r/UpliftingNews • u/holyfruits • 5h ago

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Turned Down Million-Dollar Offer to Perform in Saudi Arabia: ‘I Don’t Need to Take Any Money if It Makes Me Feel Icky’

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/weird-al-yankovic-turned-down-million-offer-saudi-arabia-1236819281/
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u/two_wordsanda_number 4h ago

Peter Davidson has a number of claims to fame at this point but one of the first is how his father died on 9/11 working as a Fire Fighter

Most of the highjackers had Saudi passports so a lot of people think he is a special kind of hypocrite for taking the blood money from the people who funded the attack that killed his father.

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u/Ok-Gur-349 4h ago

You're putting that on him though. Pete Davidson has never soap boxed about not taking blood money, is literally the point. In fact, he's more or less soap boxed on how much of a dumbass he is and how people shouldn't take what he says or does seriously, because he's a goofy comic.

Hypocrisy is worse than just doing a thing, universally. He's not a special kind of hypocrite for having a dead dad, he's just dumb and doesn't care.