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Hollywood brought its latest virtue-signaling tour to the Sundance Film Festival this week, where Natalie Portman — pin on her lapel and tears in her eyes — denounced ICE and blamed the administration for what she called an “obscene” pattern of violence. Stars draped themselves in slogans and staged emotional scenes between premieres, the same elites who live behind walls and security while lecturing the rest of the country.
The outrage that set this off is real grief and anger over recent federal operations in Minnesota, where the shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti have sparked protests and national debate about tactics and accountability. Government reviews and reporting show federal agents fired shots during those encounters and footage is under scrutiny as investigators try to piece together what happened.
Megyn Kelly responded the way many Americans do when the coastal elites start their performance politics: bluntly and without patience for phony tears. She called out Portman and late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel as performing outrage for votes and clout, arguing their selective empathy and sanctimony are insulting to ordinary citizens who live with the consequences of lawlessness and failed policy.
Anyone with a conscience should mourn the dead, but real patriots are right to notice the hypocrisy when celebrities weep over some tragedies while ignoring others or pretending their privilege makes them moral arbiters. The names conservatives have kept in the national conversation — like Laken Riley, a promising young nursing student murdered in 2024 — matter because they show the human cost of porous borders and lawless policy choices. Hollywood’s selective outrage rings hollow next to the families who see their loved ones become political props.
Let’s be clear: federal agents operate in dangerous conditions and deserve due process and support while investigations proceed. The public has a right to full, transparent probes into these shootings, not performative condemnations from celebrities who know nothing of patrol operations or the split-second decisions officers sometimes face. That demand for accountability should go hand-in-hand with defending the rule of law, not with calls to kneecap the agencies that keep our streets and borders secure.
The real story isn’t Natalie Portman’s tears or a late-night host’s moment of stage-managed grief; it’s a country in the middle of a crisis of enforcement and compassion, where law-abiding Americans want leaders who will secure our borders, uphold the rule of law, and treat victims equally. We should reject celebrity sermons and demand action: thorough investigations, accountability for wrongdoing, and policies that protect citizens instead of empowering chaos.
Americans who work for a living aren’t impressed by crocodile tears. We want results — fair investigations, support for honest law enforcement, and leadership that puts safety and commonsense immigration policy ahead of virtue-signaling photo ops. The elites can keep their pins and their podiums; the rest of us will keep fighting for a country that honors victims, enforces its laws, and protects its people.
