No ... De Niro only said "he talks about how he'd like to punch him in the face ... well I would like to punch him in the face." How on earth could this comment be seen as controversial when it was initiated AFTER Trump's inciting violence?
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Anyone remember Ted Nugent saying Obama should "suck [his] machine gun?"
It went like this:
Renegade right-winger Ted Nugent recently went on a vicious onstage rant in which he threatened the lives of Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Decked out in full-on camouflage hunting gear, Nugent wielded two machine guns while raging, "Obama, he's a piece of [redacted]. I told him to suck on my machine gun. Hey Hillary," he continued. "You might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless [redacted]." Nugent summed up his eloquent speech by screaming "freedom!"
I wonder how many incensed conservatives
understand the political underpinnings of Julius Caesar, or
remember the productions that made allusions to Hillary and Obama?
In 2015, a production of Julius Caesar at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence gave a spin to the Shakespearian history play by reimagining the title character as a woman. The show was largely interpreted by critics to be referencing Hillary Clinton, especially considering that when its “Caesar” was murdered at the beginning of Act Three she was wearing a striking white pantsuit.
A 2012 production by The Acting Company cast Bjorn DuPaty as Caesar, an actor whose resemblance to President Obama was noted by many critics. Noah Millman of The American Conservative praised the show’s timely inferences:
Director Rob Melrose has set his Caesar at our precise historical moment, in Obama’s Washington, D.C. The capital is rocked by “Occupy Rome” protests. His Caesar (the suavely confident Bjorn DuPaty) is a tall, charismatic African-American politician; he doesn’t look or sound much like Obama (he more closely recalls Michael Jordan), but the audience is unquestionably going to read him as an Obama stand-in nonetheless, particularly when his opponents bear a marked resemblance to Eric Cantor (Sid Solomon’s snappy terrier Cassius) and Mitch McConnell (Kevin Orton’s cynical old pol Casca). Even Mark Antony is recognizable as a standard Democratic politician type, Clinton/Gore division.
And do the conservatives wringing their hands over the lack of civility know that when Gabrielle Giffords tweeted
"My heart is with my former colleagues, their families & staff, and the US Capitol Police - public servants and heroes today and every day"
that among the responses were:
"@GabbyGiffords @ nancyPelosi To bad it was not her" and
"People like you enable this by trying to ban legal firearms go [redacted] yourself"...
