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Not Funny: Trump-Bashing Rants By Late-Night 'Comics' Now Get Treated As Real News
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 7/17/2018 | IBD Editorial Board

Posted on 07/18/2018 3:24:31 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Media Bias: If you rely on the nation's top news sites to determine what was really important about the Trump-Putin Helsinki summit, the answer would be: How did Trump-hating late-night talk-show hosts react? We are not kidding. This is how low the mainstream press has sunk.

On the front page of the Washington Post's website this morning was a picture of "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert and this headline: "Late-night hosts skewer Trump."

How is this news exactly? That same headline could literally have run any day of the week for the past two years. It is so predictable that it doesn't even rate as a "Dog Bites Man" story, but more like a "The Sun Rose in the East Today" story.

Yet there it was, smack dab in the middle of the Post's front page on one of the biggest news days of the year.

The Post wasn't alone.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belongsinbloggers; media; mediabias; msm; trump

1 posted on 07/18/2018 3:24:31 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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They’re not funny at all, but they are quite hysterical.


2 posted on 07/18/2018 3:27:49 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (< < Wandering aimfully > >)
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Like Mika, they believe it is their business to tell us what to think...

Mika Brzezinski, February 2017: “Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job.”


3 posted on 07/18/2018 3:32:26 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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The media, “entertainment” crowd and the democrat party are all one big happy group perpetually engaged in a circle jerk.


4 posted on 07/18/2018 3:52:00 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: kearnyirish2

And so they do.


5 posted on 07/18/2018 4:46:19 AM PDT by Blogger (The causes are the left are never about caring about an issue. ItÂ’s always about power.)
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Not Funny: Trump-Bashing Rants By Late-Night 'Comics' Now Get Treated As Real News ---------------- Only by the truly stupid. That is a talking point insult for us to use. He can't tell a joke from reality, he gets all his information from comedy shows.
6 posted on 07/18/2018 4:59:08 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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Not Funny: Trump-Bashing Rants By Late-Night 'Comics' Now Get Treated As Real News

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Only by the truly stupid.

That is a talking point insult for us to use.

He can't tell a joke from reality, he gets all his information from comedy shows.

7 posted on 07/18/2018 5:02:12 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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Entertainment has been treated as “news” for quite some time. The local NBC news here in Houston reports on results from “The Voice” as if its actually news to hear who advances. Pretty sad.


8 posted on 07/18/2018 6:25:58 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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The left is always at a teenage mind level.


9 posted on 07/18/2018 7:49:54 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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“The left is always at a teenage mind level.”

Actually that would be an insult to teenagers of long ago, it may fit the current crop though.


10 posted on 07/18/2018 10:35:37 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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The problem is young people treat late night comedy as actual news. And they vote.

I turned 18 in October of 1980; asked my father for whom I should vote. He said, without hesitation, Ronald Reagan. So I did.

Reminds me of that scene in It’s a Wonderful Life...ask Dad...He always knows...


11 posted on 07/19/2018 7:24:41 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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Agree


12 posted on 07/19/2018 7:55:30 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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Like Bono was sang, when he was still sane:

And it’s true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality


13 posted on 07/19/2018 7:57:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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