03.29.24

Blue-Anon – NBC NEWS

Working diligently to ensure late-night comedians are comporting themselves properly.

MSNBC is currently looking to adjust the perception of its inherent bias, in the wake of the Ronna McDaniel hiring-crying-firing fiasco. But as the network strives to be seen as somewhat, kind of, sorta, possibly, a little bit maybe bi-partisan comes this column from Jacques Berlinerblau on its digital side, looking to police Jon Stewart and his return to “The Daily Show.”

It turns out that Stewart has responded properly to the criticisms that on his first broadcast he dared to poke fun at Joe Biden, and there have not been too many jokes at the expense of the president:

But the absence of any gags about Biden in the most recent episode suggests that Stewart has certainly heard the complaints. It’s never a bad thing when influential comedians acknowledge a mistake, even if they do so indirectly. Stewart’s rather even-handed smackdowns of Biden and Donald Trump were misguided and irresponsible.

Comedy, I submit, must be aware of its own brute power to shape and influence perceptions. to mock Biden and Trump as if they merited exactly the same amount of abuse is dangerous. Such impartiality redounds to the benefit of a candidate whose dictatorial ambitions are not merely performative.

In following the conspirational positions of MSNBC, Berlinblau literally says that it is important to only mock Trump on the late-night shows, because joking about Biden could lead to him losing the election, and if the........

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