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Emmy Awards roasted for mocking Middle America, ratings hit all-time low
FoxNews.com ^ | Sept 18, 2018 | Brian Flood

Posted on 09/18/2018 12:34:08 PM PDT by ETL

Hollywood may have laughed when Emmys host Michael Che said the only white people who thank Jesus are "Republicans and ex-crackheads," but Tinseltown's latest middle finger to Middle America fell flat in flyover country, and may have contributed to the telecast's all-time low viewership.

Co-host Michael Che left many viewers of the 70th Annual Emmy Awards upset during the opening monologue with his fellow "Saturday Night Live" star Colin Jost, explaining that his mother would not be watching the show on Monday night.

"She says she doesn’t like watching white award shows because you guys don’t thank Jesus enough," Che said. "That’s true. The only white people that thank Jesus are Republicans and ex-crackheads."

The joke didn't sit well with some viewers, who took to Twitter to complain. Not only that, the show’s ratings dropped 10 percent from last year's already-dismal numbers, setting an all-time low, according to TheWrap.

While many viewers may have changed the channel after the opening monologue, jabs at average Americans were far from over and the Jesus gag became a running theme throughout the evening.

Conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News that “large swaths of the American public just want to be entertained” but instead were turned into "unwilling participants" in a political rally disguised as an awards show.

“Whether it’s the NFL or the Emmys, people desperately want a break from politics."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awards; emmy; emmyawards; emmys; middleamerica; ratings
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To: Magnum44; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal
[ Not a good idea to mock God ]

I see a lot of Huff Po liberals at Yahoo. They deny the existence of God and hate any opposition to their antichrist agendas. Tagline.

[LGBT/Gay Pride Parade & Festival]

Isaiah 3:9 New International Version (NIV)

9 The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
They have brought disaster upon themselves.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+3%3A9&version=NIV
21 posted on 09/18/2018 12:53:22 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ETL

Aside from the obnoxious political lectures and virtue signaling, today’s “celebrities” and their so-called creative work are 95%-99% boring, stupid, lame, tacky, unedifying, dumbed down to the point of illiterate dreck, and completely forgettable. Most stink on ice.


22 posted on 09/18/2018 12:56:24 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: ETL


I'd say "classless trash" but I don't want to insult trash.
23 posted on 09/18/2018 12:57:28 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: All

"It's Bill Clinton calling. He said "Go Baby."

"He practiced that line a lot...... on Monica."

24 posted on 09/18/2018 12:59:33 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: ETL

the opening number was good... we fixed it... showing their naivete... and then they awarded 6 awards to white people, then regina king received an award, then 6 more white people... james cordin said emmy so white...

i laughed at them...


25 posted on 09/18/2018 1:03:09 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: ETL

Boy, I must be completely out of touch: I recognized exactly ONE of the people in those photographs.


26 posted on 09/18/2018 1:04:01 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: packrat35

He’s a lucky SOB he didn’t OD along with John Belushi that night


27 posted on 09/18/2018 1:06:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: ETL

I was going to watch, but I had something more important to take care of.

Watching paint dry.


28 posted on 09/18/2018 1:07:17 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: ETL

Whatever is real about men in makeup and dresses?


29 posted on 09/18/2018 1:07:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: ETL
“Whether it’s the NFL or the Emmys, people desperately want a break from politics."

These are Neo-Marxists we are dealing with, so to paraphrase a famous Marxist (Trotsky): " you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you."

30 posted on 09/18/2018 1:08:46 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ETL

All pretense has been abandoned. They hate America, Americans, Christians, Jews and, most of all, they hate freedom, believing themselves immune from oppression and tyranny.


31 posted on 09/18/2018 1:12:49 PM PDT by Spok ( Findings)
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To: ETL

Maybe middle America is finally getting over the Holywood addiction that is destroying it.


32 posted on 09/18/2018 1:12:49 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: ETL

Raise your hand if you had any idea the Emmys were on. Not me.
What a bunch of self-important wankers.


33 posted on 09/18/2018 1:13:54 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I used to watch the Oscars and the Emmys but not in years. I read the list of winners and it did not include one show I’d ever watched.


34 posted on 09/18/2018 1:14:04 PM PDT by altura
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To: ETL

Two words: Red Wave.


35 posted on 09/18/2018 1:14:32 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: a fool in paradise

Real sad.


36 posted on 09/18/2018 1:15:56 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Don W
Boy, I must be completely out of touch: I recognized exactly ONE of the people in those photographs.

Consider it a badge of honor if you don't know most of the people in that crapfest.

37 posted on 09/18/2018 1:16:47 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL
Michael Che said the only white people who thank Jesus are "Republicans and ex-crackheads,"

But "people of color" who do so are Profound Marxist-Leninist Intellectuals . . . right?

You white folks will have to become Noachides now! You can't steal J*sus from People of Color!

38 posted on 09/18/2018 1:18:01 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator ("Conservatism" without G-d is just another form of Communism.)
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To: ETL

God will handle the matter and the outcome won’t be low ratings.


39 posted on 09/18/2018 1:21:31 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: SaveFerris

white fake blondes and black men. Well, that’s the picture painted for black women anyway. Ah, diversity!


40 posted on 09/18/2018 1:23:43 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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