{"id":1580389,"date":"2022-07-30T09:17:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1580389"},"modified":"2022-07-30T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T13:17:38","slug":"its-official-late-night-tv-turned-on-recession-era-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-official-late-night-tv-turned-on-recession-era-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: Late Night TV Turned On Recession-era Biden"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fits-official-late-night-tv-turned-on-recession-era-biden%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=1580389&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><strong>It was only a matter of time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mainstream press, once firmly in President Joe Biden\u2019s corner, gave the go-ahead to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/12\/as-democrats-and-the-media-turn-on-biden-remember-they-are-the-corrupt-regime-that-empowered-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticize the world leader<\/a> on both his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-cnn-democrats-concerns-bidens-age-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advanced age and ability to lead Democrats in 2022<\/a> and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The same press that cheered on Biden\u2019s favorite ice cream flavors now suggest the 79-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/07\/08\/president-joe-biden-running-out-of-time-00044636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">isn\u2019t vigorous enough<\/a> for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood fallout from the press\u2019 shocking reversal didn\u2019t happen overnight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/tim-dillon-late-night-comedy\/\"><strong>RELATED: TIM DILLON ON LATE-NIGHT HOSTS: THEY\u2019RE NOT DOING THEIR JOBS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Late-night comedians spent the first 16-plus months of the Biden administration avoiding jokes that would make the leader look bad. They snapped off a few \u201cold age\u201d gags now and then, toothless barbs that avoided geopolitical truths.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they focused their firepower on all things GOP.<\/p>\n<p>They slammed former President Donald Trump as if he still called 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW home. They also savaged Republicans like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Fox News superstar Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they\u2019re suddenly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-mocked-president-late-night-host-jimmy-fallon-stephen-colbert-blunder-1728670?utm_source=Flipboard&#038;utm_medium=App&#038;utm_campaign=Partnerships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving Joe Biden a hard time<\/a> via their nightly monologues.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Colbert: The Crown Prince Is Infamously a \u2018Murderer\u2019 But on the Other Hand, Gas Is Five Bucks a Gallon <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pi4JuVQKoZ\">pic.twitter.com\/Pi4JuVQKoZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandra Datig | Front Page Index \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@alexdatig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexdatig\/status\/1549282361006624768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This week, both Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon mocked Biden for mispronouncing the COVID-19 treatment known as Paxlovid.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Colbert imitating Biden:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took me some Plaxivoid, the Plaxivid, the platypus polish, I took it. The point is that little pill knocked the Clovis right out of my bread basket,\u201d Colbert said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I am easy breezy breathing\u2026where am I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colbert didn\u2019t just poke Biden for the mispronunciation. He suggested Biden suffers from dementia, a line of attack conservatives have been making, with copious evidence to back them up, for two years.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/saturday-night-live-biden-mental-state\/\">\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d teased last year<\/a> but quickly abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Plus,\u00a0Biden has made far worse verbal blunders over the past year-plus without rousing any late-night alarms. He\u2019s read teleprompter cues as part of his speeches, misstated key officials\u2019 names and repeatedly lost his train of thought.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel saved Biden from one such miscue by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1534902485948694528?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cutting to a commercial,<\/a> stat.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s gaffes are so obvious, and comical, they\u2019ve inspired memes of their own.\u00a0Get your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/You-know-thing-Biden-T-Shirt\/dp\/B08DVQNYR5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cYou know the thing\u201d T-shirt at Amazon<\/a> and other fine retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Colbert is suddenly poking fun at a leader mispronouncing a complex medicine?<\/p>\n<p>And he wasn\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon, who veered to the Left after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/media-bullied-fallon-hating-trump\/\">media punished him for humanizing Trump<\/a>, similarly pounced and seized on the Paxlovid miscue.<\/p>\n<p>After playing Biden\u2019s blunder, Fallon looked confused at the camera before mockingly saying, \u201cwelcome back, Mr. President, welcome back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just days after Fallon suggested Biden take a page out of Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s playbook and retire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fallon on Fauci saying he\u2019ll retire: \u201cEveryone\u201d is hoping Biden announces his retirement next <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U9ooyB0LKq\">pic.twitter.com\/U9ooyB0LKq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1549373352204181507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fallon also hit Biden with a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/07\/26\/jimmy-fallon-jokes-white-house-staff-wants-to-keep-biden-in-covid-isolation-until-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> rat-a-tat-tat comic assault<\/a> earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe past five days, President Biden has been isolating with COVID and today his doctor said that his symptoms are now almost completely resolved \u2026 Yeah, that\u2019s great. Biden\u2019s staff was like, \u2018Just to be safe, let\u2019s keep him isolated until 2025.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden\u2019s doctors said that his pulse, blood pressure, and respiratory rate remain absolutely normal. Then Biden flipped on the news and his doctors said \u2018Never mind.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABC\u2019s \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live,\u201d as relentlessly partisan as its peers, even hired old pro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clayandbuck.com\/late-night-turns-on-joe-dana-carvey-mocks-biden-with-spot-on-impersonation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana Carvey to tweak Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek suggests it\u2019s Biden\u2019s poll numbers that gave hosts the \u201call clear\u201d sign to mock the president.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not exactly true.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s poll numbers have been embarrassingly low for some time. They\u2019ve never been high, but they collapsed roughly this time last year after he handed Afghanistan back to the murderous Taliban regime.<\/p>\n<p>Those polls numbers never bounced back.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with soaring inflation, sky-high gas prices and an economy that\u2019s officially in a recession, they\u2019re reaching new lows with few signs of a resurgence.<\/p>\n<p>Comedians are taking their cues from their press allies, not any recent poll changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What happens next?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/gutfeld-ratings-gen-z-millennials\/\"><strong>RELATED: THESE \u2018GUTFELD\u2019 RATINGS SHOULD SCARE LIBERALS SILLY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team Late Night will continue to pound GOP targets. They\u2019ll occasionally target Biden, too, perhaps hoping to steal some of Greg Gutfeld\u2019s thunder over at Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGutfeld!\u201d remains at or near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/gutfeld-late-night-king\/\">top of the ratings heap<\/a>, and his panelists aren\u2019t afraid to speak truth to power, 2022 style.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-Left hosts may even drag Hunter Biden into the comedy equation. The revelations about the First Son\u2019s business dealings grow murkier every day, and now it\u2019s clear that the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/27\/hunter-biden-scandal-may-lead-right-back-to-joe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commander in Chief had plenty of contact<\/a> with his son\u2019s wheeling and dealing.<\/p>\n<p>One thing won\u2019t change anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert and co. will continue to ignore Vice President Kamala Harris. She\u2019s next in line should Biden officially stumble, and late-night hosts have no desire to damage her already wobbly brand.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter how many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/kamala-harris-caught-word-salad-democrats-failed-codify-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">word salads Harris serves up,<\/a> she\u2019s immune from satirical barbs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely hosts like John Oliver of \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d fame will never go near Biden, regardless of what the media narratives might be. His weekly show has more latitude in what it covers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The same may have been true for Samantha Bee, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/media-samantha-bee-ratings-cancellation\/\">TBS finally pulled the plug<\/a> on her basement-rated \u201cFull Frontal\u201d showcase.<\/p>\n<p>The irony behind the late night change of heart is clear.<\/p>\n<p>The late night attacks on Biden may do more to keep his poll numbers down than anything the Commander in Chief actually does.<\/p>\n<p>At this point all Biden has is his hardcore base, and the only way they\u2019ll buckle is if their late-night heroes tell them it\u2019s time to move on.<\/p>\n<p>That appears precisely what Colbert and co. are saying, one joke at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a matter of time. 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