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Andrea Bocelli Bullied Out of Inauguration Appearance
MRC News Busters ^ | 12-20-16 | Maggie McKneely

Posted on 12/20/2016 9:54:52 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Inauguration performances use to be an honor, a celebration of America’s unique electoral system. But the media has reduced this year’s to a B-list side gig that only desperate artists would dare to play at. When news broke that popular blind tenor Andrea Bocelli would be singing at Trump’s inauguration, people took to social media and started a push to punish him for showing any support for the President-elect. Now, one month before the event, Bocelli has decided the performance isn’t worth the backlash.

Twitter users adopted the #boycottbocelli hashtag to show their horror that a well-respected artist would dare agree to perform at the January inauguration. The social media fervor has now become so intense that Bocelli has backed out of the performance.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boycotts; bullies; liberals; twitter
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This is despicable.
1 posted on 12/20/2016 9:54:52 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Socialists are bullies. And in other news, the sun rose in the East this morning.


2 posted on 12/20/2016 9:56:19 AM PST by thorvaldr
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Liberals are not just unhinged, they are pathological.


3 posted on 12/20/2016 9:56:47 AM PST by sarasota
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Perhaps a nice Church Choir could step in and sing hymns. Or would that be offensive?


4 posted on 12/20/2016 9:57:02 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Liberals doing what they do best..if they want to know what INTOLERANCE looks like they need to have a good hard look in the MIRROR..they are the most bigoted, racist pieces of filth you can ever come across


5 posted on 12/20/2016 9:57:28 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Liberals are the real Fascists.


6 posted on 12/20/2016 9:57:42 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Reportedly he received death threats
What an effective way to achieve social justice

The 16 year old singer Jackie Evancho and her family are under similar attack


7 posted on 12/20/2016 9:58:51 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I bet Ted Nugent will play and not be bullied?


8 posted on 12/20/2016 9:58:58 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I find it a shame this person DID NOT stand up to this bullying!!! WE must start to STAND UP AGAINST THIS CRAP!!!!


9 posted on 12/20/2016 10:00:19 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

I’m sure that there are quite a few people that would be honored to perform. The liberals can only boycott, bully, and push the weak. If a performer is too weak to stand in the face of the bullies, then he or she shouldn’t be there anyway.


10 posted on 12/20/2016 10:02:36 AM PST by CPONav
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To: afraidfortherepublic

My 15 year-old son points out, how do liberals carry out threats to kill people if they don’t believe in guns? Run people over? Throw rocks at them? What do they do?


11 posted on 12/20/2016 10:03:16 AM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Tolerance is required for thee but not for mee!

The snowflakes are getting (even more) out of hand. Time to fire this baby up:


12 posted on 12/20/2016 10:03:34 AM PST by Little Pig
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

SOROS needs to be extradited to Russia!!!! This BASTARD has done to much damage to our nation!!!


13 posted on 12/20/2016 10:03:59 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

perfect for ted nugent !


14 posted on 12/20/2016 10:04:49 AM PST by seastay
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To: ClearCase_guy

>>Perhaps a nice Church Choir could step in and sing hymns. Or would that be offensive?

I was thinking the same thing. He should bring in Christian voices and have them point out before they sing that (name of secular artist) was supposed to be performing in this spot, but God can even work with Godless Communists who forced the secular artist off the stage so this message from the Lord your God could be given instead.

It will sound like a giant popcorn popper as Proggie heads explode across the nation.


15 posted on 12/20/2016 10:05:17 AM PST by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: seastay; LS
Larry, advise Team Trump to reach out to TED NUGENT.

H/t seastay.

16 posted on 12/20/2016 10:06:56 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

These things should work both ways. I do not listen to Bocelli’s type music but certainly would not again if I did. I quit going to the movies years ago because of two faced hypocrite so called movie stars. Then I found out without make-up most of them were as ugly as homemade sin!


17 posted on 12/20/2016 10:07:16 AM PST by Herman Ball
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To: CPONav

There are PLENTY of country western entertainers that would LOVE and be honored to do the inauguration they also pack heat and won’t be bullied!!!


18 posted on 12/20/2016 10:07:21 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: married21
Libs are all for the government, thugs and criminals having guns, just not the law-abiding citizens. Had Hillary won, the 2nd Amendment would have been under a real threat.
19 posted on 12/20/2016 10:07:41 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Might as well do the gig anyway. He’s already been outed, so it isn’t like he won’t face future blacklisting regardless.


20 posted on 12/20/2016 10:08:05 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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