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Right-wingers on social media flipped out over the message an Iranian filmmaker had read on his behalf at the Academy Awards on Sunday night.
Asghar Farhadi won the Oscar for best foreign film for “The Salesman,” but didn’t attend the ceremony as a protest against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, and halting the nation’s immigrant program.
Instead, Iranian-American engineer Anousheh Ansari read a message on Farhadi’s behalf thanking the Academy and his crew, but blasting the travel ban as “inhumane.”
Farhadi wrote:
“Dividing the world into the us and our enemies categories creates fear. A deceitful justification for aggression and war. These wars prevent democracy and human rights in countries which have themselves been victims of aggression.”
Farhadi also called on his fellow filmmakers to use their craft “to capture shared human qualities” to “create empathy between us and others.”
That sent conservatives over the edge. Here are some of their messages:
And here are some of the responses:
Trump’s travel ban remains on hold after a series of court rulings against it, but his administration has promised to file a new one soon.
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Donald Trump has turned out to be a weird kind of guardian angel for The New York Times, even though he constantly berates the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper as “failing” and for peddling “fake news.” But each time the president attacks more readers than ever buy subscriptions, executive editor Dean Baquet revealed.
“Trump is the best thing to happen to the Times’ subscription strategy,” Baquet grinned on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday. “Every time he tweets it drives subscriptions wildly.”
Reporter Brian Stelter noted that Trump has referred to the Times as “failing” 53 times in a drumbeat of tweets. It’s simply not true, said Baquet. “Our digital subscriptions are going through the roof. Even print subscriptions are up. We’re a profitable company. We’re a big, vibrant, important newsroom.”
He characterized the constant attacks by Trump as a strategy to suppress any criticism of him and his administration in both the media and other institutions, including the judiciary, charged with “holding him accountable.” Added Baquet: “I think it’s troublesome, I think it’s dangerous.”
But Trump’s onslaught has helped make the newspaper’s mission “clearer than ever,” he said.
“I think what’s happened in the last couple months, I have to say, has been tremendous for news organizations,” Baquet said. “We’re covering a dramatic revolution in government and how the country is governed.”
Trump zinged the Times again Sunday, so subscriptions must be up even more. He responded to an ad the Times ran during the Academy Awards about seeking the truth. The ad concluded: “The truth is hard to find. The truth is hard to know. The truth is more important now than ever.”
Trump scoffed at the Times for taking out an ad “for the first time.” That wasn’t the truth. It may have been the newspaper’s first ad during the Oscars, but the Times has run commercials in the past. The president also suggested — yet again — that the newspaper “try reporting accurately.”
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On Sunday night, Hollywood’s biggest stars gathered to for the 89th annual Academy Awards. As is the case with most award shows, especially this season, there were plenty of awkward moments.
For instance, we saw Jimmy Kimmel lift Sunny Pawar (the adorable child from “Lion”) up into the air like Simba in “The Lion King,” and we watched Auli’i Cravalho get hit in the head with a flag ― she finished her performance like a total pro, though.
Finally, in what might be the most dramatic and awkward moment in Oscar history, “La La Land” was mistakenly announced as Best Picture, when it was “Moonlight” that earned the night’s top accolade.
To see all the night’s most awkward moments, check out the video above.
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