In a statement, the granddaughter of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that this year, the foundation that chooses honorees “strayed far from the original mission of the award and from what Justice Ginsburg stood for.”
On Monday, the chairman of the Opperman Foundation, which chooses honorees and organizes the event independent of the late Supreme Court justice’s survivors and estate, said in a statement that the group was pulling the plug to avoid fueling controversy over the 2024 recipient list.
“Keeping in mind that our goal is only to do good, the foundation is not interested in creating controversy,” Julie Opperman said. “It is not interested in generating a debate about whether particular honorees are worthy or not.
“The last thing we intended was to offend the family and friends of RBG,” she continued. “Our purpose was only to remember her and to honor her leadership.”
Good. It would be a joke to give these two democracy destroyers any award.
why was Murdoch even considered for a commendation associated with Ginsberg’s name?
Were they trying to pick the two least eligible people?
What a travesty. If either Musk or Murdoch had any class at all they would have turned down the award since RBG’s legacy of compassion and decency is anathema to them.
“Who knew it would be so hard to have a money throwing party?”
Just as long as they don’t cancel the upcoming MLK celebration. I hear they plan to pay tribute to Roger Stone…/s
Also on the list: Sylvester Stallone. And Milken, who got rich off of enshittifying the financial world with massive insider trading, inventing high-yield junk bonds, and popularizing leveraged buyouts.
The irony of RBGs award being subverted by some conservative sack of shit is not lost on me. They should give the award to people who destroyed their legacy through narcissistic hubris.
This is like Trump handing out Presidential medals of Freedom to Comer, Meese, Laffer, Adelson, Scalia, Hatch, Limbaugh, Nunes, Jim Jordan, and then focusing only on sports people.
He cheapened the award.
>It wasn’t clear whether Musk, Murdoch, Milken, Stewart or Stallone would still receive awards without gala ceremony. A spokesperson for the foundation responded to a question about whether the awards were considered valid by sending its cancellation statement, which said no further information was forthcoming.
Jesus Christ no wonder. Is Putin next on the list?
The canceled the gala… But what about the actual awards? Julie Opperman is pure evil for what she has done in RBG’s name.
RBG fucked us. That’s her legacy.
She should have retired. Her legacy is all the shit decisions Amy Coney Barrett will help decide over the next decades
Good. I was afraid they would go through with that farce, to put it mildly.
Ironically fitting outcome
I mean, WTFUCK‼️‼️😳 the only person NOT a felon was Stallone‼️😳
And an award for outstanding women, only 1 was on the list and she’s a crumb and a felon‼️😖😫
Who ever was in charge of picking honorees really needs to do some research on what RGB stood for. It was not supporting awful men like musk and Murdoch-two deeply flawed humans who have caused horrible damage to America!
What were they thinking?!?
lmaoo this article is spicy in introducing all the recipients except Stallone.
>The Opperman Foundation, in an announcement naming the year’s honorees last week, said Musk’s dedication to free speech is “unwavering,” though he blocked many journalists from seeing his posts and interacting with him on Twitter years before he bought it and renamed it X.
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>The foundation’s statement called Murdoch, the executive chairman of the company behind Fox News, “the most iconic living legend in media.” Last spring, the news network agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems, whose CEO, John Poulos, said at the time that “Fox has admitted to telling lies” about the company’s machines’ being involved in unproven voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
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>Milken is the former “junk bond king” who served a fraction of a 10-year federal prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to violating securities-disclosure rules. He relaunched himself as a philanthropist and, in 2020, President Donald Trump granted him a pardon.
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>Stewart, who built an empire of home goods based on her television show about cooking and decor, served a five-month federal prison sentence in the mid-2000s after she was convicted of lying about stock trades.
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>Stallone’s Academy Award-winning “Rocky,” which he wrote and performed, turned him into a star overnight in 1976 while providing him with endless roles as good muscle in a bad world. Last year, his involvement in a Paramount+ reality show about his clan, “The Family Stallone,” showed a caring, paternal side of the actor while exposing him to new fans.
Fuck all 3 of them
What the fuck is wrong with people?
I would hope so
“luminaries” my arse
If it’s an award for people who have hung around too long, Rupert and Elmo are perfect honorees.
One could quite easily argue that repealing Roe is directly tied to her refusal to step down when she could have. Hence, her selfish lust for power was not “leadership” in the end but instead caused a disastrous result for women’s rights.
>A Washington, D.C., spring gala to honor Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken
WTF?
Nothing says we’ve lost our way better than giving Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk awards named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
>”Keeping in mind that our goal is only to do good, the foundation is not interested in creating controversy,” Julie Opperman said. “It is not interested in generating a debate about whether particular honorees are worthy or not.
Implicit in giving an award to anyone is a proclamation that said person is worthy of the award.
>The Opperman Foundation, in an announcement naming the year’s honorees last week, said Musk’s dedication to free speech is “unwavering,” though he blocked many journalists from seeing his posts and interacting with him on Twitter years before he bought it and renamed it X.
The foundation’s statement called Murdoch, the executive chairman of the company behind Fox News, “the most iconic living legend in media.” Last spring, the news network agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems, whose CEO, John Poulos, said at the time that “Fox has admitted to telling lies” about the company’s machines’ being involved in unproven voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
Really, what the fuck was going on at this foundation?! I’m glad one of the late justice’s clerks was paying attention. And I’m really glad her family supported the effort to NOT have her name associated with such filth as Musk, Murdoch and Milken
And the Dorothy Everton Smythe Female Empowerment Award for Woman of the Year goes to….
Wow
Rich people’s circle jerks.
I’m really sick to death of Democrats being to blame for every terrible thing Republicans do. It’s as if Democrats are the Republicans parents, and we have to hold them accountable for their kids actions, because they should have kept them in line or some shit.
It was Republicans who voted in Donald Trump. It was Republicans who confirmed terrible supreme court justices. It was Republicans who undid Roe v Wade.
Lets not let them off the hook by making Democrats responsible. “but, but, but, she could’ve…” yeah with perfect hindsight, you could have changed everything. Her big crime is not retiring within the perfect 2 years span where Democrats had power. For that, we’re going to spit on her grave. This helps us, how?
Get over it.
How in the world could that group think that giving awards to Musk and Murdoch would be cool for Ginsberg. JFC…… Surely feels like this was some intentional ‘piss on your grave’ type shit by those two.
Good.
I mean, whoever thought this was remotely a good idea needs to be committed to a mental ward.
The “Lived too long and became part of the problem” award
Yeah, Muskrat has no fucking business on that list. That’s absolutely asinine.
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In a statement, the granddaughter of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that this year, the foundation that chooses honorees “strayed far from the original mission of the award and from what Justice Ginsburg stood for.”
On Monday, the chairman of the Opperman Foundation, which chooses honorees and organizes the event independent of the late Supreme Court justice’s survivors and estate, said in a statement that the group was pulling the plug to avoid fueling controversy over the 2024 recipient list.
“Keeping in mind that our goal is only to do good, the foundation is not interested in creating controversy,” Julie Opperman said. “It is not interested in generating a debate about whether particular honorees are worthy or not.
“The last thing we intended was to offend the family and friends of RBG,” she continued. “Our purpose was only to remember her and to honor her leadership.”
Good. It would be a joke to give these two democracy destroyers any award.
why was Murdoch even considered for a commendation associated with Ginsberg’s name?
Were they trying to pick the two least eligible people?
What a travesty. If either Musk or Murdoch had any class at all they would have turned down the award since RBG’s legacy of compassion and decency is anathema to them.
“Who knew it would be so hard to have a money throwing party?”
Just as long as they don’t cancel the upcoming MLK celebration. I hear they plan to pay tribute to Roger Stone…/s
Also on the list: Sylvester Stallone. And Milken, who got rich off of enshittifying the financial world with massive insider trading, inventing high-yield junk bonds, and popularizing leveraged buyouts.
The irony of RBGs award being subverted by some conservative sack of shit is not lost on me. They should give the award to people who destroyed their legacy through narcissistic hubris.
This is like Trump handing out Presidential medals of Freedom to Comer, Meese, Laffer, Adelson, Scalia, Hatch, Limbaugh, Nunes, Jim Jordan, and then focusing only on sports people.
He cheapened the award.
>It wasn’t clear whether Musk, Murdoch, Milken, Stewart or Stallone would still receive awards without gala ceremony. A spokesperson for the foundation responded to a question about whether the awards were considered valid by sending its cancellation statement, which said no further information was forthcoming.
Jesus Christ no wonder. Is Putin next on the list?
The canceled the gala… But what about the actual awards? Julie Opperman is pure evil for what she has done in RBG’s name.
RBG fucked us. That’s her legacy.
She should have retired. Her legacy is all the shit decisions Amy Coney Barrett will help decide over the next decades
Good. I was afraid they would go through with that farce, to put it mildly.
Ironically fitting outcome
I mean, WTFUCK‼️‼️😳 the only person NOT a felon was Stallone‼️😳
And an award for outstanding women, only 1 was on the list and she’s a crumb and a felon‼️😖😫
Who ever was in charge of picking honorees really needs to do some research on what RGB stood for. It was not supporting awful men like musk and Murdoch-two deeply flawed humans who have caused horrible damage to America!
What were they thinking?!?
lmaoo this article is spicy in introducing all the recipients except Stallone.
>The Opperman Foundation, in an announcement naming the year’s honorees last week, said Musk’s dedication to free speech is “unwavering,” though he blocked many journalists from seeing his posts and interacting with him on Twitter years before he bought it and renamed it X.
>
>The foundation’s statement called Murdoch, the executive chairman of the company behind Fox News, “the most iconic living legend in media.” Last spring, the news network agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems, whose CEO, John Poulos, said at the time that “Fox has admitted to telling lies” about the company’s machines’ being involved in unproven voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
>
>Milken is the former “junk bond king” who served a fraction of a 10-year federal prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to violating securities-disclosure rules. He relaunched himself as a philanthropist and, in 2020, President Donald Trump granted him a pardon.
>
>Stewart, who built an empire of home goods based on her television show about cooking and decor, served a five-month federal prison sentence in the mid-2000s after she was convicted of lying about stock trades.
>
>Stallone’s Academy Award-winning “Rocky,” which he wrote and performed, turned him into a star overnight in 1976 while providing him with endless roles as good muscle in a bad world. Last year, his involvement in a Paramount+ reality show about his clan, “The Family Stallone,” showed a caring, paternal side of the actor while exposing him to new fans.
Fuck all 3 of them
What the fuck is wrong with people?
I would hope so
“luminaries” my arse
If it’s an award for people who have hung around too long, Rupert and Elmo are perfect honorees.
One could quite easily argue that repealing Roe is directly tied to her refusal to step down when she could have. Hence, her selfish lust for power was not “leadership” in the end but instead caused a disastrous result for women’s rights.
>A Washington, D.C., spring gala to honor Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken
WTF?
Nothing says we’ve lost our way better than giving Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk awards named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
>”Keeping in mind that our goal is only to do good, the foundation is not interested in creating controversy,” Julie Opperman said. “It is not interested in generating a debate about whether particular honorees are worthy or not.
Implicit in giving an award to anyone is a proclamation that said person is worthy of the award.
>The Opperman Foundation, in an announcement naming the year’s honorees last week, said Musk’s dedication to free speech is “unwavering,” though he blocked many journalists from seeing his posts and interacting with him on Twitter years before he bought it and renamed it X.
The foundation’s statement called Murdoch, the executive chairman of the company behind Fox News, “the most iconic living legend in media.” Last spring, the news network agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems, whose CEO, John Poulos, said at the time that “Fox has admitted to telling lies” about the company’s machines’ being involved in unproven voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
Really, what the fuck was going on at this foundation?! I’m glad one of the late justice’s clerks was paying attention. And I’m really glad her family supported the effort to NOT have her name associated with such filth as Musk, Murdoch and Milken
And the Dorothy Everton Smythe Female Empowerment Award for Woman of the Year goes to….
Wow
Rich people’s circle jerks.
I’m really sick to death of Democrats being to blame for every terrible thing Republicans do. It’s as if Democrats are the Republicans parents, and we have to hold them accountable for their kids actions, because they should have kept them in line or some shit.
It was Republicans who voted in Donald Trump. It was Republicans who confirmed terrible supreme court justices. It was Republicans who undid Roe v Wade.
Lets not let them off the hook by making Democrats responsible. “but, but, but, she could’ve…” yeah with perfect hindsight, you could have changed everything. Her big crime is not retiring within the perfect 2 years span where Democrats had power. For that, we’re going to spit on her grave. This helps us, how?
Get over it.
How in the world could that group think that giving awards to Musk and Murdoch would be cool for Ginsberg. JFC…… Surely feels like this was some intentional ‘piss on your grave’ type shit by those two.
Good.
I mean, whoever thought this was remotely a good idea needs to be committed to a mental ward.
The “Lived too long and became part of the problem” award
Yeah, Muskrat has no fucking business on that list. That’s absolutely asinine.