Candace Owens - Bradley Cooper Accused of "Jew Face"
Aired: 2023-08-23
Duration: 06:13


=== Leonard Bernstein's Face Controversy (04:33) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:08]  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.
[00:00:16]  And then when you look beyond the veil, you're like, nothing is actually happening to you.
[00:00:20]  Maybe you're suffering actually from remarkable privilege if you think that this is the end-all be-all.
[00:00:24]  If you think this is just like slavery or this is just like the Holocaust, the problem is you, not the actual scenario.
[00:00:29]  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.
[00:00:37]  Yep, Bradley Cooper is now anti-Semitic, everybody.
[00:00:39]  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?
[00:00:52]  Yeah. And what is he doing?
[00:00:54]  Well, Bradley Cooper isn't actually going out and harming Jewish people.
[00:00:59]  He's actually honoring a Jewish person in the way that Bradley Cooper knows how to honor people.
[00:01:06]  He is one of the greatest actors in the world.
[00:01:09]  I don't say that because for any other reason other than I was positively floored by his performance in A Star is Born.
[00:01:18]  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.
[00:01:29]  Well, this time Bradley Cooper is offering his amazing acting chops to play a person who...
[00:01:35]  Really existed. That's very important.
[00:01:37]  His name is Leonard Bernstein, and he is a composer.
[00:01:42]  He was a composer. Pardon, he is now dead.
[00:01:44]  And he is going to play him in a biopic, which is entitled Maestro.
[00:01:50]  Now, why would this upset anybody, right?
[00:01:52]  If I die and they tap one of the greatest actors in the world to play me, Hope it's Denzel Washington.
[00:02:01]  And Denzel Washington needs to look like me.
[00:02:04]  And they put some prosthetics on his face.
[00:02:06]  I'm going to assume that's fine.
[00:02:08]  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.
[00:02:20]  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.
[00:02:28]  How could you do that? You go, well, no, I'm actually trying to look like this person at this age.
[00:02:31]  They're trying to wrinkle my face.
[00:02:33]  Well, in Bradley Cooper's circumstance, he obviously has a real person that existed named Leonard Bernstein.
[00:02:38]  He wants to look exactly like Leonard Bernstein.
[00:02:40]  It turns out that Leonard Bernstein had a longer nose than Bradley Cooper does.
[00:02:45]  So, Bradley Cooper is wearing a prosthetic nose with the full blessing of Leonard Bernstein's children.
[00:02:52]  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?
[00:02:57]  So, where or why is there any outrage about that?
[00:03:03]  Why is there any outrage about that?
[00:03:05]  It's kind of like what I say.
[00:03:07]  It's like when people are jumping into your culture and trying to platform your culture and then you yell at them.
[00:03:13]  Well, I'll tell you why there was outrage.
[00:03:16]  Apparently, this is called Jew-face stereotypes.
[00:03:21]  It's the suggestion that all Jewish people have long noses.
[00:03:26]  Okay, again, I would like to mention, he actually is looking like the person who existed.
[00:03:30]  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.
[00:03:36]  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.
[00:03:46]  So people were outraged by this.
[00:03:48]  Jew face! It's Jew face!
[00:03:50]  How dare you act, you actor!
[00:03:52]  Okay. Are people fed up with this?
[00:03:54]  I'm fed up with it. I've been fed up with it for a very long time, actually, across all communities.
[00:03:58]  I'm starting to like not anybody.
[00:04:00]  I don't know if that makes me misanthropic, perhaps.
[00:04:02]  I think everybody's annoying and whiny in America, but this is especially whiny.
[00:04:06]  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?
[00:04:14]  How dare you play a person that's in a wheelchair when you're not actually disabled?

=== Acting Into Character (01:55) ===

[00:04:21]  Oh, because it's called acting.
[00:04:23]  And if I can believably play this person by putting myself in a wheelchair, that should be absolutely fine.
[00:04:31]  Because that's why I wanted to be an actor.
[00:04:33]  I'm actually not ever the person that I'm playing.
[00:04:36]  That kind of comes from the conditions of acting.
[00:04:39]  I'm always playing something face.
[00:04:43]  Prosthetic face. I don't know.
[00:04:44]  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.
[00:04:54]  I don't think she was playing Mystique face.
[00:04:57]  I think that's just actually Mystique had a blue face.
[00:04:58]  I don't think she was playing blue face.
[00:05:00]  But what do I know? I'm not a crybaby.
[00:05:02]  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.
[00:05:14]  And that's what we should be focused on.
[00:05:16]  But fear not, people, because the Jewish police in the form of the ADL have said that it's
[00:05:21]  okay that he's doing this.
[00:05:22]  So nobody can care.
[00:05:23]  It's fine.
[00:05:24]  Everybody can move on now.
[00:05:25]  Because if the ADL says it, then it's true.
[00:05:26]  The ADL says it's anti-Semitism, it's anti-Semitism.
[00:05:27]  If they say it's not anti-Semitism, it's not anti-Semitism.
[00:05:30]  They become the official authority on what is and is not anti-Semitism for everybody,
[00:05:35]  excluding those that have thinking brains and didn't actually need to wait for the ADL
[00:05:38]  to give their blessing to this movie.
[00:05:40]  And obviously, this is not an anti-Semitism scandal.
[00:05:44]  Rather, this is another scandal of people overusing terms like anti-Semitism and, in the process, removing the power of those terms.
[00:05:53]  I don't even believe it now when somebody says, anti-Semitism, I don't instantly freak out.
[00:05:57]  I'm just like, okay... Who's upset that Bradley Cooper's acting?
[00:06:02]  That's kind of where we're getting at with anti-Semitism and racism and more than that as well.
[00:06:07]  Sexism, all of it. It's all just becoming such junk, all of these terms.
[00:06:10]  All right, guys, did you like this video?
[00:06:11]  Well, you're going to like the full episode even better.