{"id":1409588,"date":"2022-03-30T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409588"},"modified":"2022-03-30T09:15:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:15:15","slug":"audience-applauds-as-colbert-says-fox-news-peter-doocy-should-be-slapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/audience-applauds-as-colbert-says-fox-news-peter-doocy-should-be-slapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Audience Applauds as Colbert Says Fox News&#039; Peter Doocy Should Be Slapped"},"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\">24<\/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%2Faudience-applauds-as-colbert-says-fox-news-peter-doocy-should-be-slapped%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=1409588&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Liberal pundit Stephen Colbert, who also hosts a comedy show, joked on Tuesday night that Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy should be slapped the way actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>The audience applauded.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last Night in Comedy:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenAtHome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StephenAtHome<\/a>: FNC\u2019s Peter Doocy should be \u201cslapped\u201d for asking Biden to clarify his Russia comments <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ATENEWUuV\">pic.twitter.com\/8ATENEWUuV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1509106979154935809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Colbert played a clip of Doocy asking Biden to clarify his gaffes on his recent trip to Europe, when he suggested that the United States might use chemical weapons if Russia were to use chemical weapons in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than applaud the fact that a member of the White House press corps challenged the country\u2019s most senior elected official on an urgent question, Colbert suggested violence would be justified (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">transcript<\/a> via NewsBusters, original emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>COLBERT: Yesterday, President Biden held\u00a0a press conference, and he was\u00a0asked a ridiculous question by a\u00a0ridiculous man: Fox News\u00a0reporter and that one kid in\u00a0high school who wears a suit to\u00a0gym class, Peter Doocy.\u00a0Jimmy, drop the deuce.<\/p>\n<p>PETER DOOCY:\u00a0When you said a chemical\u00a0weapon used by Russia would\u00a0trigger a response in kind?<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: It will trigger a significant\u00a0response.<\/p>\n<p>DOOCY: What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: I\u2019m not going to tell you.\u00a0Why would I tell you?\u00a0You have got to be silly.\u00a0(Laughter )\u00a0( Applause )<\/p>\n<p>COLBERT: Remember\u2013\u00a0( applause )\u00a0Yes.\u00a0<strong>Remember how on last night\u2019s\u00a0show I said that slapping is\u00a0never, ever the answer?\u00a0I\u2019d like to file a one-time\u00a0exception on behalf of the\u00a0president of the United States<\/strong>. (Applause)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/academy-condemns-will-smiths-actions-launches-review\/\">apologized<\/a> Monday for slapping Rock onstage after Rock told a joke about Smith\u2019s wife\u2019s hair, an altercation that shocked viewers around the world and for which the actor could still face serious legal and professional consequences.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20409761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Willsmithchrisrock1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robyn Beck\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When President Donald Trump was in office, Colbert styled himself as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/tim-graham\/2022\/03\/30\/colbert-biden-should-slap-peter-doocy-will-smith-slapped-chris-rock\">champion<\/a> of press freedom. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/late-show-jim-acosta-cnn-journalists-fed-up-poor-treatment-trump-administration-8469409\/\">boosted<\/a> then-CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who made a habit of confronting Trump and his press secretaries in media briefings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal pundit Stephen Colbert, who also hosts a comedy show, joked on Tuesday night that Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy should be slapped the way actor Will Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-1409588","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\/1409588","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409588\/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=1409588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}