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Steven Van Zandt Says 'Hamilton' Cast Should Apologize for Setting a 'Terrible Precedent'
Billboard ^ | November 20, 2016 | Michele Amabile Angermiller

Posted on 11/20/2016 1:21:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, took to Twitter all day Saturday (Nov. 19) calling on the cast of Hamilton to apologize to Vice President-elect Mike Pence for their speech following Friday's performance.

"A guy comes to a Broadway show for a relaxing night out. Instead he gets a lecture from the stage! Not a level playing field. It's bullying," he wrote. "You don't single out an audience member and embarrass him from the stage. A terrible precedent to set."(continued)

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Politics
KEYWORDS: broadway; pence; theatre; vanzandt
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1 posted on 11/20/2016 1:21:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shut up and sing.


2 posted on 11/20/2016 1:23:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; vette6387; flat; unkus; SkyPilot; left that other site; MinuteGal; mazda77; ...

I would rather they sing to an empty house or were in the unemployment lines.


3 posted on 11/20/2016 1:24:52 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

It would be sweet if that happened.


4 posted on 11/20/2016 1:27:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Haters gotta hate. Won’t be no apology.


5 posted on 11/20/2016 1:27:38 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

6 posted on 11/20/2016 1:30:40 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We don’t need his help/pity and from any celebritard. Our side can punish those clowns on our own.


7 posted on 11/20/2016 1:31:19 PM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is good here is that Van Zandt is one of the left’s own. I’m sure he despises Trump/Pence but I applaud him for what he said about the Hamilton incident.


8 posted on 11/20/2016 1:31:35 PM PST by Artemis Webb (Ted Kennedy burns in hell.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He has a very good point.


9 posted on 11/20/2016 1:31:58 PM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Terrible precedent???

Its in the DNA of the post-modern, cultural Marxists to insert politics into everything - art, music, theater, religion, sports, etc...

Its been happening for the last 60 years. This guy is only noticing it now???


10 posted on 11/20/2016 1:32:13 PM PST by PGR88
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The cast and management of Hamilton has established the precedent. Until/unless they apologize, they should be addressed from the audience with demands that they shape up or face continued criticism from the audience. The rats had demonstrators who tried to disrupt some of Trump’s rallies one after another. The same techniques could be used by conservatives show after show.


11 posted on 11/20/2016 1:32:54 PM PST by Truth29
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah’s prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible.

Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development.

The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity.

- Dennis Prager


12 posted on 11/20/2016 1:35:18 PM PST by donna (This is more fun than I ever imagined!)
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To: Artemis Webb

Here’s some of what he wrote, from the link;
“.Nobody on this planet disagrees more with everything Pence represents.”
“Please don’t misunderstand. Everyone who is sane disagrees with his policies.”


13 posted on 11/20/2016 1:36:55 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Truth29

Pay over $1000 for a pair of Broadway tickets, cause a theater disturbance, and get tossed out the side door into a dirty alley?
Just to shout a couple of pro-Trump lines at the actors? No thanks.

14 posted on 11/20/2016 1:38:07 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Truth29

I agree. 100%. Face the backlash of your ignorance. Feelings are not truth. Trurh is truth

Fake news lovers. Fake news breeders.


15 posted on 11/20/2016 1:39:56 PM PST by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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To: Artemis Webb

Don’t applaud. He’s one of the punks that cancelled a concert in NC to make a political statement on forcing women and children to share a bathroom with men.

Steven Van Zandt Talks Springsteen’s Canceled North Carolina Concert
“This really vile and evil discrimination is starting to spread state to state and we thought, ‘We better take a stand right now and catch it early,’” guitarist says of “bathroom bill”

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/steven-van-zandt-talks-springsteens-canceled-north-carolina-concert-20160409


16 posted on 11/20/2016 1:40:11 PM PST by Ms. AntiFeminazi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Little Steven gets it. As on his XM Radio channel, people from all political views can share a common appreciation for music and art. Note that our side doesn’t go out of its way to lecture them, it always is one-way. Bravo to him for pointing it out.


17 posted on 11/20/2016 1:40:44 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Ms. AntiFeminazi

I applaud anyway.
He’s a lefty. I pointed that out the first time. That gives his dissent all the more weight.


18 posted on 11/20/2016 1:41:41 PM PST by Artemis Webb (Ted Kennedy burns in hell.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sold all my bruce stuff for $15.00.

That’s all he’s worth.


19 posted on 11/20/2016 1:46:47 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Standing ovation for Steven Van Zandt!!


20 posted on 11/20/2016 1:53:15 PM PST by aquila48
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