We’re officially off the rails.
May 23rd is now “Stormy Daniels Day” in West Hollywood, California.
She received a key to the city as well.
The location of the cringe-worthy soirée was quite fitting. The “ceremony” was held at Chi Chi LaRue’s in West Hollywood, a sex shop named for Larry David Paciotti, a director of gay pornographic films, ABC reported.
“Nothing says ‘you’re being honored’ like getting a key to the city in front of a sex shop owned by a drag queen porn director,” joked Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo Wednesday night on “The Ingraham Angle.”
“Did he use the word ‘dignity’?” asked host Laura Ingraham incredulously, referring to a clip in which a West Hollywood official compared her comportment in recent legal escapades to Lady Godiva.
“They said she’s a profile in courage. She’s a profile in cleavage,” Arroyo added.
So it’s official: Government officials in this country are bestowing honorifics on washed-up adult film stars.
The city’s mayor, John Duran, was downright jubilant about the bizarre honorific.
Want to know what I am doing tomorrow as Mayor Of West Hollywood? Giving Stormy Daniels the Key to the City at 4 pm at Chi Chi La Rues! Brave courageous woman taking on the biggest bully in America! @ProudResister #Resisters #stormydanielsday @krassenstein @MichaelAvenatti
— JohnDuran (@JohnDuran) May 23, 2018
Stormy Daniels is the adult film actress represented by attorney Michael Avenatti right now. Despite signing a nondisclosure agreement in exchange for $130,000, Daniels — whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — told the world about an alleged extramarital affair with Donald Trump a dozen years ago.
President Trump denied the affair, and now “brave” Stormy is suing Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for defamation.
How does this mess lead to receiving a key to the city and having a date in May dedicated to her forevermore? Apparently she has proved “herself to be a profile in courage by speaking truth to power even under threats to her safety and extreme intimidation.”
Not that it’s blatantly partisan or anything, but the “city has passed several resolutions speaking out against policies of the Trump administration and has called for the initiation of impeachment proceedings against President Trump.”
West Hollywood’s Mayor John Duran also somehow hailed Stormy Daniels as a “brave, courageous woman taking on the biggest bully in America” — and used all of this to promote and protect LGBT rights.
Haha! Giving the key to the City to @StormyDaniels today & the right wing hate mail is pouring in. Been doing LGBT rights for over 30 years. Right wing hate mail is the compass that tells me I am doing something right! Happy Stormy Daniels Day! #StormyDaniels #Resisters #WeHo
— JohnDuran (@JohnDuran) May 23, 2018
Meanwhile, those of us who live in the real world will on Monday be celebrating our country’s real heroes, the men and women who gave their lives in the service of our country.
They may not have keys to the city or days named after them — but they are the people who should come to mind when our kids hear someone has been given a key to an American city.
In advance of our 4PM presentation of the Key to the City, we'd like to wish everyone a Happy #StormyDanielsDay! @StormyDaniels @MichaelAvenatti #WeHo https://t.co/kLyiOmB3Jo pic.twitter.com/RrMqN6bS6l
— CityofWestHollywood (@WeHoCity) May 23, 2018
The city of West Hollywood is giving Stormy Daniels the key to the city for "speaking truth to power." So when can Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones expect to receive their keys?#TrumpDerangementSyndrome
— Larry Elder (@larryelder) May 23, 2018
Stormy Daniels is being honored for 'her leadership in the #RESIST movement' with a city proclamation and key to the city of West Hollywood. Sodom always looks out for its people.
— Boricua Woman (@BoriquaW) May 23, 2018
Stormy Daniels gets keys to West Hollywood mayor says they have values. What a freaking joke
— Scott Schrier (@SchrierScott) May 23, 2018
Hollywood promoting themselves as the Moral authority is a joke.
Hollywood covered up Weinstein's sexual abuse of women, embraced
Schneiderman as a #Metoo
Champion & now gives the key to the city of West Hollywood to Stormy Daniels.Lets call Hollywood what it is…Pure Evil
— Kevin W (@kwilli1046) May 23, 2018
Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to LifeZette.
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