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The Ultimate Gesture of American Incivility (Pence lectured to by cast of Broadway show)
American Thinker ^ | November 19, 2016 | Patricia McCarthy

Posted on 11/19/2016 5:50:06 AM PST by NYer

Tonight Mike Pence went to see the Broadway hit musical, Hamilton.  He was roundly booed by an audience of  ill-mannered theater-goers. Who knew that people who can afford thousands of dollars (that is what it costs) to see a play about Alexander Hamilton could be so abominably rude. While a few people cheered him, most were booing.  This is the low point to which the intolerant left has brought us; very low.

To add insult to injury, Brandon Victor Dixon, the actor who plays Aaron Burr, the man who murdered Hamilton in a duel and became a traitor to America, delivered an ill-informed lecture to Pence at the show's end. Can't we all visualize this group of privileged rich actors composing their insulting rant backstage during the performance?  He said he and his cast members are "alarmed," as though the country just elected a tyrant.  He ranted about "diversity," as though Trump and Pence are actually all the things the "fake news" lefty media say they are.  

This crowd has been so thoroughly indoctrinated by the MSM, they are  more afraid of a Trump administration than they are of ISIS. This can only be explained by ignorance of essential facts - as Governor, Mike Pence believed in religious freedom and was excoriated for  it. But so uninformed are these people, they do not know that their beloved Obama has effected a soft tyranny these past eight years.  He has governed by fiat, going around Congress most of his two terms. He has transformed America in countless ways and many millions of  Americans just fought back with their votes. Shouldn't the privilege of wealth bring with it responsibility - the responsibility to be cognizant of essential facts?  This audience and this cast are an American embarrassment.

So rude, so unconscionable was this theatrical  show of solidarity with the intolerant Left, perhaps all of Broadway should be boycotted by sentient people.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: broadway; elitists; nyc; pence; rudedems
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To: miss marmelstein

I had a business meeting in NYC recently and the several guys I was meeting with said they never went to Broadway for shows. One lawyer from NJ had never been. A senior bank VP had not been for 15 years and then only to take his relative from the midwest to see a show.

Hence, I am surprised that the audience reacted as they did, shamefully, since that is mostly a NY style.

Of course, the actors are morons.


61 posted on 11/19/2016 6:52:01 AM PST by anton
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To: NYer

How did the cast know he would be there?


62 posted on 11/19/2016 6:53:50 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: NYer

Haha! I’ve been boycotting Broadway since I was a kid!

Theatre type ‘acting’ turned me off at an early age, despite a strong appreciation for (and an education in) the English literature at the root of much Broadway theatre; notably, Shakespeare.

There is something about the personality types that gravitate toward the theatre. They definitely tend to be raging liberals, verging on if not deeply afflicted with mental illness.

Extremely huge egos; arrogant, superior and self-absorbed, yet using their acting skills in real life to feign modesty, self doubt and concern for the helpless and downtrodden.

Never has there been an entire industry so homogenous in their leftist slant, except perhaps their media brethren, the journalists.

Ann Coulter’s famous advice to song writing celebrities, “Shut up and sing”, would apply here, except that in this case maybe it should be “Shut up”, period.

Also, thousands of dollars to see a show? Really? I had no idea how much money I was saving!


63 posted on 11/19/2016 6:55:05 AM PST by enumerated
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To: Jim Noble
What IS surprising is that NY whites continue to stream in to cheer on their extinction

I'm no longer surprised. They're part of that global web and their superiority complex has gone unchallenged. I don't think they've ever had the propaganda they promote challenged by meaningful life experiences.

64 posted on 11/19/2016 6:58:04 AM PST by grania
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To: Raycpa

“Show Won’t last long.”

Unfortunately, the musical Hamilton will run on Broadway for years. It is a monster hit and now has the cachet of being the show where Vice President Elect Mike Pence was booed.


65 posted on 11/19/2016 6:58:33 AM PST by utahagen
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To: enumerated

66 posted on 11/19/2016 6:58:48 AM PST by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: Honorary Serb

The understudy now playing Hamilton is an HIV positive homosexual. Disgusting.


67 posted on 11/19/2016 7:00:49 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: anton

I’m a little confused about your point. But I loved your last sentence, lol.


68 posted on 11/19/2016 7:01:10 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: ilovesarah2012

Cast members are generally informed about celebrities in the audience. I have a friend in a straight play on B’way and she was told Barbra Streisand was in the audience. It turns out she hated the show just as much as I did so sometimes she’s right. (But I’m glad my pal is employed.)


69 posted on 11/19/2016 7:03:45 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: NYer

Can you imagine the outrage of the left if someone had schooled Hillary at a show like this?

It would be non stop.


70 posted on 11/19/2016 7:04:21 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Jim Noble

Yet the libs still protest the showings of CHARLIE CHAN movies! Wonder what they would do with MR MOTO!


71 posted on 11/19/2016 7:05:23 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Crush your enemies, ..... and to hear the lamentations of their women.)
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To: Raycpa

Judging by the near 50-50 popular vote, the dumb bastards just lost half of all future/prospective ticket buyers.

I’m going back to NY very soon on business and I always go to at least one show. It damn sure won’t be this one.


72 posted on 11/19/2016 7:05:49 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: NYer

Everyday they reaffirm our original view of them. They are adults who have the mindset of unruly children behaving badly.


73 posted on 11/19/2016 7:09:37 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: NYer

I remember the Soetoros’ going to a musical called URINETOWN.

After that, I had assumed that Broadway had gone out of business.


74 posted on 11/19/2016 7:12:07 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Texas Eagle

LOL! Oh, the irony!


75 posted on 11/19/2016 7:33:43 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: miss marmelstein

My point was that it Broadway shows attract mostly out of towners who would not be expected to react like the typical New Yorkers.

But, I guess attendees at “Hamilton” could be a the typical libtards. I have seen audiences at sporting events boo other audience members but never at a play. That is just unconscionable.


76 posted on 11/19/2016 7:45:18 AM PST by anton
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To: NYer

“(L)iberals have a history of attacks against Republican Presidents’ in theaters.”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/11/19/vpe-pence-booed-and-called-out-by-social-justice-cast-during-performance-of-hamilton-on-broadway/


77 posted on 11/19/2016 7:46:47 AM PST by combat_boots (I no longer know what to say to put here. Pray for us.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Just like my Great-Grandparents from Upstate SC said just after the civil rights act of 1964, “THEY WILL NEVER BE HAPPY”.


78 posted on 11/19/2016 7:47:38 AM PST by WNC mountainboy (Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Is Brandon Victor Dixon his slave name?


79 posted on 11/19/2016 7:50:49 AM PST by WNC mountainboy (Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.)
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To: WNC mountainboy

LOL


80 posted on 11/19/2016 7:52:58 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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