Column: The Year in Liberal Celebrity Freakouts

Despite the triumph of Joe Biden’s inauguration, liberal celebrities didn’t get much happier in 2021.

Donald Trump was the first to refuse to accept that he had been defeated. One actor indulged in violent fantasies a year back over his stubborn refusal to accept the facts. “Who arrests Trump if he refuses to concede? Who drags him out? Pepper spray Cuffs?” It sounds like an action movie.

But then it turned threatening:  “A knee on his neck, cutting off his oxygen? Does he wheeze ‘I can’t breathe’? You can just whale on him like an ice-cream cone. Rodney King fashion? He is the man who destroyed our country. What does he deserve?”

Who was the actor who wanted to subdue and defeat Trump? Alec Baldwin is the film-set murderer. It is this same Hollywood hothead, who dreamed of killing Dick Cheney and Osama be Laden. Somehow all of this rage never came up in his violins-and-handkerchiefs interview with friendly George Stephanopoulos on ABC.

This left-wing excess is abundantly available on Twitter. Anybody who opposes abortion is a monster. Take author Stephen King tweeting in September that “the Taliban would love the Texas abortion law.” There’s also a typical Cher tweet screeching about “barefoot and pregnant women at the mercy of tyrants” – but all in capital letters, because Cher loves the primal-scream tone.  

These stutterings sometimes appear in late-night TV’s celebrity bubble. Actor Bradley Whitford insisted on Stephen Colbert’s show on CBS that the Congress needed to pass H.R. 1 bill, which would eliminate voter ID requirements. “Without that, you know, I’ll see you in the internment camp,” he told Colbert. He wasn’t kidding. “Negotiating with a party that worships an insurrectionist feels really close, to me, to negotiating with terrorists.”

These leftists despise Fox News. Screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin said “there is something lethal that’s wrong with Fox News,” as opposed to CNN or MSNBC or The New York Times. “I recognize there might be a liberal tone to it, but they don’t lie. They don’t make things up.” Dan Rather didn’t lie? New York Times reporter Jayson Blair didn’t make things up

Rock singer David Crosby really ranted in an interview with the Daily Beast. “Rupert Murdoch should be taken out and shot. The people on Fox are doing great harm to the human race.”

Celebrities were thrilled that Biden would bring unity and sanity and civility to politics…when they’re absolutely incapable of it.

Celebrities experienced a strange combination of anger and drug-induced euphoria. Michael Moore offered a factually-deprived summary of the Afghanistan-withdrawal fiasco under Biden: “I’m still flabbergasted that he pulled this off with such grace and precision and safety.” This mysteriously ignored the 13 U.S. service members killed by a suicide bomber outside the Kabul airport and the errant drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including an aid worker and seven children.

Cynthia Nixon, multi-millionaire and losing candidate for the presidency in “Sex and the City”, became upset that CVS was locking the laundry detergent away after an increasing number of racial robberies in major cities. “I can’t imagine thinking that the way to solve the problem of people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them.”

So it’s unreasonable (or not compassionate) to treat robbery as a crime. Perhaps victimized merchants would suggest solving this shameful wealth inequality by volunteering Nixon’s address for a thorough house-cleaning.

These celebrity-related freakouts are what make America so rich.