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Seven Dumbest Celebrity Reactions to Las Vegas Massacre
Newsbusters.org ^ | October 7, 2017 | Christian Toto

Posted on 10/07/2017 12:45:03 PM PDT by Kaslin

Some stars sent their thoughts and prayers to the dead and wounded. Others said the stupidest things possible.

No one does “hot takes” worse than celebrities.

Name the hot button issue, and chances are a star will have something downright stupefying to share. Often it comes in ALL CAPS … but not always.

Some stars sent their thoughts and prayers to the dead and wounded. Others said the stupidest things possible.

No one does “hot takes” worse than celebrities.

Name the hot button issue, and chances are a star will have something downright stupefying to share. Often it comes in ALL CAPS … but not always.

This happened again after Stephen Paddock, 64, shot into a crowded concert audience in Las Vegas Sunday night, killing 59 and wounding hundreds.

Awful. Tragic. Heartbreaking.

And the instinct to respond, to offer up some kind of solution to gun shootings, is understandable.

The following celebrity reactions hardly fit into that category. Instead, they’re just plain dumb, ugly or a toxic combination of the two.

On with more dumb reactions:

 

The Daily Show host Trevor Noah weighed in on the “time” to talk about gun violence:

“When is the time?” Noah asked. “And also, if you say after a mass shooting is ‘never the time’, you’ll never have the conversation in America, because there’s a mass shooting almost every single day. So when is the time?

“When a plane crashes, we talk about plane safety immediately. When a bridge collapses, we talk about infrastructure immediately,” Noah added. “We seem to do everything to avoid talking about guns.”

Does it even need to be said that American conversations on guns have been roiling for years? That we rigorously talk about guns across every possible platform and will continue to do so?

Finally, here’s the most disingenuous comment from Kimmel. It doesn’t necessarily fit into the “dumb” category, but it needs to be exposed all the same:

“I want this to be a comedy show,” he promised. “I hate talking about stuff like this. I just want to give you something to laugh about at night. But that has become increasingly difficult lately. And lately, it feels like someone opened a window into hell.”

Balderdash.

Kimmel is loving every ounce of his pundit transformation. He gets to pontificate on the news of the day, bash his ideological enemies and bask in press adulation.

UPDATE: The dumbest celebrity comment, by far, comes from Miss Sloane herself, Jessica Chastain:


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: banglist; hollywood; jimmykimmel; lasvegas; lenadurnham; nevada
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1 posted on 10/07/2017 12:45:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

How ‘bout we summarize all celeb posts as being dumb on pretty much any issue.


2 posted on 10/07/2017 12:49:46 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Yeah exactly.


3 posted on 10/07/2017 12:53:13 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Kaslin

Why hasn’t Fatboy Mikey Moore been indicted yet? He’s the world’s largest “ham sandwich”. Sorry Fatboy, Mueller and the Clintoon lawyer Gaystapo task force have been busting their asses looking for something to indict PRESIDENT Trump with but they can’t find anything.


4 posted on 10/07/2017 12:55:46 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Second Amendment. NOW more than ever!)
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To: ealgeone

I’m for it.


5 posted on 10/07/2017 12:56:23 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: ealgeone
These people live and breath in a make believe world and produce nothing at all which is a benefit to society. Yet, somehow, they seem to think I care about what they think.

You just can't fix stupid.

6 posted on 10/07/2017 12:57:09 PM PDT by Bitman
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To: Bitman

So we can’t judge all mozlums by the act of a few, but we can condemn all gun-owners for vegas ay?


7 posted on 10/07/2017 1:03:20 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP ! - I love my online family of FReepers.)
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To: Kaslin
You forgot this one:
8 posted on 10/07/2017 1:03:39 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Kaslin
... chances are a star will have something downright stupefying to share...

What do you expect?

For a living, they say things other people tell them to say.

Why would anyone expect them to be able to string together more than three or four rational, coherent words?

9 posted on 10/07/2017 1:17:02 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t think they want people to watch their movies or tv shows anymore. It’s good to know who to avoid since they have such big, stupid mouths.


10 posted on 10/07/2017 1:20:39 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Kaslin

Most of the celebrity trash talk about gun owners and the NRA is narcissist celebs preening for their show biz friends to see who can be the most sanctimonious about the Second Amendment, the evils of the NRA and those scary guns they hate so much.

This drivel, even as the same multimillionaire ‘celebrities’ have armed bodyguards to protect them from the ‘little people’ that helped make them rich and famous.

Hypocrisy on stilts and eventually, for some, a career-killer - I hope.


11 posted on 10/07/2017 1:24:39 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Kaslin

Over 65 million plus innocent babies murdered/tortured/ripped out of the womb - no outrage from libs since the genocide was legalized.


12 posted on 10/07/2017 1:27:49 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: Kaslin

When are they going to demand guns be taken out of movies?


13 posted on 10/07/2017 2:26:27 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Beowulf9

And then she goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid


14 posted on 10/07/2017 3:25:00 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Beowulf9

The 2nd Amendment is a civil right, the NRA is a civil rights organization.

Remind the next liberal you meet.


15 posted on 10/07/2017 4:28:27 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Kaslin

They are celebrities only in their minds. Lena Denham is just a bag who someone thought was funny. Half of those MFs dropped out of school and couldn’t spell cat if you gave them the letters C-A-T.


16 posted on 10/07/2017 4:51:06 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: Fitzy_888

“The 2nd Amendment is a civil right, the NRA is a civil rights organization.”

Good one. Of course, it is also a *human* right.


17 posted on 10/07/2017 6:32:17 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Kaslin

CHOICE killed about 3,300 today

It does so about every day

We'll have around one MILLION dead future Americans at the end of the year

How many elephants can fit into a room anyway?

18 posted on 10/07/2017 7:12:12 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dsc

Luke 22:38

So they said, “Look, Lord, here are two swords.”
“That is enough,” He answered.


19 posted on 10/07/2017 7:19:16 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: BillyBoy

I finally watched “Bowling for Columbine” a couple months ago. It seemed to me it made a great case as to why gun control does NOT work.


20 posted on 10/08/2017 10:23:45 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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