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HAS ANYBODY SAID IT YET? BOYCOTT THE OSCARS (Oscars Live Thread)
3-4-06 | freedom4me

Posted on 03/05/2006 1:43:20 PM PST by freedom4me

I suppose on this thread it goes without saying, but I'll say in anyway...BOYCOTT THE OSCARS tonight.

I want the ratings for this year's program go into the toilet (where most the nominated movies belong). I won't waste my money to see the films, my electricity to watch the Oscars, or my time watching to witness Hollywood's self-adulation fest.

Pass it on...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bbm; hollyweird; oscars
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To: freedom4me

Don't plan on watching. With jon stewart hosting, it will most likely be a Bush bashing monologue.


141 posted on 03/05/2006 2:57:14 PM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: JerseyDvl
I would rather watch Paris Hilton than the Oscars.

Duh...........

142 posted on 03/05/2006 2:59:01 PM PST by aligncare (Watergate killed journalism)
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To: freedom4me

Boycott Oscar Mayer?

http://www.kraftfoods.com/NR/rdonlyres/C1CC8759-9407-45BF-83B4-1D5BAD6B7698/0/CC_Bologna_header.jpg


143 posted on 03/05/2006 2:59:15 PM PST by voteconstitutionparty
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To: freeperfromnj
With jon stewart hosting, it will most likely be a Bush bashing monologue.

But if Stewart is funny, I'll be laughing. Given how hilarious the Daily Show is, I can expect nothing less.

After all, Bush is only a glorified civil servant; I don't invest my entire ego in some Yaley in a suit.

144 posted on 03/05/2006 3:01:10 PM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: txroadkill

Dallas Stars hockey tonight....


145 posted on 03/05/2006 3:02:19 PM PST by Jrabbit (Kaufman County, Texas)
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To: Billthedrill

Hairdressers. No, wait......


146 posted on 03/05/2006 3:02:53 PM PST by aligncare (Watergate killed journalism)
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To: freedom4me
I haven't watched the Oscars, or any of the other self-congratulatory Hollywood awards programs, in over twenty years and don't plan to start now. It seems there is some sort of Hollywood awards program about every week anymore. When do the wierdos have time to make movies?

Muleteam1

147 posted on 03/05/2006 3:05:08 PM PST by Muleteam1 (MEDIA-CRITY - ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, etc.)
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To: Wheee The People

I don't watch awards shows anyway but you must see Walk The Line.

IMHO it's up there with Forrest Gump.


148 posted on 03/05/2006 3:05:46 PM PST by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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To: R.W.Ratikal

Itchy trigger finger there, bud.


149 posted on 03/05/2006 3:06:39 PM PST by aligncare (Watergate killed journalism)
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To: freedom4me

I can' watch. I'm going to see a movie about a gay, transgendered newsman exposing Senator McCarthy.


150 posted on 03/05/2006 3:07:43 PM PST by Faraday
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To: freedom4me
Since the agenda this year is completely obvious, I wonder if a lousy Oscar ratings performance will be somehow covered up, or at least spun, by the Nielsen people -- in the same way MSM polls tend to oversample Democrats.
151 posted on 03/05/2006 3:08:39 PM PST by JennysCool (Liberals don't care what you do, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: freedom4me

I've got some hydroponic buckets that need to be cleaned, besides I don't own a TV anymore.


152 posted on 03/05/2006 3:09:17 PM PST by Mr Cobol (We know how many seeds are in an apple, but only God knows how many apples are in a seed.)
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To: Wormwood
Ah, but it's more than ego. It's...politics.
153 posted on 03/05/2006 3:09:18 PM PST by aligncare (Watergate killed journalism)
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To: freedom4me
Snore. A friend of mine and I are watching a DVD (transferred from tape) of an old Mystery Science Theatre movie.

154 posted on 03/05/2006 3:09:46 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: freedom4me

I only care about whether "Wallace and Gromit" gets an award. The human actors are dumber than a lump of clay.


156 posted on 03/05/2006 3:10:37 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: aligncare

>>Gay Love. The love that won't shut up!

As Howie Carr put it, "Whatever happened to 'the love that dare not speak its name'? Now it won't SHADDUP!!"


157 posted on 03/05/2006 3:11:09 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: aligncare

Well in this case I am being quite literal. My wife rented a movie with her in it (not one of her porn flicks)called the Hillz. The store was empty and we needed something other than this homo-erotic, terror filled lovefest.


158 posted on 03/05/2006 3:13:38 PM PST by JerseyDvl ("Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"-Samuel Johnson to the Dems of today.)
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To: varmintxer
I wonder if OBL watches the Oscars?

"Look at that...decadent plunging neckline."

159 posted on 03/05/2006 3:14:09 PM PST by aligncare (Watergate killed journalism)
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To: freedom4me
Boycott? Not exactly.

I won't be watching because I really don't care for most show people*. They are near unilaterally self absorbed, and they care nothing for the folks who attend their films.

As a group, show people are not exactly "bookish". Yet, they are not shy about suggesting how we common peons should live our lives.

Show people and their entertainment media have degenerated to the production of the glorification of disrespect (of parents, country, and etc.) and the illustration of one left wing moral lesson after another - - punctuated my wardrobe malfunctions of increasing frequency.

When I think of show people, I think of Jane Fonda grinning broadly and wearing a North Vietnamese helmet while aiming a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun pretending to shoot American warplanes.

I think of Julia Roberts who said Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

And I think of the allegedly cerebral Bill Maher who said just following the 9/11 attacks "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."

No thanks. I don't watch show people parade their unwarranted opinions of themselves and their inbred social order on award shows.

I'm above that. And each of you should be, as well.

So, while not a boycott, I suggest that we don't lower ourselves to the real status of show people (that of carnival operators with good teeth.)

* Exceptions, I can think of several. Jimmy Stewart comes to mind first.

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160 posted on 03/05/2006 3:14:36 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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