Thursday, July 2, 2026

Ellen DeGeneres on Mississippi ‘Religious Freedom’ Law: “I Could Buy That Governor’s Mansion, Flip It, and Make a $7 Million Profit”

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I don’t usually repost from “Ellen.” But what she said yesterday about the racist law in Mississippi was so elegant, funny and succinct, I thought I should. I don’t understand how a state that has fought 200 hundred years of claims of racism, where terrible murders have been carried out in the name of racism, could approve this “Religious Freedom” law in 2016. Are the people just crackers? Are they just backward beyond redemption? That law is just an extension of their regular racism, except this time it’s against gays instead of blacks. The whole country should cut them off financially.

Anyway, Ellen DeGeneres has this just right. She could buy that Governor’s mansion, flip it, and make a $7 million profit. She should, too, just to show them.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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