they really are firing thousands of nurses in the middle of a pandemic, firing thousands of cops in the middle of a crime wave. no, they are not kidding, even in the slightest when they tell you that is a genuine female four-star admiral standing right there. joe biden isn t giggling. he tells you it is a victory for women everywhere, and he means it when he says it. he means all of these things even the ones he does not understand, which is most. as the guys who runs the babylon bee told us recently it is getting tough to run a parody site in this country, no matter how creative your jokes may be, it is almost impossible to be more ludicrous than reality already is. and yet. even by those impossibly high standards, we can confidently announce tonight that we have just read the single most deranged news story ever printed in this country. t so no matter what happens going forward and god knows what that will be this story will live forever as the high watermark of political lunac
babylon bee headlines texted to them at least once a day. do you feel you are on the edge of getting your business taken away from you? i mean, that is the goal, right? there are tenn different ways they are trying to attack comedy, one of them is not even intentional, they are making reality absurd. that whole opening you did with joe biden and kamala harris and these videos and how fake they are, it is impossible to satire is that. these people are beyond parody. they have turned reality into a parody of itself. then there is an intentional way, they fact-check jokes, try to rate temples, get them takene down for misinformation. then they accuse you of hate speech under the guise of satire or comedy like what they re doing with chapelle and saying his jokes are beyond the pale and hurt people but really it is the joke police, it is the people who are saying oh, his jokes hurt my feeling, those are the people who deserve to be mocked more not less because it is silly to act like
answer, the babylon bee, one of the very few remaining satire sites on the entire internet, he joins us tonight.e seth, thank you so much for coming on, the stuff is in your face every single day, you are the target of a lot of this. you have to wonder, the people trying to destroy your business and your life, they are a tiny percentage of americans, aren t they? they are, but they wield all the power. this is the funny thing. they really are a joke at this point because they try to project themselves as being marginalized. these are the marginalized, these are the oppressed. you can t make fun of them. the way that you can tell who holds all the power in a society is by who you can t make fun of, right? o o tucker: that s right. these are the people you can t make fun of. it is clear they hold all the institutional power in our culture and it is very interesting when you have comedians like chapelle, you have to worry about now, telling jokes, you don t just ask yourself, is t