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How Harry and Meghan Have Weaponized Cancel Culture
National Interest ^ | 3/14/2021 | Sumantra Maitra

Posted on 03/15/2021 9:34:34 AM PDT by Onthebrink

For the uninitiated, a thin-skinned D-lister celebrity gave an interview to her billionaire talk show host friend about how austere aristocratic codes made her feel suffocated. This resulted in another talk show host, Piers Morgan, complaining on live television that there was a distinct possibility that the aforementioned celeb and her husband were perhaps full of it. Morgan’s exact phrase was that he “didn’t believe a word” of what Meghan Markle said. That bizarrely led to Meghan Markle complaining to the overarching supervisory media watchdog in Britain, which then led, nolens volens, to Morgan being fired.

Enter Osbourne. Out of nowhere, Osbourne, who is a friend of Morgan, tweeted that she stands with him. After relentless criticism for that single tweet, she was invited to the American talk show “The Talk,” where co-host Sheryl Underwood wanted her to publicly denounce her friend. Unexpectedly cornered by this Beria-like tactic, Osbourne resisted valiantly and broke down publicly, resulting in a PR mess. No doubt prompted by her agent, she then wrote a long-winded and incoherent apology, which she then posted on Twitter.

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TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; meghanmarkle; oprahwinfrey; piersmorgan; princeharry; royals; sharonosbourne; sherylunderwood; thetalk
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1 posted on 03/15/2021 9:34:34 AM PDT by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink
Time to cancel Harry


2 posted on 03/15/2021 9:37:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Onthebrink

As individuals who need Christ’s salvation in their lives, the Duke and Duchess need our care. As perpetuators of an infinitely peurile drama destroying the lives of innocent media workers, they deserve primarily to be shunned, shamed, and discredited, then taken out of the public square.


3 posted on 03/15/2021 9:38:47 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Onthebrink

Worthless, useless, unemployable buffoons fawned over by the media. Would anyone hire either one of those clowns to work at McDonalds or anywhere else?


4 posted on 03/15/2021 9:38:49 AM PDT by laweeks (Just wait till you have to have a biopsy from your prostate, now that is an experience you will neve)
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To: laweeks

Pretty smart of them I must say.


5 posted on 03/15/2021 9:43:43 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Onthebrink

A woman was invited on an American show that is supposedly about discussion, ambushed, then “canceled” for simply supporting a friend who criticized a pair of royals. That’s how far gone we are. When will we ever start fighting back?


6 posted on 03/15/2021 9:46:06 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Onthebrink

Didn’t believe a word” of what Meghan Markle said.
He’s right she’s just a gold digger playing the pity card and Harry is the fish she snagged.


7 posted on 03/15/2021 9:52:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Stravinsky

One reason the left has become so shrill on culture issues is we’re successfully fighting back...

Their newest?

They’ve cancelled Trump. Have you noticed how liberal ‘elite’ thugs in the press aren’t even speaking his name? We’ll fix that soon.


8 posted on 03/15/2021 9:55:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (Race: the Achilles' heel of the Democrat Party. Telling the truth about race destroys the race card)
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To: GOPJ
Have you noticed how liberal ‘elite’ thugs in the press aren’t even speaking his name?

I have very little exposure to MSM, but I have picked up the impression that, at the present moment, Tucker Carlson is the man who is "worse than Hitler". There always has to be someone to receive the two-minute Hate. And it does seem like they want Trump to go down the memory hole. Rush is dead. So I guess it's Tucker's turn now.

9 posted on 03/15/2021 9:58:35 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Onthebrink

Couple of lying multi-millionaire whiny supposed victims.


10 posted on 03/15/2021 10:07:07 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, Covid-19 or Gates and Fauci's mRNA-1273 Moderna vax?)
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To: GOPJ

I don’t see how we are successfully fighting back. We started to with Trump, but they managed to end that.


11 posted on 03/15/2021 10:07:48 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Onthebrink; All

There is talk from “sources” that Meghan is thinking of running for president. There was a story on it on Glen becks site.


12 posted on 03/15/2021 10:10:58 AM PDT by Bob434
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There is talk from “sources” that Meghan is thinking of running for president. There was a story on it on Glen becks site.

How can she run a country when she was thrown out of one?


13 posted on 03/15/2021 10:15:25 AM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Vit D3, Zinc, Vit C and Magnesium is all you need to fight COVID,)
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To: GOPJ

“One reason the left has become so shrill on culture issues is we’re successfully fighting back..”

Huh??? We are losing by a landslide. The left has taken over schools, universities, media, Hollywood and now large corporations.


14 posted on 03/15/2021 10:18:35 AM PDT by setter
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To: Onthebrink

Whatever that duck and duckess does, or says, or even “blesses or wets”, will be scooped by their fondest members of the corporate press, ( as compared to the free press), bottled, woked, and spoon fed to those who receive it.

As for me, I lived in a constitutional don’t say squat about them or you end up in jail monarchy for 3 years.

I am an American. I was born an American. I have disgust, distaste, disdain, and downright hate for anything that smells of royalty, or attempting to put on an aire of it. That includes all of Congress.


15 posted on 03/15/2021 10:21:25 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

Good question. The “talk” is that she wants to run in the 2024 election. Course this is just talk, but God help this country if the left steal the election again to put her in. But I suspect that the left will cheat Pete into the office first so the ,eft can say they got the first homosexual couple elected to office. Then they’ll put some woman in office. Likely a black woman like Kalama or Meghan


16 posted on 03/15/2021 10:24:48 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

Ka ching!


17 posted on 03/15/2021 10:26:36 AM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: setter

You left out the important places they have taken over too. They have taken over our military, our elections, our courts, even our Supreme Court through intimidation and riots using the domestic terrorists blm and antifa to do the dirty work or beating everyone into submission.


18 posted on 03/15/2021 10:27:26 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Onthebrink

I’m glad they’re being referred to without the “royal” titles.


19 posted on 03/15/2021 10:29:49 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: I want the USA back

‘Meghan is an American, she does not understand’: Vicar says Church of England told him that Meghan and Prince Harry’s ‘garden wedding’ was no more than a ‘private conversation’ with Archbishop of Canterbury

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9363159/Vicar-says-Church-told-Meghan-Harrys-garden-wedding-conversation-Archbishop.html


20 posted on 03/15/2021 10:42:53 AM PDT by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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