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

Name: Reality has a well-known liberal bias - Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
Description: 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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Cited on HN 3 times, 2023–2024, never outright recommended score 0

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN uses it to credit the origin of the quip when someone repeats it, sometimes as a joke.

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

“I think it's only fair to credit Stephen Colbert here” (HN, 2024)

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Satire & parody US politics & elections Media, journalism & propaganda Comedy Arts, Comedy, Music & Film

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@tim333 Nov 2024 Cites it

on HN thread 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]

Origin of the reality has a liberal bias joke

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@Y_Y Dec 2024 Cites it

on HN thread 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.

Colbert's original bit on reality's liberal bias

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@hawthornio Feb 2023 Makes a joke

on HN thread Princeton CS Prof: ChatGPT Is a Bullshit Generator (2022)

ChatGPT suggests factually correct or popular policies… The death penalty is objectively more expensive than life in prison, and the right to abortion is supported by a majority (in the US at least). You’re basically doing [a steven colbert bit]( [this video] ), but unironically.

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