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....
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Fine, let’s separate the winners from the whiners. I know which one I’ll be watching.
Trump gets all the ratings this mental-midget could only dream of having.
Pffft!
Reich is a commie troll.
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.
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 :)
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.
The Nuge is good...F ‘em.
oh yeah. That’s gonna work.
Have Colin Kaepernick MC the event.
He’s an angry little elf. He must be a South Pole elf.
Anything to keep the babies quite while the grownups handle things.
Absolutely mind boggling how petty and small these people are. No class.
They do realize he will be sworn in on January 20th whether anybody is watching or not, right?
“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.
“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.
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.
That, or a chance to vacay with WJC and Jeffrey Epstein.
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.
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