I'd say "classless trash" but I don't want to insult trash.
Posted on 09/18/2018 12:34:08 PM PDT by ETL
Hollywood may have laughed when Emmys host Michael Che said the only white people who thank Jesus are "Republicans and ex-crackheads," but Tinseltown's latest middle finger to Middle America fell flat in flyover country, and may have contributed to the telecast's all-time low viewership.
Co-host Michael Che left many viewers of the 70th Annual Emmy Awards upset during the opening monologue with his fellow "Saturday Night Live" star Colin Jost, explaining that his mother would not be watching the show on Monday night.
"She says she doesn’t like watching white award shows because you guys don’t thank Jesus enough," Che said. "That’s true. The only white people that thank Jesus are Republicans and ex-crackheads."
The joke didn't sit well with some viewers, who took to Twitter to complain. Not only that, the show’s ratings dropped 10 percent from last year's already-dismal numbers, setting an all-time low, according to TheWrap.
While many viewers may have changed the channel after the opening monologue, jabs at average Americans were far from over and the Jesus gag became a running theme throughout the evening.
Conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News that “large swaths of the American public just want to be entertained” but instead were turned into "unwilling participants" in a political rally disguised as an awards show.
“Whether it’s the NFL or the Emmys, people desperately want a break from politics."
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Aside from the obnoxious political lectures and virtue signaling, today’s “celebrities” and their so-called creative work are 95%-99% boring, stupid, lame, tacky, unedifying, dumbed down to the point of illiterate dreck, and completely forgettable. Most stink on ice.
"It's Bill Clinton calling. He said "Go Baby."
"He practiced that line a lot...... on Monica."
the opening number was good... we fixed it... showing their naivete... and then they awarded 6 awards to white people, then regina king received an award, then 6 more white people... james cordin said emmy so white...
i laughed at them...
Boy, I must be completely out of touch: I recognized exactly ONE of the people in those photographs.
He’s a lucky SOB he didn’t OD along with John Belushi that night
I was going to watch, but I had something more important to take care of.
Watching paint dry.
Whatever is real about men in makeup and dresses?
These are Neo-Marxists we are dealing with, so to paraphrase a famous Marxist (Trotsky): " you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you."
All pretense has been abandoned. They hate America, Americans, Christians, Jews and, most of all, they hate freedom, believing themselves immune from oppression and tyranny.
Maybe middle America is finally getting over the Holywood addiction that is destroying it.
Raise your hand if you had any idea the Emmys were on. Not me.
What a bunch of self-important wankers.
I used to watch the Oscars and the Emmys but not in years. I read the list of winners and it did not include one show I’d ever watched.
Two words: Red Wave.
Real sad.
Consider it a badge of honor if you don't know most of the people in that crapfest.
But "people of color" who do so are Profound Marxist-Leninist Intellectuals . . . right?
You white folks will have to become Noachides now! You can't steal J*sus from People of Color!
God will handle the matter and the outcome won’t be low ratings.
white fake blondes and black men. Well, that’s the picture painted for black women anyway. Ah, diversity!
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