Historically, vice presidents aren&#8217;t all that important as it relates to the day-to-day duties of running the country, but when you have an octogenarian in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> who or may not be suffering early stages of dementia, the position tends to have a bit of a larger role in the administration.
So it was a bit concerning when current Vice President Kamala Harris struggled to explain to &#8220;Late Night&#8221; host Stephen Colbert what exactly her job duties are around the Biden White House:
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Sarah Palin was dragged by the media for much less &#8230; Kamala Harris can&#39;t answer a question about what the vice president&#39;s duties are &#8212; on late-night TV. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRINGE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CRINGE</a> <a href="https://t.co/oB5yzX0kQK">pic.twitter.com/oB5yzX0kQK</a>
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&#8220;One of the themes of the show [Veep] is that her character, Selina Meyer, is frustrated by the sometimes vague duties of the role. It’s a high constitutional office, but does not describe what you’re supposed to be doing,&#8221; Colbert said. “Does that ring true? Like, what’s the actual role on a daily basis as you have found it?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I have the great privilege of serving with Joe Biden, who is the President of the United States,” Harris responded.
&#8220;Does he understand what it&#8217;s like to be vice president?&#8221; Colbert then jokingly asked.
&#8220;He does, he does,&#8221; Harris replied with a laugh. &#8220;He really is a true partner and he understands that job,” Harris said before rambling and concluding that Biden is an &#8220;extraordinary leader. He really is.&#8221;
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To his credit, Colbert rebutted, &#8220;That&#8217;s an excellent answer and, uh, the question was, what&#8217;s the job of the vice president … and your answer is part of the job, I&#8217;m guessing?&#8221;
Harris was then able to articulate one example of other duties, such as going to the Munich Security Conference.
Of course, Harris actually has been tasked with plenty under Biden. Nearly a year ago, she was tapped as Biden&#8217;s border czar to deal with the deluge of illegal aliens flooding into the country via Mexico.
Suffice it to say, she failed at that one.
Perhaps Harris&#8217; real duty is acting as President Joe Biden&#8217;s insurance policy against impeachment or being knocked off the ballot in 2024. He cannot be removed because then she&#8217;ll head up the ticket.
Even a Democrat is wise enough to know that would be a total disaster — which is really saying something compared to the direction the country is currently headed.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Film director Steven Spielberg knows a thing or two about extraterrestrials — he did, after all, direct the 1982 blockbuster &#8220;E.T.&#8221;
And he knows a thing or two about UFOs — he did, after all, direct &#8220;Close Encounters of the Third Kind.&#8221;
For the record, a close encounter of the first kind is when someone sees something unusual in the sky but it leaves no evidence, according to Ohio State University astronomer J. Alan Hynek. &#8220;The Second Kind: A UFO leaves some physical trace: burns on the ground or broken branches,&#8221; WYTV <a href="https://www.wytv.com/home/close-encounters-of-the-1st-2nd-and-3rd-kind/">reported</a>. &#8220;The Third Kind: You make contact with a U.F.O, you see some alien pilot aboard one or other life form.&#8221;
People experience close encounters of the first kind all the time — even more, it seems, nowadays. And Spielberg has some theories about UFOs and extraterrestrials.
“I’ve never seen a UFO,” Spielberg said in an interview on “The Late Show with Steven Colbert,&#8221; <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/7559820/steven-spielberg-ufo-conspiracy-theory-aliens/">according</a> to The Sun. &#8220;I wish I had! I’ve never seen anything I can’t explain. But I believe certain people who have seen things that they can’t explain.&#8221;
&#8220;I think what has been coming up recently is fascinating, absolutely fascinating. And I think the secrecy that is shrouding all of these sightings and the lack of transparency… I think there is something going on that just needs extraordinary due diligence,&#8221; the director added.
Spielberg went on to pontificate about interstellar life.
“I don’t believe we’re alone in the universe. I think it’s mathematically impossible that we are the only intelligent species in the cosmos. I think that’s totally impossible. At the same time, it also seems impossible that someone would visit us from 400 million lightyears from here — except in the movies, of course — unless it figures out some way of jumping the shark, so to speak, and getting here through wormholes,&#8221; Spielberg said.
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While Spielberg doesn&#8217;t think any being in the universe has yet mastered faster-than-light travel, the idea that humans could have figured out time travel is more in the realm of possibility. Then he dropped an out-there theory.
“The most optimistic thing I feel about these things we see in the skies, that the Army and Navy and Air Force are recording on their gun cameras, is that what if they’re not from an advanced civilization 300 million lightyears from here?” he said. “What if it’s us, 500,000 years in the future, that is coming back to document the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century because they’re anthropologists? And they know something we don’t quite know yet that has occurred, and they’re trying to track the last hundred years of our history.”
Colbert jumped in to note that according to Spielberg&#8217;s theory, humanity on Earth would at least have survived 500,000 years.
“Yes, we survive,” he said. “Or at least a certain percentage of us survives that allows future generations to flourish.”
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jon-stewart" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jon Stewart</a>, a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who once hosted &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; was ripped by fellow liberals when he vehemently (and in a quite funny way) declared nearly two years ago that the COVID virus emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China.
That was in June 2021. He took endless guff from critics.
Turns out he was right — at least according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Department.
&#8220;First of all, I wasn’t waiting on the Department of Energy to weigh in on this,&#8221; Stewart said this week on his podcast. And he pointed out that he was doing what humans do: Pondering. He wondered why the virus came from a place where there just happened to be a laboratory studying coronaviruses &#8212; like COVID.
&#8220;The larger problem with all of this is the inability to discuss things that are within the realm of possibility without falling into absolutes and litmus-testing each other for our political allegiances as it arose from that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My bigger problem with that was, I thought it was a pretty good bit that expressed kind of how I felt, and the two things that came out of it were, I’m racist against Asian people, and how dare I align myself with the alt-right.&#8221;
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Today <a href="https://twitter.com/jonstewart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonStewart</a> talks to some of our staff about the news that the COVID-19 virus may, in fact, have leaked from a lab in China and what it reveals about the problem with the media narrative machine. Full episode drops Wednesday on <a href="https://twitter.com/ApplePodcasts?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ApplePodcasts</a> <a href="https://t.co/tsaLUYzIRl">pic.twitter.com/tsaLUYzIRl</a>
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That&#8217;s what happens when you question the conventional &#8220;wisdom&#8221; being pressed by liberal media &#8212; while social media supresses anything that runs counter to that wisdom.
Stewart let loose on his critics who blasted him back in June 2021. &#8220;The part that I don’t like about it is the absolutes and the dismissive, like, ‘f*** you, I’m done with you,&#8217; &#8216;I will never forgive you, you have crossed an unforgivable line.&#8217; &#8216;You’ve expressed an opinion that is antithetical to mine, or not mine,’” Stewart said.
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The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the COVID virus most likely originated from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report from the U.S. Energy Department.
The report, which was included in an update to a 2021 document by the Director of National Intelligence&#8217;s office, was recently delivered to the White House and top lawmakers in Congress. Sources told the Journal that the updated assessment from the Energy Department is the result of new intelligence.
That report followed a declassified intelligence report released in November 2021 by the FBI that concluded with &#8220;moderate confidence&#8221; that the virus emerged after a &#8220;laboratory accident.&#8221;
In a wild appearance on &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; with Stephen Colbert, an animated Stewart went on a rant about the origin of COVID.
Toeing the liberal line, Colbert asked: &#8220;Do you mean perhaps there’s a chance that this was created in a lab? If there’s evidence, I’d love to hear it.”
“A chance? Oh my god!” an incredulous Stewart replied. “There’s a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China, what do we do? Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab! The disease is the same name as the lab! That’s just a little too weird, don’t you think?”
Stewart then pretended to be a Wuhan scientist, claiming the virus emerged when “a pangolin kissed a turtle” or “a bat flew into the cloaca of a turkey, and then it sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus.”
He went on to note the absurdity of the virus emerging in a city with a coronavirus lab.
“There’s been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania — what do you think happened?” he said. “Oh, I don’t know, maybe a steam shovel mated with a cocoa bean … or it’s the f***ing chocolate factory. Maybe that’s it!”
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‘How Dare I?’: A Vindicated Jon Stewart, Who Long Ago Declared COVID Came From Wuhan Lab, Rips Critics

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One of the perks of being a film critic is getting access to the stills shared by film studios.
Example? The film “Champions” offers multiple photos from the film’s production to flesh out reviews and features based on the Woody Harrelson comedy.
One image featured director Bobby Farrelly of “There’s Something About Mary” fame coaching his young actors while wearing a mask.
It’s not an isolated incident. Similar stills show masked-up artists on sets, often working with maskless actors. That’s Hollywood, at least as it stands three years after the COVID pandemic swamped the planet.
The rest of society has mostly ditched pandemic restrictions, many of which seem to have had little impact on curtailing the virus. Not Hollywood, where masking, vaccine mandates, and more remain the norm.
And a small group of stars is fighting back.
“The Nanny” alum Fran Drescher, the current SAG-AFTRA president, excoriated her peers for <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/fran-drescher-calls-for-end-to-vaccine-mandate-in-sag-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pursuing vaccine mandates</a> long after their alleged usefulness was exposed. She shared that message during the recent SAG Awards gala.
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“As the nation declares an end to the COVID emergency this May, I hope we will see everyone return to work in equal opportunity,” she said during her podium time, demanding an end of the “bulls***” COVID vaccine mandates.
Her message came roughly the same time as Woody Harrelson uncorked a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/based-woody-harrelson-ridicules-covid-drug-cartels-and-lockdowns-on-snl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saturday Night Live” monologue</a> that poked holes in the virus protocols we’ve been forced to live under for years. The “Champions” star shared a fictional, funny story about a wacky script in which Big Pharma forced everyone to take their medication or stay locked in their homes in perpetuity.
And Harrelson wasn’t done disrupting Hollywood’s lockstep COVID narrative. He told The New York Times that a free country <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/27/magazine/woody-harrelson-interview.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doesn’t force its citizens</a> to take medicine against their will.
“I don’t think that anybody should have the right to demand that you’re forced to do the testing, forced to wear the mask and forced to get vaccinated three years on,” he said. “I’m just like, let’s be done with this nonsense. It’s not fair to the crews. I don’t have to wear the mask. Why should they? Why should they have to be vaccinated? How’s that not up to the individual? I shouldn’t be talking about this [expletive].”
Drescher and Harrelson’s views came months after Oscar-winner Tim Robbins excoriated his industry for similar protocols.
Robbins admits he sounded like every Hollywood star early in the pandemic. Do as your told. Lock down indefinitely. Listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Then, the “Bull Durham” star reached out to other people who questioned the narratives embraced in near uniformity by Hollywood, Inc. And something didn’t feel right, especially when we learned the vaccines neither prevented transmission or stopped the recipient from becoming infected.
He shared his <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/tim-robbins-russell-brand-covid-media-politics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">growing skepticism with Britain’s Russell Brand</a>, the quasi-socialist comic who has been aggressively red-pilled in recent years. Robbins noted talk of science came with an asterisk.
“…to continue the policy of lockdowns or mandates after that didn’t seem to be following the science. It was following a political agenda.”
Robbins also wondered why natural immunity, an established way to combat past viruses, was dismissed by so many, including Dr. Fauci, the nation’s revered expert on the matter.
Forcing artists to obey these rules, or else, made Robbins speak out on the matter. That practice crushed the careers of more than a few stars, including Clifton Duncan. The Broadway actor essentially left the industry because he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtOKcDF4BGQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused to take the vaccine</a>.
By any measure comedian Rob Schneider was ahead of the curve when it came to protocol skepticism. The “Deuce Bigalow” star, who has drifted to the Right in recent years, publicly shared his <a href="https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/1413884214726971394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1413884214726971394%7Ctwgr%5E37fd71e0ed6920c5339030ecf878f0d63ea7173c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tmz.com%2F2021%2F07%2F10%2Frob-schneider-use-guns-second-amendment-covid-vaccine-shot%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unease with the COVID vaccines</a> on Twitter in 2021 while nearly all of his peers signed off on the treatments.
“Just say no&#8230; And keep saying no&#8230; Over Half of the US population is continuing to say no to this unapproved experimental gene therapy! “My body, my choice!”
These voices still represent a fraction of the modern Hollywood landscape. Many stars might agree with them, but they fear professional repercussions for admitting so. <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/hypocrisy-unlimited-hollywoods-secret-counterfeit-vaccine-network_5081938.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Others cheated</a>, plain and simple. They were part of a counterfeit vaccine status market where they pretended to play by the rules but still avoided the COVID jabs.
Others appear happy with the status quo — performing without masks while others mask up from start to finish.
Stephen Colbert recently <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/stephen-colberts-masked-up-audience-mocked-their-brains-are-broken/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told his “Late Show” audience</a> about President Joe Biden’s decision to rescind the emergency status tied to the pandemic.
“I wish you could see the smiles on the faces in my audience. And I wish I could, too. Because they’re still wearing masks.”
Colbert may represent the industry’s rigid groupthink on the matter. When Colbert, a reliably progressive voice, learned that the Department of Energy determined the lab leak theory tied to COVID is the likely source of the outbreak he did all he could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colbert-mocks-energy-department-saying-chinese-lab-leak-likely-started-covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to deny the truth</a>.
“No! No! Bad Energy Department. No bio-labs until you finish building your electric car-charging stations. Stay in your lane!”
No matter what Drescher, Harrelson, or Robbins think, the industry’s COVID protocols will stay in place <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/01/covid-protocol-extended-hollywoods-union-producers-1235242705/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">through April 1</a> … if not longer.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Late-night host Stephen Colbert mocked the claim from the Department of Energy that a lab leak in China was likely responsible for the origin of the COVID pandemic.
The Department of Energy joined the FBI, which had <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/politics/china-lab-leak-coronavirus-pandemic.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> with moderate confidence that COVID started accidentally from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“The Department of Energy released a new report saying a lab leak is the most likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Colbert noted. “Well, there it is. Chinese wet markets, you’re off the hook. Let’s order a round of pangolin poppers for the table. I love a nice plate of wet apps.”
“Now, if like me, you’re wondering why the Department of Energy is the one making this judgment, it’s because that agency “oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research,” Colbert said, quoting <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>, neglecting to add that the Journal prefaced that comment by writing that the Department “has considerable scientific expertise.”
“No! No! Bad Energy Department. No bio-labs until you finish building your electric car-charging stations. Stay in your lane,” Colbert snapped.
Colbert noted that four other federal agencies concluded that the pandemic was likely the result of natural transmission, then carped, “We’ll have more on this story as soon as anyone has anything they can prove.”
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In September 2021, Colbert tried to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8">shoot down</a> Jon Stewart’s suggestion that the virus originated in Wuhan.
“Do you mean perhaps there’s a chance that this was created in a lab? There’s an investigation — “ Colbert asked.
“A chance?” Stewart mocked. “Oh my God.”
“If there’s evidence I’d love to hear,” Colbert told him.
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“There’s a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China. What do we do?” Stewart fired back. “Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan Novel Respiratory Coronavirus Lab. The disease is the same name as the lab. That’s just a little too weird, don’t you think? And then the actual scientists are like, ‘How did this?’ So wait a minute, you work at the Wuhan Respiratory Coronavirus Lab. How did this happen? And they’re like, ‘A pangolin kissed a turtle?’”
“Oh, my God, there’s been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania. What do you think happened?” Stewart continued. “Like, ‘Oh, I don’t know, maybe a steam shovel mated with a cocoa bean?’ Or it’s the f***ing chocolate factory!”
“It could be possible, you could be right,” Colbert said, before trying to rebut Stewart by saying, “It could be possible they have the lab in Wuhan to study the novel coronavirus diseases because in Wuhan there are a lot of novel coronavirus diseases because of the bat population.”
“I understand, it’s the local specialty,” Stewart replied. “And it’s the only place to find bats. You won’t find bats anywhere else. Oh, wait. Austin, Texas has thousands of ‘em that fly out of a cave every night. Every night at dusk. Is there a coronavirus, an Austin coronavirus?”
“And how long have you worked for Senator Ron Johnson,” Colbert tried lamely, referring to Johnson’s <a href="applewebdata://68E8BFB4-6349-4387-92AD-C27A397B4130/v">attempts</a> to obtain information about a possible connection between the Wuhan lab and the coronavirus.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn">CNN</a> host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/don-lemon">Don Lemon</a> defended his decision to wear a hoodie under his suit jacket during a live broadcast after “The Late Show” host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stephen-colbert">Stephen Colbert</a> made fun of him.
Colbert made the comments on his show Thursday night, questioning Lemon’s choice to dress so casually. 
&#8220;I believe a great man once said, ‘What the f*** is that?'&#8221; the comedian said while displaying an image of Lemon doing the broadcast Thursday. 
&#8220;I know they want to add some comedy to CNN, and this is hilarious, but how do you report the news in that outfit? How do you actually talk about tragedy wearing that, because what could be more tragic than that look he had this morning?&#8221; he continued, per <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11664229/Stephen-Colbert-slams-Don-Lemon-wearing-HOODIE-CNNs-revamped-breakfast-show.html">The Daily Mail</a>. 
Colbert next compared Lemon&#8217;s outfit to something worn by “a high school track teacher who went for a run but then got a little hungry and stopped at a restaurant.” 
“But it was too nice of a restaurant and they said, &#8216;Excuse me sir, you have to wear a jacket.&#8217; So then he stole a jacket from Guys and Dolls,” Colbert quipped before saying, “Don, you&#8217;ve got a lot to answer for.”
Lemon reacted with surprise while discussing the “Late Show” clip with co-host Kaitlan Collins on “CNN This Morning” the next day. 
He described the shirt in question as “a sweater that had a hood on it.” 
The CNN host said of Colbert&#8217;s segment, &#8220;I didn’t expect that reaction. For me, it was sort of like a Rorschach test about wearing that outfit. I don&#8217;t know if I want to get into it because I was actually really surprised by it.&#8221;
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“Right now, people aren&#8217;t wearing suits as much,” he continued, showing photos of himself in different colored suits. “Lots has changed since the pandemic, right? So I just found it interesting that there was such a reaction, because online I got a lot of negative reaction.”
Next, Lemon compared his outfit choice to other mainstream figures who were questioned about their fashion sense. 
&#8220;I think if Barack Obama can get criticized for a tan suit, if Volodymyr Zelensky can fight a war in a hoodie, if Trayvon Martin can start a revolution in a hoodie, then Don Lemon can tell the news in a hooded sweater,&#8221; he continued. 
&#8220;I think John Fetterman wears a hoodie on Capitol Hill,&#8221; Collins replied.
&#8220;If John Fetterman can become a senator in a hoodie, then Don Lemon can tell the news in a hoodie,&#8221; Lemon agreed.
When Collins asked if Lemon would keep wearing hoodies despite the backlash, he replied, “Of course.”
&#8220;I just want to say that a lot has changed. I understand more how you feel when women talk about [how] they talk about women’s skirts and women’s outfits and their hair and their makeup or whatever. Women get scrutinized,” he said of the incident. “Men never get scrutinized.&#8221;

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Senate Codifies Same-Sex Marriage
The Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-dem-controlled-senate-passes-same-sex-marriage-bill-12-republicans-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> Tuesday on legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, moving Congress closer to passing the bill enshrining both into federal law. Twelve Republicans and 49 Democrats supported the bill, but opponents like Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), say the bill as currently written does not protect religious liberties.
U.S. House Passes Bill To Avoid Rail Strike
The U.S. House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-legislation-to-avoid-a-nationwide-rail-strike-bernie-sanders-intends-to-block-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed an urgent bill today</a> in hopes of avoiding a nationwide rail strike. The bill would bind companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached in September but rejected by some of the 12 unions involved. The measure heads to the Senate, and if approved will head to President Joe Biden — who has urged the Senate to move quickly.
Disney Denies Politics
Disney CEO Bob Iger <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-disney-ceo-says-company-will-quiet-things-down-regrets-predecessor-battled-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked during a town hall event</a> with employees that he wants to advance social causes in a more subdued fashion. The comment comes after the entertainment giant faced public scrutiny earlier this year. Iger also denied that the company’s previous actions amounted to political activism.
&#8220;I think there’s a misperception here about what politics is, I think that some of the subjects that have proven to be controversial, as it relates to Disney, have been branded political and I don’t necessarily think they are,&#8221; Iger said. &#8220;I don’t think when you are telling stories and attempting to be a good citizen of the world that that&#8217;s political.”
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EXCLUSIVE: I have obtained video from returning Disney CEO Bob Iger&#39;s first town hall with employees, in which he signals that he will work to &quot;quiet things down&quot; politically and move toward neutrality in the culture war.<a href="https://t.co/ZBGdHhxFVS">https://t.co/ZBGdHhxFVS</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZbMCZN4MlG">pic.twitter.com/ZbMCZN4MlG</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1597683598496526338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Lethal Robots In San Francisco
This week, San Francisco <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/remote-controlled-robots-with-deadly-explosives-approved-by-sf-board-of-supervisors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granted</a> the city’s police department permission to deploy potentially lethal robots in emergency situations.
Police noted that the remotely-controlled machines will not have firearms, but could have explosive devices “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspects&#8221; in life-threatening situations.
New Democratic Leadership
House Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-dems-elect-hard-left-rep-hakeem-jeffries-to-succeed-pelosi-as-house-leader" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> unanimously on Wednesday for hard-left Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to take over for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as the new House Minority Leader. Jeffries ran unopposed. Pelosi announced she would not seek re-election to party leadership earlier this month.
Layoffs At CNN
CNN CEO Chris Licht <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/cnn-starts-laying-off-hundreds-of-employees-targeting-on-air-contributors-first/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a wave of layoffs this week amid &#8220;a recalibrated reporting strategy.&#8221; The network will first notify contributors Wednesday, then full-time staff starting Thursday.
“It will be a difficult time for everyone,” Licht wrote in a memo to staff. The news network is reportedly attempting to change its editorial standards to be seen as more neutral.
Earlier this week, CNN anchor Don Lemon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-don-lemon-offers-bizarre-rebuttal-when-colbert-says-new-cnn-boss-wont-let-anchors-be-liberal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back</a> on the claim that the network had a liberal bias when asked about the changes by Stephen Colbert.
&#8220;The word on the street is that you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore. Is that, is that the case?&#8221; Colbert asked.
“I don’t think we ever were liberal,” Lemon shot back.
“What?” Colbert said, appearing to be confused.
“Yes, I don’t think we ever were,” Lemon insisted.
Colbert pushed back, saying that it wasn’t really him saying that Licht wasn’t <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/that-is-bulls-cnn-head-honcho-says-hes-not-interested-in-being-centrist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowing anchors</a> to be liberal: “That’s the people out there saying that he’s not letting you be liberal anymore.”
“Well, listen, I think that, I think what Chris is saying is that he wants Republicans, sensible Republicans,” Lemon explained, arguing that the new direction was more about keeping people “comfortable” than about choosing a side. “But also, by the nature of what we do, we have to hold people to account. And so that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re going liberal or conservative or whatever. It just means that we are doing what we do. And that’s good journalism.”
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On <a href="https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@colbertlateshow</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/donlemon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonLemon</a> claims of CNN: “I don’t think we ever were liberal.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Colbert?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Colbert</a> <a href="https://t.co/eHj8LYg5xt">pic.twitter.com/eHj8LYg5xt</a>
&mdash; Brent Baker 🇺🇦 (@BrentHBaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker/status/1597461526926999552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Explosion At Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid, Spain
An <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/europe/madrid-ukraine-embassy-explosion-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explosion at the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid, Spain</a>, early Wednesday reportedly injured one person. A Ukrainian spokesperson said an explosive device was “hidden” in an envelope that detonated inside the embassy. Local authorities are investigating the incident. No person or group has claimed responsibility.
Woman Sues Over Homemade Mac And Cheese
And a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-sues-after-mac-and-cheese-takes-more-than-3-5-minutes-to-make" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woman is suing Kraft for $5 million</a> in a lawsuit alleging that the company’s macaroni and cheese product takes longer than the promised 3.5 minutes to make it.
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Wednesday

Wednesday Afternoon Update: CNN Layoffs, Disney Denies It’s Political, Killer Robots In San Francisco

Disney

General

Lawsuit

Morning Wire

Podcast

Same-Sex Marriage

Senate

Spain

CNN morning show host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/don-lemon-journalists-must-treat-republicans-as-dangerous-to-our-society/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Lemon</a> managed to surprise &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnn-chief-chafes-over-gutfeld-balks-when-journalist-points-out-he-beat-colbert/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Colbert</a> during a Monday evening appearance when he asserted that he didn&#8217;t believe his network had ever been &#8220;liberal.&#8221;
Lemon and Colbert discussed CNN&#8217;s new management — namely new CEO <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnn-cracks-down-on-drinking-during-new-years-eve-live-viewers-mourn-loss-of-hosts-on-air-antics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Licht</a>, who had previously worked for Colbert — and the apparent new direction the network has taken since Licht took over and the long-planned Warner Bros./Discovery merger went through. And when Colbert asserted that Licht was not &#8220;allowing&#8221; people at CNN to be liberal anymore, Lemon argued that they hadn&#8217;t been before.
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&#8220;Look who that is. It’s one of the co-hosts of &#8216;CNN This Morning,&#8217; Donald Lemon,&#8221; Colbert began, introducing the CNN anchor. &#8220;Now, our old buddy Chris Licht, he used to stand right over there where &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Who? Who is it?&#8221; Lemon asked.
&#8220;Chris Licht, he is the CEO of CNN. He’s your boss now,&#8221; Colbert continued. &#8220;He used to stand right over there. He’d stand right over there and hit the applause sign before we’d go to commercial. Basically, all his job was. And now he’s got a really hard job, which is, which is running CNN. The word on the street is that you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore. Is that, is that the case?&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t think we ever were liberal,&#8221; Lemon shot back.
&#8220;What?&#8221; Colbert appeared to be confused.
&#8220;Yes, I don’t think we ever were,&#8221; Lemon insisted.
Colbert pushed back, saying that it wasn&#8217;t really him saying that Licht wasn&#8217;t <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/that-is-bulls-cnn-head-honcho-says-hes-not-interested-in-being-centrist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowing anchors</a> to be liberal: &#8220;That’s the people out there saying that he’s not letting you be liberal anymore.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, listen, I think that, I think what Chris is saying is that he wants Republicans, sensible Republicans,&#8221; Lemon explained, arguing that the new direction was more about keeping people &#8220;comfortable&#8221; than about choosing a side. &#8220;But also, by the nature of what we do, we have to hold people to account. And so that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re going liberal or conservative or whatever. It just means that we are doing what we do. And that’s good journalism.&#8221;
&#8220;So accountable, not confrontational,&#8221; Colbert posited.
&#8220;I think sometimes one must be confrontational,&#8221; Lemon argued, going on to explain that the real move was away from being overtly hateful and attacking each other.
&#8220;Look, I don’t think that a conversation on television should be any different than a conversation in person. Listen, I have, I have confrontational conversations with people I love and I have uncomfortable conversations with people I love. And I think it’s necessary,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I think it’s also necessary to to do that on television, on CNN. And then but you can do that without being vitriolic. I think not being vitriolic is maybe a better way of putting it. But you can do that and not have vitriol. And as people say, you can disagree without being disagreeable. And so I think that that’s what our mission is.&#8221;

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WATCH: Don Lemon Offers Bizarre Rebuttal When Colbert Says New CNN Boss Won’t Let Anchors ‘Be Liberal’

Don Lemon Offers Bizarre Rebuttal When Colbert Says New CNN Boss Won't Let Anchors 'Be Liberal'

Media Bias

Fake news is no laughing matter.
It robs us of knowledge, forges false narratives and diminishes trust in journalism.
Sadly, many late-night comedians feast on fake news. They’re not willing to wait for fact checks or other journalistic staples. And they’ve been feasting on it for years, especially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-admits-he-lost-half-his-audience-for-bashing-trump-and-hes-fine-with-that" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stories tied to President Donald Trump</a>.
The comedians in question show no signs of stopping nor any remorse for their actions. They probably can’t wait for the next fake news cycle to commence. Being a late-night propagandist means never having to say you’re sorry.
It’s an unholy alliance. Journalists share wobbly news stories and comedians turn them into partisan punch lines. And, as a result, faulty narratives make their way into the public conscience.
The latest example shows how late-night comics and crooked reporters work hand-in-glove to creative narratives to attack the Right.
Last summer, the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate seeking classified documents he allegedly took from his presidential days. News outlets breathlessly suggested the documents included nuclear secrets, the kind of information that could put American security at risk if Trump peddled them to the highest bidder.
The walls, at long last, were closing in on the real estate mogul.
Late night comics simultaneously pounced and seized, brimming with outrage over the incident. “The Late Show” found host Stephen Colbert blasting Trump as committing a <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/colbert-trump-having-foreign-nuclear-144236974.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“menage a treason.”</a>
<blockquote>How do you explain this to our allies!? “Don’t worry, Prime Minister, your country’s nuclear secrets are perfectly safe, stored at the Mar-a-Lago waffle bar, between the syrup and the Nutella bucket.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/sep/08/jimmy-kimmel-mar-a-lago-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Kimmel joined in, naturally</a>. 
<blockquote>The only people who are allowed to see them are the president of the United States and a few highly cleared members of his council … and anyone who goes into Trump’s closet looking for a broom, I guess.</blockquote>
Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show” fame said Trump would have to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/daily-show-destroys-trumps-greatest-excuse-for-taking-home-classified-docs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flee the country</a> to avoid prosecution over the nuclear details. 
<blockquote>I mean, he’s the guy who wanted to build the wall,” he explained, “and now he’s going to need to sneak into Mexico. Karma’s a b****!</blockquote>
Now, we’re learning the documents in question were <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/11/16/shocker-wapo-sheepishly-admits-the-fbi-found-no-nuclear-secrets-or-anything-else-in-mar-a-lago-raid-n1646445" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tied to Trump’s ego</a>, not nuclear details ready to be sold on the open market.
The investigation is ongoing, and the facts may later change, but as of now the breathless reporting (and endless late-night yuks) proved less than accurate.
It’s hardly the biggest example of the late night/fake news connection. Audiences suffered through several years of the Russian collusion story across media headlines. And, at the same time, the late-night comics tore into the narrative.
Monologue after monologue, skit after skit, attacked Trump for treasonously conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election.
None did so as aggressively as Colbert, who famously called the President Vladimir Putin’s “c*** holster” in one of late night’s most vulgar cracks … ever.
We now know it’s all a fraud, one which the correctly named Deep State had a hand in perpetrating. So where’s the late night mea culpas?
Team Late Night also jumped on Cassidy Hutchinson’s claims that Trump attempted to physically attack a Secret Service driver to swerve the vehicle toward the January 6 protests which later became violent.
The media had a feeding frenzy over the story, and Hutchinson’s testimony spoke to late night TV’s partisan biases. 
Once again, comedians didn’t wait for the facts. They wanted the “clapter,” the fawning response from liberals in the studio audience, and they couldn’t be bothered.
The basement-rated Trevor Noah offered <a href="https://theweek.com/jan-6-committee/1014745/stephen-colbert-and-trevor-noah-size-up-trumps-top-jan-6-tantrums-revealed">fake praise for Trump’s instincts</a> during the alleged fracas.
<blockquote>…fighting your own Secret Service agent is kind of genius on Trump’s part, because he’s hitting the one person who can’t hit back.</blockquote>
Colbert said the story would “make a great season premiere of Kleptocrats in Cars Seizing Power.”
The assembled comics didn’t wait to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/testimony-of-cassidy-hutchinson-appears-to-fall-apart-as-new-reports-surface-about-secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hear the rest of the story.</a>
Notably, not one but two primary sources refuted her claims. The person who allegedly told her the story denies sharing it, and the Secret Service agent Trump allegedly man-handled offered to testify it never happened.
The matter eventually went away, with news outlets disinterested in following Hutchinson’s narrative.
Even smaller fake news stories get turned into late night wisecracks. In 2019, media outlets suggested President Trump had <a href="https://time.com/4705083/seth-meyers-trump-meals-on-wheels-budget-cuts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gutted the Meals on Wheels program</a>, a charitable effort designed to feed those who can’t get food on their own.
The host of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” raged against Trump and the decision.
<blockquote>Old people voted for you. Your key demographics were old people and older people. They believed you when you said you cared about them. There’s nothing more low-life than lying to the elderly. You should know that. You’re 70.</blockquote>
Except less than 3% of the program’s funding comes from federal funding. So the media and Meyers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fake-news-did-trump-just-kill-meals-wheels-not-ben-shapiro?utm_content=031817-news&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grossly misrepresented the facts</a> to smite Trump.
Again.
News outlets should go back and update incorrect news stories. The corrections section is a venerable part of journalism, a necessary feature given how even the best reporters can make mistakes.
We’re seeing very little of that happening with the current wave of fake news. Has any major outlet offered a voluminous explanation for the collusion hoax?
And, of course, late-night comics won’t be held responsible for their false narratives.
It’s just a joke, they say. Too bad they’re punching down on the American experiment in the process.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Collusion In Comedy: Late Night Hosts Feast On Fake News Over Facts

Donald Trump

Jimmy Kimmel

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn">CNN</a> President Chris Licht dismissed the news that Fox News host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/its-kind-of-a-sick-boast-greg-gutfeld-rips-biden-for-making-the-leap-to-full-on-fascist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Gutfeld</a> was winning the ratings war against traditional late-night comedy hosts like his own former boss, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/fox-news-gutfeld-beats-colbert-in-late-night-show-viewers-key-age-demographics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Colbert</a>.
During a Thursday appearance on journalist Kara Swisher&#8217;s podcast — <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-chris-licht-turn-cnn-around/id1643307527?i=1000586551899" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On With Kara Swisher</a> — Licht argued that Gutfeld&#8217;s late-night comedic offering &#8220;Gutfeld!&#8221; could not be compared to traditional late-night programming, saying that it was &#8220;entertaining,” but he &#8220;wouldn’t put it in the same category.&#8221;
Swisher introduced the topic by asking how a news-first network like CNN could compete with the typical late-night fare on other networks — and she noted that Gutfeld had been fairly effective in bridging that gap at Fox News.
Pointing out the fact that some — including her own sons — often got their &#8220;news&#8221; with a side of humorous commentary from hosts like John Oliver, Swisher asked whether networks that included that type of programming held an advantage over a network that was trying to stick to the news alone — as CNN <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnn-announces-new-programming-plan-and-elon-musk-is-already-on-board/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appears to be doing</a> under Licht&#8217;s leadership.
&#8220;Colbert is very influential in news. Could you inform a broader audience there than you could at CNN? My sons don’t watch CNN. They watch John Oliver, and that’s where they get their news,&#8221; Swisher explained.
Licht pushed back: &#8220;But it’s not news.&#8221;
&#8220;But it is, it’s a point of view and it’s pretty smart,&#8221; Swisher replied — and Licht agreed, to a point.
&#8220;But I think we’re offering something different. And I think, there are certainly elements of that kind of delivery, right? Not necessarily comedy … it’s informed perspective programming that allows you to make your own decisions,&#8221; he said.
Licht objected further when Swisher suggested CNN might offer a late-night show like &#8220;Gutfeld!&#8221; — and suggested that he didn&#8217;t even put the Fox News ratings juggernaut in the same camp as the late-night shows on the legacy networks.
&#8220;I would call him — just an entertaining show. I would not call him a late-night show. As someone who worked on a late-night show and knows what goes into that, I wouldn’t put it in the same category,&#8221; Licht said.
&#8220;He beat Colbert, but go ahead,&#8221; Swisher <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/10/27/fox-news-channels-gutfeld-hits-25-million-viewers-highest-rated-night-in-shows-history/?sh=2a1024c262aa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot back</a>.
&#8220;Are we gonna get into this conversation? That’s not true,&#8221; Licht said, adding, &#8220;I’m still gonna defend my friend, Stephen.&#8221;
Swisher again argued that Licht, with his own experience working in late-night television, might want to consider bringing one to CNN. &#8220;You’re good at making these shows. Why not have one there? If you’re talking about a panoply of things to give to people,&#8221; she said.
Licht&#8217;s interview is available here:
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Obvi the media eats this one up, but this is a really interesting chat with new ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>⁩ head Chris Licht for non insiders. A lot to unpack. <a href="https://t.co/yftXToufiZ">https://t.co/yftXToufiZ</a>
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Rob Schneider Visits “Gutfeld!”

CNN Chief Chafes Over Gutfeld, Balks When Journalist Points Out: ‘He Beat Colbert’

CNN Chief Chafes Over Gutfeld, Balks When Journalist Points Out: 'He Beat Colbert'

Comedy

Fox News

Greg Gutfeld

Far-left late-night host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigans-largest-newspaper-rebuts-stephen-colbert-over-false-attack-on-gop-gov-candidate-tudor-dixon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Colbert</a> mocked Republicans as &#8220;fascists&#8221; and Ku Klux Klan members a day after predictions of a red wave <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-red-wave-stops-at-florida-as-initial-midterm-tallies-leave-house-senate-majorities-in-question/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed to materialize</a> in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Colbert, who in May <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/may/18/stephen-colbert-future-republicans-primaries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the GOP was “choosing its direction for 2022: original recipe nutballs or extra crispy cuckoo cojones,” was giddy when Democrats performed better than expected. Although Republicans are still expected to take a narrow House majority, control of the Senate is still in question.
“As a performer, there are three things you don’t want to follow: animals, children, or a fascist takeover of your country,” Colbert taunted. “These results is (sic) a crisp nut-punch to Republican optimism leading up to this election.”
Colbert continued, citing headlines he&#8217;d apparently seen on the internet.
“&#8217;The vaunted red wave never hit the shore in mid-term elections,’&#8221; he said. &#8220;‘That’s not a red wave,’ and ‘The red wave was more like a pink splash.’”
“Yes, a pink splash,” Colbert said. “It was a salmon drizzle, a rosy wash. It&#8217;s like what happens when you accidentally wash your Klan robes with your MAGA hat. It&#8217;s just a little pink wash.”
Colbert has demonstrated his contempt for conservatives many times in the past. In March, in the face of soaring gas prices devastating American consumers, Colbert <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/stephen-colberts-elitism-on-soaring-gas-prices-hell-ill-pay-15-a-gallon-because-i-drive-a-tesla/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mocked</a> struggling average Joes and said it was part of the price of backing Ukraine in its war with Russia.
&#8220;Today, the average gas price in America hit an all-time record high of over $4 a gallon,&#8221; he said. &#8220;OK, that stings, but a clean conscience is worth a buck or two. It’s important. I’m willing to pay $4/gallon. Hell, I’ll pay $15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla.”
Back in May 2019, the cold open for his show opened by mocking farmers, intimating that if their finances were hurt by President Trump’s tariffs targeting China, they would lose their wives to convicts, start stripping for a living, become alcoholics, and turn to growing marijuana.
The show began by playing a clip from a CNN report that claimed President Trump’s “trade war [is] having a major impact on American farmers after talks with China have halted. Some farmers seem to be losing hope.” That was followed by a clip of a farmer who said he had voted for Trump in 2016 but would not do so again.
The show then aired a cartoon titled, “The Farmer in the Dell,” based on the famous children’s song, but this time with new lyrics, accompanied by the visuals in the cartoon:
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Tariffs posed by Trump 
Put the farmers in a dump 
Oh no, the derry-o, the farmer’s in a slump. 
The farmer lost his wife. 
She wants a better life. 
She ran off with an ex-convict who rides a b****in’ bike. 
The farmer needs a job. 
He’s stripping while he sobs. 
Hi-ho the stripper pole, they’re laughing at his knob. 
The farmer drinks a lot, 
His liver starts to rot. 
Chuggitiy-chug the winey-o 
Time to start growing pot.
</blockquote>

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‘Wash Your Klan Robes With Your MAGA Hat’: Stephen Colbert Mocks Republicans After Election Results

Stephen Colbert Mocks Republicans After Election Results  

2022 Midterms

Elections

Republicans

Megyn Kelly interviewed Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon on Monday and asked her thoughts about Stephen Colbert&#8217;s &#8220;apology&#8221; after he mocked a Democratic supporter of hers.
During the Sirius XM &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly0bCvR_P2A">podcast</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly">host</a> asked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-the-deplorables-moment-it-will-be-a-shock-come-tuesday-tudor-dixon-bashes-the-view">Dixon</a> about what Kelly called Colbert&#8217;s snarky &#8220;apology&#8221; and asked what her message to Colbert might be. The late-night host used one of Dixon&#8217;s supporters during his recent monologue, mocking how the man, Khalil Othman, said he was a Democrat who was leaving the party for the Republicans after discovering sexual content in his kid&#8217;s school library.
Colbert later issued an &#8220;apology&#8221; to the man after he was called out by Michigan&#8217;s largest newspaper, <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2022/11/02/stephen-colbert-dearborn-man-dearborn/69608126007/">Detroit Free Press</a>, which rebutted the host over his false attack against Dixon — he claimed that Othman was &#8220;totally made up,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigans-largest-newspaper-rebuts-stephen-colbert-over-false-attack-on-gop-gov-candidate-tudor-dixon">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
&#8220;You are not understanding the people of the country,&#8221; Dixon told Kelly. &#8220;You&#8217;re not understanding the heartbeat of America right now, and that is to make sure that our kids are protected, that they have a future and that they have safe communities.&#8221;
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&#8220;When you belittle parents who are concerned about their child&#8217;s safety, no matter what the safety issue is, you are losing people for your own party and we welcome them to ours,&#8221; she added.
During &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert&#8221; on Thursday, the host said, &#8220;This very real person deserves an apology because he says, &#8216;To claim that I&#8217;m not here, I don&#8217;t exist, I&#8217;m not human, that&#8217;s absolute ignorance,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/stephen-colbert-walks-back-tudor-dixon-swipe-ridicules-michigan-voter-referred">Fox News</a> noted. &#8220;So I would like to apologize. It is a terrible thing for someone to deny your very existence. Just ask trans people. Therefore, I, Stephen Colbert, acknowledge that you exist and ask that you forgive me.&#8221;
Colbert then shared a part of what Othman had told the <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2022/11/02/stephen-colbert-dearborn-man-dearborn/69608126007/">Detroit Free Press</a> that read, &#8220;If this person did his due diligence and start researching or has his team do a little bit of research of who&#8217;s this person who attended Dixon&#8217;s rally, they will be able to find my name right away easy on social media. Just Google it.&#8221;
The late-night host then took a swipe at the Michigan voter, when he said, &#8220;OK, fair enough. But I will point out that Dixon never said your name. So what am I supposed to search for? All she said was I had a gentleman come up to me, and he said I found content in my school library describing how to have sex to my son.&#8221;
He said Othman &#8220;claimed to be a Democratic politician but switched after he lost his primary and packed up his toys and went off in a huff to support&#8221; Dixon.

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