Why the Oscars Snubbed Oprah, Ebert RUSH: Northern Mississippi is next. This is Bob. Im glad you called out there, Bob. Welcome on up here, the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: You were talking at the beginning of the show about Oprah being snubbed in the Oscars. RUSH: Big time. CALLER: Which made me remember back to The Color Purple, and I told Mr. Snerdley that I thought there were no Oscar nominations for The Color Purple, but there were nine, but they were all shut out, everybody lost. RUSH: Yeah, nobody won. CALLER: No Whoopi, no Steven Spielberg. I think we need to have an investigation as to why this happened. RUSH: You know what it is? Im gonna tell you something. I think its very, very curious, because folks, old Bob calling up in here is absolutely right. The Color Purple, nine nominations, snubbed. Oprah Winfrey shocked the world, it literally shocked the world. Everybody thought, Oprah? Its The Oprah. And this was before shed lost the weight a bunch of times, The Oprah in her real essence. Zip. And then Selma. Story here from Breitbart: Race-Hoax Backlash: Selma Earns Only Two Oscar Noms. I mean, the Color Purple got nine. This thing got two. Oprah Winfrey’s Selma took a pretty harsh beating Thursday morning as nominations were announced for the 87th annual Oscar nominations. The civil rights drama was blanked in every major category, including Best Actor, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, and Score. Selma did win what can only be interpreted as a also-ran Best Picture nomination, something it almost certainly would not have if the Academy hadn’t expanded its number of nominations past 5 a few years ago. This is really an insult article. Race-Hoax Backlash: Selma Earns Only Two Oscar Noms. And one of them probably wouldnt have even happened if they hadnt expanded the number of potential winners from five to nine. I mean, this is slice and dice here. After being snubbed for a number of other awards, Selma’s poor showing at the Oscars was also no surprise. The film has faced withering criticism for its defamatory depiction of President Lyndon Johnson. Selma portrays Johnson as Martin Luther King’s chief antagonist when history proves he was the civil rights leader’s partner when it came to encouraging the march in Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This isn’t the first time producer Winfrey has found herself involved in a scandal surrounding false charges of racism. Just last year her racial drama The Butler was found lacking in historical accuracy. The powerful media titan also launched what many believed was a false charge of racism against a helpless Swiss store clerk. Do you remember that? Oprah went into a fashionable store in Switzerland. It was a recognizable brand, I just cant remember what it was. It was handbags or something. And the clerk didnt recognize The Oprah and thought that The Oprah was in the wrong store, could simply not afford items in that store and said something to that effect. And The Oprah went out and made a big deal out of this, subtly. It was masterful the way she did it. Made it look like others were actually doing it. And then there was a peacemaking, a peace pipe smoking, and all was well. But I have a theory behind all this. And Roger Ebert. He got shut out, too. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Okay, before I give you my theory as to why Oprah keeps getting snubbed at the Oscars and why Roger Ebert got snubbed. Roger Ebert, folks, you would be amazed at the number of young journalists who think Roger Ebert is the end. Does that shock you, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) I mean, you probably never thought about it, right? Robert Ebert, did his TV show with Gene Siskel, reviews movies. Roger Ebert to young, faux journalists, aspiring journalists, bloggers, Roger Ebert, to some of these young leftists, is it. And Im telling you, theyre gonna be devastated that he got shut out. There was a documentary made about his life called My life, I think was the name, his book, Life Itself. Anyway, I have a theory. Im gonna get to the theory in just a second, but its the class system. Oprah and Ebert are downstairs people. Theyre the media. The actors, the stars, the real stars, the producers, the directors, theyre upstairs. Theyre not gonna give media people Oscars. Oprahs show is where you go to promote your movie or book. Theyre not gonna give somebody, a pretend actor, an Oscar. Theyre not gonna corrupt these awards by giving it to somebody in a media, or a critic? For crying out loud, a critic, were gonna give an Oscar to something about a critic? These people are some of the most class-conscious people in the world. You know what I mean by downstairs people? The servants. Damn right, that has to be what this. It has nothing to do with race. Oprah will think it is cause, you know, Oprah, everybody bows down. But the Oscar voters never have. And the Oscar voters are made up of actors. I can just see these people sitting around wherever they live, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, talking amongst themselves, Does he really think were gonna give some critic on a syndicated TV show out of Chicago an Oscar? What do they think we do here? I dont care that he battled courageously. He was a critic, for crying out loud. Media! Not gonna give these people Oscar? Theyre not even in our business. They wish theyre in our business. Theyre on the fringe of our business. They have us in as guests, they go to openings with us, and they really want to be us, but theyre not us. Theyre media. Were not gonna give them any award here. That seems to have been the case. The best you can do is to be asked to host the Oscar telecast, but even then youre downstairs and theyre upstairs. Thats my take on it, anyway. (interruption) Big box office -- well, thats simple. Snerdley, Why do big box office movies never win? Something that has broad appeal where all demographics, all age-groups, including conservatives and young people like it, cant possibly have been artistically any good. Real art has to make people mad. The fewer people that see it, the more artistic it is. Of course its elitist. How about all these documentaries on PBS that win awards and nobodys ever seen em? You have something with broad appeal, like this program. This programs looked down on. Look at who the audience is. Average Americans. Yet, MSNBC, with no audience, still respected because of who watches it. The 25 or 30 people that watch it are big-time political players. So it matters. Dont believe that the casts or class system in this country doesnt exist. It exists in the ruling class in droves, and it exists in the entertainment industry. It exists in books, movies, literature, its everywhere. Why do you think Downton Abbey is so damn popular? Because these people are watching themselves. Make no mistake about it. All right, now, audio sound bite time. This is about The Oprah snub. This is on Good Morning America today, the cohost Robin Roberts speaking with People magazine editor, Jess Cagle, who will also never win an Oscar. Are you kidding me, somebody at People? Hell, theyre sycophants. They sit around kissing our butts on Oscar night as we walk past em on the red carpet. Theyre gonna win an Oscar? Srew that, well be nice to em for a couple of times, but theyre a bunch of yokels, we use them. Same thing with E! Entertainment TV. One guy has made the jump, Greg Kinnear. Greg Kinnear went from E! Entertainment network and hosting one of those shows to an actor. Greg Kinnear, one guy thats done it. Okay, anyway, editor Jess Cagle and correspondent Chris Connelly, they drag this guy out every now and then. Hell show up on ESPN. Hell show up on Good Morning America. Hell show up usually where there are women, start asking questions. Robin Roberts says, So what jumps out at you, I guess, as the nominations have been announced? This is the People magazine editor here. CAGLE: Im disappointed that the director of Selma, Ava DuVernay, did not get nominated, because she would have been the very first African-American woman to be nominated in the directing category, and it was because David Oyelowo for Selma was also not nominated. This is a completely white 20 acting nominees. All white group. Its the second whitewash in the last ten years or something. RUSH: Folks, Im saying, the civil rights movement is the reason more Hollywood people are leftist than anything that you could name. If I had the time I would sit here and explain it to you, but just dont doubt me. Thats why most of them are leftists. A lot of them in sports, too, civil rights movement, and its become things it never was in their minds. Many of them were not even there, including these two people that are, Oh, yes, whitewash, my God, 20 acting nominees, all white, nobody in Selma? And the director didnt get it? Why should the director have? Because it was the first African-American director. Thats reason enough, you see. If there is legitimacy to this, you know why the director didnt get it? Its because they got the portrayal of LBJ wrong. And the director is being accused of being behind getting that portrayal wrong. I havent seen the movie. I dont know if their portrayal of LBJ is wrong or not. I have no clue. All I know is theyre running around saying that LBJ was smeared. Well, if so, it would have been the director who did that, in part. That would be why the director didnt get a nod. But these white liberals, its gotta be race. Cause all the nominees are white. It has to be race, you see. But then the retort, I thought Obama was gonna fix this. And I thought this is what Oprah stood for, was overcoming this stuff. CNN was also lamenting the snub, the actor who played Martin Luther King in this movie Selma also snubbed, and he should have gotten the nomination because its Martin Luther Kings birthday. Well, okay. This is CNNs New Day. This is the counterpart to Good Morning America. Michaela Pereira speaking with Entertainment Tonight correspondent Nischelle Turner about the Academy Award nominations, and this was part of the back and forth. PEREIRA:
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