No, Jimmy, it wasn’t Netflix… or the Russians, that caused millions of Americans to ignore the Oscars this year.

Tammy explains it here, in the latest Washington Times column: “A Hollywood to escape from: Oscars ratings disaster suggests cultural shift”

Via Free Beacon.

Jimmy Kimmel blamed Netflix for the 90th annual Academy Awards getting the lowest television ratings in the show’s history.

Kimmel, who attacks President Donald Trump and conservatives regularly on his ABC late-night show, hosted the Oscars for the second straight year, seeing disappointing ratings both times. The 2018 Oscars appear to have suffered a substantial 19 percent ratings dropcompared to the show in 2017.

On his Tuesday, Kimmel blamed the streaming service for the Oscars’ problems after Trump criticized the awards on Twitter, which the Daily Wire reported.

“Trump loves saying the ratings are down as if to insinuate that’s some sort of show of support for him, but the truth is, every year since Netflix happened, the ratings for every big TV show are down—Super Bowl, Grammys, Emmys, Golden Globes,” Kimmel said. “But Trump thinks he caused the ratings to go down.”….

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