{"id":394362,"date":"2021-04-26T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=394362"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:10:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T20:10:31","slug":"rush-traces-the-leftist-hatred-fueled-decline-of-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/04\/26\/rush-traces-the-leftist-hatred-fueled-decline-of-the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Traces the Leftist Hatred-Fueled Decline of the Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: It\u2019s kind of incredible when you think about the way Hollywood comports themselves. It\u2019s the one industry in which the entire industry doesn\u2019t get blamed when there\u2019s awful behavior by people who are very senior in that industry. You go back to Harvey Weinstein, right? You go back to the #MeToo movement and all of the challenges that happened, but nobody ever said, “Defund Hollywood!”<\/p>\n

Nobody ever said, “Shut down Hollywood!” Nobody ever said, “We\u2019ve gotta get rid of Hollywood! These moguls have so much power; they\u2019re abusing their power.” Nobody ever said that. And in fact, you actually have something called the Oscars that comes on TV once a year with incredible diminishing numbers.<\/p>\n

I peeked in on it. I was stunned that there were no masks, as they were relatively close proximity. I would have thought it looked more like a Joe Biden car rally with everybody sitting in their Bugattis and Rolls Royces parked out in a lot somewhere celebrating each other. But the Oscars were on last night, and I think most of America just doesn\u2019t care about Hollywood anymore.<\/p>\n

If you think about it, in a lot of ways, well, Rush knew exactly what was going on.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Award ceremonies are to liberals what the Fourth of July is to Republicans. You ever stop to look at it that way? All of these awards shows is where they get a national stage to trash America. And they make the most of it. And when they do, just like when the NFL had all of these people kneeling and so forth and showing disrespect, what happened to the numbers?<\/p>\n

\"\"They plummeted. In the NFL they were trending downward anyway even before the kneeling began. And that might just have been cyclical. But the kneeling really iced it and made the drop significant and consistent. Well, Hollywood can\u2019t say that. They can\u2019t say there\u2019s too many award shows. And they don\u2019t even play the anthem at the Oscars, so there\u2019s no way anybody can kneel. They just disrespect America for the whole show.<\/p>\n

And I have to tell you, I\u2019m long past the point of being mad about it. Been there, done that. It\u2019s like the NFL, folks. When the whole NFL debacle began, I just got sad. Now, I\u2019m not big into movies and Hollywood like I was the NFL. The NFL was a hobby. I loved it. I liked it. It was something I very, very much enjoyed and I just got sad when they drove me away, or when they allowed politics to creep in and the whole thing got corrupted and it was impossible for the NFL to remain, in my mind, what it had always been.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just another area of America, another area of our culture which has now been corrupted and taken over by the left. It just made me sad. And the Hollywood is much the same way because these people are dumb. They\u2019re just plain dumb. They\u2019re stupid. They\u2019re ignorant. Whatever you want to say. They don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about. The point of all this is they\u2019ve got nothing, they are just angry as they can be, and the way this country is divided right now makes me sad.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m being flat-out honest with you. I read some of these comments that these people at the Oscars made last night. They\u2019re just dumb. Beyond being politically leftist and so forth, the things these people think and the things that they say are just dumb. We are becoming more bifurcated, Balkanized, and divided. There isn\u2019t any overlap, meaning there aren\u2019t any areas in which we have much in common.<\/p>\n

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