Pro-life activists disrupt Kimmel show taping
Read backstory here. Huffington Post and FishbowlLA have also now picked up on this.
I ended my post yesterday with the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust staging a protest in front of comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s studio on Hollywood Blvd in LA. I should mention the Survivors have been holding their annual pro-life boot camp since June 21 (ended today), so these protests have all numbered nearly 100 kids….
So while the Survivors were protesting late yesterday afternoon there was an announcement that free tickets were still available for last night’s Kimmel show taping, which was incidentally outdoors (click photo right to enlarge). Four Survivors each snagged one.
They decided to disperse themselves throughout the audience, wait 20 minutes after taping had commenced, and then begin raising a ruckus, imploring Kimmel to stand up for free speech and condemn the actions of his lighting crew.
Meanwhile, here was the scene outside the studio, on the other side of the fence:
Back inside, just as guest Dakota Fanning (photo right via gossipcenter.com) settled in for her interview, the 4 Survivors began shouting for Kimmel to stop letting his people silence their message.
“Everything stopped,” reported my source. Kimmel and Fanning stopped talking and peered out into the audience to see what was going on. The police quickly escorted the 4 out, and since taping was on delay, the scene was edited out. Here is video I received of the incident. Most of the action takes place between :33-1:40…
Kimmel show producers followed the police and kids out and tried to negotiate with them, 2 of whom were underage. They said that if the Survivors would stop “coming after Jimmy,” they wouldn’t prosecute.
The Survivors responded that if the 4 weren’t immediately released, the group would show up en masse at Kimmel’s house the following morning (this morning) at 7a.
Kimmel’s producers said the lighting people were not part of their team; the company was hired just for the day on June 25. Producers promised not to hire the company again. Within 30 minutes the 4 Survivors were released.
So that’s where this stands. I asked whether there was going to be a lawsuit for the June 25 attempt to light-fry Ryan Bueler and was told he hadn’t decided whether or not to file. I hope he does. Stay tuned.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Clinton Defends Byrd’s KKK Ties: “He Was Trying To Get Elected”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/07/02/clinton_defends_byrds_kkk_ties_he_was_trying_to_get_elected.html
At a memorial today for the deceased U. S. Senator from West Virginia, Robert K(KK) Byrd, former philanderer in chief, Billy Boy Clinton shook his bony finger at the camera and attempted to excuse Byrd’s former membership in the KKK as merely a means to win an election.
But Robert K.KK Byrd was not just an entry level member in the Klan. He was an officer who rose to the rank of Grand Cyclops.
I understand Byrd will be afforded full Klan honors, with his cloak and hood prominently on display and regaled with a 21 nooose salute. The closing music will be one of Byrd’s favorite songs, ‘White Christmas.
Byrd’s memorial service was reminiscent of the late Senator Paul Wellstones which had morphed into a full blown political pep rally.
Contrast this with the comments made by Trent Lott on the occasion of U.S. Senator Strom Thurmonds 90th birthday, lamented it was too bad Strom was not elected president instead of a democRAT.
The queens of political correctness along with the usual cast of racing baiting poverty pimps feined outrage and demanded Lott’s resignation as majority leader.
Still waiting for comment from these paragons of consistency and virtue condemnnig Byrd’s former Klan affiliations.
The 4 Survivors needed to do singular interruptions – one would be escorted out and then after everything settles and taping get going again – have another interrupt again.
This completely unnerves the production team because after 3 interruptions, they won’t know how many are left. Taping is serious money.
It good to see the Survivors achieve a concession from Jimmy Kimmel’s company.
Ryan serious needs to consider filing battery charges against the lighting company. That lamp is capable of doing more than just cooking him. His attorney needs to get in touch with Mole-Richardson – the manufacturer, as well as the local union. (The backstory comments have the link.)
Robert K.KK Byrd was an Exalted Cyclops and a Kleagle. A Kleagle was a recruiter. Robert Byrd formed a KKK chapter. He didn’t just go to a couple of meetings. A Kleagle was a recruiter, and he was a recruiter for the KKK for years. He formed his chapter in 1943. He was still writing about the “vital need” for the Klan in 1946.
Senator Byrd was so “repentant” he opposed every civil rights movement. Senator Byrd filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1965. He voted against both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas. He voted agains the confirmation of Condoleeza Rice.
It wasn’t until the death of his son in a car accident in the early 1980s that Robert Byrd said he had to rethink his feelings about black people. He said — in the 1980s — that it “finally occurred to [him] that they might love their children, too.” That’s the Robert Byrd that Clinton said had a “fleeting association” with the KKK.
Byrd filibustered the Civil Rights Act 1965, and he was a Democrat the whole time. That’s absolutely correct, he was a Democrat the whole time — and he was very close friends with a fellow segregationist, J. William Fulbright, Arkansas senator, a person Bill Clinton has said is his mentor.
Robert Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo, 1944, “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. Rather, I should die a thousand times, see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” Robert Byrd, 1944. He was a recruiter in the Klan. He did not have a “fleeting association.”
In 1946 or 1947 Robert Byrd wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan stating, quote: “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”
Now, what does any of that have to do with getting elected, as Bill Clinton said?
If this company was a company Jimmy Kimmel only hired for that day, then why didn’t he issue and apology to the Survivors and explain that? The point is this company worked for him and was representing him and his brand and they tried to harm a kid. Jimmy Kimmel needed to take responsibility not wait until he was confronted. What a wuss.
Thank you ken,
I read that too. Black people just “might” love their children? What an epiphany. What if his son hadn’t died? Would Byrd have gone to his grave convinced that black people didn’t love their children?
Gag me. A “brush” with the klan. Imagine if any Republican senator had had such a “brush” with the klan. Damn, if only Byrd had been a Republican. Well, one did have to be a Democrat to be a klansman so that wasn’t likely.
You know Ken I always hear the argument that its the racist Democrats of the old south that are the Republicans today. Really? Name them. “Crickets”.
Someone enlighten me as to why black Americans continue to give their blind loyalty to the Democrats.
Ken
Just imagine the sanctamonious chest pounding we would have been subjected to if Byrd had been a Republican. How Republicans would be attacked for eulogizing him. What do you want to bet Obama and Clinton probaby would boycott the funeral out of indignation for such a racist past?
So pro-life activists turn Code Pink.
Lovely.
Mary,
What is the female journalists name who said she would hit her knees for Bill Clinton because he had kept abortion accessible?