During the shutdown crisis, the usually noisy creature known as the McConnell has suddenly disappeared into the undergrowth. Stephen Colbert finds nature documentary footage of the behavior of this animal when threatened, which explains the lack of recent sightings in the wild.
On #LSSC tonight: We found Mitch McConnell! pic.twitter.com/0FnniaugPU
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) January 12, 2019
Otherwise it is infuriating. Seth Meyers distills the latest nonsense uttered by Trump, as he desperately tries to make the case that his wall is not a wasteful and stupid idea.
Some time ago, comedian Jim Jeffries delivered a sobering corrective message about the boast about America being the greatest country in the world that every American politician repeats incessantly and which many others repeat, and to which the rest of the world responds with snickers. At the end, he provides a new patriotic song that can be sung at all sporting events that represents a more accurate picture. This message is needed even more now as the country goes through this ridiculous shut down over a stupid wall that makes it the laughing stock of the world.
Ted Alexandro discusses the cases of Bill Cosby and Louis C. K.
Anyone whose work enters the public sphere gets criticism. Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow provides a catalog of the various types of critic.
What Meyers does not address is that the stock market has been on a steep decline since the beginning of this month, dropping below the levels of October 2017. Trump and the high wealth class he represents care more about the stock market than anything else and this is likely to cause him (and them) the greatest concern.
In their efforts to flog the tired old ‘War on Christmas’ trope, Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the person vying to be the worst person on it, reached new lows, combining immigrant-bashing with gender stridency. Stephen Colbert tries to understand the silliness.
Carlson’s show has already lost more than 20 advertising sponsors following his remarks.
Cue the right-wing outrage over ‘censorship’. These ardent supporters of capitalism and the market don’t seem to quite get that businesses protect their brand image, and not wanting to be associated with someone as odious as Carlson is a business decision.
She has a Christmas Special Christmas on I.C.E. today at 10:30pm (ET) on TBS. Here is a clip.
This South African ad for fast food turns on its head the tedious and ridiculous narratives of brave European explorers ‘discovering’ countries where people were already living. (Via Rob Beschizza)
Eddie Izzard did a similar riff some time earlier.
