{"id":223278,"date":"2017-02-27T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=223278"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:35:26","slug":"did-the-russians-hack-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/27\/did-the-russians-hack-the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Russians Hack the Oscars?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So did the Russians hack the Oscars? Should there be an investigation in the House? Something so ridiculous, so unacceptable, so un-Hollywood-like. Did the moguls of Hollywood have the courage to get out of bed today after such a major — you know, I wasn\u2019t even gonna talk about it, and then I decided there\u2019s some aspects of this that I just can\u2019t in good conscience ignore.<\/p>\n

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So was the Oscar election stolen last night? I mean, really, who won? How do we really know? I mean, with so much fake out there now, and you can\u2019t count on polling data, and you can\u2019t count on election results. I mean, just listen to what the Democrats say. I mean, they told us first that La La Land won, and then they said, no, no, Moonlight won. And there\u2019s rampant confusion everywhere.<\/p>\n

And I would like to be the first to call for an investigation and an independent special prosecutor to look — they had millions of people around the world watching last night. Can you imagine if you are a La La Land fan, can you imagine what they did to you last night? You had everything invested in La La Land winning. It was gonna dominate your spirit and feelings of Hollywood and entertainment for the next year. And the cast shows up almost like Hillary showing up to do her acceptance speech and then somebody from an accountant firm pops up and says Warren Beatty blew it.<\/p>\n

And how did Warren Beatty blow it? Well, I will explain that when we get to it. So then they had to take the La La Land cast — by the way, I didn\u2019t see any of this as it happened. Somebody help me out, when they finally said that, no, the election was actually stolen by Moonlight, when the Moonlight gang came up there, did the La La Land cast and crew leave?<\/p>\n

So both candidates in effect were on stage as both were announced as having won the Best Picture Oscar. Were they hugging each other? I mean, was the La La Land crew, the actors and producers, after having that Oscar taken away from them on live TV, did they smile about it? Was there good cheer? Was there understanding? Was there tolerance? And did they welcome the Moonlight crew to the stage? Did they stand up there together, or was it a cluster?<\/p>\n

You saw it. I didn\u2019t. Nobody in there saw it? Oh, we\u2019re all flying blind here. Well, I\u2019ll have to research this and find out. I\u2019ve seen some still shots of Jimmy Kimmel looking clueless, but that\u2019s not unusual. It\u2019s hard to get much from the still shots. But let\u2019s talk about the picture that they tell us won. How do we really know? How do we really know who won the Best Picture award? They\u2019re telling us it\u2019s Moonlight. Has anybody seen it?<\/p>\n

Do you realize the number of actual moviegoers who\u2019ve seen any of these nominees is such a small percentage that it\u2019s not even worth mentioning? It\u2019s like 60, 65% of moviegoers have not seen — I think some of them saw La La Land. I guess it did pretty well. Well, Moonlight is about a gay black man.<\/p>\n

Now, remember, Hollywood took it on the chin last year. Remember, everybody was jumping in their chili claiming that it was all white all night. All the nominees and the only roles for African-Americans are drug-addled criminals and gang leaders and so forth or servants, and they\u2019re fed up with it. And then they\u2019re fed up with no nominations for anything.<\/p>\n

So Hollywood had to make it good last night. So they went for a twofer. They had a movie about a gay black guy. So what they did there, taking no chances whatsoever after the grief they got last year, they went for the twofer, two protected groups in one movie. I wonder if they were afraid that Hollywood might be — never mind. I\u2019m not gonna talk about potential violence if one of the two didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

But folks, this is great. It\u2019s a circus. Hollywood could not have scripted a more ironic ending. After lecturing us all night on who should be president, after telling us all night how to run the country, after lecturing their number one fan base, middle America, which is where the vast majority of people are, after impugning them, making fun of them and laughing at \u2019em by making fun of the things they believe, these geniuses couldn\u2019t even get their big moment done right, and that\u2019s the award for the best movie of the year.<\/p>\n

I wonder, will there be any recounts? Will any heads roll at Pricewaterhouse whatever the new name of that firm is? I mean, you had a Latino woman and an Irish male representing — well, this is how the left looks at things. They look at gender. They look at ethnicity to make sure that you\u2019re covering all your politically correct bases. At any rate, ratings were down. And here\u2019s what supposedly happened.<\/p>\n

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are out there, and it\u2019s their job to announce the winner of the Best Picture. And Warren Beatty had the envelope that announced Emma Stone as Best Actress. Now, nobody knows why that happened yet. At least if they do I haven\u2019t run into it. So Warren Beatty goes out there with an incorrect ballot, and so he opens the ballot, and he doesn\u2019t know what to do with it.<\/p>\n

Now, why wouldn\u2019t he — okay, you\u2019re out there to present Best Picture, best movie, movie of the year, whatever. You open the envelope, and the card says the Oscar goes to the woman, actress in a leading role, Emma Stone, whatever movie she was in. Why do you pass that off to Faye Dunaway? Because your mind freezes, \u2019cause you\u2019re an actor and whatever\u2019s on the card, whatever\u2019s in the script is what you read. You\u2019re not able to stop and think because you don\u2019t think. You\u2019re an actor. You think you know everything, but you never think. (interruption) Well, he didn\u2019t have any ability to improvise. The improvisation was tossing it off to Faye Dunaway which makes about as much sense as tossing it off to a frog.<\/p>\n

So Faye Dunaway, they look at this and what they concluded was, okay, well, it\u2019s the Best Actress winner envelope, but the movie there is La La Land, so they say, we\u2019ll take a chance, we\u2019ll take a flier here, and Faye Dunaway says, “It\u2019s La La Land.” And then the La La Land people show up and they start accepting their accolades, and it takes about a minute, and then somebody shows up, some bald-headed guy, “No, no, no, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, the best movie is Moonlight,” and he holds up the actual ballot or card, whatever, from inside the correct envelope, and the camera had to zoom in on it.<\/p>\n

I think we have audio of this. We do. Start with number 23. This is Warren Beatty as he opens — now, remember, when he\u2019s opening this envelope, it\u2019s the Best Actress envelope. It\u2019s not the Best Picture. And at that moment it\u2019s freeze city.<\/p>\n