It began with the likes of Letterman who would occasionally display viciousness against his ideological opponents, and now we have the Daily Show, Colbert, and Kimmel who rarely display civility towards their ideological opponents.Jay Leno was the last TV comedian who was an equal opportunity offender from whom entertainment was the goal.
Remember when late-night TV was fun:
American Thinker . . ."It was ironic that Baldwin branded those who disliked him as hateful since irrepressible rage and hatred are the sole motivations behind his uncouth caricature of President Trump on SNL.
"If humor were the objective, SNL would have continued with Darrel Hammond’s hilarious impression of Trump.
"It has to be remembered that after Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election in 2016, SNL had Kate McKinnon as Clinton, doing a mournful rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” It was almost as if a national tragedy of epic proportions had occurred, which forbade comedy.
"So how did we get here?
"We go back to far-left community activist and political theorist Saul Alinsky and his Rules for Radicals, a user manual for the radical modern left.
"In the fifth of the thirteen rules, Alinsky states the following:
"Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
"This rule perfectly elucidates the objective of contemporary American comedy. They are far-left PACs masquerading as comedians.
"Until Greg Gutfeld came along, every television comedy show including, SNL, the late-night shows an sitcoms followed Alinsky’s fifth rule most assiduously.
"When they are called out for going too far they quote George Carlin regarding the duty of the comedian to find where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. They also will claim to be speaking “truth to power.”
Then there was the time Johnny had fun with Biden's 1988 theft of Neil Kinnock's British speech:
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