In the most recent episode of Chelsea on Netflix, “Ellen Page & Inspiring Role Models,” Chelsea Handler’s third grade teacher, Mrs. Schectman, and actress Florence Henderson were on the show because Chelsea fondly remembers their positive influence on her childhood. But the warm and uplifting message of two women who have made an impact on her life turned into a phony leftist anti-gun rant when actress and LGBT activist Ellen Page joined in. In the world of Chelsea Handler, guns are the problem – not the terrorists using them to kill Americans.
Page was promoting her show “Gaycation” on Vice where she travels around the world spreading the good word about the LGBT community. Chelsea, in true blame America first fashion, murmured it is “hard to believe” that other countries are more backwards than Americans when it comes to LGBTs. Apparently she doesn't know there's a radical ideology that promotes throwing gays over bridges to their death or hanging gays in the town square for all to see. That ain’t happening here in America, Hollywood.
Of course this led to talk about the recent stories coming out of Orlando. Speaking about the ghastly tragedy in an Orlando nightclub brought about by a radical Islamist terrorist, the entertainers blamed the guns, not the killer. Henderson said Americans have to “stop selling more weapons.” Mrs. Schectman chimed in with a statement on a story she heard about a “gun seller” noting sales of "assault weapons" had picked up since the latest tragedy and she said they should be banned. Wouldn’t you think a teacher would understand the Bill of Rights?
Handler said the issue of gun violence has to be addressed “whether you believe in guns or not.” Um, the Second Amendment isn’t about “believing” in guns – it’s about the right to own guns. She also made the bizarre statement that “having the Second Amendment shouldn't supersede your right to go out to a dance club and have a good night; you shouldn't have to be armed.” Meanwhile, no mention was made of terrorism during the entire show.
What began as a warm and fuzzy kind of show with women who inspired a young Chelsea Handler during a rather difficult childhood devolved into anti-gun rights rants. The only possible redemption was the promotion of websites accepting donations for the victims and their families in Orlando that was put on the screen in the final part of the show.
