Friday, October 13, 2017

Jimmy Fallon Bashes Trump - NOT APOLITICAL

FAKE NEWS!

From Entertainment Weekly:

Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah, and half of Twitter might disagree … but NBC’s Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon suggests that Donald Trump’s headlines are often “too serious” to make jokes about.

In an interview with NBC’s Sunday TODAY, the host was asked about his show’s lack of Trump bashing.

“It’s just not what I do, I think it would be weird for me to start doing it now,” Fallon said to Willie Geist in a preview from the upcoming broadcast. “I don’t even care about politics. I love pop culture more than politics, I just don’t have that brain.”

The TODAY co-host followed up by asking if Fallon feels any pressure to go after the president given that it’s clearly working for other late night hosts.

“I think the other guys are doing it very well,” Fallon replied. “Colbert’s doing great; he’s always been into political comedy. When it’s organic I’ll dip into it as well. I’ve always made jokes about the president. We’ve only had Obama. I’ve made thousands of jokes … with Trump, it’s just like every day is a new thing. He gives a lot of material. A lot of [his] stuff is hard to make a joke about. It’s just too serious.”

This is total crap.

EVERY night, Fallon bashes Trump. The bulk of his monologue EVERY night is based on Trump bashing.

Fallon's show is NOT apolitical. True, he doesn't routinely deliver Jimmy Kimmel-esque screeds and start crying during his monologue. However, in all seriousness, Fallon has called out Trump, like after Charlottesville. Fallon called Trump "shameful."

From August 15, 2017:

Jimmy Fallon didn't do a monologue on Monday's Tonight Show, or any opening comedy bits. He went right to his first guest, Susan Sarandon, after delivering these remarks:



JIMMY FALLON: As kids grow up, they need people to look up to, to show them what's right and good. They need parents and teachers, and they need leaders who appeal to the best in us. The fact that it took the president two days to come out and clearly denounce racists and white supremacists is shameful. And I think he finally spoke out because people everywhere stood up and said something. It's important for everyone, especially white people in this country, to speak out against this. Ignoring it is just as bad as supporting it.

Fallon begins his remarks with a lie, calling The Tonight Show an "apolitical show." Fallon pummels Trump every night, every single night, something he never did to Obama.

While I unequivocally agree with Fallon's remarks about the importance of denouncing hate, racism and white supremacists, I think he's wrong to use his platform to call President Trump "shameful" and falsely declare that the president took two days to denounce the racists and white supremacists. When Fallon goes further and states that Trump only denounced the haters because people pressured him into it, he goes too far.

Everything is relative, but to declare Fallon's monologue and show apolitical is a flat-out lie.

It's just not true.

It's not true.



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