Feminist Left Sputtering as Tucker Turns Her Into Pro-Shariah Laughingstock

During a discussion Thursday evening about Macy’s recent decision to launch a Muslim-centric clothing line featuring hijabs, Fox News host Tucker Carlson grilled a feminist guest over her belief that hijabs and other modest items of apparel are somehow “empowering” to women.

“The point of Islamic clothing is to promote modesty among women … it’s a central part of Islamic culture. So are you for that? Do you think women should be coerced to dress modestly? Is that a feminist goal?” Carlson asked point-blank.

His guest, feminist Sonia Ossorio of the National Organization for Women, tried to deflect by arguing women should be permitted the right to wear anything they desire, according to the Independent Journal Review.

“I think what a feminist goal is is for women to be in control of their lives and their destinies and to have choices, so whether a woman wants to wear a hijab or she doesn’t is really not the point,” she replied.

Just to be clear, women in the United States already enjoy this right — as well as many others — because Americans believe in “liberty and justice for all.” Moreover, no reasonable conservative opposes Macy’s decision to sell hijabs.

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What concerns conservatives such as Carlson is the lack of women’s rights in Islamic countries, where for the record women must dress modestly lest they be raped, imprisoned or even stoned to death.

But even more appalling is how Western feminists such as Ossorio have gleefully adopted hijabs “as a symbol of resistance.”

“Here you have in the United States, women who had never donned a hijab in their entire life, and marched over to JFK airport at the time of the Trump travel ban and started wearing hijabs as a symbol of resistance, in protest to that, and at the same time, so they’re wearing them as a symbol of empowerment,” Ossorio explained.

In rebuttal, Carlson asked whether it would be equally “empowering” were Macy’s to sell a line of “Chinese foot-binding shoes” like those forced upon young Chinese girls up until the early 20th century.

Do you support Ossorio’s brand of “feminism?”

“Is there anything that’s not empowering?” he added.

How about female genital mutilation? Is there anything empowering about that, Carlson asked.

Watch the full back-and-forth exchange below, and note how Ossorio starts to sputter like a choked pump as Carlson takes apart each of her arguments with the precision of a surgeon:

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Again, there’s nothing wrong with women wearing hijabs of their own volition. It’s just odd to see spoiled and entitled Western feminists donning hijabs as symbols of “resistance,” all while they ignore the genuine hell being experienced by their counterparts in the Islamic world.

Counterparts such as the Iranian woman in the video below “who threw off her veil in front of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and stood defiantly as freedom fighters massed around her,” as reported by The Daily Wire in December:

Instead of highlighting this woman’s struggle (FYI, she was later arrested for this stunt) feminists were busy “gearing up for a repeat of last year’s ‘Women’s March’” against President Donald Trump — a man whom countless American women helped elect into office in 2016.

Yet feminists like Ossorio find it hard to understand why so few people take them seriously anymore. Gee, what could it possible be!?

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Number Three Official at Justice Department Quits to Take Job With Walmart

In what could be a sign of an impending shakeup at the Justice Department, the number three official has announced her resignation for a corporate job at Walmart.

On Friday it was reported that Rachel Brand who was next in line behind slippery Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein – the man who unleashed dirty cop “Bob” Mueller on Trump – is leaving to accept her “dream job” at the global retail goliath’s corporate HQ where she will become the top legal official.

Ms. Brand has only been on the job since last May and some of the Never Trumpers are already panicking that her departure may be a signal that Mueller and his hit team may be on borrowed time.

Like William Kristol, a venomous pit viper who was the co-founder of the infamous neocon think tank The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and now at the Russian conspiracy mill The Alliance for Securing Democracy.

The New York Times broke the news of Brand’s new gig in the story “No. 3 Official at the Justice Department Is Stepping Down”:

Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the country’s top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump, according to two people briefed on her decision.

Ms. Brand’s profile had risen in part because she is next in the line of succession behind the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who is overseeing the special counsel’s inquiry into Russian influence in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, who has called the investigation a witch hunt, has considered firing Mr. Rosenstein.

Such a move could have put her in charge of the special counsel and, by extension, left her in the cross hairs of the president.

Ms. Brand, who became the associate attorney general in May, will become the global governance director at Walmart, the company’s top legal position, according to people briefed on her move. She has held politically appointed positions in the past three presidential administrations.

In her current job, she reports directly to Mr. Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, who has recused himself from the Russia investigation.

It is entirely possible that Brand really is just moving onto to a better paying corporate gig but if you can read the tea leaves it is possible that she is getting the hell out of Dodge before the shit hits the fan.

The massive and likely incendiary DOJ Inspector General’s report is set to be out in March and could lead to a thorough housecleaning at both the Justice Department and the FBI.

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Trump DESTROYS Adam Schiff, Tells Him: Redo Your Crap Response Memo and “Send Back in Proper Form”

Trump DESTROYS Adam Schiff, Tells Him: Redo Your Crap Response Memo and “Send Back in Proper Form”

On Friday the Trump White House announced they will not approve the release of Democrat Adam Schiff’s House spin memo.

The president told Congress they need to make changes before it is released.

On Saturday President Trump slammed liberal hack Adam Schiff over his political stunt.

President Trump: The Democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods (and more), would have to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would blame the White House for lack of transparency. Told them to re-do and send back in proper form!

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DREAMers Threaten to Leave Country If DACA Amnesty Deal Doesn’t Go Down

Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was mocked and scorned over his suggestion that illegal aliens “self-deport” but he may have really been onto something.

In a pity play of the sort that the media just eats up, some DREAMers are threatening to leave the United States if the Democrats aren’t able to extort the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress to grant them and millions of other illegal aliens amnesty through extending DACA.

The Democrats are gambling that their liberal flunkies in the press will be able to put enough of a guilt trip on all of the Americans who live here legally to manufacture consent for blanket amnesty without any meaningful concessions on immigration policies and border security.

Via the Daily Wire “DREAMers Threaten To Leave The Country If Congress Doesn’t Reach A DACA Deal”:

A group of DREAMers, young illegal immigrants fighting to stay in the country following the Trump Administration’s refusal to extend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive order, say they’ll leave the country if a deal isn’t reached . . . err . . . to keep them in the country.

Speaking to CNN, one of these DREAMers, Alex Velez, said, “I will leave. I will leave America as soon as possible,” claiming that she would prefer to depart the country on her own terms than wait for the United States to collect and deport her.

The theory appears to be that, if DREAMers suddenly disappear, Americans will notice their absence. Velez and her sister claim they own businesses, pay tuition, and hold jobs, and that America has a duty to keep them here in order to maintain their contributions.

CNN which gave the Velez’s a forum provides additional details:

Should Alex, who is 19, find herself unprotected, she said she is clear on what her plan will be. “I will leave. I will leave America as soon as possible,” she said. “I want to be able to leave on my terms. I’m not going to be waiting for anyone to come for me.”

The tradeoffs will be significant: Alex will be abandoning the $10,000 in tuition she’s paid and the two years’ worth of community college credits she’s built up in her pursuit to become a veterinary technician. She will also have to quit her job at clothing store Forever 21, where she was just promoted to a merchandising position four weeks ago.

And she will leave behind friends she has known since middle and high school, invaluable relationships that she says have shaped her life.

“In all honesty, it is scary to think about leaving,” she said. “My mom cried for the first time since we talked about our situation. She’s a positive person and is hoping that something good will happen for us.”

Alex and Daniela came to the U.S. from Venezuela with their parents when they were four and nine years old, respectively.

“When Hugo Chavez became president in the late 1990s, things started to change and become difficult for the middle class,” said Daniela.

Their father wanted the family to escape the situation. The family arrived in the U.S. on visitor visas and then overstayed. They settled into a one-bedroom apartment in Burlington, New Jersey, where they still live today. Alex and Daniella share a pullout sofa bed.

“I only realized I was undocumented when I was in middle school,” said Alex. It happened when the DACA program was enacted in 2012 and Daniela was old enough to apply. “Most of my school friends still don’t know about my situation,” she said.

Is it insensitive to say hasta la vista babies?

The Velez sisters may not find Venezuela to be as hospitable considering that the country is bordering on anarchy, starving people have resorted to eating zoo animals and residents are fleeing the country faster than sensible Americans are getting out of San Francisco but hey, illegal is illegal.

These will the type of stories that you can expect to see more of as the propaganda blitz to save the DREAMers really begins to pick up steam before DACA nears muerte in March.

The Mittster wasn’t right about much but that self-deportation thing seems to be a win-win situation for everyone involved as well as an end to this nonsense.

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This Week in Media Bias History: Journalist Excited Over Obama SEX DREAMS

<p>Just when you thought This Week in Media Bias History couldn’t get any crazier, it does. Journalists hate Donald Trump. But they really LOVED Barack Obama. How far did the <em>New York Times</em> go to make that clear? In 2009, one of the paper’s bloggers wrote about sex dreams involving the Democratic president. Other examples this week include talking about impeaching Ronald Reagan and falling for Soviet propaganda. </p>

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Sen. Chris Murphy Compares Mike Pence To Colin Kaepernick

When democrats aren’t hypocricizing they be conflating. Senator Chris Murphy, one of the biggest BSers in Congress, tried to show that Vice President Mike Pence is a giant hypocrite by comparing him to Colin Kaepernick. More specifically he tried and failed to make this point by comparing Pence’s refusal to stand for North Korea with Kaepernick’s disrespect of our country by taking a knee during the National Anthem.

Mike Pence was representing the US at the Olympic opening ceremony on Friday. When the combined North and South Korean team walked into the stadium both Pence and the Japanese Prime Minister refused to stand or applaud. Because American liberals love North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un, there was considerable outrage on the left.

Here’s what Murphy had to say on the subject:

“Why does Pence hate the opening ceremonies? Oh wait…he’s a using ceremony at a sporting event to protest something else. Where have I seen that before?” Murphy asked sarcastically.

Do you get what this Connecticut democrat is trying to say here? It’s his position that Pence refusing to honor the communist regime of North Korea is the exact same thing as Kaepernick and other black football players extending a giant middle finger to the United States of America. To be clear, these are not the same things.

Mike Pence is not the VP of North Korea. They are our enemy and huge threat to peace worldwide. By refusing to stand in honor for North Korea, Pence was not disrespecting the US in any way.

Colin Kaepernick is a citizen of the United States. He has benefitted greatly from the freedom this country has given and the sacrifice of our soldiers to preserve that freedom. By kneeling during the Nation Anthem he is disrespecting the country that gave him everything and the people who died so he can be free to act like an asshole.

See the difference?

This Chris Murphy tweet actually has addition levels of horribleness to it. He is genuinely angry that a representative of the United States was showing disrespect to a brutal regime that kills it’s own people and threatens us with annihilation. Where have I seen that before? Oh, yeah, that’s a little thing we like to call treason here in the good ole US of A.

Murphy is also acknowledging that he prefers Kim Jong Un to the freely-elected President and Vice President of his own country. You know, that place where he is also an elected representative?

Folks, this is what it means to be part of the Resistance. These liberal kooks have so much blind hatred for the person America chose to be its leader that they are not only siding with a communist dictator, they are actually in love with this madman.

I say these whiny babies should take their temper tantrum and move to North Korea. If Trump is so bad and Kim Jong Un so awesome, go there and live the dream of communist oppression.

And while we are on the subject of sitting and refusing to applaud, remember last week during President Trump’s State of the Union address? Democrats sat on their hands and scowled at America’s greatness. In other words, they actually hate this country, but love North Korea.

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Swinging Senators Offer Amnesty With a ‘Trigger’

A group of swing-voting Senators has drafted an immigration proposal which recycles the failed “trigger” scheme from the disastrous Gang of Eight amnesty plan which eventually loosed Donald Trump on Washington.

The bill has been developed for introduction in the Senate’s immigration debate, starting Monday, by a group of GOP and Democratic Senators.

The proposal is just grandstanding, said one source, because it does not try to meet three of President Donald Trump four requirements, which were laid out in his State of the Union speech. “If they wanted a bill, they would be working with the President,” said the source.

The trigger in the 2013 plan was intended to mute public opposition to the bill’s huge amnesty for all illegals in the United States. It allowed Senators to say that the final parts of the amnesty would be withheld until government officials certified the border security met supposedly strict criteria outlined in the Senates amnesty bill.

But the 2013 trigger was a fake because the criteria were so vague they could not have stopped the political and business pressure to complete the amnesty.

The trigger was also a political failure because it could not save the unpopular amnesty bill from being buried by the House in June 2014.

Also, while the trigger helped the amnesty bill pass the Senate 68-32, the amnesty debate prompted a populist reaction in the GOP. That reaction helped flip nine Democratic seats to the GOP the next November, and helped Trump win election as President in November 2016. It also left Sen. Chuck Schumer as Minority Leader in 2017, not Majority Leader.

The new trigger is included in the group’s draft amnesty for roughly 3 million young illegals, which is wrapped up in a few token offsets. Those offsets include just $1 billion for border security — despite Trump’s request for $25 billion — plus the promise of a GAO study on security, plus the “trigger.”

The swing-voting Senators are being led by Maine Sen. Susan Collin. She’s pushing for more legal immigration even though her home state is losing investment and residents to other warmer states where the annual wave of 1 million legal immigrant workers and consumers mostly choose to live. Only 95 of 690,000 DACA illegals are based in Maine according to 2017 data.

On February 8, Collins told reporters:

There will probably be more than one [bill proposed], but it’s too early to tell right now … There’s still a lot of discussion going on.

Collins has closeted herself with other swinging Senators, such as GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham, Lisa Kurkowski, Jeff Flake, Mike Rounds, Cory Gardner, James Lankford and retiring Jeff Flake.

They are meeting with Democrats who are facing tough election battles this year, including Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and Bill Nelson from Florida. Those Democrats are reluctant to vote for an amnesty that will be used against them in the November election — especially if the House prevents a political payoff by deep-sixing the amnesty as it did in 2014.

The group describes itself as the “Common Sense Caucus.”

The caucus also includes Sen. Marco Rubio, whose lost his presidential chance in 2016 when he accepted the 2012 invitation to join the Gang of Eight, at the request of Graham and Schumer.

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, a strong advocate for outsourcing white-collar jobs, told reporters Thursday the group of swing-voting Senators would authorize only $2.5 billion, but would also include a promise to spend another $22.5 billion.

According to the Washington Times, Tillis “said there appears to be consensus on the 1.8 million number, and said they are willing to authorize up to $25 billion for fencing — though they’ll only allocate $2.5 billion to $5 billion in real money.”

Flake is also developing a fallback anesty plan if the first amnesty is rejected.  According to Politico, he “is preparing a fallback measure that would extend Obama-era legal protections for young undocumented immigrants paired with some border security funding if Congress fails to come up with a broader agreement on so-called Dreamers.”

According to Politico, Flake said that multiple Democratic Senators prefer keeping the immigration issue boiling up to election day:

“A lot of Democrats, a lot of the base, from what I hear, is just saying: ‘Forget it. Wait for the midterms,’” Flake said. “It’s not as if we hold all the cards here as Republicans.”

Trump’s 2016 immigration policies are very popular among the public, including among blue-collar African-Americans who are a core element of the Democrats’ current electoral base.

In contrast, business groups, Democrats, and the establishment media tout misleading, industry-funded “Nation of Immigrants” polls which pressure Americans to say they welcome migrants, including the roughly 3 million ‘dreamer’ illegals.

The alternative “priority or fairness” polls — plus the 2016 election — show that voters in the polling booth put a much higher priority on helping their families, neighbors, and fellow nationals get decent jobs in a high-tech, high-immigrationlow-wage economy.

 

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NYT: U.S. Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Claiming to Have Damaging Info on Trump

NYT: U.S. Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Claiming to Have Damaging Info on Trump



Matthew Rosenberg writes at the New York Times that American spies, while trying to recover stolen NSA hacking tools, paid a Russian claiming to have damaging information about Donald Trump:

After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American and European intelligence officials.

The cash, delivered in a suitcase to a Berlin hotel room in September, was intended as the first installment of a $1 million payout, according to American officials, the Russian and communications reviewed by The New York Times. The theft of the secret hacking tools had been devastating to the N.S.A., and the agency was struggling to get a full inventory of what was missing.

Several American intelligence officials said they made clear that they did not want the Trump material from the Russian, who was suspected of having murky ties to Russian intelligence and to Eastern European cybercriminals. He claimed the information would link the president and his associates to Russia. Instead of providing the hacking tools, the Russian produced unverified and possibly fabricated information involving Mr. Trump and others, including bank records, emails and purported Russian intelligence data.

Read the rest of the story at the New York Times.

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MSNBC Nitwit Calls for Women to Walk Out of White House En Masse

Feminists have been shrieking like banshees over the overblown scandal of the week that White House assistant staff secretary Rob Porter had been accused of domestic abuse.

In becoming the latest scalp on the wall for the weaponized and politicized #MeToo movement, Porter was forced to resign under pressure as the Washington sky was nearly black from circling vultures.

Like everything else, Porter’s troubles were quickly spun to be an attack on President Trump’s character and that of White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly.

With the left no longer able to articulate any logical arguments on real issues that actually affect the lives of Americans (the economy, jobs, taxes, the military etc.) they are only left with the lurid tabloid sleaze of identity politics and radical feminism.

Let’s face it, millions of women were crushed and ruined forever by Hillary Clinton’s failure to consider campaigning in the Rust Belt states and like vengeful harpies, they will never be satisfied until they have castrated every powerful male in the country without the benefit of due process.

MSNBC’s clownish Nicole Wallace who served in the Bush White House has gone so far as to call for all women who work in the White House to walk out en masse although she didn’t have any suggestions on how they could find new employment after quitting their jobs.

Via The Hill “Nicolle Wallace: Why don’t women in White House ‘walk out’?”:

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Friday questioned why women serving in the White House don’t resign in protest following controversy over aides’ handling of domestic abuse allegations against former staff secretary Rob Porter.

In a monologue on her show reported by Mediaite, the former press secretary to President George W. Bush asked why women in the White House such as communications director Hope Hicks and others don’t resign over President Trump’s behavior towards women.

“Where are the women?” Wallace asked. “Why don’t they walk out en masse?”

“I know they feel picked on,” Wallace said, not naming any specific names. “I know they do because I’ve asked this twice, I asked it after the president tweeted at Mika, I singled out the women and named them, and I won’t do that today.”

“But why don’t you walk out?” she finished. “Why don’t they leave?”

Here it is if you can get through it without vomiting.

You have to wonder how in the hell that Democrats somehow believe that the war on men is going to be a winning issue with voters. After all, if Queen Hillary herself failed to win with all feminists fully mobilized to install the historic first female president then somehow even more women are going to be motivated to vote.

As loathsome as Hillary was, at least there was a positive idea in seeing the ultimate glass ceiling shattered that drove women to vote. They won’t be so motivated by such negativity but Wallace and her fellow cable twits will still be pulling down their paychecks.

This is truly insane and these news bimbos are inflicting serious psychological damage on their viewers.

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The Sad Transformation of Jimmy Kimmel Is Complete

Remember Jimmy Kimmel?

Most of us don’t. Not anymore. He’s unrecognizable in his current form, a hard-left comic with little empathy for those who lean to the right. That’s roughly half the country.

What a shame.

The jocular comic shot to fame by hosting “Win Ben Stein’s Money” and palling around with Adam Carolla. The duo created The Man Show, a gleefully macho series that wouldn’t be allowed on Comedy Central today.

Gorgeous women jumping on trampolines? Skits mocking the women’s suffrage movement? The online petitions by outraged progressives to shut the show down would break records. Comedy Central would quickly take a knee.

Those were less “woke” times, though.

He parlayed that Everyman persona into late night fame. His Jimmy Kimmel Live, now in its 14th season, never threatened The Late Show or The Tonight Show in the ratings wars. The ABC show still draws a sizable crowd and occasionally inspires viral gags that crush YouTube.

That was then. Before the rise of Donald Trump and a media landscape that threw away the remaining shreds of its integrity.

Kimmel wants in, apparently. And if his aw, shucks brand has to hit the circular file, so be it. The transformation began with a heartfelt tale tied to his ailing newborn.

Last May the comedian shared an update on his young son’s health. The lad required significant medical attention to fix a heart birth defect. A teary-eyed Kimmel shared the latest updates on his son’s condition, slipping in a plea for better health care options for all.

Weeks later, Kimmel got more pointed, and partisan, in his defense of ObamaCare. A quick note: Kimmel never shed a tear, or weighed in in a similar fashion, when we learned President Barack Obama’s pitch for his health care overhaul was riddled with lies.

The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro deftly explained the flaws in Kimmel’s baby strategy.

“But the invocation of personal experience in political debate is generally obtuse because it is a soft form of identity politics. It puts those arguing in the position of supposedly rejecting your personal experience, thus impugning your integrity or the veracity of your feelings … The whole point of determining policy is that empathy shouldn’t outweigh reason.”

Shapiro runs a conservative web site where lucid, right-leaning arguments are encouraged. Good luck finding that sensibility across mainstream outlets.

The old Kimmel was fading fast. In recent months he’s cranked up the partisan rhetoric. The Daily Beast reported that he sought out the counsel of Sen. Chuck Schumer, a hard-left Democrat, before one energized monologue.

Kimmel even called out Rep. Paul Ryan in a way the “old” Kimmel never would.    

 

He waded into the gun control debate following the Las Vegas shooting massacre. Naturally he demonized those with whom he disagrees.

“They should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country,” Kimmel said of the GOP.

Over the weekend Kimmel spoke to the folks at Pod Save America, a liberal chat show. Here’s a tweet sharing one of the comedian’s comments.

 

 

Fellow late nighter Stephen Colbert once said, “reality has a well-known liberal bias.” Even Colbert wouldn’t push the comment as far as Kimmel did.

Kimmel’s hard-left opinions can be seen in many of ABC monologues. Here’s a sample rant from his Feb. 1 telecast. See if you can spot any gut busters in the following:

To call Devin Nunes Donald Trump’s lap dog would be an insult to dogs. And laps …”

He then targeted President Trump and his Fake News assault.

“When a newspaper digs whatever you did up, and publishes a story about it, you don’t just attack the facts, you don’t just attack the story, you attack the newspaper. The newspaper is biased. Even if the newspaper clearly isn’t biased.

“That’s Step 1. Step 2 is when multiple newspapers, and news organizations, and reporters, further an investigation, whatever it is, when they report something you don’t like. If you’re the President now, you don’t just attack the newspapers or the news networks, you attack the media. You say the media is biased. You call them the elite media. They’re all in league together. Everyone except Fox and Friends is plotting to get you. Because they don’t want America to be great again!”

“And then, once the media is playing defense, you climb another rung…When the FBI steps in and starts sniffing around and handing out subpoenas…what do you do? Same thing you always do…You discredit the FBI, you discredit the special counsel, you discredit anybody who might possibly come up with information you don’t like.”

 

Is anyone laughing? What you just read sounds like a Daily Kos diarist, not one of the country’s notable late night comics. Fact checking his comments, an easy effort, is besides the point.

So why the Kimmel transformation? He’s no longer the bratty young comic trying to cut his teeth in comedy. He’s 50 He’s also aware how the media treats comics who lean left.

Hero worship hardly describes it.

Today’s media outlets regularly share Kimmel’s liberal rants … just like they do any “Saturday Night Live” skit attacking the GOP.

What you’re not seeing in the media love fest for Kimmel? Anyone digging into Kimmel’s Comedy Central past. Shouldn’t a woke reporter or two remind us how he ogled bikini women jumping on trampolines? What about Kimmel, in blackface, imitating basketball legend Karl Malone for the same show?

Kimmel is hardly the only late night show leaning to the left. They all do, save Jimmy Fallon. There’s still a big distinction between the “new” Kimmel and his competition.

Colbert has always been politically progressive. His shift from Comedy Central to CBS didn’t change that. HBO’s Bill Maher has been acerbic his entire career. Samantha Bee broke out of the late night gate by calling Sen. Ted Cruz a “fish-faced horsesh** sandwich.” She was never a lovable progressive.

It’s what makes Kimmel’s transformation so jarring.

Arrogant. Self-satisfied. Finger wagging. This isn’t the Jimmy Kimmel we got to know over time. Sadly, Kimmel 2.0 is likely here to stay.

[Cross-posted from Hollywood in Toto.] 

 

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