Anyone could have predicted that the elitist snobs would lose their minds over the White House hosting a UFC event on President Trump’s birthday, led by Lawrence O’Donnell wailing about the “despicable vulgarity” of the whole thing.
But the Hollywood Left attempted despicably vulgar counter-programming in Manhattan, a “star-studded event” titled “Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment.” It was hosted by Jane Fonda’s Committee for the First Amendment.” That’s right – the woman who pretended to shoot at American airplanes with Vietnamese communists is now lecturing us on our freedoms.
“Right now, the government and its cronies [are] routinely violating its First Amendment to silence artists,” Fonda claimed onstage. “Shuttering institutions like the Kennedy Center, defunding museums and the National Endowment of the Arts, and banning books, canceling TV hosts who speak out. It’s really bad.”
No one “fact checks” celebrities when they lecture like Blutarsky in National Lampoon’s Animal House about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. The NEA hasn’t been “defunded,” but there have been grant cancellations. The Kennedy Center hasn’t been “shuttered,” but it’s closed for repairs. The government didn’t “cancel TV hosts” like Stephen Colbert. But they pretend that’s what happened when President Trump cheered it on.
But the most fraudulent argument here is that Fonda & Co. did anything for free speech as Team Biden geared up to censor and spike all the “disinformation” coming from conservatives. Fonda only started her “committee” up again to perform against Trump. They are the cynics that think free speech is only for them, and we have “democracy” only when the Democrats win.
Like clockwork, Robert De Niro came out for the latest in his “tuck Frump” lectures. He claimed “I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more. I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class. I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families.”
“I can’t love the country that’s led by Donald Trump.” More hateful rhetoric from Robert De Niro at Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment:“I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors and separate… pic.twitter.com/UURrG5duPh
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) June 15, 2026
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