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It is not just the hosts that make the late night comedy shows another part of the liberal media. It is also their guests. Throughout 2024, the late night shows’ guests slanted heavily left and provided plenty of outrageous moments, but before recalling them, a more humorous honorable mention.
“I was surprised, especially after you were talking about it before, that Chris Wallace debate four years ago, just the worst presidential debate in American history. I was surprised it’s going to happen again. Interesting move by Biden, kind of a bold move by Biden. I do think the rules he’s put in place could make a difference.”
With that poorly aged hot take out of the way, here are the worst ten moments from journalists and celebrities that occurred over the past year.
10. July 11: MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on Donald Trump
“[Project 2025 is] basically a roadmap for Trump becoming all-powerful. It increases the power of the executive branch of government. There is a reason for checks and balances, for three branches of government, for a judiciary that’s independent, so that they can hold people to account. That’s what it’s there for. He wants to get rid of that so he can go after his political enemies and so that he can use it as a weapon against people he doesn’t like or who have done him wrong. If that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, I don’t know what does.”
“You can condemn political violence in this country. You can condemn what happened to Donald Trump on Saturday, but you have to be honest and say that the rhetoric that Donald Trump has been spewing since 2016 has been creating an environment of political violence that’s not even safe for him… when I see House Speaker Mike Johnson say things like, what did he say about Trump? He said that, oh yeah, he said, ‘We have to tamper down on the rhetoric. Everyone has to tamper down on the rhetoric.’ No, one person should actually tamper down on the rhetoric, right?”
“The devotion to Trump is so singular as to be almost a religion, right? So, nothing else matters but him. I mean, the only policy proposal — or the only policy he’s talked about is immigration, which really feeds on xenophobia and racism more than a desire to fix our broken immigration system.”
“They have a partisan media that not only looks the other way when they lie, but echoes their lies, and often has a business model built upon their lies, and so, you begin with that. Then, you have a culture in the Republican Party that many people told me goes back to—many people put it with Newt Gingrich as sort of the turning point.”
“If he wins the election, you won’t be on this show anymore, he’ll come looking for me. They’ll be things that happened that none of us can imagine. That’s what happens in that kind of a dictatorship which is what he says, let’s believe him, take him at his word.”
“He’s so [bleep] stupid. I mean, look at the lame, inane things that he’s said. He’s so stupid, he can’t even say anything clever. He’s a [bleep] moron!”
5. October 9: Activist and Author Jessica Valenti on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Pro-Lifers
“I wrote a column once called ‘The worst guy you know.’ Think about the biggest asshole from high school, right? The guy who was devil’s advocate, always had something to say, that’s who the prosecutor is now. That is who the local legislator is now, that’s who the sheriff is who are bringing forward these cases. So, when you look at the people who are enforcing these laws on a local and state level, they’re the worst guy you know. The worst kind of person you can possibly imagine. That said, I do think that there are a lot of politicians who don’t really care. They don’t care. It’s just about the power to them.”
4. October 1: MSNBC’s Paola Ramos on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Trump-Supporting Latinos
“And that is the fact that there are some Latinos that are so Americanized and assimilated now that they too will sort of buy into the nativism. That they too will look at, here are the words, ‘Send them back’ and not at all see themselves reflected in that ‘them.’”
3. March 27: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on The Right
“Well, look at the right-wing reactionary movements all over the world, whether it’s Islamic fundamentalism, whether it’s Christian nationalism, whether it’s the ultra-orthodox in Israel, they all, the come of principal concern is often women have gotten too uppity. You know, let’s move, Xi Jinping gave a speech the other day in which he said women basically need to go back to the kitchen and they need to start having babies again.”
“There were parts of the world that didn’t freak out. Mostly the autocratic parts of the world…Your Putins, your Xis, your Orbans. Those people… France, for instance, on International Women’s Day, March 8, actually signed into law a constitutional amendment to guarantee a woman’s right to make choices about her own body… This was sort of a demonstration of will by, you know, a country that’s very supportive of your revolution, to show that this is universal human rights and that women actually need to be treated like adults and whether it’s Afghanistan, Iran, or the United States, a bunch of grumpy old man shouldn’t be making essential decisions.”
“One of them is this idea of declinism. Society is going downhill. Everything’s awful. Cities in ruins. American carnage… These are some of the same tactics that Hitler talked about in Mein Kampf and used in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. And in fact, if you look at the data, you know, crime rates are down, the economy is up… All of the indicators are on the upswing and yet, if we can talk about the society as being down, then it allows us to say, ‘well these extreme times call for extreme measures.'”
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