{"id":1130499,"date":"2021-12-18T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130499"},"modified":"2021-12-18T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T16:14:12","slug":"graham-the-year-in-liberal-celebrity-freakouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-the-year-in-liberal-celebrity-freakouts\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: The Year In Liberal Celebrity Freakouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-the-year-in-liberal-celebrity-freakouts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130499&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Despite the triumph of President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration, liberal celebrities didn\u2019t get much happier in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>It began with Donald Trump refusing to concede that he lost the presidential election. A year ago, one actor engaged in violent fantasies over this stubborn resistance to the facts. \u201cWho arrests Trump if he refuses to concede? Who drags him out? Pepper spray? Cuffs?\u201d This sounds like an action movie.<\/p>\n<p>But then it turned threatening: \u201cA knee on his neck, cutting off his oxygen? Does he wheeze \u2018I can\u2019t breathe'(?) Just whale away on him like a pinata? Rodney King style? The thug who has destroyed the country. What does he deserve?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which actor wanted to suffocate and beat Trump senseless? Why, Alec Baldwin, the accidental film-set killer. This is the same Hollywood hothead who fantasized about killing Dick Cheney with the corpse of Osama bin Laden. Somehow all of this rage never came up in his violins-and-handkerchiefs interview with friendly George Stephanopoulos on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter provides a lot of this left-wing excess. Anyone opposing abortion is a monster. Take author Stephen King, for example, who tweeted in September, \u201cThe Taliban would love the Texas abortion law.\u201d There\u2019s also the typical Cher tweet screeching about \u201cbarefoot and pregnant women, at the mercy of tyrants\u201d \u2014 but all in capital letters because Cher loves the primal-scream tone.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this nonsense pops up in the celebrity bubble of late-night TV. Actor Bradley Whitford insisted on Stephen Colbert\u2019s show on CBS that Congress needed to pass H.R. 1, the bill that would ban voter ID requirements and other anti-fraud measures. \u201cWithout that, you know, I\u2019ll see you in the internment camp,\u201d he told Colbert. He wasn\u2019t kidding. \u201cNegotiating with a party that worships an insurrectionist feels really close, to me, to negotiating with terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These leftists despise Fox News. Screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin said, \u201cThere is something lethal that\u2019s wrong with Fox News,\u201d as opposed to CNN or MSNBC or The New York Times. \u201cI recognize there might be a liberal tone to it, but they don\u2019t lie. They don\u2019t make things up.\u201d Dan Rather didn\u2019t lie? New York Times reporter Jayson Blair didn\u2019t make things up?<\/p>\n<p>Rock singer David Crosby really ranted in an interview with The Daily Beast. \u201cRupert Murdoch should be taken out and shot. The people on Fox are doing great harm to the human race,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrities were thrilled that Biden would bring unity and sanity and civility to politics \u2014 because they\u2019re absolutely incapable of doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Some celebrities switched from anger to what sounded like a drug-induced euphoria. Michael Moore offered a factually deprived summary of the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco under Biden: \u201cI\u2019m still flabbergasted that he pulled this off with such grace and precision and safety.\u201d This mysteriously ignored the 13 U.S. service members killed by a suicide bomber outside the Kabul airport, and the errant drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including an aid worker and seven children.<\/p>\n<p>In a year of increasingly shameless robberies of businesses in big cities, multimillionaire \u201cSex and the City\u201d actress (and losing political candidate) Cynthia Nixon was upset they were locking up the laundry detergent at CVS drugstores. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine thinking that the way to solve the problem of people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>So, it\u2019s unreasonable (or not compassionate) to treat robbery as a crime. Perhaps victimized merchants would suggest solving this shameful wealth inequality by volunteering Nixon\u2019s address for a thorough housecleaning.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s celebrity freakouts such as these that underline America\u2019s rich and famous actors could be nominated for the award \u201cMost Likely to Sound Out of Touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the triumph of President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration, liberal celebrities didn\u2019t get much happier in 2021.It began with Donald Trump refusing to concede that he lost the presidential election. A year ago, one actor engaged in violent fantasies over this stubborn resistance to the facts. \u201cWho arrests Trump if he refuses to concede? Who drags him out? Pepper spray? Cuffs?\u201d This sounds like an action movie.But then it turned threatening: \u201cA knee on his neck, cutting off his oxygen? Does he wheeze \u2018I can\u2019t breathe'(?) Just whale away on him like a pinata? Rodney King style? The thug who has destroyed the country. What does he deserve?\u201dWhich actor wanted to suffocate and beat Trump senseless? Why, Alec Baldwin, the accidental film-set killer. This is the same Hollywood hothead who fantasized about killing Dick Cheney with the corpse of Osama bin Laden. Somehow all of this rage never came up in his violins-and-handkerchiefs interview with friendly George Stephanopoulos on ABC.Twitter provides a lot of this left-wing excess. Anyone opposing abortion is a monster. Take author Stephen King, for example, who tweeted in September, \u201cThe Taliban would love the Texas abortion law.\u201d There\u2019s also the typical Cher tweet screeching about \u201cbarefoot and pregnant women, at the mercy of tyrants\u201d \u2014 but all in capital letters because Cher loves the primal-scream tone.Sometimes this nonsense pops up in the celebrity bubble of late-night TV. Actor Bradley Whitford insisted on Stephen Colbert\u2019s show on CBS that Congress needed to pass H.R. 1, the bill that would ban voter ID requirements and other anti-fraud measures. \u201cWithout that, you know, I\u2019ll see you in the internment camp,\u201d he told Colbert. He wasn\u2019t kidding. \u201cNegotiating with a party that worships an insurrectionist feels really close, to me, to negotiating with terrorists.\u201dThese leftists despise Fox News. Screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin said, \u201cThere is something lethal that\u2019s wrong with Fox News,\u201d as opposed to CNN or MSNBC or The New York Times. \u201cI recognize there might be a liberal tone to it, but they don\u2019t lie. They don\u2019t make things up.\u201d Dan Rather didn\u2019t lie? New York Times reporter Jayson Blair didn\u2019t make things up?Rock singer David Crosby really ranted in an interview with The Daily Beast. \u201cRupert Murdoch should be taken out and shot. The people on Fox are doing great harm to the human race,\u201d he said.Celebrities were thrilled that Biden would bring unity and sanity and civility to politics \u2014 because they\u2019re absolutely incapable of doing so.Some celebrities switched from anger to what sounded like a drug-induced euphoria. Michael Moore offered a factually deprived summary of the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco under Biden: \u201cI\u2019m still flabbergasted that he pulled this off with such grace and precision and safety.\u201d This mysteriously ignored the 13 U.S. service members killed by a suicide bomber outside the Kabul airport, and the errant drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including an aid worker and seven children.In a year of increasingly shameless robberies of businesses in big cities, multimillionaire \u201cSex and the City\u201d actress (and losing political candidate) Cynthia Nixon was upset they were locking up the laundry detergent at CVS drugstores. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine thinking that the way to solve the problem of people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them,\u201d she tweeted.So, it\u2019s unreasonable (or not compassionate) to treat robbery as a crime. Perhaps victimized merchants would suggest solving this shameful wealth inequality by volunteering Nixon\u2019s address for a thorough housecleaning.It\u2019s celebrity freakouts such as these that underline America\u2019s rich and famous actors could be nominated for the award \u201cMost Likely to Sound Out of Touch.\u201dThe views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}