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Big news last night!
Some see grounds for impeachment; others see total vindication of the president.
All the blacked-out bits must make the report look like a Rorschach test because everyone has their own interpretation.
How do you make sense of such a moment if youre a late-night host?
A Rolling Stones song parody, duh.
Die-hard Trump supporters arent going to believe that the report demands impeachment, no matter what it says.
The nature of truth, our shared reality, is a matter of partisan debate nowadays.
When were in psychic free fall, its important to find at least one thing to ground ones reality.
Redaction Jackson, whats your action?
Only covering the presidents ass, apparently.
Hows that for a conjunction junction?
Its entirely possible that some of the redacted material is important, incriminating stuff that we all should know.
The song was catchy, but also needlessly simplistic.
They didnt knowingly break laws because they didnt understand laws.
The Mueller report was nobodys best work, and that includes Robert Mueller.
Its a weird and lumpy story from which it is hard to draw conclusions.
Jokes play on our shared expectations, but fucking nobody can share anything on the Russian-collusion story.
The Mueller report was an anticlimax ascrew job in wrestling terms.
So why do we insist on every late-night show weighing in on it?
The role of political commentary and satire in late night is always in flux.
Carson came on after the news, so the first thing he talked aboutwasthe news.
But he wasnt trying to have the hottest take; he merely regurgitated facts with witticism.
Today, people look to Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers to explain the Mueller report for them.
Thats definitely what Meyers did with his Closer Look.
Buttigieg said the main takeaway from the report is that we need to vote Trump out of office.
But the people who believe thatdone beenbelieving that.
One of the main points of Meyerss Look was that voters dont care about the Russia investigation.
So if the public doesnt care, why are we talking about it?
TV is whatever we want it to be.
They may have an outsize role in what we say TV is.
Are these frivolous pursuits?
But at this point they seem equally as likely to lead to impeachment as the Mueller report.
So lets at least have fun.
