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Friday, March 21, 2014

Kristen Bell"s tweet advocating taxing the rich sets off Fox News

Kristen Bell"s tweet advocating taxing the rich sets off Fox News
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Actresses Kristen Bell, pictured at the Hollywood premiere of ‘Veronica Mars’ last week, caused much grumbling at Fox News over her tweet about taxing the rich.

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Actresses Kristen Bell, pictured at the Hollywood premiere of ‘Veronica Mars’ last week, caused much grumbling at Fox News over her tweet about taxing the rich.

“Veronica Mars” star Kristen Bell is getting panned by her toughest critics – Fox News.

The right-leaning news network’s Neil Cavuto slammed the 33-year-old actress for a tweet that called for the rich to be taxed at a higher rate.

“Should the star of Veronica Mars just go live n Mars,” asked Cavuto opening the Wednesday night segment of Fox News’ “Your World With Neil Cavuto.”

His guest Dave Maney, the CEO of Deke Digital, chimed in by suggesting that Bell, herself a millionaire, could donate extra money to the government if she so chose.

Maney then speculated that Bell’s real motive was to get some publicity for her latest film – “Veronica Mars” opened last Friday.

“Kristen is a pretty savvy social media promoter of herself and her film is not doing too well at the box office and I think it was a good way to get her name in the news,” he said.

Host Neil Cavuto (l.) and guest Dave Maney slammed the 33-year-old actress for suggestion that the government raise taxes on the rich.

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Host Neil Cavuto (l.) and guest Dave Maney slammed the 33-year-old actress for suggestion that the government raise taxes on the rich.

Bell whipped up an Internet debate when she tweeted Wednesday:

Conservatives were not so impressed with Bell’s proposed taxation policy.

Cavuto and Maney went from deriding Bell — who also voiced the main character in Disney’s hit animated film “Frozen” — to complaining about how the federal government wasted the tax dollars that it did receive.

“But she was great in ‘Frozen,’” Cavuto concluded of Bell at the end of the segment.

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Obama Address, Bells to Mark 50 Years Since King"s "Dream" Speech

Words from the first black U.S. president and bell ringing around the world on Wednesday will mark 50 years to the minute that civil rights leader Martin Luther King ended his landmark “I have a dream” speech.

Capping a week long celebration of King’s historic call for racial and economic justice, President Barack Obama will speak at the Lincoln Memorial, site of King’s address on Aug. 28, 1963.

The “Let Freedom Ring and Call to Action” ceremony comes as almost half of Americans say much more needs to be done before the color-blind society King envisioned is realized.

Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton also will address the crowd at the ceremony, which includes bell-ringing at 3 p.m. EDT, 50 years to the minute after King ended his clarion call of the civil rights movement with the words “let freedom ring.”

About 50 U.S. communities or organizations have said they will ring bells. The Swiss city of Lutry and Tokyo are also taking part, said Atlanta’s King Center, one of the event’s organizers.

Other organizers include the National Action Network of civil rights leader Al Sharpton, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the National Council of Churches. The ceremony follows an interfaith service at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, organizers said.

Obama’s address will wrap up more than a week of Washington events around the anniversary. They included a march on Saturday that drew thousands of people urging action on jobs, voting rights and gun violence.

King, a black clergyman and advocate of non-violence, was among six organizers of the 1963 “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” where he made his address.

King’s speech is credited with helping spur passage of sweeping civil rights laws. A white prison escapee assassinated the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1968.

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Obama Address, Bells to Mark 50 Years Since King"s "Dream" Speech