The same ol’ playbook. It just gets so tiring.
Hamilton actress Denée Benton besmirched Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard during Sunday night’s 2023 Tony Awards. The insult incited insane applause and guffawing from the audience.
On the Tony Awards on CBS, actress Denee Benton announces award for outstanding HS theatre teacher. She wisecracked "I am certain the current Grand Wizard — I'm sorry…governor of my home state of Florida" (wild screams, applause) will rename the town Plantation, Florida. pic.twitter.com/YsceE5B8QR
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) June 12, 2023
This is why we despise you and ignore you.
You’ve allowed your celebrity to be weaponized for the Democrat Party. But you’ve overshot. We no longer care about you. We just shake our heads sadly and roll our eyes.
In other news, data collected by Nielsen shows how the Tony Awards’ viewership has plummeted in the past three decades. In 1974, 20 million people tuned in. In 1990, ten million people tuned in.
In 2021, the figure had dropped to a record low of only 2.62 million people.
Your shrillness invites irrelevance. Yet the more irrelevant you become the more shrill you become.