You may have notice that Clint Eastwood — the iconic 91-year-old actor and director who’s still going strong — was put on blast this week by a left-wing activist who called out Eastwood for a joke he uttered at the Academy Awards

The 1973 Academy Awards, to be exact.

Yup, it seems progressive blue-check activist Rafael Shimunov tried cashing in his cancel culture chips by rewinding the tape and letting all his 50,000-plus Twitter followers know that Eastwood “mocked” a Native American actress at the gala event 48 years ago.

What are the details?

Actor Marlon Brando made headlines refusing to accept his Best Actor Oscar for his work in “The Godfather” — Brando didn’t even show up — and having Sacheen Littlefeather speak out in his place regarding treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood.

Littlefeather told the crowd that Brando “very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award. And the reasons for this being are the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry.”

With that the audience members began to murmur before a number of them booed while others clapped: “Excuse me,” Littlefeather told the crowd before it quieted down and she continued.

“And on television, in movie reruns, and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee,” she added. “I beg at this time that I have not intruded upon this evening and that we will, in the future — our hearts and our understandings — will meet with love and generosity. Thank you on behalf of Marlon Brando.”

The cameras soon turned to Eastwood — known at the time for his roles in the “Dirty Harry” movies as well as numerous westerns such as “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” — so he could present the award. And he made a joke.

“I don’t know if I should present this award, on behalf of all the cowboys shot in all the John Ford Westerns over the years,” Eastwood said to mild chuckles.

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How did folks react?

Well, as you might expect there were a fair number of commenters who agreed with Shimunov’s sentiments, but others found it petty and ridiculous that he went back nearly 50 years to make a case against Eastwood:

Given the degree to which Eastwood is revered and lauded by left-wing Hollywood — and that actors, producers, screenwriters, and movie studios have been jumping at the chance to work with him for the last 30 years since he’s been on the director’s chair — it seems unlikely that woke power brokers in Tinseltown are going to light their torches and go after Eastwood any time soon.

Bill Maher — host of HBO’s “Real Time” — defended comedian Dave Chappelle in an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who noted to Maher that Chappelle has a “long history of going after trans people,” particularly in his controversial Netflix stand-up special “The Closer.”

And Maher, during his wide-ranging Wednesday chat with Cuomo, also pushed back against the radical leftist notion that children can choose their own gender.

What are the details?

Cuomo added to Maher that Chapelle’s “homophobia is not as much of a push against him as what he says about trans people” and that the comedian now complains he’s being “canceled” in the wake of “The Closer.”

Maher replied that he’s on “Team Dave” and is for “free speech.”

After Cuomo asked, “Why?” Maher replied, “Well, you say ‘going after.’ You use terms like ‘homophobia.’ I was speaking recently about ‘phobia.’ There’s a word that’s traveled quite a bit from its original meaning. A lot of mission creep on that word ‘phobia.’ It’s become … a word [people use] to say, ‘I don’t like something.’ Phobia means an irrational fear … [Chappelle is] not afraid of homosexuals … [he’s] not transphobic.”

Maher continued: “This trans stuff is very new. I don’t think he or myself or any other … right-thinking person thinks there aren’t such things in the world as people who are trans, who are born in a body that doesn’t align with what their brain is telling them. That’s OK. But now we’re talking about children.”

With that he noted that a woman acquaintance in her 40s recently told him she was a “tomboy” growing up — which presumably was in the 1980s and 1990s — and that had she come of age today “they would’ve made me into a boy here in California.”

‘This is not crazy stuff that makes you a bigot’

“So don’t put it into this category of ‘this is settled science — anything that deviates from the one true opinion on this means you’re some horrible bigot and transphobic.’ That’s not what’s going on here,” Maher added. “And I don’t think Dave Chappelle is transphobic. I mean, a lot of that special is talking about his opening act — who’s trans! OK? It’s like, ‘Can we take a breath? Maybe we are going too far with the children part of this.’ You know, kids should not be really making decisions about their gender. I mean, Mario Lopez was almost canceled for suggesting that maybe 3-year-olds shouldn’t decide their gender. This is not crazy stuff that makes you a bigot.”

While acknowledging that voicing such opinions “obviously has to be protected” — including when they come from Chappelle — Cuomo still pushed back against the comedian’s “choice to make jokes about [transgender people].”

Cuomo added that criticism against Chappelle was along the lines of “you’re punching down at this group. This is a discrete minority. They’ve got a lot of problems of being targeted and hurt. ‘You are a powerful voice. And you making fun of them empowers the people who want to hurt them, whether you know that or not. Now that we’ve told you that, stop doing it.’ Is that a bad suggestion?”

Maher admitted that while Chappelle is “a little obsessed with this one issue,” it’s likely he believes that “as a black man in America …. nobody in America except the Indians have had it anywhere near like the black folks have had it in America. So I can see why [criticism of him] would get under the skin.”

Bill Maher’s Take On Dave Chappelle Controversy, Toxic Democrats, GOP “SLOW-MOVING COUP” and More.

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The quite hilarious moment a little girl decided to pack out of her residence after she was disciplined has had folks laughing online.

She was nominated for her role in The Flight Attendant, a show which she also produced.

She hilariously captioned the picture: “I would like to thank…never mind!!”