Tired, Boring—and Dangerous—Celebrity Death Wishing

*Guardian newspaper guest columnist Charles Brooker invoked past shooters of presidents to kill then-President Bush: “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr.—where are you now that we need you?”

Victor Davis Hanson  "Recently, New York writer Fran Lebowitz told Bill Maher on his HBO program that the U.S. government should turn President Donald Trump “over to the Saudis, his buddies—the same Saudis who got rid of that reporter.”

"Lebowitz thought it was cool to imagine on live television that the president might be chopped up in the manner of the recent murder of Saudi journalist and activist Jamal Khashoggi.

"A veritable mini-industry of celebrity calls for Trump’s violent death or assassination is now old and boring—and getting dangerous.

"As if on cue, actors, singers, comedians, and banal entertainers compete with each other to hope for the most gruesome manner of killing the president—and thereby insidiously lowering the bar for unhinged minds of what could be conceivable or even acceptable to big screen icons and popular culture’s cool crowd.

• "The late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain mused about poisoning Trump.
• "Musician David Crosby thought of incineration.
• "Actor Johnny Depp and rapper Snoop Dogg preferred shooting.
• "Former CNN host Kathy Griffin, comedian George Lopez, and singer Marilyn Manson all imagined decapitation.
• "The rock group Pearl Jam offered up the image of Trump rotting.
• "The singer Madonna and musician Moby chose explosives.
• "The New York City public theater fancied stabbing.
• "Actor Robert De Niro seems pathetically fixated on repeated blows to the head." . . .

. . . "Do we remember the obscure rodeo clown who was banned for life in 2013 from the Missouri State Fair, because one of his assistants bought a stock mask of Barack Obama at a store and then wore it while working in the arena?  The ensuing universal outrage at the local rodeo clown was based on the liberal insistence that even mocking the then president of the United States was not only racist but dangerous and would bring presidential haters out of the woodwork to conceive of violence toward then President Obama." . . .

* I should point out that Booth was an actor and a Democrat

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2017: A partial list of threats against GOP and Trump from Hollywood celebrities By Rick Moran.  "The Bernie Sanders supporter who tried to kill numerous GOP lawmakers did not commit his violent acts in a vacuum.  James Hodgkinson may have pulled the trigger that critically wounded House majority whip Steve Scalise and two others. But the hysterical threats of violence against Republicans and President Trump could not have escaped his notice.

"Hodgkinson was a regular viewer of Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show and worshipped Bernie Sanders.  There is little doubt that someone so immersed in left-wing politics heard the calls for blood and violence against Republicans." . . .

. . . "Hodgkinson, on the other hand, followed far-left politics every day, immersing himself in the conspiracy theories and anti-Trump hysteria of the left.  He could not have helped being directly influenced by the threats and acts of violence against Republicans.

*"For that reason, the far left in Hollywood and elsewhere have blood on their hands." **Emphasis mine, TD