Todd Starnes
The people who play
make-believe for a living unleashed on President Trump at the 2017 Primetime
Emmy Awards.
It was an embarrassing display
of vulgarity and petulance – even by Hollywood’s low standards.
Many of our readers have asked
me, "Todd, how could you watch such a disgusting television program?"
I watched so our readers would
not have to be subjected to such garish behavior. Consider it an act of public
service, America.
It was not so much an awards
ceremony as it was a more narcissistic version of a Democratic National
Committee meeting. The self-absorbed crowd lavished love on Hillary Clinton and
hurled insults at President Trump.
Within just a few minutes,
host Stephen Colbert had navigated through an opening segment that included
references to the Confederacy, global warming and Nazis.
"Imagine if your
president wasn’t loved by Nazis," Julia Louis-Dreyfus said.
At least they did not spontaneously
thrust their hands in the air and shout, "Heil, Hitler."
Mr. Colbert and the audience
should be commended for their restraint.
"We all know that the
Emmys mean a lot to Donald Trump because he was nominated multiple times for
"Celebrity Apprentice," but he never won," Colbert said.
"Why didn’t you give him an Emmy? I'll tell you this — if he had won an
Emmy, I bet he wouldn't have run for president. So this is all your fault. I
thought you people love morally compromised antiheroes. You like Walter White —
he’s just Walter much whiter."
There were a bevy of jokes
about impeachment and orange hair, but the worst of the worst were squawking
magpies Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda.
"Back in the 1980s, in
that movie, we refused to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying
hypocritical bigot," Fonda said, referring to the film, "9 to
5."
"And in 2017, we still
refuse to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical
bigot," Tomlin said to huge applause.
The state of race relations
was also a theme last night.
"I want to thank Trump
for making black people number one on the most oppressed list," Emmy
winner Donald Glover said. "He’s the reason I’m probably up here."
And Issa Rae, the star of
HBO’s “Insecure,” declared on the red carpet that she only wanted black people
to win awards.
"I’m rooting for everyone
black," she said. "I am!"
I'll leave it for the experts
to determine whether or not Ms. Rae's comments rose to the level of racism or
just run-of-the-mill bigotry.
But there may have been one
person even more despised than President Trump – and that would be new Emmys
announcer Jermaine Fowler.
His delivery could best be
described as a cross between a cat getting caught in a wood chipper and the
drive-thru guy at Burger King.
Sunday night's Emmys pageantry
only affirmed what we already knew. The folks who play make-believe for a
living are lacking in social graces.
Todd Starnes, FOX
News Inside, September 18, 2017
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