Reality has a well-known liberal bias - Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

Robert Bernstein · 33K views · 2021 · 1:06

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A one-minute clip of Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner delivering the line that reality has a well-known liberal bias.

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Cites tim333 · 2024-11 · on “Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X”

By the way, not knowing the history of the reality thing I looked it up - it came from a Colbert joke about W Bush's popularity [this video]

Cites Y_Y · 2024-12 · on “Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study”

I think it's only fair to credit Stephen Colbert here: [this video] For those of you unfamiliar, he was a well-known and serious political pundit who in recent years has been performing as a character (of the same name) who parodies milquetoast late night centre-left almost-comedy.