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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.


21 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.)
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To: proust

The only person who ever truly deserved a Tony was Cosmo Kramer.


22 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)
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To: proust

So where the hell are all these white supremists?


23 posted on 06/12/2023 9:19:38 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: proust
Here is Dear Leader with the Grand Cyclops of the Democrat party.


24 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.)
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To: proust

Funny how Democrats keep the Blacks in chains and on they plantations through things like this. Its appalling


25 posted on 06/12/2023 9:19:57 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: proust

The party that created the KKK accusing the liberators of slaves of being the KKK.

Upside down world we live in.


26 posted on 06/12/2023 9:19:58 AM PDT by adorno
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To: proust

Wakanda forever.... imaginary...


27 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 )
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To: OttawaFreeper

I didn’t know they were on. I always rely on the Tony Awards for valuable political propaganda.


28 posted on 06/12/2023 9:20:23 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: WKUHilltopper

They’re in the commiecrat party.


29 posted on 06/12/2023 9:20:35 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: realcleanguy

That’s right.


30 posted on 06/12/2023 9:20:55 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: adorno

Indeed.


31 posted on 06/12/2023 9:21:04 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: proust

Every awards show in a nutshell....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGl1CCprCeU


32 posted on 06/12/2023 9:22:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: proust

Lying bastard. So sick of the lying.


33 posted on 06/12/2023 9:22:03 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: proust

Shut your claptrap and accept your little-bo-peep award.


34 posted on 06/12/2023 9:22:56 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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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.


35 posted on 06/12/2023 9:23:15 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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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.

36 posted on 06/12/2023 9:23:16 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Tell It Right

That should be DeSantis’s answer: “Did she just call me a Democrat?”


37 posted on 06/12/2023 9:23:56 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: proust

She thinks he is a Democrat? Now can we repeal 19?


38 posted on 06/12/2023 9:24:08 AM PDT by eyeamok
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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.


39 posted on 06/12/2023 9:26:00 AM PDT by MountainWalker
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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.


40 posted on 06/12/2023 9:27:22 AM PDT by TomGuy
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