Washington
Post contributor Manuel Roig-Franzia is
simply an objective observer of late-night television.
In [Greg] Gutfeld's America, President Biden is a doddering geezer. The mainstream media is essentially a house organ for the left. And the nation isn't engaged in a necessary national conversation on race, and racial disparities in housing, health care and employment. Instead, he aims to persuade his audience that the nation is consumed by destructive and divisive "reverse racism" and an insidious campaign against Whites.
Seriously? In real life, Joe Biden is a doddering geezer. In real life, the mainstream media is a house organ for the left. In real life, I sometimes fear that some communities might be
one looted strip mall away from
becoming sundown towns. In real life, Student Affairs and admissions offices occasionally lump "White" with "Asian" (itself a massive aggregation of several distinct ethnicities) as people to be excluded from inclusion efforts. Would he prefer that late-night comedians laugh the Woke into oblivion, or take more direct actions?
What Eric Deggans, NPR's television critic, sees at play in programs such as "Gutfeld!" is an effort to undermine the idea that there is systemic racism in this country.
"Some of the ways you push back against that is through humor," says Deggans, an MSNBC contributor and author of the book, "Race Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation." "You try to turn the term 'woke' into a joke and a pejorative."
Better that they laugh at the Excessively Earnest People. As well as at Hunter Biden and Brian Stelter.
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