With the upcoming annual Conservative Political Action Conference coming up this week, late night comedians had another target to display their regular hatred for conservatives. On Tuesday night, ABC and CBS’s late night comedy shows targeted CPAC attendees as well as a sitting GOP Senator to smear them as violent racists… and we’re supposed to find it funny.
On CBS’s The Late Show, always nasty host Stephen Colbert shamelessly used his platform to smear the dead, remarking about Rush Limbaugh: “Merrick Garland, who vows to target white supremacists as Attorney General--and for a change, it's not to give them medals of freedom.” (Clearly referring to President Trump giving Limbaugh the medal of freedom at the SOTU in 2020.)
But Colbert wasn’t done smearing conservatives as white supremacists. With his next joke he targeted sitting Senator Josh Hawley [R-MO] questioning Attorney General nominee, Merrick Garland:
"The grandson of people who fled genocide is promising to save our country from white supremacists. And they're not going to be hard to find. Josh Hawley is sitting right across the room from him," he sneered.
From there, the liberal crybaby who famously had a meltdown on election night in 2016, mocked CPAC conservatives as gun-happy “mobs of angry idiots:”
"Speaking of mobs of angry idiots, this week is the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. It's a who's who of 'Who needs that many guns in their rec room?'" he bashed.
The liberal comedian also mocked the idea that it’s disturbing how conservatives of all stripes are being targeted and shut out of the public square from big tech and the left wing media:
“Of course, with all the crises facing our nation, conservatives are focusing on the most pressing issue of all: Fascists being kicked off of Twitter,” he mocked.
Jimmy Kimmel at ABC continued this theme on his show as well, smearing CPAC attendees as murderous neo-Nazis:
Mike Pence, by the way, will not be attendance at CPAC, even though they did try to reach out and assure him that he'd be safe from all the people who tried to kill him last month. CPAC, if you don't know, is an annual event. It's like Comic-Con for neo-cons and neo-Nazis too.
Kimmel ended this segment with a lame CPAC promo parody mocking the line-up of speakers, from “crazy gun lady” Dana Loesch, “Chinless Don Jr.” “Sleepy Ben Carson,” “Crazy Larry Kudlow” and “the reason your family doesn't speak anymore, President Donald J. Trump!”
In 2019, Kimmel also attacked the annual conference as the “largest gathering” of anti-vaxxers led by "dementia-stricken" Donald Trump.
While comedians find time to smear conservative conferences as filled with anti-Semitic racists, the best material they can come up with for Democratic conferences is comparing Dems to the Avengers with Donald Trump as super-villain Thanos.
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Read the transcripts below:
The Late Show
2/23/2021
STEPHEN COLBERT: Onto the next crying old man, Attorney General nominee, and man describing his invisible rabbit friend, Merrick Garland, who vows to target white supremacists as Attorney General. And for a change, it's not to give them medals of freedom. Garland already has a lifetime appointment as a federal judge, but he's giving that up to be Attorney General, and yesterday, he tearfully explained why.
MERRICK GARLAND: I come from a family where my grandparents fled anti-Semitism and persecution. The country took us in-- and protected us. And I feel an obligation to the country to pay back, and this is the highest, best use of my own set of skills to pay back.
COLBERT: That's what we've come to in this country: The grandson of people who fled genocide is promising to save our country from white supremacists. And they're not going to be hard to find. Josh Hawley is sitting right across the room from him. Speaking of mobs of angry idiots, this week is the conservative political action conference, or CPAC. It's a who's who of "Who needs that many guns in their rec room?"
Of course, with all the crises facing our nation, conservatives are focusing on the most pressing issue of all: Fascists being kicked off of Twitter. This year's theme is "America uncanceled." I didn't know America was canceled! Although, I'm not surprised. The last season was pretty unbelievable. A pandemic and Nazis? Okay, pick one. We've jumped the shark. Nazi sharks? Still, better than last year’s theme: Giving the flag, the clap [picture of Trump hugging flag]
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2/23/2021
JIMMY KIMMEL: Mike Pence, by the way, will not be attendance at CPAC, even though they did try to reach out and assure him that he'd be safe from all the people who tried to kill him last month. CPAC, if you don't know, is an annual event. It's like Comic-Con for neo-cons and neo-Nazis too. This year, the festivities will be held in Orlando. The theme is "America uncancelled." This is their big thing. Which is interesting because yesterday, they canceled one of the speakers they had scheduled.
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KIMMEL: But even without Young Pharaoh, they have a helluva lineup. Some are saying this could be the best C-PAC yet.
[fake CPAC promo sounding like wrestling match narrator plays] This weekend, it's CPAC 2021 with our most epic lineup yet! Including Colonel Sarah Sanders! That crazy gun lady [image of Dana Loesch]! El senadora Ted Cruz! The first public appearance of ‘Q’! Actors from the ‘70s you thought were dead [image of Jon Voight]! Bermit, the muppet Disney doesn't want you to see! Jeff Brain, CEO of something called Clouthub, Chinless don Jr., Sleepy Ben Carson, Crazy Larry Kudlow. And Crystal Gayle. And bringing it all home, the reason your family doesn't speak anymore, President Donald J. Trump! No Zoom, no distance, no masks, be here in person! CPAC 2021, only in Orlando!
