Hypocrisy Of Conservatives Upset About Stephen Colbert's President Trump Insults | AM Joy

>>> STILL, AM I STILL THE HOST? I'M STILL THE HOST!
AT THE END OF THAT MONOLOGUE I HAD A FEW CHOICE INSULTS FOR THE
PRESIDENT IN RETURN. I DON'T REGRET THAT.
SO WHILE I WOULD DO IT AGAIN, I WOULD CHANGE A FEW WORDS WORDS
WERE CRUDER THAN THEY NEEDED TO BE.
>> AFTER RECEIVING A LITANY OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE NOW
INFAMOUS MONOLOGUE, THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION SAID
IT WILL INVESTIGATE THE COMEDIAN'S COMMENTS ABOUT DONALD
TRUMP AND WILL TAKE, QUOTE, APPROPRIATE ACTION.
COLBERT'S MOST VOCAL CRITICS ARE CONSERVATIVES ACCORDING TO A
SLATE ANALYSIS AND USING THE FIRE COLBERT HASHTAG THEY'VE
CALLED FOR HIS REMOVAL FROM CBS FOR ONE PARTICULAR LINE IN THE
MONOLOGUE, CLAIMING THAT IT WAS HOMOPHOBIC.
JOINING ME NOW, "DAILY BEAST" COLUMNIST, POLITICAL COMEDIAN
STATE BLAKEMAN AND ACTRESS JUDY GOLD.
I WANT TO FIRST GO AHEAD AND PLAY THE OFFENDING REMARKS.
WE'RE CABLE SO FCC CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO US FOR PLAYING IT.
THIS IS WHAT COLBERT SAID THAT PEOPLE ARE UPSET ABOUT.
TAKE A LISTEN. >> SIR, YOU ATTRACT MORE
SKINHEADS THAN FREE ROGAINE. YOU HAVE MORE PEOPLE MARCHING
AGAINST YOU THAN CANCER. YOU TALK LIKE A SIGN LANGUAGE
GORILLA WHO GOT HIT IN THE HEAD. IN FACT, THE ONLY THING YOUR
MOUTH IS GOOD FOR IS BEING
VLADIMIR PUTIN'S [MUTE]. >> SO THIS WAS CALLED AN
O'REILLY EQUIVALENT BY PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT.
YOU CAN RUMINATE ON THE IRONY OF THE RIGHT WHO HAVE ANTI-TRANS
BILLS AND WHO WANT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AMENDMENTS THAT TARGET
GAY PEOPLE. PUTTING ASIDE THE POTENTIAL
IRONY SAYING IT'S HOMOPHOBIC BUT YOU WROTE A PIECE SAYING ONE
TRUMP JOKE IS NOT AN O'REILLY EQUIVALENT.
EXPLAIN. >> IT MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY
YOU'RE SORRY. WE NEVER HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR A
DONALD TRUMP EVER. I DON'T CARE, ANYTHING,
COMPLETELY, NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS WITH THIS GUY.
I THINK COMEDIANS ARE PLAYING A ROLE IN PREVENTING HIM FROM
BEING NORMALIZED. YET ON TWITTER THEY WENT CRAZY.
EVEN BRIT HUM FROM FOX NEWS SAYING WHAT WILL BE THE
CONSEQUENCES. THEY WANT TO SILENCE STEPHEN
COLBERT FROM MOCKING DONALD TRUMP.
THIS DICTATOR IN THE MAKING, DONALD TRUMP, THEY WERE SO
OUTRAGED THEY WANT TO SILENCE HIM.
THEY THINK ONE JOKE IS THE EQUIVALENT OF BILL O'REILLY
PAYING RUSH MONEY. TOO BAD LITTLE SNOWFLAKES.
WE'RE GOING TO MAKE AS MANY JOKES AS YOU WANT.
YOU NEED A SAFE SPACE, GO HIDE. PUT ON YOUR BIG BOY PANTS.
BECAUSE IT'S JUST BEGINNING. >> THE COMPLAINT, I'LL PULL A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE MONOLOGUE AND SAYING TOO MANY TIMES PEOPLE
ON THE RIGHT ARE ATTACKED FOR EVEN THE SMALLEST REACTION LIKE
BILL O'REILLY'S HOT CHOCOLATE. I DON'T REMEMBER THE RIGHT BEING
UPSET ABOUT BILL O'REILLY CALLING THAT YOUNG BLACK WOMAN
HOT CHOCOLATE. DO YOU THINK THIS IS UNFAIR THAT
THE RIGHT GETS PICKED ON FOR BEING MEAN?
>> NO COMEDIAN SHOULD BE PUNISHED OR INVESTIGATED BY THE
FCC OR ANYONE FOR A JOKE. THIS IN THE SAME WEEK THAT 217
REPUBLICANS LAUGHED AND WHOOPED IT UP TAKING AWAY HEALTH CARE
FOR MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. AND COMEDIANS ARE THE BAD GUYS?
IT'S ABSURD. STEPHEN COLBERT IS FUNNY, SMART,
FEARLESS, EVERYTHING THE PRESIDENT IS NOT.
>> THE COMPLAINT IS THAT THE WAY HE CHOSE TO ATTACK DONALD TRUMP
WAS ACTUALLY AN ATTACK ON THE LGBT COMMUNITY.
DO YOU BUY THAT? >> AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBT
COMMUNITY, NO, I DON'T BUY IT AT ALL.
IT WAS A FUNNY JOKE. IT'S FUNNY.
COMEDIANS ARE TRUTH TELLERS AND AS SCOTT SAID, THEY'RE FEARLESS.
YOU KNOW, TO ME, THE OUTRAGE THAT WE HAD TO LISTEN TO ABOUT
ANN COULTER AND HER HATE SPEECH AT BERKELEY THAT THE
CONSERVATIVES WERE, OH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S TOO MUCH POLITICAL
CORRECTNESS, TOO MUCH OF THIS AND TOO MUCH OF THAT.
THIS GUY'S A COMEDIAN. HE IS TELLING A JOKE.
FUNNY IS FUNNY. LOOK, THE THING THAT REALLY GETS
ME IS THAT WE'RE WATCHING DEBATES, AND MARCO RUBIO AND
DONALD TRUMP ARE DOING DICK JOKES DURING THE DEBATES.
WHY DON'T WE INVESTIGATE THAT. >> THEY DID THEM ON CABLE
THOUGH. >> RIGHT.
>> THE OTHER ISSUE IS YOU HAVE THIS ROLLING THING OF CANCEL
THIS AND CANCEL THAT. THE LATEST IS CANCEL COLBERT,
TRYING TO GET IT OUT. THIS WAS BACK WHEN HE DID A JOKE
AT THE EXPENSE OF ASIAN-AMERICANS.
THERE WAS A CAMPAIGN BACK IN 2014 TO DO IT.
HE DID APOLOGIZE FOR THAT JOKE WHICH WAS INSENSITIVE RACIALLY.
THEN YOU FAST FORWARD TO TODAY AND HE'S HAD HIS BEST RATINGS
SINCE 2015. HE'S COME A LONG WAY SINCE THAT
2014 MISTAKE. >> LOOK, EVERY PERSON, EVERY
AMERICAN HAS THE RIGHT -- DEAN AND I AND JUDY, SOME NIGHTS
PEOPLE THINK WE'RE FUNNY, THAT'S PEOPLE'S RIGHTS.
SOME DEFEND IT, SOME DO NOT. I STAND BY STEPHEN COLBERT AND
THINK THIS FCC INVESTIGATION BY THE CHAIRMAN IS OVER THE TOP,
UNWARRANTED. THERE'S NOTHING INDECENT OR
OBSCENE ABOUT WHAT STEPHEN COLBERT SAID.
IN FACT, MR. BIG ANTI-REGULATIONS AND WANTS TO
TAKE REGULATIONS AWAY FROM SERVICE PROVIDERS, CLASSIC
EXAMPLE OF OVERREACH. YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO APPLY
THESE RULES AFTER 10:00 P.M. CBS BLEEPED IT OUT, COVERED UP
HIS MOUTH. SO THERE'S NO CASE AT ALL.
I THINK HE'S MAKING A NAME FOR HIMSELF AND THAT NAME IS JOE
McCARTHY. >> YOU DO HAVE A SENSE THE THAT
THIS IS A WHITE HOUSE THAT HAS MANDATED APPARENTLY THAT TVs IN
ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES MUST BE TUNE TODAY FOX NEWS WHERE
THERE'S A GUY NAMED JESSE WATERS WHO'S BACK FROM VACATION AFTER
MAKING A TRULY VULGAR JOKE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER.
>> DONALD TRUMP IN OCTOBER TWEETED THAT "SATURDAY NIGHT
LIVE" SHOULD BE CANCELLED BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T LIKE THEM
MAKING FUN OF HIM. WE HAVE HERE A BUDDING
DICTATORSHIP. THERE'S A MAN DONALD TRUMP LIKES
ERDOGAN WHO WANTED A COMEDIAN PROSECUTED IN GERMANY FOR MAKING
FUN OF HIM THROUGH A POEM. WE HAVE A REAL ATTACK ON FREE
SPEECH, IT'S FAKE NEWS, TO "SNL."
I THINK THIS SHOULD BE A WAKEUP CALL FOR EVERYONE ON THE LEFT
AND RIGHT. IF YOU VALUE FREEDOM OF SPEECH,
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS IMPORTANT TO YOU, YOU HAVE TO
STAND UP. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG WHAT
DONALD TRUMP IS DOING, ABSOLUTELY WRONG.
IT'S SCARY AND STUNNING. >> JUDY, I THINK DEAN MAKES A
VERY IMPORTANT POINT. WHILE IT'S FUNNY TO LAUGH AT
STEPHEN COLBERT AND HE'S OBVIOUSLY A FUNNY GUY, THERE ARE
COUNTRIES THAT DONALD TRUMP ADD MEYERS, PLACES LIKE TURKEY WHERE
COMEDIANS ARE ARRESTED FOR MAKING FUN OF THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES. DO YOU AND OTHER COMEDIANS HAVE
A CONCERN THAT AT A CERTAIN POINT DONALD TRUMP WILL CONTROL
IT? >> TO ME, YOU THINK ABOUT IT AND
WE LISTEN TO SO MUCH HATE SPEECH, SO MUCH HATE SPEECH, AND
AS A MEMBER OF THE LGBT WHICH I SAID BEFORE, I CAN'T STAND
SAYING THAT ALL THE TIME, BUT THE POINT IS THAT KIDS KILL
THEMSELVES. THESE KIDS TURN ON THEIR TVs IN
THE MIDDLE OF AME AMERICA AND H HATE SPEECH AND HATE THEMSELVES.
THAT IS DESTRUCTIVE. THIS WAS A JOKE.
THIS WAS A JOKE. THEY DEFEND HATE SPEECH, BUT
THEY CANNOT TAKE A JOKE. IT IS INFURIATING.
I JUST -- THANK GOD GEORGE CARLIN IS NOT ALIVE TO SEE THIS
AND LENNY BRUCE IS NOT ALIVE TO SEE THIS.
>> TRUMP HATES POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THEY WANT IT
WHEN IT COMES TO COMEDY. >> THE FCC SHOULD SWOOP IN.
>> JUST REPRODUCTION -- WE'RE OUT OF TIME.
THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. >>> COMING UP AT THE TOP OF THE
HOUR, THE REPUBLICANS MOST AT RISK OF LOSING THEIR SEATS AFTER
PASSING TRUMP CARE. >>> UP NEXT ON

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