Posted on 09/21/2017 7:20:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
They don’t care. They’ll still be one percenters for decades to come. They’ll just feed off the liberal half of the country.
Wow. This proves that the Emmys were put on by a bunch of nasty mentally ill perverts who take extreme pride in their twisted vile perversions.
Hollywood is one big CIRCLE JERK.
Hunt, Hill and Kelce are arguably the most potent offensive trio in the league.
When I was growing up the stars were like your next door neighbor...not now...
Well it is to late for this bunch
You know it’s true- That a lot of them have to keep their true feelings beneath a veneer of anti-Trumpism. They believe that going along to get along is their only option, and so they have to be “on” even when they’re not onstage. Could it be any more fake? I pity the fools.
When the massive flag was unfurled from goal post to goal post, no one could see if putrid Peters stood, kneeled or sat but I'm certain national broadcast only focused on him and any other anti-American pity-party millionaires "protesting."
When the biggest pop star in the world right now, Taylor Swift, doesn't even bother showing up for two years in a row, you've got problems.
un funniest man ever...
All of what you said, and show biz people and athletes are so boring and ordinary now. In decades past, many of these people were interesting and intriguing because they stuck with what made them stars when out in public, and didn’t blather and act out incessantly so that the public learned what dreary idiots and fools they really were.
The M.E. Awards: Mediocre Entertainment, or Media Excrement
That’s the black chick from the new Ghostbusters movie.
The left always doubles down, digs deeper, shrieks louder when their agenda is threatened. A tactic that all parents are familiar with.
Caitlin Jenner with a tan?
When the ultimate earthquake hits Follywood/LA, it will be a result of man-made wickedness. That’s certainly never going to be admitted to by the Left, of course.
. . . and still more!
“How much money do they have to lose to realize that people want to see their values reflected in entertainment? The more they try and shove their view down people’s throat the less money they will make.”
They make the case for Michael Savage’s assertion that Liberalism is a mental disease. Liberals think that they are right, and that they can defy “financial gravity” to try an influence sane people. What is good about this article is that it is multifaceted in that in covers all the elements of “liberal-run entertainment.” In addition to voting out the Libs, refusing to patronize their businesses is an important element of the Conservative Resistance.
I am a Chiefs fan who hopes that Marcus Peters blows his knee out (this is after seeing him take a knee against the Pats). Did he do this against the Eagles?
Here is what Hollywood used to be:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UFv-fqQ9D_Y?rel=0
Here are the great Americans who used to be the Hollywood Greats. Now, Hollywood is a $hit hole!
OMG. I didn’t watch the show. They had drag queens on stage???
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