Late Night TV has aggressively chased half of America away in the age of Trump. The hosts’ anti-conservative rhetoric all but drowns out what used to come first from the format.
Jokes.
The Kimmel-Meyers-Noah-Colbert-Bee-Oliver-Maher Borg spins progressive narratives before any gut-busting gags. It’s why the term “<a href="https://ricochet.com/210993/archives/laughter-vs-clapter/">clapter</a>” captures the new format so well.
The current crisis finds some of these far-left hosts doubling down on their anti-Trump rhetoric. Seth Meyers, for example, called President Trump a “sociopath.”
The host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” attempted to savage Trump for his handling of the pandemic … before Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crenshaw-wrecks-bill-maher-over-trump-coronavirus-response-internet-erupts-likely-run-for-president-one-day">Dan Crenshaw schooled him</a>.
Something else is sneaking into these late-night sermons – an elitist streak that could turn off even some left-leaning viewers.
Maher himself inadvertently kicked it off last year when he cheered on a recession in order to topple Trump. That arrogance multiplied in recent days thanks to the pandemic.
For example, the host of TBS’s “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” served up a disturbing rant earlier this month. The far-left comic, as Trump-obsessed as her peers, trashed the President for a curious reason.
Trump has been offering a beleaguered nation hope of a better tomorrow via his daily pressers. He’s the Optimist in Chief, and a nation literally shut down by COVID-19 could use a dash of that pluck.
Enter Bee, who <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/samantha-bee-trump-hope/">fired back</a> against that sentiment.
“He IS a cheerleader. He even came up with his first cheer!” she cried, then played a clip of Trump spelling out COVID.
Here’s betting some of Bee’s viewers hope the president is right.
We think.
Over at Colbert’s “Late Show,” the Trump-hating host <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/colbert-trump-coronavirus-protestors-985703/">took his fury out on average Americans</a> struggling to pay their bills. Colbert is collecting his usual paycheck, which <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/10/stephen-colbert-extends-cbs-contract-host-the-late-show-august-2023-1202762277/">last year got a sizable bump</a>. He previously earned <a href="https://money.com/stephen-colbert-net-worth/">$15 million a year</a>.
The progressive host punched down, big time, by attacking Ohio and Michigan residents eager to get back to work.
Protestors demonstrated outside their respective state houses, blocked traffic (not that there’s much traffic right now with shelter-in-place orders in effect), and waved giant flags, including Confederate ones. “Because nothing says ‘never surrender’ like a Confederate flag,” Colbert said with a wink.
Meanwhile, a clueless James Corden turned to the women who, on Feb. 24, endangered many lives with these <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-hits-pelosi-for-urging-crowds-to-assemble-in-chinatown-as-coronavirus-spread">public statements</a>.
“It’s exciting to be here, especially at this time, to be able to be unified with our community,” Pelosi told reporters. “We want to be vigilant about what is out there in other places. We want to be careful about how we deal with it, but we do want to say to people ‘Come to Chinatown, here we are – we&#8217;re, again, careful, safe – and come join us.&#8217;”
Yes, multi-millionaire Nancy Pelosi, also known as the Speaker of the House, appeared on “The Late, Late Show” for a stilted, laugh-free segment.
The “highlight?” Viewers got a glimpse of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-shows-off-eating-ice-cream-rubio-expertly-trolls-her-cruz-joins-in">Pelosi’s massive refrigerators</a>, stuffed to the brim with ice cream.
Marie Antoinette would be proud.
These hosts thrive, in part, due to our increasingly splintered landscape. “The Late Show” typically rules the ratings roost today, but its numbers can’t compare to Johnny Carson’s audience in his “Tonight Show” prime.
That’s no longer the goal.
Colbert and co. can afford to chase away large numbers of viewers as long as their far-left base sticks around. Those fans will cling to their monologues in perpetuity.
Independent viewers, or just those feeling the vise-like grip of the national shutdown, may seek out different shows should their elitism continue.

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TOTO: Late Night Elites: Bee Mocks Hope, Colbert Trashes Protestors

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On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO), which has been accused of parroting Chinese propaganda, <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/06-04-2020-who-and-global-citizen-announce-one-world-together-at-home-global-special-to-support-healthcare-workers-in-the-fight-against-the-covid-19-pandemic">announced</a> it was partnering with Global Citizen, an organization that <a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/about/who-we-are/">describes itself</a> as “a movement of engaged citizens who are using their collective voice to end extreme poverty by 2030,” to host a globally televised and streamed special on April 18 at 8:00 EDT titled One World: Together At Home.
The program will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon of &#8220;The Tonight Show,&#8221; Jimmy Kimmel of &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live&#8221; and Stephen Colbert of &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” all of whom have consistently taken shots at President Trump.
Last week GOP Senator Rick Scott of Florida accused WHO of “<a href="https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?s=20">willfully parroting propaganda</a> from the Chinese Communist Party, spreading misinformation that puts families health at risk.”
He added:
<blockquote>The mission of the WHO is to get public health information to the world so every country can make the best decisions to keep their citizens safe. When it comes to Coronavirus, the WHO failed. They need to be held accountable for their role in promoting misinformation and helping Communist China cover up a global pandemic. We know Communist China is lying about how many cases and deaths they have, what they knew and when they knew it – and the WHO never bothered to investigate further. Their inaction cost lives. As soon as Congress is back in session, there should be a hearing, along with a full investigation, to review whether American taxpayers should continue to spend millions of dollars every year to fund an organization that willfully parroted propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party.</blockquote>
WHO <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/06-04-2020-who-and-global-citizen-announce-one-world-together-at-home-global-special-to-support-healthcare-workers-in-the-fight-against-the-covid-19-pandemic">stated</a> of their upcoming event:
<blockquote>Last month in response to the global pandemic,<a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/campaign/stand-together-to-beat-coronavirus/"> </a><a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/campaign/stand-together-to-beat-coronavirus/">Global Citizen</a> launched an urgent campaign in support of the <a href="https://covid19responsefund.org/">COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO</a>, powered by the UN Foundation. Calling on individuals to take action, and asking world leaders and corporations to support the response with sufficient resources, Global Citizens from over 130 countries around the world have taken tens of thousands of actions in support of the response fund …
Commitments from supporters and corporate partners will go to the<a href="https://covid19responsefund.org/"> </a><a href="https://covid19responsefund.org/">COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO</a> to support and equip frontline healthcare workers around the world, with masks, gowns and other vital equipment, and to local charities that provide food, shelter, and healthcare to those that need it most. These local groups have been verified to ensure that they are helping communities impacted by COVID-19.</blockquote>
WHO <a href="https://covid19responsefund.org/">states</a> of the <a href="https://covid19responsefund.org/">COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO</a>:
<blockquote>Donations support WHO’s work to track and understand the spread of the virus; to ensure patients get the care they need and frontline workers get essential supplies and information; and to accelerate efforts to develop vaccines, tests, and treatments.</blockquote>
Performers scheduled to perform for the event include Alanis Morissette, Andrea Bocelli, Billie Eilish, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Burna Boy, Chris Martin, David Beckham, Eddie Vedder, Elton John, FINNEAS, Idris and Sabrina Elba, J Balvin, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Kerry Washington, Lang Lang, Lizzo, Maluma, Paul McCartney, Priyanka Chopra Jonas,  Shah Rukh Khan and Stevie Wonder.
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, asserted, “The United Nations system is fully mobilized: supporting country responses, placing our supply chains at the world’s disposal and advocating for a global cease-fire. We are proud to join forces with ‘One World: Together At Home’ to help suppress the transmission of the virus, minimize social-economic impacts on the global community and work together now to advance Global Goals for the future. There is no greater case for collective action than our joint response to COVID-19 – we are in this together and we will get through this together.&#8221;
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, stated, “The World Health Organization is committed to defeating the coronavirus pandemic with science and public health measures, and supporting the health workers who are on the frontlines of the response. We may have to be apart physically for a while, but we can still come together virtually to enjoy great music. The ‘One World: Together At Home’ concert represents a powerful show of solidarity against a common threat.”

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Kimmel, Colbert, Fallon To Host Event For World Health Organization

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Clearly, segments of the Democratic Party are wholly dissatisfied with the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and the concerted effort on the part of the progressive base to bash any moderate that poses a threat to him. Late-night comedian Stephen Colbert learned that hard lesson on Tuesday night when his own audience lightly booed him during a brutal roast of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is also running for president.
Starting out his live coverage of the Democratic debate in Charleston, South Carolina, Colbert first noted the candidates&#8217; overall terrible performance, which mostly consisted of them shouting over each other as the moderators stared at them like deers in headlights.
“These folks said a lot of words, and I did not hear many of them,” Colbert said. “Because these candidates were speaking all over each other.”
As noted by <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-colbert-booed-for-brutal-takedown-of-bloombergs-debate-performance">The Daily Beast</a>, Colbert saved his harshest rebuke for Michael Bloomberg, though he did take a few swipes at the other candidates. In response to Bloomberg saying that he &#8220;met with black leaders&#8221; to better shape his perspective on the implementation of the controversial policy stop-and-frisk, Colbert said, “Mr. Mayor, I have a feeling a lot of black leaders want your position to be spread eagle up against a wall.”
During the debate, Bloomberg also defended himself by pointing out the many black leaders who have supported his candidacy. In response, Colbert said, “A lot of them are in the audience tonight, officers—stop them, check their pockets, there’s an endorsement in there someplace, I promise you.”
The audience did not receive Colbert&#8217;s joke graciously and began to noticeably groan and jeer. The moment prompted the comedian to go off script and say, “All of Bloomberg’s voters are here tonight I think.&#8221;
Later, Colbert scolded Bloomberg for lame attempts at jokes, mockingly asserting that perhaps those infamous NDAs that his company had women sign were so they can forget his jokes.
“Oh, OK, now I understand why he asks people to sign an NDA after he tells a joke,” Colbert said. “No one wants to remember that.”
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So how did Mike Bloomberg actually do during the debate on Tuesday night? Experts are mostly in agreement that he improved greatly since last week, giving him a second lifeline. Writing at <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/484697-why-mike-bloomberg-has-a-shot">The Hill</a>, Steve Israel argued that Bloomberg still has a shot at winning due to the overwhelming dissatisfaction with the other candidates and fear that Bernie Sanders would sink the Democratic Party to new lows.
&#8220;For Bloomberg, any stumbles and setbacks can be cured by both money and tenacity. A charisma deficit can be offset with a healthy infusion of chutzpah,&#8221; argued Israel. &#8220;For those who subscribe to the punditry that his Las Vegas debate performance was the beginning of the end, I say this guy has no end. Like the book by Randolph notes, he has many lives. There is more race to be run and more time for resets, recoveries, and resurrections.&#8221;
Bloomberg will not be on the ticket in the upcoming South Carolina primary. His only shot at clinching the nomination will be on Super Tuesday.

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WATCH: Colbert Roasts Bloomberg, Gets Booed By His Own Audience

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In a recent episode of “The Late Show” on NBC, host Stephen Colbert took a few minutes out of his seemingly endless mockery of President Trump to turn the screws into a Democratic candidate.
Taking a shot at Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) interview with Elle Magazine in which she advised women to “dump” men who ghost them, Colbert said:
<blockquote>That sounds lovely, but “dump the guy who ghosted you?” Ghosted means they’re already gone! Everyone knows that as soon as they ask “The Late Show” interns to explain it to them. That’s universal.</blockquote>
Colbert then played a clip from Warren’s recent interview with Cosmopolitan in which she was asked about her skincare routine. Warren’s response was&#8230;interesting.
<blockquote>COSMO: You knew this was coming. What is your skincare routine?
WARREN: [I had] a much older cousin named Tootsie, and years ago, I was, I guess probably somewhere in my twenties, and we were at a big family reunion – and Tootsie was beautiful – and I looked over at her and I said, “Toots, how do you have such gorgeous skin?”</blockquote>
It was at this point that Colbert paused the clip to state that Warren might be the only person who could say, “‘Toots, how do you have such gorgeous skin?’ and have it not be creepy. Somewhere out there, Joe Biden is like, ‘Oh, but I can’t sniff one neck?! C’mon!’”
Back to the clip:
<blockquote>WARREN: She said, “Ponds moisturizer every morning, every night, and never wash your face.” So, from Tootsie to me to you. &#8230; I never wash my face.</blockquote>
Colbert laughed at Warren’s answer, suggesting that Tootsie was “messing” with her. 
Imitating a stereotypical elderly female smoker, Colbert then imagined what Toots actually said to Warren, including giving origin to Warren’s infamous Native American heritage scandal:
<blockquote>Hey, watch this. HEY, LIZ! Use Ponds constantly, never wash your face – and did you know we’re half Native American?! Tell everyone! That’s a wrap on Toots. Toots is out! Never wash. Never wash. Just don’t bathe.</blockquote>
Colbert concluded: “I never met her. I never met her, and I love Toots.”
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Sen. Warren is currently experiencing a seeming fall from grace following her slow but steady rise to the top of the Democratic primary field in the latter months of 2019.
As of publication, Warren has landed in fourth place in Iowa (behind Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former Vice President Joe Biden, fourth place in New Hampshire, third place in Nevada, and third place in South Carolina.
Even nationally, Warren is in a somewhat distant third place with 14.8% support, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average. Biden sits in first with 29.3% support, and Sanders has taken second with 20.3% support.
The only state in which Warren stands at the top is in her home state of Massachusetts (however, the polls for Massachusetts are months old, and don’t necessarily reflect current sentiment among Democratic voters).
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warren-faces-ancestry-question-at-town-hall-i-shouldnt-have-done-it-i-am-not-a-person-of-color">Warren Faces Ancestry Question At Town Hall: ‘I Shouldn’t Have Done It. I Am Not A Person Of Color’</a>

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WATCH: Colbert Hilariously Rips Elizabeth Warren’s Peculiar Cosmo Interview

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On &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; Tuesday, Stephen Colbert presented his own &#8220;impeachment Advent calendar&#8221; that comes with a little message behind each door labeled for the days of December.
&#8220;Every day you open a door and you get a piece of candy,&#8221; Colbert said, as reported by <a href="https://mashable.com/video/stephen-colbert-trump-impeachment-advent-calendar/">Mashable</a>.
When Colbert opened the door for Day 1, he revealed no candy but rather a note that read: &#8220;You&#8217;ll get your candy, but I would like you to do us a favor, though.&#8221;
The note obviously referenced the July phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian Presiden Volodymyr Zelensky. What Colbert didn&#8217;t say is that the original use of the word &#8220;favor&#8221; had nothing to do with former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s alleged corruption in the country and everything to do with foreign meddling during the 2016 election.
&#8220;I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-the-transcript-actually-says">said Trump during the call</a>. &#8220;I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike … I guess you have one of your wealthy people … The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the attorney general call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.&#8221;
As Colbert continued on about his &#8220;impeachment Advent calendar,&#8221; he expressed dismay over reports that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) would be wrapping up the impeachment inquiry soon.
“I’m surprised that [California Democrat Adam] Schiff ended it so quickly, this is the biggest congressional hearing in a generation,” Colbert continued. “It’s an event. It’s ‘quid pro-quo-chella. And the headliners haven’t even played yet.&#8221;
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As Colbert obsesses over the impeachment inquiry to the point of creating his own Advent calendar, recent polls show that the political stunt has backfired on Democrats with swing voters and may cost the party some key battleground states come 2020. As the <a href="https://apnews.com/ed75f30906384abaad31b7b69a49d163">Associated Press</a> reported, Wisconsin could swing GOP once again mainly due to the Democratic Party&#8217;s extremism.
“There’s not a lot that Republicans and Democrats in this political battlefield agree on, but the impeachment probe into President Donald Trump may have surfaced one: The public hearings aren’t moving the needle,” the AP reported on Wednesday. “After 30 hours of televised hearings, a dozen witnesses, at least a couple of major revelations and scores of tweeted rebuttals, voters in Wisconsin and nationwide aren’t changing their minds about removing the Republican president. If they came into the inquiry defensive of Trump, they likely still are. And if they were inclined to think the president abused his power, they didn’t need televised hearings to prove it.”
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WATCH: Stephen Colbert Introduces  His Very Own ‘Impeachment Advent Calendar’

While visiting New Zealand, late-night host Stephen Colbert said he misses the day in which he could feel proud of his country.
In a segment of his &#8220;Late Show&#8221; that featured him in Wellington, Colbert was filmed riding on a &#8220;crocodile bike&#8221; with actors Lucy Lawless and Bret McKenzie. He asked the two if they were proud of their country. When they said yes, Colbert responded, &#8220;I miss that feeling,&#8221; as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/stephen-colbert-misses-proud-country">Fox News</a>.
The late-night host is hardly the first celebrity to recently visit a foreign country and express dismay about his/her country of origin. Just last week, actor Patrick Stewart <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-disgrace-patrick-stewart-tells-french-audience-hes-embarrassed-by-brexit">told a French audience</a> he is embarrassed to be British due to 2016&#8217;s Brexit vote.
“For the last 35 years, I have been so proud to belong to a country that was part of the European Union,” Stewart said. “And I am embarrassed to stand here in front of you, representing a country that is seeking to break that invaluable connection.”
“I want you to know that well more than half of the population of the United Kingdom wants to stay in the European Union,” Stewart continued. “The Berlin Wall came down. The Soviet Union ended its dominance and control over so many nations. Apartheid was ended in South Africa. The Good Friday Agreement brought together [both] Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The European Union is all part of that movement, and it is a disgrace that individuals in my country are attempting to separate it.”
Colbert&#8217;s hatred of President Trump has been readily apparent since Trump&#8217;s election, which prompted Colbert to dedicate large swaths of his show to bashing the president. In fairness, the host has been critical of Democrats throughout the election cycle — especially former Vice President Joe Biden, whom <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colbert-zings-biden-his-age-you-clearly-dont-have-paul-bois">he has mocked for his lack of energy and overall tiredness</a>. He also blasted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for their outlandish health care proposals.
&#8220;Senator Warren was on here last week and I asked her about her plans for Medicare-for-all and I&#8217;m going to ask you the question that I asked her &#8230; at the risk of being accused of trumpeting Republican talking points,&#8221; Colbert <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/colbert-bernie-sanders">said to Sanders</a> on his program in September. &#8220;Is there an increase in taxes on the middle class to pay for Medicare-for-all, or rather, where would the tax burden go to pay for that?&#8221;
Colbert&#8217;s questioning essentially backed Sanders into a corner, forcing the socialist senator to admit that his health care plan will indeed raise taxes on the middle class.
&#8220;Under my legislation &#8230; nobody in America will pay any more premiums,&#8221; Sanders responded. &#8220;No more co-payments, gone. No more out-of-pocket expenses, gone. Nobody will go bankrupt &#8230; because of medical bills, that is gone. Nobody in America under my bill will pay more than $200 a year in total for their prescription drugs. Now having said that, is health care free?  No, it is not. So what we do is exempt the first $29,000 of a person&#8217;s income. &#8230; Above that, in a progressive way with the wealthiest people paying the largest percentage, people do pay more in taxes.&#8221;

Stephen Colbert In New Zealand: I Miss Feeling Proud Of My Country

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On his late-night show Monday night, left-wing late-night host Stephen Colbert made sure to work in several shots at Donald Trump after inviting on his vanquished 2016 foe, Hillary Clinton, and her daughter Chelsea. Among the series of loaded one-liners Colbert aimed at Trump Monday was a reversal of a chant often heard at 2016 Trump rallies and the suggestion to Chelsea that she might want to &#8220;slap [Trump&#8217;s] mouth.&#8221;  Hillary — who quite literally was laughing from the second she stepped onto the stage — offered several more appreciative laughs in response to the host&#8217;s efforts to bring to life the &#8220;alternate timeline&#8221; starring President Hillary.
&#8220;These are big fans of the alternate timeline we&#8217;re not living in,&#8221; said Colbert in reference to the wildly cheering audience that greeted the Clintons. The comment prompted one of Clinton&#8217;s many forceful laughs.
Colbert initially teased the supposed topic of the evening, Hillary and Chelsea&#8217;s latest book, but quickly veered more sharply left to what he was clearly more excited to discuss: Trump Collusion 2.0 — Trump supposedly &#8220;pressuring&#8221; Ukraine to take down his 2020 political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.
&#8220;I want to talk about your new book, &#8216;The Book of Gutsy Women&#8217;&#8230;&#8221; said Colbert, before adding, &#8220;and we&#8217;re going to do that in just a minute, I promise you.&#8221;
That inspired another laugh from trigger-happy Hillary. &#8220;Your fault for coming on Ukraine week,&#8221; added Colbert.  Clinton laughed even harder at the explanation.
&#8220;We learned about the Trump-Ukraine call, the private server,&#8221; said Colbert. &#8220;Is it time to, dare I say, &#8216;Lock Him Up?'&#8221;
Colbert&#8217;s sympathetic audience erupted in cheers and applause, eventually taking up the partisan host&#8217;s suggested chant: &#8220;Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up!&#8221;
&#8220;What do you make of it?&#8221; Colbert asked Clinton, who responded to the chants with an intense fit of laughter.
&#8220;So, here we are, and we have started an impeachment inquiry, which will look at the evidence, and I think that’s exactly what should be done,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;I believe strongly that this particular incident has had such a huge impact because we&#8217;ve known for a long time that he was a corrupt businessman who cheated people, and we&#8217;ve known that he and his campaign asked for aid from Russia. We&#8217;ve known that. But to see him in the Office of the President, putting his own personal and political interests ahead of the national security of our country, just pierced through whatever confusion or denial people had. And at that point, Speaker Pelosi rightly said this is something we have to investigate. And that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;
After more approving applause from his audience, Colbert insisted that he was never a big &#8220;impeach him fan,&#8221; but &#8220;when someone is clearly using the office that they&#8217;re in to subvert the ballot box, to use by corrupt means, influence from other countries to maintain their office, what good is the ballot box at that point in time?&#8221;
Clinton, whose campaign infamously paid for the still unverified dossier based on foreign sources that helped spark the Robert Mueller-debunked &#8220;Trump-Russia collusion&#8221; conspiracy theory, responded by arguing that the impeachment process was put in by the founders precisely for an instance such as this.
Neither Colbert nor Clinton addressed the alleged scandal behind Trump&#8217;s request of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to &#8220;look into&#8221; Joe Biden. The then-vice president pressured the Ukrainian government to remove the top prosecutor who had been investigating the Ukrainian-based company that hired Hunter Biden weeks after his father was appointed to head up Ukraine-U.S. relations.  Neither did the host and the former First Lady even reference her husband&#8217;s famous impeachment. Another topic that didn&#8217;t come up during Colbert&#8217;s interview was the State Department&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-takes-new-action-on-hillary-investigation">intensified investigation</a> into Hillary&#8217;s use of an unauthorized, unsecured server when she was Secretary of State.
Instead, Colbert set Clinton up with some easy hits on the man who ruined her presidential hopes. &#8220;How many times when you were secretary of state did you have to say to Obama, ‘You can’t extort foreign countries to get dirt on your political enemies?'&#8221; asked Colbert.
After laughing some more, Clinton quipped, &#8220;Yeah, that never happened.&#8221;
Colbert also tried to include Chelsea in the conversation by painting her mother as a victim of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;obsession,&#8221; and suggesting she might want to &#8220;slap his mouth when he says her name.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-newly-revealed-documents-blow-up-bidens-ukraine-story">Report: Newly Revealed Documents Blow Up Biden’s Ukraine Story</a>
H/T <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-colbert-crowd-chants-lock-him-hillary-begins-interview">Grabien</a>

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WATCH: Colbert Invites On Hillary, Starts ‘Lock Him Up’ Chant, Suggests Chelsea ‘Slap’ Trump’s Mouth

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) explained on Thursday that if he is elected president, the majority of Americans will face tax hikes to help fund his sweeping Medicare for All plan.
&#8220;Is health care free? No, it is not,&#8221; Sanders told host Stephen Colbert during an appearance on &#8220;The Late Show.&#8221;
&#8220;So, what we do is exempt the first $29,000 of a person&#8217;s income — you make less than $29,000, you pay nothing in taxes,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Above that, in a progressive way, with the wealthiest people in this country paying the largest percentage, people do pay more in taxes.&#8221;
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Referring to legislation that he introduced into the Senate during his 2016 presidential campaign, Sanders noted that the single-player plan will eliminate premiums, co-payments, and any additional out-of-pocket expenses. Furthermore, Americans would pay no more than $200 per year for any prescription drugs.
While Sanders&#8217; campaign previously contended that the proposal would cost taxpayers about $14 trillion over the next decade, most other estimates are significantly higher. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget <a href="http://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-will-medicare-all-cost">forecast Sanders&#8217; plan</a> costing $28 trillion during the first ten years, which is in the range of other estimates.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s the point: we are covering all basic health care needs,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;Medicare is a very strong program, all I want to do over a four year period is expand it to everybody and include dental care, hearing aids, and eyeglasses, and home health care as well.&#8221;
&#8220;So, we cover mental illness, we cover all basic health care needs. Somebody wants cosmetic surgery? Fine, go to some private insurance,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But we cover all basic health care needs and the overwhelming majority of the American people will be paying less for healthcare than they are today.&#8221;
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) notably appeared on &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; only a week earlier, where Colbert also pressed her on whether her health insurance plan would raises taxes on Americans. Both Sanders and Warren have been competing for the far-left lane in order to win the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
While Sanders has been relatively open about his impending tax increases, Warren has steered clear of broaching the subject.
&#8220;You keep being asked in the debates how are you going to pay for it, are you going to be raising the middle class taxes,&#8221; Colbert said during her appearance. &#8220;How are you going to pay for it? Are you going to be raising the middle-class taxes?&#8221;
&#8220;So, here&#8217;s how we are going to do this,&#8221; Warren replied. &#8220;Costs are going to go up for the wealthiest Americans, for big corporations … and hard-working middle class families are going to see their costs going down.&#8221;
&#8220;But will their taxes go up?&#8221; Colbert again pressed the Massachusetts senator.
&#8220;But, here’s the thing,&#8221; Warren responded.
&#8220;But, here&#8217;s the thing,&#8221; Colbert interrupted. &#8220;I&#8217;ve listened to these answers a few times before and I just want to make a parallel suggestion to you that you might defend the taxes perhaps that you&#8217;re not mentioning in your sentence.&#8221;
Warren has yet to answer whether her health insurance proposal will increase taxes.

Bernie Sanders on The Late Show

WATCH: Bernie Sanders Admits He Will Raise Taxes, Even On Low-Income Individuals

Medicare

While other media figures were criticizing former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro for knocking former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s age during Thursday night&#8217;s Democratic Party presidential primary debate, late night host Stephen Colbert took the opportunity to pile on the ageism bandwagon.
During Colbert&#8217;s opening monologue on Thursday night following the debate, the comedian blasted Biden for saying, &#8220;I refuse to postpone one more minute.&#8221;
&#8220;Because I clearly don&#8217;t have a lot of time left,&#8221; Colbert said in mockery of Biden, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/colbert-swipes-biden-for-his-age-following-debate-you-clearly-dont-have-a-lot-of-time-left">Fox News</a>.
Colbert then attempted to assuage the discomfort among some members of his audience by blowing Biden a proverbial kiss.
The former vice president&#8217;s age did indeed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51715/elder-abuse-julian-castro-shreds-joe-biden-over-eric-quintanar">become a subject of mockery</a> during the debate, when candidate Julian Castro knocked Biden for misremembering things when talking about healthcare.
&#8220;The difference between what I support and what you support, Vice President Biden, is that you require them to opt in, and I would not require them to opt in. They would automatically be enrolled, they wouldn&#8217;t have to buy in,&#8221; Castro said.
&#8220;You do not have to buy in,&#8221; Biden responded.
&#8220;Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?&#8221; Castro shot back. &#8220;Are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago? I can&#8217;t believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in, and now you&#8217;re saying they don&#8217;t have to — you&#8217;re forgetting that.&#8221;
As noted by Fox News, Castro&#8217;s hit on Biden was later backed by candidate Sen. Cory Bookder (D-NJ), who deemed the attack fair.
&#8220;I think we are at a tough point right now, because there&#8217;s a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden&#8217;s ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling,&#8221; Booker said. &#8220;And I think that Castro had really legitimate concerns about, can he be someone in a long grueling campaign … and has every right to call out.&#8221;
Joy Behar, co-host of &#8220;The View,&#8221; however, felt that Castro <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/behar-julian-castro-biden-age">went too far</a> by attacking Biden&#8217;s age, pointing out that the 65-and-older crowd will not appreciate it come voting time.
&#8220;This &#8216;old&#8217; thing has got to stop because 25% of the electorate is over 65, and they vote. I&#8217;m one of them,&#8221; Behar said. &#8220;And I vote, so be careful what you do with old people because we will turn on you.&#8221;
In fact, Castro&#8217;s hit on Biden&#8217;s age may well have backfired by not only making Castro appear unlikeable, but also by granting Biden sympathy points in the eyes of many. Chris Cillizza of CNN said it made Castro one of the night&#8217;s losers.
&#8220;The former San Antonio mayor had a clear plan going into this debate: Go after Biden and paint himself as the true heir to the Obama legacy,&#8221; wrote Cillizza. &#8220;Unfortunately for Castro, he went way too hard at Biden on the age issue with his &#8216;are you forgetting&#8217; line — that he repeated four times. The attack wound up making Biden look sympathetic — and the former vice president&#8217;s response, measured and in control, made Castro look small.&#8221;

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Colbert Zings Biden For His Age: You ‘Clearly Don’t Have A Lot Of Time Left’

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Julian Castro

Left-wing late-night host Stephen Colbert offered yet another guest a chance to trash Trump on Friday and actor John Leguizamo was more than willing to play his part. But things got awkward pretty quick.
In a moment highlighted by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/aiden-jackson/2019/07/29/actor-colbert-president-trump-makes-me-so-angry-he-makes-me-horny">Newsbusters</a>, Leguizamo visited with Colbert on Friday to discuss his role in Oprah&#8217;s &#8220;When They See Us&#8221; focusing on &#8220;the Central Park Five,&#8221; the five young minority males wrongly convicted for the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, whose murderer, Matias Reyes, eventually confessed in 2002 to raping and killing Meili on his own. The five were also found guilty of two other assaults that took place in the park.
The film referenced the much-maligned ad then-real estate developer Donald Trump put out in The New York Times in 1989 a few days after the young men were charged calling for officials to &#8220;Bring Back the Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!&#8221; &#8220;I want to hate these muggers and murderers,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.&#8221;
Asked in June if he&#8217;d apologize for putting out the ad, Trump <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jun/24/donald-trump/donald-trump-twists-story-central-park-five/">refused</a>. &#8220;You have people on both sides of that. They admitted their guilt,&#8221; he said in reference to their initial confessions, which were contradictory and which they retracted within a few days. &#8220;If you look at Linda Fairstein, and if you look at some of (the) prosecutors, they think that the city should never have settled that case. So we&#8217;ll leave it at that.&#8221;
Colbert made sure to make Trump&#8217;s ad, which appears in Oprah&#8217;s film, a key part of his discussion with Leguizamo. Trump &#8220;notoriously put out a pull page, $85,000, full page ad in The New York Times, I believe,&#8221; Colbert noted (transcript via <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/aiden-jackson/2019/07/29/actor-colbert-president-trump-makes-me-so-angry-he-makes-me-horny">NB</a>).
&#8220;Asking for the death penalty to come back to execute these children. I mean who does that?&#8221; Leguizamo replied. &#8220;Who takes out, spends their money, wanting to execute children? &#8230; He didn&#8217;t even know the facts. He didn&#8217;t know anything.&#8221;
&#8220;And they have since been exonerated, and he won&#8217;t take that back,&#8221; Colbert replied.
&#8220;No. He doubled down. He doubled down on going, well they must have done something,&#8221; said Leguizamo.
&#8220;After having done this and having met these people and getting this perspective on the president, how are you feeling about him these days?&#8221; asked Colbert.
That&#8217;s when the thus-far rather heavy conversation took an unexpected turn.
&#8220;He makes me so angry, he makes me horny,&#8221; said Leguizamo.
When Colbert, taken aback, asked for a little clarificaiton, Leguizamo said, &#8220;That rage.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, you gotta back up,&#8221; said Colbert. &#8220;I did not quite follow the logic of that.&#8221;
&#8220;You know when you&#8217;ve got all this rage in your body, and it turns into testosterone and you gotta let it out somehow?&#8221; Leguizamo explained. &#8220;Love trumps hate.&#8221;
&#8220;Love trumps hate?&#8221; asked Colbert.
&#8220;Yeah, I procreate,&#8221; said the actor.
&#8220;You procreate? That’s your opposition to the president?&#8221; asked Colbert.
&#8220;Yeah, it helps me unplug. &#8230; My poor wife,&#8221; Leguizamo said, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna make a little army of Latin people that will be like the worst thing that he could ever have to deal with.&#8221;
In its fact-check of Trump&#8217;s comments last month about the Central Park Five, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jun/24/donald-trump/donald-trump-twists-story-central-park-five/">PolitiFact</a> provides a summary of the case, which reads in part (formatting adjusted):
<blockquote>In the early hours of April 20, 1989, a 29-year-old woman jogger was found badly beaten and raped in Central Park. On the night of the crime, police had responded to a group of about 30 teens threatening people in the park. A racing bike rider was accosted. A taxi driver reported rocks thrown at his cab. Two men, in separate incidents, were assaulted and injured and one of them was robbed. Ultimately, five young men, ages 14 to 16, were questioned by police and later charged with the beating and rape of the woman.
In their first hours with police, the young men offered a mix of confessions. The details from each did not align with the accounts from the others. They identified different individuals who actually committed the rape. They did not agree on where the attack took place. Their statements failed to match the physical evidence from the scene, including the woman’s clothing. Importantly, none of them confessed to the rape itself. They soon retracted their confessions. [&#8230;]
After a trial in which they maintained their innocence, the five teens were convicted of rape and assault. No physical or forensic evidence connected them to the attack on the jogger. The prosecution’s case &#8220;rested almost entirely on the statements made by the defendants,&#8221; as the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said in a later filing.
In addition to the attack on the woman, they were found guilty of two other assaults in the park. Four of them spent seven years in prison. A fifth served 13 years — until 2002 [when Reyes confessed].</blockquote>

Actor Takes His ‘Rage’ For Trump In Awkward Direction On Stephen Colbert

Former vice president Joe Biden delivered a sloppy performance at the Democratic presidential debate Thursday night and only confirmed what many political pundits have said since he announced his 2020 candidacy: Too old, too tired, too entitled.
The late-night hosts pulled no punches and spared no rods against Joe Biden after the debate closed last night, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/late-night-hosts-evaluate-second-democratic-presidential-debate-1221098">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
Over at &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; Trevor Noah gave a tame takedown of the former vice president, who reached a low point on Thursday night when Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) blasted him for praising two white segregationists in the context of senatorial civility.
&#8220;That whole moment was so brutal on Joe Biden. I wanted to give him a massage,&#8221; said Noah.
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Stephen Colbert on CBS was far less charitable in his criticism of Biden&#8217;s performance in the face of what he deemed the &#8220;Kamala Harris flame thrower.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe global warming because Kamala Harris was on fire,&#8221; Colbert said.
Colbert quipped that Biden supporters were given free ice cream (&#8220;Joe Cones&#8221;) to celebrate his frontrunner status, but that Harris really came swinging hard.
&#8220;Tonight, the &#8216;Joe Cone&#8217; was met by the Kamala Harris flame-thrower. He had the &#8216;Joe Cone,&#8217; but she had the I-scream-you-scream-holy-cow-she-might-be-president!&#8221; Colbert joked.
On the moment when Harris criticized Joe Biden for opposing integrated school bussing in the 1970s, Colbert said: &#8220;I believe Harris on busing because she clearly just took Biden to school.&#8221;
Colbert also likened Rep. Eric Swalwell&#8217;s (D-CA) &#8220;pass the torch&#8221; hit at Biden to a &#8220;sick burn.&#8221;
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Seth Meyers of NBC also focused on Swalwell&#8217;s demand that Biden &#8220;pass the torch&#8221; over to a new generation. &#8220;Damn. You&#8217;re bringing a Biden quote to take down Biden? Come on! If anyone is going to take down Joe Biden with a Joe Biden quote, it&#8217;s Joe Biden,&#8221; he said.
The late-night host also took a few jabs at Biden&#8217;s unusually white teeth. &#8220;Joe Biden uses his teeth like Wonder Woman uses her bracelets. That zinger just bounced right off the pearly white wall,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;It was clear everyone wanted a shot at Biden tonight,&#8221; Meyers said. &#8220;Man, who didn&#8217;t get a crack at Biden during this debate? Surprised one of the moderators didn&#8217;t go, &#8216;Hey man, you were great in &#8220;Gran Torino.&#8221;&#8216;&#8221;
Meyers described Biden as a &#8220;defeated&#8221; candidate due to his penchant for quitting the debate at the precise moment his allotted time ran out. &#8220;Man, you know it&#8217;s bad when you&#8217;re cutting yourself off. Also when everyone is saying you&#8217;re too old to be president, don&#8217;t say your time is up,&#8221; Meyers said.
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Jimmy Fallon of &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; described the debate as &#8220;Operation Destroy Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;Everyone went after Biden but, with 10 people on stage, it seemed less like a debate and more of a lightning round,&#8221; Fallon said.
On the moment when Harris blasted Biden over race, Fallon said, &#8220;She was so good, Trump endorsed Biden so he wouldn&#8217;t have to face her.&#8221;
Referencing Biden and Bernie Sanders&#8217; advanced ages, Fallon quipped that their podiums looked like walkers. &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying those two are old, but their podiums were the only ones with tennis balls at the bottom,&#8221; he said.
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WATCH: Late-Night Hosts Excoriate Joe Biden’s Dismal Debate Performance

Eric Swalwell

On Thursday night, the cold open for &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert&#8221; opened by mocking farmers, intimating that if their finances were hurt by President Trump&#8217;s tariffs targeting China, those country-dumb bumpkins would lose their wives to convicts, start stripping for a living, become alcoholics and soon make a living growing marijuana.
The show began by playing a clip from a CNN report that claimed President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;trade war [is] having a major impact on American farmers after talks with China have halted. Some farmers seem to be losing hope.&#8221; CNN then played a clip of a farmer who said he had voted for Trump in 2016 but would not do so again.
The show then played a cartoon titled, &#8220;The Farmer in the Dell,&#8221; based on the famous children&#8217;s song, but this time with new lyrics, accompanied by the visuals in the cartoon:
<blockquote>
Tariffs posed by Trump
Put the farmers in a dump
Oh no, the derry-o, the farmer&#8217;s in a slump.
The farmer lost his wife.
She wants a better life.
She ran off with an ex-convict who rides a bitchin&#8217; bike.
The farmer needs a job.
He&#8217;s stripping while he sobs.
Hi-ho the stripper pole, they&#8217;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.
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As <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-colbert-cold-open-on-farmers-goes-from-mildly-amusing-to-seriously-dark-in-just-seconds/">Caleb Howe noted</a> of the cartoon, &#8220;It&#8217;s oddly focused on stereotypes about farmers or laborers. After the wife leaving for a convict line, I was genuinely surprised they didn&#8217;t draw a gap in the cartoon farmer&#8217;s teeth. One hardly has to use a vivid imagination to think of other groups of people about whom such a video would generate genuine and widespread outrage.&#8221;
For Colbert to be lewd, crude and unfunny is nothing new: in 2017, he <a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/05/03/colbert-walks-back-crude-trump-putin-joke-237961">infamously</a> said of President Trump, &#8220;Sir, you attract more skinheads than free Rogaine, You have more people marching against you than cancer. You talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin&#8217;s c*** holster.&#8221;
And Colbert loves to mock folks who might have a country twang; remember when he mocked Sarah Palin in January 2016 after she endorsed Donald Trump for president. He ranted:
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Sarah Palin just guaranteed Trump the evangelical vote because I think she was speaking in tongues. I just wish she could endorse every candidate, because it would sound something like this: First, let me just tase the part of my brain that understands sentence structure. Okey-dokey. Here we go-key. Greetings and welcomes to all across Americans, you go-getters and toe-tappers. You Motor-City madmen, I&#8217;m here to support the next president of all our states &#8230;
</blockquote>
After that, Colbert had Palin endorse various candidates, including Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, and Sebastian the crab from the film &#8220;The Little Mermaid,&#8221; before concluding, &#8220;which is why I&#8217;m endorsing the next president of the United States, Sarah Palin. This has been my inauguration.&#8221;
Farmer video:
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Colbert mocking Palin:
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WATCH: Stephen Colbert Cartoon Mocks Farmers, Says They’ll Be Alcoholic Strippers From Trump’s Trade War

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Farming

Sarah Palin

Late-night host Stephen Colbert jabbed former Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday night for botching an opportunity to best President Trump&#8217;s MAGA campaign slogan.
Appearing on &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; on Tuesday, anchor Robin Roberts asked Biden how he plans to compete with President Trump&#8217;s iconic &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; slogan that catapulted him to success in 2016. &#8220;The president has a motto: &#8216;Make America Great Again.&#8217; Do you have one?&#8221; Robin Roberts asked Biden.
The vice president did not exactly give a catchy answer and threw out a litany of potential campaign slogans that would not really work as an acronym like MAGA. &#8220;Make America Moral Again,&#8221; he told Robin Roberts. &#8220;Make America return to the essence of who we are, the dignity of the country, the dignity of people and treating our people with dignity and this God-awful deliberate division that&#8217;s being taken in order to separate people to aggrandize his own power.&#8221;
After playing a clip of Biden&#8217;s jumbled reply, Colbert quipped, &#8220;Move over, MAGA,&#8221; and then attempted to create an acronym out of his answer.
&#8220;MAGA&#8217;s over because Biden&#8217;s coming at you with: MAMAMARTTEOWWATDOTC&#8230;&#8221; Colbert continued, in a moment noted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/colbert-biden-new-maga-slogan">Fox News</a>. &#8220;A little awkward to say, I&#8217;ll admit, but it&#8217;s going to look fantastic on his hat.&#8221;
A photo of Biden immediately cut onto the screen revealing him wearing a tall, coneheads-style red hat with his impossible-to-pronounce slogan emblazoned across it.
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TONIGHT: Biden has a few notes on Trump&#8217;s campaign slogan. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LSSC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LSSC</a> <a href="https://t.co/kA516G2eCm">pic.twitter.com/kA516G2eCm</a>
&#8212; The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1123386552581873664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2019/04/30/joe-biden-wants-to-make-america-moral-again-but-he-supports-abortions-up-to-birth/">LifeNews</a> argues that had Biden stuck with a catchier slogan like &#8220;Make America Moral Again&#8221; (MAMA), it would have been problematic in light of his stance on abortion:
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Biden strongly supports abortion and backs abortions up to birth. There&#8217;s no way he can make the country moral by supporting the destruction of 1 million unborn children each and every year.
Biden has a strong pro-abortion voting record that goes back for many years, and <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/18/joe-biden-likens-an-abortion-to-having-an-operation/">he supported President Barack Obama&#8217;s leadership as the most pro-abortion president </a>in U.S. history. What&#8217;s more, pro-abortion movement leaders say they &#8220;trust&#8221; Biden to protect abortion on demand. As the vice president, he supported the administration&#8217;s pro-abortion policies, including Obamacare, which forced religious employers to pay for drugs that may cause abortions.
From 2001 to 2008, Biden&#8217;s voting record on pro-life issues was close to zero, according to the National Right to Life Committee. In 2005, for example, he voted against the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits funding to overseas groups that promote and/or perform abortions. He also voted repeatedly to require that military service members&#8217; abortions be covered by taxpayer dollars.
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Colbert mocking Biden illustrates the uphill climb that the former vice president will have to face as he goes further into the 2020 campaign. His only claim to the nomination is name recognition, which has already dwindled due to his past record that progressives have already begun to pick apart. As Daily Wire editor-in-chief <a href="http://Biden strongly supports abortion and backs abortions up to birth. There&#8217;s no way he can make the country moral by supporting the destruction of 1 million unborn children each and every year. Biden has a strong pro-abortion voting record that goes back for many years, and he supported President Barack Obama&#8217;s leadership as the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history. What&#8217;s more, pro-abortion movement leaders say they &#8220;trust&#8221; Biden to protect abortion on demand. As the vice president, he supported the administration&#8217;s pro-abortion policies, including Obamacare, which forced religious employers to pay for drugs that may cause abortions. From 2001 to 2008, Biden&#8217;s voting record on pro-life issues was close to zero, according to the National Right to Life Committee. In 2005, for example, he voted against the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits funding to overseas groups that promote and/or perform abortions. He also voted repeatedly to require that military service members&#8217; abortions be covered by taxpayer dollars.">Ben Shapiro puts it</a>, his whole campaign may be one giant apology tour.

Stephen Colbert Mocks Biden’s Botched Campaign Slogan

On Tuesday night, CBS&#8217; &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert&#8221; mocked National Rifle Association (NRA) spokeswoman Dana Loesch in a controversial sketch which ends with the sound of a gun shooting off multiple times and the activist yelling.
While it&#8217;s unclear from watching the sketch if Loesch is &#8220;shot&#8221; herself, the description of the video from the show&#8217;s YouTube channel certainly suggests she is: &#8220;As the nation&#8217;s prominent advocate for gun rights, you&#8217;d think the NRA would be better at defending itself,&#8221; the caption reads.
Introducing the NRA&#8217;s &#8220;newest charity initiative,&#8221; the actress playing Loesch says the organization is now &#8220;arming stray cats that live on the mean streets.&#8221; The cat has a gun strapped to its back.
&#8220;Now run along, you&#8217;re safe now,&#8221; says the actress. When the cat is put down, gun shots immediately ring out and the fake Loesch screams, &#8220;Oh, God! Oh my God!&#8221;
Loesch has been a prime target for anti-gun extremists. The activist, who is routinely threatened online, was booed and maligned during a CNN town hall event in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, for example.
&#8220;After the broadcast ended, one of my detail had to stop a woman who rushed the stage to tackle me from behind. That is when [Jake] Tapper asked me if I had an escort out. I am positive that CNN&#8217;s cameras, still operational, observed this and would like for them to release the footage,&#8221; Loesch recalled last month. The spokeswoman made the remark after it was amazingly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44857/cnn-brags-about-winning-award-much-maligned-hank-berrien">announced</a> that CNN won the Walter Cronkite Award for the mob-like event.
As <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2018/02/21/insanity-cnn-town-hall-student-questions-loeschs-motherhood">reported</a> by NewsBusters, Loesch was also maligned with shouts of &#8220;murderer&#8221; at the event and had her fitness as a mother questioned by Stoneman Douglas student activist Emma Gonzalez.
&#8220;Alright. Dana Loesch, I want to know that we will support your two children in the way that we will not &#8212; you will not,&#8221; said Gonzalez.
The high schooler went on to ask about gun modifications, such as bump stocks &#8212; which have now been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/politics/bump-stocks-ban/index.html">outlawed</a> by the Trump administration.
As Loesch was answering Gonzalez&#8217;s question, at least three hecklers interrupted, screaming &#8220;Murderer!&#8221; and &#8220;You&#8217;re a murderer!&#8221;
Moreover, when the political commentator left the CNN stage, attendees chanted &#8220;Shame on you!&#8221; and yelled &#8220;Burn her!&#8221;
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Here is some footage where people were yelling to burn me at CNN&#8217;s award-winning townhall where they &#8220;advanced the conversation on gun control.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/EYWWj8KcxN">pic.twitter.com/EYWWj8KcxN</a>
&#8212; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1108059318203678720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In 2017, Loesch revealed that she and her family had to flee her home after receiving credible rape and death threats from gun control zealots. In a series of tweets, Loesch <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22291/second-amendment-champion-dana-loesch-reveals-hank-berrien">explained</a>:
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Spent my weekend preparing to move due to repeated threats from gun control advocates. 
One guy hunted down my private cell phone number, called when police were here, threatened to shoot me in my front yard.
Another guy created a string of social media accounts, posted photos of my house, threatened to rape me to death.
Another gun control advocate, after threatening to hunt me down and assault me, dragged my kids into it.
I&#8217;m grateful that my kids&#8217; school worked with law enforcement and private security to ensure campus safety, and work with me. 
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Colbert has increasingly spouted hyperpartisan rhetoric since the election of President Donald Trump. The comedian was called out for &#8220;<a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/5/2/15515066/stephen-colbert-trump-putin-homophobia-late-show">homophobia</a>&#8221; by Vox and other left-wing media outlets after he attempted to mock the president.
&#8220;In a string of insults against President Donald Trump last night, comedian Stephen Colbert lined up what he surely thought was a great, hilarious diss. Instead, he blurted out some homophobia,&#8221; Vox <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/5/2/15515066/stephen-colbert-trump-putin-homophobia-late-show">reported</a> at the time. &#8220;Colbert was in the middle of a monologue launching various insults at Trump, including some fat shaming, &#8216;presidunce,&#8217; and &#8216;pricktator.&#8217; In the course of this, he said, &#8216;The only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin&#8217;s cock holster.'&#8221;
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WATCH: ‘Colbert’ Targets The NRA’s Dana Loesch In Controversial Gun Sketch

Dana Loesch

National Rifle Association (NRA)

Michelle Obama once accidentally called herself a single mother.
&#8220;Believe me, as a busy single mother &#8212; or, I shouldn&#8217;t say single, as a busy mother,&#8221; she said in an April 2013 TV interview. &#8220;Sometimes, you know, when you&#8217;ve got a husband who is president, it can feel a little single. But he&#8217;s there.&#8221;
She went on to praise busy mothers &#8212; single or not &#8212; listing out the woes of &#8220;working, driving kids to practice, not having enough time to shop or cook, not having the energy, you know, the resources weren&#8217;t the issue but time and energy is key.&#8221;
But the former first lady doesn&#8217;t seem to be too keen on single fathers.
She took a swipe at President Donald Trump &#8212; and single dads &#8212; during an event in London on Sunday. Hawking her new book &#8220;Becoming,&#8221; she sat down with late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert at the O2 Arena, where she first bragged about how good things were when The Chosen One was in the White House.
&#8220;For anyone who had any problems with Barack Obama, let&#8217;s just think about what we were troubled by &#8212; there were never any indictments,&#8221; she said.
Then she joked that America during Trump&#8217;s presidency is like being a teenager from a broken home.
&#8220;We come from a broken family, we are a little unsettled,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;Sometimes, you spend the weekend with divorced dad. That feels like fun but then you get sick. That is what America is going through. We are living with divorced dad.&#8221;
Interestingly, Barack Obama is the product of a broken family. His white mother and black father were married in 1961, six months before he was born, and split in 1964. His estranged father would visit him in Hawaii only once before he died in a car accident in 1982. His father&#8217;s absence was part of the driving force behind Obama&#8217;s memoir, &#8220;Dreams from My Father.&#8221;
He was also an advocate of fathers while president, even urging black men to stay in a family unit. &#8220;Fathers are our first teachers and coaches &#8230; they&#8217;re our mentors, our role models,&#8221; the president told a gathering of local students and their families in 2010.
An official Father&#8217;s Day Proclamation he issued that same year praised single fathers, saying &#8220;nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step-father, a grandfather, or caring guardian.&#8221; Weirdly, no single mothers in those &#8220;nurturing families.&#8221;
Later in her appearance in London, Michelle Obama went on to say that living through Trump&#8217;s presidency is like living through slavery or the Holocaust.
&#8220;This may feel like a dark chapter but any story has its highs and lows but it continues. Yes, we are in a low but we have been lower. We have had tougher times, we have had more to fear. We have lived through slavery, the Holocaust and segregation,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;We have always come out at the other end &#8212; better and stronger. We are moving in a direction of diversity and inclusion. No one ever said it would be easy. We are just in the throes of the uneasy path of change.&#8221;

Michelle Obama Takes Swipe At Single Fathers: America Under Trump Is Like ‘Living With Divorced Dad’

Barack Obama

Michelle Obama

Democrats are beginning to play the conspiracy card by suggesting that Attorney General William Barr somehow engaged in a cover-up when summarizing special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s submitted report that exonerates the president of Russian &#8220;collusion&#8221; allegations.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/elizabeth-warren-tells-colbert-she-doesnt-trust-ag-barrs-mueller-summary-wants-full-report-made-public">Fox News</a>, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) appeared on Stephen Colbert Monday night, where she expressed skepticism regarding Barr&#8217;s summary of Mueller&#8217;s report. When Colbert asked her if she trusted the report, she simply replied, &#8220;No.&#8221;
&#8220;And you shouldn&#8217;t have to ask me if I trust it,&#8221; she emphatically told the late-night host. &#8220;We should see the whole report. When we see the whole report, we&#8217;ll know what the basis is for this, period.&#8221;
&#8220;What would be in there that you think would be actionable? Have you seen anything in the filings that Mueller has made?&#8221; Colbert shot back.
&#8220;This is the point, we just want to see the whole report,&#8221; she replied.
Of course, Warren&#8217;s expressed skepticism may be simple rhetoric to satisfy her progressive base; she soon admitted to Colbert that voters care little about the Russian &#8220;collusion&#8221; narrative that Democrats have pounded for two years.
&#8220;Look, I spent the last couple of days in New Hampshire, I did a bunch of big public events, I took about 30 questions, just unfiltered from anybody, and then did long lines afterwards where I talked to people &#8212; probably altogether over the weekend got maybe 100 questions,&#8221; she told Colbert.
&#8220;Do you know how many were about the Mueller report? Zero. Because what people were asking about were the things that touch their lives every day,&#8221; she continued.
With that, Colbert asked Warren if the Mueller report was more of a Washington obsession than a voter obsession. She deflected back on to the issue of voter concerns.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But as you say, there are a lot of other investigations going on. But what people are focused on is what&#8217;s happening in their lives and what is going to help us decide what kind of country we are going to be going forward. Are we going to be a country that continues to work for people who are richer and richer and not work for anyone else? Or are we actually going to be a country that pulls that back and says no? We believe that our government and our country can be made to work for all of us.&#8221;
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TONIGHT: Senator and Presidential hopeful <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ewarren</a> stopped by to talk about the Mueller report. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LSSC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LSSC</a> <a href="https://t.co/X5gRG2OITM">pic.twitter.com/X5gRG2OITM</a>
&#8212; The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1110325347621453824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Indeed, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38126/exit-polls-voters-dont-care-about-russia-collusion-joseph-curl">according to several midterm exit polls </a>conducted by various outlets in November of last year, Russian &#8220;collusion&#8221; appeared nowhere near voters&#8217; radars. Of the top issues, 41% of voters were concerned mostly about healthcare, another 23% cared mostly about immigration reform, followed closely by 21% concerned about the economy. Voters concerned about Russian &#8220;collusion&#8221; did not even amount to 1%.
&#8220;The CNN poll was able to measure how voters feel about the probe being run by special counsel Robert Mueller,&#8221; reported The Daily Wire&#8217;s Joseph Curl at the time. &#8220;A majority (54%) viewed the Russia investigation as &#8216;politically motivated.&#8217; Just 41% disagreed. And a plurality (46%) disapproved of Mueller&#8217;s handling of it, while 42% approved. In other recent polls, NBC News found only 42% of voters approve of Mueller&#8217;s handling, while 45% disapprove. What&#8217;s more, only 61% of Democrats approve of Mueller. And a CBS News poll found that 53% think the Russia investigation is politically motivated, with only 44% saying it is justified.&#8221;

WATCH: Elizabeth Warren Tells Colbert She Doesn’t Trust Barr’s Mueller Summary

Robert Mueller

On Wednesday, The Washington Post published an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-installed-a-room-sized-golf-simulator-at-white-house/2019/02/13/ed3f6d5c-2e45-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.6e6b2de56bbe">article</a> by David A. Fahrenthold and Josh Dawsey titled, &#8220;President Trump installed a room-sized golf simulator at White House.&#8221;
Given the title of the piece, one could be forgiven for thinking that the president spent government money to construct a large, entirely new golf simulator at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue &#8212; and some prominent Twitter users seem to be running on that track.
Manu Raju, senior congressional correspondent for CNN, sent out the following tweet about the story:
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In the past several weeks, Trump hasn&#8217;t played as much golf as he&#8217;s used to &#8211; but not to worry since he&#8217;s installed a &#8220;room-sized&#8221; golf simulator at WH. The cost: $50K. Meanwhile, executive time consists of 60% of his schedule <a href="https://t.co/ARZf3N5z5t">https://t.co/ARZf3N5z5t</a>
&#8212; Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1095723243376390144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In the past several weeks, Trump hasn&#8217;t played as much golf as he&#8217;s used to &#8211; but not to worry since he&#8217;s installed a &#8220;room-sized&#8221; golf simulator at WH. The cost: $50K. Meanwhile, executive time consists of 60% of his schedule.
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Raju has a Twitter following of nearly a quarter million. As of publication, the above tweet has 2,500 &#8220;likes,&#8221; and has been retweeted 1,500 times.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), who has a Twitter following of approximately 76,000, sent out a similar tweet about President Trump&#8217;s golf simulator:
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President Trump couldn&#8217;t go to Mar-a-Lago during the government shutdown, so he had a $50,000 golf video game installed at the White House, likely at the EXACT same time 800,000 federal employees were without pay.
Unbelievable.<a href="https://t.co/0C5zOEPpqZ">https://t.co/0C5zOEPpqZ</a>
&#8212; Rep. Mark Pocan (@repmarkpocan) <a href="https://twitter.com/repmarkpocan/status/1095725166380961792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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President Trump couldn&#8217;t go to Mar-a-Lago during the government shutdown, so he had a $50,000 golf video game installed at the White House, likely at the EXACT same time 800,000 federal employees were without pay. Unbelievable.
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Pocan&#8217;s tweet generated much more enthusiasm, with over 19,000 &#8220;likes,&#8221; and 12,400 retweets as of publication.
&#8220;The Late Show&#8221; host Stephen Colbert, who has a Twitter following of 18.3 million, tweeted about the simulator as well:
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Trump installed a $50,000 golf simulator in the White House. Sorry Mar-a-Lago, but you should&#8217;ve known the president would cheat on you too.
&#8212; Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/1095865962824384512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump installed a $50,000 golf simulator in the White House. Sorry Mar-a-Lago, but you should&#8217;ve known the president would cheat on you too.
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Colbert&#8217;s tweet has 37,500 &#8220;likes,&#8221; and has been retweeted more than 4,800 times as of publication.
Here&#8217;s the problem &#8212; while the above tweets seem to imply that what the president did was somehow nefarious, and that the installation of a golf simulator was a callous gesture toward the American workers affected by the shutdown, neither is true.
First, according to an anonymous official who spoke with Fahrenthold and Dawsey, the golf simulator &#8220;replaced an older, less sophisticated simulator that had been installed under President Barack Obama.&#8221; Second, the president allegedly &#8220;paid for the new system and the installation personally.&#8221;
This is critical information because it paints a fuller picture.
There are many Twitter users who will simply see the headline, read the tweets, and assume that while federal workers were suffering the brunt of the shutdown, an indifferent and uncaring president was using government money to play games. This would be a wildly reductive understanding of what actually happened.
The shutdown arose because President Trump and Democratic leaders reached an ideological impasse regarding the security of the southern border of the United States. The battle of ideas over border security is not a trivial one, and it continues even today as the president is allegedly prepared to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/politics/donald-trump-wall-funding-bill/index.html">sign a bill</a> that will keep the government running, but that only includes $1.375 billion for approximately 55 miles of border fencing, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/694021615/whats-included-in-the-proposed-bipartisan-border-security-compromise">reports</a> NPR &#8212; a far cry from the $5.7 billion Trump has been demanding for the construction of a much larger border wall.
Additionally, it&#8217;s important to note that on January 16, President Trump <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/43507/lawmaker-drafts-bill-provide-back-pay-federal-frank-camp">signed</a> legislation to provide back pay to federal employees who were affected by the partial government shutdown.
And yes, during this time, the president allegedly used his own money to upgrade an existing golf simulator in the White House. With some context, that doesn&#8217;t seem like much of a story, does it?
The Daily Wire reached out to Rep. Pocan for comment, but as of publication, we have received no reply.

Democratic Rep And CNN Correspondent Post Misleading Tweets About Trump’s Expensive Golf Simulator

Republican Party

Trump Administration

The liberal desire to rebut President Trump is so overwhelming that they&#8217;re now &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; him live or the moment he utters his last sentence. There is an Official Democratic Politician Rebuttal of the State of the Union, but why bother? They need only give links to national &#8220;news&#8221; sites, since the &#8220;news&#8221; anchors will offer their &#8220;context&#8221; as soon as the speech is over.
Or better yet, leave it to the &#8220;comedians.&#8221;
One could easily consider the late-night talk shows to be the Democrat rebuttal. Start with &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; on Comedy Central, where Trevor Noah quipped, &#8220;The real theme of his speech was that we&#8217;re all going to die, Mexican style. &#8230; This part of his speech was so scary he should have just done it with a flashlight under his chin.&#8221;
Trump was dismissed as dumber than a fifth-grader. &#8220;There was one thing we can all agree on,&#8221; Noah announced. &#8220;He read really well. &#8230; I don&#8217;t know if he&#8217;s ready for a second term, but he&#8217;s definitely ready for the second grade.&#8221;
ABC&#8217;s Jimmy Kimmel had the same lame thought. &#8220;President Trump spoke with all the elegance of a book report written by a third-grader on the bus,&#8221; he said. Kimmel was surely angry that he declared the president a grade smarter than Noah.
Kimmel also joked: &#8220;Trump said, &#8216;We must step boldly and bravely into the next chapter of this great American adventure.&#8217; And that chapter is 11.&#8221; Bankruptcy, get it? Who needs to tell the truth about the economy? Not the comedians.
CBS&#8217; &#8220;Late Show with Stephen Colbert&#8221; is a hot stop for the 46 or so Democrats considering a run for the White House, and Colbert is trying hard to be the most hateful Trump hater of them all. His post-State of the Union show offered a fake translation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. &#8220;Good evening, I&#8217;m Vladimir Putin,&#8221; the female translator said over footage of the real Russian autocrat speaking. &#8220;I agree with President Trump&#8217;s call for unity. Both sides must come together and do exactly what he says. That I told him to say.&#8221;
Fake Putin then makes this unfunny joke: &#8220;We built a wall in Germany, and not one Mexican got into East Berlin.&#8221; Liberals can never tell the difference between a wall to keep citizens in and one to keep illegal immigrants out.
Colbert then added his own thoughts. &#8220;This was not a particularly great speech,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But what it lacked in quality it made up in length. This speech was like watching paint lie.&#8221; Yes, these &#8220;joke&#8221; writers get paid for this.
TBS &#8220;comedian&#8221; Samantha Bee had to wait a night to offer her feckless feminist fusillade. &#8220;My ovaries just tried to move back to Canada,&#8221; she joked about the president&#8217;s passionate pro-life remarks. &#8220;I always knew someday a Republican president would try to take away my right to choose,&#8221; she said, skipping over the fact that she&#8217;s almost 50. &#8220;I just didn&#8217;t think it would be the kind of president who&#8217;s definitely tried to go Dutch on an abortion!&#8221;
This isn&#8217;t new. Last May, she told viewers, &#8220;If Trump hasn&#8217;t paid for at least half a dozen abortions, I will eat this blazer.&#8221;
Bee was only echoing panicked Hollywood feminists who can&#8217;t imagine an abortion limit they could abide. Bette Midler tweeted after the speech: &#8220;Buy stock in coat hangers! Here we go, 60 years, back to the back alleys!&#8221; Alyssa Milano added, &#8220;Government doesn&#8217;t get any bigger than when it is in a uterus.&#8221;
When you&#8217;re the Resistance, the counterarguments don&#8217;t have to have internal logic, and they certainly don&#8217;t have to be funny. They just need to be loaded with passionate fear and loathing. The cultural elite offers a perpetual geyser of hate.
Hollywood would like America to believe it reflects our nation&#8217;s pulse. Well, 76 percent of Americans approved of this speech by the second- or third-grader who&#8217;s destroying our economy as a pawn of Russia because he wants to kill pregnant women.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

BOZELL & GRAHAM: Trump’s Address Meets Late-Night Resistance

Media Bias

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) railed against the media on Tuesday about how they reported comments that she made last night on &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,&#8221; suggesting that she was a victim of racial and gender discrimination in the process.
&#8220;Now, congresswoman, for you and other freshman members of Congress, you&#8217;re getting a fair amount of pushback from even members of your own party saying &#8216;wait your turn, go slow, don&#8217;t ask for so much so fast right now, you&#8217;re new, wait your turn for everything and don&#8217;t make waves,'&#8221; Colbert <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/426350-ocasio-cortez-on-how-many-f-ks-she-gives-i-think-its-zero">said</a>.
&#8220;I want to ask this question in a respectful manner, knowing also that you&#8217;re from Queens, so you will understand this question,&#8221; Colbert continued. &#8220;On a scale from zero to some, how many f***s do you give?&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s zero,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez responded.
When multiple news outlets reported on the exchange, reporting it as the young representative saying she gives &#8220;zero f***s,&#8221; she took to Twitter to blast the outlets for &#8220;misattribution&#8221; and pushing a &#8220;false quote.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez launched into her complaint against media outlets by ascribing the &#8220;misattribution&#8221; to sexist and racist stereotypes about &#8220;brown women cursing.&#8221;
&#8220;I actually didn&#8217;t say this, so while I know &#8216;brown women cursing&#8217; drives clicks, maybe you accurately quote the whole exchange instead of manipulating people into thinking I said this sentence instead of just the word &#8216;zero,'&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said.
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I actually didn&#8217;t say this, so while I know &#8220;brown women cursing&#8221; drives clicks, maybe you accurately quote the whole exchange instead of manipulating people into thinking I said this sentence instead of just the word &#8220;zero.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/MrXIbALNP3">https://t.co/MrXIbALNP3</a>
&#8212; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1087750219788419074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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She specifically called out Politico over the issue, suggesting that the outlet frequently traffics in such stereotypical &#8220;manipul[ation].&#8221;
&#8220;In a shock to no one, @politico is also running with the misattribution as well,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;Here&#8217;s what actually happened: I was asked a question on a late-night show and answered with the word &#8216;zero.'&#8221;
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In a shock to no one, <a href="https://twitter.com/politico?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@politico</a> is also running with the misattribution as well.
Here&#8217;s what actually happened: I was asked a question on a late night show and answered with the word &#8220;zero.&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/soBEwGTSbd">https://t.co/soBEwGTSbd</a>
&#8212; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1087752966667464704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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She also slammed the New York Post for pushing the &#8220;false quote,&#8221; which she said is an example of how &#8220;news hysteria&#8221; begins.
&#8220;And here&#8217;s the @nypost not only running with the false quote, but adding an angry photo to boot: This is how news hysteria develops out of nothing at all,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez again falsely claimed.
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And here&#8217;s the <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nypost</a> not only running with the false quote, but adding an angry photo to boot:
This is how news hysteria develops out of nothing at all. <a href="https://t.co/cJmBwPit6I">https://t.co/cJmBwPit6I</a>
&#8212; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1087755710379839495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez claims that she did not say last night on &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert&#8221; that she gives &#8220;zero&#8221; f*cks about pushback from Democrats
Here&#8217;s the clip showing that&#8217;s what she said <a href="https://t.co/WTQBTnyYpx">pic.twitter.com/WTQBTnyYpx</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1087823971045629953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez recently garnered national headlines after she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42497/ocasio-snaps-world-could-end-12-years-algorithms-ryan-saavedra">claimed</a> without evidence that the world is going to end in 12 years if we don&#8217;t address climate change.
The 29-year-old bartender turned socialist politician also recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42411/ocasio-cortez-embraces-anti-semitic-womens-march-ryan-saavedra">embraced</a> the anti-Semitic Women&#8217;s March after the Democratic National Committee (DNC), leftist groups, and top Democratic lawmakers abandoned the group over its anti-Semitism.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42497/ocasio-snaps-world-could-end-12-years-algorithms-ryan-saavedra">AOC SNAPS: World Could End In 12 Years, Algorithms Are Racist, Hyper-Success Is Bad</a>

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Meryl Streep, the acclaimed actress and outspoken feminist who once infamously declared Harvey Weinstein a &#8220;god,&#8221; really detests Donald Trump &#8212; and that antipathy continues to win her praise among her equally Trump-adverse Hollywood colleagues, including late-night host Stephen Colbert.
In January 2017, Streep announced herself as one of the many leaders of the Trump resistance by using her Golden Globes acceptance speech (video below) as an opportunity to rip the president-elect, who responded by calling her &#8220;one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.&#8221; Since then, Streep has taken every opportunity to denounce the president to her peers&#8217; delight.
At the annual Montclair Film Benefit last week, Colbert, who organized and hosted the event, wasted no time time giving Streep opportunities to rip Trump, introducing the actress by reading in mock-Trump voice his &#8220;over-rated&#8221; tweet. The tweet, said Colbert, was &#8220;perhaps the greatest honor she has ever been given,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/meryl-streep-why-people-should-be-afraid-trump-star-is-born-1167842">The Hollywood Reporter</a> notes.
Colbert brought up the president again later in the 2-hour interview, asking, &#8220;What&#8217;s it like for you to see somebody who is the President of the United States who is the top politician who is indifferent to the idea of empathy? I&#8217;m not sure he knows what you mean when you say it.&#8221;
Streep responded by saying she was genuinely &#8220;scared&#8221; of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;possibility.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m scared. I&#8217;m scared by him, by his possibility,&#8221; she said, THR reports. &#8220;And I do empathize with him. I can&#8217;t imagine what his 3 a.m. is like. There&#8217;s a gathering storm &#8212; everyone feels it, he feels it. His children are in jeopardy, and I feel that. I think, &#8216;What if my children were in jeopardy?&#8217; I would do anything &#8212; anything &#8212; to get them out of trouble. So we should be afraid. That&#8217;s what I think.&#8221;
She also worked in a shot at Trump over his comment during the campaign about having &#8220;the best words.&#8221; She said she once considered taking the LSATs because, &#8220;I had the best words! I know more &#8230; than the generals!&#8221;
Streep&#8217;s regrettable Weinstein-as-&#8220;god&#8221; comment came during another famous Golden Globes speech from 2012 in which she praised the since-disgraced producer for promoting left-wing causes. During the height of the Weinstein scandal in 2017, Streep came under fire, including from other actresses, for defending her promotion of Weinstein by claiming that &#8220;not everybody knew&#8221; about his alleged chronic mistreatment of women:
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One thing can be clarified. Not everybody knew. Harvey supported the work fiercely, was exasperating but respectful with me in our working relationship, and with many others with whom he worked professionally. I didn&#8217;t know about these other offenses: I did not know about his financial settlements with actresses and colleagues; I did not know about his having meetings in his hotel room, his bathroom, or other inappropriate, coercive acts. And If everybody knew, I don&#8217;t believe that all the investigative reporters in the entertainment and the hard news media would have neglected for decades to write about it.
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Among those who rebuked the excuse was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22096/meryl-streep-not-everybody-knew-about-weinstein-james-barrett">Jessica Chastain</a>, who tweeted, &#8220;I was warned from the beginning. The stories were everywhere. To deny that is to create an [environment] for it to happen again.&#8221;
In case you missed Streep&#8217;s much-lauded on the left 2017 Golden Globes speech attacking the soon to be sworn-in Trump, below is the video and full transcript (via <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/meryl-streep-donald-trump-golden-globes-speech">Vanity Fair</a>):
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Please sit down. Thank you. I love you all. You&#8217;ll have to forgive me. I lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this week. And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read. Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said: You, and all of us in this room, really belong to the most vilified segment of American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners, and the press.
But who are we? What is Hollywood, anyway? It&#8217;s just a bunch of different places. I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey, Viola was born in a sharecroppers cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Amy Adams was born in Vicenzia, Italy, and Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and was raised . . . in Ireland, I do believe, and she&#8217;s here nominated&#8212;for playing a small-town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, is here playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.
So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick &#8217;em all out, you&#8217;ll have nothing else to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
They gave me three seconds to say this, so: An actor&#8217;s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us, and let you feel what that feels like, and there were many, many, many powerful performances that did exactly that: breathtaking, compassionate work. But there was one performances this year that stunned me; it sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job&#8212;it made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth.
It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter&#8212;someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can&#8217;t get it out of my head because it wasn&#8217;t in a movie; it was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it&#8217;s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, filters down into everybody&#8217;s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.
Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. O.K., go on with it.
O.K., this brings me to the press: We need the principled press, to hold power to account, to call them them on the carpet for every outrage; that&#8217;s why our founders enshrine the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only asked the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we&#8217;re gonna need them going forward, and they&#8217;ll need us to safeguard the truth.
One more thing. Once, when I was standing around on the set one day whining about something&#8212;we were going to work through supper, or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?&#8221; Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight.
As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art. Thank you.
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