Remember when Ticketmaster flubbed up the Taylor Swift tickets and it was such a huge deal that congress decided to get itself involved?
Ticketmaster was such an evil company for messing up a presale of Taylor Swift.
But now, according to the Washington Free Beacon, they're selling tickets to a literal Nazi sympathizer's event and no one bats an eye!
The ticketing giant hated by Taylor Swift fans and everyone else who has ever tried to buy concert tickets is now under fire from Jewish activists for selling tickets to a Louis Farrakhan event in which the minister defended Adolf Hitler and predicted another Holocaust against Jews. But many of Ticketmaster's biggest critics on Capitol Hill don't seem to care.
Ticketmaster, which charges service fees on each ticket it sells, raked in money selling tickets to Farrakhan's annual Saviours' Day conference in Chicago last weekend. During his speech at the event, Farrakhan assailed the "stranglehold that Jews have on this government" and claimed "Jewish power is what has all of our people of knowledge and wisdom and talent afraid."
It's truly amazing what Louis Farrakhan can get away with and how NO Democrats will dare say a word.
The Democrats will go ballistic on Kanye West, but Farrakhan spouts the same antisemitism, for decades, and no one will say boo.
The event was met with crickets on Capitol Hill, with almost no one in Congress speaking out against Ticketmaster for making money off of the Farrakhan event. The reaction is a stark contrast to lawmakers' response when Ticketmaster bungled sales last year for Taylor Swift's much-anticipated concert tour. That fiasco was in the news cycle for weeks and led to a Department of Justice investigation as well as a Senate hearing. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say Ticketmaster and its parent company, LiveNation, have a monopoly over the ticket industry, leading to price-gouging and a failure to crack down on automated scalping.
Ticketmaster making money off of teeny boppers buying tickets to a stupid pop show= Evil
Ticketmaster making money off of an anti-semite's annual hate event= Crickets
Entertainment industry leaders and Jewish groups had urged Ticketmaster to drop the Farrakhan event from its sales platform, but Ticketmaster did not waver. The Anti-Defamation League also sent a letter to Ticketmaster on Friday to "note that the Nation of Islam's annual Saviors' Day event regularly serves as a platform to amplify this hate and bigotry." The group said it was not calling on the company to halt ticket sales.
The event came as anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States. Hate crimes against Jews have surged in major cities, while celebrities like Kanye West and Kyrie Irving have promoted anti-Jewish conspiracy theories on social media. Farrakhan during his speech praised West as a "very great brother" and "genius."
"Ye broke into the fashion industry, that's controlled by Jews," said Farrakhan. "Don't be mad with them. They're in every avenue that leads to power."
"Somebody has to take on the synagogue of Satan, and here we are," he said. "We cannot let them take the country."
I look forward to AOC, the Dems, and the Justice Department hounding Ticketmaster because of this evil man who is, apparently, friends with Kanye.
This was a literal hate event, but because Farrakhan's a friend of the Democrats, nobody cares.
