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The legacy media weaponized a tasteless joke to torpedo Donald Trump’s presidential race. It failed, but not for lack of trying. Rebel comic Tony Hinchcliffe uncorked a brutal quip directed at Puerto Rico at Trump’s Madison Square Garden Oct 7 rally. The New York Times’ coverage proved typical of the media’s relentless narrative. Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism What corrupt reporters downplayed, for obvious reasons, was the crowd’s reaction to the joke. It bombed. Turns out MAGA nation sensed a tacky quip when they heard it. Even Hinchcliffe admitted it. “OK, all right. We’re getting there. Normally I don’t follow the National Anthem,” Hinchcliffe said, backpedaling in real time. Now, compare that to the Left’s reaction to the man who allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangione has killer abs, a broad smile and a vendetta against the U.S. healthcare system. Progressive politicians like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were among several who criticized the killing, only to add “But …” to their statements. Chances are a MAGA rally wouldn’t cheer Mangione’s name in any setting, but liberal late-night TV watchers have had a similar reaction to some progressive politicians. Earlier this month, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show alerted his audience that Mangione had been captured after a brief manhunt. The crowd’s reaction? Boos. “Look, I’m sorry, guys,” Stewart said without missing a beat. Did he know something we didn’t? Was he truly “sorry” that an alleged killer had been corralled? Where was his patented outrage shtick? In his other sports coat? Over at Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host shared his colleagues’ lust for Mangione despite his alleged crime. Turns out Kimmel female staffers dig his abs without caring about what he’s accused of doing – killing a father and husband in cold blood. Another show might have scrapped the bit, unwilling to embarrass its staffers publicly. Not Jimmy Kimmel Live! The bit aired with a few chuckles from the same host who cried on camera over Donald Trump’s Nov. 5 victory. Priorities. The best coal-black humor makes a salient point. This shtick proved gross and all-too-revealing. And then there’s Saturday Night Live. The show renowned for its hard-Left bias mentioned Mangione during the most recent episode. He’s in the news, so the topic was fair game. The response was, sadly, predictable. “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost heard what the New York Post called “raucous cheers” erupting after he name-checked the alleged murderer. Jost seemed to be surprised by the response, glancing offstage and awkwardly smiling while sarcastically quipping to the audience, “Yeah, definitely ‘woo,’ ” and rhetorically asking, “You’re ‘wooing’ for justice, right?” Not exactly. Try vigilante justice of the worst kind. If this had happened once or even twice it could be written off. Three times? On three different hard-Left showcases? Writing it off would be a mistake. Why are late-night TV audiences cheering on Mangione?  It’s a complex constellation of reasons, from the Left’s embrace of political violence to our increasingly divided age. One possible culprit? Late-Night TV. These propaganda shows have been dehumanizing their political opponents for years. Trump is Hitler … and his fans are just as bad. Here’s SNL literally saying that in a sketch that aired during Trump’s first presidential campaign. Conan invited comic Sarah Silverman to goosestep across the stage as Adolf Hitler, purportedly tying him to Trump in her comic worldview. The late-night audience doesn’t look at Thompson and see someone with a family that will miss him dearly. They see an ideological foe unworthy of empathy. And, yes, most Americans have been negatively impacted by the current healthcare system, from denied claims to far worse results. The status quo is maddening at times, and few politicians are offering solid alternatives or solutions. That’s on them and, by extension, us. Killing a prominent healthcare CEO is the worst way to address the issue. Tell that to Mangione’s fan base. To them, he’s the hero of this story, not someone accused of an assassination. RELATED: LATE-NIGHT COMICS COMPARE TRUMP TO A MURDERER These late-night comics might want to reconsider the material they share across the media landscape. Why are their fans inclined to cheer for an alleged murderer? Why are liberals so eager to turn a potential monster into a hero? Did they play a role in this attitude shift? Even more important? Maybe it’s well past time for them to tackle the Mangione fans head on with humor and sharp observations. They’re political satirists, after all. What better way to address that warped ideology than jokes skewering those who deify murderers? The Babylon Bee already took a hard swing at the problem. Luigi Mangione To Host Next Week's Episode Of 'SNL' https://t.co/Bl8fbCut8d pic.twitter.com/Z5MAOcfaQL — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 23, 2024 They’ve got experienced writers on staff who should be up to the task, no? Or, perhaps the shows’ staffers are like Team Kimmel, unwilling to target Mangione for what he purportedly did. They’d rather tell another toothless Orange Man Bad quip than use their platforms for something resembling good.

The cover of this morning’s New York Post (Saturday, December 28) screams the news about “the pictures Joe Biden didn’t want you to see — helping Hunter make millions with private introduction to Xi.” Post reporter Steven Nelson summarized: “The National Archives has finally released photos showing then-Vice President Biden meeting with two of first son Hunter Biden’s Chinese government-linked business partners — again proving that the President lied about not interacting with his family’s foreign patrons....” Nelson’s first of two articles about the newly-released photos was stamped 12:45pm ET on Friday afternoon, yet none of the Big Three evening or morning broadcasts subsequently mentioned the damning new proof of Joe Biden’s participation in his son’s business dealings. Last night, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News led their broadcasts with winter weather, while the CBS Evening News began with the passing of CBS Sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel. This morning, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Saturday Morning and NBC’s Today provided a combined five and a half hours of news programming — but chose not to utter a peep about the new Biden scandal headlines. These pictures were obtained by the America First Legal Foundation, which posted a letter showing that the National Archive in July said they would be released before Election Day, on October 23. Yet they were delayed until just this week, after both the election and Joe Biden’s pardon of his son for any and all crimes he might have committed during the past 10 years. As New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin astutely pointed out, “The decision by the storied National Archives to withhold the evidence until after the election despite a lawsuit from America First Legal opens the door to a larger scandal. It means the president corrupted others in the administration to cover up his lie....” As Nelson explained in a second New York Post story yesterday afternoon, this isn’t the first evidence that Joe Biden repeatedly lied about having no interactions with any of Hunter Biden’s business partners. “A review of Biden’s public statements demonstrate a pattern of dishonesty as a mountain of evidence — including photos, emails and witness statements — showed that he did indeed interact with his family’s business partners,” Nelson wrote. These newly-released photos show Biden, as Vice President, introducing Hunter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, and then posing with Hunter’s Chinese business partners. A New York Post editorial this morning blasted the Biden family’s corruption, as well as the withholding of these pictures until the final days of Biden’s presidency: Wow: It turns out the National Archives and Records Administration has been holding onto photographic proof of then-Veep Joe Biden promoting Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China for all these years that Joe has been insisting he did no such thing. Yes: NARA had pics of Hunter and Joe meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping and with multiple execs of BHR Partners, a Chinese state-backed company aligned with Xi’s global Belt and Road Initiative — a company then in the process of being co-launched by Hunter. That is: The sitting vice president was using his office to promote his son’s ambitions to earn tens of millions promoting the agenda of the Chinese Communist Party.... So the American people elected a president who’d effectively sold out years before to China, now our top global rival. FoxNews.com assembled a round-up of the reaction to the news that the broadcast networks decided to suppress: “Astonishing,” Red State writer Bonchie posted on X. “These photos are incredibly damning and speak volumes,” author and journalist Peter Schweizer posted on X. “It is such a disgrace that only through litigation, and only at the conclusion of the Biden administration is its corruption by ties to the Chinese Communist Party fully coming into focus,” Real Clear Politics editor Benjamin Weingarten posted on X. If a liberal foundation had uncovered photographic evidence bolstering longstanding suspicions of corruption by any member of the Trump family (or any other prominent Republican, for that matter), do you think the broadcast networks would have taken a complete and total pass on it? Didn’t think so.  

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