{"id":1479045,"date":"2022-05-18T07:59:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T11:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479045"},"modified":"2022-05-18T07:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T11:59:56","slug":"stephen-colbert-says-half-of-republicans-agree-with-buffalo-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-colbert-says-half-of-republicans-agree-with-buffalo-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Says Half of Republicans Agree With Buffalo Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fstephen-colbert-says-half-of-republicans-agree-with-buffalo-shooter%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=1479045&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><\/div>\n<p>CBS\u2019s Stephen Colbert returned to <em>The Late Show <\/em>on Monday after a COVID absence to declare that half of Republicans agree with the Buffalo racist mass shooter, including Fox\u2019s Tucker Carlson and Rep. Elise Stefanik.<\/p>\n<p>If you were wondering where could acquire such beliefs, Colbert was there to inform:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Well\u00a0it used to be only from the farthest right-wing fringe organizations.\u00a0Your Storm Fronts your neo-Nazis but these days you can see it every\u00a0night on TV. According to the <em>New York Times<\/em> replacement theory is a central theme\u00a0on Tucker&#8217;s show. Their investigation found that his \u201cproducers sometimes\u00a0scoured his shows raw material from the same dark corners of the\u00a0internet that the Buffalo suspect did.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Colbert insisted he wasn\u2019t blaming Carlson, \u201cBut I would hope it would give\u00a0anyone pause to find out that their browser history matches that\u00a0of a mass murderer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next, Colbert turned his attention to Stefanik:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now, although it sounds crazy, and I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m saying this, recent polls show that 50% of Republicans agree with this garbage and not just because it\u2019s being mainstreamed by Fox News, but because it&#8217;s being mainstreamed by high ranking Republican officials like\u00a0GOP conference chair and judge making a toddler cry at the talent\u00a0show, Elise Stefanik. In a series of Facebook ads, just last year,\u00a0Stefanik\u2019s campaign claimed that \u201cradical democrats plan to grant amnesty\u00a0to 11 million illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate\u00a0and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason it sounds crazy is because opposing giving amnesty and citizenship for illegal immigrants is not Great Replacement Theory.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Colbert wondered what Stefanik is so afraid of, \u201cOh, and you\u00a0know what those liberals will do with their powerful permanent majority?\u00a0Beg Joe Manchin for paid family leave, then he doesn&#8217;t vote for it.\u00a0Say, \u2018oh, okay. Then, is there something else we could do for you?\u00a0What if we fed coal directly to dolphins?\u2019\u00a0So that&#8217;s&#8211;\u00a0that&#8217;s&#8211; terrible, terrible news.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shooter hated conservatives, so in addition to Colbert\u2019s rhetoric being intentionally inflammatory, it was also false.<\/p>\n<p><em>This segment was sponsored by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/conservatives-fight-back\/advertiser\/pampers-division-pg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pampers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a transcript for the May 16 show:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"collapsible\">\n<p>CBS <em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert <\/em><\/p>\n<p>5\/16\/2022<\/p>\n<p>11:39 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>STEPHEN COLBERT: So where does anyone get an idea that monstrous. Well\u00a0it used to be only from the farthest right-wing fringe organizations.\u00a0Your Storm Fronts your neo-Nazis but these days you can see it every\u00a0night on TV. Thanks to Fox News host and deer caught masturbating\u00a0in the headlights Tucker Carlson.\u00a0According to the <em>New York Times<\/em> replacement theory is a central theme\u00a0on Tucker&#8217;s show. Their investigation found that his \u201cproducers sometimes\u00a0scoured his shows raw material from the same dark corners of the\u00a0internet that the Buffalo suspect did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now that doesn&#8217;t mean Tucker\u00a0is responsible for what happened. But I would hope it would give\u00a0anyone pause to find out that their browser history matches that\u00a0of a mass murderer. If I found out that Jeffrey Dahmer was really\u00a0into <em>The<\/em> <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>, I might switch over to the <em>Narnia<\/em>\u00a0stuff. Okay, let&#8217;s go visit Lion Jesus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, although it sounds crazy, and I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m saying this, recent polls show that 50% of Republicans agree with this garbage and not just because it\u2019s being mainstreamed by Fox News, but because it&#8217;s being mainstreamed by high ranking Republican officials like\u00a0GOP conference chair and judge making a toddler cry at the talent\u00a0show, Elise Stefanik. In a series of Facebook ads, just last year,\u00a0Stefanik\u2019s campaign claimed that \u201cradical democrats plan to grant amnesty\u00a0to 11 million illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate\u00a0and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and you\u00a0know what those liberals will do with their powerful permanent majority?\u00a0Beg Joe Manchin for paid family leave, then he doesn&#8217;t vote for it.\u00a0Say, \u201coh, okay. Then, is there something else we could do for you?\u00a0What if we fed coal directly to dolphins?\u201d\u00a0So that&#8217;s&#8211;\u00a0that&#8217;s&#8211; terrible, terrible news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS\u2019s Stephen Colbert returned to The Late Show on Monday after a COVID absence to declare that half of Republicans agree with the Buffalo racist mass shooter, including Fox\u2019s Tucker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479045","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\/1479045","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\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479045\/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=1479045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}