Posted on 12/14/2017 10:47:02 AM PST by Scarpetta
The Hallmark Channel is a throwback to an age when Hollywood produced family-friendly films and love stories that did not involve leather and whips.
The network has earned millions of loyal fans for broadcasting movies that promote the virtues of faith and family — stories that tug at your heartstrings. “We are a place you can go and feel good,” Bill Abbott, the chief executive of Crown Media, told the Washington Post.
“We intentionally branded ourselves as the happy place. Abbott said. “Hallmark’s tagline is ‘the heart of TV.’” And viewership has skyrocketed since President Trump promised to make America great again – making Hallmark one of the most-watched cable television networks in the nation.
For the sake of full disclosure, I’m a fan of “When Calls The Heart,” produced by my good friend, Brian Bird. It’s a great place to escape from the unhinged rantings of Rachel Maddow and Don Lemon.
But it turns out not everyone is a fan of Hallmark. Slate published a scathing review of the network — complaining about its around-the-clock Christmas movies. “They brim with white heterosexuals who exclusively, emphatically, and endlessly bellow “Merry Christmas” to every lumberjack and labradoodle they pass. They’re centered on beauty-pageant heroines and strong-jawed heroes with white-nationalist haircuts,” the Slate writer declared.
There were complaints about the lack of gay people and feminists and Muslims in Hallmark Channel’s movies.
Slate also whined about what it called the network’s “42 hours of sugary, sexist, preposterously plotted, plot hole–festooned, belligerently traditional, ecstatically Caucasian cheer.”
It’s true that most of the stars in Hallmark’s Christmas movies have a fair complexion – but to say it’s a holiday white-out would be inaccurate.
barf
My friend just downloads the shows he likes and he digitally removes the stupid homofag parts. Just takes a few seconds. He removed cable so he only downloads the shows he wants at his work’s computer..
Turner also marries complete trash.
The racism is upfront and bold these days. And primarily in one direction.
I will actually give Hollywood, in particular, the Seinfeld Show, credit for making a secular holiday for atheists, called “festivus”.
It is a cold, mean holiday, steeped in bitterness, spite and anger. It has no joy, or artistry, love or compassion. Yet it is theirs to “revel” in. As such, it presents a profound truth.
That such people not only do not have the gifts of faith and the warmth of love and togetherness, but that they truly resent that others have it. They hate it and them, and want to take away from those that have, to hurt them, to make them feel pain and emptiness and suffering as well.
This is the “festivus” spirit of the Slate article.
“Caucasian cheer”!? These racist losers need to get a life (preferably outside the borders of the USA). This racist crapola is getting old.
It is ok to be white and happy!
BTTT
“Get some!”
If they want more homosexual programming and more Muslim that’s easy, just roll a few hours of those videos of Muslims throwing homosexuals off roofs or burning them live, every evening after dinner.
Slate is a racist, hateful organization.
The new lie of the week!
Minorities suffer because Caucasians feel cheer?.....
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