Posted on 09/18/2017 3:31:51 PM PDT by catnipman
“The Emmys are a Hollywood bubble show," Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor told Fox News. "Actors and directors get to pretend they are important because they are doing such insightful takes on life in America, when they have zero idea what life in America is for the other 330 million people."
“Hollywood won’t walk away from politics. The left wants to force politics into every single aspect of our lives -- from sports to movies to the food we eat. They won’t be satisfied until we are all appropriately woke to their struggles du jour,” Gainor told Fox News.
“The Emmys celebrate shows that almost no one either watches or cares about," he said. "No ordinary Americans care about ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’ No ordinary Americans watch ‘Veep.’
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I’m not paying for anything on Netflix that’s for sure and Youtube’s so full of garbage it’s almost unusable unless you know exactly what you want to find.
Ha HA.... TO bad for these POS celebs that think what they say matter. Did not watch (of course) but did hear some clips on Patriot Channel, disgusting to say the least especially after they sang praise for the sorry half breed islamic terrorist that we had in the White House before him.
Yick. When he revealed his crush on the Riddler, I was done. I should have been done earlier when he fed a mother her children. Possibly the sickest prime time show ever produced.
Television writes your schedule for you, and limits your choices to what a network wants to provide. All cable and satellite do is increase the number of networks making your choices for you. Netflix is $11 a month, and You Tube is simple to use. Thanks to You Tube, I can listen to Rush even in Israel, groove on David Brubeck or Louis Armstrong, and watch or listen to any episode Gunsmoke or the Beverly Hillbillies, whenever I want. Emmys? We don’t need no steenking Emmys. TV is over.
I remember back in the day when they completely passed over Flip Wilson, who had the best variety show ever. Saw him in the audience, looking angry and more than a little hurt.
Yeah, I’m well versed on what Netflix has to offer, it’s mostly pay per view.. No thanks.
As for Youtube, well some of it is useful for music videos and things like that. You say you can watch gunsmoke or Beverly Hillbillies? Oh goody, BFD. Who wants to watch that crap over and over?
Try getting the original ‘Get Smart’ TV show or for that matter ‘F troop’. Not gonna’ happen bud, unless you want to shell out money at about $1.50 per 22 minute episode. totally not worth it. And those are just two examples of how it would cost a fortune to get worthwhile stuff for free.
I have yet to even see anything that costs extra on Netflix, and why bother? They got enough stuff there that comes with the package to last forever. You don’t like Gunsmoke, or Beverly Hillbillies, but Get Smart and F Troop? OK. To each his own, but there’s no end to what’s available, even if not your first choice. I restrict my entertainment time to either background noise while I’m working in my home office, or an hour or so at the end of day, assuming I end the day before 1 am. For me, what Netflix and You Tube has to offer suffices within that time frame, and nothing that they now have on TV is better, or even as good. You like other things, fine. It’s only a matter of time before a video provider comes along that’s better than You Tube. Bottom line, television is a relic of the 20th Century, and we’re now well into the 21st.
Ok, try to get a baseball game or a live golf tournament on either one of those platforms. You can’t. I think live sports are the best thing that TV has to offer. Oh, you’re not in to sports? But you are in to Gunsmoke? Well OK. Maybe you can get some free ‘I Love Lucy’ while you’re at it.
You want to watch a movie on Netflix? Pay up.
OTA channels - “MeTV”, “LAFF TV”, etc - offer many, many of the classic TV shows without any cost to the viewer.
All you need is a rabbit ears antenna....
It looks like the M.O. is set for these awards shows:
Forget what’s actually good.
Forget what people actually watch.
Foist “the agenda” at all times and ignore the consequences.
What a waste. Supposedly she converted to Islam? (((shakin’ mah head)))
You must have a very boring life.
No, +5
Good for you!
I canceled cable well over a year ago; don’t miss it at all. Bought an antenna for $8.50.
$tarve the bea$t any and every way po$$ible.
In short, it is about control, including thought control.
Yeah, always pretending to be something you are not. This is acting, this is liberalism, this is criminal cover, this is leftist politics.
I apologize in advance for this lengthy response, but it is something I feel strongly about.
I think it is human nature, especially in tightly confined arguments that are not widely separated, to change your view based on the last information to come in. I know I have fallen into that hole, personally.
For me, it is often the case of availability of information. When making a judgement, I make the judgement based on the information available, then overlay my principles on that information.
If they are in harmony, I can proceed with making an information/principles based judgement.
If they are not in harmony, it can become far more difficult. When that happens, you have to overlay both information and principles with real-world considerations, and occasionally have to go against your principles.
It could be your principles and fundamental premises are flawed. But more often (in my opinion) real world considerations can force you to go against your principles.
I think that in the case of someone like Trump (or any chief executive in a decision-making scenario), the choice is made the way I laid out, and those people making decisions are dependent on the people providing them with information to to it in a complete and timely manner as possible.
In a complicated world, sometimes the information is incomplete because it just isn’t available and the executive has to make a choice based on the information at hand. This is complicated by the fact that the people supplying the information are fallible, or have their own biases and agendas, which is why it is important to have people working for you whose principles and fundamental premises align with yours, but who are both intelligent and honest.
The intelligence and honesty are vital, because even if your principles are aligned, you need to know all the information that is relevant...not just information that makes you nod your head vigorously in agreement, but also information that contradicts your principles when it is important.
It is why having “Yes Men” is so dangerous and destructive.
The other problem is timeliness of information. Sometimes some vital information simply isn’t available when you have to decide. Then, when it becomes available, you have to re-evaluate. And when you do that, well, that is when you discover the quality of people, because if you have to go against your principles because it is the right thing to do, that is difficult for principled people.
You must make the choice: Is it preferable to be consistent with principles you hold, or...should you be right? (This is one of the fundamental differences between liberals and conservatives. Liberals are dogmatic, set their principles, and will not re-evaluate them. There is no introspective argument. Liberals are buttressed by and echo chamber of liberal media that constantly praises them and discourages introspection. Conservatives have to constantly evaluate their principles and ensure they are set correctly, because conservative principles are constantly questioned and discouraged by liberal media, educational entities, and government at all levels.)
So, in the shifting sands of staff at a high government level, I think this is a real problem for a chief executive like the President. I try to be tolerant when it happens and they change their decisions in a way that contradicts the principles they campaigned on, but if it happens too often, that indicates deeper flaws in the makeup of a team. I hope that isn’t the case with Trump.
I don’t see it as a bad thing. Look at a reprehensible team like Obama’s...in their case, their fundamental principles were (and are) flawed, but they adhered to those principles rigorously, even when it was blatantly wrong and sometimes malignantly so. That is what we would expect from liberals who admire, and are disciples of Saul Alinsky. The Ends justifies the Means in all cases, no questions for them.
American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette. (I am going to use that as my tagline for a while...:)
That is one of the main reasons I do not watch television programming, including news. You are pigeonholed into what they want you to see, what is considered to be humor, and what is considered to news, and how they want you to see it.
I find it so irritating I can’t even walk by a television that is on without feeling irritation. Especially in an airport.
When I go into a restaurant or bar, I specifically ask for seating as far away from any television as possible.
LOL, and the digital antenna looks a LOT better on top of my roof than that beast from the sixties that was up there...it must have been four feet across and eight feet long, looking like a big feathered arrow...the digital one is a small, dinky rectangle!
I saw the new digital one can pull stations in from 100+ miles. Impressive!
Those old 60s things: I remember them. You still see them here and there.
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