Singer and Hillary Clinton supporter Katy Perry (AP Photo)

The Hollywood Reporter has just posted an article speculating that liberal celebrities may have done more harm than good to Hillary Clinton in the recent election.

“The vote for Trump was partially anti-media and anti-Hollywood,” Stephen Winzenburg, a communications professor at Grand View University in Iowa and author of “TV’s Greatest Talk Shows,” told the Reporter.

He continued: “One of the worst things Clinton could do was bring out high-paid celebrities that have no real connection with Middle America. Katy Perry appeared in Des Moines and looked like a joke with a giant red ‘H’ on her chest with her boobs popping out and an American flag cape waving behind her. If she thought she was inspiring Iowans to vote for Hillary, the opposite was happening.”

The article notes that when "The Avengers" director Joss Whedon made a pro-Clinton video starring stars like Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson, a Republican ad firm called BrabenderCox countered with a video mocking the celebrities. The $10,000 response video was viewed 14 million times prior to the election.

“It would have cost a fortune to get that many viewers on television,” BrabenderCox CEO John Brabender told the Reporter. “The battle for election content wasn’t won by the 30-second TV spot but by the three-minute Internet video.”

Reporter writer Paul Bond concludes: “Liberal celebrities may have been doing more harm than good by outwardly begging Americans to vote for Clinton and smearing Trump supporters as hateful bigots.”