Backlash over everything is being politicized

Rush: I played golf on Saturday with a noted Hollywood actor. Not gonna mention his name because of course I did not seek his permission to share details of discussions. One of the things when people talk to me, I assure them it’s all off the record, and we were talking about Hollywood’s bad box office. And I said, “What do you think of the theory Hollywood believes it’s Rotten Tomatoes is the reason why the box office is down?”

He said, “What?”

I said, “Rotten Tomatoes, you know, the crowd-sourced public review and opinions of movies.”

He said, “No. That’s not what it is. How long has Rotten Tomatoes been around?”

I said, “A long time.”

He said, “Right, so why now is Hollywood having a –” cut to the chase. He believes that Hollywood’s politicization of their entertainment medium is now starting to catch up to them. Look at the National Football League. The National Football League opening game Thursday night, Tom Brady, biggest marquee star in the NFL against Kansas City Chiefs, nothing else going on except the hurricane forecasting, and their ratings were down 17%. I mean, it was a huge decline.

People said, “Well, it was the hurricane.” Yeah, except the U.S. Open being televised the next night was up 36% while the hurricane coverage was even more intense. That’s not what it is. It is the politicization of everything. And especially now our entertainment venues, entertainment options, everything’s becoming politicized. You can’t escape it. They’re forcing it on you. And there are however many people voted for Trump, 60 million, whatever the number is, there are that many people who are, at one stage or another, resisting all of this.

They’re either not going to the movies. They’re not watching the Drive-By Media. They’re not watching the NFL. It is a slow creep that is happening, and of course the leaders of these industries trying to figure this out because of groupthink and because of consensus, cannot be honest with themselves about what their problems are, which means they’re never gonna be able to fix them. You look, ESPN’s numbers and subscribers are way, way down, I mean, hellishly so, and that’s bringing down Disney.

There’s something in common with all of this, and that is the politicization.

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