Actress refers to DeSantis as "Grand Wizard"
during Tony Award presentation
Hot Air,
by
Karen Townsend
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
6/12/2023 2:58:11 PM
The Tony Awards were held Sunday night and televised live on CBS and Paramount+. I did not watch the show but a tweet caught my eye. It had to do with an actress and a Ku Klux Klan reference to Governor Ron DeSantis.
Actress Denee Benton was on stage to present the Excellence in Theatre Education Award from Carnegie Mellow University. The 2023 recipient of the award is Jason Zembuch Young of South Plantation High School in Plantation, Florida. In her remarks leading up to the award presentation, Benton noted that she is a CMU alum and that she is from Florida.
Then she launched into a random attack on the governor
Go ahead, keep on dividing this country. We're sick of playing the race card, we're sick of trans this and trans that, we are getting fed up and angry.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
vrb8m 6/12/2023 3:06:08 PM (No. 1490450)
Wrong article.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
msjena 6/12/2023 3:23:50 PM (No. 1490463)
Two black men dressed as women won for best actor and supporting actor. Several gay men gave shout outs to their husbands. CBS censored the word "fagot." And it was otherwise an enjoyable evening!
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Yeah, the KKK loves Italian Roman Catholics.
Wish I could post pictures, because Biden used to call a real live KKK Grand Cyclops Senator Robert Byrd his “best fiend”.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/12/2023 3:38:34 PM (No. 1490473)
It was gratifying to learn that Carnegie Mellow University finally changed it's fruity name. Mellow? More than we'll ever know.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 6/12/2023 3:46:29 PM (No. 1490476)
Actresses are almost always idiots. This one proves that she is right in their with the standard issue actress, the brainpower of a gnat driving the mouth of a large mouthed bass.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snakeoil 6/12/2023 3:55:46 PM (No. 1490480)
My brain isn't what it used to be. I thought she meant the Wizard of Oz.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
avital2 6/12/2023 4:01:43 PM (No. 1490484)
God is watching and noted the breaking of one of the Ten Commandments, the bearing of false witness. duly noted.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kate318 6/12/2023 4:17:42 PM (No. 1490488)
You will never find a dumber, smugger, self-righteous, uninformed group of bigots than theatre actors.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SALady 6/12/2023 4:22:05 PM (No. 1490492)
I'm guessing all 6 of the people watching the Tony Awards this year were in full agreement with her...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 6/12/2023 4:29:53 PM (No. 1490495)
WHO?!! Some people think too much of themselves. She will now sink back into the obscure realms of where ever she came from.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 6/12/2023 4:54:13 PM (No. 1490517)
Never heard of Denee Benton. What's her claim to acting fame? Is that another man pretending to be a woman? Or just another daft actress pretending to understand something relevant?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
aasilver 6/12/2023 5:04:40 PM (No. 1490524)
I would introduce her as Denee Benton, the village idiot.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
wayneright 6/12/2023 5:14:26 PM (No. 1490529)
So much for Trump has too much baggage.
They will treat DeSantis the same way they treat Trump.
It's ideas and the folks they have them that they hate and want to destroy.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Encore 6/12/2023 5:56:00 PM (No. 1490543)
#7, she probably did, that’s their reality. But, if she didn’t, it’s still as mindless a thought.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 6/12/2023 6:34:21 PM (No. 1490567)
Ah yes, we are treated to political speeches by an unknown and undoubt3dly mediocre actress who sole "acting" abiiity more like than not is that she looks good (to some people) with her clothes off.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/12/2023 6:40:53 PM (No. 1490568)
I came across it while channel surfing, and switched channels when I couldn't figure out whether the very tall, broad-shouldered tap dancer was a tranny or not.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 6/12/2023 7:10:39 PM (No. 1490578)
I know that a Governor is a public figure, and the bar for libel and slander is far higher. This, I think, topped that bar, and he should sue.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
paral04 6/12/2023 8:28:28 PM (No. 1490632)
I guess she stands for child mutilation just like the rest of the Democrat degenerates she hangs out with.
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This actress is a major league idiot. And that is just for starters.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
thewarden 6/13/2023 12:26:10 AM (No. 1490725)
I worked my first real job at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in the mid 80s. God, what a shock for a traditional , conservative Catholic girl! I didn’t even know what GAY was! These people are sick, trust me. The only slightly normal folk were the tech guys who built the scenery. I thank God every day since that I got fired…it saved my life. The Arts are not normal, the actors are almost all narcissistic weirdos and quite frankly, worthless. They support leftist causes for the most part because they are stupid, depraved, useless people who cannot “do” anything else. I loved theatre but my experiences made me sad…they really are messed up. The award shows these days are just virtue signaling nonsense mixed with affirmative action crap…they don’t matter. Sad as I have a photo of myself holding our Tony Award (Best Regional Theatre) with our artistic director. I honestly don’t care anymore and that just makes me sad. I long for the time we all could just go to live theatre and enjoy.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 6/13/2023 1:12:36 AM (No. 1490740)
The so called actress is a complete and unadulterated jackass.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mifla 6/13/2023 7:32:47 AM (No. 1490827)
Hollywood is falling apart due to lack of customers, and they continue to dig the grave deeper.
Soon, the only place people like this will act is in their Mom's garage.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
broken01 6/13/2023 8:46:01 AM (No. 1490873)
Yet this person probably voted for Biden. A racist who was mentored early and throughout his Senate career by other known racists and KKK members/apologists like James Eastland and Robert C. Byrd Grand Imperial Kleagle Wizard Dark Lord of the Sith of the Klux Klan.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Faithfully 6/15/2023 6:51:08 PM (No. 1492756)
Have never heard of Denee.
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