Posted on 11/12/2024 8:14:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Vice President Kamala Harris pulled out all the stops when it came to lining up the proverbial A-list of celebrity endorsements. They came. They saw. But they most assuredly did not conquer. It was an epic fail as a litany of celebrities lined up to join campaign Kamala. They spoke, some were expected to sing but didn’t, and, in the end, no one was listening. Why in the world would that be?
The legacy media did its level best to convince the American electorate that everything was just fine and dandy, but this message belied reality. The folks in the great outdoors weren’t drinking the Kool-Aid. The narratives that ultra-wealthy Hollywood elites were selling simply didn’t ring true with the average Joe, who was forking 29% more overall for food.
Celebrity Endorsements — A No Show The glitz and glamour from Taylor Swift to Bruce Springsteen fell flat. Not to mention (but we shall mention it anyway) the news that Harpo Productions, owned by Oprah Winfrey — whose net worth was listed at $2.5 billion in 2023 — raked in a cool million from the Democratic Party for her endorsement of Harris. And chatter is rife that Ms. Winfrey was not the only beneficiary of Kamala’s donation-fueled largesse.
Nice work if you can get it. Just the News reported Nov. 11 that the $1 million cash outlay “is just one example of how much campaign money went to celebrities and entertainers.” The Democrats raised an historic amount for the Harris campaign, with estimates reaching more than $1 billion while finishing $18-20 million in the red.
In the end, celebrity spin didn’t make a dent for the Democrats. “After the devastating losses, a number of Democrats said the party needs to move on from its fascination with Hollywood and A-list celebs — along with the idea that those endorsements are helping the party,” wrote Judy Kurtz and Amie Parnes of The Hill.
It wasn’t that the president-elect didn’t use celebrity endorsements – he did – but those he plucked out of the A-list had a populist edge. NASCAR driver Danica Patrick put in an appearance on the Trump campaign trail along with Hulk Hogan and the UFC’s Dana White. And then there was Joe Rogan, mega podcaster extraordinaire, who is in a class all by himself.
The Globe and Mail wondered if the endorsements might have actually hurt Harris instead of helping her:
“The pride of Reading, Pa., [Taylor Swift] loudly endorsed the party’s presidential nominee with an Instagram post to her 272-million followers in September. That city, the fourth-largest in the battleground state with a 70-per-cent Latino population, was so vital to both campaigns that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump stopped there on the eve of election day. But when the votes were tallied, Reading and the reliably red Berks County went for Trump.”
Campaign autopsies can reveal hard truths, and the Democratic Party appears to be doing at least some soul-searching after its sweeping loss Nov. 5. Of course, none of this matters a wit if it doesn’t take this message to heart. Perhaps eminent philosopher Taylor Swift had the most appropriate last word when she opined: “You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.”
To be fair, most of these haven’t been considered “celebrities” for years.
When your buying celebrity endorsements and entertainment you can burn through a billion dollars right quickly even if your only getting the standard 10% kickback at each level.
Oprah went all in for a paltry million bucks.
Rumors are that Beyoncé charged $10 million for a three minute speech...............
Heck, I don’t even know most of them!..............
Kamala’s campaign was a replay of Obama’s playbook. Obama liberally used celebrities and influencers in his campaigns. Recall that the day after the Benghazi disaster, Obama was in Las Vegas partying with Beyonce.
The fact that the Democrats didn’t see/hear/read/understand how people reacted YEAR AFTER YEAR to celebrities trashing Americans and their values in their awards shows speaks volumes on how deaf they are.
They aren’t deaf any mnore, they heard them loud and clear last Tuesday..............
Sane Americans are sick to death of celebrities. Witness the massively failing movie business, the dead media scum and all the dying entertainment companies.
“But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)”
― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
One must wonder how much was spent to get all those RINO endorsements from politicians and former Trump cabinet members.
This entire Harris campaign was a poorly scripted Hollywood production with no substance….and most voters saw through it.
Let us just make sure all the new “Biden IRS” keeps tabs.
Let us just make sure all the new “Biden IRS” keeps RECORDS.............
The Harris campaign was much like the Democrats student loan program. Poor and rich people should contribute so that the money can be given to the richest of them.
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