As we watch major media outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times bow to the incoming Trump administration, it becomes difficult to image how reality (ie, the facts) will be presented to the public. While I'm happy to give a shout-out to publications (like Talking Points Memo and Rolling Stone) as well as a whole host of substackers for stepping up to the plate, there's one group that is rarely mentioned when discussing the truth-tellers.
Ironically, I was reminded of them by the right wing outlet know as "Newsbusters."
From the beginning of June through the end of December, the late night comedy shows welcomed 120 liberal guests and only one conservative, according to a new NewsBusters study...
The study looked at the five daily late night comedy shows: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.
Right on cue, the President-Elect of the United States went on social media last night to rant about one of those comedians - Seth Meyers.
In case you're wondering what Meyers said that triggered Trump, this is probably the episode that did it:
As is often the case with these kinds of monologues, Meyers sprinkled his jokes with some pretty heavy-duty fact-checking on the president's lies. That's also why Trump has repeatedly attacked the other late-night comedians - especially Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert.
For years now I've been saying that comedians like these are prophets. If you doubt that, I'd simply remind you of Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2006.
One of the ways I'll be coping with whatever comes our way over the next four years is to listen to the prophet comedians among us.
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