The Greatest Show (of narcissism) on Earth

OK, I admit it. I didn’t watch it. Intentionally. It is an insufferable spectacle of ego, self-righteousness, narcissism and one more outlet for brain dead liberal pontification. Nor was I planning to write anything about it until I hit one article.

Still, the post mortems are hilarious.

They do this (thankfully) once a year. Once. There was the predictable and expected Trump bashing. We learned that there is a new Axis of Weevils- between Tehran and Hollywood.

The Iranian government praised the makers of Oscar-winning movie “The Salesman” on Monday for boycotting the Hollywood awards ceremony in protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Iranians and people from six other countries.

I really got a kick out of this:

Although U.S. courts suspended Trump’s ban on people entering the United States from seven majority Muslim nations, Farhadi said he would not attend the Oscars, to make a political point against what he called the “oppressive travel ban”.

Which is immediately followed by:

Despite rigorous censorship by Iranian authorities, Iran’s filmmakers….

Once a year they do this and they still can’t get it right.

There was the Steve Harvey moment- the epic failure of naming the wrong picture as the winner of the Oscar. The Academy also killed off a still-living producer. And they call Trump incompetent. The thing that pushed me to write was a statement by Viola Davis:

Right. Those who spend their lives making believe they are someone else know what it means to live a life. My father was a WWII combat vet. I assert that he knew better than this pampered twit what it meant to live a life, and he’s far from being the only one.

Let’s see what it means to celebrate what it means to live the life of a celebrity.

For all the Oscar nominees, it means a gift bag. A very expensive gift bag- worth somewhere North of $100,000. Among the goodies:

Others took exception to Davis’s remarks:

I have a question for Davis and her self-glorified colleagues- who among you said “Please don’t give me the gift bag worth more than $100,000 and instead feed the poor or help veterans or the homeless with the money instead.”?

You, Viola Davis?

Veterans, the hungry, the homeless – they can’t afford your style of celebrating what it means to live a life. Neither could my Mom and Dad. They were too busy providing the best they could for their children.

I have nothing but contempt for Hollywood celebrities.

https://twitter.com/BigClaymaker/status/836058404116398081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Here’s more of what it means to celebrate life Hollywood style.

UPDATE

Now we finally know who was responsible for the Best Picture screw-up

DrJohn

DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.

DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.

Except for liberals being foolish.