Yes, I Did Say That!
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Compiled by Pete Keeley
“Punk-ass bitches
from the right
call me Fredo.”
CHRIS CUOMO
The CNN anchor, in a video that
went viral Aug. 12, responding to
a Rush Limbaugh fan who
heckled his family with an Italian
slur at a bar in Shelter Island.
“He finally killed
someone on
5th Avenue.”
DEBRA MESSING
The actress, tweeting about Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide,
referring to then-candidate Donald Trump’s infamous
2016 boast regarding his loyalists.
“That’s it! Just
cancelled my
SoulCycle
membership.”
MICHAEL MOORE
The filmmaker, in a tweet, joking
about protesting the spin studio’s
investor Stephen Ross, who
hosted a Trump fundraiser Aug. 9.
“With all due
respect, no one
is going to
make a remake
of that.”
IAN ZIERING
The BH90210 actor, at a TCA
panel, shading The CW’s
reboot that ran from 2008 to
2013 and “had nothing to do
with what we created.”
“The dinosaur
skull was an
unfortunate thing,
because I did
spend $276,000
on that.”
NICOLAS CAGE
The famously eccentric actor,
in a lengthy Q&A with
The New York Times, not pegged
to anything in particular.
“For those of you
who took the
under bet on me,
I’m sorry to say
I’m still here.”
CHARLIE COLLIER
The Fox Entertainment chief,
opening his Aug. 7 presentation
at the TCA summer press tour.
“I’m sorry I was
born white
and privileged...
It disgusts me.”
ROSANNA ARQUETTE
The actress, on Twitter,
seemingly reacting to the
recent mass shootings carried
out by white supremacists,
adding, “I feel so much shame.”
“I guess I should
appreciate all
the RIPs, but
I’m not dead.”
JEFFREY R. EPSTEIN
The Disney PR executive,
tweeting Aug. 10 about the
suicide of the accused child
rapist whose name he shares,
adding, “And I’m still not
THAT Jeffrey Epstein.”
NOV. 18. 2017
“We are here to help tear down the shroud of silence
... that empower[s] predatory men in the workplace.”
ALEXI HAWLEY
ABC’s The Rookie showrunner, writing in THR about tackling Hollywood’s harassment issue.
On Aug. 4, Rookie star Afton Williamson quit after alleging that she was racially and sexually
harassed, and that Hawley refused to pass her complaints to HR.