Sunday’s Oscarcast marked the blessed end of awards season in Hollywood, and thank goodness. If there were an awards ceremony for hypocrisy, it would be longer than the Oscars, and they had to add an extra day to the calendar just to accommodate that.
To list just a few examples:
Much of the show focused on the lack of black nominees and the alleged racism of Hollywood, even though the industry is run by liberals who love to lecture the rest of us about our racism. They actually closed with the gangsta rap song “Fight The Power,” oblivious to the fact that the people in that theater were vastly wealthy and control the media. They are the power!
The cameo by black conservative Stacey Dash was dismissed as a joke that fell flat, but it made a great point. Ms Dash believes she’s been shut out by Hollywood not because of her race but because of the only bias the entertainment industry condones: intolerance for intellectual diversity against those who don’t parrot approved liberal views. Every time yet another movie appears that condemns the Hollywood blacklist of communists in the 1950s (like the Oscar-nominated Trumbo), I wonder how many cast and crew members are secretly conservatives who are terrified of being blacklisted.
Many celebrities wore Brady Campaign bracelets to promote gun control. They didn’t need guns for protection because they were guarded by the heaviest armed security in Oscar history. There were more guns outside the theater than there were in all the violent movie clips, starring actors who bemoan our terrible gun culture. No wonder there’s such a disconnect between regular Americans and elites who live behind walls and armed guards. I couldn’t help thinking of the late Charlton Heston’s story about how his Hollywood pals scorned him for heading the NRA until the L.A. riots hit. Then they called, begging to borrow a gun to protect their homes and families. He told them, “Sorry. There’s a 10-day waiting period that you voted for.”
And of course, nothing says sincere like Leonardo DiCaprio lecturing us about apocalyptic climate change on the same show that had Joe Biden fly to L.A. on Air Force Two and tie up traffic for hours with his motorcade in order to read a one-minute speech that could’ve been given by satellite from his office in D.C. If we really want to reduce CO2 emissions, then someone please teach all these politicians and celebrities who are constantly flying off to climate conferences how to use Skype.