“It was such a juicy burger that even Fox News knew their viewers would be tempted to snack on something,” Tucker Carlson said during the first hour of his show, opposite the auditions. for ads. “Do you understand what that means? “Fox News is willing to lose money to prevent its viewers from flipping through and learning wrong information,” Colbert said. “But I’m not really surprised. This is the first rule of any cult: never leave the band. “ As for the hearing itself, “it made my heart well with gratitude to see the committee weave [details] “together in a fascinating hypothesis that January 6 was not a spontaneous gathering of neo-thieves with steam fuel that went out of control,” Colbert said. “It was, in fact, an attack premeditated by the President of the United States to prevent the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in the history of our nation.” Colbert took part in some of the highlights of the first afternoon of the deposition, including a video of Ivanka Trump interviewing the commission, reacting to former Attorney General Bill Barr, who called her father’s allegations of electoral fraud “absolute bullshit.” . “I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying,” he said. “It must have been a bittersweet moment for the president: he finally ruined it,” Colbert joked. Colbert also looked forward to more dedication to primetime, because “after two hours of documented evidence and testimony, we learned that this insurgent conspiracy was, like everything else related to that last government, exactly what you thought, but worse than whatever you could imagine. ”
Seth Meyers
On Late Night, Seth Meyers also broke Fox News for failing to broadcast the January 6 committee hearings. “Of course Fox does not broadcast it – it is a key suspect in that,” he said. “That would be if the coverage of OJ’s trial on Court TV was hosted by OJ. “We already know, thanks to the Jan. 6 committee, that we are not taking seriously what the Fox hosts are saying, since behind the scenes they were privately begging Trump to stifle the mob,” he said. “They knew it was his fault and they knew he had the power to stop it. “They will not say this publicly, but they said it privately.” The commission found that several Fox hosts sent messages to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Mendous, during the Capitol attack. Fox & Friends presenter Brian Kilmeade, for example, sent a message: “Please put him on TV. Destroying everything you have achieved “. “First of all, I was shocked to learn that Brian Kilmeade can send messages at all,” Meyers said. “I just assumed he was doing all the communication through tin attached to a string.” On a more serious note, “everyone knew them,” Meyers said. “They were watching the uprising on television, like the rest of us, and everyone knew it was bad and that Trump could stop it, just like the rest of us. As you can see from these private texts, they were not sitting there thinking “this is just a peaceful protest” or “the antifa is to blame for everything”. “They knew Trump could stop it if he wanted to.”
Samantha Melissa
And in Full Frontal, Samantha Bee repeated the drumbeat for stricter gun control laws after mass shootings in Buffalo and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “We have known for years that we have an epidemic of gun violence in this country, but the last few weeks have been almost unbearable,” he said. “And while you may think that all this will finally bring everyone together to do something, you would be wrong. And honestly, a bit silly. That is, come on, this is America. “ A CBS News / YouGov poll found that 44% of Republicans accept mass shootings as part of a free society. “This is the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard,” Bee said. “Human lives are not an acceptable cost for a hobby.” In the short term, loose gun control in the United States is likely to worsen as the Supreme Court overturns the New York State ban on concealed firearms, which could overturn similar laws in states such as California and New York. . “In the worst case scenario, it could soon be easier for almost anyone to hold a gun in public for self-defense,” Bee explained. “You would think we would know by now, but most weapons do not make us safer. There is a direct correlation between weak gun laws and higher gun death rates. But America’s gun fetishists will not be content to weaken this law alone. “It is difficult to be optimistic about the future when half of our elected officials do not even admit that there is a problem with weapons,” he added. “And it ‘s creepy to see the front pages of shootings day in and day out. But we can not look far. People who value guns more than lives want to run out. Just to be relieved that it was not us or our children who died this time and move on. They want us to take bulk shooting days as a routine nuisance, like the rainy days you take into account in your daily routine. “They want us to forget Sandy Hook’s kids, who should be in high school now,” he continued. “Let’s forget the children of Columbina, who should reach middle age. “And to forget all the opportunities that our leaders have wasted in order to prevent the countless shootings that have taken place since then.”
