AOC’s mad for Macklemore — cheers to Robert Kraft – Latest News
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is outraged, so you realize someone did one thing proper.
Turns out that the hero is Robert Kraft, who mentioned that Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour would no longer be welcome at his Gillette Stadium if Macklemore remained one of the opening acts — as a result of the rapper was utilizing his stage time to preach hate.
Kraft and different venue homeowners stood up after Macklemore took the stage at MetLife Stadium on Sept. 4 to clarify that “one of the main reasons” he wished to be a part of the tour was not to entertain the gang, however “to stand up here on stages and stadiums across America and say . . . Free Palestine.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks to the media outdoors of the US Capitol in Washington, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. Getty Images
He stuffed in what these two phrases actually imply by having photographs of Gaza performed on enormous screens as he carried out his “Hinds Hall,” a tribute to the pro-Palestine vandalism on the Columbia campus: “Free Palestine” means one dominated by Hamas terrorists who launched the Gaza battle with their Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of Israel and the slaughter of 1,200 innocents and the kidnapping of tons of more.
Macklemore’s rank antisemitism can’t actually be unsure after he donned a enormous faux nostril to play a Naziesque caricature of a Jew during a 2014 show.
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The boycott by a number of stadiums prompted the tour promoter to take away the rapper from the lineup, whereas Sheeran posted a plaintive “I keep politics out of my public art” word that principally infuriated Macklemore and his enablers.
The rapper whined about Zionists suppressing his free speech, as if he’s not nonetheless free to push his lies about Israel’s “apartheid” and “genocide” at his own exhibits.
Macklemore performs on the Goldencoast Rap Festival in Corcelles-les-Monts close to Dijon, France, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. AFP by way of Getty Images
AOC joined in denouncing “what Robert Kraft did, to line up all of the stadiums to censor speech” and introduced she’d be boycotting . . . Sheeran, apparently as a result of he refuses to be a part of within the snit match whilst each different performer signed up for the tour jumps ship.
No, the First Amendment doesn’t guarantee anybody an 80,000-seat area, a level that must be apparent to all of the “pro-Palestine” activists who’ve gotten acts cancelled since Oct. 7 as a result of the performers assist Israel’s continued existence.
So kudos to Kraft for having the center to say No to hateful lies.
AOC and Macklemore, then again, come off as posturing clowns.
They deserve one another.
