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11/19/2015

Hillary Clinton Will Not Be Ridiculed!

Filed under: General — Dana @ 10:50 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Not quite clear on the concept of free speech, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is reportedly using intimidation tactics on Jamie Masada, founder of the renowned Laugh Factory comedy club, to take down a three-minute video entitled “Hillary Clinton vs. The First Amendment,” which showcases five comedians mocking and ridiculing Clinton. You know, the sort of stuff that every Republican candidate ever has had to shrug off. Except, the imperious Clinton doesn’t “shrug off” being ridiculed – even if it’s a black comedienne doing the ridiculing.

A video of the short performance, which is less than three minutes, is posted on the website of the renowned club, Laugh Factory, and the Clinton campaign has tried to censor it. Besides demanding that the video be taken down, the Clinton campaign has demanded the personal contact information of the performers that appear in the recording.

Personal contact information? Why? Are they going to make them turn over their comedian cards, or make them swear to never, ever make fun of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (and those pesky issues of age, Bill and Monica, ubiquitous pantsuits, and sexual identity)?

As absurd as this all sounds, Masada isn’t laughing, especially as the campaign has also threatened to put him out of business if he doesn’t cut the video.

It’s remarkable that Clinton feels threatened by a few previously unknown comedians. After all, this is the same woman who demonstrated raw courage and boldness when she dodged that sniper fire in Bosnia.

Further, it’s disturbing that her campaign goons would go after an innocent American in the business of providing a platform for other Americans to exercise their rights to speech. Even funny speech.

Just think, if Clinton is elected our next president, she will take the oath of office like every other president, except she will adjust it accordingly to suit her reign:

“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, well, except that annoying First Amendment part…”

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–Dana

25 Responses to “Hillary Clinton Will Not Be Ridiculed!”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (86e864) — 11/19/2015 @ 10:53 pm

  2. Lese majeste or betrayal? “You’re supposed to be on our side!”

    nk (dbc370) — 11/20/2015 @ 12:07 am

  3. after nigh on 7 years of group-think censorship, the dam is about to break.

    redc1c4 (ae46bf) — 11/20/2015 @ 12:14 am

  4. Citizens United v. FEC was also Hillary not liking a movie about her. And Bernie “So-Cialis-t” Sanders actually proposed a Constitutional amendment in the Senate to overturn it.

    nk (dbc370) — 11/20/2015 @ 12:31 am

  5. We are a nation of dunces.

    mg (31009b) — 11/20/2015 @ 2:54 am

  6. Thugs gotta thug.

    Rusty Bill (ad1f26) — 11/20/2015 @ 5:32 am

  7. pls to spike my eggnog when i’m not looking

    happyfeet (831175) — 11/20/2015 @ 5:54 am

  8. The personal information demand is so touching. She really does care about everybody. And unlike Trump, who apparently wants a government agency to register muslims, perhaps ICE, Hillary! will put the comedian data on her campaign’s private server, so there’s no danger of misuse by the government. How thoughtful.

    BobStewartatHome (a52abe) — 11/20/2015 @ 7:31 am

  9. Let’s see if the MFM covers this.

    JD (34f761) — 11/20/2015 @ 9:25 am

  10. Except the story’s false. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/11/here-todays-case-study-right-wing-media-virtue-and-rectitude

    DavidWilson (d7dde7) — 11/20/2015 @ 10:07 am

  11. So the right-wing media says that the caller identified himself with the Clinton campaign and demanded the video be taken down “or else,” and the left-wing media says that the caller never identified himself with the Clinton campaign. I guess the only one who can clear this up is the comedy club owner who fielded the phone call.

    And yeah, the Clintonistas will argue that there is no way of confirming whether or not the caller really was who he said he was. That’s true. But frankly the decades of thuggery of the Clinton folks make this story an at least even money proposition to be true.

    JVW (738b08) — 11/20/2015 @ 10:14 am

  12. If I were Masada, I’d stay out of parks for a while.

    nk (dbc370) — 11/20/2015 @ 10:16 am

  13. If I were Masada, I’d stay out of parks for a while.

    Small aircraft too.

    JVW (738b08) — 11/20/2015 @ 10:37 am

  14. “If you truly loved me, then why would you mock me so?!?!”

    https://screen.yahoo.com/mock-000000907.html

    Colonel Haiku (017cc0) — 11/20/2015 @ 10:38 am

  15. Except the story’s false. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/11/here-todays-case-study-right-wing-media-virtue-and-rectitude

    DavidWilson (d7dde7) — 11/20/2015 @ 10:07 am

    David’s in his usual airhead “I believe whatever some loony left website says” mode (in this case Mother Jones).

    Kevin Drum writes:

    A friend of mine watches Fox News so I don’t have to, and he says they’ve been practically wetting their pants over the story of Hillary Clinton’s campaign calling the founder of the Laugh Factory and threatening to sue him if he didn’t take down a short video compilation of Hillary jokes.

    What’s that? This already sounds really unlikely? I guess so. It sure doesn’t seem very smart for a highly visible presidential candidate, does it? Still, Judicial Watch says it happened, and Fox and Rush and Sean are all over it too. So I guess it must be true. They wouldn’t just make stuff up, would they?

    Minor point: Fox is not the source of the story but it’s apparently SOP to try to connect Fox with any conservative claim that they are disputing.

    Next:

    What happened, according to Jamie Masada, founder of the Laugh Factory, is that a few days ago he got a comically threatening phone call from someone named “John.” And that’s it. John never said he was with the Clinton campaign. John never called back. Masada never told Judicial Watch about it. In other words, there’s almost literally nothing there.

    But apparently some Laugh Factory employee heard about the call, and somehow it went from there to Judicial Watch. Or something. Who knows, really? What we do know is that apparently no one bothered calling Masada to check up on this story —that would have run the risk of ruining it, after all—and now it’s all over conservative media.

    This is from Judicial Watch:

    Masada told Judicial Watch that, as soon as the video got posted on the Laugh Factory website, he received a phone call from a “prominent” person inside Clinton’s campaign. “He said the video was disgusting and asked who put me up to this,” Masada said. The Clinton staffer, who Masada did not want to identify, also demanded to know the names and phone numbers of the comedians that appear in the video. Masada refused and hung up. He insists that the comedy stage is a sanctuary for freedom of speech no matter who is offended.

    http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/11/clinton-goes-after-laugh-factory-comedians-for-making-fun-of-her/

    Then Drum quotes some dingbat who bloviates that this is how false narratives are created by right wing media blah blah blah.

    Drum then concludes with:

    And there you have it. This is where Mena airport and Vince Foster and Whitewater and the Clinton death list and all the other charming inventions of the Clinton smear squad came from. Seems like only yesterday.

    Gerald A (949d7d) — 11/20/2015 @ 10:39 am

  16. Another of Drum’s claims above:

    John never said he was with the Clinton campaign. John never called back.

    Judicial Watch says he was “a prominent person inside Clinton’s campaign”, so he identified himself as someone whose name would be recognized by anyone familiar with the Clinton campaign, whether or not he actually said he was with the Clinton campaign.

    Gerald A (949d7d) — 11/20/2015 @ 11:04 am

  17. I mostly agree with you, Gerald A, but I think we should also be willing to consider the idea that the comedy club owner is a self-aggrandizing nutcase. I’m not comfortable with this whole, “I don’t want to identify him for fear of retaliation” nonsense.

    JVW (738b08) — 11/20/2015 @ 11:07 am

  18. #17

    Of course we have no way to verify that he’s telling the truth but the loony-left source the David Wilson’s of the world get their talking points from is making a totally different claim.

    It’s really absurd – Drum says this illustrates how made up stories get created by right wingers and then circulated by right wing media – and his core claim is bogus. It actually illustrates how stories get created by left wingers.

    Gerald A (949d7d) — 11/20/2015 @ 11:26 am

  19. we should also be willing to consider the idea that the comedy club owner is a self-aggrandizing nutcase

    I’m thinking that these are the kind of people who would be with the So-Cialis-t from Vermont.

    nk (dbc370) — 11/20/2015 @ 11:32 am

  20. Correction to #15
    Judicial Watch says *Masada told Judicial Watch* he was “a prominent person inside Clinton’s campaign”

    Gerald A (949d7d) — 11/20/2015 @ 11:43 am

  21. I’m thinking that these are the kind of people who would be with the So-Cialis-t from Vermont.

    nk (dbc370) — 11/20/2015 @ 11:32 am

    Yeah how many conservatives own comedy clubs?

    Gerald A (949d7d) — 11/20/2015 @ 11:44 am

  22. DavidWilson is a barking moonbat.

    JD (6b2543) — 11/20/2015 @ 1:50 pm

  23. Oh, maybe DavidWilson has a point. It’s just krazy to believe that the same Hillary! who over flag-draped coffins vowed to the families of those slain at Benghazi that the administration, of which she was such an enthusiastic part, was going to bring the video maker responsible for their murders to justice could possibly have a problem with free speech.

    YouTube video makers. Why, they’re going to get us all killed unless they’re stopped!

    I know. Let’s let in 100,000 Syrian refugees and we can pay them to hunt them down.

    Steve57 (f9c99b) — 11/20/2015 @ 2:31 pm

  24. John, John, John,John, John, John,John, John, John,John, John, John,
    John, John, John,John, John, John,John, John, John,John, John, John,
    John, John, John?

    John Who?

    Eureka! Podesta? Could it be? Like his tactics it sounds!

    Yoda (feee21) — 11/20/2015 @ 4:36 pm

  25. If this election comes down to Hillary vs. Trump, I’m voting for the lesser evil . . . Cthulhu.

    NickM (63e1a7) — 11/20/2015 @ 9:01 pm


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