Emmy®-winning live television producer David Hill and Oscar®-nominated producer-director Reginald Hudlin produced the 88th Oscars telecast on Feb. 28, 2016. It was absolutely the worst Academy Awards show in history, from host Chris Rock’s endless “OscarsSoWhite” rants to his hawking Girl Scout Cookies to Vice President Biden showing up to talk about campus rape to the corrupted Best Picture video clips and all the way to the inappropriate orchestral music selections. Hill and Hudlin should be permanently barred from ever producing another show.

Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs had said earlier that she hoped Chris Rock would simply acknowledge the “elephant in the room” and then move on. Instead, Rock rode the elephant in, made it do a song and dance, twirl on its trunk, take a huge dump, throw rotten peanuts at the audience and then finally spout hundreds of gallons of regurgitated bile at them. Not only was this entertainment show not entertaining, it was disgraceful and insulting to all the nominees of every category. And unless they’re all masochists, the attendees, whether members of the Academy or not or job hirers or not, had to sit there smiling and applauding, lest they be perceived as racist.

The only political message that was welcome was winner Leonardo DiCaprio’s pro environment stance. Why? Because if we don’t act now to save the planet and all of its valuable resources, none of us will be around to watch another crappy, vile and insulting Oscar telecast hosted by Chris Rock or anyone else.

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