Who let this happen on Saturday Night Live? In his second gig as host of the show, comedian Shane Gillis uncorked a monologue that mocked Joe Biden's cognitive fitness, liberal moral arrogance, and PBS documentary star Ken Burns as making dreadfully boring films.
After joking about Trump and the Gulf of America and Greenland, Gillis turned, to Biden, mocking how between teleprompters, Biden's face would go dead. Then he added: "You guys are pretty liberal here. I understand being liberal. It feels good. It's powerful. It's too powerful, dude, it's like the Sith! You lose yourself, dude. Somebody says something you don't like at work, and it's like [monster noise]."
Later, Gillis did a riff on Ken Burns, and the documentary series that made him famous, The Civil War. It’s 11 and a half hours long -- 690 minutes. What I did not expect is that Gillis would suggest Burns documentaries put women to sleep...he called it a "little Cosby tip, actually. Who needs roofies when we have Ken Burns present the history of the buffalo on PBS?"
Ken Burns presents himself as a national treasure, so learned and somehow objective. But if you get away from the actual films, he’s insufferably progressive. For example, this sentence in 2016: "Like the amputated limb felt long after it has been cut off, I miss Trayvon Martin," he said. An Exhibit A in white guilt.
I testified on a House panel with three others about PBS in 1999, and Burns was on the other end of the witness table. I wasn't a fan of his when I came in, and I really loathed him when it was over. He was so incredibly pompous. I refrained from calling him an egocentric twig of a man.
The PBS/NPR types hate Elon Musk. On my drive in to the office midway through Monday morning, the NPR talk show 1A devoted a whole hour to trashing Musk and his conflicts of interest, considering he's had $38 billion in government contracts. They repeated that number from The Washington Post over and over again. They asked for listeners to send in emails to read on the air, so I sent in this one:
Hi guys!
It's deeply weird for NPR to call out Elon Musk out for conflicts of interest because of his government conflicts. You have a daily conflict of interest reporting on the governments that fund you and your affiliate stations. In addition, Musk has advocated defunding NPR, so you have an obvious interest in undermining DOGE.
Sincerely, Tim Graham, involuntary contributor to NPR propaganda
We were pleased as punch that Mark Levin mentioned our study of ABC/CBS/NBC coverage (well, lack of coverage) of DOGE announcements of taxpayer savings on his Fox News show Life, Liberty, & Levin.
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