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By Marwa Eltagouri | The Washington Post
The 90th Academy Awards show was two things: an evening of pointed political statements and a telecast with record-low Oscars viewership.
And many on the right have been quick to claim that those things went hand in hand, though the critic-in-chief blamed a lack of star power.
“Sad,” tweeted the conservative actor James Woods. “How can Hollywood stop itself from alienating its audience?”
“The American people are no longer interested in Hollywood pontificating about their liberal politics,” pro-Trump radio host Bill Mitchell said.
The dismal ratings for the ABC broadcast were a hot topic on Fox News, discussed at the top of the hour on Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity’s evening shows Monday, and again on Tuesday’s edition of “Fox & Friends.”
“It’s too bad,” morning host Steve Doocy said. (He didn’t seem to mean it.)
A headline on the Daily Caller’s website read, “The Ratings For Jimmy Kimmel’s Trump Hate-Fest Oscars Crater Towards All-Time Low.”
John Nolte of Breitbart News said the “writing was on the wall for this ratings catastrophe,” calling Kimmel, this year’s host, one of the most “divisive and polarizing figures in the country” and a “Trump-hating Democrat.”
“On top of insulting Trump voters, this Oscar telecast also promised to be a lecture in favor of gun control (by elitists protected by hundreds of armed guards) and against sexual harassment (by elitists who are either harassers or enablers),” Nolte wrote.
“As the early ratings show, even Democrats were not interested in watching that kind of self-serving hypocrisy.”President Donald Trump suggested on Twitter that a lack of star power…
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