Posted on 03/28/2022 9:27:04 AM PDT by conservative98
"Save the gays."
Under this overwrought "narrative," poor old Zelensky, with actual bombs coming down on him, didn't stand a chance.
The Nielsen ratings aren't expected to come out until tomorrow, but that doesn't sound like a formula for retaining or regaining audience viewership which was the supposed aim of the ceremony this year. The Awards viewership was reportedly down to 9.85 million or 10.4 million viewers as of 2021, which represented a 50% drop from the year earlier, and severely lower than the 55.2 million viewership of 1998 when Titanic was winning the Best Picture. By keeping the wokesterism alive, they're going the way of beauty contests, as a media consultant quoted by the Epoch Times observed. But no matter. They're going to keep doing it over and over.
Penn had a film to sell when he made his call for a boycott of the Oscars if Zelensky were not invited to address the shindig. His gambit was tamped down as too political. Hollywood though, has its own priorities, and naturally, its denizens think of themselves first, although there was a "moment of silence" for appearance's sake for Ukraine and a few of the actors wore blue ribbons.
Claiming that gay people are persecuted by conservatives for them was far more important. It sounded like actors singing for their supper, hoping to get the roles they want from the Hollywood barons who make those decisions. Sean had his movie to sell but the characters back home had their own economics to consider, which was why the ceremony went so same-old, same-old wokesterly.
Amazingly, there was no recognition from this bunch that this kind of wokesterism is precisely what drives audiences away. Let's see how those Nielsen figures go come tomorrow. Meanwhile, ol' Sean had better get out that smelter.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
he got upstaged by will smith’s defense of his slutty wife.
I was disappointed to realize he wasn’t going to go through with it.
Sigh.
Same feeling I get when Leftists say: “If Reagan/Bush/Bush/Trump wins, I am renouncing my citizenship and moving to another country.”
They never do. Sigh.
Insufferable idiot threatens but never does anything but make an ass of himself again.
Like I keep saying, he should have threatened to beat up a woman. Preferably one of Hollyweird’s own young starlets. That might have gotten their attention since it’s one of the most credible threats that Sean Punk could make.
I bet some tuned out at the beginning, as liberal comedienne Wanda Sykes said that they want Florida to know it will be a gay time, and repeatedly said gay. A reference to the law which liberals decided forbids one from saying “gay” in Florida. Which is a crime against humanity, per leftists.
Gee, what message do Hollywood idiots send, when you have to be liberal to think these jomes are funny?
Huh. Ordinary schlubs don’t like being lectured to by multi-millionaires who are protected by high fences and teams of armed bodyguards. There’s a shocker.
Should be, to think these jokes are funny.
Hollywood's gotten pretty bad when the only way to increase ratings is to have Jerry Springer style black-on-black violence. LOL
I stopped watching the Academy Rewards decades ago. I’ve got better things to do. Like cleaning my guns.
I think there may be some lies of omission on this should we see big numbers. I’d like to know when the snapshot was taken. Was it taken at the start of the show, just before the Will Smith fracas, or after the Will Smith fracas? My phone blew up after the punch. I didn’t tune in, but I bet A LOT of folks did, just to see what happens next. If those post-punch numbers are presented as being the truth, well, we all know the answer to that. Lies and more dammed lies.
No so.
Yeah I have the popcorn ready to go….fire the furnace…
Or me rearranging my sock drawer…
It turns out he didn’t say he would “smelt” his oscars. He said he would “smell” them. And he probably did.
Cage match.
Smelt baby, smelt!
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