It was a good week for NewsBusters issues. In the new eruption of leftist protest over anyone demanding Stephen Colbert provide "Equal Time" to their incessant tilt, we point out again that all the comedy shows tilt dramatically to the left, just like The View. Whoopi Goldberg felt pressed to address the NewsBusters scoop on her place in the Epstein files.
NewsBusters associate editor Nick Fondacaro and MRC Video content creator Nick Kangadis joined the show. While the liberal networks expressed partisan awe and amazement over Colbert's allegedly masterful interview and controversy-stoking with Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the supreme irony in all of this is that our Alex Christy reports that Colbert’s show since September 2022 has platformed 214 liberals or Democrats, and just one Republican – and that was Liz Cheney, after she left office in defeat. Equal time is never observed in late-night “comedy.” Somehow, democracy is "dying" not from a guest count of 215-0, but that anyone wants to balance it in any way.
This whole controversy was a stunt – a stunt designed to promote Talarico’s bid for the Senate as a sort of Beto O’Rourke 2.0 – as if the original Beto was a winner. If the FCC required “equal time” here right before the primary, the beneficiary would be Rep. Jasmine Crockett, not a Republican. So Colbert’s stunt is anti-Crockett. Alex pointed out this week that it's been a long time since these late-night "comedy" broadcasts have featured an actual Republican candidate for office -- for example, Jimmy Fallon's last Republican candidate guest was Donald Trump in 2016, when Fallon was ostracized for mussing Trump's hair and "humanizing" him.
Two weeks after Fondacaro broke the story for NewsBusters that Whoopi Goldberg was not only referenced in the Epstein files but her team requested to borrow Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet to get to a charity event in Monaco, The View finally discussed the matter. Never addressing why HIS jet was requested, the rest of the cast came to Goldberg’s defense, claiming she didn’t fly anywhere, and trying to put the focus on President Trump instead.
All this made our point: your name merely showing up in the Epstein files doesn’t make you a horrible person by association, even if the Left has tried to do that with Donald Trump.
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