Seth Meyers used one of his monologues to dissect some of the problems with the Republican Party precisely, women and truth need not apply.
Seth Meyers went all out on this one
Seth Meyers did not have to do too much to accentuate the biggest problem the GOP is facing, misogyny and misinforming the GOP electorate. Meyers starts simple enough.
“Here is the crucial question Republicans will have to ask if they want to fix their party,” Seth Meyers said. “How did this happen? One culprit they might want to look at is the right-wing media bubble that fed their audience a mix of conspiracy theories and racial resentment, and discredited all mainstream news sources as untrustworthy.”
“Trump has encouraged his followers to ignore the mainstream media altogether and rely on a different source for their news,” Meyers said. “So if Trump’s supporters were to only read the internet this week, what stories would they have been exposed to that the mainstream media ignored? Well, there was one bombshell story that was extremely popular on right-wing websites like The Drudge Report this week and it came from The National Enquirer. The story was titled, “Hillary Hitman Tells All!” and claimed among other things that Hillary “is a secret sex freak who paid fixers to set up illicit romps with both men AND women!”
“[Sean] Hannity and [Rush] Limbaugh aren’t the only right-wing media personalities Trump has courted,” Seth Meyers said. “There’s also radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has interviewed Trump on his show, and who this week offered a fascinating new theory for how that tape of Trump bragging about sexual assault with Billy Bush in 2005 came into existence. That’s right. He thinks Billy Bush is a CIA agent who goaded Trump into bragging about sexual assault in 2005, knowing he’d run for president 11 years later, in the famous Operation Zero Dark Talkin’ Dirty. But this kind of paranoid thinking is becoming all too common in the right-wing media, and now they’re trying to paint Hillary Clinton as an election-rigging, criminal sex freak in order to make her look illegitimate from day one, just like they tried to make President Obama look illegitimate. Some right-wing groups are already talking about impeaching her.”
Seth Meyers tackled the misinformation and misogyny issues. But there is so much more. There are the GOP’s racial problems, economic ideology problem, divergence from the church problem, just to mention a few.
(h/t MediaMatters)
