In these pages, I often have noted that, if Democrats specifically, and all Leftists generally, didn’t stand for hypocrisy, they would stand for nothing at all.  There is no better example of this maxim than the recently concluded Academy Awards show.  Let me preface this by noting that I never miss the Academy Awards; I never watch them, and I never miss them.  First of all, there are far too many awards shows; Golden Globes, People’s Choice, Emmy’s, Grammy’s, Kid’s Choice, hell, there’s a country music award show almost every week.  The idiocy of constantly handing out awards was neatly summed up by Woody Allen years ago; “And the award for best Fascist dictator – Adolph Hitler.”  The sad thing is that, if Hitler came back, put on a blue ribbon, and badmouthed Trump, they probably would give him an award.  A wise man, Donald Trump, lately has voiced the dirty little truth that other politicians scrupulously avoided – The Left, which is to say, Democrats, socialists, communists, anarchists, the denizens of Hollywood (except for John Voight, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, and a few others) and the Media, all speak with one voice, firmly dedicated to the proposition that there is only one side to every issue; their side.  Want to talk about hypocrisy?  The Left is the bunch that constantly lectures us about the evils of stereotyping.  You mustn’t stereotype minorities or members of some religious group.  I agree with that.  The problem is that Leftists consider any criticism of their constituency a stereotypical attack, which they combat by stereotyping the speaker.  Thus, all conservatives are denounced as extremists, racists, etc.  But back to the Hollywood crowd.  In league with the Media, those well known purveyors of fake news, actors are portrayed as philosophers, whose profound wisdom is to be prized by the great unwashed – that’s us, folks.  Never mind that many of them are morons, ill-educated buffoons, who never expressed a thought in a complete sentence that wasn’t written down for them by some script writer.  Actors are uniquely equipped to tell us how we must work, what we must be paid, what our national immigration laws must be, and who must be elected to office.  After all, these are people who make millions of dollars for a few days of what they consider work.  Who better to understand the plight of the common man?  To hear them tell it, Hollywood knows how to fix the borders, how to fix health care, how to do everything.  Never mind that they can’t even figure out how to hand the right envelope to the moron who is announcing the next stupid award.  That screw-up was the culmination of a well-rounded night of hypocrisy.  Iranian film maker Asghar Farhadi won the award for Best Foreign Language Film.  Farhadi had boycotted the awards because of the Trump Executive Orders temporarily restricting the entry of people from 7 nations, including Iran.  He instead sent Anousheh Ansari, the first Iranian in space, to read a statement.  Now, personally, I wouldn’t mind if all Iranians were shot into space.  Il Duce Obama once told NASA its purpose was supposed to be Muslim outreach, so I say, launch them all and “Mission Accomplished.”  I digress, Farhadi said, “I’m sorry I’m not with you tonight.  My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of the other six nations who have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the U.S.  The hypocrisy of an Iranian lecturing us about inhumane laws apparently was lost on the Hollywood crowd, which wildly applauded the statement. Iran executes more teenagers than any other nation, hanging about two people a day.  Iran arrests and flogs kids who dare to attend mixed-gender parties.  Iran brutally oppresses all who dissent, oppresses women, and executes gay people for the crime of homosexuality.  And the U.S. is inhumane, right?  Add to this, the movie eventually awarded Best Picture – Moonlight, the story of a gay black man.  I’ll bet that picture put up great box office numbers in Tehran.  Then there was Gael García Bernal, presenting the nominees for best animated feature film.  He spoke out against “walls,” like the one Trump intends to build at the U.S. – Mexican border.  “Flesh and blood actors are migrants, we travel all over the world, we build families, we construct stories, we build life that cannot be divided.  As a Mexican, as a Latin American, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I’m against any form of walls that want to separate us.” Again, major applause.  Perhaps Senor Bernal ought to take his protest to Mexican President Nieto, who even now, is fortifying Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala to stop the flow of Guatemalans and Hondurans into Mexico.  Viva la revolucion!  And last, but certainly least, there is Best Actor winner, Casey Affleck.  The Hollywood crowd, which denounced Donald Trump as a misogynistic defiler of women, handed its greatest award to a man recently sued for sexual harassment by two different women, who complained of his “unwelcome physical advances.”  In plain English, that means he grabbed them by the … well you know.  Even more alarming, is the fact that Affleck’s name will now forever be inscribed on that prestigious award, a man whose ancestors include, dare I say it,  a slaveholder, who owned 25 slaves.  It’s true.  Affleck’s bother, Ben, actually pressured Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates into cancelling a segment in his PBS documentary series, “Finding Your Roots” to remove any mention of the slaveholding history of his family.  Gates, that noted academic, was happy to oblige the Afflecks despite their past.  Now, Yale University recently changed the name of its Calhoun College, to remove any mention of slavery supporter John C. Calhoun, but no matter, some animals are more equal than others, after all.  Personally, I think we should demand that the Academy strip Affleck of the award because of the women’s complaints and his ancestry.  They can just say it was another mistake, and give the award to Denzel Washington.  Anybody who dared to complain about that is obviously racist.