Mark Tapson: Charlie Kirk Ignored at the Emmys If you didn’t hate Hollywood already, now’s a good time to start.
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Not that anyone outside Tinseltown cared or noticed, but the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards took place Sunday night in the wake of Wednesday’s epochal assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. While the world mourned peaceful, free speech martyr Charlie, Hollywood celebrities – who are ordinarily eager to turn awards shows into political platforms – pointedly made not a single reference to his murder throughout the entire event, much less held a moment of silence.
Could there be a starker demonstration of the unbridgeable chasm between American patriots and the out-of-touch, hate-America elites of Hollywood?
Showbiz rags like Deadline and The Wrap are crowing that the awards show drew a four-year viewership high, according to Nielsen data. Keep in mind, however, the salient point that the last four years marked deep plunges in Emmy viewership because Americans are fed up with these privileged haters. Indeed, the 76th ceremony in January 2024 holds the record for the all-time lowest Emmys audience, with just 4.3 million bored viewers worldwide. Hollywood wants desperately to believe that Sunday’s slight uptick is an indication that star power is coming back strong.
It is not. Celebrity endorsements, for example. are worthless now. Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris discovered this the hard way during her campaign last year, when she desperately passed out big bucks like Halloween candy to buy the support of big-name entertainers such as Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Lizzo, and Oprah Winfrey. Neither they nor dozens of other stars moved the electoral needle one iota for Kamala. The days when politicians – Democrats, anyway – could count on a boost from buddying up with movie stars and pop stars are over, because in recent years progressive celebrities have squandered their influence by displaying open, partisan contempt for more than half the country.
The Emmys show was still politicized, of course; celebrities desperate to be taken seriously and to maintain the approval of their peers trotted out all the predictable progressive slogans. Hacks star Hannah Einbinder, for instance – don’t worry, I’ve never heard of her either – won an Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy, and closed her acceptance speech with, “Fuck ICE and free Palestine!” How brave.
And no one shot her in the carotid for this statement. Imagine that.
On the red carpet, fellow Hacks star Megan Stalter – who? – similarly expressed her support for Palestinians by holding a purse on which was labeled the message, “CEASE FIRE.” Just to be clear: a cease-fire is when Israel is on the verge of eradicating the Hamas terror threat, only to back off under international pressure so that Hamas can regroup while continuing to kill Jews.
“It’s the most important to stick up for people and for peace,” Stalter told Variety about her political statement. Unless those people are Right-wing, and then it is acceptable to assassinate them. “What’s the point of being at these big events if you’re not going to use your privilege?” she added. Well, the purpose is just to keep your political opinions to yourself and accept your award gratefully, but apparently the only time celebrities do shut up is when they should be denouncing the slaughter of a fellow American merely for peacefully holding mainstream conservative views.
Also on the red carpet, Academy Award-winning actor Javier Bardem, best-known for playing the personification of murderous evil in No Country For Old Men, virtue-signaled that he is boycotting working with any company that supports Israel in its war against Hamas – the real-world personification of murderous evil – in Gaza.
Bardem, conspicuously wearing a keffiyeh to signal he is an ally of a terror group that gleefully commits sickeningly barbarous war crimes, declared to reporters, “I cannot [work] with somebody that justifies or supports the genocide. I can’t. It’s as simple as that. We should not be able to that, in this industry or any industry.” Bardem is too deeply embedded in the Left-wing showbiz bubble to acknowledge the obvious, demonstrable truth that Israel is not waging genocide, but her Muslim enemies are.
The awards show concluded with insufferably unfunny Stephen Colbert milking the recent cancellation of his late-night talk show and holding himself up as a free speech martyr. The truth of the matter is that CBS pulled the plug on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for the simple reason that the network decided a show hemorrhaging $40 million a year didn’t make the best business sense.
If you will recall, the Emmys has happily embraced political messaging in recent years – as long as that messaging promotes Left-wing propaganda. In 2020 the ceremony – held virtually, due to the COVID pandemic – came four months after the death of George Floyd, and participants flooded the program with speeches, visual statements, chants, and performances backing the Communist revolutionaries of Black Lives Matter, demanding police accountability, and calling for social justice.
A mere four days after Charlie’s murder, and neither the Emmys organizers nor any of the self-satisfied attendees felt that a public murder that rocked the nation deserved even a moment of silence. You don’t hate mainstream Hollywood enough.
It is easy to forget that many conservatives work in Hollywood, most of them “below-the-line” and many of those closeted politically to prevent being frozen out of gigs. So I cannot in good conscience encourage a full-on boycott of Hollywood. What I heartily recommend, though, is that you do your homework and use your best discernment to deny a single penny to any project involving these smug, heartless, hateful bastards. It is long past time for the Hollywood as we knew it to die, and for independent production companies and creatives to thrive in its stead, creating original content Americans want to see, content that doesn’t sucker-punch them politically, that doesn’t hold their faith and their values in open contempt, and that doesn’t depict them as bigoted hypocrites and haters. This is already happening, of course, and American patriots should throw their full support behind such companies and projects.
As for mainstream, big-studio Hollywood – pull the plug and put it out of our misery.
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