The Left was furious that Fox late-night host Greg Gutfeld was going to appear on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. But the interview was non-political as they laughed about an old bar-hopping memory. After the Colbert cancellation, does it signal that Fallon wants a broader audience?
The website The Mary Sue complained Fallon was guilty of “treating Donald Trump like a human on his show instead of holding him accountable. Now, he’s planning on doing the same with Greg Gutfeld.” Are you less than human if you’re “held accountable”?
The segment was harmless. There was no sales job for Trump or Fox News or anything politically incorrect (save the tales of drunkenness). They did promote Gutfeld’s Fox Nation reality/game show What Did I Miss? which puts four contestants, fresh from 90 days of isolation, to the test. Can they spot real news from fake?
Earlier in the week, Fallon also interviewed liberal Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show, so it’s not like it’s weird he’s interviewing fellow late-night comedy specialists. The left are just ideological police. No promotion of the right-wingers!
Plus Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro reviews some of the strange segments he’s found this week:
— Former CNN “journalist” Don Lemon and Perry Bacon Jr. discussing how Fox News is “dangerous” out there, and MSNBC is a “fact-based network,” nothing like Fox. It’s especially weird that Bacon claimed Fox can’t be trusted because they were sued for defamation, and settled. Nick is our defamation specialist, and he can tell you about MSNBC being sued for defamation, and settling.
— Disgraced former CNN “journalist” Jim Acosta made headlines Monday night after he announced he had interviewed the A.I. facsimile of Joaquin Oliver, a student killed in the Parkland School Shooting, on his eponymous podcast. If that wasn’t disturbing enough, a follow up interview with Manuel Oliver, Joaquin’s dad, revealed that his wife would “spend hours” talking with the A.I. cadaver of her son because loved to hear it say “I love you Mommy.”
— In a Wednesday TikTok post that resembled the scribblings of a madman, “comedian” Rosie O’Donnell sought to warn her followers that her old haunt, ABC’s The View, was about to be canceled because of their “liberal bias.” She proclaimed that it was another example of the “fascism” of “the orange messiah” (President Trump) trying to “silence” women with opinions, and invoked phrases used for warning about Nazism and the Holocaust.
We wrap up today’s podcast by interviewing our summer interns on their last day. Lucas Escala, Shannon Sauders, Matthew Seck, and Ashley Taylor have learned by doing since late May.
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