Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah has apparently recovered enough from declaring election night the “end of the world” to lament the “misogyny” Hillary Clinton faced as a candidate. Appearing on CBS This Morning, Monday, the Daily Show host lectured, “And misogyny, people talk about the glass ceiling but what you don't realize you can't see it because it's see-through. And misogyny has very quickly gone out of the conversation.”
CBS co-host Charlie Rose helped the comedian along, reminding, “They have a term in terms of racism called implicit bias.” Talking about voters, Noah insisted, “But there are people who put two things above everything else and that is whiteness and that is also sex.... Hillary faced it throughout her life. You know?”
Analyzing himself, the Daily Show host wondered, “I have to say if she were a man, how would I see her?... Would her shortcomings not pale in comparison to those achievements?”
On election night, Noah freaked out, telling his audience during a live show:
TREVOR NOAH: “This is it, the end of the presidential race and it feels like the end of the world.... This is the first time throughout this entire race where I’m officially shitting my pants. I genuinely do not understand how America can be this disorganized or this hateful.
According to the comic, "a lot of the world is disappointed in America."
No one on CBS This Morning mentioned the awkward moment from September when Rose inaccurately claimed that Noah had been fired from Comedy Central. On September 22, he told John Oliver, “The two people who succeeded, both Jon [Stewart] and Stephen [Colbert], are no longer going to be there.”
A partial transcript is below:
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CHARLIE ROSE: We have now seen an election and looking at a new president. How do you see it? And what is your own sense of how we should react to Donald Trump?
TREVOR NOAH: Well, the biggest thing I've seen is America is not as immune to the ills of the world as it thought it was. You know, I think a lot of the world is disappointed in America because America is that — is that beacon, is that light house, you snow a bastion of democracy. And when you look at what happened in the election, I think it's sad we are now living in a place we are normalizing and moving on so quickly from two glaring truths that were part of what happened in the election.
I acknowledge a white working class. That is something we can talk about, but we cannot deny that many of Donald Trump's supporters were earning large amounts of money. They are doing great for themselves, but there are people who put two things above everything else and that is whiteness and that is also sex. And misogyny, you know, people talk about the glass ceiling but what you don't realize you can't see it because it's see-through. And misogyny has very quickly gone out of the conversation where, even as a man, I have come to grips with the fact that it is a tough world to be in where there is this invisible monster that keeps you down.
ROSE: They have a term in terms of racism called implicit bias.
NOAH: Yeah, definitely. And you see that. Many people, Hillary faced it throughout her life. You know? I keep trying to think of that and, unfortunately, I have to use the metric in my head where I say is if she were a man and the fact I have to say that means there is a problem.
GAYLE KING: Yeah.
ROSE: Yeah.
NOAH: I have to say if she were a man, how would I see her? Would her achievements, would they not pale?— Would her shortcomings not pale in comparison to those achievements? But the truth we do live in this world and until we work on acknowledging it more we will never —
NORAH O’DONNELL: Trevor —
ROSE: You make the point also, as you point that out, that we have got to understand what our values are and be true to our values.
NOAH: Definitely.
ROSE: But, at the same time, you say we ought to give Donald Trump a chance.NOAH: Well, you have to give him a chance. Because the president. I'm not saying I would like to give him a chance. You have to. When the person is the president, the person is the president.
