Republican Ronald Reagan would have been proud of the moral drubbing that Hollywood celebrities received at yesterday’s Golden Globes Awards. Movie stars represent just one more industry, like colleges and television, that has been taken over by a dangerously radicalized Democratic Party.
Speaking to starry-eyed liberals in the audience, British host Ricky “Gervais concluded his scathing monologue by warning the celebrities not to make any political or ‘woke’ statements when accepting their awards,” as reported by FoxNews above. He made no attempt to conceal their intellectual shallowness and moral emptiness: “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything,” he told them. “You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.”
Gervais displayed a media courage that is rarely seen on this side of the Atlantic, as he undauntedly ridiculed the egocentric puffed up elites by name: “You all look lovely all dolled up, you came here in your limos. I came here in a limo and the license plate was made by Felicity Huffman,” referring to the actress just released from prison following the college admissions scandal.
Leonardo DiCaprio was targeted, as was director Martin Scorsese, who commented “about Marvel movies being like theme parks, joking that he doesn’t understand why the director would be at a theme park…’He’s not big enough for any of the rides.'”
Hollywood and television media have infiltrated their sugar-filled entertainments into the private lives of millions of Americans and Third World audiences abroad. This “software” industry is being propelled forward by technological advances in electronics and programming. Larger and cheaper TV screens empty the hard-earned salaries of the average person. A new race of amusement-oriented zombies has emerged. Silicon Valley and Hollywood have joined forces, so much so that Gervais actually “called out the many stars in the room for their relationship to large corporations like Apple, Amazon and Disney”:
The FoxNews article further pointed out that “Apple roared into the TV game with ‘The Morning Show,’ a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing made by a company that runs sweatshops in China,” he said. “So you say you’re ‘woke’, but the companies you work for, Apple, Amazon, Disney…If ISIS had a streaming service you would be calling your agents.”
All in all, Gervais should be commended for tying together so many key political territories in our society, all of whom share the Democratic Party’s 1960s-derived strategy of capturing the leaders of key institutions, hoping that the rank-and-file workers would fall into line. So far they have been successful, and not just in California. Ask any professor, actor, actress, teacher, or Silicon Valley tycoon.
Following the awards, a FoxNews opinion writer, Raymond Arroyo, said that “Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais gives celebs great advice – Too bad they were baffled by it,” adding that “There are only 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who vote on the Golden Globes, and most of them have reached their pension years. As a Golden Globe winner told me last night: ‘For a couple of drinks and a ham, they’d give Weinstein a lifetime achievement award.’”
He summed up that “It was just this hypocrisy and the shameless virtue-signaling* that surrounds it that Ricky Gervais skewered all evening.”
*Online dictionaries remind us that the tactic “virtue signaling” is much deployed in political campaigning these days. One source says that it means “To take a conspicuous but essentially useless action ostensibly to support a good cause but actually to show off how much more moral you are than everybody else. Fred: I see George has changed his profile picture to show his support for refugees.”