Emmy Awards roasted for mocking Middle America

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Hollywood may have laughed when Emmys host Michael Che said the only white people who thank Jesus are "Republicans and ex-crackheads," but Tinseltown's latest middle finger to Middle America fell flat in flyover country, and may have contributed to the telecast's all-time low viewership.

Co-host Michael Che left many viewers of the 70th Annual Emmy Awards upset during the opening monologue with his fellow "Saturday Night Live" star Colin Jost, explaining that his mother would not be watching the show on Monday night.

"She says she doesn’t like watching white award shows because you guys don’t thank Jesus enough," Che said. "That’s true. The only white people that thank Jesus are Republicans and ex-crackheads."

The joke didn't sit well with some viewers, who took to Twitter to complain. Not only that, the show’s ratings dropped 10 percent from last year's already-dismal numbers, setting an all-time low, according to TheWrap.

While many viewers may have changed the channel after the opening monologue, jabs at average Americans were far from over and the Jesus gag became a running theme throughout the evening.

Conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News that
“large swaths of the American public just want to be entertained” but instead were turned into "unwilling participants" in a political rally disguised as an awards show.
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Whether it’s the NFL or the Emmys, people desperately want a break from politics.
It’s amazing to me at just how tone deaf Hollywood is,”
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Barron said.
 
Jokes about religious Republicans weren’t the only jabs at Middle America.

Prior to the official event, actress Regina King spoke with E! about a cryptic Instagram post in which she asked to “stop making stupid people famous,” which many have interpreted as a dig at President Trump. The Red Carpet also featured actress Jennifer Lewis wearing a Nike sweatshirt “to applaud them for supporting Colin Kaepernick,” who has polarized the nation by starting the trend of kneeling during the national anthem prior to NFL games.

Jost discussed a handful of shows that were canceled and picked up by other networks before joking that Roseanne Barr’s show was “picked up by white nationalists.” He also implied that some Americans don’t think Nazis are bad and fantasized about President Obama upsetting Trump with a dig at the former reality TV star who is famously obsessed with ratings.

"The Obamas now even have their own production deal at Netflix," Jost said. “My dream is that the only thing they produce is their own version of 'The Apprentice.' And it gets way higher ratings."

Meanwhile, the Emmys decided to honor late Senator John McCain during its in memoriam. Nobody would complain about an American hero being remembered in front of a national audience, but Media Research Center contributing writer Karen Townsend questioned the motive behind the decision.

“One can't help but wonder if this was done as a subtle dig at President Trump. After all, it was only 10 years ago that all of Hollywood hated McCain when he ran for president against their beloved Obama,” she wrote.

Later in the show, award winner Ryan Murphy called America a “country that lets hatred grow unfettered and unchecked." Anti-Trump comedian Samantha Bee – best known for vile comments about first daughter Ivanka Trump – joked that the news should “recast the lead.”
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If flyover country conservatives don't need ridiculing, I can't imagine who does.

Let's knock off the Pollyanna shit.

The awards shows are for Coastal America.

Middle America is not only an entirely different social culture,
but the values of Middle America and Coastal America are completely repugnant to one another.

That's the Achilles' heel of the Republic.

It's comprised of people who honestly dislike one another.
 
Folks in the flyover states have had, for quite some time, the same Internet with all of the social media and television, etc. as the people who live on the coasts. Pretending that they are all rubes is either stupid or obnoxious, if not both.

The same is true of portraying everyone who lives in the deep, deep south as ignorant hillbillies.
 
Controlled Opposition said:
Folks in the flyover states have had, for quite some time, the same Internet with all of the social media and television, etc. as the people who live on the coasts. Pretending that they are all rubes is either stupid or obnoxious, if not both.
The same is true of portraying everyone who lives in the deep, deep suth as ignorant hillbillies.
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Disagree.

I live in the Deep South, and people here are much stupider than on the East or West Coast.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
The awards shows are for Coastal America.
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Yes they are. They are as mindless as reality TV is for flyover country. I can't remember seeing a movie at a theater that I actually thought was good. Of course I rarely go anymore. As far as TV , I simply don't watch it except for a few sports.
NiftyNiblick said:
Middle America is not only an entirely different social culture,
but the values of Middle America and Coastal America are completely repugnant to one another.

That's the Achilles' heel of the Republic.

It's comprised of people who honestly dislike one another.
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This is true.
I used to live in Manhattan, Kansas for a yr. and I can honestly say I'd rather live there where it was quiet and virtually no violent crime, than in a city that needs a "poop patrol" with thousands of homeless bugging me for money.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
If flyover country conservatives don't need ridiculing, I can't imagine who does.

Let's knock off the Pollyanna shit.

The awards shows are for Coastal America.

Middle America is not only an entirely different social culture,
but the values of Middle America and Coastal America are completely repugnant to one another.

That's the Achilles' heel of the Republic.

It's comprised of people who honestly dislike one another.
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Its hard to like people who live on a steady diet of lies and hate you for not joining their love of lies while they march the country to Putins tune
 
LV426 said:
I lived in LA for 6 years and NYC for 5.

I've been in Atlanta for 5 years.
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Should I then conclude that you are not very smart because you live in the South, or because you choose to live there? Having lived in major metropolitan areas, are you saying there aren't a lot of stupid people living in urban areas?

As I said earlier, people in most of America have the same access to the Internet, social media and television. It is not fair or accurate to claim that flyover country equates to ignorance. It is prejudicial.
 
Controlled Opposition said:
Folks in the flyover states have had, for quite some time, the same Internet with all of the social media and television, etc. as the people who live on the coasts. Pretending that they are all rubes is either stupid or obnoxious, if not both.

The same is true of portraying everyone who lives in the deep, deep south as ignorant hillbillies.
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and that is why the youth in the south are not buying the full diaperload of racism their parents are trying to force on them
 
Controlled Opposition said:
Should I then conclude that you are not very smart because you live in the South, or because you choose to live there? Having lived in major metropolitan areas, are you saying there aren't a lot of stupid people living in urban areas
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Compared to outside the urban areas, no. Not even close. And just because I live in Atlanta doesn't mean I don't venture OTP to places like Carrollton.


Controlled Opposition said:
s I said earlier, people in most of America have the same access to the Internet, social media and television. It is not fair or accurate to claim that flyover country equates to ignorance. It is prejudicial.
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There is definitely a difference not only just in the culture, but the level of intelligence and empathy. Atlanta is a major urban center, but it's way dumber a place than Los Angeles or New York. So it's all relative.
 
Controlled Opposition said:
Should I then conclude that you are not very smart because you live in the South, or because you choose to live there? Having lived in major metropolitan areas, are you saying there aren't a lot of stupid people living in urban areas?

As I said earlier, people in most of America have the same access to the Internet, social media and television. It is not fair or accurate to claim that flyover country equates to ignorance. It is prejudicial.
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go look at the education levels of each state
 
You look at places like the Bay Area where the best and brightest from all over the world want to come work in Silicon Valley. So we have a highly educated populace. We also have a very large poor population which exists to service those well educated and rich people. New York is not much difference.

LA has an educated population because USC is there. LA also attracts many who come because of their looks, not their brains.

The most money tends to be available in coastal cities so they attract the best and brightest. But being well educated, just like having more money, doesn't automatically make someone a better person.
 
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