{"id":11857,"date":"2019-06-06T09:07:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11857"},"modified":"2019-06-06T09:07:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:07:50","slug":"tired-boring-and-dangerous-celebrity-death-wishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/tired-boring-and-dangerous-celebrity-death-wishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired, Boring\u2014and Dangerous\u2014Celebrity Death Wishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>V\u00edctor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, New York writer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fran-lebowitz\/\">Fran Lebowitz<\/a>&nbsp;told Bill Maher on his HBO program that the U.S. government should turn President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cover to the Saudis, his buddies\u2014the same Saudis who got rid of that reporter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebowitz thought it was cool to imagine on live television that the president might be chopped up in the manner of the recent murder of Saudi journalist and activist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A veritable mini-industry of celebrity calls for Trump\u2019s violent death or assassination is now old and boring\u2014and getting dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As if on cue, actors, singers, comedians, and banal entertainers compete with each other to hope for the most gruesome manner of killing the president\u2014and thereby insidiously lowering the bar for unhinged minds of what could be conceivable or even acceptable to big screen icons and popular culture\u2019s cool crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/06\/02\/tired-boring-and-dangerous-celebrity-death-wishing\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V\u00edctor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Recently, New York writer&nbsp;Fran Lebowitz&nbsp;told Bill Maher on his HBO program that the U.S. government should turn President&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;\u201cover to the Saudis, his buddies\u2014the same Saudis who got rid of that reporter.\u201d Lebowitz thought it was cool to imagine on live television that the president might be chopped up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-35f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4165,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/tweaking-the-united-states\/","url_meta":{"origin":11857,"position":0},"title":"Tweaking the United States","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services As the Iranian nuclear threat continues to grow, neither the United States nor Israel are eager to be damned by the global community for sending in bombers to take out Tehran's dispersed and hard-to-find subterranean nuclear factories. 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