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‘Hamilton’ Star Showered in Applause After Smearing Ron DeSantis as Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard During Tony Awards
Breitbart ^
| 12 June 2023
| Simon Kent
Posted on 06/12/2023 9:12:44 AM PDT by proust
Hamilton star Denée Benton turned on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) during Sunday night’s 2023 Tony Awards, basking in a shower of enthusiastic applause as she smeared him as a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard.
Benton was center stage during the live broadcast on CBS and Paramount+ to present the Excellence in Theatre Education Award from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She used her remarks to note she is not only a CMU alum but also hails from from Florida, saying:
"Earlier tonight, CMU and the Tony Awards presented the 2023 Excellence in Theatre Education Award. And while I am certain that the current Grand Wizard — I’m sorry, excuse me, governor — of my home state of Florida…"
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: breitbart; dds; deneebenton; desantis; florida; hamilton; rondesantis; simonkent; tonyawards; welcometothejungle
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To: proust
One of those new Roman Catholic KKK members.
They meet on Thursday at the local synagogue and share an office with the black klansmen.
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:19:18 AM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: proust
The only person who ever truly deserved a Tony was Cosmo Kramer.
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:19:26 AM PDT
by
Trump_Triumphant
("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
To: proust
So where the hell are all these white supremists?
To: proust
Here is Dear Leader with the Grand Cyclops of the Democrat party.
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:19:47 AM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
To: proust
Funny how Democrats keep the Blacks in chains and on they plantations through things like this. Its appalling
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:19:57 AM PDT
by
realcleanguy
(quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
To: proust
The party that created the KKK accusing the liberators of slaves of being the KKK.
Upside down world we live in.
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:19:58 AM PDT
by
adorno
To: proust
Wakanda forever.... imaginary...
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:20:04 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
To: OttawaFreeper
I didn’t know they were on. I always rely on the Tony Awards for valuable political propaganda.
To: WKUHilltopper
They’re in the commiecrat party.
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:20:35 AM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: realcleanguy
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:20:55 AM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: adorno
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:21:04 AM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: proust
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:22:00 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: proust
Lying bastard. So sick of the lying.
To: proust
Shut your claptrap and accept your little-bo-peep award.
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:22:56 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
(Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
To: Salvavida
“LAWSUIT”
It occurs to me that that may be the path to stopping this nonsense. Prosecute for slander, libel, civil rights violations, on a grand scale.
To: proust
She demonstrated her own ignorance.
Quips about opening one's mouth ...
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:23:16 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Tell It Right
That should be DeSantis’s answer: “Did she just call me a Democrat?”
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:23:56 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: proust
She thinks he is a Democrat? Now can we repeal 19?
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posted on
06/12/2023 9:24:08 AM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: dfwgator
Just goes to show that they’d hate RDS just as much as DJT if he were to become president - probably even more.
To: realcleanguy
Funny how Democrats keep the Blacks in chains and on they plantations through things like this.
Lincoln (R) freed them. LBJ (D) managed to round up many of their descendants and herd them back.
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06/12/2023 9:27:22 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
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