{"id":1751498,"date":"2022-11-25T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751498"},"modified":"2022-11-25T13:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:18:02","slug":"collusion-in-comedy-late-night-hosts-feast-on-fake-news-over-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/collusion-in-comedy-late-night-hosts-feast-on-fake-news-over-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Collusion In Comedy: Late Night Hosts Feast On Fake News Over Facts"},"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\">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%2Fcollusion-in-comedy-late-night-hosts-feast-on-fake-news-over-facts%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=1751498&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>Fake news is no laughing matter.<\/p>\n<p>It robs us of knowledge, forges false narratives and diminishes trust in journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, many late-night comedians feast on fake news. They\u2019re not willing to wait for fact checks or other journalistic staples. And they\u2019ve been feasting on it for years, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jimmy-kimmel-admits-he-lost-half-his-audience-for-bashing-trump-and-hes-fine-with-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stories tied to President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The comedians in question show no signs of stopping nor any remorse for their actions. They probably can\u2019t wait for the next fake news cycle to commence. Being a late-night propagandist means never having to say you\u2019re sorry.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an unholy alliance. Journalists share wobbly news stories and comedians turn them into partisan punch lines. And, as a result, faulty narratives make their way into the public conscience.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example shows how late-night comics and crooked reporters work hand-in-glove to creative narratives to attack the Right.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, the FBI raided Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate seeking classified documents he allegedly took from his presidential days. News outlets breathlessly suggested the documents included nuclear secrets, the kind of information that could put American security at risk if Trump peddled them to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<p>The walls, at long last, were closing in on the real estate mogul.<\/p>\n<p>Late night comics simultaneously pounced and seized, brimming with outrage over the incident. \u201cThe Late Show\u201d found host Stephen Colbert blasting Trump as committing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/colbert-trump-having-foreign-nuclear-144236974.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cmenage a treason.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you explain this to our allies!? \u201cDon\u2019t worry, Prime Minister, your country\u2019s nuclear secrets are perfectly safe, stored at the Mar-a-Lago waffle bar, between the syrup and the Nutella bucket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2022\/sep\/08\/jimmy-kimmel-mar-a-lago-documents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel joined in, naturally<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only people who are allowed to see them are the president of the United States and a few highly cleared members of his council \u2026 and anyone who goes into Trump\u2019s closet looking for a broom, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Noah of \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d fame said Trump would have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/daily-show-destroys-trumps-greatest-excuse-for-taking-home-classified-docs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flee the country<\/a> to avoid prosecution over the nuclear details. <\/p>\n<p><em>I mean, he\u2019s the guy who wanted to build the wall,\u201d he explained, \u201cand now he\u2019s going to need to sneak into Mexico. Karma\u2019s a b****!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, we\u2019re learning the documents in question were <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/kevindowneyjr\/2022\/11\/16\/shocker-wapo-sheepishly-admits-the-fbi-found-no-nuclear-secrets-or-anything-else-in-mar-a-lago-raid-n1646445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tied to Trump\u2019s ego<\/a>, not nuclear details ready to be sold on the open market.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, and the facts may later change, but as of now the breathless reporting (and endless late-night yuks) proved less than accurate.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hardly the biggest example of the late night\/fake news connection. Audiences suffered through several years of the Russian collusion story across media headlines. And, at the same time, the late-night comics tore into the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Monologue after monologue, skit after skit, attacked Trump for treasonously conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>None did so as aggressively as Colbert, who famously called the President Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201cc*** holster\u201d in one of late night\u2019s most vulgar cracks \u2026 ever.<\/p>\n<p>We now know it\u2019s all a fraud, one which the correctly named Deep State had a hand in perpetrating. So where\u2019s the late night mea culpas?<\/p>\n<p>Team Late Night also jumped on Cassidy Hutchinson\u2019s claims that Trump attempted to physically attack a Secret Service driver to swerve the vehicle toward the January 6 protests which later became violent.<\/p>\n<p>The media had a feeding frenzy over the story, and Hutchinson\u2019s testimony spoke to late night TV\u2019s partisan biases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once again, comedians didn\u2019t wait for the facts. They wanted the \u201cclapter,\u201d the fawning response from liberals in the studio audience, and they couldn\u2019t be bothered.<\/p>\n<p>The basement-rated Trevor Noah offered <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/jan-6-committee\/1014745\/stephen-colbert-and-trevor-noah-size-up-trumps-top-jan-6-tantrums-revealed\">fake praise for Trump\u2019s instincts<\/a> during the alleged fracas.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026fighting your own Secret Service agent is kind of genius on Trump\u2019s part, because he\u2019s hitting the one person who can\u2019t hit back.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert said the story would \u201cmake a great season premiere of Kleptocrats in Cars Seizing Power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The assembled comics didn\u2019t wait to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/testimony-of-cassidy-hutchinson-appears-to-fall-apart-as-new-reports-surface-about-secret-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hear the rest of the story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notably, not one but two primary sources refuted her claims. The person who allegedly told her the story denies sharing it, and the Secret Service agent Trump allegedly man-handled offered to testify it never happened.<\/p>\n<p>The matter eventually went away, with news outlets disinterested in following Hutchinson\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Even smaller fake news stories get turned into late night wisecracks. In 2019, media outlets suggested President Trump had <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4705083\/seth-meyers-trump-meals-on-wheels-budget-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gutted the Meals on Wheels program<\/a>, a charitable effort designed to feed those who can\u2019t get food on their own.<\/p>\n<p>The host of \u201cLate Night with Seth Meyers\u201d raged against Trump and the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Old people voted for you. Your key demographics were old people and older people. They believed you when you said you cared about them. There\u2019s nothing more low-life than lying to the elderly. You should know that. You\u2019re 70.<\/p>\n<p>Except less than 3% of the program\u2019s funding comes from federal funding. So the media and Meyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fake-news-did-trump-just-kill-meals-wheels-not-ben-shapiro?utm_content=031817-news&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grossly misrepresented the facts<\/a> to smite Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>News outlets should go back and update incorrect news stories. The corrections section is a venerable part of journalism, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake news is no laughing matter. It robs us of knowledge, forges false narratives and diminishes trust in journalism. Sadly, many late-night comedians feast on fake news. They\u2019re not willing to wait for fact checks or other journalistic staples. And they\u2019ve been feasting on it for years, especially stories tied to President Donald Trump. 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