Posted on 11/04/2015 8:05:33 PM PST by Vision Thing
Protesters gathered outside of NBC's famed headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City on Wednesday for a "Dump Trump" rally ahead of Donald Trump's appearance as the host of Saturday Night Live this weekend.
A petition decrying the Republican presidential candidate's upcoming appearance on the comedy show was delivered by the protesters -- who gathered outside the building that houses SNL studios -- to the executives at NBC.
The box containing the signatures read, "522,080 petition signatures demanding that NBC revoke Donald Trump's invitation to host Saturday Night Live on Saturday, November 7th, 2015."
Juan Escalante, a staffer with America's Voice, an immigration reform group, delivered the petition.
Several of the organizations participating in the rally said that NBC's invitation to Trump legitimizes his comments about racism and immigration reform.
"We believe this individual has been very divisive toward the Latino community," said Brent Wilkes, the national executive director for the League of United Latin American Citizens. "He's called us rapists, murderers. He's called us criminals. He's called us drug dealers. And that's extremely offensive to us. And there's no space for someone like that on a comedy show like Saturday Night Live."
"It hurts us," said Alex Nogales, one of the main organizers for the rally and the president and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition. "[SNL] is a cultural program -- this is not a news program."
Several protesters waved printed signs that read, "#RacismIsntFunny."
Karina Garcia, 30, whose family is from Mexico, said that Trump's comments earlier this summer about immigrants made his candidacy a "personal" issue.
"This level of racism ... it's like a tumor that if you ignore it, it actually spreads," she said. "It's unconscionable that they would do this — that they would give him this stage."
When asked about the Latino protest and petition, calling on NBC and SNL to rescind its invitation to Donald Trump, representatives for NBC and SNL declined to comment.
Is that all they got?
Trump should pull 15 million viewers.
Game over.
Trump and SNL win.
They’re ensuring a larger audience lol
500,000 are illegals
I miss the grand old days when a president or a presidential contender acted presidential. Ronald Reagan did not play his sax on SNL . . . he believed the office of president was above all else and maintained the dignity of the office 24/7.
Give ‘em Jeb, then they’d really have something to protest
Wasn’t Hillary on the show? She supports baby murder - a good percentage of whom are black or Hispanic. She’s been on SNL.
These protesters don’t have a problem with genocide?
lemme guess; half of the petitioners are named Jesus Garcia and list the same address which turns out to be a mail drop in NYC, right?
The crowd was 50 people !
Note how the Dem media spin avoids the crowd size of 50 !
I’m surprised they haven’t copied that other grievance group and started the hashtag #latinolivesmatter.
Sorry , only 40 people
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/11/04/latino-snl-protest-event-fails-to-draw-crowd/
And since they are functionally illiterate, they all signed the petition with an "x".
How on earth do these people have time to participate in this nonsense? Are their lives that empty?
Nixon went on “Laugh In”————very strange IMHO.
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That's exactly what I say about illegal immigration and socialism.
Maybe someday.
But only after the vast majority of the people who voted for barack shallowbama die off.
“How on earth do these people have time to participate in this nonsense? Are their lives that empty?”
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They’ve been devastated by the death of the “Occupy” movement.
This will keep them out of trouble for a few more days.
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Actually, Ronald Reagan attended those risque (but hilarious) Dean Martin Roasts on tv when he was a Presidential aspirant.
And they socked it to him.
The snl writers will have something to protest, too. They aren't talented enough to make Jeb appear likeable. Those writers will complain they are being forced to do the impossible.
“And they socked it to him.”
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Yep !
I detested the show but my husband absolutely loved it.
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