{"id":1150840,"date":"2021-12-24T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150840"},"modified":"2021-12-24T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T20:05:06","slug":"cbs-kennedy-center-honors-featuring-bette-midler-sees-ratings-crash-to-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-kennedy-center-honors-featuring-bette-midler-sees-ratings-crash-to-new-low\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS&#039; Kennedy Center Honors, Featuring Bette Midler, Sees Ratings Crash to New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcbs-kennedy-center-honors-featuring-bette-midler-sees-ratings-crash-to-new-low%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kennedyhonorsbidenmidler1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">CBS\u2019 broadcast of the annual Kennedy Center Honors saw its ratings collapse on Wednesday, reportedly&nbsp;drawing an average of 4.1 million total viewers \u2014 a new low for the show, not including last year\u2019s pandemic-delayed special.<\/p>\n<p>Bette Midler, who recently insulted West Virginians as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/20\/bette-midler-attacks-west-virginians-as-poor-illiterate-and-strung-out-then-apologizes\/\">poor, illiterate and strung out<\/a>,\u201d was one of the honorees this year, receiving a glowing tribute from President Joe Biden during a pre-show reception. \u201cI am such an unadulterated fan. Bette is a true American treasure,\u201d the president gushed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Watch below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>During the show, FX\u2019s <em>Pose<\/em> star Billy Porter paid musical tribute to the \u201cDivine Miss M.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TONIGHT: I am so honored to be paying tribute to none other than the Divine Miss M, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetteMidler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BetteMidler<\/a>! Watch the 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors tonight (12\/22) at 9\/8c on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBS<\/a> and Paramount+<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KCHonors?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KCHonors<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kencen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kencen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/so24sz3gUI\">pic.twitter.com\/so24sz3gUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Billy Porter (@theebillyporter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theebillyporter\/status\/1473695971829817348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Kennedy Center Honors\u2019 4.1 million viewers represents an improvement from last year\u2019s ceremony, which was delayed due to the pandemic. But it fell well short its&nbsp;last pre-pandemic outing of 7 million, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/tvline.com\/2021\/12\/23\/tv-ratings-kennedy-center-honors-44th-annual\/\">report<\/a> from TV Line.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s ceremony also honored Lorne Michaels, the longtime producer of NBC\u2019s <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>, which has become a mouthpiece for the political left.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony also took some veiled jabs at former President Donald Trump, who famously broke with presidential tradition by declining to attend the honors while he was in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight, it is quite nice, very nice, to see the presidential box once again being occupied,\u201d comedian David Letterman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/david-letterman-joe-biden_n_61ade1fbe4b07fe20129b5cf\">reportedly<\/a> said, eliciting a standing ovation for Biden. \u201cThe same with the Oval Office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Bidens,&nbsp;Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, also attended the ceremony, along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS\u2019 broadcast of the annual Kennedy Center Honors saw its ratings collapse on Wednesday, reportedly\u00a0drawing an average of 4.1 million total viewers \u2014 a new low for the show, not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}