Hollywood and the left attacked Vice President Mike Pence after he left the San Francisco 49ers and Indianapolis Colts game Sunday when a handful of players took a knee during the national anthem.
Actress Patricia Arquette attacked Pence for “disrespecting women,” after he tweeted that he and President Donald Trump “will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers.”
“I left today’s Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem,” Pence tweeted. (RELATED: Pence Leaves Colts Game In Disgust After 49ers Kneel During National Anthem)
Vice President Mike Pence standing for national anthem. (photo: White House photo Myles Cullen)
“But distrespecting women is a wheels up all clear,” Arquette tweeted in response to the vice president’s explanation for why left the game.
But distrespecting women is a wheels up all clear!
— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) October 8, 2017
Television producer Elan Gale said the vice president and Trump demanding people not protest was the “least American thing I’ve seen in my life,” before he called him a good “vice dictator”
“This whole thing where Pence and Trump are demanding that Americans not protest is probably the least American thing I’ve seen in my life,” Gale tweeted.
This whole thing where Pence and Trump are demanding that Americans not protest is probably the least American thing I’ve seen in my life
— elan gale (@theyearofelan) October 8, 2017
It’s a good stand to take. You should never allow citizens to peacefully protest. You’re a good vice dictator.
— elan gale (@theyearofelan) October 8, 2017
YOU are a hypocrite and an idiot! WE will not dignify anything you have to say about any of this! #regimeofassholes #corruptidiocracy
— Betty Buckley (@BettyBuckley) October 8, 2017
If you can’t bare the sight of people exercising their rights to free expression, quit pretending you’re brave enough to lead them. https://t.co/uvkn0d5geu
— Thomas Sadoski (@ThomasSadoski) October 8, 2017
You wouldn’t know dignity if it came and shat in your mouth.
— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) October 8, 2017
We are being murdered in the streets. Flint and Puerto Rico have no drinking water. But protest is undignified? Fuck you, Mike Pence!
— @kim (@kim) October 8, 2017
If your standards are so high, Mike, why do you dignify and stand by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot?
— Josh Sánchez (@jnsanchez) October 8, 2017
No one cares.
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) October 8, 2017
Bumbling, inept white demagogues forcing accomplished black athletes to “show respect” for a vacuous symbol is white privilege writ large. pic.twitter.com/nl85cpUINU
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 8, 2017
NFL Columnist Mike Freeman accused Pence of “fake outrage,” before calling it an “ugly, despicable PR stunt.”
“1. This is fake outrage.
2. This is pre-planned outrage,” Freeman tweeted.
1. This is fake outrage.
2. This is pre-planned outrage. https://t.co/7Ip1qiarH3— mike freeman (@mikefreemanNFL) October 8, 2017
An ugly, despicable PR stunt by the Vice President of the United States.
— mike freeman (@mikefreemanNFL) October 8, 2017