{"id":1831434,"date":"2023-02-01T10:05:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1831434"},"modified":"2023-02-01T10:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:10:55","slug":"will-any-comedian-lay-a-glove-on-big-pharma-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-any-comedian-lay-a-glove-on-big-pharma-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Any Comedian Lay a Glove on Big Pharma (Now)?"},"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\">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%2Fwill-any-comedian-lay-a-glove-on-big-pharma-now%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=1831434&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/John-Oliver-big-Pharma-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>John Oliver delivered a blistering takedown of Big Pharma \u2026 in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d Segment found Oliver shaming drug companies for their morally questionable tactics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends \u2026 They\u2019re much more concerned with getting inside of you than being effective once they\u2019re in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Colbert was his guest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/stephen-colbert-opioid-crisis-big-pharma-724763\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Pharma: Your own swing<\/a> Three years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are certain subjects that are genuinely hard to talk about like, the opioid crisis. It\u2019s an epidemic that affects both political parties, Republican, Democrat, rich people, poor people, it does not discriminate \u2026 And a lot of people blame Big Pharma, but only because it\u2019s their fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Big Pharma had a large, fat target on their back for a while.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If your doctor is part of Big Pharma&#8217;s pocketbook. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KbpZxuFfpx\">pic.twitter.com\/KbpZxuFfpx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 comedycentral (@ComedyCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComedyCentral\/status\/1091370661803712512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2019,<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That was in 1996. Now, with Pfizer\u2019s tactics under fire from alternative media outlets it\u2019s the perfect time for Oliver and Colbert, among others, to take satirical swings at the mega company.<\/p>\n<p>Just think about it! \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d You can only sketch this exchange.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There is still no coverage by mainstream media about a href=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/Project_Veritas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>@Project_Veritas<\/a> And a href=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesOKeefeIII?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>@JamesOKeefeIII<\/a>\u2018s dramatic report on Pfizer\u2019Gain from function research<\/p>\n<p>This is a very important message. Please pass it on to everyone you know. This is the most important information about Covid vaccines.https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DirectedEvolution?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>#DirectedEvolution<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uRyikFOPco\">pic.twitter.com\/uRyikFOPco<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrEliDavid\/status\/1618874472806899712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The video quickly received millions of views on YouTube.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/gabriela-pariseau\/2023\/01\/30\/silenced-youtube-censors-project-veritas-pfizer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Before it was deleted<\/a>Twitter, Twitter, and elsewhere. Even if the mainstream media did its best to ignore or downplay a Pfizer executive\u2019s shocking confessions (which he later denied as lies), many Americans learned about it via social media and brave news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11678281\/Undercover-footage-reveals-Pfizer-exploring-manipulating-COVID-make-potent.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Mail is one of these outlets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Except we\u2019re not seeing any jokes on the subject from the usual suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals of late have avoided Project Veritas and the resulting headlines from right-leaning media outlets. Nor have they questioned recent revelations that the COVID-19 vaccine didn\u2019t operate as advertised.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine didn\u2019t stop people from getting the virus or transmitting it. We\u2019ve known that for months, and yet the Late-Night Jimmys don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth addressing.\u00a0Speaking \u201ctruth to power\u201d It appears to have its guard rails.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d rather sing songs about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/mask-less-fallon-wear-mask-indoors\/\">indoor mask wearing<\/a> \u2026 while not wearing actual masks indoors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/gutfeld-carolla-share-shocking-late-night-blacklisting-tales\/\"><strong>RELATED : GUTFELDSHARES SHOCKING LATE NIGHT BLACKLISTINGTALES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not as if late-night comics ignored Pfizer\u2019s handiwork.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers were bombarded with provaccine sketches, dances, and music throughout the late-night landscape. ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel said unvaccinated Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/08\/jimmy-kimmel-says-unvaxxed-americans-dont-deserve-icu-beds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">didn\u2019t deserve medical treatment<\/a> If they become ill from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Stern, an ex-shock jock, stated the same but in angrier words.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert took it a step further.<\/p>\n<p>Some comedians might fear being fired if they take on Big Pharma. YouTube was unable to show Project Veritas a video in which a Pfizer executive admitted that they do \u201cgain of function\u201dCOVID-19 is a virus that has been studied in a scientific manner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/big-tech-censorship-conservative-comedy\/\">Big Tech regularly censors jokes<\/a> It is found \u201cproblematic\u201d or, more precisely, hits targets that are inconvenient to the preferred narratives of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel and his colleagues may also face retaliation from corporate bosses if Big Pharma cash is a part of their revenue streams.<\/p>\n<p>Or are these comics simply being tribal? They assume that any vaccine-related information is pro-liberal and anti-conservative. And they fear accepting the other side even for a sketch or gag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver delivered a blistering takedown of Big Pharma \u2026 in 2015. The \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d Segment found Oliver shaming drug companies for their morally questionable tactics. \u201cDrug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends \u2026 They\u2019re much more concerned with getting inside of you than being effective once they\u2019re in there.\u201d Stephen Colbert &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1831437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[15845,11959,8194,10540,6878],"class_list":["post-1831434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-lay","tag-pharma","tag-comedian","tag-glove","tag-now"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831434","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=1831434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1831437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}