The late-night television show hosts in America have long been revered by the public as great entertainers. In the former golden age of America, weeknights were blessed with the likes of Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, and a whole host of people who kept the public entertained while walking a fine line between comedy and politics.
However, in the last twenty years, all of that goodwill has evaporated. The late-night shows are overrun by people like Jimmy Kimmel, who tell unfunny jokes that are border on plain activism. There is genuinely nothing funny on the shows anymore, and there is no discourse. It is constantly bashing President Trump and Republicans and make factually or logically incorrect jokes at the expense of actual truth.
It has become unsurprising to see the bias on late night television, and now more numerical proof is coming about showing it. A new survey by the watchdog group MRC Newsbusters found that 94-percent of jokes delivered during the first week of Operation Epic Fury mocked the United States or its allies.
Media expert Jeff McCall of Depauw University says they have been cracking jokes, ignoring the human cost of war.
"It is not helpful to the political sphere in the United States," he says. "Plus, none of this sick humor was happening when the Obama Administrations was bombing Libya."
That truly never was the case when Obama was President. The media fawned over his capabilities and never batted an eye at those bombings or the drone killing of Americans in Yemen. It is just bad because President Trump is doing it.
That has ultimately been the downfall of Hollywood and mainstream entertainers. Teir derangement with President Trump has become tone deaf and unbearable to the normal person. Absolutely no one wants to be preached to about environmental consequences by someone in a gated mansion with three Bentley's. You would think they would realize that. But being that tone deaf can block out reason.
"They really do not care about the broader context, they are only concerned with disrupting the public and President Trump," says McCall. "Certainly, he steps into a good deal of criticism, but I do not think we need late night comedians trying to do political analysis and sway the public in certain ways."
That is the difference. Forty years ago, it was just Johnny Carson making fun of all things. Democrats, Republicans, whites, blacks, anyone was on the table. Because it was fair and not focused on pushing some kind of narrative. It was about entertaining and being a comedian.
Somewhere though, the late-night hosts lost that. Now, they have morphed into something they were never remotely intended to become.
"I think they view themselves now more as political activists who happen to deliver a punchline once in a while...more than comedians who are just trying to provide entertainment," McCall says.
That has become the problem and a major reason why these late-night shows are completely failing. People are fed up with the negativity and being called a racist because they do not believe in open borders.
But again, none of it is surprising. This has just become the latest self-destructive blow to the entertainment industry.
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