Remember how late-night comics savaged first lady Michelle Obama? No? That’s because it didn’t happen.
First ladies are generally off limits for most comedians. Their husbands are always fair game, of course. Their spouses didn’t choose to be in office and typically use their clout for less divisive missions. Think Laura Bush’s literacy efforts or Michelle Obama’s nutritional initiatives.
Comedians mostly avoided mocking Hillary Clinton during her days in the White House, just as they did with Laura Bush and Michelle Obama. And that’s a good thing in our increasingly coarse culture. We need a few satirical timeouts these days.
That was then.
Now, “brave” comics like Jimmy Kimmel gleefully mock Melania Trump in ways that would stir the Social Warrior Brigade. Only they haven’t ridden to her rescue.
Why? Wrong party.
Earlier this week Kimmel mocked Melania Trump’s Slavik accent during one of his typically partisan rants.
https://youtu.be/EfjtBa3INBw
A laugh riot, no? Of course, mocking someone’s accent is no longer acceptable as a comic device. Even liberal icon Stephen Colbert caught flak in 2014 when he attempted a generic Chinese accent. The incident sparked a #CancelColbert hashtag and plenty of righteous indignation.
Why no similar uproar for Melania? Kimmel attacked Mrs. Trump, someone who is fair game for, well, anything according to our modern liberal scolds and media outlets. Her unofficial membership in the GOP makes it so.
Only Kimmel isn’t the only “brave” comic to mock Melania Trump. Last year, Comedy Central’s Jim Jefferies used his late-night show to sexualize the first lady and call her “wooden” and “dirty.”
Once again, no outrage in the media nor from feminists.
No one rushed to the first lady’s defense when “Saturday Night Live” concocted a series of skits dubbed “Melania Moments.” The fuzzy clips paint her as detached and dumb. She speaks five languages, mind you.
Sean Hannity called Kimmel out for his attacks on the first lady. So Kimmel offered an apology and agreed that those kind of ugly, divisive attacks on the first lady are out of bounds.
Just kidding.
He lashed out at Hannity with a series of sexual insults that were both crass and humorless.
Remind me again who it is that hates immigrants?
You know who is really butt hurt… Slick, he and Trump are about the same age and who does Bill have to go home to, really shows guy looks like a walking corpse.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-vs-bill-clinton-same-age-but-165625819.html
Well, maybe it would help if the non-American born First Lady would just learn to speak coherent English.
Again, AJ makes a point to prove who it is that hates and denigrates immigrants. In reality, Melania speaks English clearly and coherently, in addition to the other 4 languages she is fluent in. Immigrants, especially of the illegal variety, are just fine when they are mowing a liberal’s yard, but if they don’t exhibit the proper and required subservience to liberal ideology, the true liberal hatred comes forth.
@Deplorable Me: Why when calling a corporation do I have to choose a language should’nt everyone learn at least basic english we bear as taxpayer welfare interpreters so they can bust the border and collect welfare. We have to hire bi-lingual teachers, but heaven forbid our beautiful first lady has an accent.
@kitt: How about being American-born to vote? Or, “speak coherent English”? You think snots like AJ feel the same about that as they do about how an elegant First Lady not of their party speaks?
@Deplorable Me: Those that have successfully navigated our stupid and overly complex immigration system deserve the right to vote, those that waltz across the border or overstay visas should not only not vote but not receive any undue representation in our government and federal money for entitlements and schools. The Obama admins removal of the citizenship question on the census gives areas with high non-citizen populations federal dollars & seats in government.
@kitt: I was appealing to AJ’s immigrant-phobia. Beyond any argument liberals support… encourage illegal immigrants voting. Liberals feed off the dependent and easily manipulated. A legal immigrant that has studied and paid the price for citizenship will not be so easily duped.
@Deplorable Me: Saying anything against one of their bought and paid for hookers on the left…like the Oregon Governor Brown paramour of Soros, Mad Max or Pelosi or Harpy, who chose to be politicians unforgivable.
I do miss the good old days when we could be funny and way not PC
And the Vegan liberal MSM get together.
I understand theres a new President in town…