{"id":2441781,"date":"2025-06-02T12:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-exposes-colbert-vaccine-flip-flop\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:39:49","slug":"video-exposes-colbert-vaccine-flip-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-exposes-colbert-vaccine-flip-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Exposes Colbert Vaccine Flip-Flop"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fvideo-exposes-colbert-vaccine-flip-flop%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=2441781&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>The summary discusses a viral video highlighting the shifting views of comedian Stephen Colbert regarding the COVID-19 vaccine before and after Joe biden&#8217;s election as President. In the summer of 2020, Colbert expressed skepticism about vaccines in a sketch for &#8220;The Late Show,&#8221; warning viewers about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of ... Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">pharmaceutical companies<\/a>&#8216; motives during the pandemic. Though, by the summer of 2021, he was enthusiastically promoting the vaccine, which critics argue demonstrates a lack of consistency and hypocrisy. They suggest that his change in attitude aligns with political shifts, as the vaccine was developed under the Trump administration&#8217;s Operation Warp speed and later supported by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have labeled Colbert as hypocritical for his stances on various issues, pointing out his silence on immigration policies under biden compared to his vocal opposition during Trump&#8217;s presidency. Additionally, there are allegations that Colbert&#8217;s staff engaged in illegal activities while filming a segment at the U.S. Capitol, for which he defended them despite previously criticizing January 6 protesters for similar actions. the criticism centers on perceived contradictions in colbert&#8217;s public persona and comments tied to political contexts.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?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<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A viral video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stranded-suez-canal-cargo-ship-partially-freed\/\" title=\"Stranded Suez Canal Cargo Ship Partially Freed\">social media showed<\/a> how left-wing comedian Stephen Colbert&rsquo;s views on the coronavirus vaccine magically changed after former President Joe Biden won election in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The video contrasted what Colbert said on CBS&rsquo; &ldquo;The Late Show&rdquo; in the summer of 2020 with what he said in the summer of 2021, after Biden&rsquo;s predecessor, President Donald Trump, had left office.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In the summer of 2020 Stephen Colbert aired a sketch warning people to be skeptical of vaccines and Big Pharma.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven months later when Biden was President, Colbert was dancing for the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert is one of the most partisan, shameless shills that America has ever seen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sbuI5Ug3HC\">pic.twitter.com\/sbuI5Ug3HC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MAZE (@mazemoore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mazemoore\/status\/1927882460953555378?\">May 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, Colbert showed a fake pharmaceutical ad suggesting that COVID vaccine-producing pharmaceutical companies were &ldquo;taking advantage of you in the national crisis&rdquo; and &ldquo;put[ting] their profits ahead of your health.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING); 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\t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>In June 2021, on the other hand, Colbert danced happily in promotion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/covid-vaccine-removed-cdc-immunization-schedule-kids-no-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID vaccine<\/a> that these same pharmaceutical companies had just finished producing.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have wondered what changed.<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s known is that during the summer of 2020, the Trump administration was busy promoting Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership to accelerate development of the COVID vaccine that Colbert seemed to express so many doubts about.<\/p>\n<p>By 2021, the vaccine had been completed and the then-Biden administration was busy expanding access to the same vaccine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hotels-see-highest-occupancy-levels-since-march-2020\/\" title=\"Hotels see highest occupancy levels since March 2020\">increasing vaccination rates<\/a>, and addressing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/another-gaffe-biden-blames-black-vaccine-hesitancy-experimentations-tuskegee-airmen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vaccine hesitancy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this, critics have suggested Colbert&rsquo;s simply &ldquo;one the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >biggest hypocrite fools humanity<\/a> as ever seen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Colbert is one the biggest hypocrite fools humanity as ever seen. He is a JESTER. Nothing but a scam artist. Ridicule this clown at every opportunity. He has earned it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Plummer (@realandyplummer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realandyplummer\/status\/1928034836821799374?\">May 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Past evidence suggests Colbert&rsquo;s critics may have a point.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, for example, Colbert bashed then-President Trump&rsquo;s immigration policies, calling it immoral to vote for him because a couple hundred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/7-democrats-who-could-be-impeached-by-their-own-standards\/\" title=\"7 Democrats Who Could Be Impeached By Their Own Standards\">illegal immigrant children<\/a> had been separated from their families.<\/p>\n<p>Yet after President Biden assumed office, he never said anything despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-orders-migrant-kids-evil-even-people-resigned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">widespread evidence<\/a> that hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant children were unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report published in April confirmed that Biden administration &ldquo;DHS officers failed to enroll over 233,000 migrant children who crossed the border since January 2021 in immigration proceedings, increasing their risk of trafficking and exploitation,&rdquo; according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/bombshell-report-confirms-grassley-oversight-of-biden-harris-admins-failure-to-protect-migrant-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a> published by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley&rsquo;s office.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXx-OEIujo8?si=tl20WzViLxgjmd4c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another example that seems to confirm the hypocrisy allegation involved &ldquo;Late Show&rdquo; staffers being arrested for illegally entering the U.S. Capitol to film a comedy segment for the show in what critics described as an &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/colbert-insurrection-report-cocaine-orgy-skit-talks-leaving-something-boeberts-door\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insurrection<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After the fiasco, Colbert defended the staffers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My staff was just doing their job,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Everyone was very professional. Everyone was very calm. My staffers were detained, processed, and released.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also lashed out at conservatives who&rsquo;d likened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/longtime-staffer-democratic-senator-cory-booker-arrested-capitol-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his staffers&rsquo; behavior<\/a> to the committing of an &ldquo;insurrection.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Drawing any equivalence between rioters storming our Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral ballots and a cigar-chomping toy dog is a shameful and grotesque insult to the memory of everyone who died,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nmv9nr8NbsM?si=ICihZ8h8TC4utTYU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Critics assailed Colbert after the stunt, pointing to the fact that he&rsquo;d been so critical of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dems-jan-6-insurrection-claims-blown-apart-harvard-study-obliterates-jan-6-committees-credibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan. 6 protesters<\/a> for also illegally breaching the same building but was making excuses for his staffers.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Critics have labeled Colbert as a hypocrite for this change, pointing out that he previously criticized Trump&#8217;s administration while remaining silent on issues under Biden&#8217;s leadership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2441782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Stephen-Colbert.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[16091,20973,5894,3954,50531],"class_list":["post-2441781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-colbert","tag-flip-flop","tag-politics","tag-vaccine","tag-video-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Stephen-Colbert.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441781","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=2441781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441785,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441781\/revisions\/2441785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}