On Friday’s Inside Politics, CNN host Dana Bash was unintentionally humorous when she claimed that “traditionally,” the leftist late-night comedians “condense and seize the sensation in society at any given second.”
So “society” at all times gravitates to the unconventional left and thinks President Trump is Putin’s “cock holster.” As regular, CNN sees its personal ideological place because the “mainstream.”
Bash was reacting to Vice President Vance proclaiming “Ramming an ICE officer together with your automotive. That’s what justifies being shot.” After all, CNN thinks threatening ICE officers from behind the wheel is “peaceable protest.”
If somebody aimed their SUV at a CNN digicam crew, would they really feel like their lives had been threatened? Effectively, in the event that they’re being assaulted by leftists, they have a tendency to really feel they deserved it, as occurred with Black Lives Matter protesters pelting them with objects in a Minneapolis suburb in 2021. They packed up and left.
CNN host Dana Bash: Usually, we would flip to Democrats to rebut Vance, however late-night hosts like Colbert “actually condense and seize the sensation in society at any given second.” Um, turning to Colbert IS turning to a Democrat. pic.twitter.com/xpNaBgD83p
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) January 10, 2026
BASH: Usually in a state of affairs like this on Inside Politics, we might then say what Democrats are saying in response. There was one other one who actually caught our consideration, and that’s Stephen Colbert. You realize, late night time hosts now possibly acquired a variety of flack from the White Home, however traditionally, they’ve been — individuals who actually condense and seize the sensation in society at any given second. Hearken to Stephen Colbert. [Notice the fist pumping.]
STEPHEN COLBERT: The message from this administration is evident. Solely they decide the reality, and when their forces come to your metropolis, obey or die. And if you happen to die, you clearly didn’t obey.
BASH: Go forward.
ASTEAD HERNDON, VOX: Yeah. I imply, I believe that Colbert sums up what’s a public sentiment. I imply, once we hear DHS Secretary Kristi Noem form of make these statements, I believe it implies that non-compliance is a purpose for loss of life. And I don’t assume that that’s true — and that’s not true for ICE, it’s not true for DHS officers. That’s not true in coverage, and that’s not true morally, you recognize.
“Obey or die” is propaganda, simply the best way CNN likes it. It is true that Renee Good can be alive if she’d stepped out of her automotive. However CNN needs it to sound like their leftist speech is being stifled, not utilizing your automotive in a life-threatening method.
Bash and Herndon had been talking shortly earlier than the video got here out from the ICE officer by way of Alpha Information in Minnesota, so it appears dangerous for them to say the ICE officer wasn’t “rammed” by Renee Good, when he clearly was:
HERNDON: There was different statements, even with Vice President Vance, is there saying, that they rammed into the officer. That’s not likely clearly what the video exhibits. I imply, I believe that this can be a type of form of top-down narrative setting that this White Home has grow to be very used to.
BASH: Precisely.
HERNDON: However on sure points, it actually backfires on them, as a result of I believe the general public could make up for their very own minds. And in addition, I believe Donald Trump is dropping his narrative setting energy.
CNN and the opposite lefties consider the “narrative-setting energy” ought to at all times be with them, and with Comrade Colbert.
