Posted on 09/20/2017 5:11:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
The numbers don't lie. Across the entertainment industry, viewers and fans are tuning out. It's no coincidence ratings are cratering as unhinged celebrities crank up their anti-Trump and anti-American antics.
Pro tip, Tinseltownies: Swapping your jazz hands for middle fingers and waving resistance fists at your customer base is bad for business. Let us count the waning ways.
Emmy emetics. Who wanted to see smirking Stephen Colbert lead a cast of Botoxed starlets and men in hot pants, handing out TV industry awards to diamond-draped elites hoisting up their gilt statues as emblems of victory on behalf of the hegemonically oppressed? Not as many as the boob-tube titans had hoped! The show's overall viewership of 11.4 million tied an all-time low; the key ratings demographic of 18-49 adults sunk 10 percent lower than last year's historic low. Most of America had better things to do than watch a privileged cabal of left-wing, coastal one-percenters preening indulgently about their progressivism. Conservative actor James Wood had the response of the night to the Emmy ego-thon, noting that "the stunning lack of political diversity in Hollywood is interesting, when you consider their consumer base is so evenly divided."
Oscars' abyss. Earlier this year, the Academy Awards show earned the second-lowest viewership ratings in its history. Program host Jimmy Kimmel and other celebs turned their stage and red carpet into Trump-bashing soapboxes for anti-cop rants, open borders pleas and Quran promotion.
Box office beatdown. Hollywood's summer movie season launched more duds than North Korea's Rocket Man. By Labor Day weekend, revenue plunged "nearly 16 percent over last year, the steepest decline in modern times," according to the Hollywood Reporter, adding that "(a)ttendance also plummeted, and is almost assured of hitting a 25-year low in terms of the number of tickets sold, according to Box Office Mojo." Variety dubbed it "the worst the movie industry has seen in more than a decade."
I don't want my MTV. The network that used to broadcast music videos now has a hard time attracting eyeballs to its marquee Video Music Awards. Go figure. Its 10th annual awards show was "the least-watched one in its history," marking the "fourth year in a row that the network has seen a decline in the crown jewel of its annual calendar," according to the Associated Press.
Al Gore's man-made disaster. Among the summer's hottest messes? Environmental scare-monger Al Gore's climate change sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth." The original green Chicken Little flick raked in nearly $50 million in 2006. The follow-up this summer, in release for a measly six weeks, scraped up less than $3.5 million in domestic receipts. Paramount tried to prop up the film with trailer endorsements from Bono, Randy Jackson, Pharrell Williams, Adam Levine and Shailene Woodley. But their Hollywood helium couldn't lift Gore's cinematic lead balloon.
Rolling Stone's tombstone. The iconic pop culture and music magazine rolled itself into oblivion after publishing its infamous "Rape on Campus" hoax article in 2014. Legal costs are approaching $5 million; this week, a third defamation suit by University of Virginia fraternity members moved forward. Over the weekend, owner Jann Wenner announced that his majority stake in the rag is now for sale. Maybe magazine cover boys and lefty multimillionaires Justin Trudeau, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama can pitch in?
NFL = No fans left. The football field is now a minefield of social justice causes, where National Football League officials countenance Black Power salutes, but ban pro-police decals on helmets after cop ambushes. A recent J.D. Power survey found that national anthem protests by players were the top reason fans stopped watching games. Viewership at the start of the 2017 regular season was down 13 percent for the NFL and NBC from last year's opener. Gridiron fans are switching the channel and they're staying out of the stadiums, too. The Rams and Chargers barely filled half their stadiums. The USC-Texas game boasted higher attendance numbers than those two teams' games combined.
NFL brass blame hurricanes. But from the boob tube to the big screen to the glossies to the Big Leagues, the fault lies not with Mother Nature or the entertainment industry's consumers -- but with the fatally self-absorbed, politically toxified stars themselves.
“Hollywood’s summer movie season launched more duds than North Korea’s Rocket Man”
HA! YOU GO GIRL!!
Have you ever seen a group of people who have so readily and eagerly habituated themselves to conformity?
There isn't an atom of doubt, censure or original thinking in that whole crowd.
Fantastic article! Well written and hits the nail on the head!
James Woods nailed it (and them)
It’s good to see the hollyweird and sports goons are getting some much deserved payback for their condescending smirks and rants. The hell with them.
Couldn’t happen to a better group of losers.
The main problem with McCarthy is that he didn’t get to scrup out the bottom of the barrel.
NFL=No Fans Left.
Hadn’t seen that one before. Love it!
I was finished with Hollywood. I didn’t need anymore encouragement but a brilliant original film that was La La Land loses best picture to a film about a black,down lo’ drug addict was the final nail!
Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of commies.
There isn’t an atom of doubt, censure or original thinking in that whole crowd.
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The lack of original thinking is clear from the lame scripts they keep churning out. Remakes, retarded super hero movies, REMAKES of retarded super hero movies and leftist propaganda splashed EVERYWHERE, like a dog the needs to pee every twenty feet to prove to you it was there. Yuck.
There isn’t an atom of doubt, censure or original thinking in that whole crowd.
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The lack of original thinking is clear from the lame scripts they keep churning out. Remakes, retarded super hero movies, REMAKES of retarded super hero movies and leftist propaganda splashed EVERYWHERE, like a dog the needs to pee every twenty feet to prove to you it was there. Yuck.
Have you ever seen a group of people who have so readily and eagerly habituated themselves to conformity?(All the while believing that they are rebels and social out riders) THAT’S the funny part.
Do you want to know why cord-cutting is gaining unstoppable momentum?
For the very same reason society abandoned newspapers. Newspapers turned themselves into propaganda tools of Liberal theology. The one-sided, bombastic editorials and the “news” content saturated with left-wing opinion.
Similarly, people are cutting the cord and abandoning the movies in an effort to escape, turn off, and now avoid the endless left-wing proselytizing.
When I was a kid I spit out watermelon seeds. As I grew up, I avoided pieces of watermelon with the most seeds in it, and then I was able to purchase watermelons without seeds. I now only buy watermelons without the seeds I once could only avoid.
Hollywood leftists and the left-wing media are watermelon seeds: first to be spit out of tedious necessity, then to be assiduously avoided, and now to be abandoned altogether.
“Conforming to non-conformity-is conforming JUST THE SAME.”
But they aren’t smart enough to GET that.
Are those the Veep producers? Quite a few of them.
They skipped the ratings dip for ESPN, probably the most dramatic in net subscribers lost.
Now there's a line-up of intellectual powerhouses!
Now there's a line-up of intellectual powerhouses!
I am proud to say that - of ALL of the TV faces in first picture, and all four of the “big-name” names just quoted endorsing Gore's failed movie remake - the ONLY name or face I recognized was Bono.
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