by Frank Holmes, reporter
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton pretends to be the most influential millennial of her generation – but this week, she got caught up in a head-turning act of hypocrisy and hate.
Liberals cried a river that Steve Bannon, the former Breitbart editor and Trump campaign strategist, had been invited to speak to two elite gatherings. The Economist invited Bannon to speak at an event on September 15, and The New Yorker magazine scheduled an interview with Bannon next month.
Chelsea tweeted that allowing Bannon to exercise the freedom of speech is “what normalization of bigotry looks like” —
For anyone who wonders what normalization of bigotry looks like, please look no further than Steve Bannon being invited by both @TheEconomist & @NewYorker to their respective events in #NYC a few weeks apart. https://t.co/u0TDfCYrQ1
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) September 3, 2018
A reporter for The Economist responded that “I don’t see how not hearing ‘the other side’s’ viewpoint helps anyone better understand the world.”
But Chelsea was having none of it and told him the magazine is hosting a hardcore hatemonger.
“There is no ‘other side’ to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism,” she tweeted back at him. “It’s simply wrong.”
Hi Stanley – you’re absolutely right that the President has done more to normalize bigotry. There is no “other side” to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism. It’s simply wrong. https://t.co/jX7X1qgFXS
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) September 3, 2018
There’s just one problem: Her dad just attended legendary singer Aretha Franklin’s funeral – where he sat next to Jesse Jackson, Reverend Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan.
Jesse Jackson called Jews “hymies” and New York City “hymietown” during his 1984 presidential campaign. The Washington Post reported that Jackson said this “in January 1984 during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman. Jackson had assumed the references would not be printed because of his racial bond with Coleman.”
Jackson apologized for his remarks at the 1984 Democratic convention – but then there’s Sharpton.
Sharpton stirred up black resentment twice – protesting against what he called “Jewish interlopers” who owned businesses in black neighborhoods.
In 1993, a Jewish student who was studying to be a rabbi was stabbed to death during the Crown Heights riots.
Sharpton “stirred them up,” the victim’s brother wrote. “It was Sharpton who repeatedly bellowed to the rioters, ‘No justice, no peace!’”
Sharpton also showed a little “homophobia,” when he screamed that an audience member of the “Morton Downey Junior Show” was a “punk f-ggot.”
Another time, he called ancient philosophers “Greek homos.”
And then there’s Farrakhan.
Farrakhan, formerly known as Louis X — the leader of the Nation of Islam sect, has spewed hatred for decades against Jews, white people, gays – pretty much everyone except Black Muslims.
Just this past May, Farrakhan cursed “satanic Jews who have infected the whole world with poison and deceit” during a three-hour-long sermon in Chicago.
“The false Jew will lead you to filth and indecency,” he said. “That’s who runs show business. That’s who runs the record industry. That’s who runs television.”
In the past, he has accused Jews of being behind 9/11.
Farrakhan calls white people “white devils” and “potential humans.”
In 2015, he said “White people deserve to die, and they know, so they think it’s us coming to do it.”
Interracial marriage is out as far as Farrakhan is concerned. “I’m not into integration,” he said, because it leads to blacks becoming “mongrelized.”
That’s the history of three major leaders at Aretha Franklin’s funeral.
And who was sitting two seats down from Farrakhan at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit – just next to Sharpton and Jackson?
Former President Bill Clinton.
He even leaned over and joked with Jackson, while gesturing at singer Ariana Grande’s backside.
“I think any president should have said, ‘No. If you want me on the stage, you can’t have a bigot like Farrakhan sitting next to me,’” said Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz.
“You just can’t mainstream and allow legitimacy to a man who has expressed the kind of hateful views he’s expressed of Jews, of white people, of gays,” he said.
Ouch! Sound familiar, Chelsea?
Some of her followers on Twitter wouldn’t let her wriggle out of her hypocrisy, either.
Your dad was just sitting next to Louis Farrakham less then 72 hours ago.
— Austin 🇺🇸 MAGA (@JetDoctor67) September 4, 2018
If Chelsea wants to become an influential millennial, she needs to start positively influencing her own family.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”