Denzel Washington complains about 'Gladiator II' directors cutting his gay kissing scene — ‘They got chicken’



The highly anticipated “Gladiator II,” starring Denzel Washington in the role of Macrinus hits theaters this Friday.

One person who isn’t excited about the sequel, however, is Jason Whitlock.

His disappointment stems not from the movie itself but rather from what Washington decided to reveal about his role in the film.

“I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken. I kissed a guy full on the lips and I guess they weren’t ready for that yet. I killed him about five minutes later. It’s ‘Gladiator.’ It’s the kiss of death,” he said.


Shemeka Michelle, who joins Jason on the program, expresses her confusion.

“Over the course of his career, he never did a sex scene or any type of strong kissing out of respect for his wife, … yet you go and kiss a man,” she says, adding that Washington could have easily given his “kiss of death” on the cheek.

“They have to pledge allegiance to the alphabet mafia. … In some form or fashion, they always have to let you know, ‘I don't hate the gays’ or ‘I don't hate the trans. I'm really a friend,’” she tells Jason.

“I think there is a right of passage in Hollywood and in the music and entertainment industry that you have to promote that lifestyle,” Jason agrees. “You can't reach that level of stardom in Hollywood without going through that right of passage.”

As for Washington’s profession of Christianity, Whitlock says he’s skeptical now.

“He's gone his whole career and had a pretty rock-solid reputation, had presented himself as some sort of Christian. I had always questioned it, and now I have the proof,” he says.

Washington could have said, “Hey, you know what? I know that's a big movie, but I'm good. I'm worth 200 million, 300 million, 400 million — whatever. I'm good. I've had enough. I'm not going to kiss a man,” Jason sighs.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Whitlock: Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special channels Patrick Henry and Malcolm X and lays bare the war between black men and the Alphabet Mafia



The society that outlaws personal offense suppresses truth and freedom. This is the danger of criminalizing thoughts and ideas, including abhorrent ones.

Comedian Dave Chappelle is currently the number-one target of the thought police. His latest and allegedly final Netflix comedy special violated the left's thought policies. He cracked jokes and made points that allegedly deeply offended the LGBTQ wing of the Alphabet Mafia, the ruling family of the New Underworld Order.

GLAAD, the gay lesbian alliance against defamation, has called for Netflix to remove "The Closer" from its streaming service. A group called the National Black Justice Coalition added its voice to GLAAD's. The NBJC is a Washington, D.C.-based black crew of LGBT soldiers.

Chappelle is a wanted man, a fugitive accused of transphobia, homophobia, toxic masculinity, anti-Semitism, and truth-telling.

GLAAD tweeted: "Dave Chappelle's brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities. Negative reviews and viewers loudly condemning his latest special is a message to the industry that audiences don't support platforming anti-LGBTQ diatribes. We agree."

Netflix platformed a comedian who thinks the wrong thing.

What does Chappelle think?

He thinks that the Alphabet Mafia has created a world where we care more about hurting a gay person's feelings than about the murder of a black man. He thinks sexual identity and gender identity have an outsized influence over American culture. He expressed this opinion by pointing out that the rapper DaBaby did more damage to his entertainment career with his criticism of gay people than he did shooting and killing a black man inside a Walmart.

The truth is, Chappelle's thought crimes in "The Closer" are deeper than gay and trans jokes.

"The Closer" challenged the entire orthodoxy of the ruling establishment. And it issued the challenge using the ruling establishment's weapon of choice — race.

A black man from middle America declared war against the left's evisceration of masculinity in general and black, male, heterosexual masculinity in particular. Chappelle argued and quipped that Jews, feminists, and the LGBTQ movement are standing on the backs and necks of black men — preferably dead ones — to seize power.

I want to restate that, because most reviewers are intentionally mischaracterizing or mis-informationing the point of "The Closer." A black reviewer for NPR, Eric Deggans, wrote a piece saying that Chappelle is "using white privilege to excuse his own homophobia and transphobia."

The Alphabet Mafia is clearly feeding Deggans a steady diet of buttered biscuits or Deggans is a made man in the Alphabet Mafia. Those are the only plausible explanations for a black man this badly missing the point of Chappelle's message.

Chappelle cleverly and correctly argued that Jews, feminists, and the LGBTQ movement have seized power by covertly camouflaging their power-grabs as selfless fights for racial equality. Chappelle used DaBaby as a proxy for heterosexual black men. He demanded that the Alphabet Mafia remove its foot from DaBaby's neck. Chappelle was talking about his own neck, my neck, Kevin Hart's neck, and the neck of anyone else who identifies as male, black, and straight.

I'm a writer. I can recognize literature even when it's delivered verbally from a stage. Chappelle conveyed an essay, a letter from the prison cell social justice warriors have built for straight black men.

"The Closer" should be renamed "I Can't Breathe." You're choking me.

Chappelle touched several third rails. That's why Alphabet Mafia soldiers have been dispatched to kill the messenger and distort his message. Chappelle is being accused of anti-Semitism for his two "Space Jews" jokes that imply Jewish people rule the world and that they have gone from oppressed to oppressor. In the New Underworld Order, you can only crack those kinds of jokes on American white men. Chappelle cannot generalize about the executives who asked him to wear a dress and sit atop a music industry that lavishly rewards rappers for denigrating black people.

I risk being accused of anti-Semitism for daring to properly interpret Chappelle's comedy and for arguing his point of view is worthy of discussion. I'm not anti-Semitic. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, either.

I'm frustrated. I want to identify whatever secular forces are being used to castrate heterosexual Christian men, particularly black ones. The gatekeepers of popular culture, the executives at the top of Hollywood and the music industry, seem to be hostile toward me. They seem obsessed with protecting the feelings of feminists and the LGBTQ and casting me as a self-defined immoral thug with fantasies of bedding Billy Porter.

"The Closer" captures the battle between black straight men and the feminist and LGBTQ movements. The left argues feminists, LGBTQ, and black men are all allies, natural allies in the war against Donald Trump and his supporters. Reality is quite different. Dave Chappelle doesn't hate Trump or his supporters. As he admitted in his comedy special, Chappelle goes to bars in rural Ohio and drinks with Trumpers. He lives among them.

Great comedians cut through false narratives and expose the truth. Ministers and comedians are supposed to be guardians of truth. They're given permission to speak uncomfortable truths. They open the door for the rest of us to engage in difficult conversations.

"The Closer" is the most important comedic sermon ever delivered. It's equal parts Patrick Henry's "give me liberty or give me death" speech at the second Virginia convention and Malcolm X's "the ballot or the bullet" speech at Cleveland's Cory Methodist Church.

BLM-LGBTQ-CRT — the Alphabet Mafia — and its megaphone, Twitter, have jeopardized free speech in America by outlawing personal offense. The price of uttering the wrong word or thought is so high in our new safe space culture that speaking the truth is too risky for too many Americans.

In order to maintain a free and just society, we must tolerate people saying and thinking whatever they please, including things we find rude and offensive.

Dave Chappelle is a patriot and a genius.

Whitlock: Nicki Minaj exposes MSNBC’s Joy Reid as a high priestess in Alphabet Mafia cult



The Alphabet Mafia owns Joy Reid, the black MSNBC cultural overseer at the Rachel Maddow plantation.

Soldiers in the alternative lifestyle wing of the BLMLGBTQ+ Alphabet Mafia captured Reid four years ago when a Twitter user unearthed her homo-hostile blog posts from the late 2000s. Massa Maddow and the other heads of the Alphabet Mafia families — including Don Obama, Don Pelosi, Don Soros, and the don of all dons, Xi Jinping — made Reid an offer she couldn't refuse.

They threatened to chop off her TV career if she maintained the beliefs she developed as a Christian. After initially claiming a hacker framed her as a Christian, Reid eventually disavowed her religious upbringing and admitted that membership in the MSNBC cult was too lucrative to justify hanging on to outdated moral codes.

She packed her bags and moved into Massa Maddow's big house, landing a coveted timeslot and the important role of overseeing black culture and thought. Reid is a giant symbol of the rewards awaiting black women and their male idolaters for abandoning their religious views in favor of evangelizing for the Democratic Party and the Alphabet Mafia.

Joy Reid has no discernible broadcasting skill. Broken glass is smoother than her delivery. Her ideas and point of view are Twitter-deep. Al Sharpton has better hair than the endless array of weaves Reid has imported from Xi Jinping's private stock.

Yet Joy Reid earns a seven-figure salary and talks to America during prime time. No wonder women have lost all respect for men. Can't you envision Joy Reid, Jemele Hill, and Don Lemon on a girls' night out laughing at Judas?

"Girl, Judas settled for 30 pieces of silver. He thought he got the bag. If you gonna sell out, get the bag for real, for real."

I bring all this up because this week, Joy Reid has had to earn her salary. There's trouble in the big house. The rapper and singer Nicki Minaj disobeyed the Commission. She publicly expressed vaccine hesitancy, which pissed off the don of all dons and the other heads of the Great Reset families.

Via Pravda, I mean Twitter, Minaj shared a story about a man allegedly having a bad reaction to the vaccine. His testicles allegedly swelled, he became impotent, and his fiancee dumped him. This all allegedly happened in Trinidad, where Minaj's family hails from. Minaj said she's still researching and debating whether to get the vaccine. She advised her 22 million followers to pray and make sure they're comfortable with their vaccine decision — not bullied.

It's an extremely reasonable position to take ... unless you're a member of the Hollywood cult and Alphabet Mafia. Cult members are instructed to avoid thinking and prayer. They're told to follow and obey. The Commission ordered Reid to lash Minaj in front of other cult members. On Tuesday, Reid promptly attacked Minaj on MSNBC. Minaj fired back via social media, setting off a week-long war that included air support from Fox News host Tucker Carlson (Team Nicki) and CNN's Don Lemon (Team Joy) and Comedy Central's Trevor Noah (Team Joy).

Carlson's support of Minaj sparked the typical Alphabet Mafia response: "Carlson is racist, and if a racist says water is wet, then water is really dry."

Minaj stood firm, tweeting: "Right. I can't speak to, agree with, even look at someone from a particular political party. People aren't human any more. If you're black and a Democrat tells you to shove marbles up your ass, you simply have to. If another party tells you to look out for that bus, stand there and get hit."

Last night, from the front porch of Massa Maddow's big house, Reid blasted Minaj for garnering the backing of conservative pundits. Reid labeled Carlson and the Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro as anti-vax, right-wing bomb-throwers. I believe Carlson is vaccinated. Shapiro is a strong proponent of the vaccine. Reid has been instructed to frame anyone who is hesitant about mandating the vaccine as a racist Trump supporter. Reid doesn't think. She does what she's told. She's owned by the Alphabet Mafia. The fact that black people, the most obedient members of the Democratic Party, are America's most vaccine-hesitant is lost on her. She took to the airwaves Thursday night and ranted about how Carlson and Shapiro are using Minaj (the way Massa Maddow uses Reid).

"They need and crave authentic members of the culture, hip-hop culture," Reid told her viewers. "Let's just be clear, (Carlson and Shapiro) look down on that culture and hate that culture and would never, ever, ever support someone like Nicki Minaj other than to pull her on to their team. Case in point, Laura Ingraham once criticized President Obama for just meeting with Ms. Minaj, citing the profanity in her lyrics. But they need her right now. And let's not forget the freak out the right had over the WAP lyrics by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, or Lil Nas X for giving the devil a lap dance in a music video. The right has no use for people in the culture until they're useful for the purposes of hurting people in the culture."

Little Nasty X-rated, the rapper, built a following among young children with the song Old Town Road. He's now making music videos featuring prison sex, prison shower scenes, and descending to hell to ride the devil's rod, and Joy Reid is on national TV proclaiming it a culture worth defending.

Joy Reid is a high priestess in a satanic cult. She went from homo-hostile blog posts to a Jesus-hostile television show.

I hope it's worth the money.

Whitlock: Soccer star Megan Rapinoe benefits from ‘Alphabet Mafia’ triple-protection coverage



U.S. women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe lives in the protected space created by social media's glorification of the BLM-LGBTQ+, the Alphabet Mafia.

Rapinoe is untouchable. She can't be criticized or questioned without fear of social media retribution. Her actions and motives are all assumed to be pure and driven by a purpose much greater than your own.

That's why most of the mainstream media summarily rejected and/or ignored Hope Solo's recent critique of Rapinoe. On Monday, Solo, a former member of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, claimed that Rapinoe subtly forced other soccer players to kneel during the national anthem. Solo said Rapinoe "almost bullied" her teammates to support Colin Kaepernick's kneeling publicity stunt.

"I think the kneeling thing can be very divisive," Solo said during a podcast interview. "I've seen Megan Rapinoe almost bully players into kneeling because she really wants to stand up for something in her particular way."

The purple-haired Rapinoe is a darling of corporate media. She's engaged to WNBA star Sue Bird. In the sports world, they are the ultimate power couple, a symbol of LGBTQ perfection.

Only a homophobe or a bigot would dare question the actions, motives, and agenda of Megan Rapinoe. So few people do. And certainly no one who aspires to work in corporate media would even consider taking Solo's allegation seriously. So few people did.

Instead, the immediate reaction was to point out that Solo was booted off the USWNT months before Kaepernick and Rapinoe began kneeling during the fall of 2016, the inference being that there was no way for Solo to know or see what Rapinoe did to win the support of her teammates. Yesterday, USA Today published a story hammering this point.

Yep. No way Solo has communicated with any of her former teammates over the last five years. Former teammates don't gossip and chat. I get that Solo said "I've seen." She's speaking loosely during an informal podcast interview. It's easy to misspeak or exaggerate in that setting.

Beyond that, anyone who has been following the Kaepernick controversy the last five years knows that many kneeling participants have been bullied. The threat has been clear: Kneel or be labeled racist.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was bullied into kneeling. Jones is an old billionaire. How much easier is it to bully a young athlete who lacks Jones' financial security? What percentage of NFL and NBA players do you think authentically believed in taking a knee during the national anthem?

The BLM-LGBTQ+ Alphabet Mafia stuck a gun to everyone's heads and made athletes offers they couldn't refuse. Everyone saw what happened to Saints quarterback Drew Brees when he offered tepid resistance. He was shot in the streets like Sonny Corleone in the original "Godfather" movie.

We've created a world where Alphabet Mafia members can't be questioned at all, but athletes such as Tim Tebow can be ridiculed with impunity. ESPN, the self-proclaimed "Worldwide Leader in Sports," has spent the past decade analyzing and criticizing Tebow's motives and actions. The devout Christian knelt in prayer after big plays and touchdowns. He was the anti-Kaepernick long before Kaepernick became a polarizing figure and household name.

Tebow's cult of personality was much larger than his on-field performance warranted and a problem for his coaches to corral. His NFL career flamed out nearly a decade ago. This year, Tebow and his former college coach, Urban Meyer, resuscitated the Heisman Trophy winner's football career. At 34 years old, Tebow signed a deal to be a backup tight end for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Both Tebow's and Meyer's motives were critiqued and questioned. ESPN's Stephen A. Smith accused Tebow and Meyer of exemplifying white privilege. Other broadcasters thought so little of Meyer's character that they claimed Meyer would give Tebow a regular-season roster spot whether he deserved it or not.

On Monday, Tebow was among the first players cut by the Jags and Meyer. Stephen A. Smith again claimed "white privilege" benefitted Tebow.

Would any of this be said about Megan Rapinoe? She's white.

If Tebow championed homosexuality, atheism, and Black Lives Matter, would any ESPN broadcasters have the courage to criticize him?

The U.S. women's soccer team turned in an embarrassing performance in the Tokyo Olympics, finishing in third place. It was supposed to be the Dream Team of women's soccer, arguably the most talented team ever assembled. Hope Solo strongly insinuated the team failed to win the gold medal because Rapinoe's agenda interfered with team chemistry.

"I think that's really hard being on the main stage right now with so many political issues for athletes," Solo said. "There's a lot of pressure, and ultimately at the end of the day, our number one focus should and has always been to win first."

Did the U.S. women lose because they were focused on politics rather than competition? It's a fair question. It makes sense. No country has spent more money on developing female soccer players than the United States.

Had the men's basketball team lost, the members would have been pilloried 24 hours a day, because they don't have the kind of triple Alphabet Mafia protection as Megan Rapinoe. She's female, gay, and pretends to worship Saint George Floyd.

Fearless: Black national anthem signals NFL permanently joining BLM-LGBTQIA+ ‘Alphabet Mafia’



Upon releasing Richard Sherman from custody Thursday evening, the presiding judge hailed the football star as a "pillar of the community."

Police arrested Sherman after the free agent cornerback violently tried to break into the home of his in-laws, threatened to kill himself and harm his wife, and drunkenly wrecked his Mercedes at a construction site.

Something is clearly wrong with one of Seattle's pillars. Fortunately for Sherman, he plays for the right political team. That team is going to protect Sherman at all costs.

That team is what I call the Alphabet Mafia — BLMLGBTQIA+.

The Alphabet Mafia is the new Dallas Cowboys, "America's Team," the team every kid dreams about making.

If you're wondering why the NFL will play the black national anthem — "Lift Every Voice and Sing" — before games in the coming season, it's an initiation ritual placed on the league for Alphabet Mafia membership.

As the Sherman case demonstrates, membership in the mob has its privileges. You can show early signs of O.J. Simpson disease and still be stamped as a pillar of your community. An uncle can call 911 and tell police that you threatened violence against your wife and corporate media will pretend the call never took place.

Let's say Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a friend of Donald Trump, had been accused of the actions attributed to Richard Sherman, would a judge label Belichick a pillar of the Boston community? Would the judge be skewered for giving Belichick "white privilege"?

Yesterday, it was reported the NFL will make the black national anthem standard procedure at its pregame activities. It was also reported that social justice messages will return on the backs of helmets and throughout the stadiums.

The news surprised some sports fans. Even the super-woke NBA backed away from its social justice messaging this season. The words Black Lives Matter were stripped from the court. This past NBA season felt halfway normal. The games no longer felt like ESPN's Maria Taylor was wagging a finger of blame as you watched.

Sports fans wrongly assumed the NFL would make the same pivot to normalcy that the NBA did.

Nope. Not true. Different men have different standards to achieve made status in the Alphabet Mafia. The NFL has more hoops to jump through. It's a process.

Third-string Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib being celebrated for coming out as gay was part of the process. The NFL's social media campaign promoting the league as gay, transgender, non-binary, and Winnie the Pooh was part of the process. So was pretending that women's soccer player Carli Lloyd could kick in the NFL. And so was the Super Bowl commercial based on the fallacy that a little black girl received a football scholarship to play cornerback.

Embracing the black national anthem is part of the process. Continuing the pagan worship of the good Dr. Rev. George Floyd Luther III is part of the process.

At some point, the Alphabet Mafia will demand — and the league will acquiesce — that Meghan Markle be named head coach of the Los Angeles Rams.

Why does the NFL so desperately want to join the Alphabet Mafia?

Because the league has been promised, if it promotes the appropriate narrative, that corporate media will quit terrorizing its brand with false and exaggerated accusations of racism and a lack of safety. The NFL's public relations problems regarding black head coaches and head trauma will disappear.

The league has been bullied into submission. The poor and weak leadership of commissioner Roger Goodell and executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent has made pop culture's strongest force — the NFL — vulnerable.

Football is being brought into the secret society, the fraternal satanic organizations reshaping global society. Global elites cannot socially engineer the changes they want without controlling the number 1 American TV show on five different networks — CBS, Fox, ESPN, NBC, and the NFL Network.

The NFL wants to be treated like Richard Sherman, so it's going to lift its voice and sing, until China's cash registers ring.

Whitlock: Gay NFL player Carl Nassib sparks penis envy and nothing more



I'm going to need additional proof of Carl Nassib's amazing courage.

From my vantage point, the 27-year-old Las Vegas Raiders defensive end looks more like a Colin Kaepernick variant than a Jackie Robinson strain.

Robinson, the baseball star, was a courageous trailblazer, opening doors for equal opportunity against a horrific backlash of bigotry. Kaepernick was and is an opportunist, a frustrated athlete who joined the "Alphabet Mafia" (BLM) for protection.

Rather than deal with the ramifications of his NFL fall from grace, Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem and blamed white racism for the collapse of his dream. Kap isn't unique. Few people — of any color — attribute their failures to the man or woman in the mirror.

Carl Nassib is not unique either. Nor is he heroic. He's simply putting a twist on the Kaepernick playbook.

By announcing on Instagram that he prefers to have sex with men, Nassib — listed as third string on the Raiders' depth chart — increased his likelihood of making the team's roster tenfold. He increased his chances of moving up the depth chart twentyfold. He increased his attractiveness to corporate advertisers a hundredfold.

In modern America, joining the Alphabet Mafia (LGBTQIA+) has more privileges than American Express. The Alphabet Mafia is LifeLock, a guarantee of your good name and the security of your finances while you sleep.

Nassib is untouchable. He and his agency, CAA (the don of dons in the Alphabet Mafia), are playing 3D chess.

In 2020, the Raiders signed Nassib as a free agent, handing him a three-year, $25 million contract with $16 million in guarantees. Nassib underperformed. He played the fewest number of snaps in his five-year, three-team career. He was mediocre against the run and as a pass-rusher (2.5 sacks).

This off season, the Raiders acquired veteran defensive end Yannick Ngakoue (two years, $26 million) and drafted defensive end Malcolm Koonce in the third round. Las Vegas already has 2019 No. 4 overall pick Clelin Ferrell and 2019 overachiever Maxx Crosby at right defensive end.

Nassib is from a football family. His dad played college football. So did both of his brothers, including an older brother who briefly played quarterback in the NFL. Nassib can do the calculus on the Raiders' roster and what he's up against in a critical season for him financially. If he has another season like last year, the Raiders will surely dump him and his career will likely come to an end.

His decision to become a made man in the Alphabet Mafia couldn't be more perfectly timed.

There will be a lot of pressure on Raiders coach Jon Gruden to put the team's brand-new media darling on the field so that broadcasters can pretend that where Nassib places his penis in the privacy of his home elevates his character and courage above his peers.

I don't see enhanced character or courage. I'm sorry. And I'm not homophobic. Not any more. When I was a kid, all the way through college, I was as dumb and homophobic as most of my football-playing peers.

Now? How consenting adults pleasure themselves sexually is irrelevant to me. Many of us, whether gay or straight, pleasure ourselves in sinful ways. I don't view my sexual sins as any more or less sinful than Nassib's. I'm fine letting God judge.

I'm also aware that there was a time not long ago when this society's hostility toward homosexuals was repugnant and inhumane. That time has passed. We've corrected that. The pendulum has now swung to the point that our society gives extra credit points to those who prefer same-sex.

Carl Nassib is aware of this swing. He's not tennis star Martina Navratilova living her truth against a wave of disapproval. He's not even Michael Sam entering the NFL after kissing his boyfriend on national TV.

Nassib is cashing in. His announcement that he prefers sex with men was greeted by thunderous applause everywhere, from the commissioner's office to the playing field and all across social media. Virtually no one had heard of Carl Nassib before he made his non-historic proclamation on Instagram.

Now major corporations will make it rain on Nassib. Corporate media outlets will deify and protect him the way they have George Floyd, Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, and all the other Alphabet Mafia members.

What excites Carl Nassib's penis has transformed an average NFL player into one of the most important people in sports.

If Kim Kardashian excites you, your penis envy is justified.