{"id":2415576,"date":"2025-03-26T13:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1st-amendment-has-never-been-more-alive-and-well-joe-concha\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:32:41","slug":"1st-amendment-has-never-been-more-alive-and-well-joe-concha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1st-amendment-has-never-been-more-alive-and-well-joe-concha\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;1st Amendment has never been more alive and well&#8217;: Joe Concha"},"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\">22<\/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%2F1st-amendment-has-never-been-more-alive-and-well-joe-concha%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=2415576&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>In an article by Joe Concha for the Washington Examiner, comedian nikki Glaser expresses her fear of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-subpoenas-officials-for-depositions-over-bidenbucks\/\" title=\"House Subpoenas Officials For Depositions Over &#039;Bidenbucks&#039;\">discussing political topics<\/a> in her stand-up routines. She <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">made thes comments<\/a> at the Mark twain Prize for American Humor ceremony, highlighting her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fed-pauses-interest-rate-hikes-after-a-year-of-increases\/\" title=\"Fed halts rate hikes after one year of increases.\">concerns amidst<\/a> a climate where visibility and expression can be contentious. Concha dismisses Glaser&#8217;s fears, suggesting that comedians have faced no real repercussions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/samantha-bee-admits-she-pulls-punches-on-joe-biden\/\" title=\"Samantha Bee Admits She \u2018Pulls Punches\u2019 On Joe Biden\">making jokes<\/a> about former President Donald Trump. He references past incidents,such as Kathy Griffin&#8217;s controversial photo,arguing that such expressions of humor are protected and that Glaser will likely return to making Trump-related jokes. He emphasizes that the First Amendment remains strong and that there&#8217;s a significant anti-Trump media presence, indicating that anyone should feel free to express their views. Concha\u2019s outlook is that the notion of fear among comedians is exaggerated and reflects a misunderstanding of current freedoms.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Comedians concerned about making Trump jokes have &rsquo;31 flavors of delusion&rsquo;: Joe Concha<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> Senior Writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3355463\/centrists-losing-democratic-party-civil-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Concha\">Joe Concha<\/a> dismissed concerns from comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3277079\/golden-globes-knocks-hollywoods-influence-2024-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Nikki Glaser\">Nikki Glaser<\/a> that she is &ldquo;scared&rdquo; to talk about politics in her stand-up sets.<\/p>\n<p>Glaser <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">attended the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, where a number of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3356714\/comedians-mark-twain-prize-slam-trump-kennedy-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">comedians took shots<\/a>&nbsp;at the president. She told reporters, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m at the point now that if I don&rsquo;t say something political, it&rsquo;s because I&rsquo;m scared to.&rdquo; The comedian has already poked fun at the celebrities who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris,<\/span> who lost to Trump.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3357871\/colorado-democrats-removal-trump-portrait\/\">Colorado Democrats endorse removal of Trump portrait he criticized&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3356575\/trump-spat-60-minutes-george-clooney\/\">Trump renews spat with 60 Minutes over episode with &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-renews-60-minutes-spat-over-george-clooney-episode\/\" title=\"... renews 60 Minutes spat over George Clooney episode\">failed political pundit&#038;rsquo<\/a>; George Clooney<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3356451\/disney-snow-white-falls-flat-weak-opening-weekend\/\">Disney&#8217;s Snow White falls flat with weak $43 million opening weekend<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Nobody&rsquo;s going to lock up Nikki Glazer over making a trump about Donald Trump. This is 31 flavors of delusion. Because Donald Trump was president for four years from 2017-2021, and no comedian went to jail or was detained, neither was any sort of journalist in this regard,&rdquo; Concha said on Fox Business&rsquo;s <em>Varney &amp; Co<\/em> Wednesday. &ldquo;Remember Kathy Griffin actually held up the likeness of Donald Trump? Did anything happen to her? Nothing happened.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video featured-post-video in-content bridtv\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2075149\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:1280;height:720;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video-placeholder\" style=\"position:relative;overflow:hidden;width:100%;padding-top:56.25%;background-color:#000;\">\n<div style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;width:100%;height:100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2861392&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=53a8b5ab47bd24035f0a3de1cbb2507f\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Concha was referring to the fellow comedian who posted a photo of herself holding up a mock bloodied and severed head of Trump while he was in office the first time. Griffin underwent a Secret Service investigation that was sparked by the controversial photo shoot. Two months after the photo became public in May 2017, she was exonerated. Glaser was clear to reporters that her hesitation is &ldquo;not because I&rsquo;m like, I don&rsquo;t think I have a right to do that.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The First Amendment has never been more alive and well. Donald Trump has taken thousands of questions from reporters since taking office just nine weeks ago. He&rsquo;s the most successful president that we have ever seen,&rdquo; Concha went on. &ldquo;Meanwhile, if you want to write an anti-Trump book about Trump or you want a media that obviously is very much anti-Trump, nobody is stopping them from doing that at this point. So when Nikki Glaser says, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m afraid to make a joke,&rsquo; I can guarantee you she&rsquo;ll be making Donald Trump jokes by this weekend.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3321696\/marco-rubio-defends-jd-vance-lecture-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>MARCO RUBIO DEFENDS JD VANCE&rsquo;S LECTURE ON FREE SPEECH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the Trump administration made long-shot accusations of First Amendment violations. For example, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) came to the defense of Columbia student&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3342115\/good-riddance-mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-hamas-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mahmoud&nbsp;Khalil<\/a>. Khalil is a green card holder who made headlines for over-participation in several anti-Israel protests in which Hamas propaganda was distributed. While Schumer claimed to &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1899538362643689806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abhor<\/a>&rdquo; Khalil&rsquo;s opinions and polices, he accused the Trump administration of violating the First&nbsp;Amendment&nbsp;by ordering ICE to detain him and revoke his green card.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has made several attempts to increase accessibility compared to the Biden administration. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> has its own X account that posts several times a day. Meanwhile, the White House Press Briefings are opening up to smaller&nbsp;outlets, reserving a rotating seat in the front row for reporters that weren&rsquo;t traditionally present.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2075149\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2075149\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Concha dismisses Nikki Glaser&#8217;s fears about Trump jokes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2415577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-doge.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548,546,538],"tags":[52199,52200,32311,52093,38975],"class_list":["post-2415576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","category-the-federalist","category-washington-examiner","tag-1st-amendment","tag-first-amendment-rights","tag-free-speech","tag-joe-concha","tag-media-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-doge.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415576","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\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415580,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415576\/revisions\/2415580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}