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Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to the president, took on
Hollywood and criticized what she deemed the “unfortunate”
politicization of entertainment and sports during an interview on
“Fox & Friends” on Monday.
The comments came the morning after the
annual Emmy Awards, which featured a
surprise appearance by former White House press secretary Sean
Spicer and a series of jabs at President Donald Trump.
“Your takeaway from yesterday’s three hour celebrity — I don’t
know — political rally?” “Fox & Friends” host Pete Hegseth
asked Conway.
“It did feel that way,” Conway began. “It’s the sameness — they
got plucked and polished and waxed and some of them didn’t eat
for two months and all for what? To sound the same?”
Conway argued that pop culture — from sports to film — is
becoming increasingly politicized, and that the goal is to
dictate how people think.
“Between the Emmys, the Miss America pageant was very
politicized. Our sports are very politicized,” she said. “It
looks like the ratings are suffering, it looks like America is
responding by tuning out. Because they want you to stick to your
knitting, I guess in this case read other stuff other people
write for you. They’re welcome to their opinion but how does it
really fit?”
Conway warned Hollywood that it’s “alienating” vast
segments of the country who support the administration and the
president’s agenda.
“You’re alienating at least 63 million Americans who supported
this president last time and you’re alienating many more who
want the president to succeed and you’re showing the
world that you’re so easy with an insult about our
leader,” Conway said. “I think that’s really unfortunate,
actually.”
But Conway approved of Spicer’s appearance at the awards show,
telling the Fox hosts she’s happy her former colleague is capable
of taking the ridicule he often received on NBC’s “Saturday Night
Live.”
“This is something that a lot of folks in Hollywood sometimes
lack, which is introspection and good humor,”
Conway said.
She added that the president is too busy to call up actor
Alec Baldwin to congratulate him on
his Emmy award for his
impersonation of Trump on the weekend comedy
show.
