Actor and comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/patton-oswalt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patton Oswalt</a> said the quiet part out loud on Tuesday when he admitted that what most people were consuming on a daily basis was not “the news,” but rather “the news business.”
Oswalt made the comments during an appearance on ABC’s midday talk show “The View,” where he also noted that a lot of the heightened dramatics of “the news” were designed to attract viewers rather than to tell them the truth.
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Patton Oswalt admits that &quot;you are being exposed to the news business rather than the news&quot; and we&#39;re not as close to &quot;the brink&quot; as the media would have us believe: &quot;We have been way closer to the brink than we are now.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Ibl50w7OyF">pic.twitter.com/Ibl50w7OyF</a>
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Oswalt has been promoting his new show &#8220;Manhunt,&#8221; which digs into the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s assassination and the search for his killer, and he joined the hosts of &#8220;The View&#8221; to discuss it.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s kind of reassuring about watching a show like &#8216;Manhunt,&#8217; is that — we have been way closer to the brink than we are now,&#8221; Oswalt began. &#8220;I think that right now that the news portrays things — because a lot of times, you are being exposed to the news business rather than the news.&#8221;
Several of the cohosts voiced their agreement with Oswalt&#8217;s assessment before he continued: &#8220;The business is about getting eyes on that screen. So they do have to make it seem like &#8216;there&#8217;s no way back from this.'&#8221;
&#8220;But we&#8217;ve been way closer, leaning over the abyss, and we&#8217;ve pulled ourselves back with way less technology and knowledge than we have now,&#8221; Oswalt added.
Cohost Joy Behar interrupted then, arguing that technology could be part of the problem.
&#8220;Any technology has its good use, its malign use, and then, &#8216;Oh, whoops&#8217; — you know, you can use an ax to cut wood and build a fire, you can also drop it and cut your toe off, and you can murder someone with it,&#8221; Oswalt replied, arguing that technology was just the tool and the hand wielding it determined whether its use would be for good or bad. &#8220;So it depends on how you use that technology.&#8221;

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Patton Oswalt Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: People See ‘The News Business,’ Not ‘The News’

Patton Oswalt Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: People See 'The News Business,' Not 'The News'

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Famed &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; host Johnny Carson once said he didn&#8217;t want to reveal his political views because he didn&#8217;t want to alienate viewers. And he famously took aim at both parties in his nightly monologue, realizing that politics is simply funny.
Very few comedians these days do that. Think of all the late-night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers, Stephen Colbert. And some stand-up comedians, like Patton Oswalt, are vicious to anyone who doesn&#8217;t think exactly like them.
But Bill Maher is different. Maher, whose comedy career was flagging when he morphed into a political talk show host back in the mid-1990s, has become a rare specimen &#8212; a comedian who targets both sides.
The 66-year-old funnyman, who hosted &#8220;Politically Incorrect&#8221; from 1992 to 2002 and has headlined &#8220;Real Time&#8221; on HBO since 2003, has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/08/business/bill-maher-still-secure-in-abc-slot-at-least-now.html">described</a> himself as a liberal and a libertarian.
But he also <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-to-piers-morgan-palin-can-absolutely-win-in-2012-but-hed-vote-for-bachmann/">calls</a> himself &#8220;practical.&#8221; That means he can see the humor that pours from turkeyneck Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) just as well as the buffoonery of 147-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
So it was not unusual &#8212; although it drew headlines across the country &#8212; when Maher said President Joe Biden needs to get rid of Vice President Kamala Harris if he decides to run again in 2024.
“It’s very hard to take the nomination away from the president,” Maher said. “What I could see is replacing the vice president because she’s not very popular anywhere. And it didn’t seem to work out. And I don’t know. That’s been done before in a ticket.”
A guest on his HBO show, left-wing The Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan, agreed, saying Harris was not only an “off-putting person,” but that she also has “a lot of baggage that probably wouldn’t do well under a lot of scrutiny.”
But Maher went further. “I just think she’s a bad politician. And I don’t … I think she’s a very bright person. But I can see them doing that because a lot of the problem with Biden being old is, ‘Oh, if he dies then you know you’re gonna get this person.’&#8221;
&#8220;OK, so here’s the problem with the Democratic Party. They’re so boxed in by identity politics that you cannot conceive of a Democratic ticket that doesn’t have a woman and person of color on it. And pretty soon you’re gonna line up behind that gay Latino and you’re gonna have to have, you know, a deaf Eskimo be the [nominee].&#8221;
It didn&#8217;t take long for Harris to prove Maher right. The day after his weekly show, the vice president said federal relief for the victims of Hurricane Ian would be based on &#8220;equity&#8221; and prioritize people in &#8220;communities of color.&#8221;
&#8220;It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making,&#8221; Harris said.
Maher regularly targets young liberals for their “progressophobia,” which he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-mocks-woke-liberals-for-their-belief-in-whiteness-as-a-malady">said</a> in 2021 has resulted in “a growing belief in whiteness as a malady and white people as irredeemable.”
“There is a recurrent theme on the far left that things have never been worse,” Maher said. &#8220;[Comedian] Kevin Hart expressed a view many hold when he told The New York Times, ‘You’re witnessing white power and white privilege at an all-time high.’&#8221;
&#8220;This is one of the big problems with wokeness — that what you say doesn’t have to make sense or jibe with the facts or ever be challenged, lest the challenge itself be conflated with racism. But saying white power and privilege is at an all-time high is just ridiculous,&#8221; he said.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt groveled to a mob after he came under fire for posting a photo Saturday with colleague and long-time friend Dave Chappelle.
When the much-more successful Chappelle realized Oswalt had booked a gig nearby his arena show in Seattle, he invited Oswalt to drop by for a guest appearance. Oswalt agreed and the two snapped a photo together that Oswalt later posted on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CYLfUrXrhod/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">Instagram</a> with a caption praising Chappelle’s comedic brilliance.
“Finished me set at @mccawhall and got a text from @davechappelle,” he wrote. “Come over to the arena he’s performing in next door and do a guest set. Why not? I waved good-bye to this hell-year with a genius I started comedy with 34 years ago. He works an arena like he’s talking to one person and charming their skin off. Anyway, I ended the year with a real friend and a deep laugh. Can’t ask for much more.”
But Oswalt’s gratitude for his fellow comedian’s friendship proved to be short-lived. The next day, after some of his followers accused him of being anti-trans for posing with Chappelle, he apologized, saying, “I’m sorry, truly sorry, that I didn’t consider the hurt this would cause. Or the DEPTH of that hurt. Ugh. So easy to think someone ELSE needs growth and miss the need in yourself. Gonna keep trying.”
While he still affirmed their friendship, he also made a point to distance himself from Chappelle’s views — implying that he agrees that the jokes the comedy legend told in his Netflix special “The Closer” were transphobic and harmful to the transgender community:
<blockquote>But we also 100% disagree about transgender rights &amp; representation. I support trans peoples’ rights — ANYONE’S rights — to live safely in the world as their fullest selves. For all the things he’s helped ME evolve on, I’ll always disagree with where he stands NOW on transgender issues. But I also don’t believe a seeker like him is done evolving, learning. You know someone that long, see the struggles and changes, it’s impossible to cut them off. Impossible not to be hopeful and open and cheer them on … I’m an LGBTQ ally. I’m a loyal friend. There’s friction in those traits that I need to reconcile myself, and not let cause feels of betrayal in ANYONE else. </blockquote>
Oswalt has arguably made more headlines for his political rants on Twitter than his comedy routines in recent years. As The Daily Wire reported, he has frequently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/patton-oswalt-responds-trumps-boy-scout-speech-elliott-hamilton">sounded</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/patton-oswalt-implodes-after-trump-presser-chase-stephens">off</a> on former President Donald Trump and his supporters and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/samantha-bee-and-patton-oswalt-mock-pro-life-amanda-prestigiacomo">mocked</a> pro-life centers.
In 2019, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blue-checkmarks-delete-tweets-defaming-covington-ashe-schow">joined</a> an online mob himself, attacking the students from Covington Catholic over erroneous reports that they ridiculed an elderly Native American man during a D.C. field trip. When it was revealed that the reports were incorrect, Oswalt deleted a thread he retweeted that revealed personal information about teen Nicholas Sandmann.
He also posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1086691179855400960?s=20">photo</a> of Sandmann alongside the comment, “THIS leering, privileged little sh**” and <a href="https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1086819003652136960?s=20">called</a> the Covington students a “horde of bland, frightened, forgettable kids who&#8217;ll grow up to be bland, frightened, forgotten adult wastes.”
He has never apologized for these posts.
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On Saturday, comedian Patton Oswalt mocked protesters angered by the economic hardships brought on by the prolonged lockdowns, comparing them to famed Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
&#8220;Anne Frank spent 2 years hiding in an attic and we’ve been home for just over a month with Netflix, food delivery &amp; video games and there are people risking viral death by storming state capital buildings &amp; screaming, &#8216;Open Fuddruckers!'&#8221; the comedian tweeted.
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Anne Frank spent 2 years hiding in an attic and we’ve been home for just over a month with Netflix, food delivery &amp; video games and there are people risking viral death by storming state capital buildings &amp; screaming, “Open Fuddruckers!”
&mdash; Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) <a href="https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1251571068885585920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Given Patton Oswalt&#8217;s wealth and success, Twitter users trolled the comedian for being insensitive in the face of people&#8217;s economic hardships.
&#8220;Not everyone can afford Netflix, food delivery &amp; video games due to the economic shutdown&#8230;,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeySalads/status/1251611023754190848?s=20">tweeted</a> Joey Saladino.
&#8220;&#8216;Let them eat kale!&#8217; laughed the rich comedian,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1251630126720155648?s=20">tweeted</a> Bridget Phetasy.
&#8220;Roughly 22 million Americans are out of work,&#8221; tweeted one user. &#8220;There are news reports of miles-long lines of cars at food distribution centers. People aren&#8217;t asking for restrictions to be lifted so they can go to Fuddruckers, they are doing so b/c they want to earn money to eat.&#8221;
&#8220;This is extremely elitist, many of these people are out of work and on their last leg,&#8221; tweeted another. &#8220;Yes, if you are part of the lucky few who are able to work from home or have jobs that are essential it seems this easy. Millions of Americans are struggling right now&#8230; come on Patton!&#8221;
&#8220;The wealthy comedian would like you to know that he and Anne Frank are morally superior to the ignorant and tasteless peasants who want their jobs and businesses back,&#8221; tweeted another.
Despite the blowback, Patton Oswalt did have his share of defenders, many of whom denounced the protesters as being selfish in the face of a pandemic.
&#8220;These are people that are screaming that staying home to avoid us all dying in a pandemic is &#8216;totalitarian control&#8217; &amp; ‘infringing on their rights&#8217; &amp; carry signs decrying not being able to go to the salon or beach or shit. They are not economic freedom fighters,&#8221; tweeted one defender of Oswalt.
&#8220;To the people shouting &#8216;but the economy&#8217; and &#8216;what about the unemployment&#8217; &#8230; Please be mad at wage gaps that cause people to operate on such razor-thin margins that missing two paychecks causes a survival crisis,&#8221; tweeted another. &#8220;People shouldn’t have to choose between safety and security. It doesn’t have to be this way.&#8221;
A feud later erupted between Oswalt and Fox News host Greg Gutfeld as the two traded grating insults.
&#8220;Rich fat guy sitting on a mountain of cash tells you jackasses to suck it up,&#8221; tweeted Gutfeld.
&#8220;Even richer a**-faced failed comedian who’s reduced to being the &#8216;wacky guy&#8217; on geriatric GOP propaganda network would like to explain the nuance of &#8216;ironic swastikas&#8217; to you,&#8221; responded Oswalt.
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Even richer ass-faced failed comedian who’s reduced to being the “wacky guy” on geriatric GOP propaganda network would like to explain the nuance of “ironic swastikas” to you <a href="https://t.co/qPfm8jicNK">pic.twitter.com/qPfm8jicNK</a>
&mdash; Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) <a href="https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1251657690423521280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Last week, President Trump released guidelines for reopening America, giving governors the green light to open up before the May 1 deadline.
As noted by CNBC, nearly all economic gains since the 2008 housing crash have been wiped out by the pandemic, with nearly 22 million Americans filing for unemployment in the last month. This past week, the $349 billion SBA loan fund for small businesses passed with the COVID-19 stimulus package <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/finance/492919-small-business-loan-program-runs-out-of-funds-amid-debate-over-new-bill">ran out of money</a>. Republicans and Democrats have since been debating how to replenish it.

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On Tuesday, President Trump issued a tweet targeting New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand, prompting supposed comedian Patton Oswalt to respond with a graphic and vulgar tweet of his own that elicited catcalls from Twitter users.
Trump started with this tweet:
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Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office &#8220;begging&#8221; for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill &amp; Crooked-USED!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/940567812053053441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Oswalt, riding in like a white knight to rescue his damsel in distress (although in this case he was apparently riding in from a red-light district), threw down his smutty gauntlet:
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&#8220;That Senator totally woulda blown me.&#8221; &#8212; a President <a href="https://t.co/TGQVxdIUQn">https://t.co/TGQVxdIUQn</a>
&#8212; Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) <a href="https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/940647348849451008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Oswalt tried slamming his critics before they slammed him, relying on calling critics members of the alt-right and protesting that he only meant to be sarcastic:
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Aaaaaaaand here come the Alt-Right Comedy Professors of Twitter explaining &#8220;sarcasm&#8221; to me.
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But there were still some pointed comments:
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Are they &#8220;mansplaining&#8221; to you, .<a href="https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@pattonoswalt</a> ? LOL
&#8212; Samantha Campbell (@manthacam) <a href="https://twitter.com/manthacam/status/940657555533123585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Explain sarcasm is soooooooo funny. (See, what I did there was elongate the o in &#8220;so,&#8221; thereby signaling to my audience that I&#8217;m not serious, and in fact think the explanation of sarcasm is derivative, unfunny, and dull.)
&#8212; Rev. Topher Mehlhoff (@mynameistopher) <a href="https://twitter.com/mynameistopher/status/940652309255741440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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In case of failed comedy career, hold down CTRL+ALT+RIGHT. If problems persist, contact customer service, ask for Jesse Watters
&#8212; John Ratté (@JohnsWordHole) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnsWordHole/status/940662281100083200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Patton Oswalt Tries Being White Knight Rescuing Gillibrand From Trump. Fail.

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Following President Trump&#8217;s <a href="http://time.com/4872118/trump-boy-scout-jamboree-speech-transcript/">highly controversial speech</a> at the Boy Scout Jamboree, many members of the media and the Left went so far as to compare it to a <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/hitler-trump-germany-nazi-president-641392">Hitler Youth rally</a>. During the speech, Trump made it partisan by trashing Democrats and Republicans, breaking away from the tradition of talking about public service or giving back to the United States. The Left, which has a long history of <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/12978/lgbt-scouts-boy-scouts-allow-girls-who-identify-ben-shapiro">targeting the Boy Scouts</a>, responded to Trump&#8217;s speech with its usual outrage.
So-called &#8220;comedian&#8221; Patton Oswalt used the speech to issue a series of vulgar tweets that objectified women, particularly First Lady Melania Trump.
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&#8220;What&#8217;s that merit badge, the knot tying one? I know some ladies who&#8217;d appreciate THAT skill. Oh boy. Vaginas, the best. Great to be here.&#8221;
&#8212; Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) <a href="https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/889699362791596033">July 25, 2017</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Pitching tents. That&#8217;s what scouts do, right? I pitched a tent when I first saw Melania. I love fucking any pussy. Scouting&#8217;s important.&#8221;
&#8212; Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) <a href="https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/889700056277762048">July 25, 2017</a></blockquote>
Oswalt, in an attempt to mock Trump&#8217;s history of misogynistic comments, did precisely what the Left claims to hate Trump for doing: objectifying women rather than treating them as equitable human beings. The difference, of course, is that this is supposed to be &#8220;comedy&#8221; meant to make Trump seem like a colossal jackass. However, Oswalt only demonstrates that it is only okay to treat women as objects if it is intended to make the Right look bad.
There are plenty of legitimate criticisms against Trump&#8217;s speech. This completely missed the mark.
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Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt once begged Donald Trump to run against Hillary but now he&#8217;s in a full panic doomsday prepper meltdown. 
After watching Trump&#8217;s hilarious press conference in which he smacked down the media, specifically calling out CNN as &#8220;fake news,&#8221; the stand-up comic was further convinced of America&#8217;s impending doom under a Trump presidency.
Oswalt wrote on Twitter, &#8220;We&#8217;re F&#8211;ked. Go be with your families. Hoard food.&#8221;
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And just like that, Trump isn&#8217;t funny anymore. That press conference was&#8230;terrifying. We&#8217;re fucked. Go be with your families. Hoard food.
&#8212; Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) <a href="https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/819238137989738496">January 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Oswalt responded to fellow comedian Will Sasso:
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Then he began responding to Trump and push-back from other Twitterers:
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&#8220;We&#8217;re F&#8211;ked. Go be with your families. Hoard food.&#8221;
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If nothing else, Trump&#8217;s presidency will be endlessly entertaining for those who find joy in watching Hollywood&#8217;s celebrated Leftists publicly cry themselves into puddles of insanity.

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