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Lin-Manuel Miranda pushes back on criticism over congressional delegation's Puerto Rico trip
The Hill ^ | January 14, 2019 | RAFAEL BERNAL

Posted on 01/14/2019 6:16:28 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The optics of this trip is starting to look REALLY bad for the Democratic Party. And just as bad for the Establishment Media since they totally ignored that trip.
21 posted on 01/14/2019 6:53:24 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Guenevere

Yes, the *audience* booed Pence. And the cast rebuked them for doing so. The cast told them to stop, adding, “There’s nothing to boo here, we’re all here sharing a story of love.”


22 posted on 01/14/2019 6:54:05 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: Guenevere

I agree. Our President remains on the job, doing the work of the people and pushing to get the wall built, and dozens of democratic politicians vacation on Puerto Rico. Democrats are pathetic.


23 posted on 01/14/2019 6:55:35 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

That picture truly sums up the democrap party. Fat, flabby and mentally deranged.


24 posted on 01/14/2019 6:56:52 AM PST by jetson
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To: jetson

With summarily bad judgment when regarding the voters they intend to screw over....
Hence the “cottage cheese”.


25 posted on 01/14/2019 6:58:46 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Theo
Inappropriate? Yes. Misguided? Yes. An ill-informed challenge? Yes. But not an attack.

This was at least a passive/agressive attack:

We, sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us — our planet, our children, our parents — or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us. All of us.

Why would they be anxious and alarmed? Because everybody knows Trump and Pence are White Supremacists who care nothing about "diverse" people. This is why I have not seen/heard Hamilton. I cannot see the nimrods who participated in this show having anything to say that I need to hear. And I hate hip-hop.

However, if Miranda created something non-political that looked interesting to me, I'd probably watch it. All of the entertainment industry thinks like him. As long as they don't preach their leftist twaddle to me, I'll let them entertain me.

26 posted on 01/14/2019 7:03:51 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: HighSierra5

I’ve always wondered why Miranda hasn’t been accused of Cultural Appropriation. When he advertised in NYC for replacement actors, the wording included ‘minorities only’. I know Lefties like to pretend a lot of things, but putting forth a play about our Founding Fathers, using only minorities, just shows extreme jealousy.


27 posted on 01/14/2019 7:06:01 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Golly gee! She forgot to mention the 109 lobbyists who accompanied the Dems on their charter flight to wine and dine at 5 Star resorts.


28 posted on 01/14/2019 7:11:18 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Theo
In every interview I’ve heard with Lin-Manuel Miranda, he is extremely non-political.

Every time I heard him speak any kind of politics, he sounded as bad as Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg and Robert DeNiro.

He is a filthy, potty-mouth liberal.
29 posted on 01/14/2019 7:15:49 AM PST by adorno
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To: Theo
In every interview I’ve heard with Lin-Manuel Miranda, he is extremely non-political. I’ve never heard him criticize any Republican. He probably is a Democrat, but he’s not one of the nasty partisan kind.

I don't know what you read or what interviews you're listening to but LMM is extremely nasty and partisan.

He has savagely attacked Trump and Republicans many times.

He's not worth doing hotlinks:

https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/30/politics/lin-manuel-miranda-donald-trump-puerto-rico-tweets/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/us/lin-manuel-miranda-trump-hurricane.html

30 posted on 01/14/2019 7:29:35 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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Gay people are so emotional.


31 posted on 01/14/2019 7:40:19 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Theo

Did you read the linked article? Miranda WROTE it - knowing full well that Pence was going to be there and with the full intent of calling out Trump.

Of course he couches it in the message of “luv” but he called out anyone that doesn’t support his way as a racist nazi. You can spin that however you want but that’s how I and a lot of other people saw that.


32 posted on 01/14/2019 7:52:24 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Sans-Culotte

I agree that the speech was passive/aggressive. It wasn’t the right time for it, and it was ill-informed. It was an ignorant speech.


33 posted on 01/14/2019 8:15:56 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Ah, those are some pretty ignorant comments. Disappointing to see such nastiness from someone I admire so much.


34 posted on 01/14/2019 8:18:28 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The dumb, dumber, dumbest people in the USA,,,the Federal Government Workers on furlough without paychecks, who like the dummys they are, standing by listening to their “not-too bright” union leaders to support the Democrat vermin, that have screwed them while vacationing and drinking “Mai-Tai” cocktails on & in the fancy high-end hotels & the sunny beaches of Puerto Rico.

I mean, how dumb can they be? I guess pretty darn “DUMB”!!! Trump...Build that Wall!!!


35 posted on 01/14/2019 8:39:40 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
“Here to work”, my ass. Unmitigated 🐂💨💩. Most congress critters don’t know the meaning of the word “work”.
36 posted on 01/14/2019 8:47:45 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I wonder if a ‘flyover’ of the hundreds of pallets of bottled water sent to PR after the hurricane & NEVER distributed & instead were left to go bad on an airport runway was also part of the Democrat tour this weekend?????


37 posted on 01/14/2019 8:49:25 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

How does bottled water go bad?

(Not an argument,just curious.)


38 posted on 01/14/2019 8:51:57 AM PST by Mears
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Another “entertainer” weighs in...


39 posted on 01/14/2019 8:58:03 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Theo

It wasn’t a speech. It was “acting.”


40 posted on 01/14/2019 11:05:06 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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