Contra [clapter jockey Samantha Bee], the fact that late-night television is full of so-called comedians launching into political rants is a big problem for political discourse in the era of Trump. For instance, it was quickly pointed out that in 2012 Richter was making jokes, if you’d call them that, about Mitt Romney being racist. It’s the boy who cried “wolf.” Even when there are legitimate objections to Trump, it’s hard to take them seriously coming from people who slandered a good man as racist without cause in 2012.
It’s pretty indisputable that rebellion against the mocking of politically correct scolds is a significant part of Trump’s appeal. The likes of Bee and Richter and the rest of the late-night lefty -comedian industrial complex will never admit it, but the more rabid their attempts to discredit Trump, the more they help him.
And make no mistake, Bee’s job is helping a small audience of liberal elites to blur the line between self-righteousness and humor.
As John Podhoretz tweeted last week, “Late-night ‘comedy’ on HBO and Comedy Central is for liberals what televangelism was for born-agains in the 1980s and 1990s.” Spot-on, especially considering how “Progressivism” is a 150-year old enterprise to replace God with politics and aesthetics.
And given the headline of the above Weekly Standard article and the left’s self-righteousness and unending smug, this Photoshop by Jon Gabriel seems apropos:
