{"id":1375608,"date":"2022-03-14T06:31:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T10:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1375608"},"modified":"2022-03-14T10:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:35:55","slug":"late-nights-elitism-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-nights-elitism-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Night\u2019s Elitism Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flate-nights-elitism-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1375608&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Readers-Pass-Toto-Late-Nights-Elitist-Problem_44516x9.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Late night TV has been liberal for some time, but a newer ideological strain infects its comedy lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Call it elitism on steroids.<\/p>\n<div>Stephen Colbert offered a prime example recently while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stephen-colberts-elitism-on-soaring-gas-prices-hell-ill-pay-15-a-gallon-because-i-drive-a-tesla\">protecting<\/a> President Joe Biden from soaring gas prices under his watch.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cToday, the average gas price in America hit an all-time record high of over $4\/gallon. OK, that stings, but a clean conscience is worth a buck or two. It\u2019s important. I\u2019m willing to pay $4\/gallon. Hell, I\u2019ll pay $15 a gallon b\/c I drive a Tesla.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where does one start? Let\u2019s set aside how Americans also get their gas from other unsavory sources, including Iran. What about hard-working citizens already struggling with Bidenflation, who are now asked to pay even more at the pump?<\/p>\n<p>Colbert shrugs off those real-world consequences just like he ignores Democratic gaffes.<\/p>\n<p>The old Colbert, not as beholden to his ideological masters, might have mocked Colbert 2.0 for being so out of touch. Instead, he carries on as if his viewers also receive millions for telling scripted yuks five nights a week.<\/p>\n<p>If only this were an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p>Late night comics routinely rail against Blue Collar USA when its citizens veer from progressive groupthink. No better example exists than comedians mocking lockdown protesters during the heart of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Regular Joes and Janes watched as draconian measures all but capsized their businesses in 2020. They were spittin\u2019 mad, and who could blame them? At the time, reasonable folks could disagree about the lockdowns. Helpful? Harmful? Unnecessary? Vital? The pandemic was new, and we didn\u2019t have as many facts as we do now.<\/p>\n<p>That hardly defends how Colbert and fellow hard Leftist Jimmy Kimmel savaged the protesters from the comfort of their home studios. Colbert assumed every protester wore a MAGA hat, mocking them for daring to defend their livelihoods.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cBecause nothing says \u2018never surrender\u2019 like a Confederate flag,\u201d Colbert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-news\/colbert-trump-coronavirus-protestors-985703\/\">said<\/a> during an April broadcast.<\/div>\n<p>Kimmel sang from the same hymnal, calling these protesters \u201csuicidal,\u201d something he\u2019d never said about Black Lives Matters protesters who gathered en masse, for months on end, often committing violence along the way. For the former \u201cMan Show\u201d host, suffering citizens were just another way to mock President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing more.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cA big reason why these protests are gaining steam is because our president is encouraging them,\u201d the host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/jimmy-kimmel-trump-supporting-coronavirus-protesters-suicidal\">added<\/a>. \u201cDespite everyone who works for him telling people to stay at home, despite the official White House mandate being \u2018shelter in place,\u2019 over the weekend, the guy who runs the White House tweeted, \u2018LIBERATE MICHIGAN,\u2019 \u2018LIBERATE MINNESOTA,\u2019 and \u2018LIBERATE VIRGINIA.\u2019 This from a man who refuses to even liberate Melania.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Daily Show\u201d gleefully joined Kimmel and Colbert, sending \u201cpunching down\u201d specialist Jordan Klepper to taunt lockdown protesters. It\u2019s Klepper\u2019s job to do \u201cman on the street\u201d interviews\u201d with conservatives, sharing the most embarrassing moments with viewers. Does anyone think Klepper getting schooled on an issue would crack the \u201cDaily Show\u201d lineup?<\/p>\n<div>So naturally, Klepper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/anti-science-daily-show-lockdown-protesters\/\">sided<\/a> with nurses who were protesting the anti-lockdown protesters, a bit devoid of empathy for those struggling to get by.<\/div>\n<p>A year later, late night hosts like John Oliver and Seth Meyers gaslit viewers into thinking the BLM\/Antifa protests sparked by George Floyd\u2019s death were, truly, \u201cmostly peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tell that to the shop owners who watched their businesses burn to the ground across the country. They weren\u2019t the rich and powerful, just entrepreneurs who poured their souls into the American Dream.<\/p>\n<p>Meyers famously dubbed the Portland protests \u201cgraffiti and light property damage,\u201d echoing MSNBC talking points. Here\u2019s guessing he doesn\u2019t know any Oregon residents whose lives were upended by said \u201cdamage.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>Oliver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/late-night-gaslighting-seth-meyers-portland\/\">piled<\/a> on, blaming Fox News for the allegedly false narratives about left-wing violence in cities like Portland.<\/div>\n<p>Little has changed with late night elitism since then, but it\u2019s often what they don\u2019t say that\u2019s most revealing.<\/p>\n<p>Late night yuksters are doing viewers a disservice by propping up the Biden presidency. Truth tellers, and that\u2019s how they see themselves, can\u2019t sit by as inflation and gas prices soar. It\u2019s exactly what they\u2019re doing, in part, because their personal finances are just fine, thank you. Plus, their preferred party is mostly to blame.<\/p>\n<p>The same elitism stains \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d more interested in mocking Fox News stars than the Commander in Chief. The venerable show all but ignores Team Biden these days, along policies that impact all Americans.<\/p>\n<div>Like late night comedy hosts, they\u2019ve been mocking flyover country for some time. Arguably the most shocking example came in 2016 when \u201cSNL\u201d debuted a faux Trump campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qg0pO9VG1J8\">ad<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>The clip asked \u201creal Americans\u201d to weigh in on Trump\u2019s upstart campaign, only to reveal his supporters as Nazis, racists and white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>Recent \u201cSNL\u201d episodes avoid sketches about gas prices or inflation gone wild. Doesn\u2019t fit their preferred narrative, and who cares if Middle America is suffering? \u201cSNL\u201d creator Lorne Michaels can still pay his bills on time, right?<\/p>\n<p>Modern-day Democrats pose as the Everyman party, ready to fight for the working poor. They still preach that message, but it\u2019s getting harder to believe them. When Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg tells Americans to buy expensive electric cars to battle high gas prices, you know there\u2019s a messaging meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true for late night\u2019s elite squad. They put progressive talking points over both the truth and the people hurt by it. And there\u2019s little funny about that.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late night TV has been liberal for some time, but a newer ideological strain infects its comedy lineup.Call it elitism on steroids.Stephen Colbert offered a prime example recently while protecting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}