This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features the speakers at Sunday night’s Tony Awards, which included actress Cynthia Nixon and Late Show host Stephen Colbert ridiculing President Trump.
Nixon and Colbert used appearances during the 2017 Tony Awards, broadcast Sunday night, June 11 on CBS, to hail those opposed to Trump and ridicule him. Both earned hearty applause from the audience inside New York City’s Radio City Music Hall.
Accepting the award for Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, Nixon extolled:
“It is a privilege to appear in Lillian Hellman’s eerily prescient play, at this specific moment in history. Eighty years ago, she wrote, ‘There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it, and other people who just stand around and watch them do it.’ My love, my gratitude and my undying respect go out to all the people in 2017 who are refusing to just stand and watch them do it.”
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A couple of hours later, Colbert jeered to cheers:
“And it is my honor to be here presenting the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. And it’s been a great year for revivals in general, especially that one they revived down in Washington D.C. It started off-Broadway in the ‘80s, way off Broadway, over on 5th Avenue. Huge production values, but a couple problems — the main character is totally unbelievable, and the hair and makeup, yeesh. No, no. This D.C. production is supposed to have a four-year run, but reviews have not been kind — could close early, we don’t know, best of luck to everyone involved.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “Nothing better shows the elite disdain for middle America. First, an actress earns applause, from a New York City audience, for suggesting Trump and his supporters are evil people out to destroy everything good. Second, a supposed comedian gets more applause for a punch line in which he hopes Trump is forced out of office early. Forget any idealism about artists challenging orthodoxy. These two revel in liberal orthodoxy.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
