Late-night hosts discuss Pete Buttigieg’s visit to East Palestine, Ohio, a possible indictment of Trump in Georgia and Fox News’s latest invented controversy
“Twenty days late!” the Late Show host said. “I’m glad he’s not an EMT.”
And it “looks like Buttigieg knows he acted slowly”, Colbert continued, as the transportation secretary admitted to reporters that he “could have spoken out sooner”. “Adding, ‘And I would’ve been here earlier but traffic was a mess, trains are a disaster, all the flights were cancelled – someone should really deal with this country’s transportation!’” Colbert joked.The host then turned to a perennial target, Fox News, as “it’s important to give them their props when they deserve it. And here’s the thing: it’s a 24-hour news channel, and that can be hard to fill.
This week, the network “dug down deep, tossed aside any last scraps of journalistic integrity, and yanked out a new dumb thing to pretend to be mad at”, he continued. “And because I also need something to talk about every night, I’m going to pretend to be mad at them for pretending to be mad about it.”
The latest invented controversy? New Lego characters with different skin tones, limb differences and disabilities, “or as Fox News put it: ‘“I don’t know why Fox is so upset about seeing representation in Legos,” Colbert mocked. “After all, I’m pretty sure Sean Hannity is one.”from a Georgia grand jury over Donald Trump’s attempted election interference in Georgia.
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