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The Emmy Awards Tilt to the Left
Townhall.com ^ | August 1, 2018 | Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

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.


TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cuba; emmyawards; globalwarminghoax; hollywood; homosexualagenda; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; television
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I hear Anderson Cooper is up for an award........

Anderson is being lauded for his reporting on Helsinki...... showing viewers how he'd stand up to Putin.

21 posted on 08/01/2018 5:47:43 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.sap-happy)
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To: Kaslin
No!

Say it ain't so!

22 posted on 08/01/2018 5:50:08 PM PDT by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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To: Kaslin

can anyone direct meet the number of emmy nominations for Trump Rallies?


23 posted on 08/01/2018 5:51:27 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: morphing libertarian

DIRECT ME TO


24 posted on 08/01/2018 5:52:06 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Kaslin

unbelievably lame pieces of propaganda nominated for “awards” ... sorta like those teacher’s pets awards you remember back in the day ... Emmys as recognition of entertainment excellence are now officially dead ... just like everything else the left digs its claws into and perverts ...


25 posted on 08/01/2018 8:34:02 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: ealgeone

Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Tony’s....all for lefty phonys


26 posted on 08/01/2018 10:17:18 PM PDT by Bommer (Jesus is God! Deal with it.)
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To: Kaslin

How? I did not think there was any further room on the left of where they have been.


27 posted on 08/02/2018 9:09:03 AM PDT by Ingtar
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To: Kaslin

I long ago figured out:

When anyone - on either side - says a person or organ leans or tilts to the left, I substitute:

... falling down drunk to the left.


28 posted on 08/02/2018 1:33:02 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Kaslin

If the emmy’s tilted to the left anymore than they already have they’ll become conservative.


29 posted on 08/02/2018 1:46:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Heaven has a wall and strict immigration policy. Hell has open borders--seen on a tee shirt)
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To: ealgeone

>>Winning an “Emmy” means nothing any longer.<<

They should just call it “the Lefty” to remove the fig leaf.


30 posted on 09/18/2018 10:42:22 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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