Washington Post drama critic Peter Marks promoted liberal actor George Takei and his new (failing) musical on Broadway about the internment of Japanese Americans. Neither man breathed a word in the paper about Franklin Roosevelt. Instead, it topically turned on Donald Trump: “Takei would dearly love it if the people stirring up a new round of paranoia would come to Allegiance and face the illuminating music.”
Marks also failed to tell readers that Takei – who was interned as a boy with his parents – viciously attacked Justice Clarence Thomas in July in a TV interview. “He is a clown in blackface sitting on the Supreme Court. He gets me that angry. He doesn't belong there... this man does not belong on the Supreme Court. He is an embarrassment. He is a disgrace to America.”
Takei, who is openly gay, completely miscontrued Thomas’s dissent in the Court’s ruling that imposed “gay marriage” on all states. This isn’t the first time the Post ignored that outburst. In the midst of the outrage over Takei's remarks in July, black Post reporter Soraya Nadia McDonald publicized Takei’s criticism of Thomas in an MSNBC op-ed and completely skipped over the “clown in blackface” TV interview.
Liberals are never discussed when they lose their minds. In the Post, they are nearly always presented as their calmest, and most rational selves, in stark contrast with the oafish Republicans:
But when Allegiance began performances at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway in early October, it could not have anticipated how profoundly timely its themes would be. Just two months later, the front-runner in polls for the Republican presidential nomination would be issuing pronouncements about barring people from one religious denomination from entering the country. His reasoning was that in the wake of terrorist attacks by extremist killers who were of that faith, millions of others of that background posed too great a threat to the security of the country.
Sound familiar? It certainly did to Takei, forever Mr. Sulu to generations of Trekkies, but more to the point, a prisoner himself as a child for 4 1 /2 years in the Japanese American internment camps during World War II.
The remarks by Donald Trump about halting Muslims’ entrance into the United States galled Takei, as did his recent comment to Time magazine that he “would have had to be there” to know whether he might have supported the Japanese American wartime imprisonment.
That’s a little edited. Trump said “I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer.” No Republican consultant would tell him that was the proper answer.
But liberals often ignore the nuance, that there’s a different between an internment of Americans and a ban on immigration, and they quickly see racism and "Islamophobia" as identical. They also lecture about the pitfalls of “paranoia” and a “politics of fear” in the same week they’re using both to push for international “climate change” regulation.
Marks noted Takei's musical is only selling 60 percent of its seats, and so Takei took on Trump with a YouTube video inviting him to come to the musical as a stunt to help the failing show.
