The journalists and hosts at CBS on Thursday night and Friday morning viciously mocked a Michigan woman who was a witness for the Trump team on voter fraud. CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King sneered at her “annoying” voice and mannerisms.
Late Show host Stephen Colbert on Thursday night disgustingly went after the woman, who is not a celebrity or a politician, for FIVE minutes, making a vulgar sex joke at her expense. Imitating her voice and talking of going to a hotel room, he sneered about "the kind of thing your boyfriend Brian is too scared to try."
Melissa Carone was a witness in Michigan for the Trump campaign. The Washington Post describes her as someone who claimed to have worked a “24-hour shift at Detroit’s vote-counting operation at TCF Center.” Yet, after CBS This Morning played a clip of her speaking. King mocked, “I knew, guys, when I watched her yesterday, Colbert, Corden, Kimmel, all of them were going to have a field day. It was the way she talked like that, the way she moved her head. Stephen [Colbert] is absolutely right. She was annoying. Welcome to CBS This Morning. Enough of that.”
Colbert on Thursday went farther, making a sex joke about this woman. He began by playing part of her televised exchange in Michigan:
STEPHEN COLBERT: Well, Melissa didn't spend the whole time accusing poll workers of messing with the vote count but also accused the legislators and ghosts.
STATE REP STEVEN JOHNSON: Are we saying the poll book is either wildly off or that they are filling in names?
MELISSA CARONE: Wildly off. It’s wildly off and they are filling in names. Dead people voted.
JOHNSON: My question is, we are not seeing the poll book off by 30,000 votes. That's not the case.
CARONE: What did you do, take it and do something crazy to it?
Colbert, a former comedian turned Democratic activist on CBS, then made this gross crack:
Why is she biting her lip? What crazy thing does she think they did to the books? “What'd you do? Did you take books to a fancy hotel room, order some strawberries and champagne and give it a little back rub and then do something crazy to it? The kind of thing your boyfriend Brian is too scared to try?”
Why is it okay to make fun of this woman’s voice and make sex jokes about her? Anything goes for CBS, so long as the victim in question isn’t a liberal. Hypocrite King's attacks come less than a week of talking about unity and saying to host Ellen DeGeneres: "Speak to each other. I'm with you, when you always say kindness — it's one of my favorite words — I know you feel the same. We have to get back to beating each other, we really do."
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Partial transcripts are below. Click “expand” to read more.
CBS This Morning
12/4/2020
JAMES CORDEN: Last night's televised hearing, Rudy Giuliani introduced a star witness that went viral because of her attitude.
REP STEVEN JOHNSON: We’re not seeing the poll book off by 30,000 votes.
MELISSA CARONE: What did you do, take it and do something crazy to it?
STEPHEN COLBERT: She concluded testimony saying I would like to speak to America's manager. I'll wait.
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GAYLE KING: I knew, guys, when I watched her yesterday, Colbert, Corden, Kimmel, all of them were going to have a field day. It was the way she talked like that, the way she moved her head. Stephen is absolutely right. She was annoying. Welcome to CBS This Morning. Enough of that.
Late Show With Stephen Colbert
12/3/2020
11:45 PM ET
STEPHEN COLBERT: Well, Melissa didn't spend the whole time accusing poll workers of messing with the vote count but also accused the legislators and ghosts.
State REP STEVEN JOHNSON: Are we saying the poll book is either wildly off or that they are filling in names?
CARONE: Wildly off. It’s wildly off and they are filling in names. Dead people voted.
JOHNSON: My question is, we are not seeing the poll book off by 30,000 votes. That's not the case.
MELISSA CARONE: What did you do, take it and do something crazy to it?
COLBERT: Why is she biting her lip? What crazy thing does she think they did to the books? “What'd you do? Did you take books to a fancy hotel room, order some strawberries and champagne and give it a little back rub and then do something crazy to it? The kind of thing your boyfriend Brian is too scared to try?”
