May 19, 2026

GOODBYE, STEPHEN COLBERT: Bringing ‘Very Fine People’ Hoax Back.

A media hoax unlike any other was born. And boy, did it have legs. Future President Joe Biden used the lie to launch his 2020 campaign.

It took the progressive Snopes seven years to set the record straight on the matter. Seven. Years.

Better insanely late than never. Gee, why would Snopes drag its feet on this particular fact check?

Either way, anyone with a healthy news diet knows it’s a lie, and a despicable one at that.

Does that explain why Colbert repeated it … LAST YEAR?

“For the record, Trump did not come up with ‘America first.’ ‘America first’ was the motto of Nazi-friendly Americans in the 1930s … Trump wasn’t Nazi-friendly until 2017,” Colbert said, before mimicking the president’s voice saying, you guessed it, “very fine people.”

No lie is too big, apparently, for the far-Left host. It’s one more reason Colbert won’t be missed on late-night TV.

Remember on the original Star Trek, there were maybe a dozen shots of the USS Enterprise flying in space that were repeated over and over and over again throughout the series? In 1960s Hollywood, those shots were expensive to produce, and Desilu/Paramount wanted to squeeze every last drop out of them. The SPLC production expenses to manufacture Charlottesville were similarly costly to produce. But like the 1960s TV franchise eventually running in perpetuity in its various forms, the initial investment was equally profitable in the long run:

Earlier: So, the Premise Behind Biden’s 2020 Run Was Built on a Lie Paid for By the SPLC?

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll