PART 29: AT THE REQUEST OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS,: PLAYWRIGHT/SINGER MIRANDA, JOHN CLEESE CANCELS HIMSELF, DAVE CHAPPELLE LOVES BEING CANCELLED, WAPO RE-WRITES HISTORY, THE STEEL DOSSIER

One of our most popular series here at the blog.  The metaphysical---and not so metaphysical---book burning continues...

LIN-MAUEL MIRANDA SLAMS CANCEL CULTURE; 

Lin-Manuel Miranda isn’t a fan of being canceled.  The singer and playwright is no stranger to criticism of his work and recently addressed the whole notion of cancel culture. The 41-year-old discussed backlash against his own projects in a lengthy profile with The New Yorker. Miranda received some hate for his musical film “In The Heights” where he was slammed for lacking Afro-Latinx representation...MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/11/15/in-the-heights-director-lin-manuel-miranda-slams-cancel-culture/

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Editor's note: JOHN CLEESE DOESN'T FOOL AROUND....

British actor John Cleese is taking no chances with what he considers the "woke" mob, even if it means canceling an upcoming appearance at his own alma mater.  Cleese on Tuesday took to the social media platform Twitter to announce he was pulling out of appearing at the leading UK institution after a fellow attendee was barred by "woke" staff and students.   "I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an impersonation of Hitler," Cleese told his 5.6 million Twitter followers. "I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does."   READ MORE AT https://www.newsweek.com/john-cleese-cancels-himself-cambridge-university-talk-after-previous-speaker-banned-1648164

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: COMEDIAN CHAPPELLE......TO A SOLD OUT CROWD HE SAYS "MAN I LOVE BEING CANCELLED"

Veteran comedian Dave Chappelle proclaimed this week to a sold-out crowd of 19,000 people in San Francisco, California, “man, I love being canceled,” adding “I’m going through something — it might be history.”  “Man, I love being cancelled, it’s a huge relief. It’s like getting Capone on tax evasion,” Chappelle told his audience of 19,000 on Thursday night while kicking off his 10-city comedy tour, according to a report by Rolling Stone. READ MORE HERE.

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WASHINGTON POST WALKS BACK STEELE DOSSIER ARTICLES  https://nypost.com/2021/11/12/washington-post-retracts-some-stories-based-on-steele-dossier/

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