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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

These Leftist’s are brimming with hatred. Imagine a golf/any sports awards show and the players all get up and blast Biden as a demented racist ku klux klan member and puppy killer. It just doesn’t happen from the right. The Left really are unhinged, i.e. mentally ill.


61 posted on 06/12/2023 10:27:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: proust

Yeah he’s a little out there. Biggest reason for some people to not vote Trump is his nasty attacks on people.

Gotta wonder what advice Rove, Luntz and Paul Ryan are giving DeSantis on this. Probably take them a day or two to come up with a reply.


62 posted on 06/12/2023 10:29:57 AM PDT by Pollard ( >>> The Great Rest is already underway! <<<)
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To: Pollard

“Gotta wonder what advice Rove, Luntz and Paul Ryan are giving DeSantis on this.”

Do you have a source on this?


63 posted on 06/12/2023 10:32:25 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: proust
Indeed. He just lost the black liberal woman on Broadway vote.

As well as the liberal influencer vote who amplify that message across social media and into the minds of women across america.

64 posted on 06/12/2023 10:36:26 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

LOL, as if he ever had them.


65 posted on 06/12/2023 10:36:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I just checked, she has 11k followers on Twitter. Not exactly E. F. Hutton, but I affirm the desperate need to exaggerate.


66 posted on 06/12/2023 10:41:20 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: OttawaFreeper
Who watched them?

Millions of people who think that show business is reality.

67 posted on 06/12/2023 10:43:05 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Make the GOP illegal - everything else will follow)
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To: dfwgator

Politics is downstream of culture.

It isn’t one person.
3.9 viewers watched live.
Social media amplifies the film clips on Instagram and facebook and twitter.
Celebrity attendees, with large social media followings, amplify the event and post their own videos.

Exactly why Trump had the Celebrities on The Apprentice.

Now, I pay no attention to these award shows, but tens of millions of voters do pay attention and believe whatever celebrities they like say.


68 posted on 06/12/2023 10:48:48 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: proust

See...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4160273/posts?page=68#68


69 posted on 06/12/2023 10:49:09 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Well as someone said, the biggest problem this country has is the fact that people actually elected somebody like Obama.

That’s not fixable.


70 posted on 06/12/2023 10:50:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Well as someone said, the biggest problem this country has is the fact that people actually elected somebody like Obama.

Based on a collusion of intelligence services, tech firms, media, celebrities, etc.

Is it fixable? Remains to be seen.

But they were turned on Trump as they will be on DeSantis. My only point.

71 posted on 06/12/2023 10:59:48 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: proust

The race of the people that wish us dead...


72 posted on 06/12/2023 11:02:33 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: dforest

“It seems RDS should be able to sue a POS like this who is slandering him.”

Lol - no worse than the slandering he gets here.


73 posted on 06/12/2023 11:04:24 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: proust

Too stupid to bash Trump.

Evidently she can’t read polling.

If she could read the polling she’d know Trump is no dead horse and Ron ain’t no contender.


74 posted on 06/12/2023 11:07:07 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“Politics is downstream of culture.”

I get what you’re saying. The way I see it, culture is a arm of poltics, but not in a superior position to it. Katy Perry, Beyonce, Jay Z etc all endorsed Hillary.


75 posted on 06/12/2023 11:17:27 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Magic Fingers

Nobody here is calling him KKK. The same happens to Trump here but nobody here is saying these things a televised events such as this.


76 posted on 06/12/2023 12:08:07 PM PDT by dforest
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To: dfwgator

You would think people learned from how the media in 2008 attacked their favorite Republican backstabber McCain that it is always open season on a Republican candidate no matter who it is. Ditto for all those saying in light of the indictment that Trump should step aside. Do they really think the recent legal moves against DeSantis over shipping illegals to sanctuary cities are just noise and not an attempt to force him out by indictment as well? It’s not being naive but willfully ignorant.


77 posted on 06/12/2023 12:14:34 PM PDT by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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To: proust

It was only a matter of time...

We haven’t seen anything yet. Just wait...


78 posted on 06/12/2023 4:11:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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