Posted on 08/01/2018 2:56:13 PM PDT by Kaslin
On July 26, the News and Documentary Emmy Award nominations were announced, and PBS topped the list with 45 nominations. CBS led the broadcast networks with 31 nods, followed by CNN and HBO with 22 each, and ABC with 20.
MSNBC got 5. Vice News got nine. Al-Jazeera International USA got five. And The New York Times got seven -- for videos! Even the liberal website Vox got three.
The Fox News channel, which leads in cable-news viewership year after year after year, got none.
Raise your hand if you're surprised.
Given the liberal tilt of the news industry, did Fox News even submit its work to be nominated by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences? Fox didn't return a comment when we asked. But there are plenty of reasons to be disgusted by what's being nominated for excellence in 2017. It has nothing to do with talent. It's about the best promotion of the leftist agenda. Here's a brief list:
1. Radical leftist Jon Alpert drew an Outstanding Historical Documentary nod for "Cuba and the Cameraman" on Netflix. In a review of the documentary, The New York Times reported, "Mr. Alpert's friendliness toward Castro and many of his policies will no doubt infuriate some viewers (the authoritarian regime's human rights abuses are not addressed)." So how is it historical?
2. The picks for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary include the HBO film "Abortion: Stories Women Tell" in which leftists argue against a 72-hour waiting period for aborting unborn babies in Missouri. In the usual irony, it's up against another HBO film titled "Unlocking the Cage" in which leftists argue in favor of awarding human rights to chimpanzees.
3. Nominations for Outstanding Investigative Documentary include the PBS "Frontline" documentary harshly titled "War on the EPA" in which President Donald Trump and his band of "climate deniers" are condemned for "undoing one of President Obama's signature achievements in the fight against climate change: the Clean Power Plan." PBS couldn't find time in an hour-long broadcast to air a scrap of footage of Obama and Hillary Clinton promising to make coal prices skyrocket and put coal miners out of work.
4. Speaking of Obama, NBC was nominated in the Outstanding Edited Interview category for its sugary special "Barack Obama: The Reality of Hope." The editing did seem impressive: NBC anchorman Lester Holt edited out any mention of Obama scandals in the hour-long interview.
5. CNN's lame apple-and-banana "Facts First" ads are nominated for Outstanding Promotional Announcement.
6. Nominees for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary include "Bannon's War" on PBS' "Frontline," which drew a rave review from the leftist website Salon that said, "Nothing in this 'Frontline' version of Bannon's biography affords a glimpse of humanity or warmth in the man, and perhaps that is for the best."
It's up against a documentary by the pay-cable movie channel Starz titled "All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone." Stone, an icon in radical journalism circles, was exposed a few years ago as having been an agent for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Variety offered this summary of the film, which includes Oliver Stone among the executive producers (Again: Are you surprised?): "the anti-mainstream-media arguments are repeated so often, and so broadly, that they become a kind of catechism: All media is controlled by advertisers. Reporters aren't allowed to question The System. Greed, corruption, and government-sanctioned criminality are shrouded in narcotizing fake news."
Wait, it's OK to denounce the mainstream media as "fake news" if you're a radical lefty? Yes. You can even get nominated for an Emmy.
Winning an “Emmy” means nothing any longer.
WUT?! When did that happen?
If the GOP retains the House and Senate in 2018 & 2020, along with the re-election of Trump as POTUS in 2020, the entertainment industries won’t “tilt” to the left. They will go hard left and quadruple down. Anyone who believes the re-election of Trump stops this nonsense needs to have their head examined.
YAWN , What
Given that I don’t watch that collection of losers, guess the stuff is believed only by those not clever and enlightened enough to know how to read.
Another meaningless “award” given by pervs to pervs.
Al’s Jizz got 5 nom noms for state run propaganda?
Are they still getting exclusives from Islamonazi terrorist groups?
How many pulitzers was Communist Daily Worker ever nominated for?
Why does anyone watch this garbage? Why give them ratings? We know they are a bunch of crazy disfunctional Commie crud!
If it weren't for my wife, I would cut the cord for cable TV today.
Tilt? TILT? The Entertainment Industry is Hard Left......no Conservatives need apply, in any capacity.
Anyone who believes the re-election of Trump stops this nonsense needs to have their head examined.
They are extraordinarily selfish people. Why bother.
The Echo Chamber Awards.
It’s beyond a joke.
I will not watch any Hollywood/TV/Broadway/Music pat-themselves-on-the-back shows.
It’s just a big circle jerk.
But when I hear about how any of these egos show disdain for me or mine, they go on the list. I wouldn’t pi$$ on them if they were on fire, and certainly NOT buy their crap.
“The Emmy Awards Tilt to the Left”
In other surprising news scientists today announced water is moist, and stepping off a 10 story building may lead to a shortened life span.
Just ask John Stossel. He gave away or lost most of his "emmys" as they did not mean anything. The Emmy commitee is mad at him as technically the awards are their property. He stopped getting Emmy nods when he publicly came out about all of the left-wing libtards in the "media". Imagine that.
"Come on, it's a fashion show. What straight black man sits there and watches the [insert any award show name here]? Show me one!"To which Chris Rock added: "Awards for art are f***ing idiotic."
Good on him!
When Stossel rebelled against the left-wing media establishment he jumped in with both feet.
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