Brilliant actor.
Political dunce.
. He won by playing Howard Beal in a play version of Network. Beal seeing his ratings tank, says on air the he was going to kill himself to get a cheap rise in the ratings. It then snowballs and the network hires a black terrorist group to blow up the ratings even more. Beal it turns out lied so creating fake news for the sake of ratings. Cranston is to damn stupid to make the most simplistic connection, he won for playing a newsman faking the news!