Two recent NewsBusters studies identify patterns of liberal political communication. In the first 3 weeks after the writers strike ended, late-night comedy shows exploded with anti-Trump jokes. Over the last year, MSNBC has been especially egregious in making Nazi analogies about Trump and Republicans. Overall, conservatives using Nazi analogies are condemned, while liberals using them are routinely unchallenged.
The author of these two studies is NewsBusters media analyst Alex Christy, who joins the show to explain the results and how they emerged. A study of late-night comedy shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Comedy Central found the men of late night told 247 jokes about Donald Trump over the course of 42 shows, but President Joe Biden was the target of 45 jokes, mostly about his age. That equates to 85 percent of the jokes between the top tw …