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« on: June 07, 2017, 11:50:18 am »
Theater Company Stages Stabbing Death Of Donald Trump

June 6, 2017| by Brian Anderson

Kathy Griffin’s sad career came to an end last week when she did a photo shoot of herself holding a mock bloody decapitated Donald Trump head. If only she had done this under the guise of a Shakespearean play, she’d still be a low-level D-list celebrity. A theater company is doing a contemporary version of the play Julius Cesar with the title roll being played by someone who looks and acts suspiciously like the President. In case you aren’t familiar with the play it culminates and the stabbing death Julius Trump.

Here’s how the Shakespeare in the Park production is described by the company putting it on:

https://downtrend.com/71superb/theater-company-stages-stabbing-death-of-donald-trump
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NYT Is Sponsoring An Assassination Depiction Of Donald Trump
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NYT Is Sponsoring An Assassination Depiction Of Donald Trump

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In the vein of Kathy Griffin, a “Shakespeare in the Park” production of Julius Caesar by the Public Theater features a mock assassination of a president Donald Trump lookalike. Though the play does not refer to the president by name, the depiction of Caesar bears striking similarities to Trump.

In the play, the actor has reddish hair and wears an unbuttoned overcoat and red power tie. He Tweets from a bathtub and is later stabbed to death by senators next to an American flag.
 

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Re: NYT Is Sponsoring An Assassination Depiction Of Donald Trump
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2017, 11:04:10 am »
What do you expect? Dumb down the population enough that they go to the doctor to get checked out if you tell them something is an allegory and you're going to wind up with crude representation.
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Re: NYT Is Sponsoring An Assassination Depiction Of Donald Trump
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2017, 11:14:01 am »
What do you expect? Dumb down the population enough that they go to the doctor to get checked out if you tell them something is an allegory and you're going to wind up with crude representation.

This is hate and the true motive of the "resistance".   The population did not write this and the population is not funding it. @EC .

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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2017, 11:17:18 am »
This is hate and the true motive of the "resistance".   The population did not write this and the population is not funding it. @EC .

So? They have already been obvious about the hate. Does this somehow make it hatier?
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« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2017, 11:20:07 am »
So? They have already been obvious about the hate. Does this somehow make it hatier?

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Trump Assassination Play Is Sponsored By The New York Times

Fri 9th, 2017 3:06 pm EST
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A “Shakespeare in the Park” production of Julius Caesar by the Public Theater features a mock assassination of a President Donald Trump lookalike. Public Theater is sponsored by none other than The New York Times.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qfzqBr1qh0

The play, a contemporary update on the original, does not refer to the president by name — but their Caesar character holds a striking resemblance to Trump and his wife to the First Lady.

“Shakespeare’s political masterpiece has never felt more contemporary,” the Public Theatre wrote of the play on their website. They describe the updated Caesar character as a “magnetic, populist, irreverent,” who “seems bent on absolute power.”

Continued: http://bigleaguepolitics.com/trump-assassination-play-sponsored-new-york-times/

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Trump Assassination Play Is Sponsored By The New York Times

Fri 9th, 2017 3:06 pm EST
Cassandra Fairbanks

A “Shakespeare in the Park” production of Julius Caesar by the Public Theater features a mock assassination of a President Donald Trump lookalike. Public Theater is sponsored by none other than The New York Times.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qfzqBr1qh0

The play, a contemporary update on the original, does not refer to the president by name — but their Caesar character holds a striking resemblance to Trump and his wife to the First Lady.

“Shakespeare’s political masterpiece has never felt more contemporary,” the Public Theatre wrote of the play on their website. They describe the updated Caesar character as a “magnetic, populist, irreverent,” who “seems bent on absolute power.”

Continued: http://bigleaguepolitics.com/trump-assassination-play-sponsored-new-york-times/

Yet another 'bridge too far' IMO.   And keep in mind... that most of these cretins aren't just anti-Trumpers.   They are anti-American rabid leftists.... who seek the overthrow of America.
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Yet another 'bridge too far' IMO.   And keep in mind... that most of these cretins aren't just anti-Trumpers.   They are anti-American rabid leftists.... who seek the overthrow of America.

Those leftists will do anything.  Even make one of Shakespeare's characters wear a blond wig.

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Those leftists will do anything.  Even make one of Shakespeare's characters wear a blond wig.

Oh, well.

Or.... make a tv persona playing the Vice President kiss (have a 3-way with) his male secret service agent...lol.  (Ref to House of Cards - Kevin Spacey)
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Re: NYT Is Sponsoring An Assassination Depiction Of Donald Trump
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2017, 03:18:57 am »
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Delta Ends Sponsorship of New York's Public Theater Over Trump-like 'Julius Caesar'
Hollywood Report, Jun 11, 2017

Just hours before the theater world gathered for the annual Tony Awards, Delta Air Lines revoked its four-year-old sponsorship of New York's Public Theater, according to reports. The airline found issue with the summer production of Julius Caesar, featuring the assassination of the title character, who in this staging bears an unmistakable resemblance to President Donald Trump.

"No matter what your political stance may be, the graphic staging of Julius Caesar at this summer's Free Shakespeare in the Park does not reflect Delta Air Lines' values,” Delta spokeswoman Ashton Morrow said Sunday in a statement. "Their artistic and creative direction crossed the line on the standards of good taste."

Delta also reportedly told The Public Theater its decision is effective immediately.


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« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2017, 03:22:15 am »
This is hate and the true motive of the "resistance".   The population did not write this and the population is not funding it. @EC .

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« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2017, 07:00:08 am »

D@mn! I just might board one of their planes someday again.
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« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2017, 12:30:20 pm »
Delta and Bank of America both withdrew sponsorships over this.
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« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2017, 01:29:38 pm »
Delta and Bank of America both withdrew sponsorships over this.

I can't imagine Bank of America doing anything right!  Worst bank I've ever had an account with.  A BofA employee told me it's normal policy to engineer overdrafts by holding deposits until all debits are processed, even debits made many hours after the deposit.  Many people have a very tight budget on disposable income every pay cycle, so it's easy to come too close to the limit if you want to use any of your wages on payday.  And BofA even charges to check your balance, causing lots of overdrafts if they show only a couple dollars in the account because your check hasn't been credited.  Supposedly a good percentage of their income comes from intentional overdrafts.  Hopefully their policies have changed since my experiences with them, but I'll never know because I'll never do business with them again. 

And, no, not all banks do that.  I've never had this kind of nonsense from Wells Fargo, nor Ficohsa or Davivienda in Central America. 

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D@mn! I just might board one of their planes someday again.

Don't do it!!!

It's been a tough week for libs: first Bill Maher followed by the angst over this.

If we're for Freedom of Speech, then we're for it, whether or not we are offended by such speech. I enjoyed the spectacle on Bill's show last Friday night, as he was trying to justify his actions 50 different ways. I found particularly rich the scolding he received from Ice Cube, who made millions with lyrics that included "eff the Police."

I was in college when Blazing Saddles hit the theatres. Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor wrote a script for a movie that could not be produced today. I would have loved to been a fly on the wall in their production meetings.

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Et Tu, Delta? Shakespeare in the Park Sponsors Withdraw From Trump-Like ‘Julius Caesar’

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New York’s Public Theater lost financial support from two high-profile corporate donors, Delta Air Lines and Bank of America, on Sunday amid intense criticism of its production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” which depicts the assassination of a Trump-like Roman ruler.

The companies’ decisions came after days of criticism online and in right-leaning media outlets that was amplified by Donald Trump Jr., a son of the president, who appeared to call into question the theater’s funding sources on Twitter on Sunday morning.

“No matter what your political stance may be, the graphic staging of ‘Julius Caesar’ at this summer’s free Shakespeare in the Park does not reflect Delta Air Lines’ values,” Delta said in a statement on Sunday night.

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« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2017, 06:09:10 pm »
Don't do it!!!

It's been a tough week for libs: first Bill Maher followed by the angst over this.

If we're for Freedom of Speech, then we're for it, whether or not we are offended by such speech. I enjoyed the spectacle on Bill's show last Friday night, as he was trying to justify his actions 50 different ways. I found particularly rich the scolding he received from Ice Cube, who made millions with lyrics that included "eff the Police."

I was in college when Blazing Saddles hit the theatres. Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor wrote a script for a movie that could not be produced today. I would have loved to been a fly on the wall in their production meetings.
There is a limit. There is free speech, but there is a most delicate line is that between 'speech' and obscenity, between speech which expresses political sentiment and speech which incites criminal activity, or speech which is, in and of itself, criminal (Like shouting "Fire!" or "He has a gun!" in a crowded venue to panic the crowd, when, in fact, there is neither a fire nor a man with a gun).

The former is Constitutionally protected, the latter, a crime.

What purpose does it serve to depict a man dead 2000 years in a 400 year old play as a modern politician?
Is this art? Political speech? Or intended to spark that fuse in some latent twisted violent psyche seeking inspiration?

Others, too, have freedom.

No one said they couldn't perform their play. They just said they weren't paying for it.

Unlike those who were run out of a wad of speechyfying over Islam because they they held some other views which were considered to be abhorrent. Even though the guy who they supposedly like was a pal of the Muslims, they were there to protest the Muslims, too. But the one group who was protesting Muslims didn't want the other group there protesting them too. Yet that decision is lauded by folks who claim to uphold the Constitution and freedom of speech. Freedom of Assembly is part of that same Amendment.

Unlike those calling for silence, I recognize that speaking your mind sometimes comes at a cost. There are times and places when and where identical words, spoken in the same manner, either by different people or by the same person under different circumstances, will provoke a reaction anywhere from a standing ovation to a lynch mob.

The corporate representatives of Delta Airlines, of Bank of America have the right to speak for their company, too. Unlike those who embrace policies and behaviours we find generally abhorrent or in (st least) bad taste, whom we would boycott over bathroom access, 'two mommy' ads, or even a spokesperson attacking a spokesperson for a fundamental right (Sweathog v Selleck, before K-Mart died), when corporations agree in general that the line has been crossed between 'art' and incitement, they can vote with their corporate sponsorship or lack of it as well, just as we vote with our patronage of their business.

I'm not advocating hypocrisy here, rather consistency.
They can speak their minds, but they might have to buy their own soapbox.

One last rhetorical question (for now):
How would Liberals respond to Othello with an actor who strongly resembled Barrack Obama?

I know what you are saying about Blazing Saddles. I showed it to a bunch of twenty-somethings close to twenty years ago, and they never laughed. They were (for want of a better term) mortified. Try to make that movie today, and someone would lose their phony baloney jobs.

Play Ice Cube in 1960, and most people wouldn't listen a second time. Play it on the air, and be shut down. A few years later in Newark or Atlanta or even Washington DC, and you'd be rounded up with H. Rap Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Stokley Carmichael, and the lot for inciting a riot.

It isn't just who or what, but when and where that keeps a message under the penumbra of Constitutional protection. They're protected, but that doesn't mean there will not be a price to pay for what they say.
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Re: NYT Is Sponsoring An Assassination Depiction Of Donald Trump
« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2017, 06:14:41 pm »
Delta and Bank of America both withdrew sponsorships over this.

From their site.....


The Public Theater has cultivated successful ongoing partnerships with several leading corporations including Bank of America, Delta Air Lines, The New York Times, American Express, and others. We offer sponsorship opportunities which enhance awareness and visibility of your brand, targeted activations, and provide opportunities for client entertainment, unique experiences and exciting benefits for employees.

Haven't seen Amex drop them yet.  Maybe they need some help to decide.
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Re: NYT Is Sponsoring An Assassination Depiction Of Donald Trump
« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2017, 06:18:31 pm »
There is a limit. There is free speech, but there is a most delicate line is that between 'speech' and obscenity, between speech which expresses political sentiment and speech which incites criminal activity, or speech which is, in and of itself, criminal (Like shouting "Fire!" or "He has a gun!" in a crowded venue to panic the crowd, when, in fact, there is neither a fire nor a man with a gun).

The former is Constitutionally protected, the latter, a crime.

What purpose does it serve to depict a man dead 2000 years in a 400 year old play as a modern politician?
Is this art? Political speech? Or intended to spark that fuse in some latent twisted violent psyche seeking inspiration?

Others, too, have freedom.

No one said they couldn't perform their play. They just said they weren't paying for it.

Unlike those who were run out of a wad of speechyfying over Islam because they they held some other views which were considered to be abhorrent. Even though the guy who they supposedly like was a pal of the Muslims, they were there to protest the Muslims, too. But the one group who was protesting Muslims didn't want the other group there protesting them too. Yet that decision is lauded by folks who claim to uphold the Constitution and freedom of speech. Freedom of Assembly is part of that same Amendment.

Unlike those calling for silence, I recognize that speaking your mind sometimes comes at a cost. There are times and places when and where identical words, spoken in the same manner, either by different people or by the same person under different circumstances, will provoke a reaction anywhere from a standing ovation to a lynch mob.

The corporate representatives of Delta Airlines, of Bank of America have the right to speak for their company, too. Unlike those who embrace policies and behaviours we find generally abhorrent or in (st least) bad taste, whom we would boycott over bathroom access, 'two mommy' ads, or even a spokesperson attacking a spokesperson for a fundamental right (Sweathog v Selleck, before K-Mart died), when corporations agree in general that the line has been crossed between 'art' and incitement, they can vote with their corporate sponsorship or lack of it as well, just as we vote with our patronage of their business.

I'm not advocating hypocrisy here, rather consistency.
They can speak their minds, but they might have to buy their own soapbox.

One last rhetorical question (for now):
How would Liberals respond to Othello with an actor who strongly resembled Barrack Obama?

I know what you are saying about Blazing Saddles. I showed it to a bunch of twenty-somethings close to twenty years ago, and they never laughed. They were (for want of a better term) mortified. Try to make that movie today, and someone would lose their phony baloney jobs.

Play Ice Cube in 1960, and most people wouldn't listen a second time. Play it on the air, and be shut down. A few years later in Newark or Atlanta or even Washington DC, and you'd be rounded up with H. Rap Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Stokley Carmichael, and the lot for inciting a riot.

It isn't just who or what, but when and where that keeps a message under the penumbra of Constitutional protection. They're protected, but that doesn't mean there will not be a price to pay for what they say.

I think we're more in agreement than disagreement. I wouldn't pay any money, or waste any of my time on that rendition of Julius Caesar. If sponsors want to pull their money, ok by me, too.

If someone wants to burn the flag as a means of protest, that's their right. Just don't do it near me, because I'll do everything necessary to extinguish the fire.
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Re: NYT Is Sponsoring An Assassination Depiction Of Donald Trump
« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2017, 06:21:59 pm »
I think we're more in agreement than disagreement. I wouldn't pay any money, or waste any of my time on that rendition of Julius Caesar. If sponsors want to pull their money, ok by me, too.

If someone wants to burn the flag as a means of protest, that's their right. Just don't do it near me, because I'll do everything necessary to extinguish the fire.

IMHO, it is now legitimate to ask NYT talking heads whether or not they are in agreement with their employer funding performances that have been criticized as being of poor taste. A follow up question would be if they're expected to toe the line when it comes to the editorial opinions of the NYT. Put them on the spot!
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