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Robert Reich Plots to Help Trump
The American Spectator ^ | December 22, 2016 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 12/22/2016 2:11:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

It was a simple Facebook post. And former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich got right to the point as headlined here in Mediaite:

Former Secretary of Labor Proposes ‘Freedom Concert’ To Overshadow Inauguration

The former Secretary’s post (full disclosure: Mr. Reich and I have been occasional sparring partners on CNN) read as follows:

Robert Reich on Sunday

The Trump people are upset that the only musicians willing to perform at the Trump inauguration are Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.

Someone just suggested to me a televised “freedom concert” to air at the same time as the inauguration — with huge celebrities like Beyoncé and Jay Z, Madonna, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, and so on. Alec Baldwin MC’s the event, playing Trump as he does on SNL.

Presto. The Trump inauguration loses all the TV ratings. Basically, no one watches it.

Even better, the proceeds of the freedom concert go to the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Lambda Legal, NAACP, Common Cause, CAIR, IRAP, SPLC, Environmental Defense Fund, Human Rights Campaign Fund, MoveOn, Economic Policy Institute, Inequality Media, and GLAD....

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: elites; hollywood; inauguration; musicians; pennsylvania; trump
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1 posted on 12/22/2016 2:11:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fine, let’s separate the winners from the whiners. I know which one I’ll be watching.


2 posted on 12/22/2016 2:14:41 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump gets all the ratings this mental-midget could only dream of having.

Pffft!


3 posted on 12/22/2016 2:15:25 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reich is a commie troll.


4 posted on 12/22/2016 2:18:58 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Huskrrrr

Yay!!! Now I get a chance to boycott those sore losers. I never listen to them anyway, so it’s made me a little sad that I can’t reduce their audience.

I’d rather listen to DJT sing the Green Acres theme song than listen to any of them.


5 posted on 12/22/2016 2:19:40 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d rather hear Nuge any day than those dweebs listed by the left. Been a Nugent fan since I was a teen, before I knew he was the super rocker with the right politics. And the politics just make him that much better :)


6 posted on 12/22/2016 2:19:42 PM PST by Wneighbor (Deplorable. And we win!)
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Presto. The Trump inauguration loses all the TV ratings. Basically, no one watches it.

Yeah, right. A major event like a Presidential inauguration will lose all of its viewers to a televised concert. What a child Reich is to even think of such a thing.

7 posted on 12/22/2016 2:23:15 PM PST by NJRighty ("It's sick out there and getting sicker" - Bob Grant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Nuge is good...F ‘em.


8 posted on 12/22/2016 2:25:20 PM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Robert B Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhha
9 posted on 12/22/2016 2:30:13 PM PST by EveningStar
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oh yeah. That’s gonna work.

Have Colin Kaepernick MC the event.


10 posted on 12/22/2016 2:34:45 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s an angry little elf. He must be a South Pole elf.


11 posted on 12/22/2016 2:39:08 PM PST by canalabamian ("The same things win, that always won..." Coach Paul W. Bryant)
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Anything to keep the babies quite while the grownups handle things.


12 posted on 12/22/2016 2:40:49 PM PST by Cowgirl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Absolutely mind boggling how petty and small these people are. No class.


13 posted on 12/22/2016 2:43:43 PM PST by Timmy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They do realize he will be sworn in on January 20th whether anybody is watching or not, right?


14 posted on 12/22/2016 2:43:46 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A Dwarf tossing contest, too?

15 posted on 12/22/2016 2:44:38 PM PST by JPG (TRUMP WINS!!)
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To: Timmy

“Absolutely mind boggling how petty and small these people are. No class.”

Well, when you say “small” Robert Reich has that covered in every way. Honey, I shrunk the Libtard.


16 posted on 12/22/2016 2:46:29 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast ("Now it's up to the American people to deliver justice")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“with huge celebrities like Beyoncé and Jay Z, Madonna, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Gaga, Bruce Springsteen”

Ha! I wouldn’t want to listen to any of them. Well, Bruce did a couple songs back in the 80s that are alright, I guess.


17 posted on 12/22/2016 2:47:49 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Cowgirl

I know that our president-elect is a showman, but I think that for once it would send a great message to the whole country to do away with the customary big inauguration festivities.

Just take the oath of office in some appropriate place with the appropriate witnesses, then get down to a hard day’s work cancelling all of Obama’s executive orders.


18 posted on 12/22/2016 2:48:06 PM PST by Nothingburger
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To: Timmy
HRC probably promised him a job where he could steal and not be prosecuted.

That, or a chance to vacay with WJC and Jeffrey Epstein.

19 posted on 12/22/2016 2:48:58 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess the ratings collapse of all the music awards shows, declining movie attendance and the like just went over Reich’s head. Pretty low bar, admittedly, but it did.


20 posted on 12/22/2016 2:50:49 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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