{"id":2009378,"date":"2023-08-23T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-office-actor-brutally-roasted-after-giving-his-thoughts-on-rich-men-north-of-richmond\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:48:40","slug":"the-office-actor-brutally-roasted-after-giving-his-thoughts-on-rich-men-north-of-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-office-actor-brutally-roasted-after-giving-his-thoughts-on-rich-men-north-of-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Office&#8217; actor faces backlash for controversial remarks on &#8216;Rich Men North of Richmond&#8217;"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fthe-office-actor-brutally-roasted-after-giving-his-thoughts-on-rich-men-north-of-richmond%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=2009378&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--><h2>The Office Actor \u2063Brutally Roasted \u2063After \u200cGiving His Thoughts on &#8220;Rich \u2063Men North of Richmond&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/out-of-touch-lefty-creates-his-own-version-of-rich-men-north-of-richmond-misses-point-by-a-mile\/\" title=\"Left-wing individual creates misguided 'Rich Men North of Richmond' rendition - misses mark completely.\">smash hit song<\/a> &#8220;Rich Men North \u200bof Richmond&#8221; has \u200ccaptured the hearts of many Americans who are tired of\u200c the elites\u200b ruining\u2064 this country, and when television star Rainn Wilson tried to blast the song from the\u2063 left, he only ended up making himself look like exactly the\u200d people the\u2064 song rails about.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Anthony&#8217;s anthem for the common American has shot\u2063 to \u2062the top \u200bof the charts\u200d and become \u2063an instant favorite of millions of middle-class and poor Americans fed up with the left-wing elites \u200baccumulating ever more power and money as the rest of the country\u200b struggles to buy food and gasoline, and make the mortgage or \u200bmonthly \u2062rent.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson starred as the hilarious goofball Dwight Schrute in\u200c the nine-season sitcom &#8220;The Office,&#8221; but has since\u200c become better known for\u200d leftist\u2062 publicity gimmicks. So it might not be surprising that\u200d he \u200cjumped to his account on X, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> formerly known as Twitter, to blast Anthony for not attacking the\u2062 &#8220;right&#8221; sort\u2063 of\u200c rich people.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, who reportedly has a net worth\u2064 of $14 million, decided to use an \u2063Aug. 20 tweet to \u200ctell \u2064his 4.3 \u2063million \u2063followers \u200cjust whom he would point \u200dto as\u2064 the evil\u200c rich in the popular Oliver Anthony tune.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If I\u2064 were writing a song about &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-factory-worker-becomes-overnight-sensation-as-blue-collar-anthem-rich-men-north-of-richmond-blows-up\/\" title=\"Virginia factory worker becomes viral sensation with hit blue-collar anthem \"Rich Men North of Richmond.\"\">rich men north<\/a> of richmond&#8221; I \u200dwouldnt talk about obese people on \u200dwelfare, I&#8217;d sing about CEOs\u2064 who make 400 times their average workers salary (up from 50 \u2064times\u200c 30 years ago) &#038; corps that pay zero\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-office-actor-brutally-roasted-after-giving-his-thoughts-on-rich-men-north-of-richmond\/\" title=\"'The Office' actor faces backlash for controversial remarks on 'Rich Men North of Richmond'\">taxes &#038; offshore tax shelters<\/a> for billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainnwilson\/status\/1693306691184709939?\">August 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t\u2064 long before Wilson got ratioed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-furious-ca-restaurant-owner-confronts-inspectors-issuing-citation-are-you-gonna-pay-my-rent\/\" title=\"WATCH: Furious CA Restaurant Owner Confronts Inspectors Issuing Citation: \u2018Are You Gonna Pay My Rent?\u2019\">social media users<\/a> who took him to the woodshed for his conceit.<\/p>\n<p>If he thought his celebrity status was going to protect \u2062him from criticism,\u2063 or\u200c that there was a \u2064groundswell of support for his point of view, he was sadly mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>The responses were a \u200bvirtual avalanche of attacks focused on\u200b Wilson&#8217;s wealth, his politics and \u2063the self-evident hypocrisy of an extraordinarily wealthy man bashing others for being \u200dextraordinarily wealthy, too.<\/p>\n<p>An account with the name &#8220;Mostly Peaceful Memes&#8221; posted one of the most common replies to\u2064 Wilson&#8217;s blather, saying, &#8220;The irony of a millionaire actor\u200d telling a working class song writer what to \u2062think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The \u200dirony of a millionaire actor telling a working class song writer what to think<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MostlyPeacefull\/status\/1693604850976936337?\">August\u2062 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another X user noted Wilson&#8217;s tweet lacked a bit of self-awareness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Rich man from north of Richmond&#8217; reacts to Rich Man North of Richmond,'&#8221; he joked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Rich \u2063man from north of Richmond&#8221; reacts to Rich Man North of Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abe \u2064Froman\u200d (@WerIstDeinPa)\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WerIstDeinPa\/status\/1693812216997564900?\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another pointed out that Wilson just showed us all exactly \u2062why the song has zoomed to popularity, writing, &#8220;That&#8217;s exactly why he has a #1 song that resonates with millions of everyday \u2063people \u2063and\u200d an overpaid, out of touch actor like you doesn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That&#8217;s exactly why he has\u200c a #1 \u2063song that resonates\u2064 with millions of everyday people and an overpaid, out of \u200btouch actor \u2063like you doesn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gina Bontempo (@FlorioGina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlorioGina\/status\/1693617040362229887?\">August 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But this user had one \u2064of the\u200c best replies to explain just what it appears\u2063 that Anthony is talking \u2063about in his song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps your $16 million net worth is clouding this,&#8221; the user wrote, &#8220;but when people\u200b like Oliver Anthony look to their left and right for neighbors to fight\u200c back\u200c against\u2064 the system with &#038; instead see are\u200d welfare-addicted \u2063gluttons who won&#8217;t fight against a system that is drugging them physically, mentally + monetarily, you write &#8216;Rich Men North \u2064of Richmond.&#8217; Perhaps, you should stick\u2063 to acting \u200dinstead of songwriting. It seems, being #1 on the charts, Oliver\u2063 Anthony has spoken to \u200dthe \u200bpeople he wanted to\u200b speak\u2063 to, and I can guarantee he didn&#8217;t have you in mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Perhaps your $16 million net worth\u2062 is clouding\u2063 this, but when people like \u2062Oliver \u200dAnthony look \u200cto their left and right for neighbors to \u200bfight back \u200cagainst the system with &#038; instead\u2064 see are \u2064welfare-addicted gluttons who\u200b won&#8217;t fight against a\u2063 system that is drugging \u200cthem physically\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stclairashley\/status\/1693481292308857024?\">August\u200b 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rainn Wilson clearly missed \u200cthe entire point of Oliver Anthony&#8217;s protest song, and\u2063 may even have put himself \u2062right in the crosshairs as among the sort\u200d of elites that the \u2064song has fingered for\u2062 destroying this country. Not that he&#8217;ll\u200d ever understand all that.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/office-actor-brutally-roasted-giving-thoughts-rich-men-north-richmond\/\">&#8220;The Office&#8221; Actor Brutally Roasted After Giving His\u200b Thoughts on &#8220;Rich\u2062 Men \u2062North of Richmond&#8221;<\/a> appeared\u200d first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular song &#8220;Rich Men North of Richmond&#8221; resonates with Americans fed up with elite influence. Rainn Wilson&#8217;s attempt to criticize the song backfired, exposing him as the very type of person the song condemns. Oliver. 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