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Hollywood Elite Privilege: LA County Dept. of Public Health Says Mask-Less Emmys Covered Under Filming Exemption

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In response to the controversy over the images of maskless celebrities partying at the Emmys while staffers huddled behind their face-coverings, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health defended the display by touting Hollywood filming and television production “exceptions” put in place a year ago.

In a statement shared by CNN’s Oliver Darcy, the department said that “safety modifications” were made for an event like the Emmys due to the “exceptions” made for film and television productions, even going so far as classifying celebrity attendees as “performers.”

“LA county’s Health Officer order requires everyone to wear a mask indoors, whether vaccinated or unvaccinated. However, exceptions are made for film, television, and music productions, as additional safety modifications are made for these controlled interactions,” the statement said. “The Emmy award show is a television production, and persons appearing on the show are considered performers.”

The rules state that vaccinated individuals must wear a mask indoors, though images show staff and other individuals at the event wearing masks. Accusations of a stark double standard — one for celebrity elites and one for everyone else — caught fire on social media Sunday night.

“All persons appearing on or in the audience of the Emmy award show were fully vaccinated against COVID-19,” the statement said. “Also, Public Health was informed that each of these persons had a verified negative PCR test 48 hours prior to the show. In addition, the production crew, pursuant to CalOSHA requirements, were required to be fully vaccinated or are testing (either PCR or antigen) twice per week.”

The Emmys reached out to Public Health in advance to share their safety protocols, which exceeded the baseline requirements for television and film productions. Careful planning before large events is essential to assure that all health and safety requirements are adequately addressed. Full vaccination of all attendees is one of the most powerful ways to achieve a safe environment. Testing of event participants and crew and optimizing ventilation are additional powerful tools. Public Health will continue review the protocols of future large television production events and prescribe additional safety modifications to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission.

As Breitbart News reported, Hollywood studios like Netflix, Disney, and Paramount reportedly enlisted highly paid lobbyists to sway state politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to declare the entertainment industry as “essential,” leaving them exempt from the state’s lockdown orders. The exemption policy came just as California small businesses were struggle to keep their doors open during the state’s COVID-19 lockdowns.

During the show on Sunday night, none other than comedian Seth Rogen pointed out the hypocrisy on display.

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“Let me start by saying there is way too many of us in this little room! What are we doing? They said this was outdoors! It’s not! They lied to us,” the comedian said. “We’re in a hermetically sealed tin right now. I would not have come to this! Why is there a roof? It is more important that we have three chandeliers than that we make sure we don’t kill Eugene Levy tonight. That is what has been decided.”

Later, the event’s host Cedrick the Entertainer said everyone at the show had been fully vaccinated whilst taking a subtle jab at rapper Nicki Minaj.

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“It feels amazing to be here. We’re all vaccinated in this room,” he said. “I’m vaxxed, but I didn’t have no reactions like Nicki Minaj‘s cousin’s friend. I got the Pfizer [vaccine]. Because I’m bougie. That’s the Neiman Marcus of vaccines. There’s Moderna, that’s Macy’s, and then Johnson & Johnson, that’s TJ Maxx, of course.”

CNN’s Allison: Those Attending Saturday’s Rally Have 'Very Close Parallels to the Taliban'

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CNN political commentator Ashley Allison said Thursday on “The Lead” that those planning to attend the Justice for J6 rally in D.C. Saturday have “very close parallels to the Taliban.”

Allison said, “We know that Joe Biden won the election, and these folks show up because, on January 6, there’s a group of people who wanted to overthrow our government and did not believe what voters decided to do. They are coming back on Saturday to make the point the second time. This is not the first time a rally has a reunion, so to speak. It happened when Charlottesville, neo-Nazies marched in the streets as they came back to Unite the Right.”

She added, “The thing that’s disgusting to me is same Republicans who will not condemn Saturday’s attendees or the rally are the same ones blasting the Biden administration about Afghanistan. When I look at the people who come on Saturday, I draw very close parallels to the Taliban. They are people who don’t have respect for democracy. They are people who don’t have respect to diverging ideas and what is people on January 6 stood for. That is what the people who come on Saturday. If you are a Democrat or a Republican and you won’t condemn, shame on you. People should take them on in the primary, and they should not be afraid of Donald Trump.”

Guest anchor Pamela Brown said, “That’s an extreme example and to equate them to the Taliban, an obviously very oppressive, violent regime.”

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Commerce Secretary Raimondo: Vaccine Mandate ‘the Single Best Thing We Can Do’ to Help Restaurants, Hotels

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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, on Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” touted the vaccine mandate for companies recently announced by President Joe Biden.

Raimondo pushed back against the notion that the mandate would hurt the food and hospitality industry recover from the shutdowns. She said it is actually “the single best thing that we can do” to immediately help those industries.

“I think that will make things much, much better,” Raimondo stated. “We were moving in a much better direction for restaurants, hotels, and then the Delta variant started to spike. And so the single best thing that we can do quickly, immediately, to help restaurants, help hotels, help hospitality, is for everybody to get vaccinated so that waiters and waitresses feel comfortable going back to work, people feel comfortable going out for dinner, business travel can pick up again, and business travelers can, you know, spend money in restaurants. That, I cannot emphasize enough. Everybody needs to get vaccinated. And businesses should really consider requiring their employees to get vaccinated.”

Raimondo went on to say that businesses should take a “very, very hard look” at requiring vaccines for customers.

“These vaccines work. We know they work. There is an antidote — it’s the vaccine. And the quicker we get people vaccinated, the better our economy will be,” she concluded.

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CNN host Don Lemon on unvaxxed Americans: They're 'stupid,' 'harmful to the greater good,' and we should 'start shaming them or leave them behind'

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CNN’s host Don Lemon has no love at all for the significant segment of the American populace that has yet to get a COVID vaccination — and he’s making his disdain clearer by the day.

Now, he’s calling on citizens to shut “stupid” fellow Americans who are unvaxxed. Why? Because, in Lemon’s mind, they are “harmful to the greater good.”

What did Lemon say?

On his show Wednesday night during the crossover and handoff portion with fellow CNN leftist Chris Cuomo, Lemon ripped into “stupid” unvaxxed people for being like Trump voters and demanded that American stop “coddling them.”

“The people who are not getting vaccines, who are believing the lies on the internet instead of science, it’s time to start shaming them,” Lemon declared. “Or leave them behind, because they’re keeping the majority of Americans behind.”

He then screamed at the unvaxxed for not trusting the COVID vaccine while having no problems with other vaccines — which he failed to point out have been around for decades and been proven to be safe for generations of Americans.

“You didn’t feel that way for the polio vaccine, you don’t feel that way about measles, mumps, rubella when it comes to your children,” he continued ranting. “And all of a sudden this vaccine is different? What’s different about it?”

“The only different thing about it is because of your politics today,” he asserted, somehow making a link to Trump supporters.

Not only did Lemon skip over the tried-and-true status of polio, measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines, he also failed to point out — as have most of the media — that the least vaccinated racial demographic are blacks, whose politics do not match up with those he was tearing into.

“The people talking about ‘well, I don’t know what’s in the shot,’ Chris,” Lemon said, then criticizing the same people for allegedly taking Botox without knowing what’s in it, along with not knowing what’s in their foods.

“Stop it with the ignorance,” Lemon insisted.

The leftist host insisted that the country no longer needs to listen to these people — because they’re bad for “the greater good.”

“These people are being harmful to the greater good,” Lemon claimed. “You don’t have to listen to a minority of people who are being harmful to the greater good, and you are not acting logic, reason, and science.”

Cuomo, of course, chimed in with his insight by alluding to the repeatedly debunked claim that people taking ivermectin to fight COVID were taking horse medication.

“You’re going to question the vaccine, but you want to take a horse dewormer,” Cuomo said.

“I accept everything you just said,” Cuomo continued. “Most of all, the idea that the majority cannot be held by the tyranny of a minority.”

WATCH: AOC ties herself in KNOTS trying to use correct woke phrase for this word

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On a recent episode of “The Rubin Report,” BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared a clip of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tripping herself up trying to use the correct woke words of social justice speech during an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN. She can’t decide if she should call a woman a woman, a person who gives birth, or a menstruating person.

Watch the video clip below or find the full episode of “The Rubin Report” here:

Content Warning: Explicit language



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