Superman's message to MAGA: ‘You’re not American’ if you don’t love immigrants



After being fired by Disney in 2018 for pedophilia and rape comments spotlighted on social media, “Superman” director James Gunn is no stranger to cancel culture.

However, this time, he’s facing backlash from conservatives after calling Superman “an immigrant that came from other places” in a new interview.

“I’m not here to judge people,” he told Variety magazine at the "Superman" premiere at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre. “I think this is a movie about kindness, and I think that’s something everyone can relate to.”


Gunn’s brother, Sean Gunn, who plays Maxwell Lord in the film, also took issue with the backlash.

“We support our people, you know? We love our immigrants. Yes, Superman is an immigrant, and yes, the people that we support in this country are immigrants, and if you don’t like that, you’re not American. People who say no to immigrants are against the American way,” his brother said.

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere is disappointed that yet another Hollywood film is going the woke route.

“Did you follow what happened with 'Snow White'? Did you see that whole situation? Did you not notice that people don’t want this type of messaging inside their movies? And if you’re going to do it, just shut up about it. Let people, you know, lead the horse to water, if you will. You don’t need to take the horse’s head and jam it under the liquid,” Burguiere says on “Stu Does America.”

According to Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of the Federalist, the outlook for the film isn’t bright anyway — and he has an interesting theory as to why they’re already jamming the immigration story down America’s throats.

“The movie is terrible, test audiences hated it, and they’re now running the Lady Ghostbusters marketing op so they can blame bigotry for their movie tanking instead of taking responsibility for making a garbage movie,” Davis said in a post on X.

“I kind of like that idea,” Burguiere comments, adding, “It’s certainly possible.”

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'It Ends with Us' star smacks NY Times with $250M fake news suit



When the New York Times is calling “woke” movies out of date, you know we’ve made progress.

Another sign? A new Netflix roast brimming with the most offensive gags possible. No joke, as an addled, soon-to-be ex-president might say.

A comedian is making people unsafe, according to a far-left comedian whose comedy trailer boasts that the special is about 'herstory.'

“Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year” debuted on the streamer mere days ago, and the reaction has been ... mild, to say the least.

No hashtag campaigns targeting Netflix or the assembled comics. No media hit pieces demanding an Apology TourTM for the offenders.

It’s not for lack of trying. The special poked fun at Bruce Willis’ dementia, Lizzo’s calorie count, and, most shocking of all, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death. The latter (courtesy of Tim Dillon) proved uniquely tasteless.

So where’s the outrage? All this scribe could find in a good faith Google News search was one story attempting to drum up panic over a Blake Lively reference.

"Netflix Comedy Roast Slammed for Untimely ‘C-Word’ Joke About Blake Lively," Decider.com shrieked. Breaking news: It’s no longer 2020 (thank goodness) ...

Chappelle moan

Add Michelle Buteau to the list of comedians telling their peers what they can and cannot say.

The star of Netflix’s just-released “Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind” takes aim at Dave Chappelle in the hour-long special. Fair enough, and that’s certainly punching up, to use the left’s parlance.

It’s what she said that’s more than a little creepy.

Buteau called out Chappelle for making jokes about the trans community. That, too, isn’t new. The left has been doing just that since Chappelle’s 2021 special “The Closer” debuted.

Except she suggested Chappelle is putting people at risk.

“Dave, it’s not funny, it’s dangerous. ... Make it funny. I can’t believe somebody would make millions and millions of dollars for making people feel unsafe. That is so wild to me, truly.”

A comedian is making people unsafe, according to a far-left comedian whose comedy trailer boasts that the special is about “herstory.”

Cue the eye rolls.

Bet she thinks we should defund the police, embrace Soros-supported prosecutors, and keep every item at Walgreens behind bulletproof glass.

It’s a mystery why Donald Trump is heading back to the White House later this month ...

Vintage Chevy

Hollywood stars rarely trash one another.

They’re part of a unique community, one where jobs are scarce and opportunities dry up after a single box-office dud. It’s a cruel business, which helps explain why so many keep secrets about their peers.

Except when it comes to Chevy Chase.

The cast of Chase’s old show “Community” has little love for the comedy legend. And he won’t be part of the upcoming “Community” revival film.

Chase’s reputation precedes him, but the team behind “Saturday Night” invited him to a sneak peek of the film anyway. The movie recalls the 90 chaotic minutes behind the very first “SNL” episode back in 1975.

So what did Chase think of the film, which features actor Cory Michael Smith playing his younger self? “Saturday Night” director Jason Reitman shares the reaction with the “Fly on the Wall” podcast.

“[Chase] comes up to me after, and he pats me on the shoulder and goes, ‘Well, you should be embarrassed,'" Reitman recalled to hosts Dana Carvey and David Spade.

Was that an out-and-out dig? Was it just Chevy being Chevy and ribbing the director? Reitman can’t say for sure. It’s worth adding that Smith’s portrayal of Chase is ... complicated in the film. That Chase ego is in full effect, but it also shows him to be a first-class talent.

Bottom line? Never invite Chase to your movie premiere. Better safe than sorry ...

Blake Libely?

The new year is still very, very new, but the most dramatic storyline is already under way.

Very late last year, actress Blake Lively sued “It Ends with Us” co-star and director Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment. Team Baldoni fired back, promising a countersuit to protect his name and allegedly set the record straight.

Now, Baldoni is suing the New York Times for what he claims is the platform’s erroneous reporting on the legal imbroglio.

The $250 million suit, according to Variety, is “for libel and false light invasion of privacy over the Dec. 21 article titled 'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.”

The old gray lady fired back, saying team Baldoni “have not pointed to a single error” in the piece in question.

Stay tuned. No matter how this plays out, it’s going to make one heck of a fact-based movie.

‘Gladiator II’ is a MAGA metaphor



Hollywood sequels rarely achieve the magic of the original, but “Gladiator II” comes close. Except for the familiar populist framework of a lone man taking on “the system” against all odds, the echoes to the original are sufficiently distant that the new movie feels fresh and original.

Plus, it turns out that Ridley Scott’s blockbuster is a timely, if unwitting, metaphor for Donald Trump’s own sequel, which is off to a better start than his original. This time he won the popular vote and his transition is smoother, most recently featuring Trump’s triumphant trip to Paris, Kash Patel’s appointment to lead the FBI, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s obeisant visit to Mar-a-Lago.

Someday, Hollywood will understand what most Americans already see: Donald Trump is a gladiator for the dream that is America.

This is what Trump’s “revenge” looks like. Compared to a "Gladiator"-inspired populist revolt, it’s both genteel and more satisfying: What red-blooded American viewer doesn’t enjoy seeing Trump arm-wrestling with Macron again and making a nanny-state bully like Trudeau heel, or seeing him appoint bold populists like Patel, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard to lead, and turn upside down, politicized government agencies that sought to do him in?

Ancient Rome has always been both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for America’s leaders. George Washington modeled on Cincinnatus by relinquishing his military power to enhance civilian government, and he frequently quoted the Roman senator Cato, who sacrificed his life in support of the Roman Republic. The Founders chose an eagle as our national symbol — the symbol of the Roman god Jupiter used to represent Roman power.

Both John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams idolized the Roman orator Cicero. More ominously, Abraham Lincoln’s stage-actor assassin John Wilkes Booth played the role of Mark Antony in an 1864 New York City performance of “Julius Caesar,” with his brother Edwin playing Brutus. And as he leaped from the president’s box in Ford’s Theater, Booth shouted “Sic semper tyrannis,” the words attributed to Brutus as he killed Ceasar.

Over the course of our nation’s history, comparisons between the United States and ancient Rome have focused on the fall of Rome as a caution for America. The comparisons range from financial mismanagement to far-flung and overextended military commitments.

Ridley Scott got it wrong

So Roman lessons for the U.S. are nothing new. Ridley Scott, who produced and directed “Gladiator II,” drew parallels between his movie and contemporary American politics in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, but — this is fun! — he’s spectacularly wrong about both.

Scott told the Hollywood Reporter that he modeled the heavy in “Gladiator II” — a creepy, Machiavellian opportunist whom Denzel Washington brings to life — on Donald Trump.

“He evolved into a very rich merchant selling s**t to the Roman armies — food, oil, wine, cloth, weapons, everything,” Scott said. “He maybe had a million men spread around Europe. So he was a billionaire at the time, so why wouldn’t he [have ambitions toward the throne]? ‘Why not me?’ He’s also a gangster – very close to Trump. A clever gangster. He creates chaos, and from chaos he can evolve.”

Is anyone surprised that a Hollywood liberal misses the point about Trump in his own movie? Ridley Scott has it precisely backward: The Trump parallel is not the scheming creature of the Roman political swamp, but the hero, a prince who would not bow to those who sought to crush and kill him. It’s Trump’s rivals, scheming, duplicitous power-seekers seeking to whip up hate, who are whispering in the ear of a non compos mentis leader.

And what ultimately drove the young prince to become the populist leader of Rome? As he approaches the inevitable climactic death match, the gladiator himself reprises the core idea from the first film: “The dream that was Rome.” It’s a fragile dream of a republic that will only be achieved by taking back power from corrupt, weak leaders and scheming politicians.

‘The best revenge’

The gladiator’s speech about Rome applies to contemporary America. It’s about recapturing the American dream and refreshing government of, by, and for the forgotten people — instead of the powerful — the very ideas that bring cheers to a Trump rally.

With that in mind, consider the words ascribed to Marcus Aurelius — words that the film’s hero and villain both quote: “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury” or “the best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

Trump’s many enemies, the folks whipping up fear that he will use government power to go after political enemies as the Democrats did to him, misunderstand MAGA “revenge,” as Trump made clear again during his long Sunday interview with Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.” Government institutions that have been infused with politics and corrupted away from their purpose are not reformed by changing the politics but by purging the politics.

Trump’s revenge is to be different, to empower allies to reveal and reform corruption, and to reduce the power of government over the people instead of expanding it.

Nothing will crush his haters more than being a great president. “I’m really looking to make our country successful,” Trump told Kristen Welker. “I’m not looking to go back into the past. I’m looking to make our country successful. Retribution will be through success. If we can make this country successful, that would be my greatest, that would be such a great achievement. Bring it back.”

Trump’s 2024 victory against all the forces arrayed against him is just the opening act of his sequel. Now the fun really begins. Someday, Hollywood will understand what most Americans already see: Donald Trump is a gladiator for the dream that is America.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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Ricky Gervais says he wants to 'try and get canceled' through his new stand-up show — and that no subject should be off limits in comedy



Comedian Ricky Gervais declared he wants to "try and get canceled" through his new stand-up show "Armageddon," Yahoo Entertainment reported.

"I’m treating it like it’s my last one ever. It won’t be, but I want to put everything into it. I want to try and get canceled ... I just want to go all out there," Gervais said, according to the outlet, which cited Heat magazine.

The relentlessly irreverent 60-year-old added his new show is "about the end of the world and how we’re going to destroy ourselves for lots of reasons, whether it’s media stupidity or the actual end of the world," Yahoo Entertainment reported.

Interestingly, a little more than a year ago Gervais vowed never to fall victim to cancel culture, saying during a podcast it's akin to "road rage."

"What is being canceled? It's having no platform. And what can they do to me? Who's gonna cancel me? Twitter? YouTube?" the British comic noted. "If I have to, I'll go to Hyde Park and stand up on a bench and shout s**t."

No limits in comedy

And in a Monday interview with the Wall Street Journal, Gervais explored the idea of whether comedy should have limits — and, you guessed, he said "no."

“There’s no subject you shouldn’t joke about,” he told the Journal. “It depends on the joke. As a journalist, there’s nothing you wouldn’t write about. It depends on your angle, right? I think a lot of this pious offense comes from people mistaking the target of the joke with the subject. You can joke about anything, but it depends on what the actual target is. If you use irony and people see that at face value and think you’re saying one thing, but you’re actually saying the opposite."

Gervais added to the paper that "even the critical thinkers, if it’s a subject that’s personal to them, they can’t see the wood for the trees, they can’t see objectively. People laugh at 19 of the terrible subjects I joke about, but not the 20th because that affects them.”

The Journal also asked him about his reaction to “the Golden Globes being essentially reduced to a live blog this year." And Gervais — who shocked many with his take-no-prisoners monologue that massacred left-wing celebrity culture during the 2020 iteration of the awards show — replied that he doesn't watch such programming.

'How dare he insult the most important people in the world?'

“The only time I’ve ever seen an awards show was one that I’m at,” he told the paper. “I’m either winning or losing an award or presenting it. They’re fun for the industry, you know? The first time I [hosted] the Golden Globes — I did it five times over 10 years — it was palpable. People were going, 'Who does he think he is? How dare he insult the most important people in the world?' Over that 10-year period, the world changed. By the last time I did it, it was very different. I kept doing my thing and now people were going, ‘Yeah, give it to them. We hate celebrities. We’re tired of being told what to do by people with everything. We’re tired of being told to recycle when we know they got there in their private jet or limo.'”

Here's a look back at Gervais' unforgettable address to the glittery and glamorous that night two years ago. (Content warning: Language):

 Ricky Gervais – Golden Globes 2020 (Uncensored, HD)youtu.be

(H/T: The Daily Wire)

Denzel Washington rejects Hollywood's diversity obsession, says it 'shouldn't even be mentioned'



Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington appeared to brush off Hollywood's obsession with diversity in a recent media interview, suggesting the buzzword "shouldn't even be mentioned" when promoting works of art.

The legendary movie star took a decidedly more color-blind approach to arts and entertainment than the one espoused by modern progressive "anti-racism" advocates while discussing his new film, “The Tragedy of Macbeth," which is a stripped-down retelling of the Shakespearean classic.

“Obviously we are diverse, so I think that’s a great thing,” Washington told NBC BLK, a news segment devoted to the African-American perspective, during a roundtable meeting with other media outlets.

But then he added: “You know, in my humble opinion, we ought to be at a place where diversity shouldn’t even be mentioned, like it’s something special. These young kids — black, white, blue, green, or whatever — are highly talented and qualified. So that’s why they’re there.”

Of course, the actor acknowledged the topic of diversity was bound to come up given the film's diverse cast, headlined by Washington. In the Joel Coen-directed film, Washington plays the lead character, Macbeth, a troubled Scottish lord who plots with his wife to murder the king and seize the throne.

But Washington seemed to rebuff society's fixation on race over and above everything else, at times to the detriment of showcasing people's talents and abilities.

Reporting on the news, Newsbusters noted that the actor's words served as a "powerful reminder" of Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech.

During the famous speech, King stated, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Washington, a widely respected American figure, has made countercultural statements in the past.

Early last year, as widespread anti-police sentiment swept the nation, Washington threw his public support behind law enforcement, saying, "I have the utmost respect for what they do, for what our soldiers do, [people] that sacrifice their lives," Washington answered.

"I just don't care for people who put those kind of people down," he continued. "If it weren't for them, we would not have the freedom to complain about what they do."

Then in December, Washington, an outspoken Christian, turned a New York Times interview into a full-throated sermon, explaining that sin is the root cause of all division and lightly suggesting that his interviewer read the Bible to experience how deeply it relates to her life.

Far-left actor Mark Ruffalo apologizes for accusing Israel of 'genocide'



Far-left actor Mark Ruffalo, best known for playing "The Hulk" in Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe, apologized on Tuesday for making social media posts that accused Israel of committing "genocide" amid the conflict between the world's lone Jewish state and the terrorist group Hamas.

"I have reflected & wanted to apologize for posts during the recent Israel/Hamas fighting that suggested Israel is committing 'genocide,'" Ruffalo tweeted. "It's not accurate, it's inflammatory, disrespectful & is being used to justify antisemitism here & abroad. Now is the time to avoid hyperbole."

 
 

I have reflected & wanted to apologize for posts during the recent Israel/Hamas fighting that suggested Israel is c… https://t.co/YJ0DPBpKzf

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Ruffalo's apology follows a recent increase in hate crimes committed against Jews in the United States and abroad in the weeks of renewed conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. In several recent social media posts, Ruffalo took the Palestinians' side, comparing Israeli treatment of the Palestinians to apartheid in South Africa.

 
 

1500 Palestinians face expulsion in #Jerusalem. 200 protesters have been injured. 9 children have been killed. Sanc… https://t.co/n3FUsv6fME

— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) 1620738353.0 
 

"1500 Palestinians face expulsion in #Jerusalem," Ruffalo wrote on May 11, sharing a petition that called for international sanctions against the Israeli government. "200 protesters have been injured. 9 children have been killed. Sanctions on South Africa helped free its black people – it's time for sanctions on Israel to free Palestinians. Join the call."

After 11 days of violence, with Hamas terrorists targeting Israeli civilians with rocket attacks and the Israeli Defense Forces responding with airstrikes in Gaza, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire last Friday. Palestinian officials reported that 248 people were killed in Gaza, including women and children. On the Israeli side, 13 people were killed — a seemingly disproportionate number of casualties that can be attributed to Israel's Iron Dome defense system protecting Israelis while Hamas fighters position tunnels, rocket launchers, and command and control infrastructure in close proximity to Palestinian civilians.

It is unclear when Ruffalo shared a social media post accusing Israel of "genocide", but after his apology a vocal segment of his 7.5 million followers on social media accused him of moderating his support for the Palestinians. Some suggested that Disney, which owns Marvel Studios, forced him to make an apology.

While Disney's involvement is pure speculation, it would not be the first time the House of Mouse cracked down on one of its stars for controversial social media posts. In February, Disney fired "The Mandalorian" actress Gina Carano after a social media campaign demanded she lose her job for making a controversial Instagram post that compared censorship of conservative points of view and cancel culture to the Holocaust.

Ruffalo posting that Israel is committing "genocide" is at least as controversial as Carano's Holocaust post. But Disney has not yet responded to the tweet from its bigger star, at least not publicly.

From Hollywood liberal to proud Trump-supporter, Comedian Nicole Arbour on why she left the Left



Comedian and social media influencer Nicole Arbour has quite the transformation story: She has an honorary star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, had her own Sports Illustrated calendar, and saw the hypocrisy of Hollywood's elites firsthand. Now, she's a proud Trump supporter.

Nicole joined Glenn Beck on the radio program to talk about her journey, the "super power" of having nothing to hide, and the story of the first time she noticed that the Hollywood crowd isn't who they say they are.

Watch the video below to catch more of the conversation:


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'What's the opposite of a**hole?': How this liberal comedian became a Trump supporter



In this episode of "The Rubin Report," Dave Rubin talks to comedian Nicole Arbour about why she left the Left, her experiences with horrible fake celebrities, and why she doesn't fear Big Tech social media censorship.

Nicole shared a story of how Hillary Clinton's campaign team tried to frame her as a Hillary supporter before the 2016 election. She also gives her unfiltered opinion on David Hogg, the gun control activist who survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.

She also shared her political evolution and why she decided to walk away from the Left after she got to know some President Donald Trump supporters and spent a bit too much time around hypocritical Hollywood liberals.

"I started to see the unraveling of everything I've been taught," Nicole told Dave. "I mean, you go to enough parties in Hollywood and you learn they're all douchebags. [...] I started to see that every single thing these people pretend they are, they're actually the opposite. And I thought, 'What's the opposite of a**hole? I want to go that way'."

Catch more of the conversation in the video below:

Content warning: Explicit language 



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