Ellen DeGeneres Is…‘Offensive’

Emmy-winning comedienne and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres recently came under fire for hanging out at a NFL game with 43rd U.S. president George W. Bush.

DeGeneres’s ABC sitcom Ellen (originally These Friends of Mine), which I watched regularly, premiered 25 years ago, in 1994, and lasted until 1998. Her character Ellen Morgan’s coming-out episode, “The Puppy Episode,” won DeGeneres and her co-writers the 1996–97 Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson won the 1997–98 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for the episode “Emma.” DeGeneres has hosted her syndicated talk-show entertainment program since 2003.

I have not made a point of following DeGeneres for her politics. Part of what explains this is that I do not watch her talk show. I generally don’t like to watch talk shows. So, prior to my writing and posting this blog topic, I did not research whether she has made endorsements other than knowing, from little moments I have seen of her talk show, she does endorse corporate products. In the video, from Jimmy Dore, DeGeneres does mention she is a liberal.

In the above video, which was posted in comments section last week, Jimmy Dore well-researches and -reviews Ellen DeGeneres. But, I want to add this: George W. Bush nationally exploited LGBT persons (one of whom is DeGeneres) for the purpose of political and electoral gain. And he did with a willingness to possibly bring destruction to LGBT people. My home state is Michigan. In 2004, when Bush was re-elected and won the U.S. Popular Vote by +2.46 percentage points (it was George W. Bush 50.73% vs. John Kerry 48.27%), he tried to flip Michigan with a motivator being the ballot proposal to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage statewide. While John Kerry carried Michigan with 51 percent of the vote (a margin of +3.42 percentage points), the ban passed with almost 59 percent. In fact, it passed in all of the state’s counties.

We also know Bush, with help from the likes of Colin Powell and Robert Mueller, lied to the people of the United States to get the country into war in Iraq. (The fact that there were three faithless 2016 electors from the Democratic-aligned state of Washington who cast their presidential votes not for losing nominee Hillary Clinton but for Republican Colin Powell—and the “mainstream” Democrats were also on their knees for Mueller with Russiagate—speaks as well to the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the corrupt, corporate, Democratic Party Establishment.)

Jimmy Dore uses some accurate words to describe Ellen DeGeneres. But, there is one particular word—and it is not needing to be one that is dramatic—which should also be applied. That word is…offensive. Yes, Ellen DeGeneres is offensive.

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In addition to the video by Jimmy Dore come related ones by Graham Elwood, Kyle Kulinksi of Secular Talk, Tim Black, David Doel of The Rational National and, as one who is out as a gay man, Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report.