http:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/2017\/02\/26\/oscars-trump\/<\/a>), and in such excessive fashion that they forgot that their first duty was to produce a professional awards ceremony\u2014part of the essay\u2019s larger theme that when we cannot manage the basics we resort to pontificating about the abstract.<\/p>\nI don\u2019t know what \u201cthe right\u201d has to do with an Oscars\u2019 ceremony. In the future, if Hollywood and its auxiliaries will focus on the procedures and protocols and less on virtue signaling to their audiences about contemporary politics, there will be less chance of a monumental and embarrassing flub. After all, it is not difficult to select a winner, type the name on a piece of paper, put it into an envelope, and hand to a presenter. High schools do it all the time without causing mayhem on the stage.<\/p>\n
Sincerely, Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
03\/21\/17 From an Angry Reader: Sorry so many of the stars disagree with your politics, but it is an alternative fact to state that the envelope mixup was the fault of dense celebrities. The PWC representative, who handed the wrong envelope to Warren Beatty, along with his PWC associate in the wings, the only other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2B1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13092,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/not-so-angry-reader-jacob\/","url_meta":{"origin":9983,"position":0},"title":"Not-At-All-Angry Reader Jacob","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Professor Hanson, As all good and bad things from the US eventually wash over my small country, Denmark, I just wanted to thank you deeply for your efforts. 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Or are you just up for the pot\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10967,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/02-09-18-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":9983,"position":3},"title":"02\/09\/18 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry(?) Reader: Greetings Professor Hanson! For many years now, I have followed you on talk radio, TV interviews, YouTube videos, books and published articles. I greatly appreciate your commitment to truth, accurate history and the application of those two principles to current events. Your reasoning and observations are\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10643,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10643-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9983,"position":4},"title":"From An Angry Reader: Dear\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Dear Mr. Hanson, I\u2019m a black Ivy-League educated liberal raised in NC and something in me snapped last week. Have no fear, I\u2019m still in the liberal camp, but it perturbs me greatly to see all the hoopla over Confederate memorials. 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