Dem Senators Blasted Ticketmaster Over Taylor Swift Debacle. They Have Nothing to Say About It Raking In Cash From Farrakhan Hate Rally.
Richard Blumenthal is represented by Amy Klobuchar on the Senate Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism
Sens. Senators. But when the company doled out tickets to Louis Farrakhan’s rally—in which the Nation of Islam leader defended Adolf Hitler and predicted another Holocaust against Jews—the Democratic duo had nothing to say.
Blumenthal went on a crusade Ticketmaster November: “consumers deserve better than this anti-hero behavior.” Klobuchar claimed that she was pregnant “serious concerns” I was concerned about Ticketmaster’s inability get Swifties tickets to me efficiently, and I wrote to my chief executive officer to ask for clarifications.
Blumenthal is not the only one who did this. warned You can find the “horrors of the Holocaust” This could occur again if Americans do not fight anti-Semitism. Klobuchar has also pledged to stop it. “to confront anti-Semitism,” Ticketmaster was criticized by Farrakhan tickets sales. These senators are part of the Senate Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism. They did not respond when asked.
Farrakhan claimed in his speech that Jews hold the power levers at Washington, Hollywood and global finance, and they are corrupting the world with these tools. “Somebody has to take on the synagogue of Satan,” He stated. “We cannot let them take the country.” Critics had urged Ticketmaster to remove the Farrakhan event, as it charges service fees for each ticket sold. But the ticket giant refused.
Ticketmaster has been criticized in the past by House Democrats but there have not been any protests from them among House Democrats. More than twenty-six House Democrats wrote a letter last November to Ticketmaster expressing their disapproval. “strangled competition for ticketing in the live entertainment marketplace.” The Washington Free Beacon We reached out and asked 28 Congressmen to sign the letter to find their opinions on Ticketmaster selling tickets at Farrakhan’s event. They did not respond.
The letter was signed by Rep. Barbara Lee (D. Calif.), Ilhan Ozmar (D. Minn.) and Rashida Talaib (D. Mich.).
Omar is known for making incendiary remarks about Jews. In 2019, she claimed that U.S. support was for Israel “all about the Benjamins baby,” It was suggested that legislators were being bribed into supporting the Jewish state. She made this comment and many others. downplayed After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the United States, Republicans removed her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in January.
Farrakhan defended Omar’s “Benjamins” Comment, stating that she was a “sweet heart” It was a great help “shake the government up, but you have nothing to apologize for.”
Tlaib was one of Congress’s most outspoken anti-Israel legislators. She faced criticism in September from members of her party and the Anti-Defamation League after she stated that Americans were a threat to Israel. “cannot claim to hold progressive values yet back Israel’s apartheid government.”
Lee attended Farrakhan’s event and denounced Farrakhan. “anti-Semitic and hateful comments” Public pressure for 2018
Farrakhan attacked the United States during his last week’s speech. “stranglehold that Jews have on this government” Claim “Jewish power is what has all of our people of knowledge and wisdom and talent afraid.”
Farrakhan condemned Jews who used the phrase “Never Again” When discussing the Holocaust.
“You can say that to men, but you can’t say that to God. Because the Bible says, behold, the day cometh that shall burn—as a what?—as an oven. And those who do wickedly, He will slay them.”
“God is not unjust; when he kills you, you know you deserved it,” He concluded.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.)—who also spoke out about the Taylor Swift debacle—weighed in on the Farrakhan controversy when contacted by the Free Beacon.
“It is extremely concerning that Ticketmaster is choosing to use its platform to elevate and promote a well-known anti-Semite. The targeting of the Jewish people has gone on far too long and must stop,” Sie said.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R.Wash.), a Ticketmaster critic and chairwoman of House Energy and Commerce Committee said that the company must be “completely transparent” about their decision to profit from anti-Semitism.
“Anti-Semitism has no place in America,” McMorris Rodgers said. “Ticketmaster should be completely transparent on why it chose to profit off of Farrakhan’s abhorrent history of hatred and violent threats of genocide against the Jewish people.”
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