"I’m waxing nostalgic for a time when late-night actually meant witty comedy."
"In current times, the news media are the primary propaganda wing for the left, while entertainment media aren’t far behind.
"In addition to entertaining, comedians have a function to speak truth to power and challenge the status quo through the lens of satire.
"George Carlin famously said that it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately, but alas, very little heed has been paid to this axiomatic guiding principle for comics.
"Instead, the current comedians have become their loyal terriers who crawl when ordered to bend, and obsequiously prostrate when the establishment orders them to crawl. This has made them predictable and indistinguishable, while their humor has been replaced by spiteful scorn.
"The only dissenter is Greg Gutfeld; he may lean to the right, but his goal is humor, and as a result, he dominated the late-night scene despite being on cable TV.
"But it wasn’t always like this." . . .
"Leno’s arch-rival and nemesis, David Letterman, was a darling of the critics, but Leno always dominated the ratings. This is perhaps because Letterman’s liberal bias was obvious." More... Like this example below:
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