@Sonomacats Lol, Celebrities do nothing but mouth service. They use their platform to put on display their belief that they are morally superior to their fellow man. I'd bet money that most of them don't want to be there wasting their time, they'd rather be home but their agent insists this is important for their careers.
I haven't been to a motion picture theatre since Avatar 1. I saw it, I saw it with my son, it saw it with my daughter and her children. Once sandwiched in on the front row. Great all around. I love(d) the movies. No more.
@@joelstein4657 See ladies and gents, this right here is the problem. People who are too dumb to understand what was said, thinking they know. Of course it's possible to do both you simpleton, it gets done masterfully all the time. The problem, as stated clearly above, is when pushing an agenda TAKES PRIORITY over the telling of a story and what you get is preachy crap. Do the world a favour and go find a safe space and stay there.
Indeed and that's probably the biggest problem with woke writers-- they don't care what their audience wants and instead think that their political message trumps all considerations.
@@mew10521 Big meat in this case is being used as euphemism for Big Penises. This also emphasises the male chauvinistic attitudes to all those who are involved in the Oscars. Hope that helps👍🏽
I liked it when after YEARS of being ignored and only being nominated once, when Alfred Hitchock got the lifetime achievement award the academy spared no expense, flew many people out expecting a great long speech, he got up on stage, thanked his wife, said thank you very much and left the stage. They were furious but could do nothing, lol.
Yeah somehow Scorsese fails to win for Taxi Driver or Raging Bull or Goodfellas and has to wait till 2007 for a win? Hitchcock has one win out of how many iconic movies that are still studied in film school to this day? Tarantino doesn't get a best picture until 2020? Pulp Fiction, which splashes the advent of post modernist film making into the mainstream, loses to Forest Gump? Forest effin Gump???. It's a joke.
It doesn't take away from his point, but I still fail to see why he didn't mention it at the end or something. She definitely was not Native American in the least bit.
Yeah that was ripe for a joke about the fakeness of virtue signaling, everyone being full of shit in the end. But I guess he didn't want to take that side track.
Sacheen Littlefeather was a Mexican of Spanish descent, a Pretendian. Her sisters said in two interviews that they were Mexican of Spanish descent and never claimed to be native Americans. She made it up in high school.
@@bathtangle First time I heard that, but I never watched the Oscars. I dislike people who make such a big deal of patting themselves on the back. Those idiots don't seem to realize all they produce is make believe.
Spain colonized Mexico centuries ago, so most, if not all, Mexicans are a mixture of Spanish & native American ancestry. her name, Sacheen Littlefeather, definitely sounds more native American than Spanish.
"Shortly after Littlefeather's death, Navajo writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler interviewed Littlefeather's two sisters, who said that their family is not Native American and that Littlefeather fabricated her Native American ancestry. They also said that their father, who was born in Oxnard, California, was of Spanish-Mexican descent and had no tribal ties."
Doesn't matter. She still brought issues plaguing Native Americans onto America's largest stage. At a time when it wasn't trendy to do so. The ire directed at her also didn't care whether she was a true Native American, or just playing one on TV.
That's because he's full of deceit, his claims about the Bible are also untrue. Exodus 21:16 “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death."
@@romulus3345 Are you saying those quotes are not in the bible. I'm not going to look it up but i bet you are wrong. The Quote you cite says you should not steal another mans slave?
Sacheen Littlefeather's real name was Maria Louise Cruz. "Littlefeather said her father was of Apache and Yaqui ancestry and her mother was of European descent. Shortly after Littlefeather's death, Navajo writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler interviewed Littlefeather's two sisters, who said that their family is not Native American and that Littlefeather fabricated her Native American ancestry. They also said that their father, who was born in Oxnard, California, was of Spanish-Mexican descent and had no tribal ties." Honestly, that sounds even more on-brand for the sanctimonious Oscar scolds: they're all fake too.
I've read that Littlefeather's siblings claimed she was actually not native American, despite her own claims, but an actress who thought she was. Today's liberals would've blasted her for culture appropriation, and putting on "red face".
@@timrthoward7007 Actually true. Her wikipedia page says: Littlefeather knowingly misidentified as having White Mountain Apache and Yaqui ancestry,[3][5] while in reality he had Mexican ancestry with no tribal identity
Today's liberals would have eventually ripped her apart for not being liberal enough, like they do everyone else. That's why democrats can't gain any ground.
George C. Scott also used to beat the sh*t out of Ava Gardner. To the point that her previous husband, Frank Sinatra, had to step in for it to stop. I wouldn’t take any of George C. Scott’s moral outrage seriously.
@@katrinaolsen2444 So, given how _even a certified PoS_ managed to be right about something, what does that make people who _still_ idolize that something?
@@tl1110 Yes and no. Sometimes joining the enemy system, even if you still regard them as "the enemy", is the best pragmatic solution. That's where progressive politicians come from.
I thought the craziest part about that woman at the Oscar's was that her family spoke out and said how they are from a proud Mexican-American family and that she just chose to hide that.
Not just Mexican-American. But the Mexican site is castillan Spanish. On other words she's entirely of European descent from both parents. She wore the clothing and the name of natives like a costume. She's a literal European colonizer
The tradition of Hollywood leftwing denizens LARPing while giving each other undeserved praise obviously goes back quite a bit & is alive and well today!
In 2022, in a forum on my work, I respectfully pointed out that I don't need diversity /inclusivity when I start a business. I stated that what's needed are: - qualified personel - motivated people - honest workers. I nearly lost my job....
She wasn’t even a Native American, she just lied about it and put on a fake accent🤣 Her name was Marie Louise Cruz. She was part German, part French, and part Mexican.
@@martin2289 as a Native American I can tell you her speech didn’t do much to improve life for native Americans on the reservation. Glad she got her 15 minutes of fame, we have pretty much the same socioeconomic conditions if not worse than the 1970’s. Fun times, but at least they “brought attention” to us.
@@martin2289 Or, it could be argued that it's no different than black face or cultural appropriation.. Putting someone in a costume and falsely representing a culture for the purpose of a political talking point is pretty shady..
I'm so lucky, that the Oscar show, is shown at night when I'm sleeping. Best moment for best film, was when "Spotlight" won. A film that NOBODY spoke about after the show.
Interesting take on Hollywood. I definitely prefer Ricky Gervais’ bit on it. The more “progress” they act out and speak on at the awards, the more clear the division between them and real people (which is probably why nobody watches it but there are more views on people digging on it)
I think people will watch this year they actually nominated movies people went to the theater to see like Avatar 2 and top gun Maverick and everything everywhere all at once that's going to make a difference 🙂🤞
Translation: you’re butthurt you didn’t have your echo chamber feedback loop about “HOLLYWOOD BAD” like always. Sorry snowflake. Also yeah people do watch it, I got news for you. More people watch it than whatever pathetic little endeavor you’ll ever strut into.
@@rustyshackleford6035 I don't think I've known what movies were nominated for the past 10 years and I used to watch the awards every year. I'm not interested in the results either and I have a feeling I'm not the only one.
The best Oscar telecast was when the streaker ran across the stage and David Niven at the podium quipped about him"stripping off and showing his shortcomings"...🤣😂
Streaking was popular at that time. I heard later that Niven paid the guy to do it, and had the joke ready. If you watch the replay, he doesn't look even slightly surprised when the streaker runs out on stage.
@@davester1432 Never heard that he paid the guy, but you're right about him knowing ahead of time and had the quip ready to use. Niven was smart, but he was no Johnny Carson or Billy Crystal with adlibs.
Bill, turns out she wasn't even Native American/ First Nation! Her family came out and admitted it, after she died. I would have loved your take on that.
Why didnt Bill not mention the fact Sacheen Littlefeather wasn't even of Indian ancestry??? her real name was - Maria Louise Cruz and she was of Latin/Spanish decent... today - she would have been hounded for co-opting her ethnicity...
Today's show was excellent. Both guests were thoughtful and knew when to contribute, when to shut up, that includes Bill. And it was generally just filled with calm, intelligent conversation where both the questions and the answers given actually provided insight instead of just being an expression of someone's agenda and self-interest. Quality guests make for quality shows.
They still have the Oscars or movies for that matter. We can't believe our theater even stays open. Its been forever since I heard anyone talk about going to a movie. Must be why so many actors are doing commercials now when back in the day it was beneath them.
I haven't been to a theater since the first Dr. Strange movie and I have no intention of ever doing so again. No Netflix, no Disney+, ect... Fuck Hollywood.
Not really. Moving isn't progress. Progress is only judged in hindsight. Moving is only hoping/believing we are headed the right way. But we never know until we look back. That's how progress is measured: the real world butterfly effects of our actions that only time shows.
@@naturalnashuan Move forward by sharing their pronouns, pinning down everything on racism, earning millions and claiming to be empathetic towards the under privileged strata of society, making narrative driven content that seems forced at best??
I agree with you Bill on a number of things, but did you completely forget that Littlefeathers real name was Maria Louise Cruz, who is actually Mexican/American pretending to be Native American? I agree that people should be treated humanely, but it's another thing entirely to pretend to be the very people you are claiming to help. It's disrespectful. Virtue signalling at its finest. Pretty important thing for people to know about her.
When Bill Maher says "the Godfather was a long Tik Tok," he sounds like Dean Martin cracking jokes about those young whipper snappers the Rolling Stones.
The only thing Bill talks about these days is the younger generations and woke culture topics. It's seriously so overdone and stale at this point. I miss progressive Bill from the early 2000s when he would rail against Bush and the war hawks in government. I think Trump broke his brain.
@@Kejame doesn't take much to break the 🧠 of the " Woke " common sense and Logic will do the trick including biology, mathematics, physics Chemistry... and especially the term " Scientific Method of THEORY "
That's because it's a contradiction of itself. He's bitching that liberals are being too much lately, while simultaneously applauding how they slowly move the country forward. His examples are cancelling out his original point. Whereas I would argue that modern liberals aren't moving the country forward, because they've become, for the first time ever, the ones who are completely intolerant.
@@thagodwecreate5179you get almost 100% white Mexicans, almost 100% native Mexicans, but most are a mix. She looks mostly white to me. Anyway, her family said she had no tribal ties, so she was apparently making it up.
That's right, for criticizing the Iraq war I believe? I gotta pull that up. Despite their liberalism Hollywood got pretty on board with the war on terror hysteria and virtue signaling patriotism after 9/11. And once they're all on board with something they don't like dissenters. Funny to think one of the first woke moments on television came when Affleck got mad about the criticisms of Muslim extremism as racist. People weren't having that shit in the Bush years, if anything people encouraged you to profile Muslims and "say something if you see something."
@@louisduarte8763 He was booed. You have to remember that he called out the Iraq war when even Oprah Winfrey was behind it, and Oprah was the last word.
Interesting that the graphic about environmentalism showed "The China Syndrome". This movie, along with the Three Mile Island accident which happened at the same time, actually set back environmentalism by decades as it put an irrational fear of nuclear power in the American public that we are just now starting to get over. Just think about how much smaller our carbon footprint would be if we had continued to develop nuclear power.
I hadn't thought about it, but I wonder if that's why I prefer old movies to almost anything that comes out today? I stopped going to movies years ago.It's hard to find almost anything out of Hollywood today that isn't garbage.
Couldn't agree more. Saw a clip (I haven't watched ANY awards show in decades) of Jamie Curtis getting award for some movie I haven't even heard of! Hollyweird is DYING.
And they are who, you, the Fox News folks (so they can complain about it yet again after watching and tuning in) and the prominent right wing conservative podcasts? Ben Sharpiro?
Bruno Ganz had probably the best performance of 2004, and one of the greatest in movies history and was not even nominated. But you can´t receive an Oscar for portraint one of the worst ( if not THE worst ) men in history. Yes, I´m talking about Hitler...
@@SergiovsousaGeez, That's 20 years ago. I thought Bruno did an amazing job but not everybody gets trophy and expecting one especially while playing Hitler seems ridiculous to me.
Maher missed one of the most ironic things about the Sacheen Littlefeather saga which was that she wasn't even Native American -- she was Hispanic. Her birth name was Marie Louise Cruz!
I used to enjoy the Oscars. Up until around 2011-12 they were slightly woke. Maybe 10% of the broadcast. But in the last 6-7 years the entire thing is embarrassingly woke. They don't hide it.
The real culprit is trickledown-economics, because the top 10% (private sector) have gotten richer. The top-10% aren’t part of the government. They don’t work in government and aren’t IN government. But they do influence the government.
Welcome to Taco Bell… “gimme 3 tacos and a large Pepsi” ……. That’ll be $15.99 plz pull forward. 😂👉And they’re still cold and disgusting, no napkins, no straw, no sauce, 😂😂😂😂 congratulations on your $15/hr
Which makes outrage back in 1973 even more cynical because she was just advocating. You don't have to be in the group to be able to complain about their bad treatment and discrimination.
@@cc8751 What exactly is cultural appropriation? 🙄 You sound like the exact kind of thing Bill rants about, except you only bring it out when it is "appropriate" to something you dislike. You really fail to see the irony, of Hollywood, at their most prestigious award show, of someone calling them out, and she isn't actually in that class but is only ACTING like she is. (A fact that wasn't discovered until after she died). There are so many ironies that this could be a graduate class at university.
Allow me to ruin it. Woke was a term used first by Marcus Garvey in 1932 to his native Ethiopian land on the trucks of the british.it was adopted by blacks in America in the 50s in the trucks of the systemic raciest federal government.i heard it with flava Flav clock in 1986 and spoke Lee do the right thing in 1989. It's not new what's new is diversity for sales marketing. 1966 gene Roddenberry a ex NYC police officer created star trek with black asain Russian Scottish and 3 poor farm boys as doctor and captain America is stuck on stupid
Bill talks about one of my biggest criticisms of the modern social justice movement. They correctly point out that not enough has changed, but it isn’t fair to say that nothing has changed and saying that nothing has changed just discourages people. Side note: Sacheen Littlefeather’s sister says she wasn’t actually Native American.
Yes. There is a lack of gratitude and acknowledgement of what has been accomplished. And by saying the work is never done, and not acknowledging successes, they will eventually snuff out hope and interest.
While it is true that more needed to change, the excessive delusions of the illiberal far left have caused many things to regress 50 years! Women's rights, abortion, control of the far right to name a few. The erroneous racist, bigoted demands of the Woke are the most destructive force against equality for all in more than a century.
@TravelerPat It’s because truthfully, Asian Americans in film haven’t really gotten many accolades or even opportunities that often until a few years ago. Plus, television has long been a little better about equity of the diversity of its actors hired than film because the film industry is notoriously more conservative because movies are a riskier investment.
I remember watching it on TV in the 70s, & at the beginning, the network put a disclaimer like "the following program depicts a small group of organized criminals & is not meant to be representative of an entire ethnic group." I watched it just to see the horse head in the bed scene...
Its because, this is where, many of societies bad ideas start. Im on twitter but normally trying to expose these terrible ideas. eg Latinx and pronouns.
i get a kick out of watching them lose their mind. whether it be fake or real. i hate to admit it, but it's kinda like giggling to yourself when you witness an very flamboyant gay go on a rant. i keep watching and holding my laughter in until i have to run away and hide and laugh aloud.
4:06 Hold up, isn't that what the whole Moses and 10 Commandments part is all about. You know freeing the people from a life of slavery and servitude. The whole "Let my people go." thing.
Exactly. I understand that Bill is a bit biased, being an atheist, but a little research could have helped. The whole message of Jesus is about recognising the intrinsic dignity of everyone regardless of their social status, and treating them with respect and love.
@@thisisadiman He is likely thinking of several instances where the statement 'both slave and free' are referenced in the New Testament. But that misses the point of the statement, which is that in the eyes of God there will be no slaves as all humans are God's children. It was actually those statements, in part, that lead our ancestors in various nations to abolish the practice. It wasn't the ONLY reason, but it was one of them.
It was more about the 'wrong people' being enslaved, actually. 'My people, not those poor bastards we'll be stomping on later descended from Ham.' Before Hitler, the go-to evil person that people would call each other as an insult was 'Pharaoh'. The guy was understood to be a prick and treated as an arch-villain ... and yet Christians held on to their slavery. There's no 'A, therefore B' in religion: that's logic and consistency. Faithful doublethink means you can know and adore the story of the Exodus and completely miss the point - amazing, isn't it?
@York Hunt The fact that you're typing that onto a screen and not chiseling it into a rock proves you wrong. You've been childish elsewhere and professed actual belief in a supernatural Jesus, so enough of you - grow up if you want to talk to adults.
How does "let my people go," (my people being the Israelites) translate to a condemnation of slavery. The bible didn't say let all the people go. Also, the Bible is full of rules about slavery. You don't need rules about slavery if you don't support slavery.
Littlefeather claimed to be Apache and Yaqui. She lied. For everyone saying “well Mexican is Indian”, that wasn’t her claim. She changed her name and said she was an Apache. Not Mexican or “Mexicans are Indians so that’s what I am”. Furthermore, she lied about her family. She claimed that her father was an abusive drunk and they were raised by grandparents because of it. No decent person lies about their father that way. Her sisters said their father was deaf, never drank, and was a generous loving man. As for grandparents, they lived a few feet away in the neighboring house and the children spent a lot of time there. They were not raised by grandparents, though I’m certain the grandparents were there and influential. I am also positive that people didn’t like her presentation back then. Progress is good. Bill is right. But it was her that claimed John Wayne needed to be physically restrained, and that story didn’t come up until after John Wayne died years later. So Wayne wasn’t given any opportunity to defend himself or deny it. There were no witnesses other than her. Where are the security guys who supposedly stopped John Wayne? By that year, John Wayne had already had his left lung basically removed and had a chest wall resection by then. He’s charging through security? No security of which have come forward and confirmed the story? She has already illustrated she was a chronic liar. Though I’m positive in that era John Wayne and others objected to the Oscars being used as a platform for politics, the “John Wayne tried to physically attack a little woman on a national stage” story had multiple red flags and doesn’t fit the Duke’s biography or public persona. Her lying about it does fit her biography and track record. And the tomahawk waved in the audience? In 1972? Nope. She made that up, too. There were movie stars out there that she knew of. Which movie stars or people with famous movie stars did the tomahawk? She’d be able to name at least one or someone sitting near one. When you are looking at a room full of seated movie stars, you remember who was there. Her cause was progressive and good. Her lies are inexcusable.
What a bold take to give most of the credit of progress on those who are "late" instead of those who are "early". As a French, it reminds me of all those ones who joined the Resistance ... in 1946.
Some pushing is good, some not so much. We don't need classics remade with minorities... all that says to me is the directors, producers, and financial backers don't truly believe they can make an original movie with minorities and be successful. Which is bullshit, and racist.
Brenden Frazier honestly deserved to win tonight. I don’t watch the Oscar’s anymore I’m against all the woke BS. But I grew up watching him and loved him.
The Bible actually does condemn slavery, "Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death". Exodus 21:16.
Hm, I wonder why the church wasn't solidly against the practice for all those years ... oh yeah, those OTHER parts of the Bible, like Jesus telling slaves to obey their earthly masters. They kinda got in the way, which is why Christians weren't all abolitionists. If that line was the beginning and end of it, slavery ought to be as hard to find in Christian history as homosexuality. 'Neighbor' in some cases means 'member of your own tribe'. If they're not one of yours, sky's the limit.
@@paullanier3597 The Oxford Languages defines a slave as- a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property. If you steal someone and sell them so they can be owned by someone, that is slavery. The verse also says those who buy men who have been stolen should be killed.
@@markferguson5924 I'm not saying the entire book condemns slavery or that every Christian has condemned slavery. Yes, the Bible does set rules for slavery, but one of those rules is that master should treat their slaves justly and fairly (Colossians 4:1). If the history of the world teaches us anything it is that slaves were not treated fairly. Treating slaves harshly was an un-Christian thing to do. So was stealing people from Africa and bringing them to the Americas. It is true that not all Christians were not abolitionists, but just because someone identifies themself with a religion does not mean that they follow ALL of that religion's principles. We can debate this all we want, but I'm just pointing out a verse from the Bible that goes against slavery which Bill says there are none of.
@@peytonthomas4338 Abolitionists had to squint and contort to get their desired reading of scripture in the 19th century, and the Christians on the other side had it a lot easier coming up with quotes. Don't waste my time with Orwellian redefinitions. In a way the fundamentalists are more respectable than the moderates because they don't play this game of 'it's slavery but maybe it's not REAL slavery, it's still 'fair treatment', not harsh at all'. Slavery does not mean slavery (looking at Yorkie Hunt's nonsense), day does not mean day (to not be creationists), stone does not mean stone (to accept gay people), unclean does not mean unclean (to accept women at all times of the month) ... so anything can mean anything and nothing's set in stone, wonderful. It makes moderates better behaved than fundamentalists, but their whole concept of truth (including moral truth) is mush, and now you're talking about enslaving people and still being 'fair' to them. It's darkly hilarious.
Some of the younger employees at my company a few years ago had NO idea who Martin & Lewis were along with Abbott & Costello... At that point, I felt quite sad for them.....
I'm not even able to watch the Oscars as I'm still suffering because my Norwegian heritage continues to be appropriated by the NFL and the Minnesota Vikings and no one even mentions this atrocity!
As a person predominantly of non Scandinavian Northern European heritage I just want to take this opportunity to thank your Scandinavian ancestors for some of my DNA.
@@zane62135 Maybe. Regret however implies the personal expectation and emotional investment in its continuance, wherein lies the root of the difficulty.
the oscars and grammys are as political as a democratic convention. and yes, the elite at these political hack shows lecture the rest of us. i loved when Gervais made fun of the hollywood and apple hypocrites at the oscars a few years ago.
@@mirbramo94 Ah, crap!! I just realised I had the attention of a young person and I have questions! Hello young person! May I ask you if you are afraid to go to school? If so, are you more afraid of Critical Race Theory, cat litter boxes in the bathrooms or getting shot?
Little Feather wasn't a Native though... She just played one on TV and in real-life. Even her siblings came out with this tidbit after she passed. She's actually of Latin decent.
In fact, that only means she was indigenous from a little further south on the continent. Latino simply means that they are people who were colonised on an area where the Spanish invaded.
I think legacy media fails to account for the internet when they push this sort of messaging. I wasn't alive when Sacheen Littlefeather appeared on the Oscar broadcast, but perhaps she was introducing the viewing audience to ideas they hadn't thought about on the only type of media that would reach them. But what political messages are todays Oscars going to share that we haven't read 500 times in the last 5 minutes while we were scrolling through Facebook looking for cute cat photos?
Exactly. Hollywood elites aren't saying anything new or bold. They're all just reciting widely accepted liberal talking points. Funnily enough, if a Hollywood elite went up to the podium and said, "as much progress has been made for women, we have left our young men behind - academically, culturally, and emotionally." They would be treated similarly to the way Little Feather was. Shocked looks. Jeering. Threats of legal action. All of it would be on the table. Hell, we saw it when Ricky Gervais called them out.
Not sure why society thinks so highly of actors and are so influenced by their political views. These people aren’t brilliant minds solving world problems. They literally make millions by playing make believe in front of a camera.
Bill, you are a national treasure. A sense of humor molded by the tv shows, movies, standup, and commercials of the 70's-90s is a superhuman attribute. It can't be explained to those who do not possess it. We who lived during those eras are a dying breed. We can save this sh*t hole if we get busy not giving a f**k what people think again. America needs her sense of humor! Thanks for being a faithful guardian of the faith.
Wounded Knee '73 was happening at the time, and Brando wanted to say something. Yes there were mistakes, but overall Brando was a philanthropist in the Native world. Bill is spot on, inroads were made: the Doors and Thunderheart with Kilmer (my favorite Batman), Graham Greene and Wes Studi (although one can make an interesting talk on Sagat), and the ushering in of Native led productions that were largely inspired by, yes, Hollywood. I think the point here is to have some sort of hope for at least a passion for yourself, and this one is the art of film.
The last Oscar show I watched was when John Wayne won for his role in ‘True Grit’. I decided to watch this year to see if anyone slapped Jimmy Kimmel. I was disappointed in so many ways.
Awesome commentary Bill!! So looking forward to seeing that Spike Lee movie about the early 19th century Deep South with equal representation from Asian and Hispanic actors. It's about time that we totally update history in all possible ways to meet our representation goals! Or on second thought...we could just let directors and producers align the cast to the story's needs and hire the most technically capable production crew to make the movie.
Yeah, make Spike Lee the face racial exclusion because he refuses to let black people be confined to demeaning and marginalizing film roles. Good one. 🖕🏽 But meanwhile Steven Spielberg or Christopher Nolan can erase entire groups of non-white people from their “biopics”, a La Saving Private Ryan or Dunkirk. GTFOH🖕🏽
That is too Woke as Republicans argue. They feel we need to cancel "updating history to meet this nation's representation goals". According to DeSantis that is TOO dangerous.
@@omarihoward8168 No point was being made about Spike Lee or any racial exclusion he may or may not represent; the point was about putting quotas aside for the sake of good story telling and competent film-making. Van Gogh doesn't need anyone telling him to add red paint to The Starry Night to make it a better painting.
As Billy Crystal said about the Oscars - “nothing says social awareness like a bunch of millionaires giving each other gold statues”.
@Sonomacats Coming from someone preaching from their high horse on social media, yeah that will get stuff done........Sigh
The Oscar's make me nauseous.
@Sonomacats Lol, Celebrities do nothing but mouth service. They use their platform to put on display their belief that they are morally superior to their fellow man. I'd bet money that most of them don't want to be there wasting their time, they'd rather be home but their agent insists this is important for their careers.
The actual quote is “Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.”
@@chewacan I have a wonderful solution for your nausea…don’t watch!
Ricky Gervais: 'Accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God and f*ck off,' Golden Globes opening monologue - 2020
Should be the guidebook they hand out before every awards ceremony. lol
This just proves we’ve been making the same jokes for 3 years. Yes, award shows are too woke. Get over it and find a new topic.
@@justinmuse7095 Continued ridicule is worth it.
That was great
White Chicks would not be made today . That is one of my favorite movies .
Oscars used to be one of most loved events of the year and is now the least liked show event of the year. Now that's Progress.
Woke is a JOKE!!!
Bill used to be one of the most loved liberals on TV and now he's a half a step away from being Hannity. How the mighty have fallen!
Even more disliked than the Miss America pageant, which isn't even televised on a major network anymore?
I haven't been to a motion picture theatre since Avatar 1. I saw it, I saw it with my son, it saw it with my daughter and her children. Once sandwiched in on the front row. Great all around. I love(d) the movies. No more.
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When pushing an agenda takes priority over telling a story, there's a problem.
I guess it must be impossible to do both, huh?
@@joelstein4657 See ladies and gents, this right here is the problem. People who are too dumb to understand what was said, thinking they know. Of course it's possible to do both you simpleton, it gets done masterfully all the time. The problem, as stated clearly above, is when pushing an agenda TAKES PRIORITY over the telling of a story and what you get is preachy crap. Do the world a favour and go find a safe space and stay there.
"I didn't watch the video but I comment anyway"
@@Destinychanged Well that was a waste of your time.
Indeed and that's probably the biggest problem with woke writers-- they don't care what their audience wants and instead think that their political message trumps all considerations.
I believe George C. Scott pretty much nailed it first when he denied his Oscar nomination and called it all a big meat parade.
What? Why?
Ha! 😂
@@mew10521 Big meat in this case is being used as euphemism for Big Penises. This also emphasises the male chauvinistic attitudes to all those who are involved in the Oscars. Hope that helps👍🏽
@@daysofgrace7818 No, doesn't help at all.
@@brentgolder2155 Which area would you like further elaboration?
I liked it when after YEARS of being ignored and only being nominated once, when Alfred Hitchock got the lifetime achievement award the academy spared no expense, flew many people out expecting a great long speech, he got up on stage, thanked his wife, said thank you very much and left the stage. They were furious but could do nothing, lol.
Yeah somehow Scorsese fails to win for Taxi Driver or Raging Bull or Goodfellas and has to wait till 2007 for a win? Hitchcock has one win out of how many iconic movies that are still studied in film school to this day? Tarantino doesn't get a best picture until 2020? Pulp Fiction, which splashes the advent of post modernist film making into the mainstream, loses to Forest Gump? Forest effin Gump???. It's a joke.
@@donpietruk1517 Stanley Kubrick never won as director ever either.
Serves the fuckers right! I'm glad that Hitchcock kept his integrity and dignity.
@@donpietruk1517 Forrest Gump is a good movie though. Pulp Fiction is also good, but not so mainstream.
Hitchcock was nominated 5 times for PSYCHO. REAR WINDOW. SPELLBOUND. LIFEBOAT and REBECCA
Definitely thought this was about the fact that she wasn’t actually native and made a whole life story up according to her known relatives
It doesn't take away from his point, but I still fail to see why he didn't mention it at the end or something. She definitely was not Native American in the least bit.
thanks for saving me the time I’m done w this vid lol
Yeah that was ripe for a joke about the fakeness of virtue signaling, everyone being full of shit in the end. But I guess he didn't want to take that side track.
The Elizabeth Warren of the 1970's.
Like so many of our political leaders...
Bill's delivery, coupled with the hearty deep laughter of a man in the audience (every episode it seems) just makes it all the better👍😆
no
Designated laugher paid Hollywood scale. Friend met the laugher at a party in West Hollywood and said he is a great guy.
Always big cheers from potheads when it's mentioned. Intentional.
nice delivery, very skilled and real.
You mean the clapping seals?
Sacheen Littlefeather was a Mexican of Spanish descent, a Pretendian. Her sisters said in two interviews that they were Mexican of Spanish descent and never claimed to be native Americans. She made it up in high school.
"Pretendian?) Whoa! What a great name for Elizabeth Warren! Mind of I steal it in future posts?
@@Tom-ut6ky I replied to you hours ago but it has been erased. Pretendian came from her sister, not mine.
@@bathtangle First time I heard that, but I never watched the Oscars. I dislike people who make such a big deal of patting themselves on the back. Those idiots don't seem to realize all they produce is make believe.
Spain colonized Mexico centuries ago, so most, if not all, Mexicans are a mixture of Spanish & native American ancestry.
her name, Sacheen Littlefeather, definitely sounds more native American than Spanish.
@@johnbrennan4449 Her name was Maria Cruz - littlefeather was a made up name
"Shortly after Littlefeather's death, Navajo writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler interviewed Littlefeather's two sisters, who said that their family is not Native American and that Littlefeather fabricated her Native American ancestry. They also said that their father, who was born in Oxnard, California, was of Spanish-Mexican descent and had no tribal ties."
Doesn't matter. She spoke the woke, and in Hollywood that's all that matters.
So you're saying Sacheen was committing cultural appropriation?
@@afridgetoofar1818 She was committing cultural advocacy.
She was the first trans racial griftor
Doesn't matter. She still brought issues plaguing Native Americans onto America's largest stage. At a time when it wasn't trendy to do so. The ire directed at her also didn't care whether she was a true Native American, or just playing one on TV.
I'm stunned that Bill didn't bring up he fact that little feather wasn't even an indian.
That's because he's full of deceit, his claims about the Bible are also untrue.
Exodus 21:16
“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death."
His new rule is about progress advancing over time. Her real background doesn't affect the point of the rule.
It doesn't matter ...
@@romulus3345 he's a liar - I'm sure he hasn't even read the Bible
@@romulus3345 Are you saying those quotes are not in the bible. I'm not going to look it up but i bet you are wrong. The Quote you cite says you should not steal another mans slave?
Sacheen Littlefeather's real name was Maria Louise Cruz.
"Littlefeather said her father was of Apache and Yaqui ancestry and her mother was of European descent. Shortly after Littlefeather's death, Navajo writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler interviewed Littlefeather's two sisters, who said that their family is not Native American and that Littlefeather fabricated her Native American ancestry. They also said that their father, who was born in Oxnard, California, was of Spanish-Mexican descent and had no tribal ties."
Honestly, that sounds even more on-brand for the sanctimonious Oscar scolds: they're all fake too.
Apache, Yaqui, and Mexican sounds pretty Native to me.
I can’t think of anything I’d like to do less than waste an evening watching the Oscars.
you're not forced too
Aren't you just so cool and edgy? 🙄
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the self-indulgent circle jerking isn't annoying enough the ceremony is also just plain BORING.
RIP Oscars (1929-2005)
I've read that Littlefeather's siblings claimed she was actually not native American, despite her own claims, but an actress who thought she was.
Today's liberals would've blasted her for culture appropriation, and putting on "red face".
That myth is busted, stop spreading it.
@@timrthoward7007 Actually true. Her wikipedia page says: Littlefeather knowingly misidentified as having White Mountain Apache and Yaqui ancestry,[3][5] while in reality he had Mexican ancestry with no tribal identity
@@timrthoward7007Absolutely true, her sister confirmed.
Today's liberals would have eventually ripped her apart for not being liberal enough, like they do everyone else. That's why democrats can't gain any ground.
@@timrthoward7007 Libtards don't like facts.
"The whole thing is a goddamn meat parade. I don't want any part of it." - George C Scott
Lol; Patton was right.
George C. Scott also used to beat the sh*t out of Ava Gardner. To the point that her previous husband, Frank Sinatra, had to step in for it to stop. I wouldn’t take any of George C. Scott’s moral outrage seriously.
Yep. Who would watch this crap? Class is long gone.
@@katrinaolsen2444 So, given how _even a certified PoS_ managed to be right about something, what does that make people who _still_ idolize that something?
"I hope I never get one of those fucking things." - Johnny Depp
I noticed that he didn’t mention that she was zero percent Native American. Her real name was Cruz and her ancestry was Mexican
Brando didn’t just not show up, he refused the Oscar itself
And Sacheen Littlefeather was a paid actress - so they were both hypocrites.
@@tl1110 Yes and no. Sometimes joining the enemy system, even if you still regard them as "the enemy", is the best pragmatic solution. That's where progressive politicians come from.
Also he was to busy doing it with Richard Pryor
Hard to call Brandon a good actor. He sucked.
@@hagestad He was! His daughter and wife confirmed it!
I will continue my longstanding tradition of not watching the Oscars
Yeah but you watched the highlights 😏
@@hauntedhose I paused this video at 0:01 so I wouldn’t have to watch it
Who cares
Me, too.
I thought the craziest part about that woman at the Oscar's was that her family spoke out and said how they are from a proud Mexican-American family and that she just chose to hide that.
ya she was not native american it was a lie
Not just Mexican-American.
But the Mexican site is castillan Spanish.
On other words she's entirely of European descent from both parents.
She wore the clothing and the name of natives like a costume.
She's a literal European colonizer
hahaha......you mean Hollywood was full of lying, egotistical assholes back then?
Kinda like NOW!
The tradition of Hollywood leftwing denizens LARPing while giving each other undeserved praise obviously goes back quite a bit & is alive and well today!
@bradh1810 you wouldn't recognize "storming" something if your life depended on it 🙄
In 2022, in a forum on my work, I respectfully pointed out that I don't need diversity /inclusivity when I start a business.
I stated that what's needed are:
- qualified personel
- motivated people
- honest workers.
I nearly lost my job....
Her name was Marie Cruz. She wasn't even Native American.
Duh! As if Native Americans can't have those surnames. Do some research please.
@@JohnDoe-tm9wz Maybe it's the fact that her two sisters said she wasn't native american and that she lied for publicity...
Julie Andrews isn't Austrian. It didn't ruin "The Sound Of Music" for me.
@@JohnDoe-tm9wz well, many people did researches and found out she WAS NOT Native American. She was Mexican
@@MooPotPie Julie Andrews didn't claim to be Austrian in order to perform a publicity stunt based on that claim.
She wasn’t even a Native American, she just lied about it and put on a fake accent🤣
Her name was Marie Louise Cruz. She was part German, part French, and part Mexican.
And I'm neither female nor Bosmer/Wood Elf. I'm sorry your point is?
That she was a liar
@@bosmerfromcanada3878 that you are too ignorant to understand the irony. Go back to sleep
And spoke yaba daba doo
@@bythenumbers8522 if you cannot attack the speech you attack the speaker? sure sign that you are on the wrong side of the topic
Wasn't it revealed recently by her sisters that her whole identity was a sham?
Yup. Her real name was Marie Louise Cruz.
Apparently, but it doesn't in any way change the issues of concern regarding native Americans she was addressing in that speech.
@@martin2289 as a Native American I can tell you her speech didn’t do much to improve life for native Americans on the reservation. Glad she got her 15 minutes of fame, we have pretty much the same socioeconomic conditions if not worse than the 1970’s. Fun times, but at least they “brought attention” to us.
@@martin2289 Or, it could be argued that it's no different than black face or cultural appropriation.. Putting someone in a costume and falsely representing a culture for the purpose of a political talking point is pretty shady..
So the plight of Native Americans was a sham too..... one has nothing to do with the other
I'm so lucky, that the Oscar show, is shown at night when I'm sleeping.
Best moment for best film, was when "Spotlight" won.
A film that NOBODY spoke about after the show.
i mean, it happened in real life, and they dramatized it. big fuckin whoop lol
La La Land should’ve won and even the academy knows it
Interesting take on Hollywood. I definitely prefer Ricky Gervais’ bit on it. The more “progress” they act out and speak on at the awards, the more clear the division between them and real people (which is probably why nobody watches it but there are more views on people digging on it)
I think people will watch this year they actually nominated movies people went to the theater to see like Avatar 2 and top gun Maverick and everything everywhere all at once that's going to make a difference 🙂🤞
Translation: you’re butthurt you didn’t have your echo chamber feedback loop about “HOLLYWOOD BAD” like always. Sorry snowflake.
Also yeah people do watch it, I got news for you. More people watch it than whatever pathetic little endeavor you’ll ever strut into.
yeah nothing will ever beat Ricky's take. It should go down in the history books.
@@rustyshackleford6035 I don't think I've known what movies were nominated for the past 10 years and I used to watch the awards every year. I'm not interested in the results either and I have a feeling I'm not the only one.
@@robykxxx well were Different then because every year I try to watch all the nominated movies but whatever 🙄
The best Oscar telecast was when the streaker ran across the stage and David Niven at the podium quipped about him"stripping off and showing his shortcomings"...🤣😂
Hey yeah, I remember that. 😆
Streaking was popular at that time. I heard later that Niven paid the guy to do it, and had the joke ready. If you watch the replay, he doesn't look even slightly surprised when the streaker runs out on stage.
@@davester1432 Never heard that he paid the guy, but you're right about him knowing ahead of time and had the quip ready to use. Niven was smart, but he was no Johnny Carson or Billy Crystal with adlibs.
@@davester1432 that makes me wanna watch it again.
Sounds planned
Bill, turns out she wasn't even Native American/ First Nation! Her family came out and admitted it, after she died. I would have loved your take on that.
No, the narrative comes first.
What??? And waste all those virtue signals???? Bill never lets a chance to preach go to waste.
@@RichardTater Or it was Elizabeth Warren.
She ACTED Native American. It's an acting show ;)
He never said she was Native American. He said she was an activist for Native American Causes
Why didnt Bill not mention the fact Sacheen Littlefeather wasn't even of Indian ancestry??? her real name was - Maria Louise Cruz and she was of Latin/Spanish decent... today - she would have been hounded for co-opting her ethnicity...
the horse head in the bed challenge didn't really go as viral as most other challenges but it was one of my favorites.
The horse head in the Kia challenge may take off with a bullet. 🐴
I’ll mk u an offer u can’t refuse 🤣
It was hard to come up with a short hashtag in fairness
Don't watch the Oscars and never have watched the Oscars. A waste of four hours, but then I feel the same way about the super bowl
just curious. What do you watch, if anything?
YES!
This could really upset the 5 to 10 people that will be watching the Oscars this year.
Oh stop. There'll be at least twice that many.
Have their viewership numbers gone up?
I guarantee it’ll be at least 25 people minimum
You clearly didn't listen to the segment
I'm going to watch at least the last hour I'm dieing to see who wins Best Actress Actor and Picture I actually saw some of these movies 🙂👍
The Oscars are one of the many windows capturing glimpses in time, of both movies and culture.
On the other hand you have to say also: Entertainment was never as boring and preachy as it is today.
Today's show was excellent. Both guests were thoughtful and knew when to contribute, when to shut up, that includes Bill. And it was generally just filled with calm, intelligent conversation where both the questions and the answers given actually provided insight instead of just being an expression of someone's agenda and self-interest. Quality guests make for quality shows.
opposite to the last shitshow? ^^
@@germaninsider7890 Absolutely
It was a very good one. It’s too often warring talking points spoken by myopically partisan dipshits.
Agreed
Thanks, Bill I didn't think it was going to go that way you all seem to open our eyes and in a funny way
They still have the Oscars or movies for that matter. We can't believe our theater even stays open. Its been forever since I heard anyone talk about going to a movie. Must be why so many actors are doing commercials now when back in the day it was beneath them.
I haven't been to a theater since the first Dr. Strange movie and I have no intention of ever doing so again.
No Netflix, no Disney+, ect...
Fuck Hollywood.
"progress" aka moving in the direction WE want to go.
Progress: when everyone has a victim mentality
Not really. Moving isn't progress. Progress is only judged in hindsight. Moving is only hoping/believing we are headed the right way. But we never know until we look back. That's how progress is measured: the real world butterfly effects of our actions that only time shows.
Found the bot.
So, the Oscars happened, thanks for telling me, Bill.
exactly
😂😂😂now that progress
Don't know where Bill was going with this, and he never got there.
I think it was supposed to be...at least they keep trying to move forward, not stuck in the imaginary past that conservatives dream of.
@@naturalnashuan Move forward by sharing their pronouns, pinning down everything on racism, earning millions and claiming to be empathetic towards the under privileged strata of society, making narrative driven content that seems forced at best??
He rambles on about "woke",then compliments said woke for advancing society
One of Bill's better takes in a while.
just because he didn't get where you wanted him to go (which is what your favorite party programs into you) doesn't mean he isn't right.
I agree with you Bill on a number of things, but did you completely forget that Littlefeathers real name was Maria Louise Cruz, who is actually Mexican/American pretending to be Native American? I agree that people should be treated humanely, but it's another thing entirely to pretend to be the very people you are claiming to help. It's disrespectful. Virtue signalling at its finest. Pretty important thing for people to know about her.
When Bill Maher says "the Godfather was a long Tik Tok," he sounds like Dean Martin cracking jokes about those young whipper snappers the Rolling Stones.
The only thing Bill talks about these days is the younger generations and woke culture topics. It's seriously so overdone and stale at this point. I miss progressive Bill from the early 2000s when he would rail against Bush and the war hawks in government. I think Trump broke his brain.
You understand that Bill was making a joke too right???
We should all be so lucky as to be compared to the great Dean Martin!
@@Kejame doesn't take much to break the 🧠 of the " Woke " common sense and Logic will do the trick including biology, mathematics, physics Chemistry... and especially the term " Scientific Method of THEORY "
@@KejameNowhere near as overdone as the same Trump jokes over and over again by unfunny lefties.
I felt like there was a lot of potential in this monologue but the plane never really landed.
welcome to the new Bill Maher.
He should have addressed that at a minimum she wasn't "Native" and how she was in fact masquerading like Rachelle Dozellee lady
That's because it's a contradiction of itself. He's bitching that liberals are being too much lately, while simultaneously applauding how they slowly move the country forward. His examples are cancelling out his original point.
Whereas I would argue that modern liberals aren't moving the country forward, because they've become, for the first time ever, the ones who are completely intolerant.
@achilleshoplite she was Mexican, that's as native as it gets.
@@thagodwecreate5179you get almost 100% white Mexicans, almost 100% native Mexicans, but most are a mix. She looks mostly white to me. Anyway, her family said she had no tribal ties, so she was apparently making it up.
The woman was NOT of Native American descent. She was an “actress”
@1:17 "And The Godfather was a long TikTok featuring the horse head in the bed challenge."
OMG... just brilliant!
Who remembers when Michael Moore was booed off the stage at the Oscar's?
I was just mentioning this the other day and someone said that I was lying. I remember it well.
That's right, for criticizing the Iraq war I believe? I gotta pull that up. Despite their liberalism Hollywood got pretty on board with the war on terror hysteria and virtue signaling patriotism after 9/11. And once they're all on board with something they don't like dissenters. Funny to think one of the first woke moments on television came when Affleck got mad about the criticisms of Muslim extremism as racist. People weren't having that shit in the Bush years, if anything people encouraged you to profile Muslims and "say something if you see something."
Not me. I thought everyone in the audience that night who thought the same as him (i.e. everyone in Hollywood) cheered what he said.
@@louisduarte8763 He was booed. You have to remember that he called out the Iraq war when even Oprah Winfrey was behind it, and Oprah was the last word.
Was that the year he won for best documentary, got up on the stage with the rest of his fellow-nominees and chastised then President Bush (W.)?
One hundred year from now they will look at today and say " why were they so stupid?"
You mean they will judge those silly people from the past by their own standards? 😂
Interesting that the graphic about environmentalism showed "The China Syndrome". This movie, along with the Three Mile Island accident which happened at the same time, actually set back environmentalism by decades as it put an irrational fear of nuclear power in the American public that we are just now starting to get over. Just think about how much smaller our carbon footprint would be if we had continued to develop nuclear power.
I hadn't thought about it, but I wonder if that's why I prefer old movies to almost anything that comes out today? I stopped going to movies years ago.It's hard to find almost anything out of Hollywood today that isn't garbage.
I stick with B&W films and stuff from the 60's primarily......
Couldn't agree more. Saw a clip (I haven't watched ANY awards show in decades) of Jamie Curtis getting award for some movie I haven't even heard of! Hollyweird is DYING.
The whole time, I was waiting for the punch line but it never came this time.
The punchline is that Bill wishes he was Marlon Brando.
yes, i hoped Bill would destroy this woke circus, and what we got was actually a praise.
Maybe actually listen to what he said then
@@goobda_ i mean he made many times comment against the woke
He just defends what people calls woke
@@goobda_ So, you have issues with diversity and inclusion?
Now the audience for the Oscars will be down to half a dozen. 😂
And they are who, you, the Fox News folks (so they can complain about it yet again after watching and tuning in) and the prominent right wing conservative podcasts? Ben Sharpiro?
Kind of like CPAC
@@Foxfire_forty-nine I haven't watched the Oscars since 1974 and plan on keeping the streak going till I'm dead and gone.
@@rickscott6115 no more like CNN and MSNBC
@@davidkuharich9269 that's why Fox News is the real msm
Great one Bill! Epic as always.
"What are you rebelling against, Johnny?", he answers "Whaddaya got?"
I miss the days when getting an Oscar actually meant you're talented. Smh.
So not that I have seen all the movies that have won Oscars this year but your implying none of them are talented. What do you mean by that ?
@@jimhazel1544 you already know, don't play dumb. It's not hard to see.
Bruno Ganz had probably the best performance of 2004, and one of the greatest in movies history and was not even nominated. But you can´t receive an Oscar for portraint one of the worst ( if not THE worst ) men in history. Yes, I´m talking about Hitler...
It is all so undeniably political these days.
@@SergiovsousaGeez, That's 20 years ago. I thought Bruno did an amazing job but not everybody gets trophy and expecting one especially while playing Hitler seems ridiculous to me.
Maher missed one of the most ironic things about the Sacheen Littlefeather saga which was that she wasn't even Native American -- she was Hispanic. Her birth name was Marie Louise Cruz!
It was a room full of actors; whadya expect?
I think it was the first woke publicity stunt.
She was only part "hispanic" (from her father's side) - her mom was French, Dutch, and German!
She was 1/4 native indian. Don't be dishonest.
@@sephirotic87 Navajo author Jacqueline Keeler looked into her ancestry and could find no Native American ancestors.
I used to enjoy the Oscars. Up until around 2011-12 they were slightly woke. Maybe 10% of the broadcast. But in the last 6-7 years the entire thing is embarrassingly woke. They don't hide it.
What’s woke?
Anybody who uses woke as a pejorative is evil. Eat a buffet of Male genitals
The only progress I see is my paycheck getting smaller and smaller and smaller and the government has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger 😂
True American. "It's all about me."
The real culprit is trickledown-economics, because the top 10% (private sector) have gotten richer. The top-10% aren’t part of the government. They don’t work in government and aren’t IN government. But they do influence the government.
Liar.
@@zendakk And who else would it be about? Should it be about? It’s hardly a non issue.
Welcome to Taco Bell… “gimme 3 tacos and a large Pepsi” ……. That’ll be $15.99 plz pull forward. 😂👉And they’re still cold and disgusting, no napkins, no straw, no sauce, 😂😂😂😂 congratulations on your $15/hr
She wasn’t native, her sister revealed that after she passed away. She pulled a Hilaria
Which makes outrage back in 1973 even more cynical because she was just advocating. You don't have to be in the group to be able to complain about their bad treatment and discrimination.
@@rabbit251 Yes, but it's probably a good idea not to do redface when you do it.
@@rabbit251 What she did was cultural appropriation
@@cc8751 What exactly is cultural appropriation? 🙄 You sound like the exact kind of thing Bill rants about, except you only bring it out when it is "appropriate" to something you dislike.
You really fail to see the irony, of Hollywood, at their most prestigious award show, of someone calling them out, and she isn't actually in that class but is only ACTING like she is. (A fact that wasn't discovered until after she died). There are so many ironies that this could be a graduate class at university.
This is not true.
It's nice to hear Bill say nice things about humans for once.
I was thinking the same thing.
@@will88TFs4Life Yeah! I kept waiting for the gut punch of disillusion.
Allow me to ruin it. Woke was a term used first by Marcus Garvey in 1932 to his native Ethiopian land on the trucks of the british.it was adopted by blacks in America in the 50s in the trucks of the systemic raciest federal government.i heard it with flava Flav clock in 1986 and spoke Lee do the right thing in 1989. It's not new what's new is diversity for sales marketing. 1966 gene Roddenberry a ex NYC police officer created star trek with black asain Russian Scottish and 3 poor farm boys as doctor and captain America is stuck on stupid
@@lesslycarthan956
Interesting post. Cheers.
You mean making a fat joke about Marlon Brando?
She wasn't Indian, lol. She lied. Diversity points were valuable even then.
It was John Sirica incidentally, John Sirica was Man of the Year in 1973
I looked him up. It's for his work as a judge in/during Watergate.
As it turns out, Little Feather was not Native American, but a white woman. How’s that for liberal irony.
Bill talks about one of my biggest criticisms of the modern social justice movement. They correctly point out that not enough has changed, but it isn’t fair to say that nothing has changed and saying that nothing has changed just discourages people.
Side note: Sacheen Littlefeather’s sister says she wasn’t actually Native American.
Yes. There is a lack of gratitude and acknowledgement of what has been accomplished. And by saying the work is never done, and not acknowledging successes, they will eventually snuff out hope and interest.
While it is true that more needed to change, the excessive delusions of the illiberal far left have caused many things to regress 50 years! Women's rights, abortion, control of the far right to name a few. The erroneous racist, bigoted demands of the Woke are the most destructive force against equality for all in more than a century.
@@kathycoleman4648 They are looney and have gone to far.
@TravelerPat It’s because truthfully, Asian Americans in film haven’t really gotten many accolades or even opportunities that often until a few years ago. Plus, television has long been a little better about equity of the diversity of its actors hired than film because the film industry is notoriously more conservative because movies are a riskier investment.
@TravelerPat are you serious? it is still happening today LOL. have you ever heard about ghost in the shell or iron fist? just to name a few
That John Wayne thing hasn't ever been substantiated by anyone.
Norm MacDonald lampooned this moment at the 2012 Comedy Awards.
It was hilarious.
BTW, her family came out and said she had NO Native American blood in her at all!
"The Godfather was a long tiktok"
Hilarious.
lol it was!
I remember watching it on TV in the 70s, & at the beginning, the network put a disclaimer like "the following program depicts a small group of organized criminals & is not meant to be representative of an entire ethnic group." I watched it just to see the horse head in the bed scene...
Burned at the Twitter Stake that cracked me up.....why do people give so much power to such a minor amount of sqawkers?
to complain about it.
For real, they are some of the most unstable humans in America, yet they are pushing naritives that 80% dont want or care about
Because nothing sells ads, grabs attention, and makes money in the media better than outrage. Even if it isn’t real.
Its because, this is where, many of societies bad ideas start. Im on twitter but normally trying to expose these terrible ideas. eg Latinx and pronouns.
i get a kick out of watching them lose their mind. whether it be fake or real. i hate to admit it, but it's kinda like giggling to yourself when you witness an very flamboyant gay go on a rant. i keep watching and holding my laughter in until i have to run away and hide and laugh aloud.
4:06 Hold up, isn't that what the whole Moses and 10 Commandments part is all about. You know freeing the people from a life of slavery and servitude. The whole "Let my people go." thing.
Exactly. I understand that Bill is a bit biased, being an atheist, but a little research could have helped. The whole message of Jesus is about recognising the intrinsic dignity of everyone regardless of their social status, and treating them with respect and love.
@@thisisadiman He is likely thinking of several instances where the statement 'both slave and free' are referenced in the New Testament. But that misses the point of the statement, which is that in the eyes of God there will be no slaves as all humans are God's children. It was actually those statements, in part, that lead our ancestors in various nations to abolish the practice. It wasn't the ONLY reason, but it was one of them.
It was more about the 'wrong people' being enslaved, actually. 'My people, not those poor bastards we'll be stomping on later descended from Ham.'
Before Hitler, the go-to evil person that people would call each other as an insult was 'Pharaoh'. The guy was understood to be a prick and treated as an arch-villain ... and yet Christians held on to their slavery. There's no 'A, therefore B' in religion: that's logic and consistency. Faithful doublethink means you can know and adore the story of the Exodus and completely miss the point - amazing, isn't it?
@York Hunt The fact that you're typing that onto a screen and not chiseling it into a rock proves you wrong. You've been childish elsewhere and professed actual belief in a supernatural Jesus, so enough of you - grow up if you want to talk to adults.
How does "let my people go," (my people being the Israelites) translate to a condemnation of slavery. The bible didn't say let all the people go.
Also, the Bible is full of rules about slavery. You don't need rules about slavery if you don't support slavery.
Littlefeather claimed to be Apache and Yaqui. She lied. For everyone saying “well Mexican is Indian”, that wasn’t her claim. She changed her name and said she was an Apache. Not Mexican or “Mexicans are Indians so that’s what I am”. Furthermore, she lied about her family. She claimed that her father was an abusive drunk and they were raised by grandparents because of it. No decent person lies about their father that way. Her sisters said their father was deaf, never drank, and was a generous loving man. As for grandparents, they lived a few feet away in the neighboring house and the children spent a lot of time there. They were not raised by grandparents, though I’m certain the grandparents were there and influential.
I am also positive that people didn’t like her presentation back then. Progress is good. Bill is right. But it was her that claimed John Wayne needed to be physically restrained, and that story didn’t come up until after John Wayne died years later. So Wayne wasn’t given any opportunity to defend himself or deny it. There were no witnesses other than her. Where are the security guys who supposedly stopped John Wayne? By that year, John Wayne had already had his left lung basically removed and had a chest wall resection by then. He’s charging through security? No security of which have come forward and confirmed the story? She has already illustrated she was a chronic liar. Though I’m positive in that era John Wayne and others objected to the Oscars being used as a platform for politics, the “John Wayne tried to physically attack a little woman on a national stage” story had multiple red flags and doesn’t fit the Duke’s biography or public persona. Her lying about it does fit her biography and track record.
And the tomahawk waved in the audience? In 1972? Nope. She made that up, too. There were movie stars out there that she knew of. Which movie stars or people with famous movie stars did the tomahawk? She’d be able to name at least one or someone sitting near one. When you are looking at a room full of seated movie stars, you remember who was there.
Her cause was progressive and good. Her lies are inexcusable.
What a bold take to give most of the credit of progress on those who are "late" instead of those who are "early". As a French, it reminds me of all those ones who joined the Resistance ... in 1946.
Bill is like the husband who refuses to acknowledge that the relationship is dead.
acknowledging that is too "woke"
Only the crazy lefties are thumbs-down on this one. He speaks the truth. Leftie no likey truth
Hollywood sometimes open doors about different ways to think but definitely does not give a blueprint on how to live our lives. That would be scary.
Some pushing is good, some not so much. We don't need classics remade with minorities... all that says to me is the directors, producers, and financial backers don't truly believe they can make an original movie with minorities and be successful. Which is bullshit, and racist.
She's not even native American. She was an actor
Brenden Frazier honestly deserved to win tonight. I don’t watch the Oscar’s anymore I’m against all the woke BS. But I grew up watching him and loved him.
The Bible actually does condemn slavery, "Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death". Exodus 21:16.
Hm, I wonder why the church wasn't solidly against the practice for all those years ... oh yeah, those OTHER parts of the Bible, like Jesus telling slaves to obey their earthly masters. They kinda got in the way, which is why Christians weren't all abolitionists. If that line was the beginning and end of it, slavery ought to be as hard to find in Christian history as homosexuality.
'Neighbor' in some cases means 'member of your own tribe'. If they're not one of yours, sky's the limit.
That's a passage against stealing, not slavery.
@@paullanier3597 The Oxford Languages defines a slave as- a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property. If you steal someone and sell them so they can be owned by someone, that is slavery. The verse also says those who buy men who have been stolen should be killed.
@@markferguson5924 I'm not saying the entire book condemns slavery or that every Christian has condemned slavery. Yes, the Bible does set rules for slavery, but one of those rules is that master should treat their slaves justly and fairly (Colossians 4:1). If the history of the world teaches us anything it is that slaves were not treated fairly. Treating slaves harshly was an un-Christian thing to do. So was stealing people from Africa and bringing them to the Americas. It is true that not all Christians were not abolitionists, but just because someone identifies themself with a religion does not mean that they follow ALL of that religion's principles. We can debate this all we want, but I'm just pointing out a verse from the Bible that goes against slavery which Bill says there are none of.
@@peytonthomas4338 Abolitionists had to squint and contort to get their desired reading of scripture in the 19th century, and the Christians on the other side had it a lot easier coming up with quotes.
Don't waste my time with Orwellian redefinitions. In a way the fundamentalists are more respectable than the moderates because they don't play this game of 'it's slavery but maybe it's not REAL slavery, it's still 'fair treatment', not harsh at all'. Slavery does not mean slavery (looking at Yorkie Hunt's nonsense), day does not mean day (to not be creationists), stone does not mean stone (to accept gay people), unclean does not mean unclean (to accept women at all times of the month) ... so anything can mean anything and nothing's set in stone, wonderful. It makes moderates better behaved than fundamentalists, but their whole concept of truth (including moral truth) is mush, and now you're talking about enslaving people and still being 'fair' to them. It's darkly hilarious.
I occasionally come across clips from those Oscar shows of the 1960s-1980s; like watching time capsules from a hundred years ago.
Not including or denying a qualified person in a movie because of race, religion or colour is wrong. But is tokenism any better?
A college freshman in 2023 has no memory of Marlon Brando being alive.
Some of the younger employees at my company a few years ago had NO idea who Martin & Lewis were along with Abbott & Costello... At that point, I felt quite sad for them.....
@@dancalmpeaceful3903 Their movies don't get shown on TV anymore.
I'm not even able to watch the Oscars as I'm still suffering because my Norwegian heritage continues to be appropriated by the NFL and the Minnesota Vikings and no one even mentions this atrocity!
As a person predominantly of non Scandinavian Northern European heritage I just want to take this opportunity to thank your Scandinavian ancestors for some of my DNA.
And for this atrocity, the Vikings have been cursed to never, ever win a Super Bowl.
@@SF2036 :) See! The disparaement of my ancestors continues! :)
It seems obvious that progress, as opposed to being a goal, is the process towards an ideal which remains forever unattainable.
All it takes is continuing to string people along, and moving the goalposts
Progress = things moving in the direction of complete cultural destruction and the implementation of social and economic Marxism
@@zane62135 Maybe. Regret however implies the personal expectation and emotional investment in its continuance, wherein lies the root of the difficulty.
The funny part bill is that the 'kids" you were referring to didn't even catch what you said lol
How many people under the age of 30 do you think actually watch real time?
@@Maineboy222 me
They don't watch it because it's a new generation of retarded kids glued to the tablets
@@hcpsdaviesrp So that's one.
the oscars and grammys are as political as a democratic convention. and yes, the elite at these political hack shows lecture the rest of us. i loved when Gervais made fun of the hollywood and apple hypocrites at the oscars a few years ago.
She wasn't actually native peeps...
I didn’t even know the Oscars were this week. That’s how little I care.
That's okay. Not everybody can care for everything.
I haven't thought about zucchini in a long time. That's how little I care about that plant.
You mean it was one year ago that Will Smith smacked Chris Rock for no valid reason? Who knew 🤷♂️
Who knows maybe Chris Rock was torquing on Will Smith's ole lady lol
Haven’t ever watched the Oscar’s and don’t intend too
How very dull of you. Buzz Killington agrees with you though.
Little Feather, come to find out, was NOT an Indian!
Her family came out and have stated she is no “American Indian” and it was a massive virtue signal . .
Let’s call it what it is: fraud
Not every movie needs a ''diverse'' cast.
Yes, nobody ever said we need more white people in soul plane
Bill: "For those young people watching..."
They're not watching, Bill.
We are lol
@@mirbramo94 Hello young person! I stand corrected.
@@Jenifer_R_ 😊 👋
@@mirbramo94 Ah, crap!! I just realised I had the attention of a young person and I have questions!
Hello young person! May I ask you if you are afraid to go to school? If so, are you more afraid of Critical Race Theory, cat litter boxes in the bathrooms or getting shot?
She wasn't a real Indian. She was Mexican
As long as Oscar wears a beautiful gown at the ceremony, we should be All Good !
Little Feather wasn't a Native though... She just played one on TV and in real-life. Even her siblings came out with this tidbit after she passed. She's actually of Latin decent.
I wonder where Brando dug her up?
I thought this video was gonna be about that 🤷🏻♀️
In fact, that only means she was indigenous from a little further south on the continent. Latino simply means that they are people who were colonised on an area where the Spanish invaded.
100% correct
@@brianramirez4953 but she wasn't native to the USA
I think legacy media fails to account for the internet when they push this sort of messaging. I wasn't alive when Sacheen Littlefeather appeared on the Oscar broadcast, but perhaps she was introducing the viewing audience to ideas they hadn't thought about on the only type of media that would reach them. But what political messages are todays Oscars going to share that we haven't read 500 times in the last 5 minutes while we were scrolling through Facebook looking for cute cat photos?
Oh well no body cared about that shit back then
Exactly. Hollywood elites aren't saying anything new or bold. They're all just reciting widely accepted liberal talking points. Funnily enough, if a Hollywood elite went up to the podium and said, "as much progress has been made for women, we have left our young men behind - academically, culturally, and emotionally." They would be treated similarly to the way Little Feather was. Shocked looks. Jeering. Threats of legal action. All of it would be on the table. Hell, we saw it when Ricky Gervais called them out.
Not sure why society thinks so highly of actors and are so influenced by their political views. These people aren’t brilliant minds solving world problems. They literally make millions by playing make believe in front of a camera.
Bill, you are a national treasure. A sense of humor molded by the tv shows, movies, standup, and commercials of the 70's-90s is a superhuman attribute.
It can't be explained to those who do not possess it. We who lived during those eras are a dying breed.
We can save this sh*t hole if we get busy not giving a f**k what people think again. America needs her sense of humor!
Thanks for being a faithful guardian of the faith.
Wounded Knee '73 was happening at the time, and Brando wanted to say something. Yes there were mistakes, but overall Brando was a philanthropist in the Native world. Bill is spot on, inroads were made: the Doors and Thunderheart with Kilmer (my favorite Batman), Graham Greene and Wes Studi (although one can make an interesting talk on Sagat), and the ushering in of Native led productions that were largely inspired by, yes, Hollywood. I think the point here is to have some sort of hope for at least a passion for yourself, and this one is the art of film.
yes, and then she was mocked by eastwood.
@@AJ-xm4xc She wasnt even a real native.
@@tubester4567 her dad was from the Yaqui tribe
If you have someone to represent a First Nations try giving the job to a First Nations person.
@@dimitrijejovanovich6488 Untrue. Her family admitted she made up the story about her father being native. She was entirely hispanic.
The last Oscar show I watched was when John Wayne won for his role in ‘True Grit’. I decided to watch this year to see if anyone slapped Jimmy Kimmel. I was disappointed in so many ways.
Bill is such a conservative..
Awesome commentary Bill!! So looking forward to seeing that Spike Lee movie about the early 19th century Deep South with equal representation from Asian and Hispanic actors. It's about time that we totally update history in all possible ways to meet our representation goals! Or on second thought...we could just let directors and producers align the cast to the story's needs and hire the most technically capable production crew to make the movie.
Lol, kind of like how even fantasy worlds are not allowed to have a homogenous cast anymore... unless they're Wakanda.
Yeah, make Spike Lee the face racial exclusion because he refuses to let black people be confined to demeaning and marginalizing film roles. Good one.
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But meanwhile Steven Spielberg or Christopher Nolan can erase entire groups of non-white people from their “biopics”, a La Saving Private Ryan or Dunkirk.
GTFOH🖕🏽
That is too Woke as Republicans argue. They feel we need to cancel "updating history to meet this nation's representation goals". According to DeSantis that is TOO dangerous.
@@omarihoward8168 No point was being made about Spike Lee or any racial exclusion he may or may not represent; the point was about putting quotas aside for the sake of good story telling and competent film-making. Van Gogh doesn't need anyone telling him to add red paint to The Starry Night to make it a better painting.
Updating or rewriting history?
When you mentioned old movies and shows. I too am amazed how they spoke of all of the issues we are facing now.