On MSNBC, Tim Miller tried to explain why comedians like Tim Dillon and Andrew Schulz matter politically. He said:
“I’m thinking of Tim Dillon in particular and Andrew Schulz. I don’t — your viewers might not be familiar with them or they might, but I’ve been watching a lot of their shows lately and they are pretty, they’re starting to get pretty skeptical [of] this administration. And they want to be outsiders. They don’t, you know, comedians don’t wanna be talking heads and mouthpieces for the administration like a Charlie Kirk might. They, you know, they wanna be contrarian… I think could have a real political impact. ’Cause it might pop the bubble of invincibility that Trump has had with some part of his base.”
Tim Miller, a former RINO strategist who worked for John McCain and later for Jeb Bush, has now become nothing more than a talking head and mouthpiece for Democrats on MSNBC. He’s hoping Dillon and Schulz can do what leftist comedians haven’t been able to: pop Trump’s so-called bubble of invincibility with his base.
Miller uses Charlie Kirk as the example of what comedians supposedly don’t want to be — a political mouthpiece — even though the comedy world is already packed with Democrat mouthpieces.
Just look at the lineup: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Samantha Bee, Bill Maher, Kathy Griffin, Chelsea Handler, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, Michelle Wolf, Hasan Minhaj, Hannah Gadsby, Ellen DeGeneres — and many more. They’re not contrarians. They’re partisan performers who use “comedy” as a vehicle for Democrat talking points.
If Miller were being honest, the real comparison would be Dillon and Schulz versus that long list of left-wing comedians who have turned their platforms into partisan megaphones for Democrats.
MSNBC is scared of comedians who don’t relentlessly bash Trump and Republicans. They’re desperate to maintain comedy as a Democrat propaganda tool. That’s why Miller is hyping Dillon and Schulz. He’s not praising their independence — he’s hinting they might be able to be used to chip away at Trump’s support and base. In other words, left-wing comedians have failed to move the needle with years of Trump-bashing, so now Miller is looking to Dillon and Schulz as possible recruits to do the job mainstream comedy couldn’t.
Miller says comedians don’t want to be Charlie Kirk. But the left’s goal is to make all comedians into talking heads and mouthpieces for Democrats.