Aug. 23, 2023 - Candace Owens
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| So if you listen to this show, you know that a regular B is covering these claims, these exaggerated claims of racism, exaggerated claims of anti-Semitism. | |
| And I would say in both of the Black and Jewish communities, we are now neck and neck in terms of people acting hysterical all the time. | |
| And then when you look beyond the veil, you're like, nothing is actually happening to you. | |
| Maybe you're suffering actually from remarkable privilege if you think that this is the end-all be-all. | |
| If you think this is just like slavery or this is just like the Holocaust, the problem is you, not the actual scenario. | |
| And so I call these out every time I see it, and so last week when I was off, I was not surprised to see that Bradley Cooper was in the middle of an anti-Semitism scandal. | |
| Yep, Bradley Cooper is now anti-Semitic, everybody. | |
| Add him to the very long-growing list of every person who has been falsely accused of being anti-Semitic over the last couple of years, just increasing the demand that nothing can be done that can upset somebody that is Jewish, right? | |
| Yeah. And what is he doing? | |
| Well, Bradley Cooper isn't actually going out and harming Jewish people. | |
| He's actually honoring a Jewish person in the way that Bradley Cooper knows how to honor people. | |
| He is one of the greatest actors in the world. | |
| I don't say that because for any other reason other than I was positively floored by his performance in A Star is Born. | |
| He was playing an alcoholic and I literally said to my husband at the time, he must actually be an alcoholic or have been an alcoholic because I've never seen a performance that was that stunning. | |
| Well, this time Bradley Cooper is offering his amazing acting chops to play a person who... | |
| Really existed. That's very important. | |
| His name is Leonard Bernstein, and he is a composer. | |
| He was a composer. Pardon, he is now dead. | |
| And he is going to play him in a biopic, which is entitled Maestro. | |
| Now, why would this upset anybody, right? | |
| If I die and they tap one of the greatest actors in the world to play me, Hope it's Denzel Washington. | |
| And Denzel Washington needs to look like me. | |
| And they put some prosthetics on his face. | |
| I'm going to assume that's fine. | |
| In fact, I don't know the history of prosthetics, but I would assume that they are very closely associated with Hollywood, with movies that they are created because they're trying to get people to look like an actual part. | |
| Now, whether that means making somebody look old and wearing prosthetics on their faces, which we've seen many times, you don't go, oh my God, That's old face. | |
| How could you do that? You go, well, no, I'm actually trying to look like this person at this age. | |
| They're trying to wrinkle my face. | |
| Well, in Bradley Cooper's circumstance, he obviously has a real person that existed named Leonard Bernstein. | |
| He wants to look exactly like Leonard Bernstein. | |
| It turns out that Leonard Bernstein had a longer nose than Bradley Cooper does. | |
| So, Bradley Cooper is wearing a prosthetic nose with the full blessing of Leonard Bernstein's children. | |
| They're thrilled about that because their father, as I said, is about to be honored by one of the greatest actors in the world, right? | |
| So, where or why is there any outrage about that? | |
| Why is there any outrage about that? | |
| It's kind of like what I say. | |
| It's like when people are jumping into your culture and trying to platform your culture and then you yell at them. | |
| Well, I'll tell you why there was outrage. | |
| Apparently, this is called Jew-face stereotypes. | |
| It's the suggestion that all Jewish people have long noses. | |
| Okay, again, I would like to mention, he actually is looking like the person who existed. | |
| So he didn't make up a figment character and say, this is a Jewish person, and to prove it, we're going to give him a long nose. | |
| He's looking at the picture and saying, our noses don't match, so we are going to put a prosthetic so that you can look more like the actual person that existed with the blessing of his children. | |
| So people were outraged by this. | |
| Jew face! It's Jew face! | |
| How dare you act, you actor! | |
| Okay. Are people fed up with this? | |
| I'm fed up with it. I've been fed up with it for a very long time, actually, across all communities. | |
| I'm starting to like not anybody. | |
| I don't know if that makes me misanthropic, perhaps. | |
| I think everybody's annoying and whiny in America, but this is especially whiny. | |
| When you tell actors that they can't act, When they tap into a certain character and ask them to play somebody else and they go, oh, how dare you? | |
| How dare you play a person that's in a wheelchair when you're not actually disabled? | |
| Oh, because it's called acting. | |
| And if I can believably play this person by putting myself in a wheelchair, that should be absolutely fine. | |
| Because that's why I wanted to be an actor. | |
| I'm actually not ever the person that I'm playing. | |
| That kind of comes from the conditions of acting. | |
| I'm always playing something face. | |
| Prosthetic face. I don't know. | |
| I presume that when Rebecca Romijn Stamos got into the all-blue costume to play Mystique, it might have been because she wanted to look like the X-Men characters from the comic book. | |
| I don't think she was playing Mystique face. | |
| I think that's just actually Mystique had a blue face. | |
| I don't think she was playing blue face. | |
| But what do I know? I'm not a crybaby. | |
| I don't use my race as a shield to pretend to be upset about things that don't matter when I'm remarkably privileged and I should be celebrating something and saying, wow, it's really cool that this person is getting into character to bring the life, the story of somebody who did something fascinating. | |
| And that's what we should be focused on. | |
| But fear not, people, because the Jewish police in the form of the ADL have said that it's | |
| okay that he's doing this. | |
| So nobody can care. | |
| It's fine. | |
| Everybody can move on now. | |
| Because if the ADL says it, then it's true. | |
| The ADL says it's anti-Semitism, it's anti-Semitism. | |
| If they say it's not anti-Semitism, it's not anti-Semitism. | |
| They become the official authority on what is and is not anti-Semitism for everybody, | |
| excluding those that have thinking brains and didn't actually need to wait for the ADL | |
| to give their blessing to this movie. | |
| And obviously, this is not an anti-Semitism scandal. | |
| Rather, this is another scandal of people overusing terms like anti-Semitism and, in the process, removing the power of those terms. | |
| I don't even believe it now when somebody says, anti-Semitism, I don't instantly freak out. | |
| I'm just like, okay... Who's upset that Bradley Cooper's acting? | |
| That's kind of where we're getting at with anti-Semitism and racism and more than that as well. | |
| Sexism, all of it. It's all just becoming such junk, all of these terms. | |
| All right, guys, did you like this video? | |
| Well, you're going to like the full episode even better. |
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