• MimicJar@lemmy.worldM
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    19 days ago

    Bernie Sanders has appeared on The Late Show 21 times, more than any other politician and more than Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon combined. (Bernie has appeared on Seth Meyers 16 times, but that’s a separate time block, although a similar show.)

    AOC has appeared on The Late Show 8 times, she has appeared on Kimmel once and never on Fallon.

    Zohran Mamdani recently made his first appearance on any late night TV series and it was… COLBERT!

    Why would he platform these “extreme” left wing people? Other late night shows in his timeslot are not.

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      19 days ago

      I still remember Colbert shitting on Bernie and fawning over Hillary at absolutely every chance he got through 2016. He may have changed now, but when he had the opportunity to push for real positive change he backed the safe, corporate democrat hard.

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      19 days ago

      I’ll admit I wasn’t aware of this. I don’t really consider most of these people to be leftists but that’s a good start.

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          19 days ago

          Assuming you are American.

          These people are democrats not leftists. Leftists are Marxists, communists, anarchists etc. I suspect Bernie Sanders is actually a proper leftist but that’s not really what comes out in his positions.