That’s the problem, you can ignore it till someone makes you stop ignoring it.

Exactly. If they were keeping to their basements, that’s fine to ignore them. When they come up and start interacting with the real world, we have to tell them to, as Colbert put it, “Grow the fuck up.”

No. Their actions, for example electing a walking, talking internet conspiracy machine, requires it to be addressed in a public forum. You can’t ignore them when they are running your government. We have a President who rose to political relevance by doing Reddit’s work in the news over questioning the birth records…

You haven’t even established that The Daily Show is fake news. They reported on news with a comedic spin. If that’s your standard, Fox News is fake news because they report news with a conservative spin, or MSNBC for reporting news with a liberal spin.

You’re an idiot.

Sad!

I’d argue that when conspiracy theorists open fire in pizza shops, it makes complete sense to debunk their bullshit.

This is a really ill-thought out and poor comparison. People didn’t watch Daily Show and Colbert Report for the “news” aspect of it, they watched it for the comedy. They watched it because they took factual events and spun it comically for entertainment’s purposes, not editorial narrative purposes and certainly not…

Nice to have you join us in the comments section, Mr President.

As soon as The Daily Show puts out a conspiracy theory knowing full well that it’s fake and accuses several people of pedophilia leading to a lunatic with a gun shooting up a pizza parlor you’ll have a point.

Comedy news isn’t fake news if the jokes are factual. John Oliver’s show is incredibly well-researched AND comedy!

facts decide.

Objective reality?

Someones angry about being called out.

The worst part is that every criticism (especially one on national TV like this) will only make them think that their theories are even more likely. I mean, why else would he have taken the time to chastize them?!

Not even remotely as good. Consider, if you will, the first Ant-Man trailer.

But that’s the thing. All he has to do is take back the most outrageously awful shit he said during his campaign (which we all knew he would do, anyhow) and this is seen as a positive! Rather brilliant strategy, really, to set the bar so low that all you have to do is be a sort of human being to get major points.…

OMGawd cause she did speeches. That faux outrage of theirs on this issue made me want to rage. They all do it...even Colin Powell. What bs.

So “fun” to see all these people who disavowed Trump now kneeling hard to suck his orange dick.

Of course, a celibate guy schooling you on sex is about as useful as vegetarian schooling you on what meat tastes like (real meat, I mean).