What’s Going on in France

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The opening show in a planned tour by controversial comedian Dieudonne has been stopped just before it was due to open.

Around 5,000 people had been hoping to see him start his national tour in a theatre in Nantes.

But the country’s highest administrative court upheld an earlier ban preventing the artist, who is accused of anti-Semitism, take to the stage.

In its ruling the top French court cited the risk to public order if the show was to go on. But for many it was about denying the right to freedom of expression.

“We came here to have a laugh, have some fun. We’re a little disappointed by the decision,” said two fans outside the theatre in Nantes, while another added “Letting him perform is about freedom of expression. I am against censorship. It’s a shocking decision.”

Calls for Interior Minister Manuel Valls to resign filled the air. He had lodged the appeal to have the Nantes show banned and has advised other local authorities they could stop performances.

“The Republic has won tonight and has emerged stronger. The values of our country have been strengthened and that is what we have to take in,” Valls told reporters after the verdict.

The comedian reacted on Facebook appealing to his fans outside the theatre in Nantes to go home, adding he had been denied permission to speak to them.

It is unclear if the 46-year-old – who has seven convictions for anti-Semitic hate speech – can continue with his planned nationwide tour.

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London area mayor seeks removal of ‘anti-Semitic’ mural

New World Order Mural

(JTA) — A London mural depicting Jewish bankers is set to be removed following complaints that it has anti-Semitic undertones.

The London Jewish Chronicle reported that the council of the London borough of Tower Hamlets had said it was talking with police to have the image removed.

The mural, titled Freedom for Humanity, depicts a group of businessmen and bankers counting money around a Monopoly-style board balanced on the backs of men with dark complexions. It was reportedly spray-painted on private property. The Los Angeles-based artist, Kalen Ockerman, acknowledged that some of the bankers were Jewish but said the mural was not anti-Semitic.

“My mural is about class and privilege,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “The banker group is made up of Jewish and white Anglos. For some reason they are saying I am anti-Semitic. This I am most definitely not… What I am against is class.”

Lutfur Rahman, the Tower Hamlets mayor, said he “shares concerns” that the mural is anti-Semitic, and that it “perpetuated anti-Semitic propaganda about conspiratorial Jewish domination of financial and political institutions,” the Chronicle reported.

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John Travolta Allegedly Said Gay Jews Run Hollywood

Jeez, you two, get a log flume!

By now you’ve probably heard all about John Travolta getting sued for two million dollars by a masseuse claiming “sexual battery,” saying Travolta groped “his scrotum and the shaft of his penis.” To paraphrase the late great Robert Schimmel, I’d suck John Travolta’s dick in front of my mother for two million dollars. I admit the story is ridiculously tabloidy and sounds pretty far-fetched, and a lot of it sounds like a bad letter to Penthouse, but I couldn’t ignore some of the gems in there.

Such as…

-”There was an overweight black man preparing hamburgers, who meekly said ‘hey.’”

“Come to the East Village’s hottest new night club, Hamburgers. There’s overweight black men preparing hamburgers, naked jockeys on trapeze, and blind sherpas with nerf bow guns….” /Stephon.

-When the masseur says he reminded Travolta that sexual acts in exchange for money were illegal, the actor’s rebuttal is stated as, “Come on dude, I’ll jerk you off!” The suit also describes Travolta’s genitalia as “roughly 8 inches in length” with pubic hair that was “wirey and unkempt.”

8 inches, whoa! Do they even make them that big? That’s quite generous for a smear campaign. Meanwhile, my own pubic hair has been described as “perfectly coiffed, and as slick and smooth as a freshly-groomed fur seal.”

– “(Travolta) began screaming at Plantiff, telling Plantiff how selfish he was, that (Travolta) got where he is now due to sexual favors he had performed when he was in his ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ days; and that Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.”

 

-”Plaintiff moved away from Defendant, who then lumbered to his feet and began to move towards Plaintiff with erect penis bouncing around is [sic] stride.”
– (He said) he had done things in his past that would make most people throw up.
– When he started he wasn’t even gay and that the taste of ‘cum’ would make him gag.
– He was smart enough to learn to enjoy it, and when he began to make millions of dollars, that it all became worth it. [TMZ, HuffPo, WWTDD]

So Hollywood is run by gay Jews? Jeez, who knew John Travolta sounded so much like Mel Gibson? They also seem to have that whole “blow me first” thing in common. Though even if this is to be believed, Travolta is a lot nicer about it.

Also, and this is neither here nor there, but I think it’d be pretty cool if there was a sprightly masseuse who dressed up as a French mime and gave happy endings, and he called himself “The Wee Masseur.”

– Vince Mancini

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