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John Legend was defending SoS Kerry...
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2014/07/30/3466117/prominent-conservative-pundit-tells-john-legend-to-shut-up-and-play-the-piano/
Prominent Conservative Pundit Tells Black Musician To Shut Up And Play The Piano
by Judd Legum Posted on July 30, 2014 at 7:51 pm Updated: July 30, 2014 at 8:22 pm
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CREDIT: AP
John Podhoretz, a former speech writer for Ronald Reagan with a regular column in the New York Post, told musician John Legend to shut up and play the piano in a tweet sent on Wednesday afternoon. Podhoretz was prompted by a tweet that Legend sent criticizing Israels treatment of Secretary of State John Kerry.
Podhoretzs tweet was widely criticized for playing into racist stereotypes of African American entertainers.
Rather than apologize or address the controversy, Podhoretz apparently deleted his Twitter account. He was an extremely active user of the Twitter, sending almost 70,000 tweets and attracting over 34,000 followers.
Podhoretz is also the editor of Commentary, a conservative magazine, and a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)suggesting to him that that's all he knows how to do.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)they just can't help it at this point.
Modern Technology is a very, very bad thing for conservatives.
blm
(113,052 posts)Scratch any of these Moonie News commentators even a little bit and you find a whiner who pays his mortgage by carrying water for NWO fascism, and who actually detests the GOP voter base.
And THAT is why guys like Podhoretz whine.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)oh, that's right .twitter never mind...