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Eurovision Rejects Zelensky Speech Request, Insisting Song Contest Is ‘Non-Political’
Breitbart ^ | 05/12/2023 | OLIVER JJ LANE

Posted on 05/12/2023 6:54:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

It would not be appropriate for the Ukrainian President to make an address on the Eurovision Song Contest final because the programme is apolitical, organisers have said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskly wanted to address the hundreds of millions of people worldwide expected to watch the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, but has been blocked from doing so by the European Broadcast Union (EBU).

The appearance may have been intended to be like Zelensky’s video appearance at the 2022 Grammy Awards and the 2023 Berlin Film Festival and U.S. Golden Globes ceremony, where he asked for support and asked cultural figures to take a side in the conflict.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eurovision; request; speech; zelensky
Guess he wants to play the piano again....
1 posted on 05/12/2023 6:54:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just have him do that g@y dance he did a few years ago


2 posted on 05/12/2023 6:56:17 AM PDT by struggle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WEF made him ask...


3 posted on 05/12/2023 7:18:39 AM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
ztounge
4 posted on 05/12/2023 7:26:09 AM PDT by The Louiswu (You cannot free a man from the chains which he reveres.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Since he’s an actor I suspect he thought he’d get a pass.


5 posted on 05/12/2023 7:26:51 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Even the Europeans have had enough of Z.
Besides, the Eurovision Song Contest has been around a long time. It’s all about the fun, with politics only rarely effecting the show. Sometimes Israel has been discriminated against.


6 posted on 05/12/2023 7:30:13 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: ChicagoConservative27

[Eurovision]

I guess Abba could do Money, Money, Money


7 posted on 05/12/2023 7:31:18 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

grifters gotta grift


8 posted on 05/12/2023 7:42:34 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict At Large)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bull puckey Eurovision’s not political! If it were truly apolitical, the UK might occasionally WIN for starters (except in those years they had undeniably crappy songs), and secondly, the progressive left wouldn’t absolutely lose its collective s**t every time a contestant from Israel does well, or G-d Forbid, actually WINS.


9 posted on 05/12/2023 8:44:14 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Kriggerel

Or award the top prize to a bearded guy in a dress.


10 posted on 05/12/2023 8:47:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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