Talking Fact to Energy™ is what we’re advised right now’s late-night comics do greatest.
Heck, shedding a Kimmel or Colbert from the general public area is akin to saying, “adios” to Democracy. Or so we have been advised earlier this yr by Legacy Media retailers after every confronted skilled termination.
With out them, the nation could also be misplaced to our present president. That’s regardless of Colbert and co. doing all they may to cease Donald Trump from changing into president.
Besides he did simply that. Twice. Some bulwark towards doom, no?
Now, we’re seeing much more proof that late-night clowns received’t go close to corruption if it has a “D” hooked up to it.
The fraud scandal engulfing Minnesota retains getting worse.
CBS Information has some, not all, of the sordid particulars:
The most recent indictments add gasoline to a scandal that has now led to prices towards greater than 90 individuals who have been accused, and in lots of circumstances convicted, of bilking a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of {dollars} from the Midwestern state… Assistant U.S. Lawyer Joseph Thompson mentioned Minnesota faces a very giant drawback, pointing to 14 totally different Medicaid applications that the state has flagged for “important fraud issues.” He recommended whole losses might attain into the billions.
That’s billions with a “B.”
The scandal issues for all the plain causes, and even The New York Occasions has deemed it worthy of protection. It’s that dangerous.
Even worse? A person who got here near changing into the nation’s Vice President allegedly whistled whereas his state’s monetary coffers burned. Gov. Tim Walz.
A very good religion Google search of the varied hard-Left late-night hosts discovered nothing connecting Walz to point out monologues.
Positive, Fox Information’ “Gutfeld!” is doing the fitting factor and teeing off on Walz and co., however the remaining can’t appear to say the scandal.
The latest “Saturday Night time Stay” episode, the final of 2025, additionally ignored it. The present did give a rousing send-off to Bowen Yang, one other “SNL” veteran who did not turn into a serious film star in recent times.
Hmmm. Guess there’s a restrict to talking Fact to Energy™.
Now, now we have some info to again up late-night TV’s obscene bias. Buckle in, courtesy of NewsBusters.
Jokes focusing on conservatives rose 10 % in 2025 from the yr earlier than, in line with media watchdog NewsBusters, who went via 818 episodes this yr.
The ultimate tally? A whopping 92 % of jokes focused the Proper within the final 12 months. Even the variety of Trump gags ballooned in 2025 by greater than a thousand – from 5,980 to 7,045.
Who was the worst of the worst? The comic who infamously lied about Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer and by no means apologized for it.
Kimmel was essentially the most radical late-night host, in line with the info – railing towards the fitting 3,046 occasions final yr, representing 97 % of his jokes. Kimmel made enjoyable of Trump 1,668 occasions over the course of his 155 episodes this yr – or 11 jokes a present.
It’s no marvel ABC gave Kimmel such a transient contract extension earlier this month.
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The acute bias prolonged to visitor choice. Reveals hosted by Kimmel, Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and “The Every day Present” invited 197 liberal friends onto their couches in comparison with simply two conservative souls.
Late-night propagandists didn’t simply weaponize monologues to decrease something GOP-related. In addition they rallied behind avowed socialist Zohran Mamdani throughout his profitable bid to turn into New York Metropolis’s subsequent mayor.
The report says late-nights focused Mamdani’s rivals 95 % of the time when the mayoral race come up. Simply 3 of 63 mayoral-themed jokes hit the ex-rapper.
So it’s not a shock that late-night hosts would ignore the large Minnesota scandal. In addition they seemed the opposite manner for almost 4 years whereas a dementia-addled president known as the White Home dwelling.