What is it about our entertainment elites that makes them think they are so much wiser than everyone else? Why do they seem to think that comedians like Samantha Bee and Trump impersonators like Alec Baldwin are going to save America with their rants?
The arrogance of the late-night “comedians” overflowed when Bee called Ivanka Trump a “feckless” C-word. See how Bee’s old boss Jon Stewart came rushing to her defense: “You could not find a kinder, smarter, more lovely individual than Samantha Bee. Trust me, if she called someone a [C-word]...” (Translation: They deserve it.)
How hard would it be to find someone kinder and smarter than Bee? Most Americans could do it in ten seconds. But that’s how the vile entertainers stand up for each other. They are the true elites, engorged with self-absorption and disdainful of anyone who misses the point that they are the witty conscience of the country. Standards? They have none. They are above them. Thus they viciously carve up conservatives in a way they would never dream of talking about their liberal heroes. (Rewind to Bee hugging Hillary Clinton and crying “It should have been you!” )
Bee’s arrogance was self-evident in her lame “apology” which began with a sarcastic “Sorry for breaking America.” She shot back at critics: “Look, if you are worried about the death of civility, don't sweat it. I'm a comedian. People who hone their voices in basement bars while yelling back at drunk hecklers are definitely not paragons of civility,” she declared. “Civility is just nice words. Maybe we should all worry a little bit more about the niceness of our actions.”
“Don’t sweat it, I’m a comedian” is a “get out of jail free” card. They can compare conservatives to Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Osama bin Laden, and Satan, but if you think that’s too rough, “I’m a comedian.” They can pretend to be policy wonks, and when their “facts” crumble, “I’m a comedian.” They can make “jokes” about beheading the president, and that’s not vicious...when done by a comedian.
“Entertainers” like Bee should not have a platform to spew hateful, sexist slurs. Just like Kathy Griffin, she only apologized for her own selfish interest. As Bill Donohue of the Catholic League put it, “A comedian has no more right to obscenely insult people than a cop has a right to randomly beat a person up. Neither should be allowed to take cover hiding behind his status.”
Liberals have argued that not only did Donald and Ivanka Trump deserve to be “called out” for their inhumanity, but that every vile insult of his family is somehow Donald Trump’s doing. A columnist for The Washington Post even held Trump responsible for America’s declining birth rate. (Liberals won’t bring children into Trump’s world.)
What responsibility do they think they bear for our discourse? In 2006, Alec Baldwin wrote in the Huffington Post that Dick Cheney was a terrorist, or “ a lying, thieving Oil Whore. Or, a murderer of the U.S. Constitution.” In 2010, Jon Stewart welcomed now-infamous sexual harasser Louis CK to The Daily Show and let him proclaim “I was going to say that the Pope f---ed boys and I didn't have time.” In 2012, Bill Maher welcomed Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential candidacy by calling her the C-word and a “dumb twat.”
Search for any condemnation from Tinseltown.
People like Bee and Maher mistake their rage-filled rants for “humor,” and mistake their emotional contempt for conservative politicians for expertise. Most of all, these deluded leftists can’t see how their vicious hot air is the wind beneath Trump’s wings.
