Imagine, it wasn’t long ago that an Oscars broadcast would contain no politically divisive messaging at all. Hollywood is one more American cultural institution the Mad Left infiltrated, took over, and uses as an ideological weapon while rejecting the values and entertainment needs of wide swathes of the public.

O’Brien even mocked the alternate Super Bowl half-time show and the deliberate divisiveness it was a response to, joking that Kid Rock was hosting an alternative Oscar broadcast. So Hollywood thinks it’s ennobling to compare the Oscars to Bad Bunny and twerking dancers. Got it. The film industry deserves whatever happens to it from now on.

If I could offer some more advice that won’t be taken, an easy survival step for Hollywood would be to tell its actors and actresses to shut the hell up. Last week Rachel Zegler, who helped turn her Disney star vehicle “Snow White” into an all-time critical and financial disaster by shooting off her mouth, shot again.

“When I was younger my approach to beauty was a lot more shaped by what I was witnessing in big pieces of media,” she said. “So it was who was on magazine covers, who was in beauty commercials, who was in movies and considered the most beautiful movie star at the time. It was very Eurocentric as I was growing up and being a young Latina that was hard because not a lot of people looked the way I did.”

First, this is an example of the “I want to see people who look like me” narcissism that helped fuel the DEI Ethics Train Wreck. Second, the actress is embracing the “Don’t confuse me with facts, my mind’s made up!” fallacy. It’s like Bill Clinton “remembering” black church burnings that he wasn’t alive to experience. Zegler was born in 2001, and was a teen from 2014 to 2020. There were a lot of actresses and models of Hispanic heritage in that period, and had been for decades: Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria, Penélope Cruz, Rosario Dawson, Michelle Rodriguez, and America Ferrera; Raquel Welch was still a celebrity. Zoe Saldaña, Ana de Armas ,Gina Rodriguez and Eiza González were holding down film franchises. Then there were pop stars Shakira, Sofía Vergara, Selena Gomez, and Demi Lovato.

But Zegler is only mouthing the anti-American “whites marginalize people-of-color” narrative that today’s Hollywood considers sacred cant.

Oh…a special Ethics Dunce goes to Fox, which had the rights to broadcast the terrific USA vs. Dominican Republic World Baseball Classic semi-final contest, giving audiences, for the first time in memory, a strong network alternative to being bored or annoyed by the Oscars. Inexplicably, the game was shown on FS1, a cable channel that a lot of packages (like mine) don’t include.