The Hollywood press downplays tales that don’t match “the narrative.”
Instance?
Stephen Colbert will get canned for costing CBS a reported $40 million a 12 months. Media shops decried the choice, suggesting President Donald Trump acquired the far-Left host fired … with out proof.
Trump is Hitler 2.0, or so The Narrative goes.
Michael Rapaport will get canceled for being a pro-Israeli Jewish artist. Largely crickets from the Legacy Media. The professional-Palestinian Left should be protected, so the story acquired little protection.
This time, the outrage proved too massive to cowl up.
The UK has arrested a COMEDIAN now for @X posts that the British authorities discovered to be criminally offensive to transgenders. Right here’s Graham Linehan on his arrest. The UK has no free speech. The emotions of transgenders & migrants come earlier than the rights of everybody else. pic.twitter.com/vkK4OAQ0Zk
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 2, 2025
British comedian Graham Linehan’s arrest this week over allegedly anti-trans social media posts proved so surprising even Hollywood press shops lined it. They didn’t wait a day or two till the story calmed down, both.
Each Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter shared the information mere hours after it exploded on social media. And that is removed from an remoted incident.
Free speech is beneath livid assault in England.
Wow. You gotta hearken to this.
“It truly is 1984, we live it now”
Within the UK, they need to curb speech in Pubs by “banning clients from discussing controversial subjects” in case the dialog you’re speaking about offends somebody.
That is completely mad.
— Kosher (@koshercockney) January 14, 2025
It’s a large story, a part of free speech’s surprising decline within the U.Okay. And, it ought to go with out saying, the story has ramifications for Western tradition, the humanities and freedom basically.
So the place is Hollywood?
The celebrities have been raging in opposition to President Trump for months, calling him a dictator who will snuff out free speech. Actually, they’ll stand up en masse to decry Linehan’s arrest.
No? Name it unlikely at finest.
Celebrities have largely stood down as woke bylaws and Cancel Tradition scolds pummeled speech over the previous decade. Why? It’s partly resulting from worry. In addition they noticed largely conservatives being censored and didn’t really feel compelled to rally to their aspect.
Is there one other rationalization?
Want examples? Stars decried in opposition to so-called e-book bans however ignored sensitivity readers erasing passages from Ian Fleming, Agatha Christie and Roald Dahl.
They mentioned nothing as artists self-censored to keep away from skilled blowback. Some even memory-holed their very own work quite than defend free expression.
British stars must be talking up the loudest proper now, proper? However are they?
One Brit is doing simply that.
J.Okay. Rowling is an old-school liberal who holds free speech expensive. And she or he’s not staying silent concerning the present disaster. (apologies for the grownup language)
What the fuck has the UK develop into? That is totalitarianism. Completely deplorable. https://t.co/CRl2n9rorh
— J.Okay. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 2, 2025
British comic Ricky Gervais, a free speech warrior, posted this message yesterday however hasn’t addressed the matter immediately on his X account (but).
When you don’t imagine in free speech for individuals who you disagree with, and even hate for what they stand for, you then don’t imagine in free speech. pic.twitter.com/wMZoQbHZxj
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2025
Ex-Mumford and Sons musician Winston Marshall is aghast at Linehan’s arrest, too.
Comic Graham Linehan @Glinner arrested by 5 armed law enforcement officials upon arrival at London Heathrow airport on account of three latest posts on X.
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— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) September 2, 2025
Will their left-leaning friends be part of the combat or keep on the sidelines, hoping that the censors will come for them final?