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Hollywood talent agency UTA cancels Oscar party, will hold refugee rally instead

Feb 9, 2017 11:02 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

In early January, a group of stars described as the “Who’s Who of Hollywood” came together to “obstruct” Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.

They delivered this message:

We demand that you block nominees who threaten the rights of women, the LGBT community, people of color, immigrants and the poor…

It is striking that no group threatens the rights of women and gays as much as Sharia-adherent Muslims do. They also discriminate in their countries against religious minorities. The Muslim migrants have brought their damaging beliefs to the West, and now European taxpayers are on the hook for tens of billions to clean up the mess.

These capricious and frenzied protests that have gripped America are a frightful display of virulent hatred, without any factual basis, rhyme or reason.

After pop star Lady Gaga performed at the Super Bowl, she received heavy criticism from prominent members of the Trump-obsessed leftist media for not criticizing President Trump. The jihadist/leftist alliance does not just attack freedom of speech, but apparently the freedom not to speak as well.

“Talent Agency UTA Cancels Oscar Party, Will Hold Refugee Rally Instead”, by Daniel Nussbaum, Breitbart, February 8, 2017:

United Talent Agency, one of the half-dozen major talent agencies in Hollywood, has canceled its annual Oscar party and will instead host a rally in support of refugees at its Los Angeles office, according to a report.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer informed agency staff of the change in a letter this week.

The company — home to big-name clients like Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Mariah Carey, Toby Keith and dozens of others — also plans to donate $250,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union, which has worked to oppose President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily prohibiting immigration from seven countries, and to the International Rescue Committee.

“This is a moment that demands our generosity, awareness and restlessness,” Zimmer reportedly wrote to his staff. “Our world is a better place for the free exchange of artists, ideas and creative expression. If our nation ceases to be the place where artists the world over can come to express themselves freely, then we cease, in my opinion, to be America.”

The move to cancel the glitzy annual Oscars party comes as Hollywood has become increasingly vocal about Trump’s policy proposals and executive actions, particularly his action on immigration. At the Screen Actors Guild Awards last month, several film and television stars used their acceptance speeches to speak out against Trump’s order; actress Sarah Paulson specifically called for donations to the ACLU.

THR further reported that Ari Emanuel, co-CEO of mega-agency and UTA competitor WME-IMG, sent an email to staff Wednesday notifying them that the company would be forming a political action committee, though it wasn’t immediately clear on what the PAC would focus.

“This company’s greatest asset is the diversity of our backgrounds and beliefs,” Emanuel wrote to the agency.

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  1. john spielman says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:11 am

    why doesn’t the Academy of Motion Pictures CANCEL the Academy Awards, as well,…. (and close Holly Wood too!) they are a hot bed of pro sharia compliance and against freedom of speech

    • Frank says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 12:10 pm

      Rally the media to ask the assholes if they are willing to take refugees into their homes and financially take of them.

  2. Tommy says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:15 am

    Rally against Obama. He had THREE openings on SCOTUS and NEVER appointed a BLACK PERSON!

  3. marina says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:22 am

    Only a large scale violent attack on Holly wood by these lovable refugees are going to make these celebrities wake up from this stupor. Or maybe not.

  4. c matt says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:34 am

    Our world is a better place for the free exchange of artists, ideas and creative expression. If our nation ceases to be the place where artists the world over can come to express themselves freely, then we cease, in my opinion, to be America.

    Tell that to Berkeley, you hypocritical a-hole. Maybe you should protest Berkeley instead.

    • Westman says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 12:07 pm

      When you’re holding the largest megaphone, it’s no longer an exchange – it’s controlling the narrative.

      Hollywood stopped being American in the 1960’s and since has been the promoter of anti-patriotism and street gang values as art.

      • beaubear says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 11:35 am

        the viewership of these stupid award shows go down each time the previous one rants about
        how their views are the only one’s that matter, maybe we need to ask them, when will you
        take gates and walls off your property? or stand up for persecuted Christians, like Asia Bibi,
        from Pakistan, who has been imprisoned for sharing Christ w / co workers since 2009. she
        is now on death row anyone standing for her rights in Hollywood? not a one. thank God for
        The Voice of The Martyrs,com

  5. LB says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:38 am

    “After pop star Lady Gaga performed at the Super Bowl, she received heavy criticism from prominent members of the Trump-obsessed leftist media for not criticizing President Trump.”

    So even silence/non-interest on the presidency matter is no longer an option. Unless you publicly and explicitly insult Trump, you’d still be called all the names Trump supporters get called.
    .
    .
    .

    I’m at loss for words.

  6. Westman says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:57 am

    Perhaps it’s time to cancel Hollywood for, say, a year or at least stop watching every movie and TV show which stars highly visible super-mouth-without-Islamic-education actors. I’m starting with the Oscars by doing something with the family that bolsters their appreciation of America and family ties during that time. Try visiting someone who needs company, help someone with schoolwork, etc.

    Being twice as smart as “Madonna”, Lady Gaga is a highly-educated professional who realizes that today’s music entertainment is a form of extreme appearance and acting while “Madonna” is more like a street brawler who tramples on everything; starting with a sacred name. Too much of Hollywood is like “Madonna” – puffed egos that present a terrible role model for our children.

    • no_one says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 12:18 pm

      I have stopped watching Hollywood productions for years. Probably not going to watch the Oscars this year. No need to hear their Anti-Trump speeches. I don’t watch CNN either.

  7. B says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:00 pm

    All those ridiculously rich Hollywood elitists could only scrape together $250,000! Surely they have enough money to buy all the refugees their own state since they won’t integrate anyway. And in their own state they could continue to kill each other and then blame everyone else for their hardships. It seems that the ones who aren’t integrating or embracing western laws over their Sharia are the problem. And if you can’t live by the laws of the land you shouldn’t go there. Sharia is not healthy for any human being, it is oppressive and inhumane. And anyone who so willingly embraces it should take a long hard look at what it has done to these Eastern countries that these refugees came from.

  8. Catherine says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    After the celebrity “refugee rally”, they and their bodyguards will step over the homeless, climb into limos, and return to their walled-in mansions with security gates and surveillance cameras. HYPOCRITES!!!

    • Dawn says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 12:41 pm

      Just wonder how many hollywood take refrugees in to their homes.

  9. Evelyn Warren says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    Since I don’t watch the awards shows that rewards people for being the worst of the worst, immoral, shallow, spoiled human beings on earth, I could not care less that a Party for the Glam Squad has been cancelled. BOO HOO!

  10. Angemon says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 2:31 pm

    We demand that you block nominees who threaten the rights of women, the LGBT community, people of color, immigrants and the poor…

    Oh, you “demand”, eh? On what authority? That’s right, none – self-righteous, unwarranted, undeserved moral superiority has zero value in the real world. Stick to do what you’re supposed to – dancing to the tune of the barrel organ – and let the grown-ups handle the important decisions.

    United Talent Agency, one of the half-dozen major talent agencies in Hollywood, has canceled its annual Oscar party and will instead host a rally in support of refugees at its Los Angeles office, according to a report.

    Which, of course, will be under heavy security measures – heavens forbid they actually have to handle the people they’re purposely speaking for…

  11. Darryl Kerney says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    Defending islam on the grounds of human rights is just as ignorantly uniformed as defending soviet communism on the grounds of property rights.

    • B says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 3:19 pm

      Don’t forget about the feminists marching with the muslims.

  12. robert saunders says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 3:55 pm

    Let them moe in next door.

  13. Lucia Bartoli says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 4:30 pm

    I am sick and tired of these overpaid, egotistical millionaires telling me how POC, LGBT, etc. live, should live, wanna live, and to LIST the WOMEN’S RIGHTS of which they speak. As for my family, we no longer go to movies at all. We DON’T CARE ABOUT WHAT SOME AHOLE ACTOR THINKS. Who needs to know about your stupid parties. We won’t watch the Oscars either. You can all sit around and watch yourselves. Hell, if I was a true American I wouldn’t show up even if nominated of 1 or 20 Oscars. Worthless people that’s all they are.

  14. Troybeam says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 4:56 pm

    BOYCOTT everything that has to do with the arts: music, movies, stage performances, radio, money is what these people crave and once they start losing funds then maybe they will get in their heads to keep
    their political opinions in their own circles and not preach them to the public.

  15. carlos danger says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 5:31 pm

    Vote with your wallet. Leave these fools on their own and out in the cold.

  16. abad says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 8:01 pm

    The clincher being this:

    Hollyweird would NOT fare well under Sharia.

    The gays would be thrown off the nearest roof, parties banned, alcohol banned, pork-product sandwiches banned, skimpy dresses banned.

    But methinks Hollyweird is just too ignorant to realize this.

    • Keith says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 3:44 am

      The red carpet just wouldn’t look the same with all the women in Burqa’s would it.

    • Michael Casmer says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 12:58 pm

      Well, banning pork is no big deal for them. They’re all vegans. What ever isn’t organic they won’t eat. Oh wait a minute. Isn’t alcohol organic? Hmmmm

  17. Rufolino says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 3:01 am

    All of Hollywood’s foolish, virtue-signalling “diversity” will mean nothing when sharia law is installed.

  18. Keith says

    Feb 10, 2017 at 3:43 am

    Would it be wrong of me to wish that this party they are planning is subject to an Islamic terror attack?
    Maybe then they would understand what the ordinary citizen, those who can’t afford 24 hour security teams, has to put up with, especially over here in Europe.

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