The joy and fun of late-night comedians has long been gone.
Thomas Lifson "We are at a point in our national political conversation where lies are the principal propaganda tool of the left, and prominent mainstream media figures rely on a comedian’s fake criticisms (since apologized for) to score points against the Trump administration.
"It all started when late night ABC TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel used a deceptively edited C-SPAN video to falsely claim that VP Mike Pence was delivering empty boxes of supplies to a hospital. Via the UK Daily Mail:
"During his monologue in Thursday night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the comedian and host showed a clip of Pence delivering boxes of PPEs to the Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center hospital in Virginia earlier in the day.
" 'Here he is with no mask on, wheeling boxes of PPEs into a health care center, and doing his best to lift them, what a hero… since it was going so well, and also because he didn’t realize he had a mic on, Magic Mike decided to keep it going, listen in closely here,' Kimmel said during the monologue.
"The video, which was originally broadcast by C-SPAN, showed Pence as he pushed a trolley of big cardboard boxes, then picked them up and put them down outside the hospital's doors.
Thomas Lifson "We are at a point in our national political conversation where lies are the principal propaganda tool of the left, and prominent mainstream media figures rely on a comedian’s fake criticisms (since apologized for) to score points against the Trump administration.
"It all started when late night ABC TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel used a deceptively edited C-SPAN video to falsely claim that VP Mike Pence was delivering empty boxes of supplies to a hospital. Via the UK Daily Mail:
"During his monologue in Thursday night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the comedian and host showed a clip of Pence delivering boxes of PPEs to the Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center hospital in Virginia earlier in the day.
" 'Here he is with no mask on, wheeling boxes of PPEs into a health care center, and doing his best to lift them, what a hero… since it was going so well, and also because he didn’t realize he had a mic on, Magic Mike decided to keep it going, listen in closely here,' Kimmel said during the monologue.
"The video, which was originally broadcast by C-SPAN, showed Pence as he pushed a trolley of big cardboard boxes, then picked them up and put them down outside the hospital's doors.
Then, when Pence returns to the delivery van, which still has boxes inside it, someone tells him: 'Those are empty, sir. We’re good to go.'
"Pence responds: 'Well, can I carry the empty ones? Just for the camera?'
" 'Absolutely,' the unidentified man says, as those around them laugh.
"Kimmel then continued his monologue by saying that 'Mike Pence pretending to carry empty PPEs into a hospital is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing. A big box of nothing delivering another box of nothing.'
Video and discussion thread here, ending (so far) with this exchange:
"Pence responds: 'Well, can I carry the empty ones? Just for the camera?'
" 'Absolutely,' the unidentified man says, as those around them laugh.
"Kimmel then continued his monologue by saying that 'Mike Pence pretending to carry empty PPEs into a hospital is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing. A big box of nothing delivering another box of nothing.'
Video and discussion thread here, ending (so far) with this exchange:
"Scarborough foolishly responded and got his ass handed back to him by the Texas senator:
Remember the top comment follows the one below it:
Senator Ted Cruz lit into Scarborough:
Hmm. When you’re on the defensive for being dishonest & corrupt, perhaps best not to forward fraudulent stories from Jimmy Kimmel (that he’s admitted were false)? You are claiming to be a journalist, after all.... twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/…
Joe, you chased after Trump for 2 years like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band; now you pretend to be this indignant paragon of virtue outraged at everything he says & does. All to get invited to DC cocktail parties & thrill the 13 people watching MSNBC. twitter.com/joenbc/status/…
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