The Politics of the Oscars

I've always hated the Oscars but last night was a topping to the cake that only the Academy can top. First off was the performance by Melissa Etheridge with her lobal warming song 'I Need to Wake Up' where she proclaims 'I need to wake up, I need to change, I need to shake up, I need to speak out'. The ironic thing about it is she DOES need to wake up and realize global warming doesn't exist as we know it and she is just another example of the blind indoctrination of our children that global warming exists, case closed. She was pitted up against three songs from the movie Dreamgirls and because of her affiliation with Al Gore and the crocumentary An Inconvenient Truth she won. The song was awful and she deserves no recognition for such a political scare tactic.

Secondly was the appearance by Al Gore himself where he makes a joke about officially proclaiming his presidential ticket in front of the world but then never does it. Ellen as the host makes a joke about how the girl in Dreamgirls got voted off of American Idol but that Americans did vote for Al Gore, with a raucus applause that followed. No surprise.

Thirdly, no one has seen most of the movies that were voted for best picture but since they made a big deal over Martin Scorcese never having won an Oscar, he won. This isn't to say that The Departed didn't deserve to win but Little Miss Sunshine should have won instead.

The point is that nobody should ever take the Oscars seriously. It's all a left-wing political soap box.