an amateur with a contemptuous ignorance
of national laws and international realities.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn36" name="_ftnref36" title="">[36]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Unsurprisingly, American voters were not swayed by this fear-mongering
from the Hollywood privileged, and they voted Trump into office. Takei
and his fellow Progressives then proceeded to invent the demonstrably
false narrative that Trump and his administration were bigots and
racists. Takei responded to Trump’s first major address to Congress in
March 2017, for example, by tweeting, “You can't be ‘a country united
against hate’ when your AG is a racist, your VP attacks LGBTs, and your
top advisor is a White Nationalist.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn37" name="_ftnref37" title="">[37]</a>
In fact, AG Jeff Sessions actually prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan and
de-segregated Alabama’s schools, while VP Mike Pence, who was then
governor of Indiana, praised Pete Buttigieg for his achievements as
mayor of South Bend on the occasion of Buttigieg’s announcement that he
was gay and his introduction to the public of his gay husband.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In December 2019 Takei tweeted a sweeping condemnation of Trump
supporters as enemies of America: “The thing about Trump voters is that
they do not even realize they are enabling the desolation of our
Republic. They somehow think they are preserving America, but in fact
they are helping destroy it. And that is a tragedy of enormous scope.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn38" name="_ftnref38" title="">[38]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In November 2020, as white teenager Kyle Rittenhouse faced charges for
shooting three white rioters with criminal records who attacked him in
Kenosha, Wisconsin – charges of which Rittenhouse was later justifiably
acquitted – Takei and other Hollywood virtue-signalers approvingly
re-tweeted a morally-bankrupt message from United Nations diplomat
Mohamad Safa which read, “I want to live in a country where Colin
Kaepernick [a cop-hating communist] is seen as a hero and Kyle
Rittenhouse is seen as a terrorist.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn39" name="_ftnref39" title="">[39]</a></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>17. John Cusack</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Cusack is famous mostly for roles in such 1980s and ‘90s films as <em>Sixteen Candles</em>, <em>Say Anything</em>, and <em>Grosse Point Blank</em>.
A Bernie Sanders supporter and member of the Democratic Socialists of
America, Cusack is becoming equally well-known for rabidly angry,
illiterate social media posts in which he excoriates the GOP as “a
fucking deathkkkult,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn40" name="_ftnref40" title="">[40]</a> and claims that a third of the country is “Nazis.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn41" name="_ftnref41" title="">[41]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“Let’s call the USA what it is,” he tweeted once, “– decadent on the
fast track to autocracy – living on the atavistic fumes of the WWII
greatest generation that actually took on fascism and beat it down – We
can’t even arrest open criminals in the GOP - nor a mentally ill white
supremacist lawless thug. We aren’t great – we aren’t even mediocre –
we’re fucking awful – full of cowards and corporate whores.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn42" name="_ftnref42" title="">[42]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Cusack naturally compares Trump to Hitler, accusing him of being a
fascist who needed to be locked up in order for democracy to survive.
“Fuck that pathological liar /criminal,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn43" name="_ftnref43" title="">[43]</a>
Cusack tweeted. In August 2020 Cusack ranted, “Trump is basically a
test run for true evil: the anti-Christ for dummies. The gods saying
We’re going to give you a version so obvious with such Unimaginable
Stupidity & abject cretinism & sloth – to show how decadent
& empty yr culture & institutions have become – change.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn44" name="_ftnref44" title="">[44]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
As violent insurrectionary race riots raged across the country in 2020,
Cusack took to social media to encourage the criminals to keep up the
chaos until Trump was driven from the White House. “I hope this keeps us
till trump flys away in a fucking helicopter — it’s time. People should
NOT swallow another moment of fascism. Fight till he’s gone.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn45" name="_ftnref45" title="">[45]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
As Trump’s White House run wound down in 2020, Cusack declared on
Twitter that the only supporters Trump had left were “rascists” [sic].<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn46" name="_ftnref46" title="">[46]</a>
When the crowd at a 2019 Chicago Cubs game stood for a military
tribute, Cusack remained firmly seated and later on Twitter blasted the
standing crowd as “Flag sucking halfwits – maga deathkkkult freaks.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn47" name="_ftnref47" title="">[47]</a></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>16. Rosanna Arquette</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Actress Arquette, 62, has been known since the early ‘80s for films such as <em>Desperately Seeking Susan</em>, <em>Pulp Fiction</em>, and <em>Crash</em>, but today she is more prominent as a raging social media enemy of Donald Trump and Republicans in general.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In 2019 she lamented on Twitter: “It’s hard to wake up this morning and
realize we are living under a sick dictatorship, that we now have a
government that has normalized racism rape, mass killings from Guns
Pedophilia, homophobia, the destruction of our environment. This
government has normalized stupidity.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn48" name="_ftnref48" title="">[48]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Also that year Arquette tweeted her disgust with American law
enforcement and other authorities: “Kkk spent years hiding behind their
hoods. Now they are front [and] center for the world to see. Nazi White
supremacists are many governors, people in Congress, our police force,
military, in entertainment news. We see you and you won’t get away with
it.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn49" name="_ftnref49" title="">[49]</a>
A couple of months later she stated, “If Jesus were alive today he’d be
murdered by police officers because of the color of his skin.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn50" name="_ftnref50" title="">[50]</a>
Fact check: Jesus was not a black man who resisted arrest, and there is
no Justice Department statistic that supports the claim that police
target blacks for their skin color – not even Justice Department
statistics compiled under Barack Obama’s attorneys general.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
After a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in mid-2019, Arquette
trotted out her own self-hating racism to falsely proclaim, “All of the
shooters in America have been White males. White terrorists. The end.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn51" name="_ftnref51" title="">[51]</a>
In fact, half the homicides in the U.S. are regularly committed by
black males who constitute 6% of the population. Continuing the theme of
her deranged racist obsession, Arquette announced later that year that
she deeply regrets the immutable characteristic of her skin color: “I’m
sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so
much shame.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn52" name="_ftnref52" title="">[52]</a>
This is her attitude towards a country whose black population is the
most affluent, privileged, and freest black population on the planet,
including all of black Africa and the West Indies.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
She feels shame not only for herself as a white person but for her
country too – the one that made her rich and famous and gave her the
freedom to express her loathing for it. “I don’t know about you but if
the flag and star-spangled banner comes around me I kneel in solidarity
and will for the rest of my life,” she vowed in June 2021.<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn53" name="_ftnref53" title="">[53]</a> That solidarity was for the America-hating, cop-defaming racist Colin Kaepernick and his national anthem-protesting comrades.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
That same year Arquette stated, for no discernable reason, “Yes, it’s clear the R in Republican stands for Racist,”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn54" name="_ftnref54" title="">[54]</a> and she reiterated that bigoted sentiment a month later, labeling the GOP “the Nazi party.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn55" name="_ftnref55" title="">[55]</a> She also likened Republicans to the fundamentalist savages of the Taliban,<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn56" name="_ftnref56" title="">[56]</a> another of the Left’s frequent and unoriginal smears.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
After teen Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted for shooting three white
criminals who attacked him, an outraged Arquette tweeted, “Kyle
Rittenhouse is a murderer. The End.”<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftn57" name="_ftnref57" title="">[57]</a> But the jury that actually heard the evidence concluded otherwise. The End.</span></span></p><div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong><em>Next: Tier 3, Celebrities 15-11.<br /><br />
*</em><br /><br />
David Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the bestselling author of <a href="https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/frontpage/products/i-cant-breathe-how-a-racial-hoax-is-killing-america">I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax is Killing America</a><em>.<br /><br />
Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.<br /><br />
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Notes:</em></strong></span></span></p><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title="">[1]</a> https://news.yahoo.com/smith-reveals-open-marriage-jada-202820862.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn2"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title="">[2]</a> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski_sexual_abuse_case</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn3"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title="">[3]</a> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_sexual_assault_cases</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn4"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title="">[4]</a> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_abuse_cases</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn5"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title="">[5]</a> https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-14-tm-24389-story.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn6"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title="">[6]</a> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/transcript-ricky-gervais-golden-globes-2020-opening-monologue-1266516/#!</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn7"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title="">[7]</a> https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/jane-fonda</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn8"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title="">[8]</a> https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/jane-fonda</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn9"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title="">[9]</a> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2033795/Jane-Fonda-said-biggest-regret-sleeping-Che-Guevara.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn10"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title="">[10]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2016/01/20/celebrities-join-stop-hate-dump-trump-anti-donald-campaign/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn11"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title="">[11]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2017/10/16/jane-fonda-proud-america-today-no/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn12"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title="">[12]</a> https://variety.com/2018/scene/news/jane-fonda-compares-donald-trump-to-hitler-and-the-third-reich-1203018248/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn13"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title="">[13]</a> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hanoi-jane-is-michelle-obamas-role-model</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn14"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" title="">[14]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2015/12/26/colbert-to-jane-fonda-you-are-an-icon-of-your-generation/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn15"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" title="">[15]</a> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/michael-moore-honor-jane-fonda-lifetime-achievement-award-1122083/#!</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn16"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" title="">[16]</a> https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/sean-penn</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn17"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" title="">[17]</a> https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/sean-penn</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn18"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" title="">[18]</a> http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/sean-penn-america-el-chapo/2016/01/11/id/709003/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn19"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19" title="">[19]</a> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sean-penn-praises-chavez-he-is-one-of-the-most-important-forces-weve-had-on-this-planet</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn20"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20" title="">[20]</a> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hugo-chavez-dead-sean-penn-426205</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn21"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref21" name="_ftn21" title="">[21]</a> https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/hugo-chavez</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn22"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref22" name="_ftn22" title="">[22]</a> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortages_in_Venezuela#</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn23"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref23" name="_ftn23" title="">[23]</a> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-socialist-from-chavez-to-castro-leaders-who-lived-the-high-life</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn24"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref24" name="_ftn24" title="">[24]</a> https://newsrealblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/hollywood-liberal-sean-penn-defends-chavez/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn25"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref25" name="_ftn25" title="">[25]</a> http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/312829</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn26"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref26" name="_ftn26" title="">[26]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/01/13/sean-penn-trump-enemy-mankind</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn27"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref27" name="_ftn27" title="">[27]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/10/21/sean-penn-republican-leaders-are-the-party-of-putin/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn28"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref28" name="_ftn28" title="">[28]</a> https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sean-penn-compares-trump-covid-103738608.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn29"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref29" name="_ftn29" title="">[29]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/01/13/sean-penn-compares-trump-supporters-to-al-qaeda-says-trump-is-bin-laden/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn30"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref30" name="_ftn30" title="">[30]</a> https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1346536558837465093</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn31"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref31" name="_ftn31" title="">[31]</a> https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sean-penn-hopes-critics-die-of-rectal-cancer</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn32"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref32" name="_ftn32" title="">[32]</a> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-takei-clarence-thomas-clown-in-blackface_n_7719110</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn33"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref33" name="_ftn33" title="">[33]</a> https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1143135582949916672</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn34"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref34" name="_ftn34" title="">[34]</a> https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2016/07/14/george-takei-police-shootings-happen-theyre-afraid-black-men/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn35"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref35" name="_ftn35" title="">[35]</a> https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/890203105962467333</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn36"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref36" name="_ftn36" title="">[36]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2016/09/29/j-j-abrams-george-takei-generations-star-trek-cast-crew-sign-anti-trump-letter/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn37"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref37" name="_ftn37" title="">[37]</a> https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/836764679124836352</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn38"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref38" name="_ftn38" title="">[38]</a> https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1211500399120834560</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn39"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref39" name="_ftn39" title="">[39]</a>
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/11/23/george-takei-i-want-to-live-in-a-country-where-kaepernick-is-seen-as-a-hero-and-kyle-rittenhouse-is-seen-as-a-terrorist/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn40"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref40" name="_ftn40" title="">[40]</a> https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1325258874375581701</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn41"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref41" name="_ftn41" title="">[41]</a> https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1325253704174460930</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn42"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref42" name="_ftn42" title="">[42]</a> https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1404927219282161670</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn43"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref43" name="_ftn43" title="">[43]</a> https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1106409980595363841</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn44"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref44" name="_ftn44" title="">[44]</a> https://www.lifezette.com/2020/08/john-cusack-unravels-trumps-a-test-run-for-true-evil-the-anti-christ-for-dummies/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn45"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref45" name="_ftn45" title="">[45]</a>
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/05/31/actor-john-cusack-claims-cops-attacked-him-says-he-hopes-riots-last-till-trump-flys-away-in-a-fking-helicopter-928169/</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn46"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref46" name="_ftn46" title="">[46]</a> https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/john-cusack-claims-military-abandoned-trump-remaining-supporters-racists</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn47"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref47" name="_ftn47" title="">[47]</a> https://www.dailywire.com/news/photo-shows-john-cusack-sitting-during-military-amanda-prestigiacomo</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn48"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref48" name="_ftn48" title="">[48]</a> https://twitter.com/RoArquette/status/1110519717880459264</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn49"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref49" name="_ftn49" title="">[49]</a> https://twitter.com/RoArquette/status/1375442419794145286</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn50"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref50" name="_ftn50" title="">[50]</a> https://twitter.com/RoArquette/status/1390011327502983171</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn51"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref51" name="_ftn51" title="">[51]</a> https://twitter.com/RoArquette/status/1155726430082359296</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn52"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref52" name="_ftn52" title="">[52]</a> https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rosanna-arquette-white-privileged-tweet-180949204.html</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn53"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref53" name="_ftn53" title="">[53]</a> https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rosanna-arquette-kneel-national-anthem-american-flag-protest</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn54"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref54" name="_ftn54" title="">[54]</a> https://twitter.com/RoArquette/status/1382385824856121346</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn55"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref55" name="_ftn55" title="">[55]</a> https://twitter.com/RoArquette/status/1392500357041848320</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn56"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref56" name="_ftn56" title="">[56]</a> https://www.dailywire.com/news/rosanna-arquette-compares-republicans-to-taliban</span></span></p></div><div id="ftn57"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/#_ftnref57" name="_ftn57" title="">[57]</a> https://twitter.com/RoArquette/status/1458463104732254216</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/20-dumbest-hollywood-hatemongers-david-horo/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 5/23/22</i> <br /></span></span></p></div></div></div>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765168899698769464.post-19858289929635281062022-08-10T21:11:00.006-07:002022-08-10T21:11:48.170-07:00Drawing the Thin Blue Line<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0UM9Ds0wGfR7GUdAt0qKqrtVATNDkYObfbrCQcM0NjUE1hdmyisU5ZkYMZJOiIxB3hddG7zw2KO5mfWdU-VK9Z0gnMG_bAvG38wz-Migbhh60FRbv1q1Lw7tT0Esxj9HBE28G59Imdd8f_4d6ViqKjdzmoJqXWQ76W-oAQ1Z3JciQUd3nbgv-9QcRVQ/s931/Thin%20Blue%20Line.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="695" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0UM9Ds0wGfR7GUdAt0qKqrtVATNDkYObfbrCQcM0NjUE1hdmyisU5ZkYMZJOiIxB3hddG7zw2KO5mfWdU-VK9Z0gnMG_bAvG38wz-Migbhh60FRbv1q1Lw7tT0Esxj9HBE28G59Imdd8f_4d6ViqKjdzmoJqXWQ76W-oAQ1Z3JciQUd3nbgv-9QcRVQ/s320/Thin%20Blue%20Line.jpg" width="239" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/28/team-biden-finally-admits-theres-a-war-on-cops/">Writing last month in the <em>New York Post</em></a>,
Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather Mac Donald noted that even the Biden
Justice Department has finally acknowledged there is a war on cops
underway in America. FBI Director Christopher Wray declared on CBS’s <em>60 Minutes</em>
that in 2021 there was a 59% increase in cop murders – nearly one every
five days – driven by what Mac Donald calls “a national rhetoric of cop
hatred and racial animosity.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
In this hostile environment, comic book writer and artist <a href="https://bloodyredbaron.com/">Mike Baron</a> (<em>The Flash</em>, <em>Nexus</em>, <em>Star Wars</em>, and <em>The Punisher</em>),
winner of two Eisner Awards (the comic industry equivalent of the
Oscars) teamed up with active-duty police officer Joseph Arnold (on
pencils and layouts) and illustrator Jeff Slemons to create <em>Thin Blue Line</em>,
a police-positive graphic novel which follows officer Valeria Baca and
her partner Bob Mack as they fight for their community and their own
survival amid rioting in the streets.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“It’s not polemic, and definitely isn’t a cop recruitment book,” Baron
noted. "It’s just a thrilling action drama, similar in many ways to
elements my fans may recall from the five years I wrote <em>The Punisher</em>, which were grittier and more realistic than most mainstream superhero comics.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/11/holding-thin-blue-line-mark-tapson/">I wrote previously for FrontPage Mag, last November</a>,
how Baron chose to crowdfund the project after the concept was rejected
by major publishers, who were repulsed by a story line that presented
cops as heroes rather than villains. Since then, the response on its
Indiegogo page was tremendous. <em>Thin Blue Line</em> earned nearly three times its goal.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“I was shocked at how easily we beat our modest crowdfunding goal,”
editor Chris Braly says. “Mike's fans, as well as the law enforcement
community, came out in a big way on Indiegogo. We’re at the printer now
and expect to ship in mid-June. Latecomers still have a chance to own a
first printing of 'Thin Blue Line' by visiting <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/thin-blue-line-the-graphic-novel-by-mike-baron#/">thinbluelinecomics.com</a> and grabbing a copy of what’s destined to be a VERY rare comic.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: medium;">The book’s penciller Arnold, a police officer, added, “I was eager to
show another side of policing. The story emphasizes family,
interpersonal dynamics, and shows police officers from many different
backgrounds. I've put my heart into every page, and hope it has a
positive impact on policing.”</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
I asked Mike Baron some questions about <em>Thin Blue Line</em>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Mark Tapson</strong>: <em>Mike, can you flesh things out about </em>Thin Blue Line<em> for readers – its storyline and characters, and your purpose behind creating it?</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Mike Baron</strong>: <em>Thin Blue Line</em>
is about two cops trying to survive a night of riots. It was inspired
by the summer of 2020 where dozens of cities were under siege, thousands
of small businesses destroyed, hundreds murdered, millions in damages,
and out front, a proud news reader explaining these were “mostly
peaceful” protests. Then tapeworms, by which I mean people who have
seized power through demagoguery, called for defunding the police. My
reaction was, “What the fuck?” You're either for the rule of law or
you're not. Without the rule of law we have...we have what we had in the
summer of 2020.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <em>Tell us about the support you received from law enforcement, and by contrast,</em> <em>what happened when you, a longtime successful veteran in the field, approached publishers about the concept?</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MB</strong>:
Police officers contacted me from all over the country expressing
gratitude. It was inspiring. We submitted the book to over a dozen
publishers and the responses ranged from “not our brand” to “fuck the
police.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <em>The crowdfunding campaign apparently went extraordinarily well...</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MB</strong>: After <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6290765909001#sp=show-clips">I appeared on Fox News</a>, we did <em>very </em>well.
Many publications expressed interest as well, including FrontPage Mag,
The Federalist, the National Police Association, and some others.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <em>Tell us what you did on behalf of </em>Thin Blue Line<em> for National Police Week, which runs from May 15-21.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MB</strong>: We gave thousands of dollars to three charities: <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fadoptacopbjj.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cb7ba535337674a71795a08da39345c32%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637885194297849651%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zW7jwV9ZEf4jbD%2F1ebDRIFw8dxDcixkVkYW1ckaB378%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Adopt A Cop BJJ</a>, which trains officers in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; the <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnleomf.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cb7ba535337674a71795a08da39345c32%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637885194297849651%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YtzgXhCUNNOTHxRWnKi4wLiMPQGaMkDWYG%2FBQQOMxhA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund</a>, which improves officer safety and honors the fallen; and <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalfof.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cb7ba535337674a71795a08da39345c32%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637885194297849651%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LDVBmUNczYi1GKctWmAR5tzLgdfxQhruSGrH93QZQV0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">the National Fallen Officer Foundation</a>, which helps families of officers slain in the line of duty.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: <em>That’s a testament to your respect for law enforcement. What’s the latest on </em>Thin Blue Line <em>and when can readers get hold of it? </em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MB</strong>:
We would have fulfilled by now, but like half the independent comics in
the U.S., we're at the tail end of a traffic jam that leads with the
high school yearbooks. The publisher has to do the high school yearbooks
first. I say Fie! on the high school yearbooks! We will ship <em>Thin Blue Line</em> in June.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>MT</strong>: Congratulations, Mike, we’ll be looking forward to it.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>From <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/drawing-thin-blue-line-mark-tapson-0/" target="_blank">FrontPage Mag</a>, 5/20/22</i> <br /></span></span></p>Mark Tapsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14521629217505250274noreply@blogger.com