Posted on 03/02/2018 5:57:52 AM PST by Kaslin
Many red-state Americans who used to love awards shows on TV are now wary of celebrities who cannot help but use this platform to spew their hatred of President Trump and the evil/stupid conservatives who keep Hollywood liberals from running (ruining) America.
Take the Golden Globe Awards in January, which included a windy nine-minute Oprah Winfrey lecture about how we need the media elites more than ever, and celebrities dressed in black, donning "Time's Up" pins to say sexual harassment is over. Ratings dipped 5 percent and 11 percent in the key demographic for advertisers, a six-year low.
Hollywood may finally be getting the message that TV ratings are suffering because the public has grown weary of people turning live events into leftist political rallies.
The New York Times reported the Oscars people are worried. "Whenever stars use the platform to support progressive causes and make political statements, large numbers of viewers turn the channel, according to academy insiders, who cite minute-by-minute Nielsen data for past shows."
Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment, said during their Oscars telecast, the campaign against sexual harassment should be limited to a prescheduled "moment," so viewers don't feel it "overshadows the artists and the films being honored."
If the Academy Awards people wanted to recall how Hollywood has behaved, they would take a "moment" to replay the standing ovation for child-raping director Roman Polanski when he won best director in 2003. The audience could see Meryl Streep standing and applauding, and then there's director Martin Scorsese doing the same, being a good sport about losing to Polanski, and standing up and clapping behind him is ... Harvey Weinstein.
That's a good clip of Hollywood's history on opposing sexual assault.
This year's Oscars host, ABC late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, was more blunt on "Good Morning America," saying, "This show is not about reliving people's sexual assaults. It's an awards show for people who have been dreaming about maybe winning an Oscar for their whole lives. And the last thing I want to do is ruin that for someone ... by making it unpleasant."
But will Kimmel lash out at Republicans? When "Good Morning America" asked if he's been too political recently and "pushed the envelope too far," he shot back "Not at all. I don't think you can go too far." So when it came to sexual assault, Kimmel said, "I'm not going to stop any bad behavior with my jokes." But "making it unpleasant" for people who couldn't vote for Hillary Clinton is apparently a patriotic duty.
Awards shows have been unable to avoid political moments, and viewers are tuning out. The audience for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which began with host Kristen Bell mocking the first lady, plummeted 30 percent (they were also scheduled against an NFL playoff game). The Grammy Awards -- which mocked Donald Trump in a skit featuring celebrities and Hillary Clinton reading passages from Michael Wolff's unsubstantiated trash-for-cash book "Fire and Fury" -- was off 10 million viewers (24 percent) for an all-time low.
Live events -- including sports -- are being skipped by people who can't stand the political lectures. NFL ratings, after all the railing against racism, were down nearly 10 percent this season. NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics -- complete with gay Olympians bashing Vice President Pence -- was down 7 percent, making them the least-watched Olympics on record.
Even if ABC tries to rein in the Oscars, Americans know that Kimmel and the Hollywood crowd are likely to trash Trump, Pence and the National Rifle Association. Many will find something else to watch.
I'm not sure they really want to know this as sponsors would drop off big time. If they did, they could do a focus group with "dials" and prove that not many people want to hear the Trump bashing or gun control rants at a awards show.
Kimmel drank the kool aide, just look at his eyes! You can see their is some brain damage going on there. I like many others I know do the same, anything out there that voices a liberal progressive rant will not get my money, viewership or support, period!
They could dump Kibble and get an instant 15% increase..................
Perhaps one of the few “good” things that has come out of this ranting is that folks are being shown the vast sewer of stupidity that is Hollywood. Little or no education, even less morality, and total inability to speak coherently sans the use of a script.
They knocked Reagan for being an actor. Heh. He was quite smart. Contrast him with Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy, so couldn’t piece together a sentence without the use of his electronic reading machine.
Yep. Obama was responsible for the term “elite” becoming a term of derision. He and his cohorts couldn’t pore pee out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
pore=pour. Too early.
Before he ran for President, Trump appeared in TV shows, movies, and commercials.They loved him. “It’s the Donald!,” gushed one sitcom character.He ate pizza backwards, tackled Vince McMahon, showed Mackauley Culkin where the hotel lobby was, etc.
Once he started avidly espousing political views he became the enemy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yosAVMB47-Y
I haven’t watched the Oscars since Naked Gun 33 1/3.
Hollywood is a sewer with a long, long history of terrible abuse. And they will attack Pence, in part over his “archaic” self-imposed rules for personal behavior which make it virtually impossible for Pence to do what Hollywood does all the time. They think he’s the problem. They think they have the high moral ground.
They are starting to come to the realization that the entertainment industry lives in a New York City-Los Angeles axis "cultural bubble" very much like the citizens of the fictional capital city of Panem from the Hunger Games novel trilogy, completely with the amoral, indulgent, parochial and sanctimonious attitude. Jennifer Lawrence, whose acting career had a meteoric rise, is taking a break from acting after Red Sparrow because even now realizes her anti-Trump spiel is hurting her popularity in most of the USA.
“Please come back and watch. We promise not to show you our real selves. We won’t let on that we hate you and think you are unworthy to live in the same country as us. Please help us with our ratings problem.”
Hollywood and the celebs don’t care about ratings. They think “The Resistance®” is more important. They look at declining ratings as a badge of honor that shows the sacrifices they made for “the cause”.
they could do a focus group with “dials” and prove that not many people want to hear the Trump bashing or gun control rants at a awards show.
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People get enough politics in their day-to-day lives; they tune into awards shows to be entertained, to laugh. Not to be reminded of the massive division, even among families, in the U.S.
I so wish fox network would start a conservative late night comedy show with Jeff Foxworthy or Bill Engvall or Ron White as the host. They could do monologues making fun of the liberal stupidity and have guests like Trump, Hannity, Limbaugh and feature good country musicians. I would watch every night.
Here’s rooting for AT LEAST a fifteen percent drop in ratings for Scumbag Jimmy Kimmel and the Oscars!!
Why do people listen to celebracies? These drugged up individuals incapable of maintaining a relationships, who’s children are as deranged as the names they are given. Do they really contribute to societies improvement? Look at the stories they promote, glorifying drug use, crime, antisocial behavior, and turning murderers into TV Gods.
I’m skipping the Oscars.
Won’t miss the self-congratulatory 4 hour leftist loft-in.
I’ll be watching a Chinese romantic drama. They don’t trash my country like Hollywood does.
No, they won’t ever get a clue.
Ben Stein needs to have a sit-down with Kimmel, slap some sense into him.
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