Stephen Colbert lied to attack President Trump this week. Again. It's the new normal for late night "comedians."
Stephen Colbert couldn’t resist.
Former Vice President Joe Biden finally announced his 2020 presidential campaign last week. Biden joined a crush of fellow Democrats hoping to unseat President Donald Trump next year.
Naturally, “The Late Show” host had to talk about it. And, given the program’s leftist slant, Colbert didn’t find much fault in Biden’s video announcement.
The comic had another target in mind.
Colbert accepted Biden’s inaccurate video claim that President Donald Trump praised white supremacists nearly two years ago following a Charlottesville, Va. protest which left one woman dead. If you listen to the president’s full comments he made it clear he did no such thing.
All you have to do is let the audio tape roll.
It’s the lie the media can’t stop telling. Academy voters even honored director Spike Lee for including the smear at the end of his 2018 film “BlacKKKlansman.” Lee earned his first Oscar for co-writing the fact-based tale.
Naturally, Biden took the bait. He knew the media which started the lie wouldn’t fact check him. Reporters stood down, right on cue.
Colbert followed suit.
He began with—what else—a misrepresentation of actual facts.
“Donald Trump is still president? Did anyone read the Mueller Report?” Colbert asked. Yes, that’s the report that found no collusion between Trump and Russia. Seems like an important detail, the kind that would be exonerating for any clear-eyed reader.
Even a cartoonishly biased comedian.
The problem here goes beyond Colbert’s lie–spread via a major broadcasting company–CBS.
Here’s the bigger issue.
It’s not the first time late night hosts have lied through their teeth. How many comics pounced on the alleged “pee tape?”
You could argue, “hey, how could they resist?” Just imagine if President Barack Obama were the target of that salacious, unproven rumor.
That’s how they’d resist.
Read the rest for yourself. The article covers plenty more fake news used by late-night comedians as shit to shovel into the gullible minds of TV watchers everywhere.
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